Community is taking center stage at organizations across all industries. With traditional marketing techniques reaching a saturation point and product features appearing to differ very little, a thriving community can become your single greatest asset by acting as a force multiplier for your business and also enabling you to stand out in a fragmented market.
However, building and nurturing a community takes time – relationships cannot be an afterthought. When put front and center, a community can be a great acquisition channel, product feedback mechanism, brand differentiator, and retention lever.
In this session, Lloyed Lobo, Cofounder & President of Boast.AI, shares how they were able to bootstrap to 8 figures in revenue with no outside funding. Specifically, Lloyed will cover:
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The Ballston Center, Marymount University 2nd Floor Conference Room and Networking Space
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Meet us on Zoom: Lloyed Lobo will be speaking via Zoom from 5:30 – 6:30pm ET
About Lloyed Lobo
Lloyed is the Co-founder and President of Boast.AI, a fintech platform that automates access to billions in R&D tax credits and government funding to help innovative companies fuel their growth. Lloyed also runs Traction, Boast.AI’s community of +100k innovators that brings leaders from the fastest growing companies to share learnings on building, growing, and scaling companies via weekly webinars, regular meetups, and conferences.
Lloyed has been covered in Forbes, TechCrunch, Fox Business, and VentureBeat, and has been featured on reputed podcasts such as Entrepreneurs on Fire, Leveling Up, and Rocketship.fm.
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