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A guru is a source of knowledge in a specific area. Our gurus are experts in a wide variety of topics. They provide information for our users including tips, links to useful sites, answers to questions, and a weekly newsletter. As a guru, or knowledge source for your community, your role is to help build a resourceful site for users, offering tips that will improve their lives, and links descriptions with your assessment of the best sites on the Internet. You'll edit, test, review and "certify" tips and links that are submitted by your users. You'll also answer users' questions and create a weekly tip newsletter for your site. If your site is a new site, you'll need to first jump start your site so it has appeal to users. Then, as traffic increases, your responsibility will change to "servicing" your community. You'll have lots of choices to support your community, and earn income. How many gurus will each site have? Each site can only have one guru at a time. We're currently working on creating a program which will allow you to become "apprentice gurus," learning what it's like to be a guru with a minimal amount of effort. If a guru resigns, or is asked to leave, the top-rated apprentice guru for that site will have a chance to become the guru. What if I'm an expert in more than one topic? We can only accept you as a guru for one tip site. Therefore, you should choose the site you feel you are best qualified for. Don't despair, though. You'll earn as you share your knowledge on other topics and sites. As an approved Guru, you can submit tips and links to other areas, and be listed as the source for that knowledge and content. We encourage you to support other sites, and spread all the knowledge that you may have. Simply "cross-submit" a tip or link to that site's guru for approval. They'll look over your content and post it on their site. The great news? You'll receive promotion and recognition for those submissions, and earn commission on revenue generated from content licensing, and product sales associated with your tips even if it resides on another site. Can I be a guru, and not get the free stuff or get paid? Yes. We welcome volunteer support for the community. Soon we'll be adding an "apprentice guru" program soon that will make volunteering for lifetips.com even more fun and exciting. Apprentice gurus will be able to submit content and answer users' questions, finding out what it's like to be a guru without any pressure. You'll also have a chance to become a guru if our present guru for the site departs our community. How much time does it take to be a guru? Here's a summary of our plan for your involvement of time. Remember our staff and users will assist you in building content for you site. Phase I Prepare your site for Launch: 4-40 Hours Once approved, you'll work in a special admin area to prepare your site for launch. You'll need all of your categories and sub-categories listed, and you'll need at least 50 tips and 20+ link descriptions. Each tip will link to your bio, so your users will begin to get a feel for your value, insight and knowledge. If your site is a new site, it will require at least 50-100 tips to have appeal for users, and for a potential sponsor. In addition, you'll have opportunity to meet and discuss your site plans with your channel leader, that will be your content mentor. And you'll select products from our partners that you want to offer on the site, enabling you to earn commissions. You'll even begin to write newsletter tips and link recommendations in advance if you want. And you'll have access to feedback from fellow gurus and your channel leader. Once you've added tips, links, categories, subcategories and a bio, your site is read for review by your channel leader, and final launch to the network of Lifetips sites. Phase II Site Launch and Maintenance: 20+ hours a month
Creating Newsletters: 1 hour per week
Hosting Community Chats: 1 hour per week
Site Support Ongoing Weekly Tasks: 1-5 hours per week Where can I get information for tips, links and content? We expect you to research content from books, magazines, e-zines, competitive newsletters, and on-line sources. Naturally, we expect that any content you present to us will be original, tested, proven and researched. Our Gurus are experts on the latest developments in their topic area. What is your policy on plagiarism? Lifetips does not tolerate plagiarism of any kind. Gurus caught copying information directly from other sources (books, magazines, TV, or the Internet) will be relieved of their duties immediately. Note, if you were influenced in any way by sources outside of your self, we mandate that you list the source in the "tip source" area, and even in the tip itself. Will I have control over the content and structure of my site? Yes, as an expert in your topic area, we assume you have a clear understanding of how to organize your information in a user friendly way, using categories and sub-categories that help users find knowledge. We encourage you to change your site category navigation, as you learn more about your users information needs. We recommend drawing out a map of your content prior to building your site so that you can ensure full coverage of all pertinent topics. And you'll work with your channel leader on content strategy. Our special Guru area keeps track of all of your activity. You'll know exactly what you've done to date. At any given time, you'll have real time access to the Guru Account Balance owned to you. Gurus earn in a number of ways. Our primary revenue model is built around a pay-per-click bid model. When a user clicks on a text link or ad that is running on you site, you will earn 30% commission earned by Lifetips for that click. Advertisers bid on promotional opportunity on your site, and deposit funds