Inbound.org: How To Build A Passionate Online Community – with Rand Fishkin

Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz

How do you build a strong online community? Rand Fishkin did it and he’s about to do it again, so I invited him to teach us what he learned.

Rand is the founder of SEOmoz, which has 310,000 community members who help each other learn search engine optimization.

I want us to learn how he did it. And I’m sure it’s an issue that’s at the top of Rand’s mind because he’s going to be using everything he learned to build his new site inbound.org, which offers community-curated marketing news.

Rand Fishkin

SEOmoz

Rand Fishkin co-founded SEOmoz, one of the web’s most popular SEO software companies. He recently launched inbound.org, which offers community-curated marketing news.

 

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