“Members have told me, ‘I'm getting rid of my social media and spending more time here. The quality of engagement, the supportive mood — it’s far and away a better place to spend my time.’”

“We were selling everything through our website store that hadn’t been updated since 2017. Folks would place an order, check out, and then be emailed a zip file of Powerpoint presentations. They’d have to print their tests, scan them and email it back into the company for results. It was …

“Once Dr. Julie discovered Mighty Networks, I got this incredibly enthusiastic call and she said, ‘I’ve found the answer. This is what we have to do.”

“We’ve been open for 10 months now on Mighty Networks, and we’ve had more members join in that amount of time than we did in two and a half years on our previous website.”

“It was just this runaway train that took on its own life. And it was the catalyst for me launching a full-scale business, just based on that response that I got.”

“The NCIDQ was providing some online resources, but they were pretty minimal. The only other option was to attend a live workshop in your local area. But you had to have a specific number of people together. And if you didn’t get that number the workshop was canceled. It just …

“I can spend all day long on all the other social networks. And as much as I would love to do that, it’s not what keeps the lights on.”

“We have more quality engagement with 325 paid members than 560,000 followers on Facebook.”

“It was getting really bad for my health. I was ruining myself every day. It wasn’t scalable, and I knew that something needed to change.”

"I have officially launched! I wouldn't be this far along without you and my Mighty Network wouldn't be as awesome. I made my first $1,000 last night!"

“The first one we did, we thought about 50 people would come. And I remember thinking, ‘That’ll be a good number. I can’t be embarrassed by that.’ And it ended up being 500 or 600 people total. It was such great energy.”

“I was selling some things on Etsy, dipping into online business, and I loved it. And this was before anyone was really doing online business. Back when you didn’t meet people online, and you didn’t tell people that you had friends that you only knew from the internet.”

“Boston has a reputation of being not that welcoming, and a lot of people of color have a hard time feeling like they belong. It’s hard to find a community here, period.”

“I kept adding these different things at different times. I tried to bring in some plugins to allow people to have boards and a forum for more of a community feel. But we’d always end up reconfiguring. It was a technology nightmare getting things to stay working. And it never …

“We launched the Category Design Academy Mighty Pro app in November 2023, and it doubled our revenue that year.”