Key Considerations When Building an Online Community

Key Considerations When Building an Online Community

Marketing Strategy — Wed., Jul. 26, 2023

Earlier in the Sales Enablement: Good or Bad series, I shared why I'm working to build a community. In this article, I'm going to share a bit more tactically about the how.

Discord and Slack are both resource-intensive, so I explored Discourse. It's open source, self-hosted or paid, allows for scaling, and is relatively inexpensive.

The right answer for your community depends on your context. Consider the number of categories, global settings, ground rules, and recruit administrators and moderators.

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