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Transform Your Content Strategy
Category: Article | Level: Intermediate Transform Your Content Strategy: Top Tools for Creating Community-first Content Are you a community manager looking to create better content for your community? Thankfully we live in the era of technology. You can create...
Transform Your Content Strategy
Category: Article | Level: Intermediate Transform Your Content Strategy: Top Tools for Creating Community-first Content Are you a community manager looking to create better content for your community? Thankfully we live in the era of technology. You can create...
What to Consider When Starting a Community
This interview with Bailey Richardson, co-author of "Get Together: How to build a community with your people," is full of valuable insight based on first-hand experience building and running an online community. Richardson shares what to think about when you're...
What ‘Audience-first’ Really Means
The article "Audience-First Is Not Just Building an Audience" on The Bootstrapped Founder, Arvid Kahl discusses the importance of an audience-first approach for entrepreneurs and business owners. The article explains that building an audience is not just about...
Orbit’s Guide to Kickstarting Your Community
Patrick Woods walks readers through Orbit's community journey from the beginning, offering the "nitty-gritty details" of how they bootstrapped their initial community. The community got its start on Slack with just two conversation channels, building credibility with...
How to Create an Instant-Community
Building a community can be a long and involved process, one that can even take years. A writer and community builder going simply by the screen name Danielle takes that idea of community and turns it on its head. Her focus is on the idea of "time-bound pop-up...
What We Can Learn from the Success of a 7-Year-Old Paid Community
The Business of Community presents a case study of Dreamers & Doers, a paid community for women entrepreneurs in its seventh year. It is a reflection on the past seven years of success synthesized into a set of six simple takeaways. Build a community you want to...
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