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Can
yuwie make myspace a footnote in history? If we are to do that then
we have to marinate ourselves in the belief that what we are creating
is worthwhile, a far superior option, and that it has the capacity to
pay those of us who do the work for a lifetime at least...We must
also be convinced that this is also true for those that we bring into
our referral tree who are also prepared to do some work in getting
yuwie a much bigger presence on the Web...
Is
it possible that we could create a site that is that big, and that
awesome? Well, if yuwie is offering everything that myspace does,
plus the capacity to earn ongoing income, then why on earth wouldn't
people be moving over here in droves? There are a few reasons that
stop people and one of them is the reason for this blog... In fact,
Korry and his team are so receptive to our suggestions because they
want to improve the site, and are still in the development stage,
that we really have the opportunity to impact things here, and not
only with our profiles (and there is already a history of this having
happened)... All of our success depends on each other, including
yuwie's as a whole.
For
once and all, This place is NOT about page views .... It is not
about visiting your 200 or 800 or whatever amount of friends you have
every day, or once a week and awarding them a number of page views in
the hope that they will return the favour ... It is particularly not
about this when you do the commenting through the bypass method and
do not even award your friend a view...!!! I do not feel obliged to
visit any of you, and will only visit as the mood takes me... Social
networking is addictive, as many of us have discovered, but it
doesn't have to be so all-consuming if you are not manically
returning every comment... Certainly, I am not promoting rudeness,
but I am appalled to have so many of my friends apologising because
they haven't visited my page in a few days...!! I have even seen
people apologising on the noticeboard en masse because they can't do
their normal rounds. This is completely unnecessary. My real world
friends don't visit that often ... Why are you feeling obligated in
such a ridiculous way? It is totally crazy. You won't make money
that way, if that is what concerns you... I even had one person who I
asked to be my friend through another friend as I couldn't add her
any other way, and she seems like a nice person, and I was informed
via my friend that this person didn't have room for me in their
roster, as they were currently finding it hard to make the rounds of
their present friends. Insane.
Yuwie
is a social networking site!! What does that mean? It means that
Korry Rogers is going to pay you longterm for building this site for
him so that he can rake in the Advertising dollars and share a large
part of that revenue with the actual builders of this site... Did he
envisage a pay per click site? Nowhere that I see in the
advertising/referral medium and yet that is what all this ridiculous
chain emails and friend adder, and manic meaningless comment giving
is encouraging!! In the words of Bob Newhart, just stop it!!! (To
see this video and have a really good laugh, click this
link). If you would like further insight on this topic,
please visit the wonderful Marco's blog on Mass
Commenting.
If
you don't believe me, read Thomas's
blog (and he is one of the most successful people here with
84 000 people in his referral tree at time of writing!!). One thing
I have definitely learned through my off-line networking business is
“Don't argue with success!!” His interest here is certainly more
vested than any of yours (presently), so do you really think he would
be arguing for something that would be detrimental to the site??
Please THINK, people!!!
It
is counter-productive... I know that this is a minority of people,
but all you people are doing is giving the site a bad rep on the
web... You have only to look at YuwiePal's blog
on our first entry in Wikipedia to see that Yuwie is being touted as
Spam, and little wonder!!
So,
what should you be doing? Well, first, establish proper
relationships with the people that you connect with. Maybe you
should start a club, or at the very least, join one... There you will
meet people that you connect with... Then you can invite your
friends, and some of them will join and you will further cement
relations with some of them... This is about developing friendships,
not about having thousands of friends, and running rampant every day
using Linky or your precious hours sending people comments (no matter
how pretty they are!!). How do you create a meaningful relationship
with someone here? Well, how do you do it in life?? You interact,
you communicate, you listen, you be there for them... You offer
help, and advice (if asked), you direct them to resources that you
think might benefit them, you LISTEN!!! But most of all, you really
interact with them about their lives, or about their interests as
evidenced in their blogs, and you don't fake it!! My close
friendships here are mainly formed by messaging, as this is private.
Yes,
I have 1200 friends, but I visit maybe 10 of them every day or so,
and another 100 when the mood strikes, or when they contact me, or
when I see they have something interesting on the noticeboard...!!
Do I worry about page views ?? NO!!! I have enough good and fresh
content on my site that I know enough people will read my blogs and
will come back periodically to see if there's something new (and I
try to provide them with something...!)
Remember,
CONTENT IS KING!!! For instance, do any of you seriously think that
Fran
or Freymous
or Marco
(for instance, I could pick heaps of others...) have any
concerns over Page views?? No, of course not!! Because they offer
fabulous and ongoing content on their pages...!
