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Hi, I'm Gina bianchini.
I'm the founder and CEO of Mighty
Networks, which is the community online course events and membership platform
that the lounge is running on.
And I am here today for your bonus
session and your bonus.
I'm keeping this because one of the
things I know about creating communities.
Is the goal is not perfection.
It's to stay open.
It's to try new things, and it's to keep
recording when you flub something up.
So with that let me offer and pull up my
screen because we are about to dive right on in to today's bonus topic, which is
when to create a community for your business.
I am super excited about what you all are doing in business class because it seems
pretty rad. And with that, let's dive right on in.
So if you have been wondering, how do you bring your people together, your
customers, your community, and if there's even a benefit for having a community for
your Business Today? You are in the right bonus session.
Second thing you may be considering thinking about which is what's the
difference between a community and like what we're doing in the lounge and what
I'm already doing on social media.
Do I even need a community?
Third, why would somebody join a brand new community?
That's my own thing, especially outside of social media, especially when we're so
busy. And lastly, would anybody actually?
Pay to join a community.
Guess what?
The answer for all of these things are going to be really clear in this bonus
session. But also absolutely someone will pay you
to join a membership based community.
So I'm really glad you're here.
I think I've said that before, but I'm going to say it again.
Little bit about me.
So I have been running fast growing.
Community platforms for about 15 years.
So I started my my entrepreneurial
journey at a platform that I created with a friend of mine named Mark Andreessen
called Ning Back in 2007 And our vision in the early days of coming out of my
space was that everybody could create their own social network for any
individual topic, interest, passion, goal.
And we grew Ning to 300,000 thousand active Ning networks that reached nearly
100 million people all around the world and ultimately sold the business for a
hundred and fifty million dollars then i started mighty Networks and our goal
invention with Mighty Networks is that there is going to be a world of 1000000
unique and vibrant communities led by brands and creators.
That are bringing people together to master something interesting or important
to them.
And so I have been working in this area
of how the heck do you build something outside of social media that is all your
own, where you can charge for it, that it essentially runs itself and that you're
able to maybe attract people with your content.
But then keep them around because you have created a super valuable community
where your Members are able to make connections and build relationships with
each other such that the value of the community, the value of the network
increases with each new person who joins and contributes, which it's less work for
you. You get to work on all the stuff that you
love and your Members are going to love it so.
With that, just a quick context for what is mighty networks, just so if I mention
mighty networks or I refer to the lounge, you know kind of what we do, we are a
platform for brands and creators to build their own network effect and in network
effects like it's what is that a network effect allows you to to do.
Something really special, which is to bring your people together, connect them
to each other, and then as new people join and contribute, everything gets more
valuable for everyone.
And we do this through a combination of
bringing a community together, letting you run your own online courses within
that community with your own special online courses.
With communities in the community as well as run memberships, subscriptions,
payments, all under your own brand, instantly available on web as well as
mobile apps, which is what you are experiencing and enjoying with the
lounge. So as we shift now to think about okay,
should you be creating a community for your business?
I want to offer you a new way to think about community and and sometimes when
you're starting with something new, it's better to sort of start with OK well,
what isn't it? That was a little bit harder to say than
I had intended, but I want to offer a new definition of a community that doesn't
require you to have hundreds or thousands or a million people to be successful.
You just don't need big numbers to create something that gets more valuable to
every member. With each new person who joins, you
really can create something awesome with 10 people, you can create something
that's even more awesome with 30 people.
That is all you need to build value.
And a community does not need to be gigantic.
A community isn't your social media following and reposting social posts.
Now again, you might be like, hold up, Gina.
I think about my followers on social media as my community.
But here's the thing in in our definition of community that we're going to take
through this bonus session, we're going to define community where the value is
when members are connecting to each other in social media.
The models different in the in social media.
The model is I talk out at you, you DM me back or comment on what I have posted.
But it's very rare if ever, you're meeting and and and your your followers
are building relationships with each other.
That's just not happening.
That's the difference between fighting
for attention on Instagram and and using social media and you're following to move
people into your own community, where you are able to create this thing called the
network effect, which is how Instagram became Instagram and Facebook became
Facebook. And Twitter became Twitter, which is to
connect the most relevant members in your community to each other.
And you can only really do that when you build a community that is your own.
