Decide To Rise
Helping companies overcome community growth challenges to attract and engage members.
Grow a community that you’re proud of.
Community building needs strategic planning. Receive a custom community plan that meets the needs of your company’s ROI. I’ll provide project management, strategic advice, templates, processes, and goal alignment that’s exciting and manageable for you.
KEY OFFERINGS
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STRATEGY
Set community vision, goals, metrics, and roadmap that align with key business objectives, customer expectations and team operations.
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IMPROVEMENT
Identify what’s effective, uncover what’s holding things back, and determine what to adjust—without compromising trust or losing momentum.
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EXPERIENCE
Vendor selection, UX design, and workflows that makes community strategy into something practical, scalable, and easy to sustain.
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RETENTION
Turn one-time participants into engaged, long-term community members, designing value at every stage, keeping members connected, recognized, and invested.
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ADVISE
Provide ongoing advice on community enhancements, leadership alignment, strategic measurements, and operational support.
I’d love to work with you.
Rise Community Consulting is a one-stop resource to overcome the challenges of creating a unique, engaged community. This leads to enthusiastic customers, adding remarkable value to the product experience through acquisition, expansion, and retention. Because a successful community is a powerful way to build a business.
I’m Megan Smolen and I’ve turned my desire to create and build extraordinary communities into a thriving consulting practice.
I’ve worked on creating communities for over 15 years and I’m taking the knowledge, skills, and expertise I’ve gained in traditional work settings to help strategically advise on growing more unique and successful communities.
Over the years, I’ve grown multiple communities from a thousand members to a few million; including a career platform, an e-commerce business, and a digital media brand. The common threads between these diverse brands include active and engaged members to support the company’s visions and goals. Because when a community thrives, so does the business’s bottom line.
I’ve learned what it’s like to support the growth of a community and I’m excited to share useful tricks and tools within my consulting practice, doing work that I love and am proud of. Now, I’m excited to share what I’ve learned with you so that your community will successfully rise.
Cheers,
Megan Smolen
CEO & Founder
“Megan's expertise and dedication were instrumental in bringing our women in tech platform from concept to reality. Her seamless navigation through the entire process, from discovery to launch, coupled with her insightful strategy and meticulous execution, truly made her an invaluable partner to our success. We have loved working with Megan and look forward to our continued growth with her."
Kayleigh Bateman
Content Director at SheCanCode
“I worked with Megan for years and she is truly one of the most enthusiastic and focused people I know. Megan is skilled at envisioning a plan and executing it to perfection. I watched her build an engaged and thoughtful community online that was bold enough to meet offline and in person on regular occasions.”
Emily Mercedes
Head Editor at Chive Media Group
Create a community that builds value back into your business.
Our Services
Whether you’re starting a new community program or revitalising an existing one, it takes a custom strategy to successfully create an authentic, engaged community.
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Starting A Community
No Community? No problem. To start, we’ll take a holistic view of the company’s values, challenges and goals to get a better sense of how to merge community with the results your business needs. From community idea to vision to execution to key results, we’ll collaborate on a custom community plan that’s exciting and manageable for you.
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Improving Your Community
Want to improve your community? I’ll begin with a complete community analysis by evaluating existing details and data. From community programs and member surveys to content and engagement feedback –– the analysis is meant to capture the community’s full history and variables that relate in order to improve. This is a custom that’s unique and achievable to you.
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Trusted Advisor Partnership
This is a longer-term service to grow and develop your community. This is not for you if you’re really looking for a community manager. This is for you if you feel your existing community could be bigger, more engaged, and profitable.