As operators and contributors to Service DAOs (aka Contributor DAOs, Tokenized Agencies, etc), we face a barrage of operational decisions to support our contributors, our community members, and our brand in the face of a highly dynamic ecosystem. While the best learnings may come from trying and failing, it can be less painful to learn from peers who’ve tried and failed before you. The goal of Service DAO Salon is to bring together thoughtful operators and contributors to share experiences and support each other. In doing so, we hope to elevate the discourse around Service DAOs and make participation in these communities more accessible.

How do we gather?

• We chat via this Telegram group chat
• We meet every other Thursday at 4p PT / 7pm ET
• Each week we select topics for a conversation
• Any invited member can invite other invited members

What are some topics we might cover?

• Nature of work
  • When are bounties effective?
  • What are effective paths for upward mobility for new members?
• Compensation
  • Pay rates for contributors
  • Accepting project tokens as payment
  • Take rates for DAOs
  • Take rates for referrals
• Collaboration with other service DAOs
  • Collaborators vs. competitors
  • How to handle shared contributors
• Bidding against web2 vendors
  • Communicating the value of a contributor/service DAO
  • Communicating quality and brand w/ a large contributor base
• Quality assurance
  • Contributor performance reviews
  • Offboarding contributors
  • Strategies to avoid costs from continuously assessing/reviewing quality
• Cost reduction
  • Strategies to avoid continuously recruiting/vetting members

What are some things that could emerge from this?

• We may try to publish a few blog posts from the perspective of the group. Someone will take notes during the calls and we’ll start to assemble the group’s perspective gradually
• We may try to plan a few ‘seasons’ of Twitter Spaces, i.e. if we find that 3–4 members of the salon have especially rich experience in a topic, we can plan a panel discussion on Twitter Spaces about that topic. Once we have ~4 topics and members defined, we can host back-to-back weekly Twitter Spaces for a month and call that a ‘season’ of Salon Twitter Spaces. If this is popular, we could consider using tools like JokeDAO to allow listeners to vote on what topics we cover in future seasons