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Everyone is pivoting from community management? (opens the original)
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What if you built the community before you built the product? (opens the original)
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Hiyaaaaa, if you’re new here (welcome! 🎉) and to the oldies, welcome back to The CM Guide — your weekly dose of practical frameworks, stories, and strategies to level up as a community manager.I want to start with a question and I want you to sit with it before you jump to the intuitive answer.Can you build a community for something that doesn’t exist yet?For a product still in development. A brand still being named. A platform still being coded. A service sti
Before you hit publish on that community invite: read this first (opens the original)
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Your community is not a group chat. And your job is bigger than engagement. 👀 (opens the original)
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The community with no home: how to build belonging without a platform (opens the original)
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