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Your WA Rank

Shawn Martin

Published on January 16, 2015

Published on Wealthy Affiliate — a platform for building real online businesses with modern training and AI.

Hi everyone.

Lately I have heard so much going on with how people are ranking in WA.

I feel it is time for some honest talk about this topic.

First and foremost, your WA rank is just a gauge of how much you are involved with the WA community.

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This rank does not mean you are an expert in anything going on here, or that you are a go to person for advice and such. This kind of attention comes from building trust in others.

Those of you who are just answering posts and questions, reviewing website, helping in chat are on one hand valuable assets for WA, but my question to you is are you being an asset to yourself?

If this helps any of you I will tell you how I got to the rank I have today.

I came from working at AOL and writing training modules and live training sessions for the chat hosts there, ( yes, the guys that could and would ban the bad guys learned how to do it from me, lol ) and so when I found out I could write them here to help others I was all in on that, and that is what I do here when I have time. I make a commission on writing these so please click the like when you view my tutorials. ( Had to plug that, :) )

I also help out in chat when I can and I set aside an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening to help others by email, PM, blogs, and chat. I do this because when I came here I had an idea of what marketing was all about but the people who took the time to teach me in chat and PM and blogs are the ones who are responsible for my success so far in my online business, along with of course the owners.

BUT< my main goal here is to build my business and that is my primary concern, and in doing that my rank becomes important to me here at WA as I use that as a selling point and for leverage in my boot camp efforts.

I do not, will not, can not, or do I have the time to sit here and help people all day and answer posts and PMs just to up my rank, and if any of you are doing that, please get back to work and Just Build It Now........ hey, that would be a good name for a website :P

PS< if anyone does need help please feel free to ask me anytime, I will find time to answer.

Shawn>>

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