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Become the Pied Piper of Community Building

Waxing UnLyrical

Communities have been around for centuries, however online communities have only been around for a few decades. According to Computerworld the first “online community” came about in 1973 when Talkomatic for the PLATO time-sharing system released a text-based group chat. Let’s get right to it, how to build your brand’s community.

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Marketing, community, support or all of the above?

Dave Fleet

This early focus on relationships, reputation and engagement led social media to naturally lean towards driving loyalty and affinity with brands over time. Early social media activities focused more on two areas of the funnel – consideration and – critically – loyalty/advocacy. Marketing, community or both?

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How to Build Community Without the Metaverse

Pixlee

As the metaverse continues to grow and brands begin designing marketing strategies that align with it, it’s important to remember that social media is not the only approach to community-building. Hence, it is of the essence that you build your brand community closest to conversion. So if not social media, then where?

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How to build brand loyalty that lasts

Sprout Social

Brand loyalty will build ambassadors and help you retain customers long term. Read on to learn how you can bring the concept of brand loyalty into focus through your marketing. What is brand loyalty and why is it important? When people strongly favor a particular brand over all the others, that’s brand loyalty.

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How to Build a Brand Community for your B2B Business

Oktopost

It turns out that creating a brand community for your B2B company can give you that type of mouthwatering ROI. . B2B businesses need to foster a strong spirit of community to serve their clients and customers better. Two out of every three customers will choose to purchase from a company where they feel they have brand loyalty.

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What Does it Really Mean to Build a ‘Community’ on Social Media? (And Why You Should)

Buffer Social

Both creators and marketers alike are tapping into the power of fostering communities — and with good reason. We asked both online community experts and community-building creators to share their expertise, so you can tap into this powerful approach. What is a community? So how do you do it?

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Become a Fearless Online Community Leader

The Realtime Report

Become a Fearless Online Community Leader. Online communities are powerhouses of collaboration that demand fearless leaders to succeed. The best social managers build constituencies with purpose and a strategy for growth. Here is how to become an effective online community leader. By Bruce Fikowski. Leadership.