From marketing consultant to online community manager
10 of the 53 essential skills of a online community manager are already essential for a marketing consultant — about 19% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 10
- skills carry over
- 43
- would be new
- 19%
- of the target job covered
- 53
- essential skills of a online community manager
What a online community manager does
Online community managers provide and maintain an interactive environment facilitated by applications such as social media, forums and wikis. They maintain the relations between different digital communities.
What carries over
10 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
What would be new
43 skillsEssential for a online community manager and not for a marketing consultant. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- align efforts towards business development
- analyse consumer buying trends
- analyse customer service surveys
- analyse work-related written reports
- apply social media marketing
- authoring software
- brand marketing techniques
- build trust
- carry out forum moderation
- collaborate in the development of marketing strategies
- content marketing strategy
- coordinate marketing plan actions
- corporate social responsibility
- corporate sustainability
- create annual marketing budget
- create content title
- define measurable marketing objectives
- develop digital content
- develop online community plan
- develop professional network
- digital communication and collaboration
- digital media
- evaluate marketing content
- follow up online user requests
- impart business plans to collaborators
- integrate strategic foundation in daily performance
- keywords in digital content
- manage content development projects
- manage feedback
- manage profitability
- market research
- online moderation techniques
- perform market research
- perform online data analysis
- plan marketing campaigns
- provide written content
- research website users
- study sales levels of products
- track key performance indicators
- translate requirement concepts into content
and 3 more
Other moves from marketing consultant
1 roles- marketing manager12 skills in common
← marketing consultantonline community manager →The other way round
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How far are you from being a online community manager?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.