Our founder Lara Sheldrake has been interviewing a range of founders and community experts for our ‘Community 101‘ Clubhouse series and here are a few of our key takeaways:
🔑“Get to know your audience and choose your social media platforms wisely, you don’t need to be everywhere just the places where your target audience are hanging out.” – Jess Sims, Co-founder of The Doers.
🔑“When it comes to building a community you need to have 1. Authenticity, a real passion and purpose for what you’re doing. 2. Boundaries, so that your community feel they’re in safe hands. 3. Clarity on who you are serving.” – Olivia DeRamus, Founder & CEO of Restless.
🔑“Ask yourself, what are you doing it for? Does it make you happy? Because it will get tough and it will be your drive and and passion that will carry you through the tougher days.” – Fiona Grayson, Founder of She Can She Did
🔑“When it comes to video it’s all about your audience, so focus on them, they’re not interested in your ‘authentic self’, they want to know what’s in it for them, so my advice is to focus on what THEY need.” – Helen Perry, Community, Instagram & video expert
🔑“Always consider, what’s the value you’re going to bring to the community? I ask myself ‘Is this what I would need?’ and finally try to give the best services possible as there’s nothing worse than overpromising and under delivering.” – Isabel Sach, Founder of ‘I Like Networking’
A HUGE thank you to our guests so far! We are changing our room name to ‘Found & Flourish | The lounge series‘ so tune in every Monday at 1pm GMT and we look forward to seeing you there.
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Lara Sheldrake
About your author
Lara Sheldrake is a business mentor, consultant and Founder at Found & Flourish. Lara writes and speaks on the topics of entrepreneurship, motherhood and social media for business. She also hosts the Bossing It podcast, aimed at empowering the next generation of female founders in the UK.
Send Lara an email. You can also find her on Instagram @Lara_Sheldrake or Twitter @Lara_Sheldrake.
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