2. Post-launch update, mission & strategy

Post-launch update: Global Job Board

Last week, we launched our global job board, with the goal of helping workers & job seekers find truly global opportunities no matter where they live.

Here’s how our launch week fared (Feb 21st - Feb 27th):

• Overall page visits: 490

  • Global Job Board: 396

  • Homepage (Manifesto): 94

• Bounce Rate: 33%

• 34 countries with at least 1 visitor 🌍️ 

  • Kenya, South Africa, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Finland, Tanzania, Germany, Lebanon, Pakistan, Mexico, Portugal, Greece, Spain, Nigeria, Ghana, Canada, UK, India, US, Romania, Bulgaria, Jordan, Nepal, Brazil, Philippines, Belgium, Panama, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Hong Kong, Barbados, Bangladesh

• Social media: 57 followers across Linkedin & Twitter

• Newsletter: 17 subscribers

• Community: 30 members

• Active job listings: 21

• Total value of active opportunities: $1,645,000

• Average job value: $78,333

Impact & mission

When thinking about the short, medium and long-term impact of #wearedistributed, there are many things we’d like to influence.

However, given how we’re barely ~2 weeks old 🐣, the positive financial impact, location-agnostic job opportunities could have on communities and workers, is something we’d like to contribute towards.

So with that said, we’d like to announce our first impact goal:

Given our current average job value of $78k, we would need to have almost 13,000 active jobs, listed on our platform 🤯 

Know any employers hiring for roles in at least 3 continents? Direct them to our job board to list a role. 

High-level strategy

In the spirit of transparency, we’d love to make this segment a regular occurrence in this newsletter. Each week, we’ll use this opportunity to share what we’re thinking and planning, in its original, raw & unrefined form.

Doing this requires us to be incredibly vulnerable. You will see our shortcomings. Mistakes will be made. But we feel it’d be a disservice to our mission and the community, to do it any other way.

So let’s start with analytics…

We’ve decided to use Visitor Analytics as our web analytics & reporting solution instead of Google Analytics. Why? Because of digital privacy.

As a people-first company, we’re committed to doing right by our community of distributed workers, and part of that means being serious about how we collect, store and use PII and non-PII (non-personal identifiable information.)

With Visitor Analytics we can view anonymised website traffic without tracking IP addresses or using re-identifying technology like other platforms do.

Whilst we seek to learn more about our community of global workers over time, we have no need or legal right (nor are we interested) to know intricate details of the specific individual(s) who are taking actions on our website.

As custodians of the web, we believe the internet should be built on trust and privacy, and this is a step in that direction.

What to expect in future newsletter issues

Finally, we’re going to start getting into a regular cadence with this newsletter, by running weekly issues which alternate between high-level business strategy and community efforts.

Here’s some content ideas/series we have in mind:

• Top 5 Global Jobs: List the best global remote jobs from our job board as they come in, per week

• Workplace Callout: Highlighting a common workplace issue which disproportionately affects global workers

• Best Companies Weekly: Mention or interview people leaders from the most global, candidate & people-centric companies

• Distributed Worker of the Week: Community to nominate a distributed worker each week who’s achieved something of note - for us to interview

• Word of the Day/Week: Help educate distributed workers & people leaders about global employment, in the form of a definition, word or meme

• Distributed Tool of the Week: Series focused on highlighting the best distributed tools, as voted by the community. No obvious tools (like Asana or Grammarly). 😅

Have any ideas we should consider? Let us know in our Community Requests group 🔥

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