Some people hate the biz opp market.

Why?

They don’t like the percentages.

Which percentages?

The ones that honestly say… 90-98% of people who begin a home based business will fail, while 2%-10% will make it.

Because the failures are so high and the successes are so low… “WHY BOTHER TRYING?” Is what most people think. They think we home based guru’s are scamming people cause we know the #’s and we take people’s money, knowing that they will fail.

And… it’s true too. (the scamming part is not true here, but there are scammers out there, but I know 100% of the people who join me will not be 100% successful.)

I know everyone who pays for my courses, takes my classes, and applies my teachings will not get rich. I know it. I tell it to their faces. But I don’t know who those people are. Everyone has the same equal chance of success and failure and each person makes a choice which side of the % they want to be… a 90%er or a 10%er.

So, again… why bother trying? Seems like a legit question to ask. But, I believe this is what I have called….

“THE LAW OF BEING HUMAN”

You need to completely understand my law of being human. Some call it the Pareto Principle.  Here is what the wiki says is the Pareto Principle:

“The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, 80% of the effects comes from 20% of the causes. Business management thinker Joseph M. Juran suggested the principle and named it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of income in Italy went to 20% of the population. It is a common rule of thumb in business; e.g., “80% of your sales comes from 20% of your clients.”

It is worthy of note that some applications of the Pareto principle appeal to a pseudo-scientific “law of nature” to bolster non-quantifiable or non-verifiable assertions that are “painted with a broad brush”. The fact that hedges such as the 90/10, 70/30, and 95/5 “rules” exist is sufficient evidence of the non-exactness of the Pareto principle. On the other hand, there is adequate evidence that “clumping” of factors does occur in most phenomena.”

The law of being human is similar in ideals to the Pareto Principle, but its not entirely the same really.

Look at a typical school classroom. If you were take an average subject like English or Algebra, not all students in the class get “A’s.”

As a matter of fact, few get an A. Most get B’s and C’s and the rest get D’s and a couple F’s. Look at any teacher’s grade book, and you’ll see the #’s are pretty much true and in rare cases (classes full of mensa students), you see the grades flux to more in the A and B level.

The law of being human means, “few will… Most wont.”

Did you know human beings are totally predicatble?

I know that if I call 10 people and invite them to a confernce call, 2-3 will show up. 7-8 will make an excuse or brush it off.

I know if I ask 4 people to visit my site and that I’ll call them back in 20 minutes to answer their questions, that 2-3 will have suddenly been abducted by Aliens and will not be there at the phone anymore.

I know that I might have to call 100 leads to make 1-5 sales for my business.

These are some of the LAW OF NUMBERS + the LAW OF BEING HUMAN in action.

Humans will fail and let you down. Systems won’t.

There is only a few different personality types out there. And human behavior, when studied over time, will show how predicatable and habitual we are. It’s not a bad thing actually that it ends up being this way, but for the most part, people are going to have big dreams and goals, but never get around to them. 90% of the population is this way!

But then there are the 10%’ers who are implementers, world changers, systemizers, doers, and success jiggernauts who stop at nothing to make their dreams a reality.

Dani Johnson thinks there are 4 personality types that people fall into. They are Saphire, Ruby, Emerald, and Pearls. Go to her seminar to learn what they mean. Basically… the Party Person, the Leader, the Follower and the Analyser. It’s the same as the Otter, Golden Retriever, Lion, Beaver, or some Myers-Briggs test you might take.

But Dani, who was a broke cocktail waitress, living in a car in Hawaii with $35,000 in debt, sure has made a name for herself. And some big bucks now, along the way. Man… is she on a roll right now, being featured like never before on national television. God is blessing her and opening doors for her in amazing ways.

At a recent conference, she told the audience…”Do you know what the success rate of Medical School is? 10%. Not everyone who wants to be a doctor makes it. Most won’t. But do you think the Med School University doesn’t know that? Of course they know that. That is why they NEVER STOP RECRUITING. They are constantly looking for the best of the best, the 10% who can CUT IT (forgive the pun) and actually become great doctors.”

Towards the end of the year, colleges send out their recuiters to try to find the 10%ers in other schools. They want the best of the best to attend their school. They recuit them. But only a few make the grades and get the jobs.

