7 Founders Share How To Grow A Slack Community
When you’re searching for how to grow a Slack community, who are the people you should trust?
Writers researching the topic? Maybe. Thought leaders are able to throw around suggestions of what might work. Less maybe.
How about those community founders who have launched and grown their Slack community? ✅
In this post, you’ll hear from seven founders who’ve been growing their Slack communities over the last few years 👇.
1 - Araminta Robertson, Fintech Marketing Hub
Araminta runs Mint Studios and set up Fintech Marketing Hub to bring marketers in the fintech niche together.
📌 Slack community founded: October 2021
📌 Slack community members: 600+
How they grow their Slack community:
Araminta gained her first 10-20 members by simply posting on social media. While already running a niche podcast about fintech marketing, it became natural to invite podcast guests to join the community here, too.
Within the podcast, Araminta created an “ad” calling for people to join the Slack community, which drove new members already familiar with the brand.
Once establishing a group of core members, Araminta says keeping channels active by asking questions and always encouraging existing members to invite others is an easy tactic that doesn’t take up too much time. Araminta also adds a link to the Slack group in her email signature.
Having grown to 500+ members, the Fintech Marketing Hub now hosts virtual events, posts a weekly roundup, and uses Scales. In Scales, every two weeks, you’re matched with someone with similar interests to meet one-to-one.
It’s this variety of engagement that members love. There’s a natural appeal to the community so virality is created as people invite peers to join this niche environment.
