Monetizing a community isn’t just about revenue—it’s about building spaces where relationships and connection are the core value. And we at miingl believe spontaneity fosters genuine connections that power community building.
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It doesn’t matter if you’re a community building veteran with the scars and trophies to prove it or a novice trying to navigate this multifaceted environment, we’re here to help you learn and grow to build your ideal community – and profit along the way.
We hope you know, but let’s make it clear: building a community is about a lot more than just asking people for money. In fact, that’s probably one of the easiest parts of the job.
It’s about building value, and doing so every single week so members continue to justify their investment. If you’re not committed, don’t expect your members to be either.
In this article, we’ll teach you why you should monetize your community, and some of the best methods to make it happen.
This is a lot of work, so if you’re looking for a hack or a shortcut on your supposed path to online riches, this is not the article for you. Community building takes focus, resolve and creativity. You may be able to apply a little AI magic to trim some of the rough edges, but don’t expect to dribble out predictable rehashed content about your community’s binding elements and suddenly rake in the benjamins.
You got to hustle and then make it all happen again tomorrow.
If that sounds like something you’re up for, let’s dig in and carve your niche.
Why you need to monetize your community
Here are some of the reasons you should monetize a community.
- Because Hosting is work: At the most fundamental level, you should monetize your community because what you’re doing is work. Bringing together people around a shared interest is hard and requires commitment. If you’re adding value to people’s lives, they should be willing and, in many cases, happy to compensate you for putting in the work.
- Stable revenue: Pay the rent and then some. Hosts who monetize can unlock predictable revenue – which is amazing for any brand or creator. Getting your community locked in for even a few dollars a month can add up quickly. I belong to two online communities – one for author Brett Easton Ellis and the other for geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan, and both add incredible value to my life. And they make decent coin for it.
- Build your brand: Brand is about how you’re different and how people perceive you. Your online community can create loyalty and connection, and they also boost revenue and retention.
1. Paid Memberships: Membership Doesn’t Mean Monopoly
Pro Insight: Paid memberships drive revenue and community growth through recurring fees—some estimate that the average is $48 per month. We suspect that number is on the high side thanks to some pricey mastermind type organizations, but even a community charging $6 per month can quickly create a stable revenue stream.
miingl Approach: Treat the monthly tickets as a gateway to community—not a content silo. Open your lobby before sessions for brief, spontaneous meet-and-greets.
Let members cluster freely.
The result? Higher perceived value, more personalized connection—and sticky retention.
The click-to-cluster feature is what sets miingl apart and how members will justify their loyalty to your community. By connecting spontaneously to new members each meeting, they will affirm their passions and expand their networks.
This is the heart of our community and why we’re so bullish on spontaneity as the center of our universe.
2. Cohort-Based Live Courses: Learn Together, Connect Spontaneously
Pro Insight: Live cohort courses are premium, actionable, and can be sold with recordings after .
miingl Approach: Host courses that start with brief group intros, then invite members into micro-clusters to explore, discuss, or troubleshoot in real time.
No awkward zoom breakout transitions—just seamless, on-the-fly clustering.
This fosters both engagement and spontaneous learning. Learning and expanding is the oxygen to your community, and you must build learning courses into all your community efforts.
The Broadcasting and Announcements features in miingl make it the ideal platform for lead trainings.
- Hosts can initiate broadcasts to share their video and audio with all participants while allowing attendees to cluster and converse among themselves.
- Announcements can be made to interrupt ongoing interactions, ensuring that all participants receive important updates or instructions from the host.
- The host has complete control during broadcasts, allowing them to manage audience engagement and interaction effectively.
Pre-Recorded Courses: Blend Asynchronous and Community Energy
Pro Insight: Pre-recorded courses are scalable and flexible. Make your courses available whenever your community members can find time to connect.
miingl Approach: Wrap evergreen courses in ongoing “drop-in” sessions or weekly “open office” moments. Participants watch at their own pace but still cluster up for spontaneous Q&As or peer trouble-shooting.
The behavior transforms isolated viewing into social learning. Learning can happen in real time and on demand so you can meet your community when and where they are able.
Sell Products That Serve Community Needs
Pro Insight: Products—digital or physical—can amplify brand affinity and revenue. No one knows your community like you do, and that positions you well to create products that speak to your unique connection. Find the common thread that connects you and create products that bind. And then sell.
miingl Approach: Create products that naturally integrate into conversation clusters.
Example: A workbook that syncs with live sessions—promote it before group discussions begin.
Or physical kits that participants unpack together in a spontaneous group demo session.Connection enhances value, and clusters build energy and enthusiasm as members engage in candid and spontaneous conversations around your community.
