The Digital Campfire

If you're reading this, you're engaged in an endeavor or aspire to do so. You're leaning into a passion project, side hustle, or even vocation that enhances your life through serving others.

The Creative on Purpose Handbook encourages applying yourself to your work with a 'go small' strategy. Taking daily steps developing a small offer for a small audience.

A new edge I'm playing with that enhances this process of doing intentional work with and for the right people is the 'digital campfire.' Creating online meet-ups for those I serve and seek to help more directly.

Many of us whose enterprise is delivered online see others building huge digital bonfires. These conflagrations blaze bigger and brighter on purpose to attract and gather crowds of strangers.

These pyres-for-profit are fueled by advertising and clickbait. Digital bonfires of this type are impersonal, shallow, and unsatisfying. They give you a roasting stick, but nothing to stick on the end of it to toast.

On the other hand, a digital campfire is an intimate, immediate, and fulfilling gathering. They're built for people whose attention, trust, and permission you've already earned. These events are intentionally designed meet-ups created on and for a purpose.

Some digital bonfires are for sharing ideas and insights, others for asking or answering questions, still others are for discussing ideas or to work on shared challenges. The possibilities are endless.

Stealing attention and transaction are not part of the digital campfire ethos. The point of a digital campfire is not a bait and switch operation intended to sell overpriced hotdogs and marshmallows. 

You're assembling to encourage connection, belonging, and enrollment. As the convener, you are the community organizer, or cultural guide.

The consequence of committing to consistently coordinating digital campfires for the Creative on Purpose community is profound. Enrollment in the Difference Maker Community and Coaching has increased steadily.

But that is a side effect, not the ultimate aim. The motivation is to see, hear, and connect those I serve and create inspiring, insightful, and fulfilling experiences for them.

Focus on the people you're already surrounded by and serve them generously and wholeheartedly by inviting them to congregate around a digital campfire. The effort will be as rewarding for you as for them.

What digital campfire can you organize today?

Scott Perry - Chief Difference Maker at Creative on Purpose.

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