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  • Growing a community from zero to 100 members is one of the hardest, yet most important milestones. All the communities I helped grow had to struggle to get its first 100 members.

    If you have built a community, I’d like to hear from you. Here are a few questions:

    • What strateiges worked for you in early days?

    • Did you focus on cold outreach, organic content, partnerships or something else?

    I’d also like to know the mistakes you made along the way and if you had to start over, what would you do differently?

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  • Paul Mills

    Member • 1w

    First post here! Been visiting this community for a while, but finally decided to join.

    I come from the Slack community world, and we're now looking to move our Slack community over to Jatra.

    To get things going, I started with my own network—sent personal invites to friends, current and former colleagues, and some LinkedIn connections. Nearly everyone was interested, but only about 30 actually joined.

    Once they were in, I made sure they had something worth sticking around for. Encouraged them to post valuable content that’d resonate with new members. Thankfully, most of them chipped in. After that, we pushed referrals. Our early members invited their own networks, and in about three months, we’d passed the 100-member mark.

    That said, membership numbers can be a bit of a vanity metric. Right now we have about 600 members in our Slack; but only 50 are active on a daily basis.

    Curious to hear how others have tackled this!

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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Community Administrator • 1w

    In the early days of CrazyEngineers, I leveraged Yahoo chat rooms to get free publicity and recruit early users. Yahoo chat rooms are no longer around, but those can be replaced by social media platforms. Here's how my strategy worked:

    1. I created interesting, unique content on the community in the form of discussions and questions.
    2. I'd then login to India, US based Yahoo chat rooms and post the link. There was no concept of 'banning' back then, so it worked.
    3. It was lot of hard work; but I'd get 1-2 registrations every day through posting the link in 20-30 rooms. I did it every day for several months.
    4. I'd personally connect with each new member and initiated the conversation.

    Because they had created the account - I knew they were interested. We'd have a conversation and I'd motivate them to post replies and comments.

    That's how I received first 100 members for our community.

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