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for those thinking about becoming a campaign manager:

If you ever got the chance to manage a campaign, what would you do to keep the forum a good place? A lot of us start as posters, join campaigns and stuff, but some might end up becoming managers at some point, right?

If you've already proven yourself through quality posts, trading, or whatever, how would you handle the responsibility of managing a campaign? Feel free to throw out ideas on how to make the forum better... kind of like an interview, but chill and open-minded.

Also, this could be useful for campaign managers right now, whether in Bitcoin or altcoin signature campaigns, they might pick up some tips! ;D

Campaign managers will not benefit from this. But it can be in the other way. I mean you and other people can benefit from what they post on this thread.

No other thing that is important to campaign managers than to get good posters and well known people which are definitely also good posters. They still also read go through their participants posts which can be weekly to make sure that they are posting good

Many are already doing such. I doubt they would accept a person into their campaign without investigating their post history and many do remove individuals that usually starts going against forums rule.
If I do become a campaign manager,  I can make a difference by doing what's expected of my job.   

I will not accept users who only got merit from local boards or if they got it from global boards, I will pay attention with the users who sent merit, I will exclude the merit from local friends. Except, the goal from the campaign is to promote in local boards, then I don't care who sent the merit.

Anyway why this thread posted in Meta? Service Discussion is more appropriate about this discussion.

Imagine a person lives in Spain, speaks only Spanish and Catalan, but is a great content creator and local board contributes (suppose guy is good at coding). Why he should be not welcomed in your campaign?


How will your find out who friends with who?

This is a good question though I didn't expect it here. 8)

Well, I would like to focus on two changes in this regard, and thankfully, some campaign managers are already observing one, which is accepting my campaign participants through their true quality posting and not their merit amount. I will almost completely disregard the merit rating in my selection even though it will help in a way but won't be the main criteria for selection.

Second, it's about the payment: My payment rating will not be the same for the same ranks. The forum's lower-ranked users (Senior members, for instance) may earn more than the higher-ranked ones (Legendary members, for instance), it depends on the quality and not the ranking of the forum. Many attained higher ranks but still write low/average quality posts, tell me, why should they earn more than the best quality posters even if they are ranked more than them? I advocate fairness and if you get the high rank by luck or whatever means, you need to justify what I pay you with quality. For this, I would have my special rating sheet that reflects the weekly score/rating of the participant, which will in turn reflect the true amount they earn that week.

I was about to move it when I read your suggestion, but it looks like the mod already took care of it before I could, so thanks, mod!

Let's keep the discussion going, especially for those aiming to be a campaign manager, or even just consider this as a hypothetical question.

In all honesty, I'd leave it to them. I am not wanting to be on their shoes and the competition there is tough already and them being more experienced and knows the ins and outs of running a campaign and doing marketing stuff for these projects will have better results because they know what the project needs. While in theory some aspiring ones will have their good thoughts on how to run it through them but, the reality is totally different compared to the actual management of it.

You can interview campaign managers so that you get knowledge of their experience. It's obviously a skill and they learned it thought work, study and personal development.

This is a nice question you just asked at O.P, as this will serve as a reference source to intending Campaign managers, since our existing managers are already living the lives of successful management through their respective campaigns we see on the forum. So on that note, if I'm opportune to be campaign manager, what I will do is to be as transparent as possible, and likewise, ask my participants make either a bi-weekly or monthly review/report about the project they are promoting, as by doing that, it will help my campaign participants get to interact with the the casino or exchange to know more, and make suggestions, most especially if it is a new project.

I don't think anyone will drop something useful to this post because those that are managers or interested in becoming one already have their respective threads in the service board, detailing what they offer. Repeating same here is something I considered unnecessary unless for the sake of those with such threads to answer questions regarding what they say they offer, even that two can still be discussed in the various threads.

The campaign managers we have on the forum are doing a good job, i am talking about signature campaign managers, i don't know too much about bounty managers, because i have not been in a bounty campaign before. I cannot think of any difference to be made, the job is all about getting good posters that are very active on the forum and that's what the managers do, people who even want to become campaign managers need to take one or two tips from them and not the other way round.

Each of us has a different personality. So usually managing a campaign will be different individually. For me, I have managed a couple of campaigns, but lately, due to busy time, I can't communicate with projects. I always tried to select constrictive and well-reputed posters. Never recruited shitposters for my campaign. Giving the best service to the projects was my priority, because if they don't get a good return, then they won't run any campaigns on the forum. So each manager should be highly professional. Most managers have some common standards, like avoiding shitposters and red-trusted users. If an untrusted person represents a project, then you won't get a return on investment. 

