On this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast Mackay Rippey, shares his experience launching Beyond Protocols, a Mighty Network that helps health practitioners find calm by offering them ongoing education with leading industry experts, a connection to a community of peers, and the tools to learn new strategies so that they can make better, more well-informed decisions about how to test for toxicity, integrate genomics, and functional medicine into their methodology to support revenue growth while getting inspiration and encouragement from others.
Notable moments from our conversation:
4:55 Community is important to bring people together to learn best to connect with others who are learning and implementing specific tools at the same time, to learn together! “It’s all about implementation”
6:06 Selecting the Mighty Network for creating a supportive community. “Mighty Networks is a nice, calm place to gather and not have all the distractions.” Mighty Networks is a place to find your “tribe”
8:05 Launching a community on the Mighty Networks in 2021, discussing the challenges of launching and growing the network. The benefits of utilizing collaborations and/or partnerships to work together to find calm in building the community.
9:55 Connecting in a small group mastermind to discover how to best collaborate for launching a partnered Mighty Network and discovering the path to finding calm in building, launching, and growing the network.
25:01 Member experience, dealing with members who cancel their subscription and understand what they need, want, and why it might not be a good time for the member. “Be annoyingly helpful to your members.”
29:31 Expectations on live virtual events, and plan appropriately with what works in your community, it is a constant trial and error to determine what works. Pivoting a weekly call to a monthly challenge to encourage participation when members aren’t attending the live calls.
36:44 Creating content that is relevant for the community based on the host’s interest, sharing what inspires you with the community.
42:54 Features of Mighty Networks that are helpful to the hosts; analytics to discover inactive members and utilizing the search bar for fast-finding materials.
About Find Calm Here
I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform.
The Community Strategy Podcast (CSP) offers interviews with online community leaders who share their community-building journey. Our podcast covers community concepts, community building, community strategy, community structure, community membership, and community management. We deep dive into the best ways to launch with platform reviews, give our thoughts on cultivating engagement, and the keys to identifying ideal members who will keep coming back and becoming super supporters.
Visit our Website Find Calm Here to learn more about working with Deb