This sounds like an amazing tool to enable aspiring entrepreneurs to use Lean Startup principles and see if a community coalesces around their idea. Seems like it could save a ton of time and development money.
@allysondowney That's exactly what we're aiming to do: give community entrepreneurs the ability to see if an idea has legs before spending a cent. It's hopefully our one small but important contribution to making technology entrepreneurship and access to network effects more inclusive.
I'm excited to explore the next iteration of Mightbell and see how it can help my startup clients get their businesses off the ground. Congrats Gina & team!
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This looks great! One question: what elements to new member onboarding are there, other than an intro email?
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@cfrascl Hey Chris! Thanks for the kind words.
As a host in a Mightybell Network, you have the opportunity to craft a personalized onboarding experience for your members in a few ways. You can set up member categories so that folks can automatically be prompted to meet each other if they share the same specialty, profession, or interest. You can also set up topics (essentially an easy way to tag and organize content) that members can choose to follow and you can create a custom onboarding question that instantly helps to break the ice. So, there are a lot of different ways to personalize the experience! Happy to share more if you want to reach out to us at strategy [at] mightybell [dot] com. :)
Am biased as a friend and investor - just love the mission Mightybell is on to make it easy for people with common interests to connect, and for organizations/enterprises to use Mightybell as a great way to build digital community. Super easy to use and thousands of organizations/business owners love it - just sayin'. the comment "this product has become so great" is just one example!
This is awesome, and something I've been expecting to see on mobile for a while (ever since the Ethan app and clones). @ginab, I am a bit surprised about the price point for the custom apps though. It seems targeted to companies with significant funding or revenue, and not early stage entrepreneurs. How did you end up at this pricing? I'm guessing the costs of spinning up and maintaining new apps is still fairly significant.
@nickfassler great question. I'm glad you asked.
We've organized our Entrepreneur plans to support community entrepreneurs from idea to revenue to ultimately investing in and growing the business.
Our free Starter plan come with access to the Mightybell native app, so any community entrepreneur on Mightybell can take advantage of mobile push notifications. This means if you are just starting out, you can see if your idea has legs on mobile before spending a cent. Then, with our Indie plan, you can charge for membership and access deep, actionable analytics for potential sponsorship to generate revenue and momentum for your community.
At any point, you can upgrade to our Professional plan where you can have your own branded native mobile apps on iOS and Android. The Professional plan is really designed for those entrepreneurs who would otherwise have to build their own custom apps, a six-or-seven figure investment with a ton of risk.
Randy Taylor and Gerard Scarpaci, the founders of Hairbrained, the largest network of craft hairdressers, were faced with this exact decision to use Mightybell or build their own custom app. Here's their story: https://mightybell.com/community....
Hope that helps. And, again, thanks for asking. We appreciate it.
I was just reading the description and thinking "wow, this sounds like Ning" - and then I see @ginab is at the helm :-) Congrats on the launch! Looks like an awesome service - sounds similar to many of the things Meetup promises as well (minus the in person meetings perhaps?) Excited to try Mightybell out!
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@camillionz Thanks for the kind words, Camille! Mightybell Networks do include event planning with RSVPs for both in-person and online events (that can be live chats or Google Hangouts).
awesome... diggin in and playing with purpose. finally a community platform worth moving a few of my old communities too.
any way I can align 3rd party sponsors? suggestions to make a blog work?
@roamlocally Thanks, Paul! You can absolutely tap 3rd party sponsors for your niche network on Mightybell. As for integrating with blogs, there are a number of different ways to do it. Feel free to drop us a note at strategy (at) mightybell (dot) com and we're happy to help!
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@ginab Thanks Gina, I'll reach out near the end of the week. :)
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