It is interesting that many users take the job of a campaign manager lightly and as simple. The simplicity of this job is probably the reason why we currently have only 3-4 users (of several million registered accounts) who have active campaigns in management.

Campaign owners increasingly want to have insight and to influence the direction of the campaign, so the manager often has very limited freedom of decision-making. In such conditions, they are probably trying to make a compromise between a good campaign, satisfied owners and campaign participants. There is often no room for innovation and improvement of the forum.

In the end, business owners who decide to run signature campaigns, don't care much about the forum, but about their business. And the first time they are dissatisfied, they will withdraw from there. We've seen it many times.

Its not easy to become a campaign manager;; the responsiblity is just so huge and you always put your reputation online for every project that you are going to work with.

A campaign manager should be flexible and should tailor his service based on the needs of the client, so its important that you have the answers for all your client's needs.

And he should have a strong character to answer all the questions from the clients, from the community, and from his team, Focus, flexibility, and fairness, I guess, are what I will try to implement as a campaign manager.

"No one is above the law/rules" apply it on any campaign you will manage in the future. Choose participants who will likely follow forum rules and will not cause any kind of damages by checking their posts, activity (response, behaviour, principles, etc), contributions, reputations, etc. (there is lots to mention)

Or why not do away with merit altogether? After all, merit doesn't necessarily signify quality of post. I'm actually happy that some signature campaigns don't have explicit rules as regards merit. 5 or 10 merits in the last 120 days? What difference does it make? Even users with more than a hundred don't automatically mean they're quality posters.


Not necessarily. Even theymos has a red trust. Although a green trust is supposed to mean that "you think that this person is unlikely to scam anyone", history has proven that even old users with multiple trusts could end up a scammer. On the other hand, a red is supposed to mean that "you think that trading with this person is high-risk", but I don't see any risk trading with theymos and some others with red trusts.

Because getting merit in global board is harder than in local board, there's nothing like "just to appreciate your effort", "we're siblings/brothers, we need to help each other" or something like that.

If your post aren't have good quality, you will not get merit, that's it in global board.

Easy, check the language, if both of them speak the same local language, they're friends.

You don't have to know each other or meet in real life to become friends, but speaking the same language make them feel like friends or close with each other.

It's important to caught cheaters.

Let's say they only receive 2 merits in the last 120 days, but the campaign require 5 merits, definitely they will try to find a way to get 3 merits in order to apply the campaign. Usually their friends will give 3 merits on their old posts.

Most campaigns are trying to appeal to the widest audience possible. Local boards have less visibility and you are mostly interacting with a the same small handful of people in every topic. A local board poster can still provide good value for a campaign but you limit your potential reach. 

Also, when people can’t earn a single merit outside of local boards, it’s usually not a language barrier issue, it’s the quality of their posts that is the problem. People who aren’t fluent in English do fine with the help of translation tools.

Two things come to mind,

1) No minimum amount of posts, this is something I like in icopress's bounties.

2) Substance in post than amount of words. Often posts that are written long can be trimmed shorter.

This is also a reading preference, long posts, especially if they are filled with unnecessary jargon of words instantly put me off.

Good question, frankly though I would never become one because I am much busy with my life on the real world than the forum. But if you ask my opinion, there is no perfect manager but features that I would try to inculcate would be:

1. Encourage users to contribute to different sections of the forum and enrich their own knowledge periodically.
2. As a campaign manager merit received is in decent quantities, so managers should distribute that too to the participants instead of holding to it.
3. Regular warnings to those who are breaking the manager's set of rules.
4. Monthly statistics of performance among members.

It's interesting question. I noticed many answer focused on improving post quality on this forum, but IMO a campaign manager should also impress the advertised company. So if i were a campaign manager, i would start by avoid hiring member with negative or very controversial reputation to avoid people perceive the advertised company negatively.


I expect that could consume some time, even if you PM them some interview question and waiting for their answer.

Protect your participants at all costs, that has always been my motto and I'm refering to bounty campaigns. Most projects don't care about their promoters and will scam them with any little opportunities that they get.

I was doing just find until I became a victim with project scamming and I had to take a break from bounty management. People are willing to work when they know they'll be paid so always try to escrow all your projects.

