Thank you Irv.

Thank you Mark. I try to help when I can, and also learn a lot in the process. WA is truly a great place to be.

seriously?! even now...?

I've been in John Assaraf's closed facebook group and people are extremely active even though all the likes count for nothing, there is no rank. All the people want to help all the time, and they want to speak and share, even when they give the wrong answer - it is exactly like WA without the rank system, and most people leave after 3 months too, because the fb atmosphere is time consuming and tedious after the novelty wears off and it is not why I joined his course to be spending time in there.

I used to help newbies with questions in here, but I'm glad I saw what you consider success and rank today Kyle, I need to become a lot less 'successful' by WA standards and let my rank drop!

Thank you, Kyle. I owe it all to you. What a great place to be!
WA is exactly what I have searched for. My Best to You Always!

Hello, Mary

Quit frankly, I was initially taken aback when I saw your comment and your attack on Kyle. I had to read your profile to try and learn more about you and what brought you to this place.

I was very sad to read of your medical issues, and hope things are better now and I truly wish you all of the best in life. Life is not always fair, and neither is the ranking system at WA, on that point I will agree. I myself have seen folks who have not been here very long rank much higher than me and it disturbed me as well, that they were seemingly getting rewarded for just hanging out in chat and socializing about issues completely unrelated to their website, training or helping others. However, I didn't complain. There was no point. That is not my focus.

That is not what I meant about being 'active'. I don't belong to FB for that very reason. I don't care what people eat for dinner, how much wine that they drank the night before, or that is time to take their dog out to do it's business. I have better ways to spend my time. If that's how people got their rank, it was not deserved.

When that kind of 'chat' is going on, I leave the chat room and go back to the training or work on my site. Sometimes I will even scroll down and see unanswered questions from a while ago, and think, 'people, wake up. Someone needs help here'. If the question has been asked within the last half hour, I will still answer it if I can, even though I know that the person may have already left the Live Chat. Maybe they have not.

My purpose for time spent in Live Chat is not to socialize, but rather to help when I can, and learn when I cannot. When someone asks a question that I can answer, I do so, as accurately as I can. When I don't know for sure, I will not give an answer, but instead, will wait patiently for someone else to respond, so that I too can learn. I have a Word Processor file filled with 100s of links from answers to the training that I have copied & pasted for future reference in case I run into the same problem down the road or that I can quickly find to advance my knowledge in a certain area.

I wasn't even going to post this rank gain, but was encouraged to do so in a congratulations from Kyle. That is why it was short and sweet. While I agree that the ranking system is really not that important and could be a little better or fairer, I would rather see Kyle continue his focus on the training, which I believe is his strong suit, and is vey much appreciated. I know that there have been many recent updates in that area here, and some of the training still needs to be revised.

So, in closing, I just want to wish you well, and leave you with this final thought. While you are surely free to do whatever you want, I would encourage you to continue to visit the Live Chat from time to time and help answer questions when you can. Life is all about helping people. We all need it from time to time, and appreciate it when we get it, but some forget to pay it forward.

Best of luck in all you do. Kyle, keep up the great work you are doing. Many, many people are benefitting from it.

Sincerely,
CJ Dodaro

I have no idea what the ranking system means. Reading your comments it appears that you gain points by the amount of time you spend socializing and helping others.That makes it a time killer with no investment return. I joined WA to make money. That's it. I spend a great deal of time, every spare minute, working on my site and learning how to become a successful affiliate marketer. I am a four month member, and my ranking is 2790. It will stay there until I have attained my goal. I don't mind helping others. But how can I help others when I have not achieved a goal myself? Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe Kyle has or had the same conclusion. Ranking in humanitarian efforts is great, but only after success can you become an expert.

Not everything in life is about money. Have you ever seen a 2 or 3 year old helping their 1 year old sibling learn to walk? It's precious. If we all waited until we were king of the hill to help someone, this would be a sad world indeed.

Thanks.

Trying. Thanks.

Thank you.

Thank you. I appreciate that.