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If you’ve read our Welcome to the QB Community post, you know we how much we love honest, helpful and respectful conversations about all things business: the good, the bad, the ugly and the awesome. Especially the awesome!
However, there’s one thing we don’t love on our site: promoting your own business. Now, we totally understand the urge to plug your biz to as wide an audience as possible. But we firmly believe our QB Community is not the place for pitching your product or service – ever.
Why? People join this community to develop ideas, set and reach business goals, get inspired and learn from folks already in the trenches of working for themselves. We’re here to help all those things happen without the distraction of a sales pitch. To avoid the murky grey-area about what does or doesn’t qualify as self-promotion, our zero-tolerance approach keeps things simple.
Makes sense, right?
We keep a close eye on things to make sure everyone is on the same page with promotions. However, if you notice someone on the site pitching their products or services, please let our community hosts know right away. No matter who finds the problem post, we will take appropriate action. Posts that do not meet our guidelines and expectations will be edited or removed as determined by our moderators. Repeat offenders will be removed from Community membership.
Now for some great news: We strongly encourage each and every one of you to contribute by:
Sharing your wisdom. The more you share what you know, the more we know. Generously sharing insights, information or resources is a guaranteed way to establish yourself as a leader inside our Community or an authority on topic.
Here’s an example. Say you’ve written a book about three sure-fire ways to get customers that no one’s ever thought of before. Fantastic! Instead of telling us where to buy the book, explain what we’ll learn from the book.
The takeaway is this: Please don’t market your services or products (no matter how great they are!) in any public posts. As your hosts, we are seriously committed to facilitating distraction-free learning, conversation and engagement. You can learn more about our dos and don’ts in our post, QB Community Rules of the Road.
Utilizing your member profile. Your QB Community profile is the only place where you can link directly to your business website, current fundraising efforts, social media channels and the like. A link to that profile appears every time you create, comment on or cheer a post (now that’s incentive!).
That means anyone who wants to know more about you, your business or your expertise can simply click on your profile page and then follow direct links to your business website and social media pages. Voila!
(Haven’t updated your member profile yet? You’ll find the link near the top of your personalized homepage when you sign in to the site.)
Thanks for your support!
