Build an engine to power your community

I totally get you there! Money is really is hard right now—especially when it’s on the back of a Community that takes a while to build.  

Here’s what I would do for you: 

1. Join the Socially Constructed Discord!
   Simply joining the Community can give you value and resources necessary to pay for this course. You may also find that our community members succeeded BECAUSE they took the chance on this course. So ask them for advice! 
   
   
2. Pay in Installments
   I know $800 is a hefty pill to swallow at the moment, so you can split it up to a little upfront now, and finish up at the end of the course!
   
   That way, by the time you’re done, you’ll pay knowing it’s ABSOLUTELY worth it. And of course, if you didn’t find it useful, you can ask for a refund within the first week of the course. no harm, no fowl.

Yeah, we anticipated that’d be a problem.

Here’s a template that’s worked for others. You can start your email here, or you can copy/paste the copy below:

Hey [boss],

I’ve been looking at ways to improve our online community, and I think I found a course I would like approval to take.

One of the biggest things we’ve been struggling with is [your biggest struggle].

While looking at ways to solve this problem, I discovered an eCourse called the “Build a Platform Engine to power your community”, [link to the course], as part of Samantha ‘Venia’ Logan’s eCourse series teaching the Social Science of Community. It caught my eye and excited me because it [will help your struggle how?].

This course dives a LOT deeper into selecting a platform than any of the other courses and focuses more on the problems and decisions we’ll need to face then it does the platforms themselves. I think this could really cut a lot of red tapes and make sure we don’t have to do this dance again in a few years. it will also prepare me for a lot of unforeseen hurdles we’ll run into. It will make me a better Community builder, and I’ll come out of it with a really well-assessed platform Venia will help me choose. I think this will help us get on board rather easily.

The course requires around 20 hours of commitment, for $1200 dollars, but if we were to consult with her instead, that’s only about 7 sessions. Plus, I’ll get VIP access to her community and free feedback on the dossier if we encounter big roadblocks or questions.

Please take a look at it, give it some thought, and let me know by the end of next week if we have it in my career development budget? I’m genuinely excited about this! I’ll bring it up in our next meeting!

regards,

[your name]

In a word: YES! 

Although we will reference exercises and content from the first course, and it’s WAY easier with a complete brand dossier, I’ve built this cohort to be a stand alone product .

As long as you have the following things in any capacity you’ll be fine.

1. A strong Business Plan
2. Well-crafted user profiles 
3. An industry context map (competition analysis)
4. A customer value journey or funnel

To make this easier I’ve also given you access to the brand dossier itself for free through this course. If you want help processing through that book the course and I are always available. 

In short, yes, You’ll be fine.

Unless you’d prefer it werent, free advertising!

SociallyConstructed.online builds communities co-iteratively. That means we use real brands like yours in the cohorts to teach people the social science of online community. 

In exchange you’ll have lifetime access to the course that you participated in. The recorded course will be updated every time a new cohort occurs though. 

Fo purchasing the cohort you’ll also get priority and discount seats on future cohorts as well!

The expected lifespan of the recorded eCourse content is about 3 years before we recommend re-taking it, because this industry mosts FAST.

All Communities struggle with platform decisions as it grows and there’s really no stopping it, but let me say this as someone in this business for 10 years. 

Frankly, if you don’t know how to discuss the hard value propositions that underly platform decisions, you’ll continue to run in to the platform never being enough.

This course is ALWAYS a great idea because it will help you find the problem, convince others it IS a problem, and then fix that problem with little to no red-tape. 

We do, indeed!

Because the Socially Constructed Community co-creates our resources we cater to a variety of learning methods.

Recorded eCourse

After thios cohort we will launch an eCourse that you get automatic access to!

The PDF workbook:

We will also build a lot of worksheets and resources with the cohort that will be published as their own pieces of content for those who don’t want to purchase an entire course and you’ll also get access to these.

This Cohort and all education resources we make are a part of the Socially Constructed Community! 

Because we are an iterative community where we co-create together, most of the people there can help you because they had a hand in the resources we make! 

Join the community here! 

If you’d like, absolutely! 

You can set up a consultation here. 

Typically platform assessments take around 6 weeks to complete because of  the difficult decisions involved, but it is usually ~25 hours start to finish.  It’s relatively cheap actually!