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| | The Social Networking Newbies Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | Success on Ryze | Views: 455 | | May 31, 2009 8:44 am | | Success on Ryze | # | 
John Stephen Veitch | | This is a very useful resource everyone should use.
http://www.ryze.com/postdisplay.php?confid=1022&messageid=3378013
I've been doing some local research in my own street about how people use the Internet. The behaviour that leads to FAILURE as a Ryze member is common in my own community and apparently everywhere. So what behaviour that leads to failure am I talking about?
YOU need to ba active in DOING something. If you join Ryze and expect the world to come to you, you'll sit for a very long time.
So how about some very simple rules.
JOIN lots of Ryze Networks, at least ten in the beginning increasing to twenty thirty and more as your experience grows.
Read some of the posts in these networks EVERY DAY, and visit the homepages of people who say things you are impressed with.
Leave guestbook messages on those pages if it's appropriate. Try to open the conversation with them.
At least once a week respond yourself to a post in the network conversations. Make a small contribution.
A couple of times a month invite one or two people you've come to know to join your friends list.
I give you this link to some statistics about Ryze members in my own hometown, Christchurch NZ. Notice that the ONLY people who were successful joined lots of groups, and that the one person who was almost rated a "success" joined 16 groups. 540 Homepage visits is much better than most people ever achieve, but over 27 months it's still not a lot. Only 4 friends too; clearly not serious about using Ryze.
http://www.ate.co.nz/ryze/ryze.html
John Stephen Veitch
Open Future Limited - http://www.openfuture.biz/
Innovation Network - http://veech-network.ryze.com/
Building an Open Future - http://openfuture-network.ryze.com/Private Reply to John Stephen Veitch | | Sep 13, 2009 1:30 pm | | re: Success on Ryze | # | 
Eileen Brown | | Hello John.
I always advise people to read the rules of each network
carefully before posting a self intro (some networks don't
want that), or posting to any thread. The rules can vary
and a network leader can become incensed quite easily if
you jump in the deep end without knowing exactly where the
bottom will be found.
Another good rule of thumb on Ryze is to familiarize
yourself with the top tabs. Sounds simple, I know, but
until you use those tabs, you can be lost as to where to go
to find networks to join.
I also always tell newbies to remember that their personal
stuff is in the left menu pane. Those two navigation hints
seem to help a lot of folks find their way around.
Signature lines! I bet I have explained where to go and
how to set up a signature line to no less than 200 newbies!
Once they know each post will auto fill in their urls, it
gives some incentive to post and post often too.
Exposure is a key factor. But, make sure when you expose
yourself, you are well dressed and ready to present your
best business face. (Not you John, uh, anyone!)
.02
Eileen :D
Web Development - http://www.bekansas.com/
SEO Copywriting - http://www.buddycopywriting.com/copywritinghome/
Web Site Graphics - http://www.buddywebgraphics.com/
ABHP - JOIN this ACTIVE Ryze Network! - http://abhp-network.ryze.com/Private Reply to Eileen Brown | | Sep 13, 2009 9:32 pm | | re: re: Success on Ryze | # |
John Stephen Veitch | | Hello Eileen,
You have very neatly identified three things that are very helpful for Newbies to know that I've never told people. Top Tabs, Left-side Bar and how to make a signature.
I spent three years on Ryze heavily into the helping newbies work, with mixed results. Zero support from Ryze didn't help. When Networkers First Stop for Newbies Network was started, I hoped that the new network would be the training ground Ryze so badly needed. But it was taken over by some lovely enthusiastic people who were not themselves trained, and who lacked skills. So that didn't work at all well.
For personal reasons, I've kept out of the area for about 3 years, I've stopped chasing guest books, and stopped driving up my friends list because I wanted to focus on making strong contributions to Ryze forums. I read 10 to 20 Ryze posts every day, and write original Ryze posts about 3 times a week, but sometimes daily.
People like you and I, long established with sound and hard earned reputations don't need something like a friends list, to tell us that were "in this together". But for new people, a tool like a friends list is a useful way to quickly and easily navigate to a friends page. But when you've collected over 100 friends an unordered list is pretty useless. That's why I've decided to turn mine off.
Thanks for your excellent hints Eileen.
John Stephen Veitch; The Network Ambassador
Open Future Limited - http://www.openfuture.co.nz/
Innovation Network - http://veech-network.ryze.com/
Building an Open Future - http://openfuture-network.ryze.com/Private Reply to John Stephen Veitch | | Sep 14, 2009 1:05 am | | re: re: re: Success on Ryze | # |
Eileen Brown | | Hiya John.
I'm not sure when this feature came into being, but if you
click on the Friends tab (at the top) you can sort your
list by name or by last login. Albeit, by name is not by
last name, but it helps tremendously. The random list we
have on our home page pages, I agree, is not much use.
I turned off my friends list just to protect those names
(my friends) from exposure. However, I wonder if my
friends would care if they received random visits from my
page visotors? If someone is looking at my page, wouldn't
it be more of a favor to allow our friends to be viewed too?
I don't know, perhaps this is a good question to ask, uh,
our friends. And it may be that is the reason for the
random list in the first place, to protect our friends
names from abuse.
After thinking on this, I turned my list back on.
Exposure IS the idea of networking, eh?
Eileen :D
Web Development - http://www.bekansas.com/
SEO Copywriting - http://www.buddycopywriting.com/copywritinghome/
Web Site Graphics - http://www.buddywebgraphics.com/
ABHP - JOIN this ACTIVE Ryze Network! - http://abhp-network.ryze.com/Private Reply to Eileen Brown | | Sep 14, 2009 1:27 am | | re: re: re: re: Success on Ryze | # |
Eileen Brown | | The feature I like the most is the contact manager. I
didn't get the significance of that for a long time. I
mean, after all, you have this kind of list with most email
accounts. BUT, I have found it to be a great asset in
keeping track of my Ryze friends email addys, phone
numbers, and more. It's easy to get anyone onto your
contact list and easy to edit that information too.
Once you have a biz contact at Ryze, you can have all that
info at your fingertips.
Eileen :D
Web Development - http://www.bekansas.com/
SEO Copywriting - http://www.buddycopywriting.com/copywritinghome/
Web Site Graphics - http://www.buddywebgraphics.com/
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