How to run an engaged, organized and useful Facebook community – with Naveen Dittakavi
This is a different interview than I usually do. Usually I ask my guests about how they built their companies. This one I want to know how I can build mine better.
Naveen Dittakavi is the founder of NextVacay, which offers amazing travel deals sent to your inbox.
But the real reason that I’ve got him here is that I started a community for Mixergy Premium members and I want to know how I can just keep improving it.
A few years ago, I signed up for something called Ramit’s Brain Trust that my friend Ramit Sethi put together. And what captured my attention was the community that went along with it. It was just a lot of interesting engagement, lots of organization, lots of utility and connections being made. And it was just a Facebook community, something I would have blown off.
The more I saw it grow, the more I paid attention to the guy who was running it, Naveen. And I started asking him what he learned from running Ramit’s Brain Trust that we should be bringing to Mixergy?
That’s the conversation I’m recording today and the reason that I’m going to do this publicly is so that if you have any interest at all in communities, you’ll learn from him about how he’s built up Ramit’s Brain Trust community.
Naveen Dittakavi is the founder of NextVacay, which offers amazing travel deals sent to your inbox.
Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com. It is, of course, home of the ambitious upstart, and I’m saying it with a bit of a smile on my face because the person who’s here with me today has probably heard me say this a zillion, billion, million times. He has been listening and supporting Mixergy for a long time. He is part of Mixergy Premium, and today I’ve got him here because I need his help.
This is a different interview than the kind I usually do. Usually I ask my guests about how they built their companies. This one I want to know how I can build mine better. So Naveen Dittakavi, he is the founder of NextVacay. The website is NextVacay.com. They offer amazing travel deals sent to your inbox, and we’ll find out a little bit about that, but the real reason that I’ve got him here is that I started a community for Mixergy Premium members and I want to know how I can just keep...
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