Facebook Blocks Empower Network Domain
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Facebook Boycott, New Commenting System, and Weekly Action Assignment
As most of you know, Facebook decided to ‘weanie out’ on Freedom of speech, and block the entire Empower Network domain, which caused a handfull of issues.
Like other issues that people thought would stop us, or slow us down, we got back up, fought, and now are bringing more members in every day – have more people earning bigger checks, and more.
In fact, the month they shut off our traffic, we had a 30% overall increase in income across Empower Network, and a 30% increase in new member signups.
(read about our Facebook Protest here: /facebook-protest/?id=rjstritz
The truth is, eventually we’ll get so big, they’ll look like real dork bags if they don’t unblock us)
“Fight the forces of evil…” as we like to say. In the meantime, we just integrated a BETTER commenting system, and I want to ask for your help – we’re going to be importing all of the 120,000 + comments from Facebook, however, in the meantime, let’s all commit to commenting on 10 different blog posts or pages a day.
It’s simple – just go to the front blog, click on a page, or a post, and write your thoughts and respond to people. This commenting system is DRAMATICALLY better than Facebook, and you’ll get better SEO credit from your interactions.
If 1,000 of us did that, in 15 days we would have more comments than we had in the entire time that Empower Network has existed, and then we’ll still import the existing hundred thousand comments over the next month – and by then, it won’t matter
We just came out of the most BADASS event ever, AND the momentum has already started – in less than 5 days, we could replace the entire interaction on our whole site from scratch – and truthfully? We can do better.
This is a different animal – I just saw us more than double an army in only 90 days, and the next 90 is going to change the game… again.
Right now, this commenting is only on the blogs, we’ll be replacing it in the members area as well over the next week, as well as dramatically enhancing some of our social functions.
So here’s your assignments for today:
1. Go to /rjstritz and write your thoughts on all of the tabs, and the top five blog posts.
2. Login to the Members area, and also send an email to your team, asking them to comment on all of your blog posts.
3. Get two signups today, and write a blog post about how badass Empower Network is, and link back to the ‘Facebook Protest
4. Share all of your posts on Google Plus, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, and any other social network that isn’t being a wussy – just do it.
Other than that…
START GETTING SOME OF THESE IN YOUR EMAIL!
…I’m just pumped up. Thank you for the most badass event ever – this next one in Austin will be off the chain – we’ve already had more than 1,600 people register, and tickets just went into pre-launch.
THAT event will change the game.
Get there.
I’ll shoot out more updates as we import existing comments, launch new features, and more – in the meantime, go to the site, right now, and comment on 10 posts
You rock.
Thank you for all that you do.
Peace and Prosperity,
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