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| General Information |
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| What is the ‘Jobs & Business Banks portal’ ? |
| The Jobs & Business Banks portal is about helping people connect successfully for jobs and business. Using the Internet, our websites are able to learn greatly about its members offers and needs and match them with other members based on characteristics. |
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| Which websites do belong to the ‘Jobs & Business Banks portal’ ? |
| The followings sites do belong to the ‘Jobs & Business Banks portal’;
- Freelance Management Bank, for temporary management positions
- Freelance Professional Bank, for temporary professional contracts
- Executive Position Bank, for executive positions
- Job Match Bank, for work force employees
- Extra Income Bank, for small, variable and/or temporary work
- Business Opportunity Bank, listing of leads
- Business Transaction Bank, merge & acquisition listings
- GlobalBusinessWebLinks.com, advanced business directory
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| Who owns these ‘Jobs & Business Banks’ websites ? |
| The Jobs & Business Banks websites are owned by B2B Media Services and we are a small profitable, privately held company located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce registration 33291973). |
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| Who can join these ‘Jobs & Business Banks’ websites ? |
| anyone 18-years of age or older to join regardless of their sex, race, religion, and country of citizenship. Our connecting service is for people who are serious and result aimed about employment and business. For this reason we have a target group diversification for our websites and made a selective and time consuming member and monitoring the postings. |
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| How can basic membership be 100% free of charge? |
| Our merit is to attract visitors to our websites to secure we will have an attractive amount and quality of postings. Paid additional services such as visible contact information, upgrade contact mails, anonymous posting and database admittance will generate sufficient revenue. This also allow us to exploit no or only limited Google Ads, banner and affiliates advertisements on our Jobs & Business Banks’ websites. |
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| How does it work? |
| In its simplest form, a subscriber/member enters jobs and business details into our database, with information about requests or offers. Providers of jobs and businesses (services) can also post classifieds and/or opportunities. Now there are two options passive or active searching and contacting. For those who decide to sit back and wait there is an automatically match alert that can be controlled it the personal settings. For contacting messages can be send through the website message centre that has an unique inbuilt supervisory system. |
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| Are the members on this site screened? |
| A valid email address is required in order to obtain the benefit of this site. Anyone abusing the services will be banned without any notice whether their membership. However, our service is otherwise confidential. There is no way that we can do extensive background checks on members, and we expect you to understand that we cannot take responsibility for consequences and reputation and financial damage arising from your use of this site. Please use your common sense and be careful about giving out personal information to people you want to do business with. |
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| Are guest members allowed on the site? |
| A guest can visit ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ but can take only a pre-view of the jobs & Business listings and is not able to participate. To maintain the privacy of the members the guests are not allowed to browse in the contact and address details or the uploaded photos and business logos of the listings unless they have become a member and the posting member has allowed to make this information visible. |
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| Is my identity and personal information secure? |
| Yes, your private information is secure. ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ utilizes some of most secure and safe computing practices. In the postings and in the settings members are able to control their visibility.
You have to be aware that personal contact information is released by contacting and sending messages through the message centre. To further secure your information we insist that you only add in the relate fields your contact information such as name, address, phone number, email, website etc. Any private contact information on the public area and free text fields of our site is not permitted can lead to be banned without any notice whether your membership.
For further details see our PRIVACY POLICY. |
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| Membership Information |
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| How do I become a member, and what types of membership are available? |
| You become a member by filling in the Registration / Membership Form on the site and you can choose offers only 1 full membership as we have no gradations
By subscribing to become a member you will have benefit of the site, including priority response to questions. |
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| How much does it cost to become a member? |
| Basic Membership is free.
We finance this basic membership service by paid additional services and jobs and business advertisements on our sites.
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| What are our free and paid services ? |
| Note that in general, membership and service is restricted by country, although the Business websites allow global, region or country specific posting of business adverts.
