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Building a membership community business with Chris Samila

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Chris Samila is the co-founder of Partnership Leaders - a strong bootstrapped business that provides community, connections and resources for partnership professionals.


This episode is supported by Curated Connections (https://curatedconnections.io/) - a simple matchmaking tool with an easy-to-justify pricing.

In this episode we discuss:

  • Organising conferences and city-wide events with a volunteer-led strategy
  • What does a partnership professional do?
  • How Partnership Leaders (PL) charges their members
  • Creating resources that create a strong hook
  • Why they use a paid Slack to host the community
  • How he turned an email thread into a community
  • Building culture in the early days
  • Charging for a free community
  • Reducing churn
  • Tech stack for running the PL business
  • Chris' hiring philosophy


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