The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.
“my membership 200 people the majority of them vast majority of them are teaching very specific skills like we have this member Claire she teaches…”
“I think actually there's bigger opportunity there for those people than the creators teaching creators”
“where a lot of communities fall flat is as soon as I push publish and I post my intro I am just sitting there waiting…”
“if you can't give people the experience of I just introduce myself and I feel very welcomed then don't make that experience part of the…”
“what we're going to see is an explosion of communities that are done poorly and an an almost instant cratering of that as well because…”
“how can you set yourself up to be the one or two surviving communities that people can't imagine not being a part of”
“I think gamification in a lot of ways is a Band-Aid for engagement”
“if you're going to use gamification make sure that it's in alignment with this is actually getting the ultimate uh outcome that the individual wants”
“when somebody records a video that just off the cuff and just talking about their experience we can feel that Honesty”
“sometimes people really want to do a good job and they'll write a script for their own testimonial and they'll read it off a script…”
“every space should serve a distinct purpose and be used”
“you have to find some way of vetting is there real density of people who want this thing and if so I will create it…”
“it is difficult to serve all five of those stages in one membership product where relationships and connection is key it's a lot better to…”
“if you have beginners and you have experts very quickly the majority of conversation becomes beginner conversation and the experts go and try to find…”
“the more often I did this the easier it became to deprioritize any single of them because there's another one just next week”
“we do a town hall in the community once per year and that allows me to say hey we do this once a year if…”
“I thought entrepreneurship was like Tech startups did software companies for a few years and then around 2017 realized hey wait I've always liked to…”
“in software the thing that you set out to make is almost never what you actually end up making because they're compromises and Technical feasibility”
“there are aspects of circle as it stands today that become unusable when you have permissioned levels of access and so for me I'm actually…”
“if there's permissioning I'm just going to create a different space for the most part”
“if there's something that is teaching that's great that creates an asset that builds a library area of content at some point that also becomes…”
“from the beginning what I would be doing is thinking about how will this be organized a year from now when there's a ton of…”
“it's not about the number of hours that I or your team are putting in it's that I think the the the communities that are…”
“I have to be constantly aware of activity so that I can provide timely Assistance or your team can provide timely assistance that's a differentiator”
“I think you need five people uh if you if you want to start a community I think you literally only need five people 10…”
“when people have real time experiences even if it's on video with other people now suddenly the the two-dimensional profile photo and name that I…”