The Community Corner with Beth McIntyre

Welcome back to the C2C Podcast. Our guest today it Brian Brannon, who is currently a Corporate Marketing Manager over at Gainsight, the leading customer success platform. In his role, Brian develops the Gainsight brand's narrative in order to better connect with their customers, investors, and the public.

Today on the show, we welcome Patrick Hill, a Community Manager at Sketch. If you haven’t already heard of Sketch, it has skyrocketed to become a staple in the creative community. They doubled down and invested in their in-person communities. In this episode, Patrick shares how building a community is a great way to create a space for yourself within your market and differentiate yourself.

On today’s episode, we hear from Kobie Fuller, who is a general partner at Upfront Ventures, the largest venture fund in Los Angeles that focuses on investing in software and consumer product companies. Previously, Kobie worked at Accel Ventures and was CMO at REVOLVE, one of the largest fashion e­commerce companies in Los Angeles.

Today on the show we welcome Elizabeth Kinsey, the Marketing Director at Branch Metrics. Branch Metrics is the mobile marketing and linking platform that powers companies like AirBnb, Target and many others.

Today on the show, we welcome the “Dalai Lama of community,” David Spinks. David is the Founder and CEO of CMX – the world’s premier community for community professionals. David consults with top innovative companies on building community, such as SalesForce and Facebook, and is super passionate about seeing his own community succeed.

Today on the show we welcome your very own host, Derek Anderson. Derek is the CEO and Cofounder of Startup Grind, which is one of the largest communities for entrepreneurs in the world, with over 400 chapters in 100 countries.

Today on the show, we welcome Brent Messenger, the Global Head of Community for Fiverr. If you haven’t already heard of Fiver, it is the world’s largest marketplace for creative and digital services. Brent has also worked for the 2008 Obama for America presidential campaign and has consulted with some of the most innovative companies in the world, such as Lyft, AirBnb and SolarCity.

Today on the show we welcome Laura Nestler. We refer to Laura as the “community unicorn” as she is the Global Head of Community at DuoLingo and spoke at Startup Grind’s Bevy summit earlier this year. If you haven’t already heard of DuoLingo, it is the world’s most popular place to learn a language – for free, from your phone. DuoLingo is currently reaching over 200 million users and one year ago, Laura did something that we have never seen done before. She decided that she wanted to get all of these DuoLingo users together… in person. 

Welcome to the C2C Podcast, a podcast dedicated to sharing from the best the world has to offer on all of the great opportunities inside customer to customer marketing. Tune in as host, Derek Anderson, explains what this is all about and how they learned that the most powerful marketing tool of all time is your customers!

Essentially, customer to customer marketing is using your biggest advocates, giving them a platform, and empowering them to be successful. In 2010, Derek held his first event and that one event turned into Startup Grind, a global community for entrepreneurs that has now held over 7,000 events for over 250,000 people! They went on to build an internal tool to run those events and build an incredible community, in the end solving a huge problem for amazing companies like Fiverr, Duolingo, and many more. Inside the coming episodes of this show you will get the chance to hear from these companies because they are running some of the biggest communities in the world today.

This space is still so new, and there is so much left to learn! That is where the C2C Podcast comes it. So tune in for all this and more!

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Startup Grind Website – https://www.startupgrind.com/

Startup Grind Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/startup/

Startup Grind Twitter – https://twitter.com/StartupGrind/

Startup Grind Facebook – https://web.facebook.com/StartupGrind

Bevy Labs – https://www.bevylabs.com/

Duolingo – https://www.duolingo.com/

Fiverr – https://www.fiverr.com/