On this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast Carol Dockum, CEO and Founder of Beautiful Faces Going Places - a Women’s Success Network, shares her journey building a Mighty Network with an intention to offer a platform for speakers, trainers, coaches, and professionals to network, inspire, connect, and learn from and empower each other. Subscribe to her newsletter to learn more! In this episode we discuss: 7:17 Discovering Mighty Networks for community-building that is unique and customized for the “member only” app, ability to create a special place for members to get all the value in one location to build the know, like, and trust factor not just locally but globally 11:11 Global connection during the challenging year and the first year launching a Mighty Network, features best for individual communities that can be customized for sharing content for a variety of sources, a realistic time-frame for building a Mighty Network “soft launch” beta testing with a few members for feedback and to identify questions or problems before 15:35 Creating a unique onboarding process so that the member feels welcomed and to leverage the benefits of the community so that they use the tools available to them and “User-centric” focus for creating an amazing member onboarding experience 17:44 Getting your members to connect with each other by highlighting members and promoting co-collaboration for networking and members ability that they can help each other 19:42 Creating a “free” Mighty Network vs a “paid” Mighty Network and the benefits from charging membership fees to hold members accountable to be a part of the process of building and growing the network 31:35 Members joined networks for different reasons when creating a networking space, creating benefits for a variety of needs to support members wherever they are and whatever they need in their journey to building a business 39:35 Mighty Network features, talking about the importance of events and how that allows members to connect via Zoom, and the desired feature Carol mentions is to offer LIVE video and a work-around for now until this feature is LIVE is Loom to create short videos for the community that can be used as check-in or for sharing tools and tutorialsAbout Find Calm HereI’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 Support the showThe 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