Avvo: How To Build A Community For Busy People – with Mark Britton

Mark Britton, Avvo, Networking, Social Media, Traffic

You know the problem right? you launch an online community…and nobody shows up. No users means your community is a failure. What do you do?

That’s what we’re about to learn.

Mark Britton is the founder of Avvo, an expert only Q&A forum that received 50k questions and answers every month. And Avvo’s community includes people so busy that they’re difficult for sites to recruit: lawyers and doctors.

Mark Britton

Avvo

Mark Britton is the founder of Avvo, which helps people choose lawyers and doctors by providing ratings and a forum for reviews.

 

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Next, what’s a design development shop that acts as your technical co-founder? The ZhenerGroup. I hired the ZhenerGroup to build the first version of Mixergy.com and got Zhener Group to turn its idea into a working online store. Health and Reach turned to ZhenerGroup when it needed a user experience expert to make it super simple for people to search through it’s thousands of physicians. Do what...

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