community
5 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 1, 2022 by Holly Firestone · across every show →
Everything said about community, oldest first
Jun 1, 2022 positive
Firestone: Co-creating communities with early users turns them into fierce recruiters
“When they do that, they will feel such a sense of ownership over that community that they will be your fiercest advocates in the community, and they will be the people that are engaging and recruiting people into the community because of that sense of ownershi…”
Jun 1, 2022
Firestone: Every executive department should share a top-level community goal
“Every team should have a goal that's shared with community across the board on the exec team, because there's other teams that you don't even think about that you really need to work with to build a community like accounting or legal, and they have to be putti…”
Jun 1, 2022 negative
Firestone: Offloading Community to Inexperienced Staff Slows Growth and Adds Risk
“I've seen so many businesses that make the mistake of just kind of adding community to somebody's already full plate, or hiring or promoting an executive that has zero community experience. That is, it's very tricky because it will slow you down, but it also p…”
Jun 1, 2022 positive
Firestone: Building an enterprise community requires a minimum of two hires
“So I recommend if you really want to build a community, then you need to start with at least two people. It's really a good way to go. I mean, unless you're very small, that's not a hard and fast rule, but if you look at all of these things that have to happen…”
Feb 7, 2024 negative
Gonto: Proprietary communities fail for closed, paid SaaS products
“I think it makes sense to create your own community when you have something that is free for everybody, or it's a big portion that is free, or if it's open source, if it's a developer product. But if it's not that, then you have a closed product. People need t…”