Since 1999, YoungEntrepreneur.com has been providing free social networking forums and support to entrepreneurs and small business owners at all stages in their businesses. In fact, over 64,000 both aspiring and experienced Entrepreneurs have joined this quickly growing Entrepreneurial Community — now it’s your turn! We’re glad you’ve decided to join in on the conversations and the network! So what are you waiting for? Here’s how to use YoungEntrepreneur.com to your full advantage:
Register for Free
Before you can post your first comment, thought or questions, you must first choose a username and password to use while you’re on the site. Being registered gives you an identity on the forums, a fixed username on all messages you post and an online public profile. Registration is FREE and offers an extended range of features, including: (If you are looking for the premium memberships click here)
- Posting new threads
- Replying to other peoples’ threads
- Editing your posts
- Receiving email notification of replies to posts and threads you specify
- Sending private messages to other members
- Creating albums of pictures and comment on others’ pictures
- Adding events to the forum calendar
- Setting up a ‘contact list’ to quickly see which of your friends are online.
- & much more!
Click here to register now — it’s completely free! If you’ve already registered, continue to the next step.
You will be asked to choose a user name, password and enter a valid email address. In addition there will be some other fields to which you will be invited to respond. Some will be mandatory while others are optional. Once this is complete you will have to click on a link in an ‘activation email’ sent to your email address. Once you have done this you will be registered!
Choose a Forum Category
Can’t find your answer using the Search feature? Head over to http://www.YoungEntrepreneur.com/forum (or click “Forums” from the menu) and choose the category that you would like to post a question, comment or just simply view the threads of your choice. Some of our popular categories include: General Business, Marketing & PR, Looking for Capital/Biz Partners, Websites for Sale and SEO, PPC and Online Marketing. Please only post your question/comment etc. once. Posting the same thing twice is unnecessary and will most likely be removed by a forum moderator.
Start a Thread
After you choose your category (above), press the “New Thread” button just above the list of sections:
Post your Question/Comment etc
You’re now ready to post your question or reply to one! You’ll be asked to enter a title. Please make titles short but descriptive. “Please help me” or “Hello World” doesn’t describe much. Then, when you enter your full message below, If you are asking a question, please be as specific and as detailed as possible.
Search Forums and Threads
How do I search for something?
To quickly find a thread or post of interest anywhere on the forum, click on the ‘Search’ link in the navigation bar at the top of most forum pages. Then, type in the keyword or phrase you wish to search for, and select either ‘Show Threads’ or ‘Show Posts’ to view the results. By selecting posts, you will be shown only the actual post in which the search word appears. For more control over the search, select ‘Advanced Search’ from the drop-down box. The advanced search page allows you to restrict your search to individual forums, find posts or threads by user, or return results based on tags. There are also options to find posts from a certain date, or threads with a certain number of replies.
Attention Important
We make every effort to keep the Young Entrepreneur Community a friendly place to help you start, manage & grow your business ventures. As such, we have a few important rules you MUST follow:
- Please post your question only once! Please do not try and Spam the forums as it is not tolerated and will result in a banning of your IP Address.
- Do not post advertisements of any kind.
- Be polite and patient to everyone! You may not use foul language of any kind and you may not post offensive messages or images.
- Click here to see the full list of rules.
- For further help and more FAQ’s on utilizing the community and tools go here: FORUM FAQs.
