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Carrie Melissa Jones
United States
Приєднався 22 січ 2013
Carrie Melissa Jones is a strategist, social scientist, and entrepreneur specializing in community building and connection. With a focus on online communities for brands and creators, she guides leaders and brands looking to grow their impact, revenue, and sense of connection with the people critical to their success. You can expect how-to guides, strategic guidance, and technology recommendations tailored to help creators and brands create authentically connected communities. Whether you're a first-time founder or work in a big tech enterprise, Carrie offers actionable advice and strategies to help you build an incredible community.
Ask Me Anything (AMA) about Community and Memberships!
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Community Building
03:08 The Importance of Community Support
05:59 Membership Payment Options: Monthly vs. Quarterly
09:14 Revitalizing a Stagnant Community
12:04 Understanding Quiet Communities
14:55 Technology for Community Building
19:10 Budgeting for Community Development
29:58 Navigating Community Platforms
🆓 FREE Training: How to Create the Online Community of Your Dreams: bit.ly/47rJJep
🆓 FREE Tech Stack Workbook: bit.ly/4hcHq3z
Work With Me:
🏡 The CMJ Community: A digital membership for motivated, ambitious, open, and ethical community builders ready to further their impact-and avoid burnout along the way.: www.carriemelissajones.com/co...
⭕️ Circle Community Launch & Optimization: www.carriemelissajones.com/co...
💼 Consulting, Training, and Speaking: www.carriemelissajones.com/le...
Follow Me on Instagram: / carriemelissajones
Follow me on LinkedIn: / carriemelissajones
00:00 Introduction to Community Building
03:08 The Importance of Community Support
05:59 Membership Payment Options: Monthly vs. Quarterly
09:14 Revitalizing a Stagnant Community
12:04 Understanding Quiet Communities
14:55 Technology for Community Building
19:10 Budgeting for Community Development
29:58 Navigating Community Platforms
🆓 FREE Training: How to Create the Online Community of Your Dreams: bit.ly/47rJJep
🆓 FREE Tech Stack Workbook: bit.ly/4hcHq3z
Work With Me:
🏡 The CMJ Community: A digital membership for motivated, ambitious, open, and ethical community builders ready to further their impact-and avoid burnout along the way.: www.carriemelissajones.com/co...
⭕️ Circle Community Launch & Optimization: www.carriemelissajones.com/co...
💼 Consulting, Training, and Speaking: www.carriemelissajones.com/le...
Follow Me on Instagram: / carriemelissajones
Follow me on LinkedIn: / carriemelissajones
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Відео
How Airtable and Monday.com Build Communities
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Watch me as I do a LIVE reaction video and lite audit of two community platforms for tech companies, Airtable and Monday.com. There's so much you can learn from what others are doing well (and not-so-well). 🆓 FREE Training: How to Create the Thriving Online Community of Your Dreams: bit.ly/4glrs6K Work With Me: 🏡 The CMJ Community: A digital membership for motivated, ambitious, open, and ethica...
Why you don't need 1000 Community Members to Build a Thriving Community
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A successful community does not need thousands of members. So what DOES it need to succeed? Let's explore in this live. 🆓 FREE Training: How to Create the Online Community of Your Dreams: bit.ly/4d8KXMW. Work With Me: 🏡 The CMJ Community: A digital membership for motivated, ambitious, open, and ethical community builders ready to further their impact-and avoid burnout along the way.: www.carrie...
Community engagement myths debunked: MORE IS NOT BETTER
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What does a successful community look like? It doesn't involve more, more, more! More content and more engagement do not equal success. So what DOES success look like when measured? I'll share the 3 most essential measurable aspects of your community. 🆓 FREE Training: How to Create the Online Community of Your Dreams: bit.ly/3MFTa0x Work With Me: 🏡 The CMJ Community: A digital membership for mo...
The EXACT Steps to Build a Community from Scratch
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If you're building a community from scratch, where do you start? Whether you're building a local community group, a membership program for your business, or launching an enterprise-level community to connect your customers more meaningfully, there are a few key steps you must follow to be and (most importantly!) FEEL successful. Join me live to uncover the steps you need to follow to build and ...
What to expect from a successful community launch
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Let's get real about what successful community launches really look like! As community builders, we often put pressure on ourselves (and are pressured by others) to achieve big numbers and perfect execution from Day 1. My team has launched many, many communities over the last decade , so let's pull back the curtain on what to expect - realistically - from your community launch. Also applicable ...
How to Reorient Your Business Around Community with Jenn Walker Wall
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How to Reorient Your Business Around Community with Jenn Walker Wall
The Best Low-Cost Community Tech Tools of 2024
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The Best Low-Cost Community Tech Tools of 2024
How I Launch Online Communities for Our Clients
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How I Launch Online Communities for Our Clients
2 Ways to Build An Online Community: Real Examples of Profitable Community Memberships
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2 Ways to Build An Online Community: Real Examples of Profitable Community Memberships
How Much Time Should You Spend Managing Your Online Community or Membership?
