Episode 37: Find Calm creating a successful network with Carol Dockum

On this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast Carol Dockum, CEO and Founder of Beautiful Faces Going Places - a Women’s Success Network, shares her journey building a Mighty Network with an intention to offer a platform for speakers, trainers, coaches, and professionals to network, inspire, connect, and learn from and empower each other. Subscribe to her newsletter to learn more! 

In this episode we discuss: 

7:17 Discovering Mighty Networks for community-building that is unique and customized for the “member only” app, ability to create a special place for members to get all the value in one location to build the know, like, and trust factor not just locally but globally 

11:11 Global connection during the challenging year and the first year launching a Mighty Network, features best for individual communities that can be customized for sharing content for a variety of sources, a realistic time-frame for building a Mighty Network “soft launch” beta testing with a few members for feedback and to identify questions or problems before 

15:35 Creating a unique onboarding process so that the member feels welcomed and to leverage the benefits of the community so that they use the tools available to them and “User-centric” focus for creating an amazing member onboarding experience 

17:44 Getting your members to connect with each other by highlighting members and promoting co-collaboration for networking and members ability that they can help each other 

19:42 Creating a “free” Mighty Network vs a “paid” Mighty Network and the benefits from charging membership fees to hold members accountable to be a part of the process of building and growing the network 

31:35 Members joined networks for different reasons when creating a networking space, creating benefits for a variety of needs to support members wherever they are and whatever they need in their journey to building a business 

39:35 Mighty Network features, talking about the importance of events and how that allows members to connect via Zoom, and the desired feature Carol mentions is to offer LIVE video and a work-around for now until this feature is LIVE is Loom to create short videos for the community that can be used as check-in or for sharing tools and tutorials

About Find Calm Here

I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network. Inside the Find Calm Here Community, I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform. The FCH Community is now exclusively for M