Tips for applicants using the Free Charity Cars Site

DO as many of the things you can to gain extra votes and karma as you set up your profile and get things started. POST your story of why you need to get a car, and what has kept you unable to get one on your own. UPLOAD PICTURES- the first ten get you ten extra votes. Once you have your first 100 votes, turn your APPLICATION in, which will also get you five extra votes. PROMOTE Free Charity Cars on your social networks. If you add their link,you'll get a few extra points when people click on them and view your profile. You can also promote in other ways, such as making fliers and passing them out, and writing an email to your friends and asking them to join. MAKE A VIDEO if you can, and you'll get an extra 25 points when you upload it.

VOTE for other applicants. This increases your Karma, helps them out, and is likely to encourage them to read your story and vote for you. You can vote for as many people as you want once a day, so there's no reason not to make a bunch of new friends.

LEARN TO SPEED VOTE

Once you start to have a long list of friends, you'll find voting for all of them daily may take some time. If you have a good internet connection, you can "speed vote". You open your friends page, right click on a users name, and hit "open in new tab". Keep going down the list and right clicking on your friends, opening their profiles in new tabs. Try it with five at first to get the hang of it, and once you do you may be able to do up to 20 at once. It will turn potentially hours of voting into much less time!

Getting Votes and Good Karma towards a Free Charity Car

There are a LOT of people out there who need a car. If you are applying for a car, realize that there are a limited number of cars donated, and what's available varies depending on where you live. To help decide who to award cars to, F.C.C. works on a system of votes and good karma. You get votes from other members who see your profile and think you deserve a free car to help your life improve. You also earn good karma by visiting the pages of others and voting for them. FCC factors a lot of tings in; but when a car becomes available in your area, there are ways to make your chances of being awarded better. The more votes, page views, and good karma you have; the better your chances. When you promote the site elsewhere, it helps generate interest and popularity for FCC; which encourages more people to donate, and might help you to luck out and be offered a free car.

There are many ways to get people to help you out by voting for you. You can post about it on your myspace, facebook, and other social networks. That let's your friends know what you're doing, and informs them about FCC. Free Charity Cars will even give you a few extra votes when you do!

On the site, the easiest way to make friends and earn votes is to interact with the other members. Read their stories; many of them are poinient, touching, or funny. Send them messages and say hello. Send friends requests. Most importantly, vote for them. Many people on the site vote every day for all of their friends, and as you show that you are willing to be compassionate about their situation, chances are they'll be compassionate about yours! :-)

Start now, if you haven't already-

Creating a Profile on Free Charity Cars

In order to apply for a FREE CAR from Free Charity Cars, you have to create a profile on their website. Once you have signed up, have a look around the site and take a look at some of the profiles of other folks. On the right side of each of their pages you'll see a "Vote For Me!" button, and you can vote for as many other members as you like once a day. As you vote for others and make friends, they'll also look at your profile and can send votes your way.

There are a variety of ways to get "extra votes" too, especially as a new member. One important part of your profile is the "Tell Your Story" section. There, you can tell the world why you need help getting a car, how it would impact your life, and how you could do more good in the lives of the people you care about if you could get decent transportation. Once you add your story to your profile, you'll get a few extra votes just for completing it. Of course, if you don't need a car, but have been in that position, you can show your support for a lot of people who need it by joining, promoting the charity, and voting for members you feel for- you can even transfer any votes you get to someone deserving.

Your story should be personal, real, and let people know a little bit more about you and how this would change your life. Here is an example of a "Tell the World Your Story" blurb, from my profile:

Two years ago I moved from New Orleans to Seattle; to get away from the crime and go to school, and get to hang out with an amazing friend. I sunk all my money into that beater van to get here, thinking it was a responsible way to keep it going for years. That was my mistake. It died not long after I arrived past the long drive through the mountains. I was still glad to have a new adventure, but the loss of my van made it very difficult to get and keep work, sort out school, or have anything like the life I was trying to create.

I've been depressed in a way I don't want to say, because I'm cut off from most of the people I love. Now, my tiny one room studio apartment has flooded with sewage, my pets and I are sick, - and I may be flat broke, but I know it's not safe to be here. I need way to get me and my kitties Home to New Orleans. Please help me Answer my Prayers for Rain, leaving here is hard in a way, but I want to go home and be able to start a better life.

Having a car again might really save my life, it would enable me to go home and get around for work and school, --and to help out so many of the people I love down there in little ways. I liked volunteering time to rebuild Katrina houses, and helping elderly folks in the neighborhood pick up groceries, and will enjoy finding little ways to pay it forward. I'm a songwriter and play piano, and I daydream of teaching poor kids in the rougher neighborhoods how to play- so that they'll have better chances in the rich tapestry of music and art down there. Seattle is beautiful, but my life was richer and deeper there, where I had something of a better chance and could give myself to a community that needs extra hands and love. The only reason I haven't already moved is the lack of a way to transport me and my pets- but after the flood in my house it's more desperate. It may be my only cozy little spot in the world now, but it can't be healthy. Help me get somewhere that is, and Grant me a chance to Pay it Forward.... please.

Peace and Love,

Nicolette
sassynolagal@yahoo.com

Now it's your turn- if you haven't already, go sign up, and look back here for more helpful hints. Feel free to use my name as your sign up sponsor " NicoletteFox" , and send me a friends request. :-)