Things to do, the rules should be there but don't be too strict with them, make adjustments when necessary and just try to be unique in your own ways. All the reputed managers are trying in their different ways. Don't just assume you can be better when you haven't gotten the opportunity, it isn't that easy.

All campaign managers are doing great; they are doing escrow to make sure that altcoins or Bitcoin will be received by participants, they have disclaimers and properly informed all participants.

If I become a campaign manager, maybe I will try to strike a deal for a longer campaign. like all the other campaigns we are having right now, if we have long campaigns, the activity will maintain or even increase, So far, Hhampuz my current manager is one of the managers with the longest campaigns in his management.
If I can have at least 40 campaigns that pledge to run for 100 weeks, it will be a huge achievement for me, but you must be very good at convincing to achieve this.

Such questions are asked even to children in school of they became President or Governor in their Country or State what will they do? And those children will tell you what they will do. So I see such questions as relevant. Now to myself who will like to be a manager one day if I am interested. If I become a campaign manager. I will be transparent, open minded to participants and to the forum at large. I will be unbiased. I will  carefully select my participants and there will no reshuffling unless it is critical. I will select them because I know that they can work so there will be no need to reshuffling them again. Human beings have different ways of thinking therefore everyone has different managerial skills.

That's not possible.

Let's say the project's representative reach you and want to run signature campaign, but they only have limited budget or want to see the progress for 1-4 week(s). Even you have convince them need to have 100 weeks budget or something like that, they can just reach other campaign managers.

So, you will be left without manages any single campaign since you set your requirement too high.

I don't think I will like being a campaign manager, there's so much work load and you have to be very good in communication and know how to properly motivate yourself and your team and you must be good at multitasking. I am ok with helping campaign managers, and I think we all need to if we want to keep projects coming in here to promote.

I am hats off to campaign managers who keep looking for projects and convincing project developers, just to give us work or incentives for being active here.

But if I am given a chance to manage a campaign, I will weigh on quality posters rather than merits. I have seen some great posters but lack merits to qualify for campaigns.

I think I will stop accepting user that is not a natural poster on the board which the project I’m managing targets. Like for example when I managing a campaign related to gambling, I will stop hiring user that doesn’t naturally post in there before the acceptance on the campaign to avoid forcing user to create post on the board that they don’t hangout and at the same time to avoid half baked post.

Some user excel on different board while signature campaign force them to decrease the quality of their post just for the sake of being paid.

I think this is the best way to make the campaign efficient for the project owner.

Valid points, but if the manager doesn't understand what kind of post got merit then he better concentrate on what he really understand.

I would say, merit should not be the only assesment when it comes to quality, just going blindly with more merits in the last 120 days they are exceptional posters than who got less it just means their most gone under the radar for many reasons or there's no potential merit givers even though they understand the post is excellent contribution to the topic.

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I had lot of idea but managing campaign is not a joke either, they are responsible for funds, payments to participants and also need to bring effective results for the company so I would say keeping everything in my balance will be my motto if I ever become a campaign manager.

Campaign Manager is not easy task because the project who started has own mission to establish their goal. So, first I will make a home work from the project and their goal. Then, I will try find the gap which is expected from contributors. I will take ideas about how much contributors can benefits. Again. home work with real world and this is how I will improve my plan for the contributor to get best support from me compare to others.

Signature campaigns only last for as long as the business sees its results, you cannot simply strike a deal for a long campaign when the corporation is yet to run the campaign for a few weeks to see if they are getting the promotion and exposure they need. I know that sometimes these business unplug and leave too early, because sometimes it is hard to see results in a short time, but you can't really blame them, if they will be spending money on the advert, they will want results quickly.

The ratio is about 1:500,000 or slightly larger.

The truth is, you're going to be going through hundreds of posts every week to grade them. And unless you've got some kind of bot to do it for you (hello BitBot), then that eats up several hours per week, possibly even an entire day. And it quickly gets tiring, so unless you are compensated generously by the campaign owner then you quickly burn out.

I have been part of signature campaigns managed by two different campaign managers. My first campaign manager was Hhampuz and now it is icopress. Both are unique in evaluating application and both have a unique style of managing a signature campaign.

If given an opportunity to manage a signature campaign what I will do is to club both their good rules and regulations in order to create a new set of rules to manage the campaign considering what benefits the client and what benefits the signature participants.

It's not that I will ask immediately for a 10-week campaign; if their budget says they have 4 weeks then we can do a 4 week campaign and from there, take an observation and try to convince the casino owners to do a second round then third round, and if the casino established their reputation and there is a flow of new gamblers coming, then that will be the time to do a continous campaign to keep branding the casino continously.

