Recording Questions

There are a lot of smart, talented people here and we’re very glad to see all the great info many of you have shared so far.  We’re so impressed that we’d like to invite you to help us spread the word about Recording Questions to your recording friends to help grow the community even more.  You may even win a free t-shirt!

Starting today, you will find the Recording Questions ‘Refer-A-Friend’ program in your user profile:

Using this page makes it easy to tell your friends about RecordingQuestions.com.  Your display name and an email message are already inserted on the page (although you can customize each if you want), AND you can keep track of how many of your friends become site members as a result of your referral.

This is how the program works.  There are two possible ways you can get a free Recording Questions t-shirt:

• Win one in our weekly t-shirt drawings
• Earn one by getting five or more of your friends to join the community

Weekly T-Shirt Drawings

Each week, one drawing winner will be selected to win a free shirt.  In order to qualify to be entered in a drawing for a particular week, you need to have accumulated at least three points.  The way you accumulate points is by sending referrals.  Each referral you send is worth one point and each weekly drawing costs three points.

You become automatically eligible for the next scheduled weekly drawing as soon as you have at least three points saved up (unused points carry over from week-to-week).  For example, if you were to send one referral in Week 1 and then send two more referrals in Week 2 (for a total of three points), you would be automatically entered into the drawing at the end of Week 2.  You can keep track of the number of points you have by checking your Referral Stats in your user profile.

If you have several points accumulated, you will continue to be automatically entered in the weekly drawings until either: a) all your points are used up; or b) you are selected as a drawing winner – whichever comes first.

You can choose to send as many or as few referrals as you want, but please do not spam your friends.

Recruit Five or More New Community Members

Once you successfully recruit five new members to the site, we will go ahead and just give you a shirt for free (if you haven’t already won a shirt in the weekly drawings).  The way this works is that each of your email referrals automatically includes a link to the Recording Questions homepage, and that link ties back to your account, so as long your friend signs up using the link in your referral, you will get credit for recruiting them.  Remember, you can keep an eye on your progress by checking your Referral Stats located in your user profile.

Referral Stats

As mentioned earlier, your Referral Stats help you keep track of your progress in the Refer-A-Friend program.  You can see how many of your friends have joined the community as a result of your referrals as well as check on your t-shirt drawing eligibility status.  When you first begin, your Referral Stats will look like the column on the left side below (no active referral points).  Then, once you send a few referrals, your status will update to show how many points you have and also how many future drawings you are eligible for, similar to the column on the right side.

If you have questions about your points or eligibility, please feel free to email me: erin[at]recordingquestions.com

A few fine print items:

• Emails you provide are kept confidential and will not be used for any purpose other than the Refer-A-Friend program.
• Even though there are two possible ways to get a free t-shirt, we can only award one free shirt per site member.  If you would like to purchase additional shirts, feel free to contact us.
• Depending on your geographic location, we may require that you pay for shipping should you win a t-shirt.  This would be worked out on a case-by-case basis.
• We reserve the right to change the rules or cancel this program at any time.

Thanks again for your help in spreading the word!!

-Bearin