8 Mistakes Only Newbies Make In The Better Networker Forums

Unless you're living under a rock you already know network marketers have launched their whole careers in our forums. Guys like Ferny Ceballos, who make even the best of us look bad with awesome content and insightful forum posts.

So your posts and replies on The Better Networker Forums could literally make or break your business. And being banned... well that could kill your future here pretty quick.

And while there's literally hundreds of ways you could write a post, there's pretty much only a handful of ways you can annoy people in forums. So I'm gonna get into the nitty gritty here and list a few things that tend to annoy or upset a lot of people. Avoid these mistakes if you're serious about building a reputation here and before long you'll be making friends left and right.

8 Mistakes Only Newbies Make In The Better Networker Forums

• Ugly signature files. Yeah, I know I've mentioned this one before but I think too many people are watching "Pimp My Ride" or something. Please leave the fuzzy dice and tiger-striped pimp hats at home. And no more sparkly unicorns Richard Bravo... that was pretty funny... but are you trying to start a trend or something? ;-)

• Stealing content. Dude, I don't know where people get the idea that stealing content is okay. It doesn't happen a lot on our site but it does happen and it isn't cool. I read close to 50 forum posts and articles a week here and trust me... I can tell when something has been posted before. So can everyone else.

• Free kittens - click here now! Someone needs to put an end to this madness. I'm talking about forum posts with headlines that don't even come close to decribing the content inside. This is called lying to your peers. They feel tricked when they click and it hurts your reputation too.

• Negative headlines. This is kinda along the same lines. Headlines that are negative draw a lot of attention, but more often than not the content inside is the complete opposite of the headline. You'll see a headline that says "Network Marketing is a scam!" Then when you click... they always say, "Man, I was just kidding." Made you look. And that's pretty lame.

• Are those crocodile tears? I wish there was a way to enforce this rule but there isn't. Some people are only in the forums to drive traffic to their sites. And while I see nothing wrong with that... make sure you're sincere when you reply to other people's posts. You can smell blatant self-promotion a mile away. There's no way to hide what you're really thinking when you write... it stains every word.

• Solid walls of text. I don't know what planet some people come from but I'm pretty sure that even on Krypton they don't write with solid blocks of text. If your posts look like sand paper then I'm not rubbing my eyes on them. And you're losing a lot of readers and replies.

• Links are usually a bad idea. Oh, we've probably all been guilty of this one. You think you're helping folks out but sharing a links in a forum post is a major red flag. Even if you're completely sincere. Stop yourself before sharing any links at all until you're absolutely certain you're bringing value to the table. You'll get ostracized pretty fast if all you do is reply with links.

• Step away from the keyboard! Sometimes people really get to you! You wish you could smack them in the back of the head... but before you write a reply... use the ten second rule. Seriously, step away from the keyboard and count. My momma always said, "If you don't have anything good to say, don't say it." and while she never followed that advice... I think it's a pretty good policy for forums.

And the most important point of all...

Read the rules.

I know this sounds kinda obvious, but you don't have the right to post in any forum if you haven't read the rules. The rules for the Better Networker forum are really short and they're right here. There's only four of them and they all make perfect sense. If you're even thinking of posting in the forums without reading the rules... you're in for a world of pain. You might even get banned.

From the bottom of my heart...

Please read the rules if you haven't done so already.

http://www.betternetworker.com/forums/announces/forum-rules-and-guidelines-t12549.html

To your success,

Jason The "Better Networker"
 

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