12. How to Use Customer Feedback
 to Grow your Community with Alexis Dean

Alexis Dean is the Founder and Lead Steward of The Dovetail Community, a global organization of women on a mission to advance female entrepreneurship through generosity, collaboration, education, and unforgettable shared experiences like Dovetail Summit and Camp Dovetail.

With seventeen years of experience and education as a professional facilitator, trainer, consultant, educator, and speaker, she has worked in 21 countries with more than 100 corporate teams, non-profits, and school faculties.

She is a lover out of the outdoors and has one of the biggest hearts I know.

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• Everything is a long game. It's a marathon and not a sprint
• Sustainable businesses grow sustainably
• Business mistakes often come from trying to do things too quickly
• Everything needs to be in a contract
• A great community wants to see each other rise
• Make yourself available for really honest feedback
• A business should evolve from your customer feedback
• Live events should be hands-on and experiential
• If it's your event, you need to be face-to-face with your attendees, so hire to have people run the behind-the-scenes
• Nature is the biggest form of inspiration
• How biomimicry inspires Alexis's creative moments
• Big trees have strong roots, which can weather any storm
• Allow yourself to be bored
• You need to say no more than you say yes

Resources:

• Instagram: @alexis.dean
• Website: Camp Dovetail
• Tools: Monday, WhatsApp, Facebook

Being a WILD woman means

"To think differently and openly. To not compete with other women. Wildness is openness and the freedom to see the world differently."

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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.

She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.

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