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Dec 2, 2021Liked by David Spinks

Whoa, this is such an awesome playbook! I'll be sharing this with my team to help grow our Community.

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Excellent write-up. I wrote down some related thoughts on this topic here: https://ramansharma.substack.com/p/what-does-community-mean-in-tech

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Nov 30, 2021Liked by David Spinks

This is super detailed and insightful David and Lenny. Thanks for sharing.

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Sep 24, 2023Liked by David Spinks

A startup may have few customers before they gain traction. Other than sending out a newsletter to the customers to let them know a community site has been launched for the, what would be good advice on how to get them to log into the community and start posting comments and questions?

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Nov 30, 2021Liked by David Spinks

Incredibly detailed writeup. Wanted to call-out one other example of a community-led event program that fits the audience of this newsletter: ProductTank - https://www.mindtheproduct.com/producttank/

Events by product people for product people - pretty much everywhere in the world :)

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SPACES: Support, Product, Acquisition, Contribution, Engagement, Success.

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Amazing playbook! One question though - what is the right way to choose an appropriate platform for your community? Discord, reddit, etc?

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this is amazing! one question I have is what is the difference between the acquisition strategy and the success strategy?

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