And, it’s no different with us in the biz opp or home based business market. I’ll never stop looking or recruiting cause I know there are 10%ers out there. I won’t know them when I see them, I don’t know which ones are the best at first contact, but I’ll know them after a few months or weeks by their work effort and by what their results are or by what their results aren’t.

I know what it’s like to be poor and broke. Youth Pastors don’t get paid much. Pastors for that matter don’t get paid much. I have tons of product on my sagging shelves with shrink wrap around them, unopened. Bought with good intentions, but the intentions never motivate me enough to crack the cellophane and pop the disc in the drive to get MORE education.

So, I have been there, I know what it is like to be on the 90% failure side. I was one of those people for 4 years from 1999 to 2003, where I tried and failed at just about everything I did.

I know what it is like to have massive debt and feel the pressures of the world and need to pull through with a solution.

Having a mentor and coach is the single most imporant factor in what % you’ll end up in.

Having a great coach and mentor will give you a better chance at being a 2-10%er.

But it does not at all guarantee it. I could get the best coaching in the world, but if I don’t practice, play and work at my own skill development and knowledge attainment… I’ll resort to the law of being human and give up soon, way too soon, and never give it a good enough effort to even try hard.

Most people quit too soon. Have you ever read this story from Think and Grow Rich?

3 Feet Short of Gold

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.An uncle of R.U. Darby was caught by the “gold fever” in the gold-rush days, and went west to DIG AND GROW RICH. He had never heard that more gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth. He staked a claim and went to work with pick and shovel. The going was hard, but his lust for gold was definite.After weeks of labor, he was rewarded by the discovery of the shining ore. He needed machinery to bring the ore to the surface. Quietly, he covered up the mine, retraced his footsteps to his home in Williamsburg, Maryland, told his relatives and a few neighbors of the “strike.” They got together money for the needed machinery, had it shipped. The uncle and Darby went back to work the mine.The first car of ore was mined, and shipped to a smelter. The returns proved they had one of the richest mines in Colorado! A few more cars of that ore would clear the debts. Then would come the big killing in profits.

Down went the drills! Up went the hopes of Darby and Uncle! Then something happened! The vein of gold ore disappeared! They had come to the end of the rainbow, and the pot of gold was no longer there! They drilled on, desperately trying to pick up the vein again-all to no avail.

Finally, they decided to QUIT.

They sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundred dollars, and took the train back home.

Some “junk” men are dumb, but not this one!

He called in a mining engineer to look at the mine and do a little calculating. The engineer advised that the project had failed, because the owners were not familiar with “fault lines.” His calculations showed that the vein would be found JUST THREE FEET FROM WHERE THE DARBYS HAD STOPPED DRILLING! That is exactly where it was found!The” Junk” man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine, because he knew enough to seek expert counsel before giving up.Most of the money which went into the machinery was procured through the efforts of R.U.Darby, who was then a very young man. The money came from his relatives and neighbors, because of their faith in him. He paid back every dollar of it, although he was years in doing so.

Long afterward, Mr. Darby recouped his loss many times over, when he made the discovery that DESIRE can be transmuted into gold. The discovery came after he went into the business of selling life insurance.

Remembering that he lost a huge fortune, because he STOPPED three feet from gold, Darby profited by the experience in his chosen work, by the simple method of saying to himself, “I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because men say ‘no’ when I ask them to buy insurance.”

Darby is one of a small group of fewer than fifty men who sell more than a million dollars in life insurance annually. He owes his “stickability” to the lesson he learned from his “quitability” in the gold mining business.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to QUIT . That is exactly what the majority of men do.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

So.. now that I have been totally transparent, the question I have for the reader is this.

“What % are you?”

“do you have what it takes to be a 10%er?”

Prove it.

Take a risk, try something new, click on one of my links and go check out some of the programs I love using and helping people learn about. Be the man, Be the woman. Get up off your keister and make something of your life.

Don’t stop 3 feet from gold.

Success is there and yours for the taking, just do it.

One last principle. The Principle of Least Effort.

“The principle of least effort is a theory of user behavior held among researchers in the field of library and information science. The principle states that an information-seeking client will tend to use the most convenient search method, in the least exacting mode available. Information-seeking behavior stops as soon as minimally acceptable results are found.”

