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Balancing community outreach with internal bandwidth
Our small team is starting to realize that we can’t handle all of our community engagement manually anymore. Between finding relevant threads and actually providing helpful answers, it’s taking up about 15 hours a week that we should be spending on product development. We want to maintain an active presence on niche boards, but we need to find a way to scale it professionally. Has anyone here looked into external help for this? I’m curious about the typical costs and how to ensure the quality of the interaction stays high.
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