On our sites we offer free and paid following services, and these are
Free of charge
- basic membership, needed for access, posting a profile/advertisement and use of the contact, message centre
- posting of 1 (without visible contact information) profile
- limited number adverts (basic membership only 3 adverts) for providers of jobs and businesses
- limited number (basic membership only 3 contact mail/day) contact messages send through the message centre
- message centre with an effective management, answering and export (to your own files) system
Additional paid services
- visible contact information in profile (name, address, telephone, email, website)
- posting of anonymous advertisements
- international publishing
- expansion number adverts for providers of jobs and businesses
- expansion of the number contact messages send through the message centre
- use of contact list / address book with unlimited messages via message centre send to your saved contacts
- premium; use of the (country) database with contact information (release by member allowance), with mass contacting mail (maximum 50 contact messages, 4 searches/day)
Our directory offers; free basic listing with reciprocal URL (for fast review), free basic listing, premium listing and sponsored listing. |
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| Basic User Information |
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| What is the purpose of the message limit? |
| Basic members may send up to 3 messages in a 24-hour period. The message limit has eliminated the majority of spam and encourages serious contacts among our community. Only dedicated members will order an upgrade of the number contact messages. We continue receive praise as to the quality of contacts people make on ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ and how little spam there is. |
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| How do I block a member from contacting me? |
| If there is a member you wish to block, simply view that person’s profile and click the "Block" icon which is a round, red circle with a diagonal slash. Later you can choose to "unblock" that member in your "settings" area. |
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| What is spamming? |
| Spamming is the act of sending other members solicitations to visit a web site or to sell something. Spam is the last thing you want to deal with while you search for serious jobs and/or business and in general you would like to decide yourself to contact or to follow up a message and release your contact information. We have a zero tolerance for spamming on ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ and take all Spam reports seriously. An offence can lead to be banned without any notice whether your membership. |
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| How do I report a member who is spamming on ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ ? |
| Please send us a message to report abuse and spam (click button in main menu) and provide us with the ID number of the accused spammer along with evidence of the spamming activity so we can continue to maintain the high quality of ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ . |
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| How do I report a profile that is not appropriate on ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ ? |
| Please notify us to report abuse and provide us with the ID number of the member with evidence of their activities. |
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| Personal Profile |
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| Do you have tips on how to create profiles? |
| The number of matching quality (!) replies you get from other members will depend greatly on the quality of your profile. Here are some helpful tips that will help you:
- Make your profile visible
An investment that you should make at any time, as it will pay back. Direct contact information is always the best way to go
- Upload a photograph
People like to see whom they are responding to and as a result, profiles with photographs get up to two times more messages as profiles that don’t have one.
- Create a catchy title for your profile
When members search listings on the site, the title of your profile is both in list and detail page the first attention grabber.
- Think before you write
Creating a profile and serious seeking, matching and contacting should be well considered activities
- Be differentiate and concrete
Get selective attention is just like the ‘elevator pitch’
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| Are profiles censored, and is there any limit to what I can put in my profile? |
| Are profiles censored, and is there any limit to what I can put in my profile?
Yes, all profiles are censored! ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ Membership team approves all members’ profiles, when they are originally created as well as when they are modified. We reserve the right to refuse any profile or photograph that we feel is inappropriate for this site. Also, we also demand to put no personal contact information, in your profile, including but not limited to:
- Any direct contact information (i.e., email addresses, URLs, phone numbers, full names, addresses)
- Any location or descriptive information that threatens a member’s anonymity
- Abusive language of any kind (i.e., vulgarity, racism, terrorism)
- Pornography, sexual descriptions and solicitations
- Discussion or descriptions of illegal acts or behaviour (i.e., drug use, violence)
- Political advertisements or solicitations (i.e., (activist) groups, organizations, terrorism)
- Material that exploits or solicits personal information from other individuals
- Unauthorized use of copyrighted or trademarked material
The ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ do not accept content from:
- Individuals under the age of 18.
An offence can lead to be banned without any notice whether your membership.
For further details see our USER AGREEMENT and SITE SUBMISSION RULES |
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| How long does it take to have my profile posted? |
| It usually takes 1-5 business days to have your profile posted, depending on how many people sign up each day. In most cases the profile should be up within 24 hours after the sign up process is complete. If 5 days have passed and your profile still has not been posted, please notify us via CONTACT US page. |
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| How do I update my profile? |
| To update your profile, please follow these steps:
- Log into the site using your Username and Password.
- Click on the ’create, edit profile’ located in the main menu.
- Make all necessary changes and then scroll to the bottom of the page and click ’Save Changes’. |
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| What are the guidelines for posting a photo or logo ? |
| Photographs or logos will not appear on the site until they are approved by our customer services. We reserve the right to reject any photo or logo at our discretion. Our system automatically crops all photos to fit into our standard size.
- Content
Nude, obscene, sexual or otherwise offensive photos will not be posted. Cartoon characters and photos of celebrities are copyrighted and will not be posted.
You must be in the photo and clearly visible. Images of minors (children) will ensure rejection of the photograph.
- How many photos can I upload?
You can upload only 1 thumbnail photo or logo
- What file types can I upload?
You can upload the following photo formats: .JPG, .JPEG, .GIF, .PNG
- How do I post a photo or logo?