Unfortunately… people do this in business they stop quick once they think they “got it all figured out.”

My philosophy has always been “do more than anyone else in your niche.”

Make more videos. Make more press releases. Make more blog entries, make more calls, make more links, make more websites, make so much…. that you are the preceived expert… the guru. Don’t settle for minimally acceptable work ethic. Do it all to the glory of God.

I am looking for the 10%’ers.

I am looking for the 4 ACES in the card deck. I don’t want to work with the 48 other cards.

I want to attract the best to be the best.

Home based businesses are NOT for everyone they are for a few.

Yet, some people with the dream of entrepreneurship will gladly get up at 5:00 am, shave, shower, put on a suit and tie and go make someone else rich with their time and be highly underpaid cause it’s easy and does not involve risk.

Then those same “entrepreneurs” start a business and they work it hard for ….. 3 weeks… and all the sudden, the fire is gone. They cannot do the things for themselves that they were happy to do for the boss who hired them as an employee… What give? Why the midset shift and selfsabotage?

What will that shift be in your life to put you in position to be in the right place, at the right time?

Now… I am curious to know what you think… am I full of crap? (”Sturgen’s Law”)

Or is there truth in these words?

Have a different take on it? Post it in the comments and lets dialogue on my blog.

Let’s talk about the LAW OF BEING HUMAN.

(c) 2008 - Jeff Mills - www.JeffMills.com - Learn Internet Marketing Today

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Making Moola is a game. Seriously… it’s a real game that pays you play. It’s addictive and fun and a big time fun thing to do when you are bored at work and need to let off some steam.

Go Play Free - I’ll fund your account for you! Play Moola Free!

It’s called advertorial games. You play free, but watch ads or if you run out of money, you can get “game money” by participating in promotions from advertisers. The game is addictive. I wonder how well the lead generation is for the advertisers. Maybe I’ll be one and give it a try with my Free Home Based Business DVD?

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Great stuff for those who want to profit from blogging.

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February 14, 2008
Sorry, I am a little late getting this
out today… so if you have been waiting for it, I apologize
for my tardiness.

I have got some good new and bad news.. stay with me, I’ll
explain below once I get through with a small rant… You’ll
have to read all this below to get to the deal at the bottom.

I keep staying up too late… and just didn’t get this out
until now.

Earlier, I mentioned I was offering a “DEAL” or a “Sweethart
Deal” that would be good today Feb 14 and tomorrow, Feb 15,
(Valentines Day = Sweetheart, etc… )

So here is the offer in a super condensed nutshell.

(with some backstory for enjoyment)

I just got back from Kauai and it was amazing.

I saved over $1500 on my car insurance switching to Geico.

(Oops.. wrong commercial)

Let’s try that again…

I saved over $1151 while IN Kauai USING my Travel Club membership.

(I am one of those types that actually uses what they own, so I
can get the social proof that people want to know is real before
they ever “BUY” anything…ie.. Does Coastal Save your money? Umm…
well, it sure has for me…)

Have you seen some of the proof I put on my site?
http://coastal-vacation-club.com/Coastal_Vacation_Proof.html

In my 3 years in this business, that just put me at a total of
$23,000 in vacation dollars SAVED and BACK in my pocket, because
I chose to travel wholesale and not pay full price for it like
all the other suckers out there do blindly without a clue.

I even went through one of those totally lamo and boring time
share tours in Kauai so we could get $100 bucks and find out
what’s the latest in time share comparisons vs. travel club
memberships.

Man, I could have gotten a big huge deal in Kauai… Only $48,000
for the week I was staying in Kauai for 30 years with a time share
purchase… Wheeee!

Oh, and a one time YEARLY maintenance fee of $1295 that is sure to
go up each year on top of all that…

And you know what? PEOPLE WERE BUYING IT UP!

Yep, they were all there, at these little sales tables with
their laptop computers showing people the #’s and they were
shaking their heads in agreement like… well… like…

SHEEPLE

People lead to the slaughter… $50,000 for a time share
membership.

See, what most people dont know is… for $11,000 you can have
IT ALL and never pay a maintenance fee with our travel club
membership.

AND.. TIME SHARES WON’T PAY YOU $9705 PER SALE EITHER…

I asked.. the most they’ll give me is $100 for a referal to
buy a $50,000 package that I payoff in 30 years at 16% interest.

