Our exchange system gives you many opportunities to share. Here are just some:
1. Share about us. Help My Neighbour ("HMN") will reward in ComCoins (CC) all your referrals that sign up within your first month of being a member of our community. Feel free to invite your facebook friends, work colleagues, business associates, customers, etc. You will receive CC10 for each person that signs up for our 30-day free trial, and an additional CC15 when they pay their $25 yearly membership fee, You can exchange your ComCoins for goods and services offered on this site by other members of our community.
IMPORTANT: When you invite someone, you must give them your Invitation Key, which is your account number. That is the only way we may know who to credit for the referral. We ask everyone for an Invitation Key when they apply, and keep that in our records. To make this easier for you, you can download our printable invitations (see below). There are 12 business-card-size invitations per page, and they are easy to cut (use a ruller to draw cutting lines, if you need a guide). Take the PDF file to a local printing service, and colour-print as many pages as you want. It is best to use a good card stock, otherwise it looks cheap. Please hand-write (with a blue pen) your account number - as the Invitation Key. Then you can take a picture of such an invitation (with your key written on it), and post it on your facebook/etc, inviting your friends to sign up using your key. Make sure they know joining our community is by invitation only, and they must use your key to be accepted.
2. Share your knowledge, skills, products, and unwanted things with other members of our cooperative community, by posting them as "offers". Anything that is legal and in decent shape can be posted, from your garage sale items to business products and services. Download the list of our Offer/Want Categories (below) and let it inspire you regarding products and services you can OFFER or may WANT.
How to post offers & wants:
● Take the categories list and read one category/subcategory at a time ● Can you offer anything in that category? ● Do you want anything from it?
● Good practice is to offer services/products that you realy like doing or making. ● Request (want) services that you hate doing, or don't have time to do.
● Add the item's picture, if you can, to stimulate more interest. ● Keep content short and clear.
● Search relevant keywords on the site and then visit other members' posted offers/wants for inspiration.
● Keep adding offer/want items, it's free. ● In fact, if you post at least 3 offers + 3 wants, then you are allowed to spend up to CC500 right away.
● Select 2-3 categories for each offer/want, to increase your chance to be found.
● Be mindful of your limitations. ● Do not overcommit nor overbook yourself.
● Keep the currency circulating. You are only allowed to save up to CC500 in your bank, then you must spend some before earning more.
3. Donate ComCoins to HMN. Help My Neighbour site allows members to receive help before they earn any Com-Coins, thus creating a negative value in their account. While most members are motivated to bring their ballance to a positive value, some will not be able to do so. Your com-coin donations will help keep HMN's total ballance positive, to ensure its long-term strength and viability - for the benefit of the whole community. Please note that there is a cap of CC500 that any member can save, in order to prevent hoarding. Hoarding would defeat the purpose of circulating our complementary currency, and would sabotage the success of our cooperative community. Therefore, you must spend or donate some of your ComCoins, in order to make more.
4. Donate ComCoins to other members. .If a member is unable to earn ComCoins due to hospitalization, etc. you can help them bring their negative ballance to zero. Also, a member may need a higher amount of ComCoins in order to obtain a needed product or service. Feel free to participate in HMN-approved fundraisers for members.
5. Donate ComCoins to charities. .This allows charities to reward their volunteers or to buy needed services/products from other members. In order to receive ComCoin donations, a charity must be an active member of HMN. If the charity you want to help is not already a member, you can invite them to apply.
6. Donate national currency to charities. If you are donating to charities anyway, doing so through HMN has an advantage, because you receive an equal amount of ComCoins. National currency donations through the MHN system must be previously posted as wants, by the receiving charity. NOTE: You will give your Dollar donation directly to the charity (we do not handle national currencies), but in order to receive a matching CC credit, it must be posted as an offer-want transaction trhough our website
7. Share collective tasks. We are a volunteer-run online community. and each association is only the sum of the actions of its members. That is why it is important to share the tasks related to the proper functioning thereof. Please visit the "Tasks" page, to see if you can help with any of the posted tasks.