TFW Global · Team plan · Oct 2026
New pricing + Skool ads plan
We've lost more than half our members in a year. This plan does three things: keeps the members we have, gets more people joining, and charges new members what we're worth.
3,723 → 1,689
members, Oct 2025 → now
~120
joining a month (was ~350)
$35 → $49
new members only
We've been shrinking for a year
Fewer people are joining and more are leaving than joining. Since March we lose about 220 a month and gain about 120.
Members joining and leaving each month, from TFW's Skool dashboard. October 2026 is the first 14 days only.
Fewer joining
−67%
About 350 a month from Oct to Jan, down to about 115 a month since April.
Winter wave
2,007 left
Nov–Jan we lost about 20% of members each month. Since March it's about 10%.
September spike
130 annual
Of 289 who left in September, 130 were annual members whose yearly renewal fell mid-month. Monthly losses were flat: 147 in Aug, 147 in Sep.
At today's rates (~120 joining, ~10% leaving) we level off at about 1,200 members. To hold at 1,700 we need about 170 joining a month, or cut monthly losses to about 7%.
Fix the leak first
Keeping members is our biggest lever. Every member who stays is worth $35 every month. We don't yet know why people leave, so step one is asking.
- Reach the 131 members already set to cancel. Skool shows them leaving when their paid month ends. A personal message from an educator before then, offering to keep $35 for life, can save some.
- Ask why. Add one question to the win-back message we already send everyone who cancels: "What's the main reason you're leaving?" We can't fix what we can't see.
- Tell current members their $35 is locked for life, as long as they stay. If they cancel and come back later, it's $49. That's a reason to stay.
- Save failed payments: we're adding emails. About 115 members a month now hit a declined card. Roughly 55% of monthly members fix it after our Skool DM. We're adding email to the card-declined message to save more of the rest.
- Win the first 60 days. New members leave most often early. Anyone who hasn't joined an onboarding call or posted by day 14 gets a personal nudge.
- Push the annual plan (3 months free) to members who are engaged. Annual members can't leave month to month.
- Remind annual members before they renew. 130 annual members ($350/year) left in one week in mid-September. Send a reminder 2 weeks before renewal, and a win-back message if they don't renew.
Eve is great. Let's keep Skool busy too.
We're moving members onto Eve, and it's helping: daily briefings, answers any time, 148 member logins this month. The risk is that questions people used to post in Skool now go to Eve privately.
Why Skool activity matters
Skool ranks groups on real member activity, and that ranking drives our free Discovery traffic and ads. Posts and replies are also what make a community feel alive and keep people paying.
Make Eve feed Skool
Eve nudges members to share wins and charts in Skool. Post the daily briefing as a Skool thread each morning. Turn common Eve questions into weekly discussion posts.
Our Skool engagement is 61% today. We check it every month as Eve rolls out. If it drops, we adjust.
Win back former members
About 2,000 people left in the past year, and 3,264 current or past members are on our Facebook leads list. They already know us.
Before the price rise: "Come back before [date] and lock in $35 for life." The same deadline does double duty.
Also: signups dropped by two-thirds after January. Did ads or a promotion stop then? Knowing that tells us what to restart.
We're priced below the market
Similar trading groups on Skool charge $47–$99 a month. We give more than most: 4 educators, forex, futures & crypto, swing and scalping, Eve, daily briefings, mindset coaching, the book club, live calls and support.
VWAP Traders / Volpro / TDGdaily live rooms
$99
The Chart Labwomen only · 77 members
$99
Swing Trading Desk364 members
$79
Tom Camp Trading Academy1.3k members · rising to $79
$59
Trading Bootcamp1.7k members
$50
SUPERTRADERS / Midas Touch
$47–49
TFW Standard1.6k members
$35
Her First Trade / Trading For The Girlieswomen only · ~100 members each
$29
Monthly prices from Skool's own trading and women's trading search, 14 Oct 2026. TFW Premium is $70.
The plan
New prices for new members only. Everyone already in keeps their price for life while they stay.
Standard
$35$49/month
Mid-market, and still below the $59–$99 groups.
