Question for creators who run mixed-audience communities:
If your community serves two very different groups (for example: end users + professionals in the same industry), how would you structure monetization without eroding trust?
Specifically:
- Would you separate tiers by role (user vs professional)?
- Charge professionals more for visibility/access?
- Keep the core community free and sell classrooms or add-ons instead?
- Or something else entirely?
Iβm trying to balance:
- protecting the user experience
- avoiding βeveryone feels like the productβ energy
- while still monetizing fairly from the people who gain business value
Curious how others have handled this in practice, not theory.