Building a membership community business with Chris Samila

Chris Samila is the co-founder of Partnership Leaders - a strong bootstrapped business that provides community, connections and resources for partnership professionals.

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In this episode we discuss:

• Organising conferences and city-wide events with a volunteer-led strategy


• What does a partnership professional do?


• How Partnership Leaders (PL) charges their members


• Creating resources that create a strong hook


• Why they use a paid Slack to host the community


• How he turned an email thread into a community


• Building culture in the early days


• Charging for a free community


• Reducing churn


• Tech stack for running the PL business


• Chris' hiring philosophy