If You Became a Campaign Manager, How Would You Make a Difference?

[Ziskinberg]

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!

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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

[Ambatman]

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.   

[Helena Yu]

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.

[Erumo]

I will not accept users who only got merit from local boards

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?

I will exclude the merit from local friends

How will your find out who friends with who?

[EarnOnVictor]

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

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.

[Ziskinberg]

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

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.

[batang_bitcoin]

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.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

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.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

Feel free to throw out ideas on how to make the forum better... kind of like an interview, but chill and open-minded.

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.

[Odohu]

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.

[Z-tight]

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.

[The Cryptovator]

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. 

[examplens]

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!

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.

[robelneo]

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.

[PX-Z]

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?

"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)

[Darker45]

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.

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.

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.

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.

[Helena Yu]

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?

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.

How will your find out who friends with who?

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.

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.

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.

[FinneysTrueVision]

I will not accept users who only got merit from local boards

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?

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.

[libert19]

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.