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My online life has gone through different stages. I’ve started with forums – mainly SEO-related ones, as it was my main field of expertise in those years. I’ve participated in several forums – been a moderator and even a super moderator, have tried to run my own forum – about my home city – but finally reached the end of that particular stage.
My next step into the online world was discovering business networking. My first business network was Ecademy; then I switched to BetterNetworking.
Stages tend to overlap: I still sometimes visit one of those multiple forums I used to be active at; at the same time, I feel like my business networking is far less active than three years ago. It could come back though: benefits of such activities to small businesses are hard to overestimate, and I’ve found a lot of clients through networking and hope to find more. I might even start running groups again…
It was fun, running groups (in those days they were called “clubs”) in Ecademy. People asked me sometimes how I managed to create decent communities within a few days without ever touching “Message All Contacts” – and if it was hard to review long dead clubs. My secrets were simple though – sending personal invites to every would-be member. Yes, personal – written from scratch every time, no copy and paste. Then, once people arrive, I did many things to keep them interested – daily jokes, contests, games (like creating a story together, each contributing exactly 5 words, or something similar). For business clubs, it could be something else – questions and answers, for example, or free website reviews offered weekly.
It required time and effort, of course, but friendships formed in the process have become unbreakable. They have survived my break-up with Ecademy. They have more than once brought me business. They have made my life better – emotionally and otherwise. They have been entirely worth it.
Now a few words about another stage I’m going through. It is called blogging – meaning not posting short stories on a social networking site, but having a blog on a separate domain. Blogging for business and blogging for fun – as a personal hobby. I’m discovering the art of bringing audience to a brand-new blog – once I figure it out well enough to share a few tips, I’ll post them right here, so watch this space.
There will be WordPress tips too, for those who’d like to DIY their blogs: every day I learn something new about this amazingly flexible platform. For now, just a simple advice: if you would like your blog to be popular, make it different. Your content, your design – everything should reflect on your own personality and be absolutely different from the next guy’s. Once you’ve achieved that, it’s the first step on your road to success.
This is my first post here, and I’m very grateful to Romany for inviting me to participate. I’ll do my best to be worthy of the invitation.
Posted in Funny thing gut instinct. You meet someone and they come across all candy coated with their charm and you think what an interesting person so you decide to connect.
Inside your gut instinct is sounding all the bells and whistles indicating something is just not right and your gut instinct sits there hanging waiting for you to listen. Yet in the back of your mind you are thinking, “but why, he/she seems so pleasant, so sincere and others think he/she is such a great person….” . You choose to ignore gut instinct because it must be wrong and you get more involved with this “lovely person” you have encoutered.
Well, I have been clean for almost 2 years now manged to stay away from people have hidden agendas but the other day I met someone and gut instinct sounded the alarm bells and what did I do. I did not listen. I did not trust my gut instinct and guess what I am paying the price for not listening.
I read a blog posted by Liz Chukwu the other day The wisdom of your spirit, do you have trusted advisors which reminded me to always listen to my trusted advisors. There is a reason for their existence, to guide and protect you.
Have you trusted your gut instincted lately, if so how has it benefited you? If you did not, what were the consequences?
Romany Thresher
While sitting at someone’s desk today waiting on some information, I saw this and made me laugh. I don’t know who the author is so a tad difficult to give credit. I do know that it is called
The Lost Dr. Seuss Poem
I love my job, I love the pay!I
love it more and more each day.I love my boss, he is the best!
I love his boss and all the rest.
I love my office and its location. I hate to have to go on vacation. I love my furniture, drab and grey and piles of paper that grow each day. I think my job is really swell, there’s nothing else I love so well.
I love to work among my peers. I love their leers and jeers and sneers.
I love my computer and its software. I hug it often though it won’t care. I love each program and every file. I’d love them more if they worked a while.
I’m happy to be here. I am. I am.
I’m the happiest slave of the firm, I am.
I love this work, I love these chores. I love the meetings with deadly bores.
I love my job – I’ll say it again - I even love those friendly men. Those friendly men who’ve come today in clean white coats to take me away!!!
“Your super subconscious mind attracts into your life people, ideas and resources in harmony with your dominant thoughts. It brings you everything you need to succeed.” Flight Plan by Brian Tracy.
In times like these it is easy to allow our minds to fall into the trap of negativity. We see recession on the news, online, in the newspaper and see it all around us. Companies closing down, people being unemployed and the atmosphere of lack is filtering its way in. We can ourselves begin to wonder whether we will make it.
The key is shifting our focus on what we do want, what we want to achieve and taking it day by day. Decide now, what your most important goal is? If you could miraculously change one thing today, what would that be? This would be your right now goal. Keep this goal as your dominant thought and point of focus. Make a list of things that you would need to do to help you achieve this goal and each day do something from that list that will take you one step closer to achieving that goal.
Romany Thresher