To register, click Create New Account or Join Now on the homepage.

You need to enter a valid email address and choose a password and Profile/Business name. The Profile/Business Name will be your display name for your Profile or Storefront.

Shustir is a platform that enables members to showcase themselves and their businesses in an online marketplace and community.

Our hope is that members will connect with people beyond their geographic boundaries to form lasting networks and access the collective knowledge.

Please send an email to Contact once you've set-up your new account. To expedite your request, label the subject of the email "deactivation."

A thread is a series of questions/answers posted for the same topic.

Go to Community on the homepage and select Forums. Browse the category of interest for existing threads that may answer your question. If none exists, click any thread and select New Thread on the left hand corner.

Go to the search panel at the top of Forums. Type keywords to find the relevant thread. Search results can be filtered by specific boards or topic categories, by the date of thread or corresponding reply, and number of participants.

We recommend that you invite them via email.

We recommend that you respond in a timely manner to all negative comments and then encourage the reviewing member to write another comment once you've addressed their concern.

Yes, all comments must be approved by you.

You are allowed to rate a member business once by highlighting the number of stars you want to give. Member ratings are located on their storefront and are the average of all ratings received to-date.

You send us an email via Contact at the bottom panel of all interfaces. Please title the subject as "Violation."

You can flag it by clicking Report for Products, Services, Blogs, and Classifieds.

You may also report the member by sending us an email via Contact. Please title the subject "Spam/Scam."

A consumer profile lets you share information about you as a consumer, your top picks and favorite businesses. The consumer profile not only serves as your personal Shustir homepage, but also enables you to invite 1) other consumers to your profile and build your own consumer network of like-minded members who you can share product/business knowledge with and advocate your favorite Shustir.com businesses; and 2) your favorite neighborhood businesses that you think would benefit from being part of the Shustir.com community.

A Consumer Profile lets you interact with other members and display information about you via About Me, What's Going On, Last Classifieds, Media Gallery and your blog. You can set privacy settings on member comments in My Settings.

All members have My Dashboard, a feature only you can access, that tracks the activity on your various posts in Alerts and catalogs favorite members in My Rolodex.

Top picks are products, services, classifieds, blogs, forums and events that you choose to showcase on your consumer profile. These top picks have to be added by clicking " add to my top picks" on the various items you are viewing.

You can add any storefront to your favorites list. Simply become a fan and the business will be added to your Favorite Businesses. You can also invite your favorite businesses currently not on Shustir by simply clicking on the "invite businesses" link on your consumer profile.

Once you add a business onto your favorite businesses, your Rolodex is automatically populated with their contact info.

Yes, you can do both.

"My Consumer Network" is a option you have on your profile to list other members who you've invited to have their consumer profiles listed in your network. It's a way to network consumers together to spread the word about Shustir and support Shustir businesses.

You can invite friends and family onto Shustir by clicking invite in your Consumer Network.

To invite members on Shustir, simply go to their profile and click on "Add My Consumer Network".

Once you add a consumer onto your network, your Rolodex is automatically populated with their contact info.

What's Going On in My Dashboard displays the activities of members with whom you are a Fan. To increase activity, you need to interact with other members by becoming a Fan, and inviting your contacts.

What's Going On in your Profile or Storefront shows all your activity. To activate it, click on Feeds and activate what information you want to display to visitors.

Yes, you will need to register using a different display name and email address for your business.

If you do not re-register and choose to upgrade your Consumer Profile to a Storefront, your display name, email address, password and content you've created for your Basic Profile will be transferred to your Storefront.

Storefronts are designed for businesses to offer their goods and services and interact with customers.

Stand-alone websites are difficult to find on the Web. You usually cannot reach new customers. Your website becomes just another way for existing customers to find you. On Shustir, you get the following benefits:

- Advertise your business immediately
- Reach more customers accessing Classifieds and the Community
- Use networking tools to get feedback and information quickly
- Costs virtually nothing compared to setting up your own website

Storefronts have a streamlined template that allows you to focus on content and marketing. Build your business by interacting with members via My Fans, Member Ratings, Blogs, Forums, and comment boards.

