Alexander Valtsev on turning his community into a business

Welcome to Community Pilot Podcast, with me Sergey Generalov. On the show we invite community leaders to share their experience and reveal the insights of the community building through their stories. Today we invited Alexander Valtsev. He is an entrepreneur in finance and business education and a General Manager at SF Education — company that provides online business courses. In this episode we sit down with Alexander to discuss his journey from a small online group, where he initially created all education content and gave it away for free, to an ed-tech company and community with more than a 65 thousand people. We talked about the challenges of creating a business around existing community and how to deal with different types of feedback. 00:00 Introduction 1:10 How SF Education was founded 5:20 Moving into profit side 9:15 Free content vs paid 9:50 Technological issues in community building 14:45 Dealing with different types of feedback 19:05 Community and business 22:30 Chats of interest to get people together 23:40 Webinars as a tool to involve members 27:10 Book recommendation 28:20 Stay dedicated and focus on your main goal ➡️ SF Education: https://vk.com/sfeducation 🚀 You can find audio versions here and don't forget to follow us: 🔗 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/05CspGuwDPQSqPTcloOdXj?si=mw5JKwr_RsW4RTOLuttfRghttps://open.spotify.com/episode/05CspGuwDPQSqPTcloOdXj?si=PYsjO7ANQ4aXwW5nMvH5Bg 🔗 YouTube: https://youtu.be/jKJfEgsluno 🔗 iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alexander-valtsev-on-community-pilot-podcast/id1452118160?i=1000434452336 🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/communitypilot 🔗 Twitter: https://twitter.com/communitypilot 🔗 ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/... 🔗 Website: https://community-pilot.com