A community for leaders on the Imzy platform.
How do I engage members?
Hello! Happy to be here on Imzy. I am loving it so far.
I created the /entrepreneurship community a few days ago and it's already grown to 49 members - sweet! But now what? I've been posting regularly and responding to the one and only dude who's engaged, but what else? What good are 49 members if they are all mute? Can i reach out to them individually or anything? Would love to hear your thoughts. TIA!




Making a poll post is a great way to engage users. It has the lowest effort required for participation and we've found that users who vote in polls tend to end up engaging further through their own posts and/or comments on other users' posts.
Thank you, I'll try that.
Does anyone have any other ideas that have worked well?
I guess I'm not enough for you...you need to see other people? :P
Lol! It'd be a silent community without you! I just wish there were more of you!
There just needs to be more users and it will happen with time I think.
Polls. Ask questions. Schedule posts to pop up at different times of day/different days of the week to see if people are active on your community when you aren't necessarily there.
Thank you, will do.
Oy oy oy oy oy. Here's one of those situations where I could give you an honest answer, but it's going to make me look like a jerk.
And the last time I made it insanely clear my words weren't meant as a slam against somebody, someone decided to take it upon themselves to attack me and say I was slamming them.
So, I'll just say, the community you mention already exists and has 438 members.
It's like making a community called coffeeshop. I'm not going to get the following that /lets_grab_coffee already has, and the people who DO join would probably already be members of that community as well. New people seeing both communities, /lets_grab_coffee with over 4000 members and mine with less than 4 dozen, will probably join the former.
I assume you're referring to /entrepreneur? I don't think you're being a jerk at all, but I don't see how this answers my question.
My question asked about engaging the modest amount of members I have. Your answer pointed to the fact that there are bigger communities like mine - I know that. But how does pointing that out help me engage my members? Do I not even try because I wasn't first? Ironically enough, entrepreneurship would be a pretty sucky thing if no one attempted things that someone else had already done.
I'm not trying to create a community that no one had ever tackled before, I'm trying to merely create a community. America has over 30 million small business owners, entrepreneurs and people who want to become one. I think there's room on Imzy for more than 1 group of 438 members to establish a community of like minded entrepreneurial individuals.
I don't think the point of Imzy is for there to only be one good sized community per topic.
Of course not. There's a very good reason I didn't say that. Going back to what I DID say, if you are having trouble fishing in a spot with very few fish, the best advice would be to change spots. But if you are absolutely adamant that you want one of THESE fish, then perhaps you need to change lures.
I probably interpreted your question incorrectly, the way I read it is you want to spur discussion regarding entrepreneurship. Hence, the pointer to where people are discussing it. If your question was how do you engage only those 49 people and no others, then I'm sorry I misinterpreted it, and I just don't have an answer.
I see what you're saying, but I'm totally stoked to have 52 members in my first 2 days. I think that shows there's plenty of fish in this, the entrepreneurship pond. The other one you mentioned (/entrepreneur) took almost 3 weeks to get to 25 members. There were far less users back then, sure, but also far less other communities to compete with.
The place you pointed to has merely 6 posts in the last 4 months with almost 0 engagement. So the fact that they have 438 users is also irrelevant, because clearly they have the same problem that I and many other community leaders have - almost no engagement. Whether 49 or 438 members, it doesn't matter if people aren't engaging. That's what my question seeks to fix.
My goal isn't to just have a bunch of members, but to have a strong sense of community and engagement within the members I DO have. /entrepreneur members aren't engaging either, but there are 10x as many. So to me it's completely irrelevant to compare and contrast one groups fish and lures with another if seemingly no one is engaging in groups of less than 1,000 members.