Essentials You MUST Know Before Doing ANYTHING
Firstly I would like to welcome you one of the most exciting blog and social communities dedicated to network marketers who are determined to succeed and make a difference.
My name is George Fourie and I would like to share with you what we are about and how you can get the most benefit out of our awesome tribe! (And I would like to point out a few essential rules you need to be aware of!)
We aim to support and promote YOU as a network marketer who has authentic values and provides real value to the community.
We have been very fortunate to attract real sincere, authentic and professional marketers to our community and I am confident that you fall into that exact category. In fact, that is most probably why you are here! 
Now before we get into the really cool stuff, we need to get a few things out of the way first. I am not a fan of preaching to the choir, so please only wear the shoe if it fits.
Here we go and the tone might get into a little rant mode.
About our community
Who we are:
Our tribe here on thatMLMbeat (a.k.a. YOU) are network marketers and online entrepreneurs on all different level, from all different cultures and countries.
But we all have one thing in common:
A successful mindset and a understanding that success is a direct result of building relationships and connecting with like minded people. Well, that is at least one of the strongest foundations of success in network marketing.
Relationships are only formed when you can provide value to someone in some way or form, whether that being connecting directly, providing training, resources and tips in a blog post, commenting on a profile or blog post or even linking to a community members blog post and complimenting there resources.
Our values of truth, giving, sincerity, authenticity and providing value through content dominate strongly within us.
What we are NOT:
If your intentions are to simply 'get' from the community and spam your links and pitch your opportunity, you are not welcome here!
As thatMLMbeat continuous to grow, we are seeing an increase in spam and activities that we simply despise.
There are some REALLY strict rules and ignoring them will get you banned instantly.
This site is our pride and joy, so we watch it like a kettle of hawks.
Unless you are here to make a change within your own values and mindset of course as we will help you change that.
Please take note of the following:
Your profile
Make sure your profile is complete before adding any content to any blog.
The second we see a blog with no profile picture attached, we start to investigate.
Add your profile pic as soon as you can if you haven't done so after sign up.
We delete approximately 40 - 50 Spam blogs (Splogs) on a daily basis that get created with automated software. Your blog and profile can easily be mistaken for one of them.
If you want others to connect with you, make sure that your profile is complete. The more you share, the more others will want to get to know you.
No one just wants to see a bunch of links to your other social profiles. They are here, why must they click to go somewhere else to connect with you?
Your Blog
Every blog post that goes out gets monitored by humans. Yes there are spam blockers in place that detects general spam comments, but other than that every post gets monitored.
If you are here to blog, value is the key.
What do I mean?
If your very first blog post starts off with telling everyone how great your company / affiliate product is with a link to it, that is NOT value.
And if that is the only thing you have in mind in every post and try and camouflage your link into every post, forget it!
Value is sharing something, knowledge a technique or something that people can benefit from without having to purchase a product or join your business.
Here is the magic!
When you do that consistently, people will actually want to know more about you and what you do.
Does that mean you can never promote your link? No, but balance is key.
And if posting up links is all that you do, then you unfortunately don't belong here.
I know this might sound harsh, but this community is for professional network marketers and those who aspire to be.
We tend to keep it that way.
There are many social networks where you can go and spam others with your links. It's not welcome here.
SIDENOTE: If this is why you join social networks and if this is your strategy, I strongly suggest you look at your paycheck to determine if you are really moving forward in your online career.
No? Then maybe it's time for a change!
Blog Usernames
You can create as many blogs as you choose to. But, once again, we monitor everything.
Company names are prohibited unless you are the rightful owner of the company. We have reserved and will continue to reserve company names for company communities which are in development right now.
You can strategically use various keywords for blog usernames, provided that you are going to use them and add content to the blogs.
No cybersquatting aloud.(That is, registering blogs purely to get the username of a great niche or company name without adding any content to the blog)
Now for the fun stuff!
OK rant mode is off, now let's get going with the cool stuff!
1. Connect With Others
Really, you will be surprised how many business partnerships and joint ventures get created within a strong community like this if you are open to it.
Make new friends, find out what others are doing and what's working for them. Just connect!
Go and checkout The Lounge and start connecting with others.
3. Create a blog
Or why not create 2, or 3, or 4? You can create as many blogs as you want on thatMLMbeat, as long as you add content and use them! New to Wordpress and its functions? This video will make you a master in no time at all.
3. Add your existing blog
Adding your existing blog is the easiest way to expand your readership, build powerful backlinks and drive copious amounts of traffic to your blog! Every time you submit a post to your personal blog, it will syndicate all the way through to the front page of thatMLMbeat. If you already have a blog and need more traffic, then checkout how to add your blog to thatMLMbeat.
4. Invite Your Friends!
Invite your email contacts, Twitter and other social friends to thatMLMbeat and help us grow this exciting community. You will see some amazing features appear on our site shortly and you will want your friends to know about it.
Be sure to invite your prospects, team members, downline members, friends and partners to thatMLMbeat.
We want to make sure that you get rewarded for it too, which leads us to the next step. But basically, be sure to be the one to invite your friends before someone else does!
Click here to invite your friends now!
Actually... WAIT: Read this one first...
5. Become an affiliate
You can invite your friends by the click of a button with the friend inviter above and have your affiliate code secretly embedded! We have a state of the art affiliate program that can track any page on the entire site here on thatMLMbeat!
To clarify, you can invite your friends to a blog post, page, your profile, your friends profile and simply attach the affiliate code to it! We will pay you a generous 40% every time they upgrade to our PRO membership.
And remember, it's first come first serve. If you refer one of your friends to thatMLMbeat today and your favorite guru invites them tomorrow, we will track the first invitation and YOU will get paid when they upgrade!
Click here to become a affiliate right now! And then you can Click here to invite your friends.
6. Go PRO! (For Blog Owners ONLY)
PRO members get more publicity and can create their own forums, build their own social tribes, create multiple team blogs, remove ads from blogs and get premium search engine placements in all major search engines.
You can become a pro member for as little as 26 cents a day!
Not a PRO member yet? Click here for more information about upgrading to PRO status.
7. Write for us
Would you like to get more publicity and brand yourself amongst one of the hottest, up and coming social networks in the industry? Adding your blog to thatMLMbeat is a great way to get traffic, but writing for us definitely takes the cake when it comes to exposure.
Checkout our write for us page to see if it's for you.
8. Subscribe to blog posts
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