Nominate a mentor in the community so they can unlock a mentor reward

[Michelle_Tizian]

It would be nice if you can nominate someone from the Marketo community so they can unlock a mentor reward. There's so many talented people in this community that have helped me tremendously on my projects that I'd love to be able to nominate them for like an "exellence" or "mentor" and if they earn a certain number of votes, they can unlock a mentor award. 

[Kimi_Heskett1]

Awesome idea! I'd love to nominate a few people! 

[Anonymous]

Michelle - this is a great idea, and we were actually working on a similar idea for Q3. Thanks for posting this!

[Michelle_Tizian]

Hi Liz! Good to know!  I'm looking forward to it.

[Anonymous]

Michelle,

Just an update, I am still intereseted in creating a reward that customers can award to someone that has helped them or mentored them. I'd love your thoughts on what the requirements would be, and how someone would nominate?

I appreciate any feedback!

Thanks,
Liz

[Michelle_Tizian]

Hi Liz,

You can do this in a few ways.  If you reach out to someone outside of the community, via LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or by email, and the person who helped you went above and beyond, and dedicated some time to assist you with your project or dilemma, you should be able to go somewhere in the community, perhaps below the leader board and have a call to action to nominate a mentor.  When you click on the link, a form will appear so you can nominate the mentor and why he or she deserves it.   The number of points the person accumulates as a mentor will enable them to unlock the mentor reward.

The other way you can nominate a mentor is if he or she walked you through, step by step on how to perform a Marketo function.  I’m not sure if you can base it on the length or detail of the discussion.  When you select the best answer, you can then pick anyone from the list of people who contributed to your discussion, who helped the most or had the most impact on resolving your dilemma, or completing your project.  At the bottom of the discussion, you can have that same type of call to action that I mentioned above that will take you to the nominate a mentor form.  Or you can just simply click on the person in the discussion, and a pop-up window will appear and say, would you like to nominate this person as a mentor in this discussion?  

As for requirements, maybe it can be something like setting up a complicated traffic cop if someone doesn’t have the engagement program, migrating an existing program into an engagement program, figuring out a work-around on something that is not a standard function in Marketo, CRM/Marketo integration, advice on analyzing someone’s programs and how it can be improved, guidance on funnel metrics, guidance on lead/demographic/behavior scoring that truly reflects your lead life cycle.  Something not too basic that it can easily be solved in the community.

I hope that helps.