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5 levels of community management mastery
Today I feel like sharing a bit of my knowledge about communities again. Did you know there are 5 levels of community management mastery? Here they are, structured and including the skills and experiences needed to reach each level. At the end of the post, I also give a real example of how the legend of the Community Industry, David Spinks, grew step by step.
LVL 1: NOVICE NETWORKER
- Enthusiasm and empathy
- The art of connecting people
LVL 2: COMMUNITY DEVELOPER
- Basic strategic thinking
- Storytelling and personal magnetism
- Creating small groups and events
LVL 3: COMMUNITY MANAGER
- Budgeting and monetization
- Managing a community team
- Creating autonomous communities
- Collective intelligence analyst
LVL 4: COMMUNITY MASTER
- Community M&A processes (acquiring competitive communities)
- Migrating communities from platform A to platform B
- Multi-community management
LVL 5: RETIRED COMMUNITY MASTER
- 🌀 Experienced at least one socialization burnout
- 🌀 Sold at least one community
- 🌀 Began to prioritize himself
- 🌀 Went through the "want to be alone" process (chose a spiritual retreat, road trip, or embarked on a cleansing journey for self-regeneration)
- 🌀 Started helping others clarify if they really want or need a community for their daily life
The journey of David Spinks
L1: Before 2014, probably various networking
L2: January 8, 2014, launch of the FB group CMX Hub
L3: 2017, started migrating the community to Slack
L5: After leaving Bevy, took a lighter work break (if I remember correctly about 3-6 months) and from 2023 to present runs David Spinks Coaching
If you have already started your community journey, which level are you at and what is stopping you from reaching the next milestone?
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5 levels of community management mastery
