Your pop community is your test kitchen.

A test kitchen is where the magic happens. Multiple stations. Multiple cooks. Multiple attempts at perfection. Each recipe gets tested and refined until it's ready.

Your pop community is your test kitchen. Most community builders get this wrong. They see early success and immediately try to make it permanent. "People loved personalized name tags, so every event will have them." Turning temporary into permanent is a mistake. It wastes your most precious ingredients: time, money, and spontaneity.

Your test kitchen is where community recipes come to life. It's where your most passionate people gather. Where ideas get tested, refined, and tested again. Where experiments happen in real time. Reward your early taste testers. Engage them in something special. Let them be part of the development process.

Work in public. Share your recipes. Talk about your process. Let people see behind the curtain. Most importantly, listen to the feedback.

Primetime for you isn't a permanent community. It's your audience. It's the people on the outside looking in, wanting to be part of something. So share what happened. Explain why it was special. Make it clear how your audience can be part of something like this in the future. Create urgency around future opportunities.

The best test kitchens don't serve the same dish twice. They're too busy creating the menu for tomorrow. Keep testing.

Keep refining. Keep cooking.