Host Virtual Events That Feel Organic
Pro Insight: Virtual events are scalable, flexible revenue generators. Get the group together for something larger than a weekly meet up or a training session. Find a reason to celebrate and a cause to rally around. The more organic the event, the more likely your community binds in the glow.
miingl Approach: From quick “skill sprints” to full-scale summits, lean into celebrating with virtual events that only YOU can organize around the passion that binds your community. From cat lovers to Asian cuisine aficionados, muscle car enthusiasts to foreign film lovers, virtual communities are as varied and as eclectic as they are passionate.
Miingl makes it easy to rally them to your cause – and to create authentic relationship building events.
Attendees cluster up for breakout chats mid-session—maybe around a keynote or case study. Host hops organically between groups. By the end, they’ve not just listened—they’ve connected.
Monetize via session tickets, VIP clustering, or bundled access.
Host Live In-Person Events That Push Connection
Pro Insight: In-person events bring unmatched energy and revenue potential. Get on the road, book a ballroom at the roadside hotel or go full fancy with a downtown suite overlooking the historic statues celebrating long forgotten wars and bring your community together annually or a few times a year.
Miingl Approach: Turn an in-person event into a hybrid experience by enabling live clustering in the virtual lobby.
Remote and local participants can cluster together spontaneously — for coffee chats or hallway convos. That’s what building a community feels like—and it opens doors to hybrid ticketing models.
Not everyone will be able to attend the live event, but simply hosting one shows your audience your committed to connecting every way possible. Create the miingl annex that allows your community to blend in person with virtual for a hybrid event that captures the unique spirit of your community.
Social Tokens: Premium Connection in a Token
Pro Insight: Token-gated communities let buyers invest in ownership and premium access.
Miingl Approach: Tokens unlock not just content — but access to “founder clusters,” recurring VIP chats, or exclusive learning circles.
Spontaneous surprise clusters (drop-in game nights, office hours) become token-holder privileges—maintaining connection AND exclusivity.
What are Social Tokens?
They are a unique digital currency specific to your community, offering exclusive access, and even voting rights, and invites to special experiences. That’s the essence of social tokens. They incentivize engagement, reward loyalty, and create a sense of shared ownership within a community.
Social tokens unlock several benefits for building vibrant communities:
Increased Engagement: Token holders feel invested and participate more actively in discussions, events, and governance decisions.
Exclusive Access: Tokens can unlock special content, early access to products, or VIP experiences, fostering a sense of belonging and value.
Shared Ownership: Token holders feel like they own a piece of the community, increasing loyalty and commitment.
Decentralized Governance: Tokens can empower community members to vote on decisions, fostering a sense of ownership and shared responsibility.
Monetization: Creators and brands can earn revenue from token sales, reinvesting it back into the community and fueling its growth.
You have to get creative on your road to monetization and social tokens are part of the new realm of digital currency that can be another avenue to creating value for you and your community members.
1:1 Coaching: Fuse Group & Personal Growth
Mighty Insight: Coaching ehnacees the value proposition and leverages community trust. Are you someone with real and unique knowledge to share that your community members will be willing to pay for?
Are you more fun than a barrel of drunk monkeys on holiday in Ibiza during the week they honor primates?
Can you teach others how to bottle that mojo and let it loose on demand?
Or can you fire a pistol with Bond-like accuracy from 80 yards while lunging between train cars?
Or maybe you’re just the most important thing in the world: a terrific parent.
People are always looking to improve and coaching is powerful way to monetize your value to your community.
Miingl Approach: Run coaching sessions that flow between private and semi-public clusters.
A typical 1:1 ends with the coach dropping into a small peer cluster for Q&A or swapping notes.
Members get private time—and a peek behind the curtain—without breaking flow.
Charge session-based or subscription-based. In short, there’s as many different ways to make the coaching hustle ring the register as there are to miingl.
9. Consulting & Speaking: Elevate Your Thought Leadership
Mighty Insight: Speaking and consultancy deepen brand authority and are a nice way to build trust across your community. The more you’re seen as a leader in your space, the higher you can command for your expertise.
Simply leading the community and committing yourself to it every day are significant first steps, and public speaking is the next logical step to broaden your appeal and ensure you’re viewed as the authority in your industry.
Miingl Approach: Integrate spontaneous cluster chats around your talks — e.g. “launch cluster room” post-speech for deeper dives. Invite third-party experts into your community sessions to deliver even more value and connection.
Consultants can offer high-ticket tier access where clients join expert clusters or speak at prescheduled “clinic” sessions.
This builds visibility — and connection.
10. Affiliate Offers & Partnerships: Build Trust, Not Noise
Mighty Insight: Affiliate sales can diversify revenue and are a popular way to monetize your brand and trust. And they can keep selling long after you’ve flicked the switch to enjoy your beauty sleep.
