Curious to know if my fellow providers and reviewers have any helpful tips to give a newbie on this site. I'm a Los Angeles provider I can only image how busy it can be here I want in on the action lol feel free to msg me

on the photo only board, your local regional ad board, your local regional board.  In other words, get your name out there.  At the end of a date, ask your client if if is a member of TER.  If he is, ask if he would give you a review.  If he isn't, tell him about the site, and that he will get 15 free VIP days for each review he posts.

you reply to a post (just not starting a thread) you can add the link to your website at the bottom of the post.

...be giving advice on the Newbie board if you don't even know that much.

...my advice she had already started the thread, obviously. Once my reply was there, she could post a link in response. Which is what I was implicitly inviting her to do.  

they can help you out and vouch for you with their clients, their regulars, on the boards.

It would have only taken you another few seconds to tell her that posting a link on her OP would be considered an ad and would be deleted, but that it would be ok to make another post in this thread, adding her link for us to see.

I PM'd the OP and told her she can only post links in reply to other posts. I could have said that here, as well, but I only went through the trouble of posting so that she could have something to reply to, because there weren't any replies before mine. I wasn't thinking of possible bystanders that might get the wrong idea.  

If she isn't VIP, she can't view or respond.

Additionally, you have no idea if the OP has VIP or not. Not "all" providers have VIP, so she may or may not have even gotten your PM.