Why, You Should Follow Other Members!
Last Update: Nov 12, 2019
Wealthy Affiliate is a Community ... some call it family as the relationships between members can develop into wonderful online friendships and sometimes in-person interaction at meetings or conferences or social events.
We have all been exposed to Social Media such as Facebook and Twitter who are based on making connections to other people and "Liking" or "Following" them so that you receive notifications of their posts and they are notified of yours.
A community such as Wealthy Affiliate depends on the volunteer services of the members to provide a lot of the value such as Live Chat, Responding to Questions, and Coaching other members.
The Members who are providing those services do so to help others to be successful and to build a network of contacts within the community.
You can see your network information just under your profile picture ... it will display the number of people who have "Followed" you on Wealthy Affiliate. These are individuals who have reached out to you to make contact and in many cases to offer help or to welcome you to the WA family.
Take a moment out of your busy day to respond to these people and thank them for reaching out or at the very least follow them back! Not only will your rank increase you will build a group of people willing to help you, if you need assistance.
Try to keep the number of people you have reached out to (Following) by clicking on the Follow Button very close to the number of people who have reached out to you (Followed).
Send messages to these people, engage and comment on their blog posts, get to know them ... they are all really nice, helpful people, just like you.
Follow people ... Be followed ... and Engage!
"Awaken Your Potential"
Allan Curtis
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I think I've been replying in the wrong places. I've been replying after reading others comments which is replying to their reply instead of to the original person who posted. I believe I have learned that replying under, join the discussion, that now it's going to the right person, the person who placed the original post. I guess that shows how much I know about this techy stuff, but I'm always willing to learn. Thank you Allancurtis for the lesson learned!
Great work ... always good to learn something new!
The messages tend to stay together so in most cases the author will still see your comment!
Best wishes, Brian ..
Allan
That's how I just got here. And I've been doing the same! HaHaHa!! I wish us both luck in figuring all this out. Time and patience and we'll have it down pat.
I feel so much better now. Good luck and best wishes to you! And I am following you to make sure one of is learning. Ha!Ha!
Kris
Thanks for the reply I pushed your fantastic follow button, I hope you will do the same, still searching for the fastest way to follow, which I've blogged on, check it out if you'd like.
I am glad I took the time out of my day to read this. I do not want a house all to myself and so to create that network balance, I may be able to share in my accomplishments with others which makes me the happiest. This struck a chord with me, for sometimes, money cannot buy everything, and this has been the most challenging and difficult part to understand and live out, so I am glad I made myself read this. It was short, precise, and very helpful for me. Thanks!
Hi Cameron, thanks for the positive feedback ... I am very pleased you found it of interest and helpful.
Best wishes
Allan
Thank you very much Allencurtice this means a lot to me. I have cerebral palsy and so I type slow. And I'm also dyslexic and so for example my lesson here at WA takes me 50% more of my time to accomplish. I feel really bad that I cannot respond to all WA's email and I have gotten maybe 70 emails already so far. This is who I am. https://www.ability-mission.org/ricardo-ching-inspires-like-the-little-engine-that-could.html
Happy New Year Ricardo Ching
It is really gratifying to know there are so many helpful people at wealthy affiliate. I have just finished my first lesson and I know there is a journey ahead and to know i won't be on my own is a very happy feeling.Thanks to all of you who have offered help.
Very good article. I am looking to a successful career here. I have had nothing but bad luck all my luck and wanting to turn it around. I know that God is going to help me and all the rest of the good people on the site. God bless you.
Donnell, best of luck to you ... follow the training carefully and it will provide you with the knowledge you need.
Best wishes
Allan
Thanks for the information. By the way, I have already done it. I constantly make friends on a regular bases, because the only want one can build something is by connecting. That happens to be a given law in this universe. Those who connect are very large, and those who don't are very small. So small they have nothing, because they don't connect.
Kent
When I was in grad school, studying business communication, my mentor would remind all his students of the following: "We are part of an academy. We build on the work of those who came before us, and if we do the right thing those who follow will build on what we are doing. So, we have an obligation to not only strive for excellence but to also learn from each other."
I would say this also applies to WA. We are part of a learning and supportive community. This means we can learn from each other and offer support by following.
In sum, I totally agree with you.
Thabo
Thank you! I am a new member! I am following quite a few members! I didn’t engage all weekend, as I had family stuff! I now feel overwhelmed by all the emails from WA in my inbox! I can’t seem to get to them all! I ended up deleting a lot just to get through them! Is this normal, in the beginning
Hi Laurie ... the volume of email can be overwhelming at times ... you can turn off email notifications in your profile settings, if you wish, and just use the internal notification system. (Bell Icon) I find that works best for me.
Allan
Absolutely every morning i cannot wait to see the new menbers as well as those who have become premium. I have learned so much just from comments and posts from my networking followers.
It is exciting to build these relationships from literally all around the globe.
I have lots and lots of pen pals.Yippee.
Love you all and am excited to follow your journeys and successes!!!
Love my family
Thanks Carla ... yes, the international aspect adds a great deal to the experience. I have people I consider friends all over the world ... some I have met, others remain virtual!
Love and hugs to you ...
Allan
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Yes, Allan I just started back to reply to my friends that I haven`t replied for almost a month. I just had a short vacation going back to my beautiful country CEBU' PHILPPINES.
I am still so far behind.....but I am trying to work on it as much as I could..
you are not alone...you can do it..
Thanks..for..the..follow.