This is a very crowded space with a lot of smart competitors, so you will have to sharpen your pencil as you think about your unique offering and how affiliates will embrace your value.
Miingl Approach: Instead of posting a link, create a spontaneous “demo cluster” for recommended tools.
Invite affiliate partners into clusters to present live, answer questions, and help members evaluate if it’s a good fit for them. This only works if you truly use and genuinely appreciate the products and services you’re promoting, but we hope that’s the case either way. If so, your authentic pitch should be appreciated by your audience.
It’s far more authentic than static posts and it drives conversions through connection, ideally through spontaneous conversations and virtual meetings that brighten the lives of your community members.
Buyer beware: your community will sniff you out from a country mile if you’re starting your community simply to run infomercials. We all have to make a living, and selling is among the most time-honored if least appreciated facets of our economy, but that doesn’t mean it should be your rai·son d’ê·tre.
11. Leading Masterminds: Peer-Led Momentum
Mighty Insight: Group coaching and masterminds combine community and guidance.
They are somewhat linked to coaching and consulting, but are couched as group event first where people realize part of perceived value is connecting with like-minded community members while they learn whereas coaching and consulting is normally a more transactional enterprise in which value is far more vital than networking or even building a relationship.
Miingl Approach: Structure recurring “mastermind pods” where members rotate meeting leaders.
Allow unscripted clustering within sessions — strategy huddles, peer bounce-back.
Monetize via subscription tiers: basic access vs. mastermind-cluster access, or backstage cluster invites.
As always, you’re ability to monetize is limited only by your creativity and business savvy. Miingl makes is easy for you to forge your community, leaving the clever monetization and pricing models to you.
12. Social Media Content Strategy (Content → Monetization → Community)
Mighty Insight: Consistent content builds reach, but monetization happens in community space .
Miingl Approach: Use short-form clips to advertise cluster-based mini-events—“Join me to unpack this topic; we’ll cluster up live.” Clips drive excitement and attendance, clusters drive conversion. Repurpose those recordings as gated content. Rinse and repeat.
13. Member-Led Monetization (Community Flywheel)
Mighty Insight: Members create content, refer peers, and add value .
Miingl Approach: Encourage members to host their own clusters—think “office hours,” “skill share,” or “peer support” rooms. These can be free or ticketed within the community. As more hosts emerge, the platform naturally deepens engagement—and monetization. You take a cut, they share value.
14. Choose Your Platform—Build the Right Framework
Mighty Insight: Community tools need features like payments, events, analytics .
Miingl Approach: Miingl integrates payments, clustering, events, recordings, and analytics in one cohesive setting. That means no awkward tech stack. And because it’s built around spontaneity, community-led moments become central—and profitable.
15. Referral & Viral Growth: Sparked by Spontaneity
Mighty Insight: Good communities grow through member advocacy .
Miingl Approach: Moments matter in viral growth—post-cluster energy, aha conversations, shared breakthroughs. Miingl makes those shareable: after a conversation, participants can invite friends or snapshot cluster summaries. This transforms passive invites into live experience samplers—and new paid enrollments.
Why Miingl’s Model Works
- Revenue → Real Relationships
Monetization is tied to connection, not broadcast. Every dollar spent brings someone deeper into conversation. - Spontaneous Offers Beat Scheduled Pitches
Rather than selling via static email sequences, members discover value in live moments—leading organically into upsells. - Community-Centric vs Leader-Centric
While leaders host, members drive. That equals lower churn, higher referrals, and real peer-powered growth. - Analytics That Reflect Engagement — Not Views
Miingl tracks clustering behavior, message heatmaps, and session engagement—not just signups or impressions—so you can tune for real-time connection.
A Miingl Monetization Workflow
- Launch Paid Membership – includes weekly “open lobby” sessions.
- Publish a Course – wrap with live cohort + 4 follow-up clustering rooms.
- Sell Products – bundle digital guides or kits featured in “unboxing” clusters.
- Host Live & Virtual Events – incorporate real-time splitting into panels or peer groups.
- Invite Member-Hosted Sessions – revenue share on ticketing or prestige.
- Use Content to Funnel to Clusters – short content drives live cluster RSVP.
- Iterate Based on Analytics – double-down on models where spontaneous clusters led to conversions.
Final Take
Mighty Networks gives you the what—the monetization options. Miingl delivers the how—through spontaneous, merit-driven community formats. With Miingl, monetization isn’t a hard sell—it’s a natural extension of real connection. Your members don’t just join—they connect, co-create, and stay. And when people feel that, they pay—and advocate—for more.
Monetize your community the human way: let connection, not selling, lead.
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