Hiring a Community Manager

Have you ever considered hiring a community manager for your forum?

A community manager is a little different than a forum moderator. Both have moderator functions, but a community manager is more directed to manage the moderator team, onboard new members, and keep the forum active.

This can be a volunteer position, but most community managers are paid.

I used to be a community manager of Copyblogger.com. I was paid for it.

I work as a community manager on multiple forums and I accept only paid roles. However, I have never hired a community manager for my solo ownership forums. However, on forums where I was co-owners we hired community manager but the one we hired was just like a moderator, the only difference was his title.

I haven’t hired a dedicated community manager, but on my previous forum I had a secondary admin who worked like communitymanager in the front end and administrative staff on the backend. My secondary asmin handled member engagement, moderation support, and day-to-day community management.

I believe that forum owners who are always busy get to hire a community manager because it can enable them to focus on life activities while the community manager keep up with running the forum activities.