Initiate Trade Alliances

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Initiate Trade Alliances

Close friends and family may have your back, but achieving success often depends on forming strong alliances with exceptional people who've achieved successes in similar areas of endeavor. Trade Alliances are collaborative partnerships formed with other cities to give you access to potential experts who can expand your knowledge, increase your experience, and potentially open new gateways to achieving your goals.

Choosing Trade Alliances

To strengthen your safety net, it's always beneficial to join goal-specific tribes you're not yet allied with. Whenever you join a new tribe that aligns with your goals and objectives, you establish a beneficial trade alliance with them and gain access to their trade activities and collaborative opportunites.

To find ideal trade alliances on Desktop:

Select the search icon above and choose Cities
On desktop, you may choose tags displayed in the tag box
On mobile, scroll down to choose from the tag box
If you're looking for something more specific, you may conduct your own search by tag by adding related terms to the tag search box (e.g., dancers, fitness experts, publicists, robotics)
If your search shows no results, try adding synonymous tags
Once matches are found, click any of the tribe names to navigate to their city and learn more about them
If you decide to join the tribe, click Join my tribe in their Civic Center
On their collaborate page, click Join in now to start receiving alerts on their activities

Become a trustworthy trade partner

A trustworthy trade partner amounts to being an active partner in any trade alliance relationship. Responding to the tribe's polls, pledges, wishes, or events, makes you a reliable partner that others can count on.

Follow these practices to keep your trade alliance relationships thriving:

always respond to their polls
support their wishes in any way you can
send uplifting postcards with motivating messages to keep their pledges on track
uplift their spirit by awarding kindreds
share their posts with others

Remember, trade goes both ways. If your trade partners are offering you something of value, keep in mind that they, too, are trying to get ahead in their own way. The support you offer will be appreciated and remembered. As the saying goes: you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours.

Manage your Trade Alliances

Joining other cities to acquire valuable trade alliances increases the strength of your social safety net. Your trade alliances management page provides a list of all the cities you've joined and the date the alliance was formed. If for any reason you’d like to bow out of a trade alliance, just follow the steps below. Your trade partner will not be notified of your departure, but you will no longer appear in that city's tribe directory. To bow out:

Sign in
Select Tribe & Alliances under the 3 dot Manage menu
Click the Trade Alliances tab
Scroll down your trade alliances listing, find the city you want to leave and click Bow out
Click Bow out on the confirmation page to complete the action