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How Much Time Should You Spend Managing Your Online Community or Membership?
How to Write a Community Value Proposition or Unique Selling Proposition
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How to Write a Community Value Proposition or Unique Selling Proposition
What metrics should you track for your online community?
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What metrics should you track for your online community?
Cohort vs Evergreen Community Memberships: Which is right for you?
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Cohort vs Evergreen Community Memberships: Which is right for you?
How to Get Your First 10 Online Community Members | Community Building Best Practices
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How to Get Your First 10 Online Community Members | Community Building Best Practices
How to Price Your Online Community Program and Experiences
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How to Price Your Online Community Program and Experiences
How to Launch and Market Your Online Community
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How to Launch and Market Your Online Community
How to Design Meaningful Online Community Programs and Experiences
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How to Design Meaningful Online Community Programs and Experiences
How to Increase Retention and Reduce Churn in Your Membership Community
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How to Increase Retention and Reduce Churn in Your Membership Community
Select the BEST technology for your online community!
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Select the BEST technology for your online community!
How I Save Hours Each Week Automating Community Management Tasks with Burb
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How I Save Hours Each Week Automating Community Management Tasks with Burb
How to Design Great Onboarding for Your Online Community and Clients
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How to Design Great Onboarding for Your Online Community and Clients
When to hire a community strategist for your business - or become one!
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When to hire a community strategist for your business - or become one!
The essential definition of the term "community strategy"
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The essential definition of the term "community strategy"
Insights from our recent survey of 200+ community builders
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Insights from our recent survey of 200 community builders
The 6 Myths that Hold Community Builders Back
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The 6 Myths that Hold Community Builders Back
Creating and Scaling a Global Sisterhood Community with Melek Pulatkonak and Carrie Melissa Jones
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Creating and Scaling a Global Sisterhood Community with Melek Pulatkonak and Carrie Melissa Jones
How I Use Notion To Elevate Leaders and Scale Communities
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How I Use Notion To Elevate Leaders and Scale Communities
The Best (and Only) Community Engagement Hack You Need
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The Best (and Only) Community Engagement Hack You Need
What Does "Big C" vs. "little c" Community Even Mean?
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What Does "Big C" vs. "little c" Community Even Mean?
Brilliant video and great advice
🆓 FREE Training: How to Create the Thriving Online Community of Your Dreams: bit.ly/4glrs6K
🆓 FREE Training: How to Create the Online Community of Your Dreams: bit.ly/47rJJep
This is so helpful! Thank you so much
So glad I could help!
This is so helpful! The 80%/20% is something I'm going to look at. I have a paid membership but there were times when I had free trials, etc, and I'm with you in that I have a Circle community....so separating the two manually is not something I'm looking forward to! Thanks for the awesome video!
Thanks you for the sharing your experience.
Great content - should your founding members be given free membership? If so, for how long?
It depends on the cost of your membership, how much you plan to ask from them, and their own financial situation. For my community, I asked my Founding Members to pay a special lower price as a symbolic gesture of their involvement, and then I let them have lifetime access. This is a values-driven decision for me, and their active participation is worth much more than a monthly subscription fee (they make the place feel vibrant! That is priceless!). It is up to them how long they want to stay active, and I always welcome them at events and frequently tag them in posts or bring them on for more formal feedback.
And great question! Thank you!
My community and I serve the Life Sciences Compliance industry. It is a B2B forum, but the challenge is creating engagement. Your suggestions are highly appreciated!
Pareto’s principle works well with growing audience - making more people like content
Please make a video on your thoughts on the Skool community platform
I like that : "giving people the opportunity to be generous with their experience" 💛
This is good. BUT My brain doesn't do well with the random music. I have to watch this with CC.
Thanks for the feedback!
Linda from San Antonio
I attended your session at SXSW and asked you this question. Thank you for directing me to this video. It was helpful. I've run an evergreen community for 15 months but have not focused on marketing consistently.
Thank you so much carrie, I have a question please, when I will know I need to create a free community first and then the paid one? or the paid one only without the free version, thank you so much ❤
Thank you for your question! This is a great one. I have a video that can help you think through pricing: ua-cam.com/video/RiJjobQLNQY/v-deo.html.
I love Loom!!! ✨👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Still trying to learn Zapier. Love your energy
I love zoom, but have been forcing myself to use the circle features 😂
They’re not bad! They used to not allow people to blur their backgrounds, which was a privacy issue for my corporate clients, but they’ve since introduced that. I just like the freedom of being able to use whatever recording plugin I wish and the familiarity of Zoom to pretty much everyone at this point.
No surprises. This video is very helpful which is consistent with your work. It's helped me prepare for our coaching call next week.
Yay, so excited!
This is so useful for the community I’ve built over the past 4 months thank you ❤️💯😎
Just came back, we’re at 50 people in the group chat and range 80 - 800 on a TT live 🔥
Awesome
Awesome
what if we are offering is a nonprofit organization? how’s it will work?
