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Why Building a Community is Essential for Your Brand

Grace Jeselson

Communities are key to the success of your brand. An engaged community will lead your brand in the right direction to learn, grow, and succeed.

Building a community is essential for your brand and its success. A community is a social group with multiple things in common. For example, same geographical location, shared religion, or in this case, shared interest in a business. Creating a community of followers who have an interest in your brand is crucial, especially if you're starting small. Through a community, you are able to gain engagement and fully target your audience with products and services specifically tailored to them.

The great thing is you can build your community in a lot of different ways.

Communities forming all across the globe

Share Brand Values

The first way is to share your brand’s values and beliefs. This way people can see if they align with their own. If they do, there is a higher chance they’ll want to stay informed on what your brand is doing. As your community grows, it is important to stick with those original values and beliefs. 

Encourage Engagement

Another way to build your brand's community is to encourage interactions and gain engagement through different channels. Social media is an incredibly powerful tool and a great way to interact with your brand's followers. You can do surveys and contests to build the community or send out a weekly or monthly newsletter to people who subscribe through email. This way they can stay up to date on everything happening in your business, while also being entertained.  

Collect Feedback

Lastly, collect customer feedback and always try to improve or better your brand. There is always work to be done and people in your community can help you see that. They can provide this feedback through a LiveChat, social media, or maybe even your website. Constructive feedback can help your brand succeed even more and make it go farther than you could have imagined.