Beginner Maps (free crash course)

What if I told you there’s a community out there with 5500+ paying members on their Slack and 20k+ subscribers on their newsletter run by a tiny team. I’m talking about Health Tech Nerds - a community for health tech professionals. Actually it’s more like a private LinkedIn for the industry where professionals often get more useful answers than paid research, companies hire professionals and candidates vet companies. I had the good fortune of knowing about them when Abbey became a customer of Curated Connections. In this episode, we cover: • How to collect and act on member feedback effectively • Why direct member outreach drives 10x better results • The power of constant, "annoying" reminders • Why Slack remains the best platform despite its limits • Key pillars of HTN community This episode is a must-watch for newsletter creators or anyone who is looking to turn their audience into a paid community. Get the full episode wherever you get your podcasts: • Youtube - https://lnkd.in/ge_KNpq2 • Apple - https://lnkd.in/gvhiPcjF • Spotify - https://lnkd.in/gA6dV_Sw

You should NOT watch the latest episode of the podcast with 📖 John Faulkner-Willcocks if you believe that building a fast-growing community business is easy. You will get sorely discouraged. But if you would like to learn what it took for John and Adam Horne to create pure magic in the Open Org community, this episode of Beginner Maps (free crash course) is for you! In a matter of a few months, they’ve created a space where: • Whenever someone posts a question, they get between 3-5 high quality responses within a few hours • 250+ people paid to become members despite their strict onboarding rules • Members are not just engaging, but co-creating, participating in hackathons to build valuable content for the industry. Together. And all of this has been possible only through their relentless pursuit of transparency and attention for detail in every part of the community experience. Just listen to this trailer to get a glimpse of the hardwork i'm talking about. Or get the full episode wherever you get your podcasts: • Youtube - https://lnkd.in/ge_KNpq2 • Apple - https://lnkd.in/gvhiPcjF • Spotify - https://lnkd.in/gA6dV_Sw

Published a case study with one of our biggest customers yet. 🎉 • Community of 5500+ members • Running multiple 1-on-1 matching programs • Connecting 100s people each month Abbey (Burtis) Peterson is one of the most detail-oriented community operators I've ever met. That's why getting HTN successfully onboarded to Curated Connections was a major win! Some of the highlights from the case study: • "As our members continue to form meaningful connections with one another, it makes the community stickier." • "We’ve heard from 20+ members directly that they prefer this platform over other platforms we’ve tried." • "The Curated Connections team is highly receptive to feedback and quickly incorporates it. Link to read the entire case study in comments.

I've wanted to do this for a long time - i’m starting a masterminds program for community creators (paid communities + cohort courses) who are trying to grow their membership business! 🎉 Get introduced to 1 other community creator each month, over email - based on: • revenue • community size • community platform Exchange notes, learn the best of what your peers have already figured out, grow faster. Who wants to join? comment below or DM me so i can add you --- Why am i doing this? Because in a world with endless content, often AI-generated, authentic connections with people who "get it", is HUGE. It might be just what you need to take your business to the next level. This (free) mastermind program will foster such connections for community creators. --- Again, comment below or DM me so i can add you! And if you know any community creator who should join this, please tag them here. ❤️

Gina's (Gina Bianchini's) framework of “Focus on people in transition” is so powerful that I wrote an article on it. This is such a mindbending concept for me that this article essentially wrote itself. I’ve been building communities for ~5 years and this made me rethink every community strategy i thought i had honed. It's the golden rule that can answer ALL community struggles. Because people who join paid communities, buy online courses, and participate in challenges have ONE thing in common. They’re in a transition. They need support, accountability, and motivation from others on the same path. Once you start thinking like this, you will find solution to all your community problems: • How do i find my first 10 seed members? • What should i put on my landing page? • Nobody’s chatting in my community. How do i grow engagement? • How do i reduce churn? • How can i market my community membership? All of these questions and more can be answered by essentially honing in on this one question: “Am I helping a small niche of people going through a difficult transition?” I discuss how, in this lesson that i just added to Beginner Maps (free crash course). Link in comments --- While we’re on the subject, i’m also excited to announce that Gina is a confirmed guest on the Beginner Maps pod next month to share her frameworks on building a $1M communities and the evolution of Mighty Networks! 🔥 Stay tuned.

Jordan (Jordan Cutler) has done what most of us aspire to. He has grown 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. But here's the kicker: He didn't do it for fame or money. He does it because he genuinely cares about sharing what he is learning and helping others grow. Proof? He started his journey by posting in a Slack channel called "Jordan's frontend learnings" at his company. No newsletter. No LinkedIn. Just pure passion to write and share. The audience followed. We spent 45-mins diving deep into: • How being authentic allowed him to grow his audience • His process for writing engaging newsletter articles • How Ali Abdaal helps him avoid the content rat race • Running a cohort-based course while working full-time • Using Maven to host and promote courses • The pros and cons of digital vs. live cohort courses • How he partners with other creators Check out a trailer of our conversation below or the full episode here - https://lnkd.in/gw-CZhj8