I should mention also people were stoked they paid $50,000. We
even met a couple stoked they paid $1900 for an EXIT package,
which only got them… 2 weeks. Nothing else… Use it for two
weeks, and come pay $50,000 LATER… (those timeshare salesman
are classic…make you believe ANYTHING!)

Anyway… do you see the incredible value we have as travel
club members with all the benefits Coastal offers? If you
have not studied the package in detail… please take a look.

Let me show you some math… (cringe… I hate math, but I’ll
do my best to show you some good math).

Let’s say, you are an average family of 4.

You go on 2 weeks of vacation per year (that’s pushing it I know…
most Americans only take 13 days off a year.. PATHETIC… and it was
to travel to Grandma’s house or the in-laws and sleep on the
hide-a-bed with that one bar that kills your back..)

But for the people.. (less than half) who “Do it up” by staying
in Hotels… they pay on average… $89 per night. (you’d agree
with that right? Fair #?)

So… here is the math.

14 days X $89 per night = $1246 a year

(just for the hotels, not including Airfare, food, rental car,
excursions, etc…)

Now, most of you reading this, would hope you have 30 more years
of vacations left in you.. I know some of you who are in the silver
years.. well… lets hope you got 30 years in ya still :).

so….

$1246 (and the price will go up over time too, guaranteed)

$1246 per year X 30 years = $37,380 (hotel lodging only.. boxes
with a bathroom box, everyone sleeps in 1 big room and hears dad
or grandma snore…)

So, that’s a pretty low # I know… only $37,000

So here comes the comparison..

With our travel club membership, we only pay a ONE TIME fee
to join the club, then taxes, processing fees and get week long
condos starting at about $297 for life (based on available
inventories).

Let’s do some math again. (it’s not so hard once you try!)

These are LODGING EXPENSES ONLY….

Coastal Travel Club Members will Pay $11,000 ONE TIME.

Then take 2 weeks of vacations in luxury 4 and 5 star condos
$297 per week for 30 years. (Condos have living rooms, washers
and dryers, full kitchens, separate bathrooms, porches, balconies,
master suites, hot tubs, dinning rooms.. you get the idea)

$594 per year x 30 years = $17,820 (lodging only)

Now, let’s add it up (you still with me? I have not told you
the good & bad news yet…)

$11,000 membership (financed on a credit card or business loan)
$17,820 lodging costs
———-
$28,820 total

Now… what was the cost WITHOUT membership: $37,380

I just saved you $8560 bones.

Here is the bottom line.

I’ll show you how to make back that $28,820 you’ll spend over
30 years, by developing a business that pays you $9705 per
sale.

That means if you make 3 sales in 30 years at the top package,
you’ll have made your money back. Not a bad deal if you ask me
and most people can make at least 1 sale per year with this,
just by showing it friends and family… seriously…

Time shares wont pay you this kind of money… EVER.

So the bottom line, as I mentioned, is this…

You are going to go on vacation no matter what.
It’s a certainty. People travel more now than ever. It’s not
going to go away. Do you want a piece of a $7 trillion dollar
pie?

The Good news is (this is the good news I am finally refering
back to now) I am running a sweetheart special today and tomorrow
only. Two days - Feb 14 and 15.

The Bad news is, I am only doing it for the first 3 people to
take action right now. (It was 4 but I made an $3995 sale yesterday
to Brad who just couldn’t wait and wanted in NOW before all the
spots were gone).

So, what is the deal you are asking?

For the next 3 people who buy in at these levels you get this:

Platinum Level - $11,000 price = $45,000 in value

Bonus #1 -
All expenses paid to Los Angeles with your sweetheart
or business partner to our live training event, Feb 23 & 24.
That includes Flights, Hotel, and Conference cost.
see www.danijohnsonseminar.com

PLUS…

Bonus #2 -
You’ll get a new laptop… to take your work with you!

Plus Bonus #3
5000 Leads to get your business started

ONLY 3 of these remain.
Premier Level - $3995 price = $35,000 in value

Bonus #1 -
Free Conference cost for you and spouse to attend our business
training conference in Los Angeles Feb 23 & 24. You and your
spouse or biz partner.
www.danijohnsonseminar.com

PLUS…

Bonus #2
2000 Leads to get your business started

ONLY 3 of these remain.
Classic Level - $1295 price = $15,000 in value

Bonus #1 - 500 Free leads
Bonus #2 - Million Dollar Sciptbooks

That’s it. If it’s time for a financial change
and if you want to SAVE money on travel and MAKE money on it too,
then do something right now.

