Collaborate with a community expert who cares about your mission and vision as much as you do.

ready to make your community a hive of conversation and connection?

I believe community is the single best catalyst for learning and growing. Uniting people around a common interest enables them to inspire and encourage one another. Let me show you how to launch your knowledge community or bring new life into your existing course or membership. Connection sparks possibility!

Together, let’s create a digital corner of the world where deep connection, empathy, belonging (dare we say friendship?) provide the secret sauce to transform your mission into a movement.

READY TO GET STARTED? I’LL HELP YOU CLARIFY WHERE TO START AND WHAT TO PRIORITIZE.

Laura Zug, Community Manager 
Hi, I’m Laura!

YOUR COMMUNITY STRATEGIST

Intensely optimistic and with an insatiably curious mind, I love to sift through the details and focus on the big picture. I didn’t start out fearless, but a series of life events transformed me into the can’t stop-won’t-stop person I am today.

Where others see a problem, I see a puzzle. My approach is simple: piece by piece and never alone!

The Hive - A community for community builders

Looking for a community for community builders?

As an ambitious professional, you want to scale your community into a predictable source of recurring monthly revenue.

As a thoughtful human, you want to create a supportive space your members love.

The Hive is designed to help you do both. It’s created with the experience community strategist Laura Zug has used to help founders like you grow their offerings in a calm, stress-free, and profitable way.

Is this you?

You know you’ve developed a process that works.  You’ve figured out how to help people make progress. You’ve curated incredible information and expert knowledge.

That should’ve been the hard part. Growth should be easy now!

But, exactly how do you go from an overly-booked calendar to the leader of a tightly-connected group of people learning and growing together?

I'd love to make that easy!

You started your business because you had a vision to share with the world. I want to see that vision take off. 

Let’s nurture a community of people you can inspire and instruct. As they experience progress, they’ll become vocal advocates – sharing their stories and transforming your mission into a movement. 

Let’s Work Together

From the original concept to creating a thriving place of belonging and connection, I work with a variety of founders and entrepreneurs on the strategy of their communities. I couple my background in PR and marketing with my people-loving skills to drive member engagement, transformation, and retention.

COMMUNITY STRATEGY SESSION

Running your own community, but just need a little outside perspective? Feeling stuck and searching for clarity? Let’s tackle those issues and get you moving forward.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS

This step-by-step, personalized coaching program covers all the fundamentals and will make sure that your community is built on a solid foundation.

COMMUNITY COACHING

Already have a community, but disappointed with low engagement? I’ll help you turn your quiet community members into raving fans!

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

  • There is nothing quite like working with Laura: her vision, intelligence and enthusiasm all intersect to create knife-sharp insight, which makes the process of building an engaged community shorter and more effective than seems possible. I wonder if there are actually seven Lauras working behind the scenes to provide the background work and research, to cheer her clients on, to make suggestions and connections, and to get it all done.

    Lauren O’Malley, The Imperfect Network

  • Before working with Laura, I had a powerful program but my community engagement was nonexistent. In walks Laura! In a short amount of time, Laura developed a powerful strategy that was perfect for my community. Within days, my members were not only engaging with Laura’s content, but they were also engaging each other!

    Dr. Lynetta Willis, Triggered to Transformed

  • She brought an optimism, an encouragement, a confidence, and a sense of team that was incredibly supportive, especially during the launch of a membership. And, all of this together made working with Laura impactful and fun! Taking my business forward to the next step could've been overwhelming; she made it doable, possible, and a connected experience.

    Sonali Vongchusiri, Forward Together Parenting

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