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79 lines
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# power-user-cultivation
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**Turn users into advocates and contributors** — identifying, nurturing, and empowering your developer champions.
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## What It Does
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Helps you identify your most engaged developers and create programs that turn them into advocates, content creators, and contributors. No forced evangelism — genuine value exchange for developers who love your product.
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## When to Use
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- Identifying potential advocates in your user base
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- Building a champion or ambassador program
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- Creating contributor experience for open source
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- Launching a referral program
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- Starting user-generated content initiatives
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- When you say "power users," "developer advocates," "champion program," or "UGC"
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## Quick Start
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/power-user-cultivation
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Help me identify potential advocates from our user base and design
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a champion program. We have about 5,000 active developers using our API.
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## The Power User Spectrum
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| Level | Behavior | Your Response |
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| Active User | Uses product regularly | Keep shipping |
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| Engaged User | Participates in community | Respond quickly |
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| Advocate | Recommends unprompted | Early access, direct line |
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| Champion | Creates content, helps others | Formal program |
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| Contributor | Contributes code/docs | Contributor program |
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## Key Principles
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1. **Don't push everyone up the spectrum — meet them where they are**
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2. **No content quotas — advocates create because they want to**
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3. **Credits > cash for referrals (less MLM feeling)**
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4. **Recognition must be specific, public, and timely**
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5. **Start small (5-10 champions) and grow**
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## Files
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| File | Description |
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| `SKILL.md` | Full skill instructions |
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## Program Templates Included
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- Champion program structure
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- CONTRIBUTING.md for open source
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- Content bounty program
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- Referral program design
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- Recognition workflow
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## Identifying Advocates
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Look for signals:
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- Top 10% by usage
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- Answers community questions
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- Created content about you
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- Files thoughtful bug reports
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- Positive social mentions
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## Tools
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- **[Octolens](https://octolens.com)** — Discover advocates through positive mentions, track content, identify power users
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- **FirstPromoter** — Referral management
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## Related Skills
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- `developer-audience-context` — What motivates your developers
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- `developer-churn` — Keep power users from leaving
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- `developer-listening` — Find candidates through monitoring
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- `hackathon-sponsorship` — Events where advocates shine
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