This FREE Facebook community is a place for (aspiring) digital nomad girls to connect, share tips, questions, answers, advice, make friends, and most importantly, support each other on our location independent journeys.
This is a large and growing community, which means we have to have some pretty solid group guidelines to make sure it remains a safe, supportive and fun space.
To clarify, we haven’t had many issues in the DNG Facebook group with spamming or people being unfriendly. And that’s how we’d love to keep it as we grow ?
We are very dedicated to this group and thatβs why we hope you take the time to read the rules and stick to them.
The key admins of this Group are:
Jennifer Lachs (founder of Digital Nomad Girls and creator of this group).
DeyaΒ Aliaga Kuhnle (our power admin and volunteer DNG superstar)
Jane Lachs (Admin extraordinaire, and Jennyβs mum)
Fara O’Neal Grim (Assistant Community Manager)Β
Georgia Hutchinson (member of Team DNG who helps out behind the scenes)
By being a part of the FREE FACEBOOK community you are agreeing to the rules listed below.
One rule of thumb is this: think about whether your post will benefit the majority of the group or at least more than one person. If it is only relevant to you, then don’t share it. If you’re sharing personal experience and would like support, that can benefit others too, so that’s ok.
1. Before posting, ask yourself this question!
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2. Be nice, respectful, and give value
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3. NO self promotion or spam EVER
No self-promotion is allowed, except for in our ‘Tuesday Pitches’ thread, or where otherwise explicitly stated (such as in one-off Freebie posts, some Social Saturday threads etc)
Be sure to check out each other’s work in the ‘Tuesday Pitches’ thread and support one another.
As thereβs been some confusion about what qualifies as self-promotion, weβve come up with this definition:
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Definition of self-promotion:
– selling anything – that means products, services, courses, events, programs,
– promoting your webinar or event, even if they are offered for free
– posting a link to your OWN website or Facebook Group
– posting affiliate links…ever
– posting your own content in the group and not in a specific (and relevant) thread. This includes posting links to surveys or creating surveys in the group, posting photos with your social handles, URLs or business name on them AND posting “free” offers
– contacting girls in the group by private message to sell or promote anything. If you notice this kind of behaviour, please report it to hello@digitalnomadgirls.comΒ immediately (ideally with a screenshot of the message)
You can, however, post your link to your website, group, FB page, webinar, survey, offer and social profiles in the ‘Tuesday Pitches’ thread if it fits that week’s theme.
But that’s the only time.
We may break our own rule and promote something if we feel it is of service to the group. We reserve that right as it is our group and community.
JOB POSTINGS (UPDATED):
We have updated the rules for job postings and we allow you to share any jobs that you (or your direct clients) are hiring for.
We DO NOT approve any posts about MLMs, network marketing etc. And please let people know exactly how they should get in touch. We also share the jobs that are posted in our weekly newsletter, DNG News.
What is considered Spam?
– sharing links, images or any content without writing a caption in the post. Weβll have to delete those type of post
– posting full blog post content, or a post that is a length of a blog post, even without a link. Come on, now. If we have to scroll, scroll, scroll to read your post- please put that on your blog, not in the group.
– any posts that are just a sugar-coated promotional post. We’ve seen them a million times.
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4. Use the Search Bar (PLEASE!)
5. NO affliliate links
6. Please don’t PM admins
7. No hate speech or bullying
8. We trust facts and science
9. Stick to the topic
10. No Surveys or Survey Style Posts
11. No MLMS
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12. Use the Housing Thread for Accomodation Posts
HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS GROUP
1. Donβt come in with a motive.
Instead, show up with the intention to connect, serve and help, not to sell.
2. When creating a post, make it fun, original and helpful.
Please, donβt write a 500-word post with a thinly veiled sales pitch, they wonβt be interesting to anyone.
3. Use the search function
Facebook groups have a search function in the left sidebar. Before posting a question, search the group if anyone has asked this in the past. Often times your question has already been answered and youβll find exactly what you were looking for.
4. Donβt share the same content across 10 different Facebook groups.
Many people belong to those same groups and see your same posts repeated and that says more about you and your business than you realise.
5. If you show up just to post your content and not help out your fellow community members, they notice. And the admins notice.
We know itβs a big group, but people notice these things and it wonβt reflect well on you.
6. Share your thoughts and experiences because they are valuable to others.
If youβre unsure whether you should share a post or not, think about whether it would be helpful to others, too. Or just for you.
To quickly summarise what this group is about:
- Female Digital Nomads
- Aspiring Digital Nomad Girls
- Anyone interested in starting a location independent life, no matter if freelancer, remote employee or online business owner
It is not a group about:
- Selling (even if we all have products or services to sell)
- Blogging (even if many of us have blogs)
- Coaching (even if many of us are coaches)
- Accommodation (even if we have rooms/apartments/houses to rent, swap or house sit, there are groups for that)
If you don’t agree with ALL of these rules, please feel free to remove yourself from the group.
If we all stick to these rules I’m sure we will have fun in the group for many years to come!
Wow, that was a loooong one! Iβm impressed and happy youβre still with me all the way down here π
Now letβs get connecting over in the group. Happy posting, mingling and nomading!
**Note: These rules are subject to change without notice. It’s on you to keep up.