What’s up folks, this is Kyle, co-founder of Wealthy Affiliate. If I haven’t bumped into you already or we haven’t chatted yet, let me first offer my personal help to you. You can reach me any time of the day, through my profile here at WA. I am here to help, and I unequivocally PROMISE to get back to everyone. You can also drop me a comment at the bottom of this post.

OK, we are now a few days into The Open Education Project and I am getting quite a few questions about how to become an ambassador of WA, what are the requirements, what is it based on, and how to understand if you are actually working towards it.

Why Become an Ambassador?

First, let's discuss why one would want to become an Ambassador, outside the obvious reason that you are helping someone out through your contributions, here are some things that may not have been so apparent initially.

Here are some of the benefits to becoming an ambassador:

• Further exposure within the system (profile exposure, featured member)
• Addition to the initial “follow users” screen that new members see when someone logs into WA
• Ability to earn unlimited credit levels through the training resources
• Massive reach, brand, and credibility within WA
• Access to new systems, access to pre betas witin WA
• Trip to Las Vegas to meet us and fellow Ambassadors
• Many new opportunities with new system developments ($$)
• Ambassador acknowledge within Wealthy Affiliate (announcement)

We cannot reveal everything at this point, but there are definitely going to be some more "grandiose benefits", but we don't want to reveal anything that hasn't completely been developed or is in the early stages of development. But these are the core benefits of being an ambassadors, ones that will give you true Ambassador privileges within the system.

Who is it for?

Everyone. Really, if you are interested in becoming a regular contributor to the community and interested in sharing and helping others, while being rewarded at the same time, then you are a PRIME candidate for becoming an Ambassador.

IF you are saying to yourself, I don't know enough to offer training or blogs here within WA, I can honestly say that you are thinking too narrowly. You definitely have value to offer to a community like this, you definitely know stuff that others don't know about the online business world, and you definitely know things that others would find a lot of value in.

And guess what, by being involved in the Internet business landscape you are going to learn new things every day, new experiences, processes and techniques that others would love for you to share with them. The OEP is not just Internet Marketing, the training could be applicable to any aspect of Internet business, ANY!

What are the Requirements?

We are going to have minimum requirements as to what you HAVE to do at a bare minimum to become an Ambassador, but our overall Member Rank is very indicative as to who will reach the Ambassador level. The algorithm is getting updated as we speak, so if you are contributing and wondering why your rank is still lower than others that are just communicating, you will see your rankings move after the update.

We are a community based on the principles of education and that is our focus when determining who is an Ambassador. Social activity definitely plays a large role as well and how responsive and helpful you are towards others, but you must offer Training and Blogs that help the MASSES (versus just the one on one) to achieve this.

Here are some anticipated minimum requirements:

(1) At Least ONE Training Resource Per Month (that achieves Level 1 Credits)
(2) Consistent Blog Activity (2 per month is GOOD, 4+ is GREAT)
(3) Regular activity within discussions within chat, forum, training, and blogs
(4) Timely support of your resources and keeping them up to date
(5) Being in the top RANKS within the ranking algorithm

We are not limiting the number of people that can achieve this, but it is going to be a floating scale and the Member Rank that you have will be very indicative of where you are at in terms of Ambassadorship. It will be announced when you become an Ambassador.

Once you become one, it does not guarantee that you will retain status. If your activity drops on a month to month basis, you can lose it. It is not something that you achieve and can just forget about, consistent activity within WA will lead to being an Ambassador, I suppose the true definition of the meaning.

And YES, you will be able to outrank Carson and myself if you are more active and offer more contributions ot the community.

Ambassador Training Coming Soon

In the next week, we are going to be rolling out Ambassador training that will give you guidelines and steps that you can follow towards being a Wealthy Affiliate ambassador. It is going to explain exactly what it takes, but you need to remember, that someone that is an Ambassador is not just someone who posts or adds something to WA, they need to represent themselves as an "Ambassador".

Training and updates are coming soon, we just wanted to keep you in the loop about the algorithmic changes that are coming to the ranking and some of the underlying requirements of becoming an ambassador.

Hope to meet many of you in Vegas this year and we look forward to an exciting year ahead for everyone!