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A guide to explaining the difference between community and audience so internal stakeholders can better understand community strategy and support it effectively.

Playbook: How To Explain The Difference Between Community And Audience Inside Your Company

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A practical guide to designing a community function that supports marketing, product, customer success, and other business goals without losing strategic focus.

Playbook: How To Build A Community Function That Supports Multiple Business Goals

A step-by-step playbook for community leaders who need to win internal buy-in, educate stakeholders, and turn skepticism into long-term support.

Playbook: How To Turn Internal Skeptics Into Community Champions

A practical framework for identifying which customer engagement signals should influence product strategy, GTM decisions, and executive planning.

Playbook: Identifying the Customer Signals That Actually Influence Strategy

A leadership framework for prioritizing customer signals and avoiding signal overload across Product, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success.

Playbook: Preventing Signal Overload While Maintaining Context

A guide to building psychological safety in communities so members feel comfortable asking questions, sharing ideas, and participating openly.

Playbook: Building Psychological Safety in Communities

A practical framework for translating customer engagement signals into strategic decisions across Product, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success.

Playbook: Turning Engagement Signals Into Cross-Functional Decisions

The Context First Framework explains how organizations identify customer signals, interpret them across teams, and turn them into strategic decisions.

The Context First Framework: Turning Customer Signals Into Strategy

A practical guide to designing community orientation so members immediately understand where they are, how the space works, and how to begin participating.

Playbook: Designing Clear Orientation in Online Communities

Discover how shared customer context helps marketing, sales, and success teams identify repeat buyers and generate new revenue.

Playbook: Turning Customer Context Into Repeat Revenue

Learn how to build a repeat buyer program that identifies former customers, nurtures relationships, and generates faster B2B sales cycles.

Playbook: Building a Repeat Buyer Program From Your Customer Database

Glossier built its billion-dollar brand by centering community-led advocacy rather than advertising. By amplifying customer voices, building feedback loops, and prioritizing authenticity, the company created trust and momentum that traditional marketing couldn’t replicate.

Glossier’s Community-Led Brand: Advocacy Before Advertising

Learn the structure of Spaces and what can and cannot be restricted by Space assignments.

Gradual Explained: Spaces

LEGO Ideas transformed fans into co-creators, fueling product innovation, loyalty, and marketing momentum. By tapping into community creativity and recognition, LEGO turned engagement into a scalable product strategy and GTM advantage.

LEGO Ideas: Turning Fans Into a Product Strategy Engine

We just shipped a fresh set of product updates focused on community customization, learning experiences, events, integrations, and analytics—including a more powerful pre-login homepage builder, customizable welcome emails, native course quizzes and certificates, streamlined event duplication and event-type switching, plus expanded Marketo and Common Room integrations. You’ll also find notable improvements like upgraded club metrics, search history reporting, and a unified global chat experience, with more enhancements on the way.

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