Is SEO an essential skill for community managers?

Curious to know what would be the base salary range for Project Managers in IT implementations in the Houston, TX area. 14 yrs total IT experience and 5 yrs as a PM.

Anyone have issues with D BG checks taking forever?

What’s the best way for me to have unlimited data/international calling when I travel to the EU this year? I usually just pay the $10/day Verizon charges me if I use my phone but data is capped or it slows down at some point if you go beyond a specific gigabyte.

Looking to get into SaaS sales but my experience is in construction and fine furniture (I was a sales manager and was able to lead my team of 4 people to consistently hit 450k monthly targets). I did that for almost 2 years before making the switch. I miss sales, though. Does anyone have any connections to companies looking? I have also considered a sales analyst role considering that I am moderately versed in Salesforce and have worked both the customer facing and sales generating side. TIA!

10 years sales experience selling eyewear to eye doctors. If I were to transition to tech would I have to start as a BDM? I think that would be a pay cut for me. Thanks

Are y’all finding your white male bosses to be incompetent as hell or is just me? And they will milk you for all your brilliance and try to squeeze every ounce of labor out of you.

Hi All,

I have recently received an offer letter from Finicity - MasterCard company. My job role is the Senior technician support role with Level 8.

I am holding an offer of 12.2LPA having 4.4 yrs of experience in Citrix Administration.
MasterCard is offering me 13.5LPA as fixed pay and 7% as variable pay.

Not ready to negotiate more, should I accept the offer?

Anyone have any experience with a good executive coach for a challenging personality? Please help! (Looking for a friend. Quite seriously.)

Hi all! ISO short term sublease (Dec. 27th - Jan. 1st). If anyone knows of anything, would appreciate a heads up! Thanks :)

How do you choose which production company to work with? What are the characteristics you look for when making your decision?

Can someone at WING (GREY’s Multicultural agency) tell us who’s leading the agency now that Pepe Aguilar left? He was the CEO + CCO.

Any upcoming law conferences/events?

What’s the single most touching act of kindness you ever received in this job, if you ever did get one?

Any designers with ~4 years experience in nyc looking? Agency side but work is for a finance client. DM me for info and I’ll pass along books.

Gatsby - In the last two months, I've met with two shops who build everything with it. Is it *that* good, or is it another maintenance nightmare in the making?

Talking about the impact of covid on family life is big in our community, but politics is strictly prohibited. Just the mention of covid when certain members are around and it turns to politics. Time to ban covid talk completely?

Nobody asked, but here I share the best 5 tools that will ease your job as a community manager:

👉 Canva
👉 Hootsuite
👉 Google Drive
👉 CapCut
👉Qoob Stories

Would you add or change something?

What resources would you suggest for learning about A/B testing in a community context?

I love watching users go from lurkers to enthusiastic active participants. What do you find the most rewarding part of being a community manager?

Do you have a separate exclusive community for your most loyal users? How is it working out?

What is the best way to get early adopters participating in the community before officially launching it? We want it to look like a lively place before new folks pop in.

What kind of plans/services do you offer to your clients as a freelancing social media manager?

Am I the only one who gets offers from clients with crazy unrealistic expectations about how fast a page can grow? Like no, sorry, I can’t get you 100,000 new TikTok followers within a month.

What questions should I ask a candidate during an interview for a community manager job?

Does anyone here know anyone who has left their CM role? What was the next step in their career?

Where do you find inspiration for topics to seed the community with?

What prompted you to do a complete community overhaul? Did it pay off?

Moderators/managers for virtual communities actually have a pretty difficult job because the rules for posting have to be interpreted, there are very few hard and fast absolutes in this profession

We’re looking to implement incentives to encourage community engagement. We’re going to test both material incentives (product) and good ol’ fashion recognition. Which one do you think will do better?

How long do you give an initiative before accepting it didn’t work out and it’s time to try something else?

I love the engagement part of the job but hate the data. Do companies ever hire just community moderators?

Is community management a stressful job?

Is there a need for freelance community managers?

It’s amazing the power that asking easy-to-answer questions can have on a community. It’s a great way to get nervous users more comfortable with engaging.

I’ve started a new job and though they have a community, it has been stagnant for a long time. Would you face the change directly with a “we’re back!” style post, or just increase the activity without acknowledging the absence?