How Marcie grew her career in building communities for startups

Marcie Walker is the Head of Community Engagement at Gatheround - a startup building a fun, new online events platform that makes virtual events actually fun.

In this episode, Marcie shares all the lessons she has learnt in building herself a career in community building.

Some things we talk about:

• 00:00 Teaser


• 04:50 How work in community is dependent more on what the community needs rather than your title


• 13:32 Virtual vs In-person events


• 16:59 What Marcie is working on now


• 23:21 How flywheel marketing can justify RoI on your community efforts


• 28:50 Routine Roulette


• 33:11 Getting the job at Gatheround by writing her own job description


• 46:08 Advice for 20 year olds


• 01:04:58 Resources for community building


• 01:06:50 One action item for listeners

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Links and Resources:

Gatheround - https://gatheround.com/community

Community Club - https://www.community.club/

Noele Flowers - https://www.linkedin.com/in/noeleflowers/

Sarah Greisdorf - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahgreisdorf/

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