Go to this page and be one of the first 3 to order now.
Do this immediately: http://www.ordercoastalvacations.com

Or

Call me 651-769-2189 and I’ll help you over the phone.

Now, if you do nothing at all.. no problem, continue to
spend top dollar on the same vacations you normally go on,
and don’t make any money back while on vacation for 30 years.

Just throw it out the window.

Flush it down the toilet… at least you’ll have some good photo
memories at the lake and other places you go.. but you’ll still
be broke in 30 years when you retire.

How I know this? Cause the United States Government tells me…

98% of the popular at age 65 are dead broke - 2% are wealthy.

Will you PLEASE… PLEASE… do yourself a favor and do somthing
right now to be one of the 2%’ers?

This might not be right for you. I understand
that. If you know someone it is right for, pass it over to them,
okay?

Let me help you… I’ve done ok here… I’ve only sold over
$2 million bucks of these memberships in 3 years… I know it’s
not a whole lot… maybe 630 memberships in all.. but I know I
can do better.

And I know you can get a piece of the $7 trillion travel industry
pie for yourself too.

I’ll help you. I am still here, almost 4 years later. I am with
the same company. Most people change companies every 4 months.
I am not going to leave you hanging with support.

It’s a phone call, webinar away, always. Just call or order now.

Be one of the first 3 to make a smart decision or, be the person
who resists and pays more and gets less. (please, don’t be this
person)

It’s your call.

651-769-2189
http://www.ordercoastalvacations.com

In His Grip, ><>
Jeff Mills

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Here is the list. These definitely work.

1. Use a 24 hr message on your rear car window with a sticker, make it big:

“Tired of Living Paycheck to Paycheck? Want more Money and Time Freedom Now?” (24 hr. Rec Msg) Call 888-888-8888 (use your cell phone)

2.  Use HotCards - Business Cards with 24 Hour Msg phone # on them. Say to someone who you strike up a conversation with, “I don’t know if this is for you or if you know anyone looking for some extra income, but if you know someone, just give them this card and have them call the recorded message on back. It might also be something you are interested in hearing about as well.”

Give them to waiters, waitresses, sports games, in line at a gas station, supermarket, ATM machines, airports, etc…

3. Warm Market: People you know - Call them up, say this: “Hey mom, I know you were telling me money is tight right now and you are looking for some extra cash… do me  a favor, I think I found a solution for people in the same situation as you, call it and tell me what you think. Grab a pen, here is the #….”

4. Use email signatures in your emails and autoresponders. I always include lines in my emails to get people to optin to my lists with my email signatures. “Click here to see the new house I just bought.” On that page have a picture and an explanation for how your business was able to build that home…buy you a new car… pay for your vacation, etc…

5. Online Advertising: Use the video hosting sites. Youtube, Google Video, Metacafe, Revver, these sites are free to submit user generated content to. Also join many social media sharing sites, and social sites like myspace, facebook, linkedin and more social sharing sites… there are ton of these out there.

6. Free Newspapers - There are still some free or next to free newspapers out there. Put in a 3 or 4 line ad that sends people to a free recorded message line where you collect their info if they are interested.

7. Meet Up Groups: Meetup.com is a great site for finding people who are into the same interests as you are. The types of groups out there are limitless. There are just an incredible amount of business or social group which you can get leads from for your business and share referrals.

The best ideas are here, but unless you do something… nothing is going to happen. So, take 1-2 ideas for now and do something with it immediately. Don’t wait for success to come to you. Don’t wait for God to open doors… kick em open yourself and walk in. If God says no, he’ll shut the door for you, but you need to be someone who takes action and implements good ideas.

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As a successful online marketer, I am always studying other marketers and trends to see how to best service my customers and gain new ones with innovation. We live with an ever changing internet that has gone through many facelifts over it’s 20 or so year history.

Let’s go back in time….

