When you join a group, it’s always a good idea to make note of whether the group is public or private. Public means anyone in the world can see everything inside the community (unless there are locks on courses). Everything inside is also indexed by search engines like Google. Private means only the people inside the group can see what’s posted. So while most people will choose rightly to have a private group, the whole point of the CLASSIFIEDS is to enhance your visibility and get you more members. I don’t want you wasting your time posting about your group and having it only seen by the people inside this community (as wonderful as they are!). On the flip side, make sure groups you are in where you are posting sensitive information are private. Check out the groups you are in. Any surprises???

Last week, we had a fantastic interview with community owner Paulo Costa. We discussed on Market Research. Please check it out and Like it so more people will see this great information. https://youtu.be/90tdv7SEdHY -Thanks!!

I was just checking out the leaderboards, and I was wondering, out of 1,000 members, I would assume a group this size would have like 70% of level 1 members, but I was wrong I WAS SHOCKEDDDD to see 32,% almost half of what I expected. @Shannon Boyer you've really built a great space for members!!

I'm talking about my experience with this community and how it helped me go from 10 members to almost 50, with most of them coming from here. 1. Ask for feedback. At first I was just figuring out what I was trying to do, and my first posts were all about asking people for feedback. It turns out my message was far from being clear and I was really bad at selling what I did. After some honest and sometimes harsh feedbacks, I kept reinventing myself untill people finally understood what I was doing. If you can't explain what you do in one sentence, you need to improve your message. 2. Don't just post the same ad everyday. Be creative and test different things out. This place is perfect to test an idea you have, so give more than just a copy-paste of your about page. Talk a little bit about what you're doing, about the value you provide. Teach something. Make people intrigued. Write something that will make them interact with your post, like a question or a poll. Offer an opportunity so people feel like they have to join in order to take it. 3. Leave the CTA (Call To Action - requesting people to join your Community) at the end, not the title. Use the title to get people's attention, write a text that makes them want to keep reading and at the end make a CTA that will make them feel stupid for not joining your community. 4. Be consistent. People might need to see you more than once to be convinced. Post everyday, each time trying out something different, providing some valuable piece of content and a different perspective to the problem you're solving. Eventually people here will get familiar with you and they will want to join your community to get more of what you're posting. This is my community. I help people figure out the right tech tools for their businesses so they don't waste money on junk.

Are you an expert in something⁉️ What is it? If you could instantly become an expert in ONE random skill (no effort required), what would you pick and why?”