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Start your “evangelist” unofficially

benzookapi
May 11, 2017
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Start your “evangelist” unofficially

DevRel Meetup In Tokyo #19

benzookapi

May 11, 2017
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  1. Who I am? Junichi Okamura @benzookapi PayPal IntegrationManager/ Evangelist Scala/Java/Node.js/Python/

    Ruby/PHP/../Mobile/../ppt /I18N/Marketing/Payment API Lover/Agro-IoT/Cartoonist
  2. Why unofficially? 1. Appealing value of evangelist is tough in

    company roles (you are a beginner, especially so) 2. Your immaturity will be allowed and make less damage on your company 3. If you are facing customers or product officially, that will be good impact on your evangelizing
  3. Prerequisites 1. Becoming an evangelist requires much experience, talents, and

    integrity 2. Good evangelist brings your company a huge profit, but bad one do a loss 3. Letting executives understand the value of evangelizing is tough work, they tend to think it risky initially
  4. My case… 1. Started my “evangelist” unofficially in 2015 (my

    main role was pre-sales and technical consultant) 2. I have learned so many things of presentation, community, demo making, technical/legal issues, etc. during “unofficially” 3. After I got some results, I converted my “evangelist” to official roles with some metrics to appeal executive
  5. If I had started officially… 1. Strict budget and KPI

    would have fallen down on me like devils 2. If I couldn’t have got quantitative achievement, my role would have disappeared (or myself!) 3. Effective knowledge from sales support would not have been obtained (that help me currently)
  6. The key factors I learned unofficially for good evangelists 1.

    Proactivity (have your opinion and passion!) 2. Compliance (follow your company rules) 3. Creativity (think your are the best!) 4. Integrity (respect and collaborate with others) 5. Toughness for accepting those hard things!