Forum Sales Thread Manager (Part-Time)

Posted 3 days ago

Worldwide

Summary

We're looking for someone to manage and grow our presence across online forums and communities where our target audience is active (e.g. BlackHatWorld, Reddit, Discord, X, and similar platforms). Your role will be to maintain our existing sales threads, create new ones when appropriate, engage with potential customers, and generate new paying customers for our proxy services. Responsibilities: - Maintain and regularly update our existing sales threads. - Create new sales threads on relevant forums and communities when opportunities arise. - Respond to questions from potential customers in a timely and professional manner. - Keep product information, promotions, and offers up to date. - Identify new communities where we should establish a presence. - Report weekly on activity, engagement, and customer acquisition. Requirements: - Experience with proxies and web scraping is ideal. You should be familiar with proxy types (residential, datacenter, ISP, mobile), common scraping use cases, and ideally have some knowledge of scraping APIs. - Experience participating in online forums and communities. - Excellent written English. - Strong communication and sales skills. - Self-motivated and able to work independently. Offer: - Part-time remote position with flexible hours or per hours. - Long-term opportunity. - Quarter Goal: Acquire 10 new paying customers through forums and communities. - KPI: 10 New customers acquired How to Apply: When you apply, please include: - A brief summary of your experience with proxies, web scraping, and online forums. - Links to any forum profiles or sales threads you've managed (if applicable). - **Most importantly:** Tell us how you would approach this role. What would your plan be for maintaining our existing sales threads, creating new ones, engaging with potential customers, and reaching the goal of **10 new paying customers** during your first quarter?

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  • 6+ months
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Lead Generation
Content Writing
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About the client
Member since Sep 29, 2007
  • Hong Kong
    Hong Kong12:00 PM
  • $879K total spent
    273 hires, 5 active
  • 19,934 hours

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