#246: How to Build a B2B Community of 100k Members From Scratch

In this video, I sit down with Jared Robin, the founder of revgenius, to unpack how he built a 100,000-plus member community by staying obsessively close to his market and betting on relationships over platforms.We cover:His messy road from FedEx sales rep to running a fashion magazine to launching revgenius during Covid, plus why he thinks audiences are now table stakes for real power.If you are trying to build a community, grow an audience, or run go-to-market the human way instead of blasting spam-filled outbound, this one's for you.Tune in and learn:How giving away real value at scale, doing things a little differently, and treating market feedback as a live loop can quietly compound into something way bigger than a transaction.-----------------------------------------------------🔗 Links + CTAs-----------------------------------------------------🎓 Join our Demand Generation Program: https://theb2bplaybook.com/demand-generation-course 🧠 Learn how to drive revenue across your organisation with CRO School: https://theb2bplaybook.com/cro-school 💼 Need help running your own LinkedIn Thought Leadership Ads? https://theb2bplaybook.com/linkedin-ads-agency -----------------------------------------------------SUBSCRIBE to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theb2bplaybook SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter: https://theb2bplaybook.com/newsletter GET the latest CONTENT: https://theb2bplaybook.com/-----------------------------------------------------Follow Jared on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredrobin-----------------------------------------------------CHAPTERS:00:00 Intro00:42 Welcome and guest introduction02:29 From FedEx to fashion: Jared's early career03:56 Building the fashion magazine on zero budget09:49 Losing his job in Covid and starting on LinkedIn11:05 The DM group that became revgenius13:22 Direct market feedback and building relationships15:32 Relationship selling lessons from FedEx19:14 Long-term horizons vs short-term sales metrics22:01 How the market misread Predictable Revenue24:43 Ad break: B2B demand generation agency25:20 New reps, SDR roles, and lost resilience29:36 First principles and closed circuit selling31:16 Bringing fundamentals back to revgenius34:33 The goal: community media over another Pavilion38:19 Ad break: B2B incubator course39:31 Why Jared became a marketer43:56 One-to-one marketing and the dream list play46:13 Live market reports and the new media project49:49 Closing thoughts on people-driven business51:12 Wrap-up and outro