Your own destination, with your own culture, with your own purpose, with your
own very specific ideal Member and your own things that that people are going to
do together. But this community, this destination
community that we're talking about today, it is not about just setting something
up, bringing people in, and just reposting your content marketing.
We saw that really early on, and now we don't see that as much on mighty
networks. But it's not.
Your community is not about taking stuff that you've posted somewhere else.
And using it and repurposing it to make those connections.
Because when you built that content marketing, when you built your social
posts, you built it to compete in, in a world where everybody's attention is up
for grabs. When you have your own destination
community, your own network, you've got essentially your own spot where people
can come together and you can offer them a different kind of value.
It's also not more work for you because when you have a community, it's a lot
more like a party where it's about bringing people together, giving them,
you know, that the the, the culture guide of like what we do here together.
And then letting them go, letting them have an amazing time and reach out to
people because they feel safe, they feel secure, they feel excited and motivated.
And we're going to give you the tools in this session so that you can create
exactly that. In stark contrast, something I've seen a
lot of times, and maybe this is something that you've tried before, which is yeah,
yeah, yeah. I've tried to like start a slack
community or have a Facebook group and I put in links that I would share and then,
you know, nobody would comment.
That is not how to build a community.
Nobody needs another article to read.
Nobody needs another link to a podcast
that they have to listen to.
What people love is other people.
And that is the power of a network and a network effect, that you are connecting
those people to each other.
Last point in our new definition of a
community is that a thriving community is not made or broken by a feature or
features alone. At the end of the day, what you are
creating in terms of a community around your business can happen just about
anywhere. Obviously there's some platforms that you
know are more.
Closely aligned and easier to get started
and easier to create this kind of network and network effect.
But you know what the most important thing is that you've got people and you
layer on top of it a big purpose, which we will get to in a moment.
We have our own methodology at Mighty Networks for how to create a thriving
community and we call it community design.
And what community design does is it captures for a for a community why people
want to build relationships with each other, why they are there in that
community, and how they are going to build those relationships.
2020 is a funky year for a variety of of reasons 2021 Welcome with you're watching
this in the future, you're going to be a little weird too.
But one of the things that has been the most fascinating in the work that we do
in terms of creating communities that bring people together around an interest,
a passion, a goal, a topic, a purpose, is that people want you to explicitly tell
them what the heck they're supposed to do to participate in a community, when to
post, how to post.
Is it cool to DM people?
Is it is, you know, can they answer a poll?
What are helpful comments? Nobody has the time to guess.
And your prospective Members and the people that you're going to bring
together in your community, you are going to be so well served by getting them
together with your big purpose, the motivation for your community that you're
going to capture in such a way that when people are listening.
They hear the things they're looking for from you as you create your community,
and then a culture guide that is going to tell people what the heck they're
supposed to do to actually build those relationships with each other.
So as you're thinking about creating a community for your business, you're
probably asking yourself one very, very important question, which is, is now the
right time to do this in this post? Pandemic world where people are are
suffering, where people are struggling.
Can you even do it?
Aren't they too busy? You know, do they even want a community?
It feels so superfluous and I want to offer you a totally different perspective
on that, which is that after our basic needs, food, housing, gas in our cars,
the ability to to take care of our families.
A community that is coming together to master something interesting or important
together matters now more than ever.
It matters now more than ever.
And as you think about bringing a purpose and a mission to your business, and you
want to capture the imagination, the inspiration of your customers, bringing
them together in a community that is navigating this world that we're living
in. It is never been more important.
The thing about communities and making these connections between people is that
it's how each and every one of us and the people that came before us navigated
rapid change, navigated uncertainty, navigated the unknown, and there are a
lot of unknowns today.
And so when you think about whether it's
the right time to build a community for your business, wouldn't it be easier if I
just do it on a Facebook group or in social media through a ADM chat on
Instagram? I want to encourage you to think about
just what is possible when you bring people together in your own space, with
your own culture.
With your own norms, with your own way of
interacting where they're not distracted but can actually go deeper in the mission
and the purpose that you are building your business around today and through
through business class, that's the power of a community.
And let me give you 3 examples of people that have thrived in creating a
community, right? Now, so the first person I want to
introduce you to is Lovey, and Lovey is a Blogger, she is a speaker, she is a
bestselling author. And about a year ago she basically
decided that she wanted to create safe place in a dumpster fire world for the
people who followed her and her community that was originally on a Facebook group.
