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Once you're a Work.com member, you can create a profile so other members can get to know about you and what you do. You can also can write guides, post comments, suggest new guide topics, and receive Work.com email updates.
I recommend:  Become a Work.com member, or sign in if you are already a member.

Introduce yourself and what you do by creating your Work.com profile
Filling out your full profile is way to gain a presence not only in the Work.com community of people running and operating businesses, but also on the wider Web, since your Work.com profile will be indexed by search engines. Tell us about yourself and what you do, post your Web site URL, and upload a photo. You can set a preference to allow other members to contact you. Remember to let us know about your business interests, whether they include "restaurants", "retail", "tax law", "Internet marketing", "startups", or something else. The more specific you are, the more people with your interests will be interested in contacting you.
I recommend:  If you are already a signed-in member, go to My Work.com to fill out your complete profile. If you're not yet a member, register first. Visit Dan Kehrer's profile for an example of a complete profile. If you'd like other members to visit your Work.com profile, contribute guides or comments and then your byline will link others to your profile. Or you can visit other members' profiles and contact them if you're interested in what they do, or you think your business would be of interest to them.

Add your feedback to guides: add comments, rate a guide, tell others about useful guides
Work.com members can add their own comments to a guide -- tell us how you or your business did it, give kudos to the guide author, suggest another resource, offer your consulting skills, ask a question. Remember that the more helpful the information you contribute, the more other members will see you as an expert, and the more potential there is to increase your business contacts and opportunities. If you find a guide really useful (or not), please rate it and help the Work.com community filter out the best guides. You can create a list of the guides you find most useful by saving guides to My Work.com. When you publicly display these, you help other users find the best of Work.com by navigating directly to your favorite guides from your Work.com profile. Updating this list often positions you as an expert who helps others navigate to the best information in your industry, and helps ensure that other users will bookmark your profile and visit it often. Other ways to let people know
I recommend:  How did you create your business plan? Tell us how you did it - add a comment to the Guide to Creating a Business Plan. Is the Guide to Creating a Business Plan useful to you? Rate it. If you find a guide useful, you can also click the "save guide" icon to save a favorite guide to your profile. See an example favorite guide list for an example of displaying saved favorite guides publicly. If you have a friend who needs to create a business plan, email her the guide. If you've found it really useful, let even more people know about it -- add the Guide to Creating a Business Plan to digg or del.icio.us.

Want to know how to do something that our guides don't yet cover?
Don't see the guide you want about the topic you're interested in?
I recommend: Get advice from businesspeople who have been there and done that. Ask our community of experienced businesspeople to write about the topic that you need to know about. Suggest a new guide topic.

Showcase what you know: write your own new guide
If you have experience or expertise in a particular business topic from logos to accounting software to trade shows, and know the best Web sites for others to visit to take action (get a logo designed, buy the best accounting software, find out the best trade shows in your industry), we welcome you to write a guide. When you write a guide, you get a byline that links to your profile, and all guides and comments written get listed in your profile, thus making the Work.com community aware of what you know and what you do. After adding a guide, a guide rating score shows how useful other users judge your guide to be, and as you continue to participate and create useful content, you start on the path to receive the ranking of Work.com Expert.
I recommend:  See Guide to Business Logo Design or Guide to Creating a Great Business Plan to get an idea of how a guide is written.  Browse our channels to see what guides we already have. Then, go write a new guide!

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We want to make Work.com the most useful site for small businesspeople on the Web. If you have ideas or suggestions, we welcome them - send them along. Tell us what you like and don't like.
I recommend:  Send feedback to Work.com to make us even better.