Firstly you have to login into the site with your username and password. Click on ’create, edit profile’ in the main menu. Once approved, uploaded photos will be posted as they are submitted. Our system automatically crops your photo if necessary before uploading it. Due to the volume of photos and logos that we receive, it may take up to 5 working days for your photo or logo to appear on your profile. |
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| How do I temporarily turn off my profile? |
| To ’turn off’ your profile so that other members cannot see it, please follow these steps:
- Log into the site with your username and password.
- Click on ‘settings’ in the main menu and set profile to ‘non active’ .
- or Click on ’create, edit profile’ in the main menu set profile to ‘non active’
If you later want to reverse it, go back into the same page you are able to activate your profile. |
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| How do I permanently remove my listing and delete my account? |
| We hope you don’t want to leave ‘Job & Business Banks portal’. Regardless of the reason, to permanently delete your profile, go to ’Settings’ and click on ’unregister me’ link.
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This is not recommended in case you later change your mind. Moreover, you can safely suspend your account (set it to non active) and no one will be able to view your profile. |
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| Jobs & Business Adverts |
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| Who is allowed to post adverts? |
| Your personal profile listing can be classified as your reference and is therefore your basic advert. For advanced advert posting you must be a member that is allowed to post an advert. In the Jobs Banks websites (except Extra Income Bank) we have professional businesses that are job providers and only they are allowed to post adverts. In the Extra Income Bank and the Business seeking and providing websites we do not utilize this separation and as it runs another system, all members post an advert. |
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| Do you have tips on how to create an advert ? |
| The number of matching quality (!) replies you get from other members will depend greatly on the quality of your advert. Here are some helpful tips that will help you:
- contact information visible
People like to know whom they are responding to and as a result, adverts with contact information get up to three times more responds as adverts without contact information.
- Create a catchy title for your adverts
When members search listings on the site, the title of your adverts is both in list and detail page the first attention grabber.
- Think before you write
Creating an advert and serious seeking, matching and contacting should be well considered activities
- Be concrete and selective
Focus on quality contacts only, define the minimum requirements that will be acceptable. |
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| Are adverts censored, and is there any limit to what I can put in my advert ? |
| Yes, all profiles are censored! ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ Membership team approves all members’ adverts, when they are originally created as well as when they are modified. We reserve the right to refuse any advert text or image that we feel is inappropriate for this site. We also demand to put only contact information in the contact fields. Improper adverts includes but not limited to:
- Adverts that are not related to the site purpose
- Any location or descriptive information that threatens a member’s anonymity
- Abusive language of any kind (i.e., vulgarity, racism, terrorism)
- Pornography, sexual descriptions and solicitations
- Discussion or descriptions of illegal acts or behaviour (i.e., drug use, violence)
- Political advertisements or solicitations (i.e., (activist) groups, organizations, terrorism)
- Material that exploits or solicits personal information from other individuals
- Unauthorized use of copyrighted or trademarked material
The ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ do not accept content from:
- Individuals under the age of 18.
An offence can lead to be banned without any notice whether your membership.
For further details see our USER AGREEMENT and SITE SUBMISSION RULES. |
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| How long does it take to have my adverts is listed? |
| It usually takes 1 business days to have your advert posted, depending on how many people sign up each day. In most cases the profile should be up within 12 hours after the sign up process is complete. If 5 days have passed and your profile still has not been posted, please notify us via CONTACT US page. |
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| How do I create an adverts ? |
| If your membership allows to post an advert , please follow these steps:
- Log into the site using your Username and Password.
- Click on the ’create, edit adverts’ located in the main menu.
- set up the main advert title and you have created the reference of the advert
- you are now redirected to a form to post all additional information
- then ‘Save’ the advert and wait till it will get listed in the website. |
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| What are the guidelines for posting a photo or logo with the advert ? |
| In general they are the same as the guidelines for posting a photo / logo of a profile. As for the service; in adverts we have the option to set and adjust the photo /logo to advert specifications (example job searcher put in his client logo) or simply use the general photo/ logo that is pre-set in the profile. |
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| How do I update my adverts ? |
| To update your profile, please follow these steps:
- Log into the site using your Username and Password.
- Click on the ’create, edit profile’ located in the main menu.
- Make all necessary changes and then scroll to the bottom of the page and click ’Save Changes’. |
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| How do I temporarily turn off my adverts? |
| To ’turn off’ your adverts so that other members cannot see it, please follow these steps:
- Log into the site with your username and password.
- Click on ‘advert control’ in the main menu and set advert to ‘non active’ .
