Here’s a little list I put together to help you identify how great of a Guide you are. We have some out there who are constantly polishing their skills, gathering up good resources, and making sure that users have great experiences and those are the Guides that are going to be hugely successful with ChaCha.
See how many of these sound like you…
-Someone tells you to “googleTM” something and you give them a funny look and say “Uhhh… don’t you mean ‘ChaCha’ something?”
-You lose your keys and your first instinct is to ask ChaCha where you left them.
-When you’re not looking for information on the Internet you’re looking for information on looking for information on the Internet.
-Even the toughest search takes you less time than it does to throw a Hot Pocket in the microwave.
-You plan on living in the new wardrobe you ordered from chachagear.com
-The highlight of your day is getting to add new keywords.
-You know at least four of the people at ChaCha HQ by name.
-You try to click on the underlined portions of a magazine article.
-Your signature is followed by the words, “Master Guide.”
-Your number one friend on Myspace is “ChaCha“
-Someone you know asks you a question and you finish by asking, “Are those results sufficient for you?”
-Whenever you hear your doorbell ring you run to your computer.
-Early in the morning waking up to find you’ve fallen asleep in front of the computer. Face down on the keyboard with the keys making indentations on your skin.
Leave me a comment if I forgot about any of them!
lol good ones!!! and wow many/most/all of those are me and several guides I know! I’m running to make something to eat and bring back to my computer (’ChaCha diet 101 - stop eating at my computer lol)
-Don’t hear the words chacha and think anymore ‘that’s a dance’
-You know you are an awesome guide when you know where the title for the search engine ‘ChaCha’ came from (it’s meaning)
-use chacha.com to do all your everyday searching (is there any other place to be?) lol
When you get done talking to a friend you tell them Have a nice day and thanks for searching ChaCha.
When DingDong is a regular sound in you house.
When you lay in bed at night and hear ding dong and jump out of bed and run to the computer just to reliaze its 2am and the computer is turned off.
When your dogs stop barking when the real doorbell rings!
When you miss every step on a flight of stairs to reach a session in time!
when you chew out your spouse when you see the word “google” on their computer screen.
When your wife has been threatening you about turning down the doorbell for so long, she’s run out of creative things to threaten you with.
I mean, I know I’m gonna get stuck doing handywork and projects around the house but turn down the doorbell? C’mon, I’m helping people here, doing what little I can for the community!
These should be AKA Cha Cha-isms! They make the day even better just wondering what will be there next!
When you find your child getting their homework help sites from a Cha Cha guide!!!!
When you turn ChaCha on in the morning before your coffee pot.
When you turn your ChaCha on in the morning before your coffee pot!
I hear you Elizabeth about the ChaCha diet, running to get food between doorbells, by the way does anyone know how to get pizza sauce off the keyboard lol. Got to love this job!!!!
how great of a Guide you are. when you get done with the phone and tell them thanks for searching ChaCha
When your kids stop complaining about you being on their computer, because they know as long as you’re on it, you are making money for their weekend!
You eat every meal in front of the computer.
You’ve installed a toaster over, a microwave, a mini-fridge and a coffee maker in the computer room at home.
You now think of Chacha and not the Avon lady everytime your house doorbell rings.
When your spouse threatens to leave you because you spend too much time on Chacha, and you don’t really care (LOL, just kidding).
You have an entire notebook full of websites pertaining to your keywords.
You call in sick to work to Chacha (I’ve done this!).
You get up at 3 in the morning so you’ll beat your significant other to the computer.
You think of a line in the old Garth Brooks song, “Unanswered Prayers”, whenever a storm knocks out your power and you can’t Chacha (Damn this rain and damn this wasted day).
You find it terribly hard to go to bed at night, because you may miss a search.
When the doorbell rings and your son says “computer”
How about when your 2 year old hears a door bell and screams out “MAMA! SEARCH!”
All I know is I just about tucked my 2 year old in for a nap like this:
Mom: Hello! How can I help you nap today?
Baby: ????
Mom: Here are your yellow blankie and your pink blankie, are those sufficient, or would you like me to find you some more?
Baby: ??? (thinking) Mom’s gone wacky!
Mom: Ok, if those blankies are good, would you like me to find something else for you to cuddle with?
Baby: Da Da, I want Da Da….
Mom: Thanks for letting me search for your blankies, and have a great nap!
Baby: (thinking) I’m gonna have Daddy call the men with the butterfly nets when he gets home!
You know you are an awesome Guide when you hadn’t slept for 96 hours. . . just kidding - 72 hours.
When you look for a support group when there’s no searches or training…:(
I loved these!!!! And had to add:
1. When your daughter walks around the house singing “chachachachacha”.
2.When you answer your phone and the person says…are you chacha’ing before saying hello.
3. When your husband gets on the computer and says, let me chacha to see what is for dinner.
4. During Monday night football, more of your husbands friends are waiting for the “ding dong” to see what the search is about instead of watching the game.
Loved the one about the kids searching…my daughters teacher has all her class using chacha for reference!!!
I have been a guide since 10/23/06 am a Master and OMG do these peg me to a tee!! I didnt realize how addicting ChaCha really is!! Way to go ChaCha Keep up the excellent work!!!!
When you come home from food shopping for your teenagers and ask, “Are these results sufficient?”
Oh boy.
These are all very good. But the ones that pertain to me the most are
***You have an entire notebook full of websites pertaining to your keywords.
***You think of a line in the old Garth Brooks song, “Unanswered Prayers”, whenever a storm knocks out your power and you can’t Chacha (Damn this rain and damn this wasted day).
(It happened last week and I was having WITHDRAWLS. It was horrible. I Could not believe I was acting the way I was because I could not get online.
***********(This one is the best one yet)
You find it terribly hard to go to bed at night, because you may miss a search.
(This one is bad. I think that every single night. I think “if I just stay up ANOTHER hour, I could make more money)
My remake of Jeff Foxworthy’s “you might be a redneck”
- When all your conversations (phone, person to person, text, IM, chacha) change from have a good day… to have a CHAriffic day:D…. You might be a chacha addict.
- When your neighbors start to get suspisious because they havent seen you for a few days… you might be a chacha addict….
- When the neighbors call the cops because they hear people running and making noise and screaming when all your really doing is racing to the computer when you get a search…. you might be a chacha addcit.
- When you host a party and you sneak away to hide in your computer room and chacha….. you might be a chacha addict.
- If your knees are black and blue from hitting your knees on the computer desk everytime you get a search b/c you are excited… you might be a chacha addict….
here is just a few from personal experience :
when you have been at you computer so long it hurts to blink and when you finally do you think you have 2 husbands and you can’t get out of the chair because you’ve melded to it from the last 11 hrs of in front of the computer. and i wouldn’t trade it for the world oh and for the power outages iI have a generater just for my computer we don’t tend to loose cable just power.