I think it has to do with good management and hiring the best posters in the gambling section to promote the casino to get more leads that will make the casino extend their campaign undefinitely, and you have to be good at convincing the gambling operators to reach that agreement.

Man, that's just what other managers do.

I don't think they didn't try convince the representative in order to extend the length, some managers even use "PAUSED" or "HOLD" instead of "FIN" or "END" because they hope the project will continue or the representative was saying they will continue the campaign someday in the future.

Using "PAUSED" or "HOLD" in a campaign gives off a more positive vibe, even if the campaign is temporarily stopped. It leaves a good impression on the casino, as it suggests the campaign could resume. There are also cases where projects come back after being paused for a while, like chips.gg, which recently relaunched after a break.

I think, this is an entertaining and interesting topic at the same time.
If I were a campaign manager and it was a part-time job while I work my regular job, I probably wouldn't be a very good manager but if it was a full-time job for me, then I would really make a difference on this forum.
I want talk about marketing strategies and the way I would choose participants because that will take me a very long time and as I see, the accent in this thread is about how a manager would make this forum a better place, so, let's start.

I would strongly monitor post quality. Short, funny posts, etc are all okay here and there but I'm strictly against spamming. If my participant creates threads like Gold vs Bitcoin in 21th century, then I'll immediately remove them from signature campaign. I'll hire participants who truly enjoy posting on this forum and who really contribute. The user has to bring value, enlighten someone, improve their own and someone else's knowledge. Such an user attracts everyones' attention and is a good pick for promoting any project.

Its not easy to become a campaign manager, so my concept to make a difference on the way I managed the campaign is picking the best campaign where the posting style of members is very suitable for the project's client, if its a casino then a gambler is my priority, if its an exchange then a trader and make them post on categories where they are likely to get leads

And I think I will implement the grading system just like what we have here on Stake.com and will encourage participants to read the notes on the spreadsheet so they can upgrade their behavior on the forum.

I will also make a Telegram group for participants so I can ask participants on how to improve the campaign, I would like to make it a team effort for all participants.

I don't really like questions asking ''what if''. I'm not planning to become campaign manager one day, that's not job which would fit for me. But if, probably I wouldn't do something much different from what current managers are doing. Simply, there is no need to invent wheel when it's already invented. So, I simply would take best what I can learn from current managers. If you would do something fundamentally different from others, there is no guarantee that someone will hire you.

You have good point, but looking from advertisers perspective, they're focusing on English speaking boards to get most visibility. Hiring someone who only posting in local boards will be less cost-effective.

Some campaigns pay for local posts, others don't, and my opinion is that it makes sense to pay for part of the posts in local boards as well, because there are some communities that are quite active and can promote the project at the local level. Of course, the key is to find the right ratio of posts in the general/local forum, and the more active the user is in several boards, the more visible the signature will be and the better the results for the campaign.

All in all, I think that managers in sig companies do a good job, at least when it comes to campaigns that pay exclusively in BTC, I can't say anything about bounty campaigns because I don't know anything about it.

Yes. Doing such will create some valuable contents too. Already there is an interview topic on the reputation board or meta if I am not wrong. OP can find it and collaborate with the creator in the Interview topic.

@Ziskinberg

I’m not sure what to ask the campaign managers. I’ve been following them on the forum, and I can see how professional they are with their work. Plus, I don’t want to take up their time, as they’re probably busy managing their campaigns and looking for new clients.

About the reputation thread you are referring, been there recently and I'm currently the last person that have posted my reply their.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5262967.msg64549642#msg64549642

When there is a will there is a way. If the managers like your arrangement and think it can help others then I don't think there will be a problem but you will need to convince them first to give you their time. Nothing is free in this world my brother.

Thanks for bringing this up, but I don't think I'm the right person to do it since I haven't gained much reputation yet on the forum. But honestly, this is a great idea. I just feel like I'm not the right guy for this. Maybe one of the more well-known forum members could take it on. If you have time, sir, I’d prefer if you could do it instead. I’ll just stick interviewing the being a 'wannabe' campaign managers here.;D

There are not many campaign managers there and I don't think they really want to help others to become one because the one who they will be helping is going to be their competitor too. :D

For the starters if OP is interested then he can PM and let them know about this thread first and let's see what's their opinions and if they still wanna go with interview like some questions then it would be possible.