A business community for the new economy I had a lot of fun talking with Tara Gentile about her new community for digital business owners. In our 28-minute conversation, we talked about: How Tara engineered a community that got past the bias for whining The difference between selling education and delivering educational experiences Why we... Listen to episode

A business community for the new economy






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I had a lot of fun talking with Tara Gentile about her new community for digital business owners. In our 28-minute conversation, we talked about:

How Tara engineered a community that got past the bias for whining
The difference between selling education and delivering educational experiences
Why we all need more people on our “safe space” team
Why Tara’s community never had a Facebook presence
The surprising difficulty convincing people to try a free trial
A resource Tara has coming up on handling money

Disclosures: Tara was nice enough to give me a comp into the site so I could check it out for you guys. We have no other financial or affiliate relationship with CoCommercial.


Note: We apologize for some audio issues on the interview recording.


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The Show Notes

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CoCommercial’s virtual conference on The New Economy and Your Money is coming up on June 1 (the conference is available with a free 30-day trial to the community)
Tara’s podcast conversation with Gina Bianchini on how social networks need to evolve
My thoughts on protecting your entrepreneurial confidence
I’m always happy to see your questions or thoughts on Twitter @soniasimone — or right here in the comments!

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