The 50 Best Tips

— Suzanne McGann, Voyageur I.T., “Five Tips for Managing Online Strategy,” June 5, Catalog Success Idea Factory

✱ Charge for membership.

If you create a community where you provide valuable information to others, the ability to share information amongst themselves and the assurance that you’ll keep out defectors, then people will pay for the benefits you offer. It’s necessary to gain the trust of the community and not break that trust with purposeless fees. Make sure that what they’re paying for, they’re getting.