How to use the My Instant Biz Member’s Forum!

This is a short tutorial on how to access and use the support forum at MIB.

The Forum is here! Once you register and become activated, be sure to bookmark it.

First though I want to emphasis that the forum is your number one MIB building resource after SURFING of course. In the forum you will find pages and pages of extremely useful info as well as all the moral support from an active and caring membership that you could possibly hope for.

The Forum is divided into several separate sub-forums, which in turn consist of several “Threads”. Threads are simply “Posts” that have multiple responses to them and Posts are comments or questions that members have submitted for public viewing. A “Thread” always starts with a “Post” and consists of multiple “Posts” or responses.

To ask (or post) a question simply find the sub-forum header that most closely deals with your topic and open it. Lets say you want to tell us all that you got your first sign up. Click on “Success Stories” to open that sub forum and click on the “NEW Topic” button near the top left. You should see a “Subject” field and “Message body” field that may resemble many email systems you have seen before. It works just like an email at this point. Just enter the topic (Subject) in the Subject field and then ask your question in the Message Body field. When you’re finished you can “Preview” your message, “Submit” it, “Save” it to finish later or “Cancel” it. “Preview allows you to look your message over and edit it before you “Submit” it. After you submit it, you’re all set. Your inquiry will be posted right away and the other members will be able to view it now and respond to you.

As you are reading other Posts and Threads, you may want to respond to some else’s “Post” as part of that “Thread”. Simply click on “Post a Reply” below the last Post and you will find yourself at the “Subject” and Message body” screen again. You don’t need a subject this time and you can simply enter your response in the Message Body field and then Submit, Preview, etc.

To send someone a PM (Private Massage) click on the PM button below their post. This will open a window similar to the other posts on the forum. The difference is you will not be posting for everyone to see. It will only go to the person you have chosen to send it to. This is just like an email without the 'getting lost in cyber space' part. Enter your information and submit. That person will be notified of a new private message the next time they login to the forum.

That’s pretty much it. As with anything, you get better by doing so don’t be shy and join in the discussions that you find of interest.

And finally, THERE ARE NO STUPID QUESTIONS here. If you don’t know PLEASE ASK. We want you to be successful at MIB and that means there’s a lot to learn and you will have questions. The membership here is VERY "new person" friendly so don’t worry if you don’t know it all yet.

And most importantly, HAVE FUN!