The same pricing considerations apply - think about the needs of your target audience and, if this is for donors, the other levels of donations that you ask for and how this best fits into the mix. It's important to keep things simple and not over-complicate your offerings.
@@CarrieMelissaJones thank you for such wonderful videos and reply. it helps a lot. ❤️
Please can you recommend a platform for networking? So has a newsfeed and groups like Facebook with a touch of LinkedIn (I'm wanting the job title for a member to be displayed on a post like on LinkedIn)
Check out Mighty Networks and Circle!
I want to thank you for the valuable info and tips. Really helpful!
Excellent info, so helpful!
What if you want to push your email list? They comingle right?
I was surprised that there were way more steps than I initially thought. Thank you for sharing!
I know, right?! A successful launch is much more than just creating a landing page and inviting people into a community platform.
Thank you 🙏🏾
I like your content! Trying to create a nursing lecturer course. Content is very helpful! Thanks
Very valuable
It would be great if you could share the community data template :)
Hi Carrie, is it possible to integrate a newsletter in Mighty Networks? If not, is there any other where I can integrate community, discussion groups, membership management and a newsletter?
It depends what you mean by integration here. They do have an automated digest you can enable, but you can't integrate other newsletter software with Mighty Networks. By this, I mean that you can't have Mighty send updates to software like Mailchimp or Convertkit that would create an automated newsletter for you. You could, however, have Mighty send all new members to your mailing lists. Other software that you might want to check out: Circle, Higher Logic (more pricey but is going to have all the features you want here), Disciple, or (if you have tech chops) Discourse.
Hi Carrie - Thanks for the value in the content. Can’t wait for the next video!
Thanks for the encouragement! Means the world.
@@CarrieMelissaJones Absolutely! I wanted to ask do you offer any one 1:1 consultations! I am a new to online community would love to meet and get some advice. Thank you!
@@Coowillallen Yes I do! Send me an email to c (at) carriemelissajones.com and I can send you a link with details.
Will do - Thanks! @@CarrieMelissaJones
What questions came to mind when watching today's video? Feel free to let me know down below ✨
Amazing information! Thanks!
Thanks for stopping by! What did you learn from the Dreamers and Doers example? Looking forward to your response.
I appreciate this video so so much! The quality and your on-camera presence is UNMATCHED! :) Thank you for making this! I am looking into making a course about "Documenting your life through video" but getting into the course creation space is a whole other ball game! Have a great day!
Thank you so much, @jrniejade! I absolutely understand how much it all is to take in. Take it one day and step at a time. One day you'll be a pro. :)
wow really great timing, im trying to build a community for autistic people in Berlin in my spare time, im almost burnt out 😢 i set up a boundary that you are not allowed to post stuff into the main channel thats supposed to be only okay in the flood channel, i will also take your advice and not check everything 24/7
So happy to hear you're setting and communicating those boundaries! Your community just needs to know what to expect, and they want the best for you!
Very powerful insights here, especially considering the ideal member criteria. Love it. Thank you for sharing this with us, Carrie.
My honor!
@@CarrieMelissaJones, to your point about understanding your members, I've begun conducting brief 10-question interviews with a few of mine to better know them, their needs, and want they want/expect from my online ecosystem. Second happens this afternoon! First one went well. Thanks again for the inspo!
Which boundary mentioned in today's video are you going to apply to your online community? Let me know down below.
Great video, I have a few communities and i need to get more out of them.
Amazing, cheers to taking them to the next level!
Thanks for stopping by! Quick question, what are your unique value propositions in your community? Looking forward to reading them.
How can you test your community value proposition before launching it? Especially if you cannot pre-sell your community or membership in advance.
This is precisely where founding member groups come in and why we always advise our clients to gather their first 10 members together before a big splashy public launch: ua-cam.com/video/TzE7YG6CkFM/v-deo.html&ab_channel=CarrieMelissaJones. You run the value prop and early set-up by them to validate it, then go from there.
Great info, circle is a bit expensive - but like the thought process
Yeah, they've been steadily raising their price over the last year, and the business/pro plans are prohibitively expensive for many creators just starting out. :/ Having said that, it's worth the set license fee if the community is generating solid recurring revenue. Some platforms charge by the user (e.g., Slack Pro), and that's a true business nightmare.
So glad to have found you! 😊 newbie online educator. Still building my online program and stumbled into your channel in my curiousity about the community aspect for my biz. Thanks for what you do, and how you do it! Looking forward to learning more from you in due course
Skool? Or podia?
I've never used Skool personally so I can't recommend one way or the other. I did use Podia prior to switching to Teachable, and I'd recommend it if you don't mind being stuck in their ecosystem.
OMG it is more scary now to leave fb
I have had a hybrid approach since the beginning and it's worked really well! But I can also see it going sideways, especially at a larger scale!