Shreman Shrestha is the Head of Community for the Friends of Lenny’s Slack community. This community comes bundled with the Paid subscription for Lenny’s Newsletter and at the time of recording there are 17k+ members in here.
In this episode, Shre discusses how this community is able to organise 200+ in-person meetups per year, challenges with organising a great mentor matching program, working with volunteers and more.
Resources: • Beginner Maps - free crash course on building a community business - https://beginnermaps.com
• Curated Connections, the community engagement app - https://curatedconnections.io/
• Shreman's Twitter - https://twitter.com/itsDrDrewithaSh/
• Lenny's community + newsletter - https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/community
• Nityesh's Twitter (host) - https://twitter.com/nityeshaga/
Chapters: 0:00 Intro
03:09 Lenny's community persona
04:33 Why people join the community
09:12 Increasing retention
10:52 Shre's story
13:10 Shre's responsibilities
17:52 Member-led city meetups
22:18 Guidelines for meetup hosts
25:29 Finding hosts
26:45 Financials of a meetup
28:21 Dealing with low attendance
31:46 Mentor matching program
37:07 Workbook for mentor and mentee
38:54 Building a great volunteer program
42:49 Advice for creators with audience
48:33 Observing members to get new ideas
