Community builders, what's one struggle you face when building a community?

There is one! Resolve conflict and make people work with each other, even when they might not like each other, to achieve a common goal.

I don't know where to begin to become a community builder :(

Engaging with people and staying relevant while building and moving forward with your product. It's not easy to find balance between building your community & product as the same time. Both require consistency & patience.

I think the timeline for building a community is often overlooked, people want to create a slack channel or a facebook group and then expect to have an engaged group of people constantly chatting and messaging, overflowing with trust and support. Any meaningful relationship with people requires that you develop it over a period of time, with consistent effort. You can't hack connections with people. People don't enjoy feeling used. A community takes time, and trust within the community takes time to earn.

Mostly with - Low engagements - Encouragement with new initiatives or exercises - Selecting the perfect Platform and tools for communication

Where to prioritize your time and resources to make the biggest impact.

I view the task of community building similar to building a marketplace. When building a marketplace (e.g. AirBnb, Cragislist) it's known to be difficult because you have to satisfy both sides - buyer & seller, renter and rentee, etc. When building a community, though your audience might be seen as "members", you are essentially making sure someone posts something interesting and there are people who get interested in what is posted. This means as a community builder, you have to make sure that "interesting" things are always being initiated (e.g. engaging contents are posted, thought-provoking questions are asked etc) and then also there is enough audience for it to engage with. Having this perspective helped me and my tools (https://www.newsy.co, https://www.hellobox.co) to focus on different areas depending on where the growth is required. For example, you are getting good traffic but not many people are posting. It's probably time to invest in tools that allow people to easily post (build a feature to post a poll? ask a question? do an AMA with a famous person?). People are posting really interesting things, but not many people are engaging? Time to share it on social media? Hope that helps!

Mine is an offline trade...just initiated a whastapp community. My constant struggle has been how to keep engagement with customers with topics apart from limited product variety I have to offer or price & offers?

Finding the first persons that spread the word and influence others.

Building out the network of users.