ARE YOU READY TO GROW YOUR COMMUNITY?
ARE YOU READY TO GROW YOUR COMMUNITY?
With Lara Sheldrake, Community Expert, Business Consultant and Founder of Found & Flourish
Grow your community, supercharge your business.
Build the right foundations for an amazing end to the year.
I’m often asked in interviews about the power of community, how I built such an engaged community over the last few years and how others can do the same. So I’ve created a value packed short course for business owners who’d like to build a loyal and engaged community.
Community Building 101: The Ultimate Guide to Attracting and Engaging Your Audience
An actionable and bitesize course tailor made for founders and freelancers
Get clear on your goals (business and community!)
Nail your value proposition
Learn how to build a know, like, trust relationship with your audience
Create content that resonates and connects you to your ideal customers or clients
Establish how to value your offering (from free to paid)
Learn how to build a sustainable community without burning out in the process
Build the right foundations for an excellent end to your year
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“Community building is going to be one of the most important, if not the most important, skill set for future Founders across industries. You need a community and you need it as early as possible for whatever product [or business] that you’re going to build.”
- Morgan Beller, Co-founder of Diem [Source]
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"Everyone needs to do this course!”
It was like 8 sessions in Lara's head with all her experience and wisdom! It's given me the confidence and knowledge to take the next steps in my business and grow a community. It felt like 1:1 support for my business and it was invaluable - it's been like having a big hug every week! Lara is passionate, caring and super knowledgeable. The theory gives you the strategy and the Q&As support you to put it all into practice. I've done things I was struggling to do and this course has given me the drive and confidence to do it. Thank you a million
Mim Mason, Digital Marketing Expert
About this course
This is an online 2-week self-paced course with weekly check-ins with me, for those who want to connect with their audience in an authentic and sustainable way. Sign up to the waitlist below if you want to find out more.
Learn the essentials for building an engaged community and what it takes to turn your audience into true fans.
Not ready to join the next cohort? Sign up to my waitlist here and be the first to know when you can sign up to the next one.
“I always left our sessions feeling super-charged and excited with tons of ideas and actions”
I absolutely loved Lara's community programme. Despite already having an established community, the course really helped me get clear on my offering and get some invaluable community feedback which, in turn, has helped frame a new product offering. I followed the programme up with a series of 1:1s with Lara, which helped further clarify my thinking, and I always left our sessions feeling super-charged and excited with tons of ideas and actions.
Arianna Radji Lee, Founder of Pachamama, an online community supporting new & expecting parents
Learn how to connect with your audience so they rave about your business
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“You'll be in safe hands should you make the wise decision to join this course!”
Over the past few years, Lara has been building a truly magical community, Found & Flourish. While she knows that powerful communities are a mighty force for businesses, she has never compromised on her community members' wellbeing. It's hard to know where to start when building or nurturing a community, and it's especially difficult to know how to structure it in a way that works for you.
There is no one single trick that suits all, but it helped me go back to my vision and mission before selecting my tools, pricing, format and so much more. It's great to find reliable ways to gather people together to make sure they feel at home.
This programme is supercharged with tips and personal experiences -- Lara is a truly unique force and you'll be in safe hands should you make the wise decision to join this course!
Emilie Bellet, Founder of Vestpod and author of ‘You’re not broke, you’re pre-rich’
How are you feeling?
“I want to grow my community”
“I’m feeling a little stuck and low on motivation at the moment”
“I want to define my business goals so I know where I’m going”
“I know I need to be more visible but have no idea where to start”
“I feel pulled in different directions when it comes to ALL the platforms”
“I want to get clear on my offering and audience so I can streamline my efforts”
“We didn’t realise how much we needed this course!”
We were totally clueless before we started this programme and not sure what to expect. We knew we needed some coaching on how to pivot our business and grow our community, but didn't realise how much until we started this course! Lara's framework really helped us nail who we are and who we want to be, our goals, our value proposition, who we are communicating with, and a strategy for how best to reach them. Lara's been there and done it and her experience is invaluable, great hearing from other female CEO's too. The solidarity in the group, all of us learning together was very powerful, and a great motivator. The support, advice and knowledge we received gave us the confidence to make some key decisions and get started generating new content to grow our new audience and keep our current one better engaged.
Melissa Phillips, Co-Founder Mavis
How will this course support you?
Define your business and community goals so you can create a strategy with confidence and clarity
Understand the basics of community building including what sets community apart from an audience and network
Identify your ideal audience including *how* to connect with them on a deeper level
Build an effective content roadmap that creates results without the overwhelm
Learn how to build a ‘know, like, trust’ relationship with your community, converting them into true fans who will buy from you
Implement a sustainable model that works for you and your business, so that you can grow your community and your business without burning out in the process
“I can’t recommend this programme highly enough!”
