{"id":9942,"date":"2017-04-07T12:52:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=9942"},"modified":"2017-04-07T18:21:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T22:21:45","slug":"self-appointed-community-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/self-appointed-community-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Appointed Community Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>How do you get experience as a sales engineer when you do not have any experience?<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>The &#8220;<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">Self Appointed Community Manager&#8221;! It&#8217;s part of being a Jobapreneur [which first debuted at Stanford University 2009]* Stanford engineers benefit most from&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"><i>Self Appointed Community Manager <\/i>because coupling promotion skills with hard, engineering skills makes us well-rounded. But, this is not the first time you&#8217;re hearing of this or me, is it!?<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border:1px solid black;padding:8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;padding-right:8px;\"><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/807261426435780608?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">12\/9\/16, 8:31 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;self appointed community manager&#8221; cc <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CMX&amp;src=hash\">#CMX<\/a><br \/>\nbcc Lec 14; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183s&amp;src=hash\">#cs183s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OUSGSFDHwz\"><span>pic.twitter.com\/OUSGSFDHwz<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>This book does not have a sales team. Appoint yourself! (I did) I appointed myself as <span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">Self Appointed Community Manager to&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/image1-22.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" id=\"89CC3F68-06CF-4A3D-9C1B-924CB44FA12B\">\n<\/div>\n<div>Yeah. Oh I know.&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">FOUR STEPS TO THE EPIPHANY is the same Stanford engineering 145 textbook! So, I&#8217;m using #4ste [FOUR STEPS TO THE EPIPHANY] to<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">&#8211; knowledge activate that&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">Self Appointed Community Manager is a euphemism&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">&#8211; solve what page 99 said<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">And. And,&nbsp;<\/span>I took it a step further.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/image2-2.png\" alt=\"image2.PNG\" id=\"B32EECB2-5C5A-4331-88AD-76F6A8BAECF2\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I made it easy for you to be a&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">Self Appointed Community Manager for the book FOUR STEPS TO THE EPIPHANY because the prices have already been inflated.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Now you just have to undercut me<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/image3.png\" alt=\"image3.PNG\" id=\"97571150-C676-46EE-90B8-B3CA715A1164\"><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">Now you just need to sell just one book and then you will have popped your sales cherry.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulsingh\/status\/830066067653406720\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulsingh\/status\/830066067653406720<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/image4-3.jpg\" alt=\"image4.JPG\" id=\"093F0094-0F0A-41CB-B1A8-6A377E1EB41C\">\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Jobapreneur [which first debuted at Stanford University 11-10-2009]*<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">**Page 99<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/image5-1.jpg\" alt=\"image5.JPG\" id=\"2228C75B-1BB6-4439-8DFF-ED217D5853E4\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">LECTURE 14;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183s&amp;src=hash\">#cs183s<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang How do you get experience as a sales engineer when you do not have any experience? 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