So over 13000 thousand members later, she has moved to a mighty network and not
only is she able to bring a thriving community that is is excited to interact
with each other, but she's also been able to build a business model directly into
that community by offering exclusive classes.
Paid program, specifically a paid career program where she's bringing in guest
speakers. She is running people through a a set of
of challenges, weekly challenges, and enabling each one of the members in that
paid program to really go deep with each other in the context of a thriving
community. She has additionally to the weekly
challenges in her paid programs, quarterly challenges, professional
networking, and she's there to guide the community and to create a unique culture
that is different than anything you can do when you're when you're fighting for
attention on Instagram or on Facebook.
Another really interesting example and a
great one is, is one that is actually run through a business.
So Wassell vole is the community is the is the membership arm of a women's
athletic apparel company based in I think Washington state.
And what they did they originally had you know custom app that they had built.
And it wasn't really working that well because custom apps are really hard to
get right, because you spend all of this money to like, build your first version,
and then it's like 20 % of what it needed to be, plus bugs.
And then you realize at that point that the 300,000 thousand or four hundred
thousand dollars you spent to get that custom app developed, you're going to
need another two hundred thousand dollars to make it actually like, work.
And then.
It just keeps going up from there.
So instead being able to use and have their own apps move to a mighty network
charges 120$ per year to essentially bring members in and connect them to
women runners and athletes in their area.
Well, when COVID head and those in person
meetups for running stopped happening.
Something really special started to
happen, which is the Members of this community started helping each other
network professionally find new jobs and support each other well beyond running
and athletic goals alone.
And I think it's a great example,
especially for modern direct to consumer businesses that have a product or
service. That that has a bigger mission or where
there's a larger opportunity to apply the products that you are selling, building
them, building essentially a community, a subscription where people show up and are
able to meet and and go deeper and apply that vision of what you have created for
your physical products in.
And with in a community with a digital
subscription that's a way to expand your business and for your consumer, for your
Member, it's all feels even more holistic and creates a deeper more meaningful
connection with your brand.
And while Salvale is a great example of
that, I think I went through this, but basically local running groups, virtual
weekly gatherings, exclusive perks and accountability and community lastly now.
I will remember that we are going to talk about Martinez.
I've remembered it.
But you know Martinez Evans has an
amazing Instagram following of.
I think 35,000 thousand people at this
point and he is a back of the pack runner, so he his Instagram account is
three hundred pounds and running.
He is just a true inspiration and what he
realized was, you know, after trying to, you know, take everybody's online course
and start his own courses around running, that kind of fell flat.
What he realized was that he wanted to bring a community together and he went
all in on a mighty network.
And in doing so he was able not just to
get his Instagram followers to come with him to his own destination.
Not 100 %, but certainly 3040 % joined him.
He's also been able to rapidly accelerate how fast he is learning about his
followers. And what they want from him.
So for example, not only has he developed paid programs similar to what to what
Lovey has developed, but he also figured out early on during during our shelter in
place orders that there was something really interesting to do beyond paid
programs, specifically virtual races.
And so with his community, he was able to
launch a virtual race, the slow a F Turkey trot.
No turtle trot, because it's a turtle Turkey trot, because Thanksgiving's
coming up here shortly.
And he has been able, with this virtual
race program, to essentially, you know, create the ability for people to send in
their times and for him to send back to them a certificate and a medal.
For running in his virtual race that has enabled him not only to make seventy
thousand dollars in three months from just the virtual race alone, but also add
3000 new members.
And for somebody, and this is super
fascinating. You know he can get PR like is been
featured everywhere, is an Adidas global ambassador the thing that drove the most
members into his network.
Was the organic sharing of the virtual
race, which also speaks to the fact that when you have this kind of community
which has a network effect in it, when you bring a creative idea to it and you
can execute it so much faster, you can also grow much faster.
It's not just about you have to go and do a bunch of free stuff in order to get
somebody to pay you.
By doing your paid programs, you can
actually market them in such a way that brings new people in for free as well.
So what is Lovey, the team at Waselle and Martinez doing right?
Well, they are all following this framework that we call community design
and that enables you to create a community so valuable you can charge for
it and so well designed that it it essentially runs itself.
And a well designed community taking advantage of the Community design
framework has five key parts.
And we're going to tackle and and go into
in this bonus session, one really important one, which is your big purpose,
which I mentioned a couple times already, but.