I was a little apprehensive ahead of taking part in the programme as I felt I might not be quite ready. Right from the start I felt welcome and supported by Lara and everyone else who signed up. There was a huge amount amazing information shared by Lara, who didn’t hold back on total honesty on what she had learnt in growing her fabulous heart led community. The programme has been a complete inspiration to me, and others too. It’s been wonderful to see everyone’s progress throughout and since it ended, as well as my own. I can’t recommend this programme highly enough - if you get the chance to be a part of the next cohort, take it.
Sara Maxwell, Financial advisor and Founder of The Wealth Coach
What do you get?
A value packed course with digestible learning modules
A workbook to offer you the framework necessary to ACTION your learnings
4 x 60mins Q&A sessions
Opportunity to ask for bespoke advice
A closed community group to discuss challenges, wins, action points etc
A group of kind hearted accountability buddies to cheerlead you every step of the way
Daily access to me via our closed group
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Who am I?
Hey👋 I’m Lara, a speaker, consultant and the founder of Found & Flourish, an online membership, media and events platform for women in business. I’m on a mission to teach business owners the power of community and to make business accessible and less lonely for entrepreneurial women.
Before running F&F I ran my own social media consultancy and I found the whole experience incredibly isolating and lonely. I craved connection and community and at the time, really struggled to find anything that resonated with me. That’s why Found & Flourish exists.
I now consult and mentor on the topics of community and business and run a range of course and workshops educating business owners on these topics.
Why listen to me?
In less than four years I have grown Found & Flourish from 0 to 30,000 women, I have hosted over 500 events and 2,500 women. We have 500+ members and over 20,000 followers across social, a completely organically grown and nurtured community.
I’m often asked in interviews about the power of community, how I built such an engaged community over the last four years and how others can do the same. I also run regular power hours and mentoring sessions for business owners who want to pick my brain when it comes to all things building a community centric business.
So I decided to create a course, offering business owners the opportunity to learn my tips and tricks for not only building an engaged community but one which is also aligned with your values. You will learn how to build a community which compliments your business enabling you to focus on impact, profit and joy.
“Everything changed from that very moment.”
I went into this programme thinking I had no community and wasn't the expert, that I had to employ a lot of people to help me build, nourish and grow my community. This programme showed me that I had a community already, that I am the expert and that I came from a place of serving & helping women. I embraced it and my business have never been the same again.
When Lara crushed my self-doubt to show up for myself & Natal Comfort, encouraged me to be my authentic self and take ownership that I am the expert ready and open to serve pregnant women with their sleep-related questions. Boom!! That was not only an "ah-ha" moment in this programme but in my business, my personal life, my confidence. Everything changed from that very moment.
I would recommend this programme to any entrepreneur who wants to come from a place of serving others.
Karli Buchling, Founder of Natal Comfort
Who is this course for?
You’re in a professional capacity looking to harness the power of community. We will be looking at various ways in which you can grow your online community organically and turn your audience into loyal paying customers or clients.
This is for you if you…
Feel stuck in terms of the direction you want to take your business
Know you want to create a strategy around building your community as an asset to your business
Love working in a collaborative setting
Want to be held accountable to achieving your goals
Crave connection and support from an experienced expert
What will you learn?
At the end of this course you will feel excited to nurture and grow your online community. You will have the confidence and clarity to sell your services in a way that feels authentic to you whilst focusing on the solutions you will be providing your community.
This is for anyone who wants to achieve the following:
Gain clarity on their business goals
Understand how to build an engaged community who wants to buy from them
Learn what is needed to convert their community into true fans
Explore the various platforms and solutions available to them
Be held accountable to making real progress
What will we cover?
Your business and life goals
A deep dive into the topic of community building and visibility
Building a relationship with your community and converting them into ‘true fans’
Strategy and implementation that works for you and your business
Sustainable methods to avoid overwhelm and burnout
The mindset & mentality required to run a successful community
“I feel the most motivated and inspired I've felt in months!”
I was feeling overwhelmed with all I had to get done before launching my membership and beginning to lack confidence in my idea but the power hour with Lara was exactly what I needed. Not only did I leave with the practical 'do's and don't's for my business from someone who has been there, Lara showed me ways that I can streamline my offering to save my business money in the launch phase, and I feel the most motivated and inspired I've felt in months!
Catri Barrett, Startup business mentor and Founder of The Curiosity Club
How will it work?
From the 12th September, you will gain immediate access to the two week course with a range of short modules. These will be easily digestible with worksheets and actionable tasks so that as you progress through the course, you will start to see tangible results.
We will have 4 x live calls across the two weeks both lunchtime and evening slots to accommodate people’s availabilities.
To keep you motivated and accountable there will be a closed community space where you can share your progress, log your wins and ask questions, all of this will happen on our favourite platform, Circle.
Expect to have FUN, feel confident about your business, learn about community building in a way that feels good and make new friends in the process.
I am SO excited to see you soon.