17. How To Create A Loyal Community That Wants To Buy From You

Key Takeaways:Importance of Community: Creating a community around your advisory practice is essential for fostering customer loyalty, enabling free marketing through word-of-mouth, and ensuring long-term sustainability and growth of your firm.Analogies for Understanding: Comparing your advisory brand to a party helps illustrate the value of transforming guests (clients) into friends (loyal customers) who eagerly return and bring others with them.Feedback and Engagement: A community allows for direct feedback from clients, helping you stay aligned with their needs and preferences, thus enhancing your service offerings.Variety of Community Forms: Communities can be built in various formats, including offline in-person groups, online platforms like Facebook groups, LinkedIn, Instagram, and dedicated podcast listener bases.Commitment and Leadership: Successfully managing a community requires commitment and strong leadership to maintain engagement and keep the community thriving.Vision and Mission Clarity: Having a clear vision and mission for your community is vital to attract members who share in your goals and contribute to the community's growth.Platform Choices: While Facebook groups are common, other platforms like skool.com, Discord, and Mighty Networks offer alternative environments for building and managing communities.Addressing Fears: It's natural to have fears when starting a community, but with the right strategy and mindset, these challenges can be overcome to build a valuable and self-sustaining community.--Set Up Your Skool GroupIf you would like to use Skool in your practice click below to use our referral link and get started today...SET UP YOUR SKOOL COMMUNITYThe setup is simple and self-explanatory and you can get a course or training uploaded within a matter of minutes (provided you have the content) however if you have any questions about the software or how to approach the setup pop over to the community and ask the team.We have researched, tried, and tested many platforms, and in our opinion, Skool far outweighs anything else that's out there for simplicity, efficiency, reliability, and user experience for community hosts/you and clients/your community. Want more? Join THE FREEDOM TRIBEHere's all the FREE BONUSES you'll receive when you join our exciting community on Skool; The Freedom Tribe Global Community Of Peers: CPAs, accountants, fractional CFOs, bookkeepers and finance professionals from all over the world sharing ideas, best practice and innovations with each other. Digital copy of Amanda's NEW BOOK, the Business Advisor Playbook: 300+ pages that will transform your approach and share the strategies you need to create, sell and deliver business advisory services. Digital copy of 500:200 Model™ Guide: My tried-and-tested formula for taking home at least 200K with business advisory revenue of 500K. 12 Days Of Business Advisory video series: that walks you through creating the perfect advisory offer. Hand Picked And Categorised episodes of the Business Advisor Podcast to accelerate your journey from a compliance-led to an advisory-led practice. PLUS: There are a few other surprise bonuses that can be UNLOCKED once you are inside the community: Get Clients Course and 5 Day LinkedIn Challenge. Super excited to see you there, and looking forward to helping you achieve all that you want in life. -Speak to you in the next episode...