Hiring a Manager for Your Website

[Kane]

Do you hire a manager for your website (a blog, a forum, an online store, or any kind of website)? Well, I have never hired a website manager, however, I have worked as a manager for multiple websites. If you cannot be active on your site and if you have a budget, I think hiring a manager can he beneficial for your website as the manager can bring his expertise.

 

[Cory1]

What exactly does a "manager" do that a "staff member" cannot do?

 

[Heatman]

What exactly does a "manager" do that a "staff member" cannot do?

Personally, I think that the term manager is more likely going to be another administrator for the website. It can't the regular moderator/staff member because they have better privilege in their account upgrade to work from the backend too. I believe that's what the OP is talking about.

 

[Cory1]

Personally, I think that the term manager is more likely going to be another administrator for the website. It can't the regular moderator/staff member because they have better privilege in their account upgrade to work from the backend too. I believe that's what the OP is talking about.

A manager can indeed be useful. If you were to ever take an LOA from your forum, you have them as your backup. If they have experience in some areas that you do not, that can be a great advantage to your board. I think on my forum at least I'm active enough that I don't necessarily need a manager and there's also the fact that my board isn't necessarily active enough to warrant having a manager. Though, if a board is active enough and requires some expertise that the ROOT administrator doesn't have, then I'm all for hiring a manager I can trust.

 

[Ja sa bong]

The kind of activities which I'm having on my website and also how big my website is with the users on it would play a role in making me hire a website manager who can help me to manage my website operations. A website manager won't be needed in the beginning of my website life.

 

[Heatman]

A manager can indeed be useful. If you were to ever take an LOA from your forum, you have them as your backup. If they have experience in some areas that you do not, that can be a great advantage to your board. I think on my forum at least I'm active enough that I don't necessarily need a manager and there's also the fact that my board isn't necessarily active enough to warrant having a manager. Though, if a board is active enough and requires some expertise that the ROOT administrator doesn't have, then I'm all for hiring a manager I can trust.

Exactly! Their importance in a forum can never be underestimated especially when there's a case of long absence from being online in a forum. There's been a case similar to this in a forum I'm using. The owner have been offline for an unexpected long time, if it wasn't for the Admin who kept everything holding up, there would have been a chaos on the site.

 

[Cory1]

The owner have been offline for an unexpected long time, if it wasn't for the Admin who kept everything holding up, there would have been a chaos on the site.

I see that happen a lot on Jcink. People will post about the owner going MIA and a lot of them didn't hire a co-admin, so they want to take control of the board to keep it alive. It's a pity when the owner goes MIA.

 

[Heatman]

I see that happen a lot on Jcink. People will post about the owner going MIA and a lot of them didn't hire a co-admin, so they want to take control of the board to keep it alive. It's a pity when the owner goes MIA.

It's very unfortunate that something like this keeps happening with some forum and that's one of the disappointment and disconnection most people have with using forums. You will be giving everything to a board only to wake up one day and it's all gone.

 

[Cory1]

It's very unfortunate that something like this keeps happening with some forum and that's one of the disappointment and disconnection most people have with using forums. You will be giving everything to a board only to wake up one day and it's all gone.

Yeah, people give up too easily on forums a lot of times. They need to learn that it takes patience, dedication, and consistency to create an overall successful forum. Rome wasn't built in a day.