Community design has four other pieces to it as well, which is laying out for your
Members a year in the life of your community.
What can your Member do a year from now that they can't do today?
So thinking about what results and transformation your Members are able to
have as a result of being a part of your community, and as your Members are
achieving these results and transformation that they can't get on
their own, what are you able to do as the creator, as the brand?
Probably expand the number of things that you can do in terms of generating new
revenue, having a lot more fun, a lot more creative ideas and thinking.
Potentially use your community as a foundation for expanding to more paid
programs, digital subscriptions, memberships.
Maybe you want to write a book, maybe you want to launch your own course.
All of these things are possible when you when you take advantage of having a big
purpose, laying out and visualizing the year in the life of your Members, as well
as the goals that you want to achieve over the next year.
Then there's three execution pieces of community design, one monthly themes,
working backwards from your year in the life.
Monthly themes give your community a cadence of of.
Interesting movement year.
Excuse me.
Month after month then really important.
Is your weekly calendar super important
to hydrate. Your weekly calendar is what creates a
habit and creates consistency for you and your Members.
So doing the same thing every Tuesday morning at nine a m and the same thing
every Thursday morning at eight a m is essential.
To a community that has consistency and that will eventually run itself and and
pretty quickly will run itself.
So a monthly theme gives you some kind of
interesting change up on a monthly basis.
The weekly calendar is designed to
complement that by making it really, really clear and consistent what the heck
you are doing in your Community and the benefits that your Members are going to
get from doing those things.
And then lastly daily actions daily daily
is great, but frequent is fine.
You don't have to go nuts.
Are really the ways that your Members are connecting on a daily basis or on a
regular basis. They complement the weekly calendar,
which is again designed to run, run and create a habit.
You know, run the community consistently and create a habit.
Your daily actions give people the ability to meet and build relationships
with each other.
As folks are contributing their stories,
their ideas, and their experiences, not advice.
Advice shut the conversation down.
We never use the term advice.
It is not about people giving advice to each other.
It is about people sharing and expanding ideas with their own stories or
experiences around a theme or with respect to a topic.
These things, taken together, create magic.
They just create magic.
It's it is truly fascinating to watch
people from totally diverse and different backgrounds with completely different
purposes take advantage of these five parts to create something that is super
special to them and their members, and you can bring that to your business as
well. It is like having.
A magic elixir for people that you want to buy your products or services.
The more that they can look around in the context of your brand and say, huh, yeah,
I I like these people and I like myself more being a part of this.
You have you have hit a level of magic at that moment that very few brands today.
Are keying into in the same way.
That's going to allow them to really stay
ahead of the of the competition in the curve.
So those five parts are great, but there are three principles that I think
complement everything that you're learning in in business class, which is
when you're creating a community, you want to try new things, you want to stay
curious and one of the most.
Powerful techniques I have experienced
myself and seen over and over again across literally tens of thousands of
communities at at Mighty Networks that are just thriving today is reframe,
reframe, reframe. When you get stuck, when you get fearful,
when you're like, oh I don't want to do that because it's not on social media and
no one else is building their own destination community, except they are as
you can see with business classes lounge.
You want to reframe it to I am ahead of
the curve and when I can bring my people together, when I can bring my Members
together, I can get them more value.
And as they have more value they are more
likely to get results and transformation and they are willing to pay for those
results and transformation.
And as they pay for those results and
transformation, I have more resources to invest in making it awesome.
That is an amazing place to be and that is how you can have an influence and
impact on people in all the right ways and create a business that you can truly
be proud of.
So that is reframing, that is staying
curious and that is trying new things we love to think about.
Staying open and curious is so much better than aiming for perfection.
Perfection is a sad, sad place to be.
It's not what we are as people.
We're not perfect.
That's what makes us human.
That's what makes us accessible, and it it's the beauty and magic of a community.
So I promised this a few times in this session already, and now I'm actually
delivering on it.
Which is your thriving community, your
thriving business. Starts with a big purpose.
I was talking to a brand, a big fancy brand, a little while ago, and they
literally used the term and said to me, modern brands cannot be built without a
bigger purpose. And I was like, funny you should say
that. We have a whole, a whole program, a whole
course on finding and articulating your big purpose, because when you have a big
purpose. You can create a level of excitement
around what you're doing that just isn't possible if all you're doing is selling
some you know people some new stuff.
