Community-Led Growth: Drive acquisition, engagement & advocacy via word of mouth

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⚡ Get the tools, frameworks, psychological insights, and tactics to sustainably scale your CLG 👉 Create new, high ROI growth loops

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LinkedIn

Course overview

Supercharge your brand’s growth and retention through natural human behavior.

Leveraging community as a growth channel requires a nuanced understanding of human behavior, scalable strategies, and a deep commitment to delivering value. This course will teach you how to build, grow, and scale a thriving community-led growth engine that delivers powerful, long term results:


Increased Brand Loyalty: Consumers who feel a sense of belonging to a brand community are more likely to remain loyal to the brand over time.


Emotional Connection: A strong community fosters emotional attachment, which can increase retention rates as people are less likely to switch to competitors.


Influence of Social Proof: Community-driven consumers are much more likely to recommend the brand to others, reinforcing their own commitment and reducing churn. These recommendations also drive much lower marketing costs and higher conversion rates at the consideration phase.


Resilience to Negative Experiences: Consumers embedded in a community are more forgiving, as they perceive a deeper relationship beyond mere transactional value.



Why learn with me?

I've been driving growth through user behavior for over a decade across multiple industries. I've gained critical insights about how to build user-led growth loops, ecosystem engagement and brand affinity.

I've road-tested my strategies across multiple operator roles and organizations, and learned how to define what CLG should look like for each business, based on its unique model and goals.

In this course, I'll equip you to do the same, for your specific use case.



You'll leave this course with:

A thorough understanding of CLG as a concept and strategy

A wide variety of examples to pull from as you ideate on your own CLG approach

Specific feedback on your existing CLG plans, ideas, and questions

This course is for you if you're...

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a marketer tasked with finding new growth channels and paths beyond paid media

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a product builder thinking about creating growth loops and driving PLG

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a growth owner who wants to harness to power of word of mouth to lower acquisition costs

You'll leave this course with:

A clear understanding of how to integrate community-led strategies into user acquisition and retention efforts.

Well-designed ommunity-led growth looks different for every brand and company. We'll review a variety of well-tested strategies across B2B, B2C, and B2B2C models in order to help you define what it could, and should, look like for yours based on your model and goals.

Practical insights into leveraging psychological triggers to build loyalty and create buzz around your brand.

By studying a series of psychological frameworks and triggers, we can design our growth efforts to be multitudes more impactful and effective at driving our desired user actions. We'll dive into the ones most relevant to CLG motions, and analyze when and how to implement them.

Actionable frameworks for deciding between paid and free community models.

Community products are generally loss leaders for larger brands, but someties it does make sense to position them as an upsell or paid feature. We'll discuss the pros and cons of each approach, and how that might apply to the problems you're solving.

A toolkit of recommended software and resources to scale your community initiatives.

Having the right tech stack is critical for CLG impact and success. I'll provide recommendations for tools to drive high quality user experience and the measurement and automation tools you'll need to scale sustainably,

Tactical feedback on your specific problem set and proposed solutions.

Following our live sessions, you'll submit your own proposal for how to implement CLG into your work. I'll provide personalized feedback and suggestions to optimize outcomes and set yourself up for long term success.

This course includes

4 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

In-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

1 projects to apply learning

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Mar 24—Mar 30

    Mar

    24

    Fundamentals of Community-Led Growth

    Mon 3/244:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    Mar

    25

    Leveraging Psychology for Community-Led Growth

    Tue 3/254:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

    Mar

    26

    Optional: Office Hours

    Wed 3/267:30 PM—12:00 AM (UTC)
    Optional

    Mar

    28

    Implementation Strategies

    Fri 3/284:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Mar 31—Apr 4

    Submit your CLG ideas/plan for feedback

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Schedule

5-6 live hours, 1-3 async hours

  • Monday: Live session

    9:00 - 10:30am PT

    Fundamentals of Community-Led Growth

    • Overview of CLG tactics and strategies for user acquisition and retention
    • Case studies of successful community-led brands
    • Measuring success and results
  • Tuesday: Live session

    9:00 - 10:30am PT

    Leveraging Psychology for Growth

    • Tactics for brand loyalty and hype creation
    • Psychological frameworks for building engaged, sustainable community loops
    • Psychological frameworks for encouraging desired user actions
  • Wednesday: Office hours

    12:30 - 5:00pm PT

    • A 15 minute slot to discuss specific challenges and problem sets to you and your role, 1:1
  • Friday: Live session

    9:00 - 10:30am PT

    Implementation Strategies

    • Community surfaces and types
    • Paid vs. free community models
    • Software tools to support community growth
  • Week 2: Personalized feedback

    Async

    • Submit your plan or ideas for how to implement CLG in your work
    • Receive async feedback, ideas, and suggestions within a week

I've built communities and user-led growth loops across brands large and small.

Mallory Contois

Mallory Contois

5x startup operator @ Linkedin, Pinterest, Cameo, Metafy & Mercury

I've been driving growth through user behavior for over a decade.


I currently lead community-led growth at Mercury, where I connect founders, investors, and partners together to strengthen our ecosystem and build brand affinity.


I'm also the founder of a 2k+ member paid community (The Old Girls Club) as a side hustle and passion project, grown entirely with a $0 CAC.

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Join an upcoming cohort

Community-Led Growth: Drive acquisition, engagement & advocacy via word of mouth

March cohort

$950

Dates

Mar 24—Apr 5, 2025

Payment Deadline

Mar 24, 2025
Get reimbursed

$950

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