Community Growth Ideas Please! · Community F.I.R.E. Mojo

Chris Wright

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Community Growth Ideas Please!

What's up land Mojo...

I've been working on my group, Raising Entrepreneurial Kids, ever since I left Travis in Little Rock.

Here's the strategy/results so far:

Posting 2-3 times per week
Started doing interviews with other parents
Posting on my FB and old email list to direct people to the group
Talking & adding value in other groups
65 members, no attempt at monetization

I'm struggling with two things... growth and engagement.

I thought that interviews would help increase the growth rate, as it taps into other people's audiences (while also being super valuable and interesting).

Engagement proves hard too, even with encouragement... a lot of people just like to lurk.

I've talked this through with

@James Foster

and

@Adrian Hall

- both had super helpful points. But I also want to tap into the brain trust here.

Firstly, my two concern that may or may not be reality...

My group isn't focused on ROI, it's also not focused directly on the group member. Obviously, people care about their kids... but there's no fixed outcome I can really promise here.
Skool feels like a suboptimal platform for the growth & engagement side of things when compared to facebook. People log in to Facebook every day... not so much with Skool. But I do consider this a minor concern.

Secondly, some further ideas I've had...

Instead of locking the interviews away in the Skool group - put them on YouTube and point people to the group. However, I could see the same issue here with getting the word out about the YouTube channel.
A 7-day "sell your stuff" challenge. I've polled the group on this, but I could see this being a $7 offer I run traffic to - to bring people into the group.

So...

Any ideas on the above...

Or what I could do to boost growth & engagement?

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