Refer New Members to BiggerPockets & Win Prizes

Help Build the Community - Refer a Friend to BiggerPockets!

BiggerPockets attracts somewhere between 50 and 75 new members every day. In an effort to boost that number, we're asking for your help! We're putting on a little contest to motivate you to refer your friends, colleagues, clients and customers to join the site. NOTE: When someone that you invite signs up, they instantly become your colleague.

There are many ways to invite people to join the site.

Where to find the invite links:
You'll now see an INVITE A FRIEND box on the left side of the forums, right below the FEATURED PROPERTIES box. Additionally, in the DASHBOARD, you'll see an invite link in the NETWORKING dropdown. In addition, above the search form at the top of all of our social pages, you'll see an INVITE link highlighted in yellow.

How to invite people to join BiggerPockets:

• Once you've followed the invite link, you'll see that there are three ways to invite members to sign up. The quickest way to do it is to enter the person's name and email address in the form on the invite page, and press the Send Invites link. You'll note that there is an Invite Another link below the email form, where you add as many people as you'd like.
  
• The second way to invite people is to find the Referral Link at the bottom of the invite page and email it to your contacts. Tell them about BiggerPockets and give them the link to sign up with. If they follow the link, you'll get credit for the referrals.
• The final way to invite people is to IMPORT YOUR COLLEAGUES. By using the site's import my contacts page, you can easily import any contacts from AOL, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook, or Mac Mail. Just enter your email address and password after selecting the icon (don't worry, our site does not retain any of this information) for the service you're interested in importing from, and then you can choose what contacts you'd like to invite to BiggerPockets.

Win Prizes for Being a Top Referrer

As I said earlier, we've got a big referral contest coming soon with some fantastic prizes . . . until then, we're going to be giving away some free books or t-shirts to the top 5 referrers in a mini-referral contest

Any BiggerPockets member, who refers members to the community, between now and February 23, 2009 at 5pm PST. gets an opportunity to win. Those members who invite the most people to the site will get a chance to win. Some things to note:

• Each of the new members that you refer to the site would have to activate their accounts and at least introduce themselves to the community in our New Member Introductions forum. We are looking for QUALITY members, so inviting a bunch of people who don't participate, or worse, who SPAM the site in any way, will reflect badly upon you, so be smart in your referrals.
• These members MUST come to the site via your REFERRAL LINK (found at the bottom of the INVITE PAGE), an email invite, or as IMPORTED from your AOL, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook, Entourage, or MacMail accounts. This is how we track your referrals.
• You can track your and other referrals by checking our STATS page.
• The primary purpose for having this contest is to bring new, quality members to BiggerPockets, who are interested in real estate and who will begin to participate in the community! Keep in mind, if your referrals sign up and then never come here again you will not be credited with the referral.
• The contest is not about artificially inflating your invite count with SPAM accounts! We will be checking out those members who are in the top results to make sure that the users they invite actually participate on the site. Don't try to create fake members and don't try to cheat. If we determine that you are doing either, we will ban you from the site permanently!
• A minimum of at least 10 "quality" referrals is required to win. If no one reaches this number, we'll end up keeping the books and t-shirts for our staff.

Thanks for helping to build up the BiggerPockets Community and Good Luck!