which are paid to you when your site delivers click or site visit to the advertiser that runs promotions on your site. You will also earn when users buy books, magazines or products that you recommend. These offers are possible with relationships we have with a number of companies like Amazon, E-News and more. And, you will will also earn when your content is licensed to any any approved site, publisher or company that is approved by or sales and marketing force. Lifetips has a staff of sales and marketing professionals that services all merchants, advertisers and partners, reachable at a toll free number 877-454-3384. This toll free number services advertiser only. Your earnings will depend greatly upon the traffic and popularity of your site. Our professional staff of traffic experts will manage all of your metatag and description preparation, and site submission responsibility to search engines, that will help you drive traffic. If your community grows at the pace we expect it to, you could have opportunity to earn $200-1,000 per month, within 6-12 months of growth. If your community grows slowly, or your topic is seasonal or unpopular, your earnings will be affected. We believe our model has the ability to earn significantly more revenue for gurus over time, and with continued viral growth of our model as has been displayed in the last year. All gurus are paid electronically using Pay Pal or other direct payment software on a monthly basis. Advertising fee commissions are completely automated. Your account will be credited with 30% of the total revenue earned by Lifetips for each user with a Unique IP address. All of the transaction fees and processing fees on your account balance will be posted for your review. At the end of each month, you will be paid 50% of the total due to you. At the end of 90 days from the first day of the month that your payment was received, you will be paid the balance due to you minus fees. Commissions from affiliate revenues are paid at the end of each month as well. Many partners choose to pay commissions on a quarterly basis. You'll have access earning on-the-fly with all of our affiliate partners, so you can view your account balances. Commissions earned from content licensing will also be paid at the end of each month paid to Lifetips, according to the same terms and conditions. What does a Guru need to do to attract sponsors? There are five things that are essential tasks our gurus need to complete each month in order to earn their commission:
1.) Enter quality tips and link descriptions Can I promote my sites or myself in my special site area? Yes. In the guru section of your site, you'll have promotion opportunity for you in your bio, and a special "my sites" area for your sites. We would prefer you to promote yourself in your bio, and your site in the "my sites" area of your bio section. Restrictions: In general, we it is not appropriate for you to list a link to your site in any other area of the site other than this Bio area. More specifically, you should not promote your site or sites in your newsletters, tips, or link recommendation section of your resource center. Approved gurus will also be promoted on each newsletter sent out to your opt-in subscribers. This promotion will be a concise version of your Bio, and will link directly to your bio. And, when you join our network, we will promote you on and your newly launched site to all of the Lifetips members, and fellow gurus. Our weekly newsletter is sent to hundreds of thousands of subscribers. All of our promotional opportunities are free to you. Our mission is to help promote you, as you help our users learn. Can I tell my guru friends about this? Is there a referral fee? Yes and No! Feel free to spread the word; we are looking for qualified gurus for lots of sites. All are welcome, but it is first-come, first-serve in each site area. To refer a guru, have the person apply at http://www.lifetips.com/BecomeAGuru.asp. Then email [email protected] and let us know who it is you referred. However, we do not pay referral fees to gurus. I reside in a foreign country, is that a problem? No. We pay international gurus with Pay Pal. You'll need a major credit card to accept Pay Pal payments internationally, however. First, review this FAQ to be sure you understand lifetips.com's policies and procedures. Next, visit Our Step-by-Step Instructions to learn how to apply to become a guru. Once you submit an application, our guru management staff will review it and contact you with further details. We always make an effort to fit you into our current tip-site topics, but we recognize that we haven't covered all that is "life." Pitch your idea to us and if you can convince us it'll be interesting to users and attractive to sponsors, we'll build a site for you. Email us your idea now! I submitted an application and haven't heard anything. What now? It usually takes us 2-10 business days to review your initial application. Once we've reviewed that, we will send you instructions for completing the process. Please wait until these time periods have elapsed before contacting our guru management staff. We get hundreds of applications a day--it can take a while to review them all! If it has taken longer than expected to hear from us, please feel free to email us Does lifetips share user and guru information? No. Lifetips maintains complete confidentiality on all information and data relating to its users, gurus, members and employees. We will not, for any reason, broker, distribute, release, transmit, or sell such information without written consent. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to send our Guru Management team e-mail at [email protected] Our goal is to respond to all inquiries within a few hours if you send it between 9AM and 7PM EST. |
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