William Cook

Interviews

The Argument for Smaller Communities

Often when we build communities, we're focused on building the biggest place possible for the most amount of people, but is that always the best thing for our communities and is that what they're destined to be? This has been a question looked at by many community experts over the

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Mental Health for Community Owners: Mental Health May

With Mental Health May here, it's important to reflect on how we look after ourselves as Discord and Reddit Community Managers.

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How Ruby Built a Multi-Community Platform

Learn how Ruby built a vibrant online community called Media Buyers Hub. Learn how she created it and grew it to be one of the top online communities.

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The Top 5 Online Courses for Community Managers

Learn what the top 5 courses for community managers are to help grow and manage your online community.

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Tim Skells - Online Community Builder

Learn how Tim Skells has built a Discord Server around his online business selling tutorials and guides on how to create businesses.

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How to Grow Your Community in 2023: The Complete Guide

Learn how to grow your Discord Community/Server in 2023 and gain thousands of members using listing sites, partnerships as well as paid services.

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New Year, New Community

With 2023 here, it's a good time to reflect on your community and how you can improve it in the new year.

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2022: A Year of Highs

2022 was quite the year for Advertise Your Server. In this post we reflect on the year and all the awesome people who helped make it what it was as well as our plans going forward to help grow communities, especially Discord Servers.

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How Adam Built a Community for his Audience

Learn how Adam built an online Instagram community for those dealing with Narcissistic Abuse.

Tutorials

Getting Set for Christmas

With Christmas around the corner, it's important to get your Discord Server ready for the festive season to keep your members engaged throughout the period.

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How Ruby Built Her Online Community

Learn how Ruby built her online community around media buyers can find matches for their needs on TikTok, Instagram and Twitter, not your average Discord Server.

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Learn how the #1 Fitness Discord Server used the YUR bot to engage their community

Learn how the #1 fitness discord server used the YUR bot to engage their community.

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Our Research Survey

We recently conducted a research survey on who our Discord Members were, understand the statistics here.

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AYS Growth: Find a Growth Strategy

AYS Growth is our brand new Discord Server Growth and Advertising Tool. Simply fill out the quiz, and our tool will tell you which growth method to try to grow your Discord Server.

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Grand Reveal! AYS Coaching!

In celebration of AYS’s fifth birthday, we are launching a new program here at AYS! This is a new revamp on our old Small Servers Program, however, we are renaming it, and changing the way we operate in order to provide a better service to our members. In short,

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Mental Health for Community Owners

As it’s Mental Health May, we thought it would be appropriate to put together some quick mental health tips for community owners. Here’s a video that we made a couple of weeks back on the topic. What is Mental Health and why is it important? Mental Health is

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When to outsource work for your Discord Server

With the growth of the Discord platform, there have been countless businesses and freelancers popping up ready to sell you a whole range of services. For example, here at AYS, we sell partnership services, dedicated channels, advertisement creation, listing optimizations, graphic development, server development, advertising services, and more. Obviously, we

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Are reaction roles and introductions right for your Discord Server?

As one of the top advertising servers for the various communities on Discord, the popular communication platform, you may realize we talk A LOT about fostering a strong community.  To quickly recap this, we focus on the element of building a community so heavily because communities are what makes your

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How to Create Engaging Members

Hey all, welcome back to another blog post! Today I wanted to talk a little bit about making engaging members on your online community. I recently recorded a video which is above that went over how to engage your Discord Members. Here’s a recap of the video: Events Events

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Discord updates their ToS, Community Guidelines and Privacy Policy - What does that mean for you?

Documents like a platform’s Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy are usually ever-evolving, and generally, you hear about changes, but let’s be honest, how many people actually look through them. You may have heard more than once… I personally got 3 emails about it (just on my main

Tutorials

Member Role Structure and Why it's Important

Written By JustVibin#1657 Introduction An average Discord server has about 10 roles or more, this number can usually fluctuate based on the topic, features and owner of the server. When setting up a server for the first time as a rookie server owner, it is one of the most

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How to structure a Discord Staff team

Growing a community is hard. You have to advertise to get members, find partnerships with other communities, network, host events, and so many more things that can feel overwhelming for a new server owner. That’s why having a staff team that supports you in this growth can help you

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Bans & Appeals

As a moderator or an owner of a server on Discord, the popular chatting app, you have the ability to control what happens in the server, what people are allowed to do, and who is allowed to join. It creates an interesting environment in which each community is different, and

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Having an appealing server design is crucial, and here's why

There are over 6.7 million Discord servers, and that number grows every day. Discord, the popular communication app, has evolved from a nerdy place for gamers, into what they attempt to be a place for everyone, and all groups. You see a lot of different categories on Discord, from

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Getting Started on Discord: Creating Servers

Getting Started on Discord: Creating Servers Welcome to Discord, a lovely place for gamers. Your friends probably have invited you here after they were sick of Skype and their intrusive adverts, or TeamSpeak was too costly for them. In this tutorial, you’ll be learning how to create a Discord