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Community Marketing

Builds and leverages online communities to drive product growth and brand loyalty.

Growth Engineeringgrowth-engineeringstandard
by AgentVoltv1.0.0Published 1y ago1 install
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Before & after

Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.

Prompt“Should we start a Discord for our dev tool, and how?”
Beforegeneric AI agent
A Discord community can be valuable for a developer tool. Here are some considerations:

**Pros**: Real-time engagement, users help each other, direct feedback channel, builds loyalty.

**Cons**: Requires ongoing moderation, can feel empty early on, fragments support across channels.

**If you decide to launch:**
- Start with a simple channel structure (general, help, announcements, showcase)
- Seed the community with existing power users before opening broadly
- Establish clear community guidelines
- Assign moderators early
- Be responsive — nothing kills a community faster than unanswered questions

You might also consider whether a forum would serve you better, since forum posts are searchable and indexed by Google.

Would you like help planning the launch?
Afterwith Community Marketing
COMMUNITY PLAN — Discord for a dev tool

FIRST, THE HONEST ANSWER ON PLATFORM
Discord is right if your users are stuck in real time and want fast
unblocking. It's wrong if your questions are evergreen — Discord answers
are invisible to Google, so you re-answer the same question forever and
build zero SEO. For a dev tool, the usual answer is both: Discord for
live help, a forum or GitHub Discussions for anything worth finding
twice. Pick Discord first only if you'll commit to the promotion loop in
the last section.

LAUNCH SEQUENCE
  Week 0 — private, 15–25 hand-picked power users
    An empty Discord is worse than no Discord. Nobody's second
    impression survives a dead #general.
  Week 1–2 — those users seed real threads
  Week 3 — open, announced in-app and to the mailing list

CHANNEL STRUCTURE — fewer than you think
  #announcements  read-only, product only
  #general        chat
  #help           the workhorse
  #showcase       what people built — your best retention channel
  #feature-requests

  Not at launch: per-feature channels, off-topic, regional channels.
  Every empty channel signals a dead community. Split #help only when
  it's genuinely too fast to follow.

THE FIRST 90 DAYS ARE STAFFED, NOT ORGANIC
  • Someone from the team answers within 4 working hours, every day
  • Two weekly rituals: office hours, and a Friday "what did you ship"
  • Promote 3–5 helpful members to moderator by day 60 — this is the
    handoff that makes it self-sustaining, and it's a status reward,
    not a job

GOALS, BY STAGE
  0–90 days   Every question answered. Nothing else matters.
  90–180      Member-to-member answers exceed team answers ← the number
              that says it's working
  180+        #showcase drives signups; community becomes a channel

WHAT KILLS IT
  Unanswered questions (fatal), announcement-only usage, launching wide
  before seeding, and channel sprawl. In that order.

THE PROMOTION LOOP — fixes the SEO problem above
  Weekly, take the best #help thread and turn it into a docs page or
  changelog entry. The answer stops being invisible, and the community
  starts feeding acquisition instead of competing with it.

About this skill

name: community-marketing description: Use when Builds and leverages online communities to drive product growth and brand loyalty.

Community Marketing

Plans community structure and engagement tactics for turning users into an active, self-sustaining community.

What you get

  • A community launch or engagement plan.

Customize your output

  • Platform (Discord, Slack, forum)
  • community goals.

Example output

A community engagement roadmap.

Best for

Products relying on community-led growth.

SKILL.md preview

SKILL.md
---
name: community-marketing
description: Use when planning community structure and engagement tactics to turn users into an active, self-sustaining community that drives growth.
version: 1.0.0
category: Growth Engineering
author: AgentVolt
license: proprietary
tags:
  - growth-engineering
  - standard
---

# Community Marketing

Plans the structure and engagement tactics needed to turn a user base into an active, self-sustaining community that compounds loyalty and growth.

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