Chris Samila is the co-founder of Partnership Leaders - a strong bootstrapped business that provides community, connections and resources for partnership professionals.

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In this episode we discuss:

Organising conferences and city-wide events with a volunteer-led strategy
What does a partnership professional do?
How Partnership Leaders (PL) charges their members
Creating resources that create a strong hook
Why they use a paid Slack to host the community
How he turned an email thread into a community
Building culture in the early days
Charging for a free community
Reducing churn
Tech stack for running the PL business
Chris' hiring philosophy

Building a membership community business with Chris Samila