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5 Reasons Why People Are Not Joining Your Community (and How To Fix Them)

by Jono Bacon | Sep 22, 2020 | Community

There’s a saying from the famous movie “Field of Dreams”: “if you build it, they will come.” While inspiring, that’s just not always true, in fact, many times things go the opposite way when it comes to community building. Sometimes instead of bums on...

5 Steps for Forming New Habits (and What to Do When You Want to Quit)

by Jono Bacon | Sep 19, 2020 | Habits

Many of us want help forming new habits in our lives but are confronted by fluffy, inspirational “advice” when we research how to really make a habit stick. The problem is, while inspiration is great, inspiration alone just isn’t enough. In addition, you need an...

How to Start a Brand New Online Community, Even Without Technical Experience

by Jono Bacon | Sep 11, 2020 | Community

One of my wonderful members (find out more about FREE membership here) wrote in with an interesting question: “I’m concerned about my lack of technical experience that emerged as I was enjoying listening to ‘People Powered: How communities can supercharge your...

How to Reward Community Members, Even Without a Huge Budget

by Jono Bacon | Sep 9, 2020 | Incentives

Today, I want to briefly discuss one of my favorite community-building tactics: amazing reward systems. How do you use rewards to celebrate amazing work from your members? How do you reward community members, even without a huge budget? I get a lot of questions about...