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Creating a top in-person conference as a solo creator

Creating a top in-person conference as a solo creator

It’s the story of how one guy bootstrapped a global community conference out of his own pocket. And it worked!

Why Your AI Writing Feels Off (and How to Fix It)

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Why Your AI Writing Feels Off (and How to Fix It)

"It's me, not you." Meet 8 custom GPTs designed to refine social media posts, craft perfect titles, and clean podcast transcripts. Available on your free ChatGPT plan.

Scaling a cohort-based community using hidden curriculum

Scaling a cohort-based community using hidden curriculum

While most cohort based programs struggle to find customers after the first cohort, Paz Pizarski has been consistently increasing here cohort size at The Community Collective for 5 cohorts. In this episode, she unveals her magic sauce!

How to get top professionals sharing their secrets in your community

How to get top professionals sharing their secrets in your community

Running Remote is community of 250+ remote work leaders from companies like GitLab, Dropbox, and Zillow who share everything—from compensation strategies to retreat venues. In this episode, Kasia tells how she built this culture.

Building a 5500+ member paid community around a newsletter

Building a 5500+ member paid community around a newsletter

Building a 5,500+ member paid community isn't easy. Abbey is one of the rare people who's managing just such a community at Health Tech Nerds. This episode is a must-watch for newsletter creators who are looking to turn their audience into a paid community.

Using transparency as your community strategy to get 100s of paying members

Using transparency as your community strategy to get 100s of paying members

John built a 250+ member paid community in just 4 months with an astonishing 1.5% churn rate. His inspirations? On Deck and World of Warcraft (yes the video game). He's the cofounder of Open Org, a paid community for progressive People & Culture leaders.

How to get 60% referral rates for a cohort-based community

How to get 60% referral rates for a cohort-based community

As Program Director at On Deck and now founder of Next Careers, Anthony Nardini has helped 1000+ senior operators navigate career transitions. He shares his playbook at Next Careers and why 60% of customers refer their most talented friends.

Building community as a solo creator without burning out

Building community as a solo creator without burning out

Carrie Melissa Jones shares the blueprint for building successful online communities. She is the author of Building Brand communities, founder of the CMJ group, creator of her own community membership for community builders and leaders and a Youtuber.

One question to answer them all

One question to answer them all

Why your community should focus on people in a difficult transition. The secret strategy that solves all pesky community problems.

How to turn a course into a transformational community

How to turn a course into a transformational community

Ashley Gore has managed to turn on-demand courses into a community experience that supports 1200+ paying members of Smart Passive Income's All-access Pass community (started by Pat Flynn).

Building community business for world’s top creators

Building community business for world’s top creators

Jordan Godbey has built communities for world's top creators like Justin Welsh and Ali Abdaal. We spend an hour discussing his strategies, philosophies and tactics that you can use to start a $10k MRR community.

How to turn a bestselling book into a community business

How to turn a bestselling book into a community business

Stephanie Baiocchi is the community team of one at IMPACT where she manages the membership behind the bestselling book - They Ask You Answer by Marcus Sheridan.

How to delight new members with an ultra-personal welcome

Little-known technique used by top community businesses like Morning Brew, Upside and Generalist World. Delight new customers and retain old ones.

Frameworks to build a profitable community business

Frameworks to build a profitable community business

Bri Leever is filled with actionable frameworks for building a profitable community. She has honed them over the years by building communities through her consultancy - Ember Consulting.

Erin’s magic sauce for The Upside community

Erin’s magic sauce for The Upside community

If you want to build a premium community membership business, you need to copy Upside's template. Upside charges $195/month, paid annually, capped to 250 members.

Lessons from building 8+ communities - hear it from an investor

Lessons from building 8+ communities - hear it from an investor

Scott Amenta might be the most experienced person you'll meet when it comes to building a community business. He's simultaneously running multiple 7-8 figure community businesses through at Sylva, and building software to help community founders scale.

The ultimate playbook for running a masterminds program that scales

A comprehensive on how to run a masterminds program for your community. This is what top communities like The Upside, Trends do.

Steal the landing pages of top community business

Steal the landing pages of top community business

Inspiration to build a beautiful landing page for your community membership. Examples from top community businesses.

Building paid communities for top creators like Nik Sharma

Building paid communities for top creators like Nik Sharma

Shin Takeda is helping creators make bank by creating done-for-you membership Slack communities for them - with his agency Democratize Knowledge. Creator funnels their audience, Shin handles end-to-end operations of running their paid community.

How to build a business around a free community

How to build a business around a free community

Grace Ling's playbook as she took the free Design Buddies community to 60k+ members and replaced her full-time income with it

Journey to 50k+ subscribers, $35k+ revenue in 1 year as a creator with a full-time job

Journey to 50k+ subscribers, $35k+ revenue in 1 year as a creator with a full-time job

Jordan Cutler has done what most of us aspire to. He grew his newsletter to 50,000+ subscribers in just one year. Along the way, he has made $35,000+ in “passive” income, with $20,000+ coming from a cohort-based course on Maven.

Why I think lifetime pricing model rules for paid communities

Why I think lifetime pricing model rules for paid communities

Everybody thinks community is the next SaaS. But I think a one-time membership fee might be best for a paid community memberships. Atleast for a lot of them where there’s little marginal cost for serving each new customer.

Hosting masterminds that lead to a ridiculous retention rate

Hosting masterminds that lead to a ridiculous retention rate

Ryan Wardell is the CEO and cofounder of Startup Sauce, a private membership for SaaS founders outside of Silicon Valley doing $5k+ in MRR. In this episode, Ryan shares his "magic sauce".

How to host 200+ meetups in 35 countries in one year

How to host 200+ meetups in 35 countries in one year

Shreman Shrestha is the Head of Community for the Friends of Lenny’s Slack community. In this episode, Shre discusses how this community is able to organise 200+ in-person meetups per year, challenges with organising a great mentor matching program, working with volunteers and more.

How to build community business that does $400k+/yr

How to build community business that does $400k+/yr

Daniel Vassallo is the cofounder of Small Bets - a private community membership for indie hackers, solopreneurs and wanna-preneurs. Lots of hot takes here. Things like charging a one-time fee for a lifetime access or paying guests to do live classes in the community.