MSN & Yahoo Communities (The Basics)
I´m sure at one time or another, we´ve all explored either an msn or yahoo community or both. Communities are a FREE service that allows us to build and manage, discussion groups,family sites, business communities etc.
These communities can be a powerful tool to promote your business only if you know how to use them effectively.
There are 100´s of very popular communities that allow anyone to post as many "Classified Ads" as possible. Unless you to spend hours doing this, I suggest you leave if be for the time being.
What I´d like to focus more on is "WHY" you should create your own msn & yahoo community for yourself!
See, many of the best search engines will pick up your community because of the sheer size and popularity of msn & yahoo.
Also, I see many marketers waisting a lot of time because they are trying to promote too many services or opportunities at one time. A community will allow you to add ALL that you promote into one site and then all you have to worry about is promoting that one site!
This won´t happen over night and learning how to easy it is to build & manage your own community will be posted in the next issue #2.
Before we get into that, you´ll want to join the "Top Rated" communities in the business sections. Doing this will allow you to familiarize yourself with what´s "the norm" with these communities. Also, after you´ve made the necessary adjustments and you´ve prepared your own community, you´ll be using all the top communities to promote your own.
I must appoligize to those who have never joined and msn or yahoo community. You´ll need to sign up for a user passport which is simply an msn or yahoo e-mail and password.
For an msn passport click below:
http://register.passport.net/default.srf?sl=1
For a yahoo passport click below:
http://edit.yahoo.com/config/eval_register?.intl=us&new=1&.done=http%3a//www.yahoo.com&.src=www&.v=0&.u=0f49rckvhg06m&partner=&.p=&promo=&.last=
When signing up for an msn community, you´ll want to click the option "READ ALL MESSAGES ONLINE". This way you won´t fill your e-mail account with countless messages that are posted everyday... Also, click on "KEEP MY E-MAIL PRIVATE" so that you don´t get any junk this way either.
And now you have the basics of communities, please look for the sequel to this article titled:
"Building & Managing your own community"
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