The most vibrant communities for marketers in 2023

Networking is essential for professional growth and learning from people with more experience than you and different perspectives. Networking also helps for publicizing your product or service, especially in small businesses or start-ups with limited or reduced budgets. But, with whom should we network? 📘

At Gretel, since we are developing a marketing tool, we are constantly growing and learning from other marketers like you in order to adapt and create valuable content and a valuable product for you.

Throughout 2022 and 2023, the marketing team has been joining many marketing communities and testing the best ones out there.

That's why in this article, we want to share with you a compilation of the most vibrant communities for marketers in 2022 and 2023 (FREE), along with some of our own comments and the level of interaction from each channel.

With this information, you can choose and test the ones that work best for you!

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Small note: marketing communities (no matter if they are free or paid) are channels where many marketers join to share their own experiences and where spam is usually controlled, filtered, and eliminated. If you join these communities, take advantage of their full potential by being genuine and providing value to each community. Only then will people see the value of your actions. They will be more open to connecting with you and be interested in your products or tools. This is a long-term strategy, but it will grow your network and help you learn faster!

Our favorite communities for marketers:

• Advertising Age (AdAge) (LinkedIn): This is a community that focuses on topics such as social media, digital media, CMO strategies, and data-driven marketing. Off-topic posts are removed, and promoting your company, product, or yourself is not allowed. Free to join.
• Sales & Marketing Alignment (LinkedIn): Topics relating to tips, tactics, and techniques to help sales and marketing teams work together. Content is provided by members. Free to join.
• Inbound Marketers- For Marketing Professionals (LinkedIn): A community for those who are looking to reach their best customers online through techniques like inbound marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), and social media. Free to join.
• Quora (Start-up Marketing + Growth) (Private): Quora platform enables you to learn about marketing and growth. Topics relating to strategies, tactics, learning, and more about digital marketing for start-ups are discussed. Free to join.
• GrowthMentor (Private): GrowthMentor is a community that gives its members the ability to book 1-on-1 calls with vetted growth marketing mentors. $120/month.
• SocialMediaMarekting (Reddit): A place for SMM professionals to share industry-relevant information, discuss best practices, and provide constructive critiques. Free to join.
• Digital Marketing: Turning online content into business value (Reddit): For digital marketing news, best practices, strategy, and learning. Free to join.
• The Marketing Collective (Discord): The Marketing Collective is a Discord server for marketers with 465 members. It has a live chat communication style. Free to join.
• Furlough Community (Discord): Brings professionals, brands, businesses, and start-ups together in one ecosystem. Helps entrepreneurs, professionals, and businesses to collaborate and support each other's growth. Free to join.
• Online Geniuses (Slack): Private Slack community for marketers. SEO and Digital Markeitng community. Free but you must sign up.
• Superpath (Slack): Superpath is a community where members can get answers to questions about salaries, job titles, management, content strategy, writing, editing, growth, and more. They also have a podcast. Free to join but you must be a member.
• The SEO Engineers (Facebook): A group for SEO experts. They can share valuable insights, join discussions on SEO, and more. Free to join.
• Learn Digital Marketing (by LearnToday.com) (Facebook): Private community with a focus on digital marketing. They claim to be the place where you can learn digital marketing from the best minds in digital marketing. Free to join.
• Link Building Collab & Exchange Community (Facebook): In this group, they exchange links from real websites and help one another. They also discuss tactics such as news around link building, SEO content, and organic traffic. Free to join.

Download the list of marketing communities!

Access to the list of almost 100 communities for marketers for FREE and find the best one for you.

Download for free

If we missed any channel or community, write to us at hello@gretel.co and we will add it!