Ep#301 Jono Bacon: Using a Community to Build and Grow YOUR Business... Regardless of the Niche!

Jono Bacon is a leading community and collaboration speaker, author, and podcaster. He is the founder of Jono Bacon Consulting, which provides community strategy/execution, workflow, and other services. He previously served as director of community at GitHub, Canonical, XPRIZE, and OpenAdvantage. His clients include Huawei, GitLab, Microsoft, Intel, Google, Sony Mobile, Deutsche Bank, Santander, HackerOne, Mattermost, SAP, FINOS Foundation, The Executive Center, data.world, Creative Commons, and others.

Jono Bacon holds a BA (Hons) degree in Interactive Multimedia Communication from the University of Wolverhampton, where he also received an Honorary Research Fellowship for his career achievements.

Ways to Connect with Jono:

Website: http://jonobacon.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonobacon/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonobacon

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/jonobacon

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonobacon

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonobacongram/

Full show notes here: https://links.thegaspodcast.com/301

What’s in this podcast episode?

00:00 Intro

02:06 Who is our guest, and what does he do in his business

02:51 Who are the people who can benefit from his business

04:32 How his business started

06:41 The types of trends of people in the community that he saw and what to do to get community impact

10:21 His biggest success in building a community

11:45 captainscouncil.com

14:37 His favorite part of his scaling journey

18:33 Difference between coach training and group training

20:33 What he wants everyone to know aside from learning from him

21:54 How is his growth journey looked like

24:28 Two types of things that he hit during his growth journey that he didn't expect to happen

27:36 His advice to people who wants to launch a business

28:46 Someone in his circle whom he is fortunate to have

29:28 Another person that coaches and helps him and makes things transformational

31:36 Why is it essential to surround with people with exciting ideas and experiences

32:37 Where to follow Jono to know more about him and his business