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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:
1️⃣ 𝐒𝐨, ѕυвмαrιnє 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐭:
➜ Is experienced in Community Relations and Public Speaking
➜ Has mastered the art of Marketing and Growth Strategizing
➜ Has great communication skill and can Manage a community
➜ ѕυвмαrιnє 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.
2️⃣ ѕυвмαrιnє 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 "Babyhat" 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦,
➜ Because they are currently at just 200 members, and he can help 10x their Number
➜Because they lack Valuable Contents to put out to help educate their Community
➜They 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,
3️⃣ 𝐇𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬
Now, the Dev is now interested in what ѕυвмαrιnє has to offer and he asks ѕυвмαrιnє,
"What can you do to Solve these problems?"
ѕυвмαrιnє 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 ѕυвмαrιnє,
𝐖𝐡𝐲?
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.
𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐡ow ѕυвмαrιnє 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟,
Project's Problems:
➜ Because they are currently at just 200 members, and he can help 10x their Number
➜Because they lack Valuable Contents to put out to help educate their Community
➜They also don't host Spaces to help connect
𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞:
➺ 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
➺ Share a bit of your Strategy (hosting Community events and Setting contents in place to educate them)
➺ Use numerical achievements too and share your PoW in solving those problems.
➺ Make sure not to state a role that they might have on the team.
𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐔𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐢𝐬:
➺ The Dev finds you valuable cause you aren't looking for a role but you are solving his problems
➺ The Dev no longer sees you as an extra bill because you are not going for a role that is filled up already
➺ 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