
Van Rayner
Van Raynor is Director of Social Media & Influencer Marketing at Americares, a global health and disaster relief nonprofit based in New York.
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Aug 25, 2026
How to take over a social community you did not build
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3:13BenHOST
But I think it's really good to kind of get your bearings and say, awesome, where are we at? What has been done? What does this look like? Okay, now that we have that, where do we go from there? Like, what's the next step? How do we know what the audience cares about? What does it look like from that point forward?

Van RaynerGUEST
Yeah, well, the next step is definitely looking at your goals or creating your goals.

Van RaynerGUEST
If you're lucky enough to be in a position where you can kind of map out what you're looking at, but for a lot of times, you're being handed certain KPIs to reach.

Van RaynerGUEST
So now you've done all that kind of research, you've looked into your pages to see like what is really happening and how kind of people are interacting.
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7:18BenHOST
How do you do that in an organic and genuinely helpful way to the community without just burning every single possible bridge along the way? What does that look like?