Hi everyone,

Recently, I have been researching about community building and I found two cool “hacks” to speed up the process of building a community. 

Before I go into those hacks – let me first explain why you should have a community. 

Let’s think it simply with basic logic. 

Why do we create blogs? 

So that people come to read the blog posts and in the process, we make money via ads, affilaite deals or by selling something to the person who came to read our blog – right? 

Internet is now at a stage where you can do that same thing without a blog. 

It is called building a digital community. 

A digital community can be of different types – but some of the most popular ones are: 

• Reddit Subreddits
• Meetup Groups
• Facebook Groups

etc. 

Why have a community? Imagine a scenario like this: 

You own a big community of 100,000+ members who are all in a sub-reddit. You can now make money using this community in a variety of ways. 

• You can sell them something
• You can do affiliate deals 
• You can do one time offers
• You can take them on a newsletter and then monetize that

The opportunities are endless. 

What I am trying to get at – is the fact that a community is exactly like a blog – without the hassle of creating a website. 

Now that I think I have explained it right – let’s talk about two hacks that you can use to grow a community. 

Meetup

Meetup is one of the world’s top community platforms. Every day, 100s of people are using Meetup to create different types of communities. Some are virtual, some offline & some have no purpose. 

Step 1 would be to finding a niche that you like (exactly what you do before you create a blog). Let’s imagine our niche is travel. 

Step 2 would be to finding out all the travel meetup groups that interests you. Join all of them. Joining is free. 

Step 3 is patience. 

You see, Unlike FB groups – it costs money to create Meetup groups – and sometimes, these admins don’t renew their meetup membership. 

When they don’t – Meetup sends an email to all group members asking if someone else wants to take over the group. 

You wait for a moment like that and yes, you will have a 10k+ member based travel Meetup group in no time. 

Now that you have the meetup group – you can monetize it however you want. 

SubReddits

Reddit is great. I love reddit and I think Sub-reddits are great when it comes to community building. 

But yes, it is tough. 

And the process I will explain isn’t easy – either, which is why the opportunity will exist for a while. 

Step 1: Create the subreddit. Creating a subreddit is free. Let’s imagine we are creating a subreddit on travel. 

Step 2: Create a Zapier alert with keywords. Whenever someone posts anything on Reddit related to your keywords – Zapier will trigger. 

Keywords in this scenario can be things like: Travel, flight ticket, vacation etc. 

Step 3: Connect Zapier’s next step with Open Ai’s Chat GPT and ask GPT to respond to that query with a smart answer, with a goal to bring people to your subreddit. 

ChatGPT will reply something like: Hey X, this was a good question. I think you might find your answer here: r/youramazingsubreddit

Play around with it. 

If you comment 50-100k times/day using Zapier and GPT, you will have a thriving Sub-reddit in no time. 

It is complicated and that’s why I love it. 

Hope this helps. 

If you have an active community of 100,000+ members, you will easily make $2-$5k/month – no matter the topic of the community.

That’s a guarantee.