Premium
$70$89/month
Live trading + alerts cost $99 elsewhere.
Launch it with a deadline: "Join before [date] to lock in $35 for life." Tom Camp Trading Academy uses the same play on Skool. Indicator stays at $25/month.
Skool ads: already working for us
Skool runs Facebook and Instagram ads for us and pays for them. We're at Level 3 of 4 with 8 ads live. Skool keeps 30% of what the members it brings us pay. That was 14 members last month.
Giving Skool 40% instead of 30% buys more traffic. We only need 3 extra members a month for it to pay for itself. Never go to 50%+: the numbers don't work.
- Change the price first. Keep Skool at 30% for 30–60 days so we see what the price alone does.
- Then test 40% for 60 days. Keep it if Skool signups beat the new baseline by more than 3 a month. Otherwise go back to 30%.
- Aim for Level 4 (up to ~$10k/day of Skool ad spend): 10,000 about-page visitors and 30 Skool signups a month. We're at 3,748 and 14.
Ask Skool support before step 2 (copy and send):
"Hi Skool team, a quick question about Growth Boost for skool.com/trading-for-women. We're at 30% and thinking of moving to 40%.
- Would 40% apply only to members who join after the change, or also to members Skool has already referred to us?
- Is the % taken on every monthly payment for as long as a referred member stays, or only the first payment?
- If we lower it again later, which members does that apply to?
Thanks!"
If the answer to 1 is "all referred members", we stay at 30%.
Facebook warms them up. Skool closes.
This is already how we work: the free Facebook group warms people up with intro calls and daily posts, and the join link goes to the Skool about page. Keep it that way.
Socials + websiteTikTok, Instagram, tfwglobal.com
→
Free Facebook groupIntro calls, daily posts
→
Skool about pageEvery visit counts toward our ad level
→
Joins TFW$49 Standard or $89 Premium
↑ also fed by
Skool's own adsFacebook + Instagram · Skool pays · keeps 30% of fee
Members we bring in ourselves don't pay Skool's 30% cut. Only the ones Skool's own ads bring in do.
Will we lose signups?
Probably a few, but we still come out ahead. At $49 we can lose up to 28% of new signups before we earn less from new members.
| Scenario (last 30 days) | Signups | New revenue / month |
|---|
| Today at $35 | 118 | $4,130 |
| $49, 15% fewer signups | 100 | $4,900 |
| $49, 20% fewer signups | 94 | $4,606 |
| $49, 28% fewer (break-even) | 85 | $4,165 |
- Every member Skool brings us is worth $34.30 after its cut, up from $24.50.
- Existing members don't change, so no backlash and no cancellations from the switch.
- The 15–20% drop is an estimate. We don't yet know how our signups respond to price, so we've set a rule for reversing it.
Is a price rise smart while we're shrinking?
Yes, if we do it alongside the retention work, not instead of it.
Why it helps
Current members don't pay more, so it can't push them out. The "locked at $35 while you stay" message gives them a reason not to cancel. Each new member brings in 40% more.
The risk
Joining is already our weak spot. A higher price could cut it further. The price rise earns more per member; it doesn't stop the shrinking. Keeping members does.
When we'd change course
If signups fall
More than 25% down for 2 months in a row → go back to $39–45.
If signups hold
Look at $59 for new members in 6 months.
Track every month
Members joining, members leaving, and the top cancel reasons. Goal: losses under 7% a month by spring.
What we need from the team
- Message the 131 members set to cancel before their month ends.
- Post the daily briefing in Skool, and invite members to share wins there.
- Put the Skool link in every social bio, next to the Facebook group link.
- Ask long-term members for written reviews. They now show first on our Skool page.
- No income or results claims on the about page. Skool's AI turns it into our ads.
Before we launch
- Confirm in Skool's Pricing settings that existing members stay on their current price.
- Confirm where Premium is sold (Skool or website) so both prices change together.
- Send Skool the Growth Boost questions above (new members only, or all referred members?).
- Add the one-question cancel survey.
- Get renewal dates for our 417 annual members, so the next renewal wave doesn't surprise us.
- Set the lock-in deadline and announce it.