Three Mistakes to Avoid When Joining a Tribe

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Do you have a network marketing Internet business blog? Do you publish content in the form of articles and videos? If you do then perhaps you’ve considered joining a tribe or maybe you already belong to a few and have one of your own?

What is a tribe?

A group of people with a common interest and purpose. In this instance I’m referring  to a group of  network marketers who use content marketing on the Internet to attract prospects to themselves. The purpose of this group is to support each other’s work by reviewing content, leaving comments and sharing the content with their followers.

What are the benefits?

The most obvious benefit is that of getting your content shared by others which means leveraging the help of fellow content marketers to spread the word about you and the value you have to share.

Indirectly this leads to generating more interest in you, an increase in traffic to your content and hopefully results in more business for you in some way. Personally the traffic to my blog tripled when I started participating in tribes.

Three mistakes you want to avoid when joining a tribe:

Mistake #1: Applying the new gym membership mentality

This is like the new gym member who throws themselves into their new regime with much fervor. Life becomes dominated by lettuce leaves, high powered fitness classes seven days a week and lifting weights that are clearly too heavy. How long does it last? A few weeks at the most then never to be seen again.

Translated this is the new tribe member who would appear to be attached to the tribe 24/7. They post content furiously and continually,write lyrically about the value of your content and always have a finger hovering above the retweet button. They too only last a few weeks, never to be seen again.

What’s the point? Make it manageable, sustainable and commit to the tribe in the long term, that’s how you will see results.

Mistake #2: Valuing quantity over quality

For some reason the “more is cool madness” that seems to grip so many people when they use the Internet for anything comes into play here too. They join as many tribes as they can, even start their own. The thinking, albeit misguided is that by the sheer number of tribe memberships they are going to be successful or that this will speed up the process in some way.

In fact it leads to the exact opposite. This is not a mass movement strategy. It’s about making real connections with people and adding value to their work. You don’t have time to participate in twenty tribes nor do you have to. Choose one or two whose format you like and then work at making quality connections with the people in these tribes.

Mistake #3: Going half way

These tribe members create valuable content, post it for the attention of fellow tribe members and then disappear off the scene until they repeat the same behavior. What about the second half of the deal, reviewing, commenting and sharing other tribe member’s content?

Belonging to a tribe is about giving before you take. When you are seen to be doing your part this will automatically encourage others to do the same for you. If you are simply going to post content and never visit other’s content, especially if they have visited yours first, you are going to be seriously disappointed.

You can find out more about how a tribe can benefit you by viewing my tribe’s welcome page. Joining the MLM Alphas Tribe is free but will require effort, consistency and staying power from you to see any results.

There are many other free tribes you can check out, most of which are Facebook based. The Unified Tribe is a paid subscription which also provides many added benefits so you may want to check this option out too.

If you currently do or have participated in any tribes what benefits have you seen from doing so?  Do you have any other tips for people investigating tribes? If you have a tribe of your own feel free to post this information in the comments section too. As per usual I would appreciate it if you could share this post with your followers. Thank you.

My goal? Helping you achieve yours.

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