Comments on: What Cults Can Teach You About Building Community – The Douglas Atkin Interview http://mixergy.com/cults-community/ Events and Interviews for Web Visionaries. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:22:44 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Deep Patel http://mixergy.com/cults-community/comment-page-1/#comment-2107 Deep Patel Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:02:08 +0000 http://mixergy.com/?p=1000#comment-2107 Andrew, great interview. I believe communities extend the "customer experience" beyond purchasing the product. It's interesting to know that communities are a basic human need, but many companies pay little attention to figure out how to build a community around their businesses. from this interview I noticed that I should be participating in more meetups related to my business, I used participate at the local renewable energy meet up, but have not been attending as regularly as I should be. I suppose a meetup can help build an offline community which I can bring online to our website. Possibly by taking pictures and videos of the meet ups and posting them to our community so people will log on after the event to check out the content? I suppose the most difficult part of building a successful community is to give a reason for members to participate. Andrew,

great interview. I believe communities extend the “customer experience” beyond purchasing the product. It’s interesting to know that communities are a basic human need, but many companies pay little attention to figure out how to build a community around their businesses.

from this interview I noticed that I should be participating in more meetups related to my business, I used participate at the local renewable energy meet up, but have not been attending as regularly as I should be. I suppose a meetup can help build an offline community which I can bring online to our website. Possibly by taking pictures and videos of the meet ups and posting them to our community so people will log on after the event to check out the content?

I suppose the most difficult part of building a successful community is to give a reason for members to participate.

]]> By: Melvin Ram http://mixergy.com/cults-community/comment-page-1/#comment-2098 Melvin Ram Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:08:01 +0000 http://mixergy.com/?p=1000#comment-2098 On the subject of mission statements, Guy Kawasaki covers mantra's pretty well in The Art Of The Start. He gives a set of good examples and bad ones so it's easy to see the difference. Side note: Funny thing is I never finished that book. I just got started with what I needed to do. On the subject of mission statements, Guy Kawasaki covers mantra’s pretty well in The Art Of The Start. He gives a set of good examples and bad ones so it’s easy to see the difference.

Side note: Funny thing is I never finished that book. I just got started with what I needed to do.

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