How do you grow a community around your product?
Saurabh Wadhawan
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Have been reading a lot about community-driven growth and how this could be the most ROI-effective growth channel. What has worked, What hasn't for you?
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Upen V@upen946
Zero To Founder
Just with a slight variation - I have built a community for my newsletter at Micro SaaS Ideas - https://microsaasidea.com
The tenets largely remain the same.
- Community takes good amount of time.
- You need to be passionate about the community.
- Understand the core goal of the community and move in that direction.
- Keep the interactions warm. Tag properly when needed.
- Not everyone has time. Send a weekly digest on with what's happening inside the community.
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@saurabhwadhawan Mine was pretty organic. But I see many people doing Newsletter promotions by sponsoring or doing cross-promos.
PH Deck
It was hard at the start, remember this and be patient. For example, in my discord server "self-intro" channel, I started the first intro and waited another 4 months for the second intro to arrive. Now, after 6 months, I have an audience group of 500 before the product even released its beta.
Trust the process
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Constantly engage with other users on different platforms and diversify your social media presence
Well, you can start by identifying the larger problems that your product addresses and invite people to share their experiences and learn from others.
For example, John Deer started a magazine called 'The Furrow' back in 1895 as a way of nurturing a community of farmers around their products (farming machinery) by sharing high-quality insightful articles about farming.
The magazine still runs and has an immense fan following. People wait for the latest publication to read stories about other farmers and their successes/failures.
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@adityasinghrajput very interesting. but distribution seems like a problem to me. how to work on that in current day world?