Guidelines, advice and shared experience in managing online communities

Building an online community is easy to imagine and much harder to monetize. Many site owners start with strong engagement, useful conversations, and a clear…

Many site owners want the energy of Reddit without giving up control of their brand, audience, and business model. Reddit makes discussion easy to discover.…

Building a social network website sounds like a huge project until you break it into the right pieces. Most site owners do not actually need…

Launching an online community is easy. Keeping it active is the hard part. Many communities start with a good idea, a clean design, and a…

Choosing between Mighty Networks and WordPress communities looks simple at first. Both can help you bring people together, publish content, sell access, and grow a…

A lot of creators start with the wrong idea about privacy. They build a community, lock everything behind registration, and assume people will join because…

Facebook Groups helped an entire generation of creators gather an audience without building much infrastructure. That convenience still has value. The problem is that convenience…

A membership community is one of the most effective ways to turn your website into a recurring revenue business. Instead of relying only on one-time…

Building a brand community sounds simple in theory. You gather people who like your business, give them a place to connect, and let conversations grow.…