These are Awesome Times!

Did you know every day more than 60 million emails are sent out around the world?

Facebook has over 200,000,000 (200 MILLION) users and MySpace has over 186,000,000 (186 MILLION) users. MARKETERS: Listen up – it’s FREE to build a targeted database (list) using Twitter and Facebook!

It’s also very effective for keeping up with your customers, vendors, prospects, friends etc. Brand building, relationship building, joint ventures, partnerships, special projects… It’s all here at the tips of your fingers. You just have to learn how to harness these resources and apply them effectively.

My MOM just got on Facebook! Many of my facebook friend’s moms just got on facebook. Twitter is next… then YouTube for sure and then they’ll take over Slide.com and MOM’s around the world will spread the word (Hey, this stuff is simple and powerful and fun!) to THEIR Moms…

And then the party will be ON! Global ‘NetConnected’ Grammas! If they only new how powerful they could be, seriously.

Technology has given us so many ways to communicate. It’s easy now. It’s fast. It’s everywhere. And now – it IS mainstream.

But here’s a question to ponder:

Are we adding people into our lives who sahre our values or merely collecting a list of profiles? Are we deepening relationships or just going through the motions and just spamming or wasting people’s time and space?

The quality of our lives is closely related to the quality of our relationships.

Your relationships are as strong or deep as you choose to make them. Neglect them and they perish. Take time to impact and add value to them, and they flourish. I’ve read recently something very interesting: When two people meet, a third world is created. And with the technology you have at your fingertips today, right this moment – that world WILL grow exponentially.

Resources such as Facebook and Twitter give you the potential to instantly share our lives with other people on a global scale. And you can use it to touch people, add value to their lives and reach them in a more meaningful way. Imagine – now you have the power to build a network of like minded people, a group of shared ideas and focused creativity.

In the coming weeks I’ll be sharing with you tools, strategies and ideas for building your network of resources so you can develop even more beneficial connections. We’ll share ideas for expanding your personal brand, creating your own community that brings value to people personally and professionally and allows you and others to grow and contribute.

There are a variety of effortless ways you can make contributions by mentoring and sharing ideas with others and by sharing in the interests and passions of others as well. The whole idea is to use these tools not just to correspond, but the really connect with others.

It’s all about creating more of a personal meaning and a life of purpose… and it’s fun.

More notes coming in the days and weeks ahead and we’ll take it a bit deeper too.
For now, I highly suggest you get yourself a Facebook and Twitter account. They’re both free.

Set up your profiles. Upload your picture.

Grab this free software for twitter:

TweetLater
TweetDeck

Follow me on Facebook and Twitter.

Ok, now – Find 10 Influential people in your niche. Leaders. Movers and shakers. Follow them. And begin to follow some of their followers. 25 – 50 per day. This sets the whole viral web in motion, you’ll see.

Listen in and contribute. Pay attention.

In the next blog I’ll show you a neat tactic to automatically LINK your twitter followers and have them also “friend” you at Facebook. And we’ll start having fun with this.

TweetDeck is a nice organizational tool. You’ll be able to contribute better, organize stuff on twitter and get “in the game” without getting lost.

Enjoy and we’ll talk again in a few.

Make it a Great Day!

Franco