๐๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐/ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ก!!
Learn to Advertise your Value than Your Job Title!!
Be a Problem Solver not a Role Seeker,
It is good to Identify yourself with titles like Moderator, Writer, Marketer e.t.c
But then they have a way of putting you in a box especially when pitching to a Dev you want to work with.
Here is what I mean,
Let's take a Community Manager named Maliel as our Case Study:
1๏ธโฃ ๐๐จ, ัฯ
ะฒะผฮฑrฮนnั ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ๐๐ญ:
โ Is experienced in Community Relations and Public Speaking
โ Has mastered the art of Marketing and Growth Strategizing
โ Has great communication skill and can Manage a community
โ ัฯ
ะฒะผฮฑrฮนnั is also a content Writer, So he has an edge over other Community Managers,
since he can create Contents for his project without them hiring a Writer.
2๏ธโฃ ัฯ
ะฒะผฮฑrฮนnั ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ "Babyhat" ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ฏ๐๐ฌ ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง ๐จ๐๐๐๐ซ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฆ,
โ Because they are currently at just 200 members, and he can help 10x their Number
โBecause they lack Valuable Contents to put out to help educate their Community
โThey also don't host Spaces to help connect with their Community better
which will affect the quality of their Community's Support and Engagement,
But he encounters a little problem, which is that they already have a Community Manager.
and he intends to go in for that role in the community,
3๏ธโฃ ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ ๐๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ก ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฏ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฒ ๐ข๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐๐๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ฌ
Now, the Dev is now interested in what ัฯ
ะฒะผฮฑrฮนnั has to offer and he asks ัฯ
ะฒะผฮฑrฮนnั,
"What can you do to Solve these problems?"
ัฯ
ะฒะผฮฑrฮนnั responds with this:
"I am A community Manager, I do xoxoxo and I help solve xoxoxo"
After waiting for the Dev's response, The Dev finally replies with a sad message of not being able to work with ัฯ
ะฒะผฮฑrฮนnั,
๐๐ก๐ฒ?
Because The Project already has a Community Manager,
so they don't see the need to hire him, he is just an extra bill,
Who hires two Community Managers at just 200 members by the way?!
Now, this is what happens to most of Us, because we go there asking for titles/roles first,
and that often puts us in a box especially when the project already has someone filling that role,
So when Marketing yourself, be big on marketing what you can offer than your traditional role.
๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ ๐กow ัฯ
ะฒะผฮฑrฮนnั ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐,
Project's Problems:
โ Because they are currently at just 200 members, and he can help 10x their Number
โBecause they lack Valuable Contents to put out to help educate their Community
โThey also don't host Spaces to help connect
๐๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐๐ก ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐:
โบ First take a problems you found and associate it with the solution you have to offer,
I would love to help build your community by doing Xoxoxo
โบ Share a bit of your Strategy (hosting Community events and Setting contents in place to educate them)
โบ Use numerical achievements too and share your PoW in solving those problems.
โบ Make sure not to state a role that they might have on the team.
๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ:
โบ The Dev finds you valuable cause you aren't looking for a role but you are solving his problems
โบ The Dev no longer sees you as an extra bill because you are not going for a role that is filled up already
โบ You won't put that other person's job at risk,
since you aren't requesting for his role.
For those that have experienced this, you have now learnt how to go about it next time,
for others that haven't you now have fore-knowledge about it,
so I hope this was helpful to you