So what is your big purpose?
It is your motivation for your community, it's your motivation as the creator of
the community, and it's your members motivation for coming and answering the
call. Because your big purpose it is something
that can only be accomplished by your unique members, your ideal members coming
together to answer the call.
So what is the call?
Well, guess what, it takes a very specific structure because this is how we
as as outside.
Of your brain are listening for whether
your big purpose, whether the big purpose of your community that whether the big
purpose of your business applies to them.
So what is the call of your big purpose?
It is I or we bring together who is your ideal member.
And I think you have probably been learning just the more narrow your ideal
member is or your ideal customer, the easier.
Easier it is to get started and build a thriving business or community.
Ok so I or we bring together your ideal Member who you bring together somebody's
listening for whether is this for me or not, to what your Members will do
together in your community.
Now you might be tempted to to say, well
it's a community, so we're going to learn, share and grow together.
We're going to give you a guide that brings you down to the next level of
detail. Your ideal member wants to know
explicitly what are some of the things that we're going to be doing together.
So for example, we are, you know, I or we bring together your ideal number to make
better, more well informed decisions about how to start a business so that we
can achieve awesome result number one.
Achieve awesome result number two and
achieve awesome result number three.
So who is it for?
What are we going to do together? And if I do those things, what am I going
to get as a result? That is the structure of the call for
your big purpose.
Who's it for?
What are we going to do together? And what am I going to get if I do these
things? And when you put them in the context of a
community, you can be so much more ambitious.
Because the power of a community is belonging to something bigger than
ourselves, working towards a common goal, building new skills and refining our
unique talents. And doing so in a way that is vulnerable
and in a place that allows us to take on challenges that we know we cannot
accomplish on our own so.
Couple examples of big purposes in a
moment. As you'll see in all of them, they they
really do four things well.
They are specific.
They are exciting.
This is sometimes something that is kind
of hard for people to do, which is you got to make it exciting because again,
I'm sitting back there.
I've got 47,000 thousand different things
that I can be doing.
At any point in time, and I'm like one
click away from a screen that will, that is designed to capture and keep my
attention no matter you know what else I want to be doing.
Your big purpose needs to be exciting and the exciting, specific big purposes can
absolutely pull people away and build a community that is your own that is.
Your own culture, your own norms that help your Members achieve results and
transformation. The incredibly rewarding results that are
only possible by this community coming together with other people.
You can't accomplish these results on their on your own.
So specific, exciting, achievable only as a community, and incredibly rewarding
results if we achieve our goals.
Here are three examples of good big
purposes. I'll read ours for our community design
master class. We bring together aspiring entrepreneurs
to create a community so valuable we can charge for it and so well designed.
It essentially runs itself so that we can each bring our expertise and ideas to
more people, work from anywhere, and help our Members transform their lives.
Another one is for a youth ministry paid subscription.
I bring together youth ministers to define what it means to be an effective
Youth minister in 2020 so that we can each define success and impact for
ourselves, make great choices in our practice and positively reach as many
people as possible.
Lastly, a university's entrepreneur
alumni community. Their big purpose is we bring together
entrepreneur alumni to inspire and hold each other accountable in implementing
what we've learned so that we can successfully navigate challenges and
seize opportunities, bring our projects to life, and have a positive impact on
the people we set out to serve.
So those are three examples of big
purpose sentences. And if you are like, oh, I think I know
what I would have for a big purpose.
There are two additional pieces to this
particular Venn diagram that bring your big purpose to life and also makes it
much easier to capture the call of your big purpose.
And really one of the best places to start is with your own story.
So remember.
You know, people love people.
People love people.
We look around and.
And one of the reasons why communities are so powerful is because we're
constantly looking around saying, can we do that?
Like, is that possible? Like, I don't really want to do this
thing this afternoon, but I just saw this other person do it.
Maybe I should do it too.
It is how we not only learn from other
people, but it's how we set up what we believe.
Is possible for ourselves.
And so when you think about that, your
unique story brings your big purpose to life.
And one of the things that I think is so fascinating is that when we describe
ourselves, you know, there's so many times where people will start with.
Either where we went to school or how many years of experience work experience
we have or what certifications that we have.
All these external things that we're supposed to, you know, put on our
LinkedIn profile. And when it comes to creating your big
purpose and using your story to really bring it to life, but also to get clarity
on who your ideal member is, who is that member who needs you the most right now?
