What are the common advice to make initiative proposal be more compelling users of an online community?
Basically, to make your proposals more effective you need to ask specific people for specific help.
- Ask for help with specific well defined tasks.
- Ask specific users for help. The smaller the group of people to whom the requests are addressed, the higher the likelihood that people will respond to the requests.
- When asking for help, create a logical connection between the success of an initiative and something that the target users value.
- Ask for help from those users who are interested in the tasks you are suggesting to work on and have all the necessary skills to complete it.
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