New Membership FAQs

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Our most Frequently Asked Questions

Why do I need a membership for here?

A membership is required in order to submit a business listing.  A membership also allows you the ability to come back and edit your listings after they’ve gone live online if you notice afterwards there was a mistake, or perhaps you have an update you’d like to include.

How do I sign up for a Membership?

It’s very simple.  Just look to the right sidebar and you’ll see at the top an image of a woman.  You can click on her and she will take you to the registration page.  Alternatively, you can click any one of the sign up buttons / links throughout the website.

How can I update my Membership Profile?

There is a profile available only to you and our WAHM members.  The only information viewable publicly is your Username when your submission is live.  As well, beneath your post is a brief User Bio if you provided one within your Members profile page.

Is this website really 100% free for me?

Yes, it’s really 100% free.  We’ve done our best to make mention of this as often as possible.

Are there any hidden charges?

There are no hidden fees.  However, there are costs in running such a website as this, as well time dedicated in maintaining it and ensuring its visitors (and members) benefit from what information is available.  If you do feel by chance courteous, we welcome your help in the form of donations (and volunteering) and all the proceeds will go towards the continued costs and expenses of the website and its promotional expenses (such as advertising in local Newspapers and Flyers, etc.)

How long does my listing stay online?

Your listings will remain online for as long as you are still in business and interested in our services. Periodically you will receive an email that will ask you to confirm your business is still in service and that you do wish to remain listed on the website. If there is no response within 2 weeks (14 days) we can only assume you’re no longer interested in our services offered and/or are no longer an active local business. At this time ONLY will we remove your listings from the website.

How many businesses can I submit?

There are no restrictions to how many submissions a person can have.  There is also no need to create multiple accounts. Those who are found with multiple accounts will be contacted and informed that only one account can be used, at which point there needs to be a decision made as to which profile is kept.  After this decision has been made, the ‘extra’ accounts will then be removed and those listings connected with that account will be moved to the appropriate account.

Who decides if my business listing is accepted?

This website is managed by volunteers.  There are no paid employees and no persons are making a profit from this website other than perhaps our business owners listed on the website (which we most certainly do hope they’re profiting from.)

Submissions are reviewed by those who have volunteered their time in assisting with the cause on this website.

What makes my business listing acceptable?

Location is the key to whether or not your submission is accepted.

If you’re not from Dawson Creek or a surrounding community your listing will not be published.  Anyone within an approximate 100KM radius is acceptable, but further away than this would require being reviewed or perhaps there is already another WAHM site available for your specific area. (or perhaps we can make one if there is enough interest; just let us know!)

Business listings require being a MINIMUM of TWO FULL PARAGRAPHS otherwise we will reject the submission and contact you in regards to its rejection.  At this point you can make the appropriate fixes needed and send us back the information and we’ll make sure to have the new information available shortly.

Can I view my business listing statistics?

There are limited statistics available other than how many times your page has been viewed by non-members.  If you’re signed into your account the page count will not increase.  However, non-members visiting the listing will cause the page count to increase by 1.  These statistics are publicly available within the actual business listing itself.

There is another way to see statistics.  It involves downloading Google Chrome and installing an extension called “Bit.ly (shorten, share and track your links)”.  Bit.ly is a link shrinker and at the same time their services also provide statistics for every link created, such as click statistics.  This is why we’ve decided to make every website link on our WAHM websites make use of this website and its link shrinker.

Each of your business listing website links may appear as your website URL but in reality the link is actually using a bit.ly URL and this gives us the ability to track how many clicks were made through our website in order for someone to find yours.

When you install this extension with Google Chrome, you just mouse over your website link on the WAHM website and you will see statistics from bit.ly popup and tell you how many times its been shared on Social Networks like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, as well all outbound clicks coming from our WAHM website.  Neat huh?!

At the request of any one individual, we can provide 30 day statistics.  It just requires you contacting us and requesting this information.  If there is enough interest within our Social Networking groups, we will do our best to make available this information every month, along with other random tidbits of information pertaining to our WAHM site.

Can I update the Business Listing icon for my listing?

It is possible for these icons to be changed to something else.  We do ask that if you are interested in having this option that you consider a small donation to our WAHM website.  A great way to stand out amongst the crowd is having your own unique icon, it is also a great way of saying you’re a proud supporter of this website and its cause.

How long until I see my listing online?

Generally it should not take more than 24 hours before your submission is made live online.  However, sometimes we are held up with other things in our daily lives and it may take up to 48 hours.

Where did my business listing go?

If you did not respond to our periodic emails in regards to your Business Listing remaining on the website this could be the reason you’re no longer available.  Alternatively, we could have been informed the company was abusive and have received several complaints in regards to it.  If this is the case, the business listing will be removed and you would have been contacted upon its removal.

If this should not be the case, please contact us and we will immediately look into the issues and correct them as soon as possible.  Mistakes do happen from time to time and we’d like to apologize in advance for when they do.

How do I edit my business listing?

Sign-in to your registered membership.  Now head over to the business listing you submitted and open up the full detailed page.  On this page at the very top beneath the business title you will see a line with your username, comments and beside these you will see “edit”.  Click this and you’ll be taken to an area in which you can make edits to your business listing.

Once you’ve completed your edits, hit the “submit for review” button to the right of your monitor and it will be queued for approval.  All edits do require an administrator’s approval before they are published live to the WAHM website.

How do I remove my business listing?

After you’ve entered the “edit” area, click “move to trash” which is beside the Submit button.   Trashing your business listing can only be completely removed by an Administrator which will be done within a 48 hour time period.

Alternatively, you could contact us and inform us of your business listing and we can remove the listing for you.

Can I add images to my business listing?

Yes!  You can get as decorative and as personal as you desire with your business listings.  However, the only request we have is a donation.  It doesn’t matter the cost.  There is no set minimums to the donations requested.  If you can afford only $5.00 than that’s all you can afford and we will greatly appreciate your supporting the site and its cause.

How do I contact you for help?

Inside the footer of our website is a Contact Us area, just look to the right of the footer area at the bottom of the page.  There is also the option of clicking any of the “contact us” links throughout the website.

Can I volunteer to help with DC-WAHM?

Volunteers are always welcomed.  If you want to volunteer please contact us.

I noticed an error.  Where do I report it?

Use the contact us page to write us an email in regards to your noticed error.  Please be sure to include a link to the page in reference and if possible a screen shot can be sent to info (AT) dcwahm.ca.