If you later want to reverse it, go back into the same page you are able to activate your advert in the 90 days advert period. |
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| What is the advertising period and how can I remove or prolong my adverts? |
| Adverts will be automatic removed after 90 days or they should have be activate and update for prolonged period. To remove or prolong your advert, please follow these steps:
- Log into the site with your username and password.
- Click on ‘advert control’ in the main menu and set advert to ‘prolong’ or ‘remove’.
After removal the removed adverts can not be activated again as they are out of our database. |
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| Profile and Advert Status |
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| What does "Unconfirmed" mean? |
| Unconfirmed means you have not confirmed your Email address. Please click on the confirmation Email that was sent to you when you registered on ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ or changed your Email address. Once you confirm your Email address, your profile will be automatically converted to Approval mode for human review by our team. If you haven’t confirmed your Email, you can request another Confirmation Email by contacting us to request another confirmation or to confirm your profile. |
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| What does "Approval" mean? |
| Your profile or advert is waiting to be human-reviewed. You may read your messages, search, etc. However your profile is not "visible" to other users until it is approved and made Active by a moderator. |
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| What does "Active" mean? |
| Active profiles and adverts are those profiles and adverts can be viewed by all members on ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ and show up in the search results.
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Only Active profiles and adverts are visible ! |
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| What does "Suspended" mean? |
| Suspended is the status when a member chooses temporary not to have their profile or adverts displayed publicly on ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ . Usually a member will "Suspend" their profile when are in negotiation or already overbooked for jobs & business or they will not be online for a while. |
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| What does "Rejected" mean? |
| Rejected is when a member has tried to abuse our websites and has "sneak" contact information or website links into their profile and adverts. Or occasionally even did post and uploaded abusive, obscene or pornographic texts or photos. Rejection is a temporary freeze on the account made by the admin of ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ until the profile and advert content conforms to our standards. If your profile or advert has been "rejected," change the content and resubmit for admin approval. Repeated violation can result in a definite removal as a member. |
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| Log-In/Access Issues |
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| I forgot my username and/or password, what do I do? |
| In the Login menu see main menu left side follow there simply the link under the members login section, click on ’Forgot’ for our automated password/Username lookup form. Your username and password is then emailed to your email account. |
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| How do I change my password? |
| Log into the site using your username and password.
- Click on the the ‘Personal Data’ in ’Member Area’ and scroll down to where your password is.
- Enter your new password in the appropriate centre and click on the ’Submit’ button at the bottom of the page. |
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| How do I change my email address? |
| Log into the site using your username and password.
- Click on the ‘Personal Data’ in ’Member Area’ and scroll down to where your email address is.
- Enter your new email address in the appropriate centre and click on the ’Save Changes’ button at the bottom of the page. |
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| Some websites are structured by country - can I log-in at every country and all countries? |
| No, you only can log-in at the domain or country as you have registered too. The websites automatically set its entry and login page to the connected IP address of a country. So if you are aboard you have select your origin country to log-in. |
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| Member Contact Issues |
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| How do I search for Jobs & Business contacts, profiles and/or adverts ? |
| For search the database u can choose a search methods to set the required search criteria. You can use the main search buttons in the header or search options in the left side main menu. Besides pre-set selection criteria and you are able to use keywords. You are also able the choose the character of the search presentation; in a listing or detail page. |
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| How to go from listings to the details of an advert or a profile? |
| When u are in the overview listings just click on respectively the title or company name to go to the advert and the company profile and it will open a detail page. |
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| How do I send messages to members? |
| Making contacts can be done by sending messages through the web based internal message centre. At the end of a detail page of an profile and adverts is a link for to send a message. When a member has made his contact information visible you can also get in direct contact by the given contact options. |
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| Can I contact anonymous? |
| All send messages refer to a profile (or advert) and by contacting in general you want to build up a relationship. Nevertheless it is your decision which information and personal contact information you want to release. |
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| How do I get emails from other members and get I a notifications of a received message? |
| The ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ uses a sophisticated web based internal emailing system, the message centre. When you get mail, it goes into your personal mailbox you have on the site and you are also automatically notified in your private email address. This will present you with a link back to site, where you can then log in as usual to read your mail. The frequency of the message received notification can be adjust and controlled in your ‘Setting’. |
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| Can I receive messages direct in my own computer email program? |
| For most sending you still will need the web based, internal message centre. But for those prefer to receive messages direct in their own email program, they can activate this option by ordering ‘Visible Contact Information’. With this you are able to redirect messages to your private email centre that has the same email address as your login. The advantage is that you will have also all attached document immediately in your email centre. When you use Visible Contact Information with your own computer email program you still can use the web based internal message centre. In the Settings you have an a Message Receive Method option to choose; private computer email centre only, web based internal message centre only or use both. We recommend to use beside own computer email program still the web based internal message centre (Both option) as the site message centre has an integrated export function that is very effective to build up an contact list in your own computer files or contact program.
