Slack is an all-in-one messaging service that’s highly convenient to use and allows you to communicate with like-minded communities. For marketers, there are plenty of opportunities to network with Slack members forging much-needed relationships. In a Slack community, there will be different channels for every type of discussion, kind of how a forum is broken down into sub-topics.
Not sure what Slack marketing communities are worth joining? Here are the top seven worthies of your consideration:
1. Inbound.org
This community is around 1,900 strong and growing with talented marketers joining to collaborate with others. Here you will find answers to the thought marketing questions, and it is one of the best places on slack to learn from the countless years of experience from other marketers. The community members are helpful, and the parent site of the community is like one big forum. Therefore, members are used to sharing insight with others who need it.
Fee: Free.
Application Approval: Instant
Members: 1879
2. Online Geniuses
David Markovich is the founder of Online Geniuses, which is currently the largest marketing Slack community. It is so large that you might recognize a few of the names from the community. You can ask anything from how to improve your landing page to crafting the perfect e-mail series.
Becoming part of the most successful Slack marketing community will not only improve your understanding of the discipline but also make you feel like you are not doing it alone.
Fee: Free.
Application Approval: up to two weeks.
Members: 2000
3. Product Marketing
The name of the Slack group indicates a group is just about product marketing, but that is not the case. Feel welcome to ask about SEO, PPC, e-mail marketing and anything else internet marketing related.
The Slack community founder is Amanda Tessier. You are encouraged to create a profile picture and introduce yourself to the community. There are several channels that you should review to figure out the right one for your specific area of interest.
You’re also encouraged to contribute. So after your questions have been answered spend a few minutes to see what problems other members of the community might be having. The more you put into this community, the more you’re going to get out of it.
Fee: Free
Application Approval: Instant
Members: 1051
4. Mind the Product
This Slack group is an international community that is focused on data driven product management. It’s perfect for those of you that have e-commerce shops and are trying to increase sales across the board.
The community has over 9000 members, and Chris Massey is the founder. The secret to the success of this community is the number of presentations the founder puts together. Always being present and taking a lot of time to help ordinary members means others will do the same.
Providing users with hard data is helpful in understanding how they can give you specific advice. It’s a group for those who enjoy a math and logic based approach to marketing.
Fee: Free
Application Approval: Instant
Members: 9290
5. Growmance
The founder is Ondrej Kubala, and it’s one of the smaller communities on this list, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t value to be had here. Don’t be hesitant about asking for honest feedback as community members tell you how it is.
You can upload documents and get others to contribute their knowledge to the design of a template for example. Once you see how eager to help this community is you won’t think twice about asking as many questions as it takes to achieve marketing goals.
Fee: Free
Application Approval: Instant
Members: 2086
6. Conversion World
Another small marketing community, but they focus on improving conversions, which is an essential part of any marketing campaign. This shouldn’t be the primary destination for all your marketing help, but it’s great to have alongside the others.
Channels here are segmented by the location of the users, which includes North America, Belgium, Brazil, Australia and a lot more. Give it a try for yourself if you’ve had trouble turning a significant portion of your traffic into paying customers.
Fee: Free
Application Approval: Instant
Members: 1000+
7. Buffer
It’s a Slack community that’s highly active, mostly because members appreciate the social aspect of interactions in addition to the work based ones. The community has over 1,500 members with location based channels giving you opportunities to arrange meet-ups outside of the online realm.
Within the community, you can set weekly goals, discuss social media challenges, chat with the product team and get paired with other members at the “virtual coffee dates” channel. It’s the perfect community for those that enjoy and crave the social aspect of interactions regardless how business orientated they might be.
Fee: Free
Application Approval: Instant
Members: 1500+
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