What is The Next Level?

The Next Level, a free Skool community, is built for business owners looking for practical AI, better systems and clearer marketing. It is run by David Scarborough, founder of Strategic Marketing Advisors, and was created in October 2024.

How much does The Next Level cost?

The Next Level was free to join on Skool when last read, 3 Oct 2026; its listing showed no charge.

How many members does The Next Level have?

The Next Level lists 2,422 members, read 31 Oct 2026.

How has The Next Level's membership changed?

From 2,397 members on 6 Sept 2026, our first reading, to 2,422 on 31 Oct 2026: up 25, or 1%.

How does The Next Level compare with other business and entrepreneurship communities?

The Next Level is free to join, where the median priced business and entrepreneurship listing charges $37 a month. The niche median is 543 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.

What do you get inside The Next Level?

The Next Level publishes 3 course modules, 1 course, 872 posts, 2 admins. Communities with the most course content.

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The Next Level review

The Next Level is listed on Skool. It was free to join at our last price reading, on 3 Oct 2026.

A review on the numbers, not an opinion: nobody here has joined The Next Level, and nothing below is a verdict.

The Next Level, a free Skool community, is built for business owners looking for practical AI, better systems and clearer marketing.^[1] It is run by David Scarborough, founder of Strategic Marketing Advisors, and was created in October 2024.^[1] It targets consultants, owners of local and service businesses, and anyone wanting AI explained plainly.^[1]

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Members: 2,422
Published price: Free to join; no paid tier published here, last read 3 Oct 2026
Members, last 33 days: +13; 28 Sept 2026 to 31 Oct 2026
Rank by members: #765; of 6,074 sellers listed here
Size rank in niche: #79; of 642 sellers listed in business and entrepreneurship, by published members
Check the Course score: 90; A, very strong
Niche: Business and entrepreneurship; 687 listed here
Created: 20 Oct 2024; Skool publishes this date
Readings: 10; since 6 Sept 2026

About The Next Level

The group runs on a weekly rhythm: members post one marketing goal on Monday, join a live workshop on Wednesday covering local marketing, AI workflows and Claude, and post a win on Friday.^[1] The most helpful members are recognised in front of the community. The group presents itself as part of Mission One Million, which aims to help business owners succeed so that it reaches a million lives.^[1]

Strategic Marketing Advisors, LLC is a consultancy on business and marketing, specialising in PPC, SEO, reputation marketing and local search marketing.^[2] Its services include executive business and marketing consulting, Google Ads set-up and management, help with adopting AI in business operations, and AI software and marketing automation classes, and its pay-per-click work is offered through Guerrilla PPC.com.^[3] David A. Scarborough and Mary Eule Scarborough wrote The Procrastinator's Guide to Marketing, published by Entrepreneur Press in November 2007.^[3]^[4]

Sources

Skool listing: skool.com/thenextlevel, as collected 8 Sept 2026
Official website: strategicmarketingadvisors.com, retrieved 28 Sept 2026
Official website: strategicmarketingadvisors.com/services, retrieved 28 Sept 2026
Official website: strategicmarketingadvisors.com/about-us, retrieved 28 Sept 2026

Compiled by Check the Course from the sources listed, to the best of our ability.

What the listing describes

NicheBusiness and entrepreneurshipFormatCommunity

Read from the listing’s own words: what is offered, never how well.

What is inside

Course modules

Courses

Posts, all time

872

People running it

Counts published by The Next Level on its own page, read on 3 Oct 2026: how much is included, never how good it is. Listed as run by david-scarborough-2989.

How we knowSourced & dated

Observed on 31 Oct 2026 from Skool source page archived copy d3189c6979bf.

Observable monthly ceiling

monthly price, read 3 Oct 2026

2,408

published members, read 3 Oct 2026

theoretical ceiling per month, as at 3 Oct 2026

This community is published as free, so the figure is zero. Its members are an audience, not customers. Nothing here estimates what that audience might be worth, and no price is applied to it anywhere on this site.

Against the business and entrepreneurship niche

Percentile among the other 686 business and entrepreneurship listings here, each seller counted once for size.

Size88th

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Check the Course Score

90AVery strong

Ahead of 90% of the 13,588 Skool communities we track, including ones without a page here, on the measures below, each read from a figure The Next Level published itself.

Size 53% of the scoreahead of 92%
Growth 27% of the scoreahead of 40%
Track record 20% of the scoreahead of 74%

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Evidence and signals

Listed on 2,422 members.

Evidence: measured.

First recorded: 6 September 2026our first reading, not its launch
Elsewhere: Website

Tracked over time

Member change

+5+0.2%over 4 days+13+0.5%over 33 days

Price change

One reading with a price so far

10 observations over 54 days.

Member count

Observation log

Observation log
Observed	Members	Change	Price	Ceiling / month
31 Oct 2026	2,422	+5	Not recorded	Not calculated
27 Oct 2026	2,417	+3	Not recorded	Not calculated
23 Oct 2026	2,414	-1	Not recorded	Not calculated
19 Oct 2026	2,415	+9	Not recorded	Not calculated
15 Oct 2026	2,406	-1	Not recorded	Not calculated
11 Oct 2026	2,407	-3	Not recorded	Not calculated
7 Oct 2026	2,410	+2	Not recorded	Not calculated
3 Oct 2026	2,408	-1	Free to join	Not calculated
28 Sept 2026	2,409	+12	Not recorded	Not calculated
6 Sept 2026	2,397		Not recorded	Not calculated
Average per week, last 33 days28 Sept 2026 to 31 Oct 2026		+3
Average per week, since first reading6 Sept 2026 to 31 Oct 2026		+3

Course content readings

Course content readings
Observed	Posts	Modules	Courses
3 Oct 2026	872+10	3	1
8 Sept 2026	862	3	1
Added per week8 Sept 2026 to 3 Oct 2026	+2.8	0	0

Common questions about The Next Level

What is The Next Level?: The Next Level, a free Skool community, is built for business owners looking for practical AI, better systems and clearer marketing. It is run by David Scarborough, founder of Strategic Marketing Advisors, and was created in October 2024.
How much does The Next Level cost?: The Next Level was free to join on Skool when last read, 3 Oct 2026; its listing showed no charge.
How many members does The Next Level have?: The Next Level lists 2,422 members, read 31 Oct 2026.
How has The Next Level's membership changed?: From 2,397 members on 6 Sept 2026, our first reading, to 2,422 on 31 Oct 2026: up 25, or 1%.
How does The Next Level compare with other business and entrepreneurship communities?: The Next Level is free to join, where the median priced business and entrepreneurship listing charges $37 a month. The niche median is 543 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.
What do you get inside The Next Level?: The Next Level publishes 3 course modules, 1 course, 872 posts, 2 admins. Communities with the most course content.