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Become a Community Manager
By the end of this course you will be able to manage communities like a retention professional: member onboarding that produces a first win in days, a weekly engagement rhythm, calm moderation, and the churn reporting owners actually act on — plus the portfolio, packages, and client pipeline to get paid for it. Every rate in here is a real 2026 number.
Module 0
Module 0: Start Here
Community management is three jobs wearing one title, and this course is about the one that pays best: running paid memberships where members are customers and keeping them is revenue. Before anything else, you'll sort out which job is which, learn the churn math that runs the whole trade, and start studying real communities the way a manager does.
Module 1
Module 1: The Job in 2026
Communities turned into a business model, and a labor market grew up around them. This module maps it: who hires community managers, what the work pays in every format from hourly to salaried, and the single distinction — coverage versus strategy — that explains most of the pay spread.
Module 2
Module 2: Community Foundations
Platforms change and features come and go, but communities live or die on three things that never change: a purpose members can state, a journey that turns newcomers into regulars, and rules that protect the culture without strangling it. This module covers all three — the foundations every setup in the next module is built on.
Module 3
Module 3: Platform Craft
Paid communities mostly live in three places: Circle, Skool, and Discord. Each shapes member behavior differently, and each has setup choices that quietly decide whether your foundations from Module 2 hold up. This module teaches the structure of each — and how to choose between them without selling anyone a migration they don't need.
Module 4
Module 4: Onboarding Members
A new member decides whether your community is worth the money in the first week — usually in the first day. Onboarding is the highest-leverage work a community manager does: a member who gets a fast first win and one real connection renews; a member who lands in a silent feed and never speaks is already churning, just slowly.
Module 5
Module 5: The Engagement Engine
Engagement isn't a mood, it's a schedule. Communities that feel alive run on a repeatable weekly rhythm, a calendar of real events, and a small group of superusers who carry the culture. This module builds all three — the engine that keeps a paid community worth renewing between the owner's big moments.
Module 6
Module 6: Moderation
Moderation is where community management stops being hospitality and becomes judgment. Members are paying customers, so every enforcement decision is also a customer-relations decision. This module gives you the ladder, the conflict playbook, and the safety setup that keep a community firm, fair, and calm — including at 2 a.m. when you're not watching.
Module 7
Module 7: Numbers That Matter
Community managers get renewed on numbers, not vibes. This module separates the metrics that predict revenue — activity, retention, churn — from the vanity counts that impress nobody who's paying you, then builds the churn math your whole job hangs on, and the short report owners actually read.
Module 8
Module 8: Portfolio and Proof
Community work is invisible when it goes well — nothing caught fire, nobody quit, the month just felt alive. That makes proof harder to show than in almost any other marketing job, and more valuable when you have it. This module builds the three assets that get community managers hired: an audit that diagnoses a real community, a spec launch plan that shows your thinking, and case framing that turns quiet months into numbers an owner can read.
Module 9
Module 9: Find Clients
Community clients are course creators, coaches, and membership owners who can feel their group going quiet but can't name why. You sell them the diagnosis first, then the fix, then the ongoing hand that keeps members renewing. This module runs the chain: packages priced from real 2026 rates, an audit pitch you can copy, a paid trial that de-risks the hire, and an onboarding system that hands you the keys without chaos.
Module 10
Module 10: Find a Job
Employed community roles have grown up: brands, SaaS companies, and gaming studios now hire people specifically to keep members active and renewing. The pay bands are real, the screening is evidence-based, and the interview is often a live problem talked through out loud. This module walks the employed track end to end: where the roles are, how to apply with proof, how to handle the scenario interview, and how to negotiate and land the first 30 days.
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