What to Consider When Starting a Community

by Adrian Speyer | CLI Article

This interview with Bailey Richardson, co-author of “Get Together: How to build a community with your people,” is full of valuable insight based on first-hand experience building and running an online community. Richardson shares what to think about when...

What ‘Audience-first’ Really Means

by Adrian Speyer | CLI Article

The article “Audience-First Is Not Just Building an Audience” on The Bootstrapped Founder, Arvid Kahl discusses the importance of an audience-first approach for entrepreneurs and business owners. The article explains that building an audience is not just...

Orbit’s Guide to Kickstarting Your Community 

by Adrian Speyer | CLI Article

Patrick Woods walks readers through Orbit’s community journey from the beginning, offering the “nitty-gritty details” of how they bootstrapped their initial community. The community got its start on Slack with just two conversation channels, building...

How to Create an Instant-Community

by Adrian Speyer | CLI Article

Building a community can be a long and involved process, one that can even take years. A writer and community builder going simply by the screen name Danielle takes that idea of community and turns it on its head. Her focus is on the idea of “time-bound pop-up...

What We Can Learn from the Success of a 7-Year-Old Paid Community

by Adrian Speyer | CLI Article

The Business of Community presents a case study of Dreamers & Doers, a paid community for women entrepreneurs in its seventh year. It is a reflection on the past seven years of success synthesized into a set of six simple takeaways.  Build a community you want to...