See, back in the 1980’s, when we all used Apple IIe’s and Comodore 64’s the internet was a Bulletin Board System or BBS, where people dialed in on a dial-up modem… 300 baud, 900 baud even 1200 baud (rich kids) and all we did was chat. We interacted, we talked, we shared games (warez) and we connected from many spots locally as well as nationally in chat rooms.

Then in the 1990’s when AOL birthed their vision of an internet, it was segmented into many catagories for people to hang out in and network, socialize and connect. And if you wanted to surf the web with the “web crawler” you could go there, but there was not ‘much’ out there yet.

In the late 1990’s it was all about the HOMEPAGE. Yep, everyone wanted to build themselves a website, go out and try to sell something. Everyone wanted a peice of internet real estate out there and went buying up domain names and getting into position for an economic boom that was about to generate billions of dollars in online revenues, not for the ISP’s who seemed to control everything up to that point, but for the start up Internet Infopreneurs who saw the landscape of the Wild Wild West and it was ripe for the taking.

eBay evolved into probably the first big social network, where people all over the world bartered for goods. People could leave feedback, make comments and trade at prices that were well below wholesale.

Playstations and Xboxes also put people together in virtual worlds to fight together or wage war against one another and people would spend hours upon hours leveling up characters and doing dungeon raids all for virtual booty, that gained bragging rights for the day.

We went through a few Dot Com Busts, and Dot Com Booms over the last 10-15 years and I see the internet now as reversing itself. It is all about the social media and social networking now, more than ever.

Products are cropping up faster and faster about how to tap into traffic from these Web2.0 type sites.

People are not so much yearning for new information as much as they are yearning for new and more relationships. Dating websites are extremely popular. Talk about a membership site model that is monetizing the masses at $20-$30 a month with subscriber bases of hundred of thousands! People are willing to pay this money for one reason and one reason only…. TO MAKE A REAL CONNECTION…. TO FIND TRUE LOVE… TO FIND TRUE RELATIONSHIPS.

Now, these sites and social networking and media is not new to us, it’s been around for 5 years or so, but more people are coming to the internet to come back to the roots we had back in the 80’s.

They are coming here to connect. They are looking for relationships, friendships, and interaction with others. And social media sites, helps foster the dynamic of a group or pod of people united around a common interest or service.

People are voting on Digg. People are joking on Fark. People are sharing leads on Linkedin. Adults are sending friend requests on Myspace and it’s more popular now with OLDER people than the younger people as they discovered new business could be found on sites that are more popular now than GOOGLE!

Video is all the rage, as people love watching people, then interacting with them with media that is “social”.

It seems like everyday, a new social media/networking/bookmarking/voting site comes out with its “unique” play on the game.

Why?

They want to build sites with deep roots in relationship building and connecting. PLUS… They want a super sticky site where they can create demographics which can attract the big dollars of advertisers.

Yes, you can still slap an adsense box, text link or advertising banner on a blog or site and make money in that realm too… The banners are NOT dead folks, people are still clicking on ads, like they always have.

That’s right, look at Facebook. Extremely popular now. It’s trying to get into the advertising game. What was just a school kids networking site is now even involved in the political debates. Is growing so fast, its more popular than Google.

The advertisers are looking to get in there and tap that market for product sales and build brand images.

But all this comes back to what it is that humans really deep down want to feel and that is to feel loved, liked and connected.

It’s not about the solo website anymore.

Don’t sit there and think you gotta build a website and a website will be your savior. It’s about building communities and connections. It’s still about people, cause people buy from other people, not just cold corporate websites. People buy from people that they know, like and trust.

Remember that.

Another cool phenomenon is the MeetUp. Sites like Meetup.com are taking people OFFLINE to build bridges and connections FACE TO FACE! Wow, imagine that. I am using meetup right now to make tons of new connections as well as new business. It’s working like a champ. I’ll have more to say about that later…

Remember we are still a BBS world. We can translate languages instantly on the fly with a push of a button, we can reach out and find new customers, new dates, new friends, and new spouses at the flip of a few keys.

Folks, the internet is reversing, and it’s fine by me, as we’ll continue to grow into communities of connected people where all kinds of business and relationships take place.

Go to this space. Help make it better and you’ll see your business and personal relationships grow and flourish into new heights.

What are your thoughts about all this web2.0 stuff and social networking?

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