Premium Storefronts allow you to sell your goods and services via your Paypal account. You can post an unlimited number of products and classified ads. Additionally, you may set-up My Ad Tower to generate ad revenues from the visitors to your Premium Storefront.

Standard Storefronts allow you to showcase your goods and services. You are allowed to display up to eight items and 50 classified ads per week. Standard Storefronts do not have My Ad Tower.

Yes, if you only intend to operate as a business.

Yes, you will need to register separate accounts for every storefront you create.

Provide good content and customer service, participate in Blogs & Forums, and monitor your comment boards and Inbox.

You will be directed to the business' Paypal account to make a purchase from their Storefront. As a customer, you do not have to set-up your own Paypal account.

Go to Edit Storefronts and click Add Products or Add Services.

You have not posted products in Marketplace Offerings and/or list your services in Services. The keyword search also does not recognize words that are comprised of three letters or less.

After troubleshooting and your Storefront is not in the search results, email us at support@shustir.com and title the subject "Keyword Search."

You must have a Premium Storefront that links to create My Ad Tower.

We recommend that you incorporate it in the price of your item, incorporate shipping information on your Storefront, or contact your customer directly via your Shustir inbox.

Shustir is currently developing a Shopping Cart feature that lets you charge for shipping.

Blogs are entries or commentaries created by members on a variety of categorized topics.

Go to Edit Profile/Storefront and then click Add Blog Post. Select the date of post, enter your title, and start blogging.

Your blog entries will be diplayed on your Profile/Storefront.

From the homepage, go to the Community and click Blogs from the drop-down. You can search Blogs by category, keyword, or member.

You should post your blog by keyword, category, and date. The more current you keep your blog, the higher the chances are to be found.

We recommend that you create your blog in a Premium Storefront in order to haveMy Ad Tower which lets you receive revenues from Google Adsense, a URL address for visitors to find you, and a Paypal account in case you want to tell a service or item onsite. In addition, you will be able to be searched via the Marketplace.

All posts are free.

From the homepage, go to Classifieds, click Post in the drop-down, and then follow the three-step process.

From My Dashboard, click Post Classifieds and follow the three-step process.

You are able to maintain your postings on Latest Classifieds in your Basic Profile or Storefront. However, you cannot edit existing posts, but can only delete them. We recommend you save your content.

Your classified ads will be automatically removed in 14 days. Save your content if you want to repost.

Yes, you can find the link icons on the tool bar when creating texts for your classifieds. To do so, highlight the word(s) you want to link, click on the respective icon on the tool bar, and then insert the URL.

You can correspond with the posting member via the internal email system or their specified contact info.

Click Forgot Password? in Login. We will email you a link that lets you reset your password in My Settings.

Go to Edit Profile/Storefront and click Company Info to change your Company Name or Profile Name to update your display name.

Please submit your suggestions to Shustir Help in Forums. If a significant number of members request the same category, we will add the new category and notify members on Shustir News on the homepage.

Refresh/reload your Profile or Storefront 15 minutes after you've updated content. If this does not work, login again and click View Profile/Storefront.

If your profile has not been updated after troubleshooting, then contact us at support@shustir.com. We may have removed your post because of flagging.

This occurs when you cut and past text. To remove the symbols, re-enter the punctuation where the symbols are found in your text.

Shustir accepts the following image file formats:


.gif
.png
.jpg
.jpeg and
.bmp

You can manually type in the neighborhood you are looking for on the upper right half of the screen.

Yes, you can search by Region which is filters your search by State. You can even narrow your search down to a city and a corresponding neighborhood.

You can email us at support@shustir.com and suggest a city or town to be added.

Go to Calendar under the community link on your homepage and click on ADD EVENT+ to set up your event.

Yes, simply click on the event title, and once the event landing page appears, click on the delete button.

Simply click on the event and at the bottom of the page there should be an "attending" section where you can view the members attending the event.

You can post as far into the future as you like. However, to increase attendance to your event, we recommend posting your event as early as one month and no later than one week in advance.

Yes, you can post as many events as you want on the same day OR on other dates.

Yes, the comments will show up in order of the times they are posted.