The whole point of your subject is based on guesses, this is why you focus only on signature campaign management without referring that it's a branch from Community Management, and not that much important to focus on separetly.
I don't also think that there must be more number of users offering sig campaign management as we already have a lot of active managers satisfying the whole market in its actual conditions .
This doesn't deny that we can open this subject for discussion but not based on your guesses. Maybe you have to provide more convincible arguments .

Must01: It's definetely the opposite. Managers of sig campaigns are not project advisors. Business people and devs have to contact available managers if they think their projects need to be promoted within bitcointalk community, and this is not necessary as many projects have their own community managers so no need to hire someone.
Must02: Managers are not responsible to convince any project about the reliability of sig campaigns unless they are already members in team project. This doesn't mean they can't open discussions about this but not to attract more services to use this method of promotion. Note that sig campaigns weren't all successful and many projects suspended their campaigns after not getting the intended result.
Must03: Same as must01 and must02 .
Must04: Of course they have. But this is not fundamental for any CM because we don't really know the exact rates applied by each one of them and how the rates are calculated. Any manager can work with a fixed rate if he is satisfied with the type of projects he choose to manage but this may vary depends on duration of the sig campaign and number of accepted participants.
Must05: They must have an updated portofolio and a good reputation among the community. That's enough as a start.

Instead of doing this, you could ask the most reputable managers on this forum to share how do they run their business and then summarize it.

Your conclusion can be wrong, which has been proven by yahoo's response up above, and I bet there are more.

Most likely you are 100% right. I had talked with several companies and get some work as well although not long campaign. According to companies they have been receiving lots of offers to manage their campaign those asked very low management fee than me. I can't believe even some managers want to manage it free. So I denied most o them and later on they hire some newer managers than me. Also they offer very low pay rate as well. So companies have chosen them, because they don't care about quality or reputation here since they are not familiar with forum culture. But I believe eventually they had realized the difference.

Marketing skills aren't much important when you wanted to become an experienced manager on this forum, IMO and if you want to run a signature in BTC base payment. As long as you know how to manage and should spam-free manager, also you should know how to send payment I think that is enough skill to be a manager. Ain't experienced manager but that was I noticed to those reputable managers on this forum unlike managing bounty campaign there are too many tasks to do. IMO.

The most important thing if you are running a signature campaign is to always secure the participant's weekly payment (holding 1-2 weeks payment is a must or use escrow for the fund, unless if the company is reputable enough).

I wanted to run and manage a signature campaign someday(but not now) but I think it is difficult to start and get a slot from those companies willing to run a signature campaign for a business. And I think each reputable manager has a different perspective way of getting their client and that is their secret that they will never probably reveal.

Im not a manager but i can give out some sentiments or words to this one.Starting to be come a manager wont really be that easy and your first campaign to be handled would be the toughest
challenge you would face up yet you know that companies arent really considering to those newbies most of the time and do always seek out for experienced and popular manager
since they do know on what are the advantage if they do such step rather than choosing an inexperienced and non-popular.Im not underestimating those newbie manager but most
of the time they arent that capable on handling campaigns.


Possibly it might be on the referral side or recommendation of someone.Getting their first camp would either on these both things.



This is real talk. Some projects do decide to take those noob manager due to have that lower rate but without even thinking that they are just throwing off some bucks
into things which isnt worth when it comes to marketing their project.It will surely affect their project when it comes to exposure or shall we say that it isnt really that
much effective compared if they have simply chosen those best ones.Of course it would really be entirely different when it comes to impressions.

It isnt really bad to pm them as long they are looking for managers that will carry out on their companies marketing.The bad thing is that you do forcefully offer your service even they arent looking for one.
I agree with yahoo's point above.Each manager do have their own way though on how they would gonna get specially their first project which is really hard because no one trust you because you do lack
of experience.

Most project will simply just ask or look for the best one thats why its a really hard competition for those who do plan to start up.

But what if a person (who is not a manager here already but willing to start a management business) sends an e-mail and/or speaks directly to a company's management or their support whichever is available and advertise about their services, and all this is done outside forum? (Direct marketing I meant)

Outside the forum is fine. If you message their support on their site or email them, you're breaking 0 rules. You're just not supposed to be messaging companies on here for the purpose of offering services. Most managers have made themselves a thread and left multiple ways of contacting them in their thread.