#1142 - Which comes first: growing a community or selling a product?
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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This listener wants to start a community called “Business Mind Hack.” What comes first—a series of paid monthly challenges, or the community itself?
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| 0:00.0 | The chicken egg question of online marketing and community building is whether you should |
| 0:09.8 | sell products and services right away or begin developing, nurturing, fostering a community |
| 0:15.6 | and a group of followers first. |
| 0:17.8 | What should you do? |
| 0:18.8 | Because ultimately you want to do both, at least if that's your objective. |
| 0:21.8 | And the answer, of course, is usually it depends. |
| 0:24.4 | But the good news is you can often find the best specific answer for any particular project. |
| 0:29.9 | Unfortunately, I think that's the case for today's call it. |
| 0:33.0 | This listener wants to start a community called Business Mindhack, which comes first, a |
| 0:37.8 | series of paid monthly challenges that his business objective, or at least one of them, |
| 0:42.5 | or the community itself. |
| 0:43.5 | He also has a question about sending his readers and followers to other resources. |
| 0:47.9 | What's the best way to do that? |
| 0:49.7 | Welcome to Side Us Little School. |
| 0:50.7 | My name is Chris Gillibow. |
| 0:51.7 | We're going to deal with that chicken and egg question in just a moment. |
| 0:59.9 | My Chris, this is Ylana from Beautiful, sunny San Diego, California. |
| 1:06.1 | And I've been listening to your show for the past two months. |
| 1:09.1 | A buddy of mine actually told me about your podcast and I've been thinking to launch my |
| 1:12.7 | own online business for a couple of years now and finally have been inspired to take |
| 1:16.3 | action by listening to Side Hustle School. |
| 1:18.6 | So thank you. |
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