Best Skool Communities for Ecommerce: What Reddit Does and Doesn't Say

Corrections we owe you

An earlier version of this page made two claims that don't survive a read of the sources.

One. It cited an r/SKOOL thread as "What is best use for Skool" and said its replies "land on the same idea every time: Skool works best for communities that combine a course with live discussion". The thread is titled "Skool". It has 2 upvotes and 3 replies. Nobody says that. We invented both the title and the consensus.

Two. It used this r/dropshipping thread as proof that people distrust course-first communities. Read it. It's not about communities at all. It's someone recruiting an unpaid apprentice to do customer service emails and fulfilment in exchange for mentorship. The replies are six people saying "I'm interested". We took a job ad and passed it off as community sentiment.

We also said we couldn't confirm r/SKOOL's size. We can. It's 1,195 members.

The honest headline

r/SKOOL had 1,195 members when we checked Reddit's public subreddit data on 16 July 2026. r/PPC had 273,425 the same day.

So there is no Reddit ranking of ecom Skool communities. There isn't enough discussion for one to exist. Any page telling you "Reddit's favourite Skool group is X" is making it up, and we were one of those pages until this rewrite.

What the r/SKOOL threads actually contain: someone asking how to get people into a free community and what to post (one reply recommends a group called Arlan's 5K Skool). There's also a calisthenics creator in Mexico weighing a move from Kajabi, whose real problem, per the most useful reply, is that almost nobody in his 90k-follower audience converts. Neither is a verdict on anything.

The part that is genuinely useful: which room is which

This is the thing worth knowing, and it has nothing to do with Reddit. Three Google Ads communities on Skool have names close enough that people join the wrong one.

• Google Ads eCom Lab is ours. Free, 1,100+ D2C and dropshipping operators as of July 2026, Google Ads for ecom only. Run by us, so treat our description of it as marketing.
• Google Ads Dropshipping is Theo Clarke's, at around 7,100 members. Free. No connection to us.
• Google Ads Skool is Rob Andolina's, at 5,000 members when we checked its public about page in July 2026. Free. He co-founded Clicks Geek and has been running Google Ads since 2011. Worth knowing: it leans lead-gen, not ecom product sales. If you sell products, that's a real difference. If you sell services, he's probably a better fit than we are.

Our take, as one of the three

Facts over. Opinion starts here, from one of the three.

Since Reddit won't rank these, you have to judge a room yourself. Three checks, and they take two minutes:

1. Is it actually free? Not free-with-a-paid-tier waiting. Genuinely free.
2. Is it active daily? Or is it a course dumped into a ghost town.
3. Does whoever runs it still operate accounts? Or are they teaching from screenshots five years old.

Google Ads eCom Lab is our answer: free with nothing behind it, 1,100+ operators, and built on patterns from 200+ live ZenoX client accounts and €200M+ in tracked sales. We're in it because we run the accounts, not because we're selling a course about running accounts.

That's our pitch. It's still a pitch. Rob's room has five times our members and Theo's has seven times. Size isn't the argument we're making, fit is.

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1. 1Free to join at skool.com/google-ads-ecom, run by ZenoX - not a paid course wrapped in a chat room.
2. 2Real members and daily activity, with admins in the room - not a ghost town.
3. 3Operator posts pinned up top: actual account breakdowns, not recycled screenshots.
4. 4Topic channels like Strategy & Tactics and Fix My Account keep the help specific.

The question was never whether Skool is good. It's whether the person running the room still does the work. Ask that about mine too.