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The sender does not get to see a visible private email address on the site. This double emailing is driven by the database and guards our privacy policy. Even the allowed direct email sending are hidden by ‘Send Email’ link that opens the computer email program. |
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| How long do new messages remain in my Message Centre Inbox? |
| Messages remain inside your Message Centre for 90 days. After 90 days, our database will automatically purge old messages to keep ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ running fast and smooth. Your Inbox and outbox can stores up to a total of 50 messages at a time so be sure to export by copy and paste any messages to your desktop computer that you wish to archive. If you have reached the limit of your messages, new messages will begin to overwrite the oldest messages. |
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| How can I expand the capacity of number messages in my Message Centre Inbox? |
| Heavy users and members that do not want to overwrite old messages with the newest messages when they have reached the basic of 50 messages are able to order additional message capacity. By ordering ‘Expand Contact Messages a Day’ also the storage will go up according the contact capacity. The multiply factor is just the number of contact a day times the original 50 messages. So, for example an extended membership with 25 messages a day gives a box limit of 1250 messages.
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The message removal is always done after 90 days. Even with expand message storage capacity the older than 90 days messages will be deleted. |
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| How do I prevent a ‘Job & Business Banks site’ E-mail from going into my junk mail folder? |
| To be certain messages you receive from ‘Job & Business Banks sites’ do not go directly to your Junk or Bulk mail, make sure you designate the specific site email as a "safe" or "trusted site" . If you use a spam filter, please set your filter to accept messages from our websites. |
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| Too many members contact / how do I disconnect the message centre its notifications? |
| You are not able to able disconnect or switch off the message centre. If you want to reduce the number of message contacts just adjust your profile and adverts. As stated before profiles and adverts can be temporary turned off and with that you will not receive new contacts. |
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| How do I block members from contacting me? |
| There are two methods to stop members contacting you by a messages. There are blocking links in the profile and in the message centre inbox. If they are activated the member is blocked and listed in your block list that can be found in the ‘Setting’. In the ‘Settings’ you can control the block list and ‘unblock’ a member. |
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| What are the features of the web based internal message centre? |
| The system has the following unique features;
- inbox and outbox with limited message capacity set to membership contact quantity and a maximum 90 storage days
- registration of the contact message status
- saved, adjustable personal standard messages for effective contacting
- up to 2 attachments can be send by a message
- advanced selecting options, by alphabetic, date, message type, contact status sequence
- export to own files of selected messages including contact information, contact status and direct link, for creating a personal contact file / address book
- opening links to profiles and adverts in new windows
- blocking member option. |
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| Match Alerts |
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| What are Match Alerts and how do I use it? |
| The Match Alerts service match an ‘Job & Business Banks portal’ member automatically with an advert on the characteristics of a profile. Both the advert poster as the profile member will be notified via a message of the match preferences. In other words, you will receive an alert notification of a job and business contact opportunity without having to come to the site every day to look for them yourself. The frequency of the Alert notification can be adjust and controlled in your ‘Setting’. |
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| How do I turn on/off my Match Alerts notification? |
| All active profiles are in the Match Alert notifications system. The Alert notification can be switched off and the frequency can be adjust and controlled in your ‘Settings’. Access to the Setting is;
- Log into the site using your username and password.
- Click on ’Settings’ located on the left side in the main menu.
- Scroll to ‘Alerts notification’ and set it to the desired adjustment.
- Go to the bottom of the form and click on button ’Save Changes’. |
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| Other Features |
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| What are the features of the control centre ‘Settings’? |
| This system has the following unique control features for;
- visibility of profile
- membership type and order upgrade
- message notification
- alert notification
- contact list
- blocked members
- newsletter subscription. |
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| Contact List and how to send messages from your ‘Contact List’ |
| Your Contact List is a list of members whom you are interested in. It maintains also a link to their profile. When you do a search and click on ’contact List’ icon, the member is added to your contact List. You can control and remove people from your Contact List by clicking on the ’Delete’ in ‘Settings’. This is a great feature to send an identical message to all or a selected group of your contacts. The basic membership does not give the capacity to use your contact list often so an upgrade is needed. By ordering ‘Contact list Messages / Number Contacts in List’ you are able to send 2 messages day to your contacts.
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As sender your name and profile will be recognized by the message receiver. So do not exaggerate the number of messages as the result will be a message block by the receiver. |
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