So,
you up your content, great, and don't just put pics, although they
are good, they get boring (my opinion, remember, this is MY blog –
you can write your own on your page!!). If you want to know more
about writing blogs, please read this
blog of mine. Loke
has some fantastic ideas about how to improve your profile page, and
how it is only an introduction and advertisment for your blogs and
further content... It is imperative that your blogs offer good
content, and don't just trick people into opening another page...
REFERRALS!!!
Check out
Jaime's
blog
a> for a very succinct explanation as to why he (and I)
would prefer one (active) referral compared with 1000 page views (or
even 100000 or even really 1 million!!)... This is a business of
creating an ongoing passive income... As long as your account stays
active (ie one post per year) and your downline is built, your income
will come in... ( I have double-checked this with yuwie support team,
you'd better believe it!! I am NOT wasting my time building something
that isn't going to pay my grandkids...!) Stop viewing this with a
job mentality -- that just proves to everyone else that you are a
loser...! If you want on-going income you had better change the way
you think – see my blogs on
The
Power of Duplication
and Delayed
Gratification.
Now
I might just have called you a loser, which must seem a bit harsh,
but if you are doing the wrong thing (ie the thing that is not going
to give you ongoing income) and you are being duplicated by your
referral tree (often the case as they are watching you to see what it
is they should do, and how this site operates...), then you are
really impacting not only your own income, but also the site's
viability... A lot of people all doing something stupid is not going
to give this site a good reputation..
I
am not wasting my time commenting 1200 (more soon) friends... Why
grow a large friends base, then? Well, it is certainly not an ego
thing!! It is for two reasons: firstly, the larger the friend base,
the more people potentially read my Friends Feed, Noticeboard and
Friends Status notices... That means that the larger the percentage
of people who are likely to come to my blogs... This is a marketing
business, after all. And secondly, the person that I initially make
“friends” with might not connect with me in the slightest, but
one of their friends, or visitors, might like the look of either me
or one of my blog or pic or profile comments, might come to my page,
and hey presto!! I have another good relationship forming with
someone I really connect with...
That
is another way of getting good quality friends here: make intelligent
comments on your friends' blogs, especially ones that leave your
readers wanting to know more... I have gained many friends this way,
and even one referral (Jah B InI)
who claimed that he liked my attitude and therefore was signing up in
my team. Oldbuddy writes a great blog about how to advertise yourself around yuwie via
commenting. It is important when commenting on someone else's blog
that you treat them with respect and only leave positive comments –
if you can't avoid telling them something negative, save it for a
private message and try to couch it in helpful, rather than
accusatory terms. Just remember, that their other friends will be
seeing your comments, and that you are, in effect, sitting in their
lounge-room...
So
to build your friends' base what should you do? Should you get
involved with friends adder emails (spam, in my opinion) or Friend
Adder clubs? I
think you’ll find that while having friends is important, it is
also an offshoot of what you do here at yuwie. That is, offer people
enough value and the friends will come. If you add friends in this
manner, then there tends not to be a real connection, therefore they
tend not to be real friends who visit you (ie page views) and give
you information, support, etc. Yuwie is first and foremost a social
networking site. All networking businesses are driven by
relationships.
I
would suggest to you that a better strategy would be to concentrate
on just adding a few good friends every day, establishing/nurturing
relationships, building and updating your page content, and REALLY
FOCUS on referrals.
I
look for friends who I can relate to, I always request a few of the
newcomers (to make them feel welcomed so they’ll stick around), and
I also look to request people who are currently online (at least I
know that they’re active and you can immediately establish a
relationship with them). If you keep your content fresh, they’ll
keep coming back for more! If you add friends from those emails or
those clubs, who is to say that they are active even??
Any
networking is a numbers game, you have to put a lot of numbers
through the system to see which ones will come up trumps -- that
works for referring, and it also works for Friends... This is not to
denigrate any of the people that I'm “friends” with, and whom I
never visit... I am sure that 99.9% of you are wonderful people, but
we might not have much in common, or maybe we just haven't connected
yet! I don't see how me sending you (or vice versa) some HTML code
or a copy and paste is ever going to bring us closer... Now people,
please don't mishear me, I am not saying that I don't appreciate your
comments, but I am saying that I prefer personal ones... I read your
typed comment and pay more attention to that than I do for any of the
pretty or funny HTML code that I used to get. In fact, I stopped
sending HTML comments about 3 weeks before I stopped accepting them.
Yuwie is an evolving experience for us all, and I originally loved
the pretty comments, but they soon became my less favoured.
With
all the wonderful innovations that Korry keeps adding to the site,
and the fantastically responsive attitude of himself and his team to
the active members of this website who are literally building his
business for him, then I believe that we have a huge future here at
yuwie... Make sure that you are one of the people here who are
furthering that vision, and not retarding it... We literally have
the opportunity of creating the greatest website on the Internet, and
of financially profiting from that, let's make sure we create
something of which we can all be proud.
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Perth, Australia
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