Online Discussions Are Critical For Our Success

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With the recent enhancements to connect with one another here at Wealthy Affiliate we have become an even stronger community. This is extremely important because so much of building our business is done in isolation. Having a support community is necessary for success and having a multitude of options to "talk to one another" is critical. Let me touch on some of the recent additions that I am liking.

Live Chat

While not new but with a new "Actions" tab, most of us are familiar with the 24/7 Live Chat button. If you're like me you jump in and out many times a day, often just reading with great interest the conversation as questions are asked and answered...oftentimes the very things that we needed to know. The camaraderie is evident and the friendly jesting is appreciated. Given the many time zones we are each in we're often on with the same members and build a trust and rapport second to none.

Private Messages (PMs)

Available to Premium members, the recent upgrade that gives us the ability to quickly and easily send a direct message to one another is incredible. I know that I'm using it regularly and have found it especially useful when I stumble upon something that I think would be particularly useful to another member. This willingness to help each other is one of the pillars at WA and having a very user-friendly PM system will only enrich that.

Like

I suspect that the recent addition of the Like button is getting used a lot. I keep mine connected to my email notifications because I enjoy getting a message that something I wrote was appreciated by another member. I will often use the Like button when someone responds to one of my posts or comments as a way of saying "message received and liked" or when I like a comment someone made and want to let them know.

The New Blog Posts

This is my first time using the new format and options available in our blog post profile. This is certainly a welcome addition and allows for better engagement with our readers. What I really like is the similarity to our website dashboards because writing blogs here provides additional training and confidence to write posts on our sites.

Classrooms

If you haven't taken advantage of the Classrooms yet you're missing a great opportunity. Whether it's to peruse the various sections or actually post in them with your questions and discoveries, the Classrooms provide excellent information that shouldn't be ignored. I've posted a number of discussions and get quick responses from other WA members providing the help and guidance that I need and that will, hopefully, help others.

Final Thoughts

Wealthy Affiliate is a place to learn and build an online business and none of us need to do it alone. These tools were provided to us to use so that we can succeed.

Thanks for reading.

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It is so great that 'none of us need to do it alone' otherwise success would not be possible. Good read. Thank you Rick. See you in chat!

There are so many great tools here to use so we don't feel like we're working alone. What's really cool is that everyone truly celebrates our successes with us.

So true.

Wonderful post Rick. That's one of the many things I'm grateful for here at WA is the supportive community because it does get lonely doing what we do. I no longer feel so isolated since joining WA :-)

Thanks Rick.

Your welcome. FYI, I've been hanging out in Live Chat all evening just because I needed to unwind and not look at my site. We need to take that break sometimes.

Great Wealth of Information! Thanks, Rick!

Eric

You're welcome. These are pretty cool "toys, eh?

Hey Rick thanks for taking the time to write this blog. Packed with great useful information as always. I'd like to ask you a quick questions ---- Rapid writer here at WA How and when do you use it? I guess I 'm saying what's it purpose? Thanks again. Later, Dave

Hi Dave. I don't personally use Rapid Writer because I'm just so comfortable with Word (don't tell some folks cuz I will get chastised) but I like it. Rapid Writer or Google Docs are the recommended word processors.

Hello. I waited to see what Rick was going to say, this after all is his gig LOL.
I have used Rapid writer and now they improved it if you use google drive it works somewhat like that. you can push publish and it publishes in SA, I hear now that they have a way to publish to a blog. If you need something like that it works great..... I have used google drive and Rapid Writer. but now I use Microsoft Office. It is what works for you...

Google drive and Rapid Writer have a auto save as you go. Nice for when that gliche happens and Wow oh no where did it go.... : O)

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Kymee

Yes Yes Yes And Yes I agree to it all ;O)
Thanks Rick

Thanks. I really enjoy our chats, which reminds me that I forgot to include the after wabby hangouts. Craig won't be happy with me :(

LOL OOPS !!!! they are lots of fun and we learn lots and get to really meet some great people. ; O) there we go. this will have to be our push on it. LOVE YOU CRAIG!

That was interesting Rick. As a newcomer I did not realize how new some of the facilities are such as PM. Thanks.
Con

They're always improving things here which helps us with our business. Having these tools available to us helps us get the support we need. Thanks for reading.

Your right about it being lonely out here. When you decide to start a online business and you have failed in the past. There is not a lot of support on the home front. Until the results come rolling in. That is way it is great to have a community like this one to go to.

I always say its like coming home when we check back in here after putting in hours of work on our sites. Whether to ask a question or "visit" we need to recharge and renew.

Fully agree -- it's nice to be around people who understand :-)

Great job Rick. I've been doing a lot of engagements from notifications so I can see everything that is going on and develop new friendships. there is no day like today to help someone new to WA. my new motto

Great motto and one I use as well. I remember when I started and had a million questions, it was extremely helpful to have other members reach out and help. This is a "pay it forward" community so I like to help in turn.

Right on Rick... you're pretty much as alone as ya wanna be here! Thanks man!

It's great having these tools to touch base with each other. And even greater when we find each other on the social networks and can provide support there, too.

Thanks for the post Rick. I have a question: is the forum becoming null and void.? You don't mention it in your blog. It is very rarely used, but still available. I used it to post a question, lots of other members have too, in the past. However, there's not much getting answered there. I frequently see people posting help questions as a blog post. I didn't think that is what the blog was for. Thanks for any help you can give.

I believe the forum can still be used but may be getting phased out. I would suggest you PM Carson if necessary. I suspect the PM system is rapidly overtaking the forum now. My understanding with our blogs is that we can use them however we want but I suspect the Classrooms would be more effective because then we can all access those according to subject matter. I've always received quick responses when I've posted questions there.

Thanks for replying Rick. I will keep the classroom in mind a bit more.

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