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Launching & Growing your Community on the Web & App Stores

Getting started and launching can sometimes feel daunting or something you put off – but it doesn’t need to be! You can set yourself and your community up for future success by nailing the basics. Read our guide below to help get your community off the ground. Establish Your Community’s Purpose & Audience When you […]

Communities

Community Launch Day Checklist

Launch day is finally here! A Community Launch Checklist is a great tool to start planning and executing your new community launch. You have done so much work to get to this moment from interviews to research to vendor selection and of course strategizing and planning. Now it’s time to kick the tires and watch […]

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Community Insights

Engaging Your First 100 Members and Beyond

When you open the gates to your community you *might* be starting with zero members, and every new member will be very exciting! After-all, at this stage, you’ve likely spent an exceptional amount of time researching, planning, and strategizing for this moment. Now the hard work begins – engaging and onboarding your new community members! […]

Membership

Community Membership: An Inspirational Guide To Using Promo Codes

Promo codes are powerful tools for admins to build and create all sorts of programs to improve conversion performance and add more paying users to your community. We’ve built promo codes for communities of all types to easily activate, target, and grow their membership offering. To start, it’s important to think about how you’re going […]

Community Insights

Defining Your Community Stack

The world of online community management can be as simple or as extravagant as you want to make it…or for what your budget will allow. There is no one tool to rule them all, but with the right combination of solutions you can create a pretty incredible community management stack. The research for which platform […]

Community Insights

Community Matchmaking: A Guide To Creatively Using Direct Messaging

Matchmaking in your community is a valuable, tactful strategy to power more relationships among those you care most about!

Community Insights

Building A Community Roadmap

In the beginning stages of launching and building a community it’s difficult to imagine what a few years down the road will look like specifically. You hope that it’s a vibrant place where members come to engage and hang out with others that they know, and receive meaningful value from those they surround themselves with […]

Communities, Community Insights

Community Case Study: Leveraging Custom Fields

About Rove Rove, a community for VanLifers and nomads across more than 5 continents leveraged Custom Fields to uniquely identify, organize and segment their community to drive more relevance and a stronger context to network amongst users. Their Story Rove is a community for van-lifers all over the world. From North America to Europe, members […]

Guest Blog, Interviews

Building BoogieZone: Getting Started On Honeycommb

Here’s an inside look at Getting Started On Honeycommb. We connected with BoogieZone founder, Elm Pizarro (@ElmBoogie) on his launch of Boogiezone with Honeycommb. In re-establishing and reinvigorating his social network it was important to think about a few critical strategies and tactics to excite and ignite his network. Our Approach To Community Building a […]