What actually matters in.
Understanding your story is where you
started and where you are today, and all you have to be for your members is like
maybe 1/2 step ahead, 1/2 step ahead.
This is not about expertise, this is
about bringing people together and being the right creator for this big purpose
because you have been on the same path.
That your Members have been on and that
you are accessible and that you are human and that you are celebrating the winds
but also navigating the challenges just like everybody else.
And by being accessible and by being, you know, the right mentor, authentically for
your big purpose, who you're bringing together, what you're going to do
together because you are as motivated as anybody for the awesome results.
That your community is is able to unlock for your Members and you something
magical happens and it's why this bonus session is not perfect.
It's why I'm drinking water and wish I could drink more water right now.
It it is about your humanity and it is about your accessibility.
That is what makes you special as.
A creator and also how your story can
actually help you bring the right members into your big purpose and the community
that you are creating for your business.
Your story sets you up to also have a
really easy way of thinking about your ideal member, and your ideal member is
not. Everybody who your community may serve at
some point in the future, it's it's the narrow profile of the person and people
who need you the most right now, who need your community the most right now.
And I love to say the most all caps right now.
All caps.
And then what you're going to do is you
really sort of think about who is that target profile of your ideal member.
You can always, as you have that strong core, add new ideal members and member
profiles to support in your community.
But if you try to start to general,
nobody shows up.
It's just kind of the sad truth of
communities. At any point in time, this is not
something new to to 2020 or because you know everybody would rather be on
Facebook or Instagram.
This is people are are busy, but they've
been busy for a while.
What they are listening for is, is this
community for me? What are we going to do together?
Am I going to, am I going to meet people that I think are cool and what results am
I going to get for participating and contributing in this community so when
you think about who is this ideal member that needs your community the most right
now, you've probably done some work already thinking about your perfect
customer. This is your perfect customer, but with
perhaps a few more details.
How did they describe themselves
demographically? What stage of their life that they are
at? Those are things that you've probably
thought about as it relates to your your perfect customer.
As you think about though, you know, what would they want, you know to come
together in a community, you can start to think and ask the question of like who do
they think are their peers? You know, who are they the most excited
to meet? When they when they think about your
topic, what three questions are keeping them up at night?
For example, with communities, it's gosh, am I going to do a bunch of work?
I heard communities are really hard, which they are not to build.
And what if I do all this and nobody shows up?
Maybe everybody's just too busy.
That's a fear.
Those are the questions that come from a place of fear, not of motivation and
opportunity. What will your big purpose teach them
about this topic and why is this topic relevant to them?
All caps right now.
And one of the other things that's that's
really important and again, I think this is probably work that you've done, is
what's the biggest misconception that they have?
So, for example, that communities are a total grind.
They're not.
They're awesome.
If anything, I would say that it is the most energizing thing that I do day in
and day out is run our mighty networks community that we call Mighty House.
So now you have got your big purpose, supported by your story and delivered to
your ideal member or the people that need your community first the most.
Right now this.
Is an awesome combination.
Your big purpose, your story and really understanding your ideal member.
And as you as you bring these things together, I want to suggest a bonus
session challenge, which is to draft your big purpose, super simple, Mad Lib style,
share it in the lounge, capture your story and share it in the lounge and
schedule an ideal member interview and write up an ideal member profile.
And share it in the lounge.
We'll have guides that will, will, will
bring in as well just to make it all a little bit easier.
But there has never been a better time, a more important time to create a community
and where you might be thinking about it as well.
It's an important part of my business.
It will increase my or a while.
Do you know it.
It will be a way for somebody to be able
to use my product better.
I want to offer.
A final reframe, which is as you bring a big purpose, the results and
transformation that that you can bring to people that they want, that they can't
get on their own, people pay attention to what they pay for and they are absolutely
willing and excited to invest real money.
In digital subscriptions and digital
products where they're able to build new relationships that allow them to achieve
results and transformation, they have not been able to get on their own.
In a community that gets more valuable to every member with each new person who
joins and contributes.
And you have everything you need right
now to be able to make that happen.
So I'm.
gina@mightynetworks.com I am happy to have any followup questions.
We're really excited to share this approach to thinking about building your
own network effect around your business and we look forward to continuing the
conversation. So thank you.
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