On the latest episode of Getting Social with Miriam, the focus was on tribe building and social media. My guest on the last show, Sean M. Madden had something very exciting to share. Sean is an American writer-educator, photographer and slow-traveling digital nomad who has lived in the South East of England since 2005. However, in May 2012, he and his partner embarked upon a slow traveling tour of Europe which continues with no end in sight. In addition to their other creative endeavors, Sean and his partner founded in July 2013 while in Scotland, CreativeThunder.co which is about working with creative businesses and individuals, worldwide, to build tribes of loyal customers via strategic websites, visual storytelling, and social media. Sean has a new creation, the #CreativeTribes community on Slack, and that is what we spoke about. Sean and I discussed the importance of tribe building and why it is extremely important to create a loyal following. We also covered many excellent Twitter tips, and why it is important to unfollow users who are not of any value to you. It was an informative show on social media. You can learn more and join the community via CreativeTribes.co.
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I enjoyed the clear visuals of the CreativeThunder website – and I liked even more that the site was set up to be easy to read. As a near-senior citizen, I appreciate the thought that went into this. (And a cat pictures at the beginning of your post? Bet that was intentional, too.)
Thanks so much Alana, all of the credit goes to Sean. 🙂
Thank you so much, Alana. I really appreciate that you took time out of your day to listen to this podcast ? and, further, to visit our CreativeThunder.co website and report back here that you found the design helpful. The cat in the photo with me is a dear ol’ friend we met while camping just outside of Vichy, France throughout the Summer of 2012. We have friends who return to that campsite, again and again, who always report back that our cat friend there is alive and well! 🙂
Well, I’m a creative (an artist), and I will check that community out to see if it seems applicable for me.
He would love to see you!
Hello, V.J. As with Alana, above, I really appreciate your taking time out of your day to listen to this podcast, and for your interest in joining us within the CreativeTribes.co community on Slack. We’d love for you to join us! You can easily do so via the CreativeTribes.co website?just click my name above this comment.
I too visited the site. I agree that stories trump data every time. Stories humanize our business. Today people want to know who they are dealing with when they come to your site. I can’t believe that I still go to sites and they just offer products and services and don’t say a word about who is behind the business. Or, sometimes they have a brief sentence or two. So what? It could be a lie. It could just be a cold corporate site with no customer service. I mean I have thousands if not millions of choices online, why should I buy from you??? I don’t know who you are or if I like you.
Anyway, you can tell this is a pet peeve of mine. 😉
From what I saw, it looks good and I particularly like the “Our Values” section. Very nice touch to keep me on the site, building trust.
Deborah
Thanks Deborah for checking it out. And haha oh I so hear you on this. Lack of customer service is inexcusable and will do nothing but drive business away.
Hello, Deborah.
Thank you so much for listening to the interview with Miriam, and for checking out our CreativeThunder.co site. Really appreciate that, as well as what you shared about specifics (e.g., “Our Values” section) there.
Would you like to join us within the #CreativeTribes community on Slack? We’d love to have you there! Just visit CreativeTribes.co, and submit the brief Typeform signup form. Early members can join for free, so let all your friends, colleagues, and such know ? so you can connect up with them there as well, and tribe build together. And we’ll get an opportunity to meet up with them as well, which would be great! 🙂
Also, let me know if there’s anything I can do to help you in any way, whenever. Thank you, Deborah.
With warm regards,
Sean
Hi Miriam,
Great share 🙂 Enjoyed this overview of tribe building and got tons of value, thank you for the valuable tips from Sean!
Thanks Joan very glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you, Joan! Really happy to hear that you found the podcast helpful. Please see my above reply to Deborah as well, if you’d like to join us within the new #CreativeTribes community on Slack. We turn 3 weeks old tomorrow afternoon (GMT+2)! 🙂 Yet we’re already a fast-growing and truly global community of enterprising folk.
It would be a great pleasure to see you ? as well as your friends and colleagues ? within #CreativeTribes! Just visit CreativeTribes.co.
Thanks, again, Joan.
With warm regards,
Sean
Hi Miriam, I’d love to travel and work, and Sean doing this with his family is very inspiration. Thanks for sharing his journey so far
Me too Sarah, one day for sure.
Good morning, Sarah.
Thank you for leaving your above comment. Yes, my partner Mufidah and I have been working throughout our travels since leaving our home in the South East of England in May 2012. We each have a daughter, from previous relationships, in their twenties who are both living independently in the U.S.
If you’d like to simultaneously travel and work, there are a fast-growing number of us doing it, and lots of resources you’ll find online aimed at digital nomads, remote workers, online businesses, etc. Thus far, we’ve been traveling by car around Europe, though we’re thinking of heading to SE Asia as our next stop, or soonish anyway.
And, of course, let me know if I can help you in any way, should you decide to go the nomadic route. Or if I can be of help in any other way.
With warm regards,
Sean