March 2, 2009
Bulletin # 6
INTRODUCTIONS
Some significant service updates are underway at THE NATIONAL NETWORKER. In addition to being the nation’s leading authoritative publication regarding networking and Relationship Capital, we are fast becoming the foremost provider of networking, marketing, public relations, image-building, distribution, communications and financial resources in the United States and internationally. Many of our services are now fully-installed, and ready to use.
Update: We expect all of our Member Services (the Membership Services Suite) to be fully functional by March 3.
Update: We expect all of our affiliate links to magically come alive (in full Technicolor!) by March 3, as well.
Update: The newly-minted TNNW OMNIGADGET, a brilliant navigational tool, is now appearing on every one of TNNW's blog pages, and will make its debut on the website (http://www.thenationalnetworker.com/) and on every future Newsletter commencing on March 9.
Update: Take a quick peek at the TNNW OMNIGADGET and then come right back here! The OMNIGADGET is appearing (for a limited engagement!) live and in Technicolor at http://thetnnwomnigadget.blogspot.com/ . A note of caution -- DO NOT PUSH THE BIG RED BUTTON ON THAT BLOG PAGE.
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Please keep watching as these exciting changes are implemented -- enjoy them, and be a part of our growth. These developments will affect ever Subscriber and Every Member's ability to generate more Relationship Capital, and MORE BUSINESS.
Our TNNW Triple Focus:
1. To make our subscribers better-informed, more conversant and more successful;
2. To make our columnists and contributors very, very well-known;
3. To maximize our Members’ income and wealth as rapidly and as efficiently as possible.
REINTRODUCTION
Welcome to your new universe of Powerful Resources, Tangible Results and Exponential Growth through Cooperation and Partnership. Be proactive – start to visualize yourself as a stakeholder in TNNW, instead of as a passive outsider.
The bottom line: TNNW has more to offer you than ever before, and our offerings for both Subscribers and Members are constantly increasing. As always, our Subscribers will still receive our weekly Newsletter, as well as the RSS and email feeds, free of charge. Additionally, our Subscribers will receive significant discounts on all products, publications and services which they purchase through the advertisers and affiliates whose buttons, links and ads appear in our Newsletter, on our website, and on our network of blogs (there are in excess of 10 of them, and their numbers are growing).
We are all partners in a cooperative effort. This means that we should make every effort to conduct business with other partners; we should make every effort to refer partners to other partners; we should "talk up" our organization and its partners publicly and privately, and at every opportunity; and -- we should promote the expansion of the organization...in brief, more Subscribers, more Members, more Advertisers and more Affiliates.
Within the next one to two years, TNNW will announce several plans for converting our ownership structure into a new, fully-cooperative structure, where contributors will be invited to become actual stakeholders...stakeholders who participate in ownership and income. This certainly beats your depleted 401(k), or your corporate stock option plan. Keep this vision of the future clearly in your mind. Let it motivate you. This is not hypothetical -- this will happen. One of our targets along the path to this transformation is the attainment of at least 100,000 Subscribers, 20,000 of whom are Members.
It has come to our attention that some of our Subscribers do not own automobiles. Please drive them to their meetings, dentist appointments, on errands, to go shopping, to the fast-foods drive-up windows and to the local sports bars that a number of them frequent (you know who you are).
Okay, okay...kindly disregard the previous paragraph. It was placed there just to see if you were paying attention. We will try not to pull a foolish stunt like this again, but we offer no guarantees.
1. Forward this Newsletter to everyone on your opt-in subscriber list, or to your email list, with a request that they subscribe (it's free), and that they also get the Daily RSS or Daily Email feed, too. All of these things are explained in the TNNW OMNIGADGET on every blog page. Or, visit the OMNIGADGET in its natural habitat at http://thetnnwomnigadget.blogspot.com/ . You can also go to the little envelope-shaped icon at the foot of every newsletter post at http://thenationalnetworkerweblog.blogspot.com/ , and send a copy of the entire newsletter automatically, via instant email, to up to ten of your friends in one bulk email. Efficient, eh?
2. Talk us up (and call us by name -- THE NATIONAL NETWORKER) in your various Linked In and other groups, as well as on Mixx, Digg, Buzz, Technorati, Delicious, FaceBook, Zimbio, Twitter, StumbleUpon...and the lot of 'em.
3. Participate in OPERATION BRUTE FORCE. You're curious, aren't you? Well, all this requires is that you spend a few idle moments during the course of your hectic day, and search for THE NATIONAL NETWORKER on Google or any other search engines, find our first listing, and just click on it to visit us. The more you do this, the better the effect on our SEO.
4. Place our blidget on your blogs, websites, newsletters, email blasts and refrigerator doors. You can get this blidget (in a choice of two contemporary and ergonomically optimized designs!) from http://thenationalnetworkerweblog.blogspot.com/ . It is a potent SEO and traffic magnet, by the way.
5. Comment on our articles, and leave a backlink to your website or blog at the end of your comment posting. This not only helps inspire us, and excites our readers...it creates a new stream of traffic back to you! You can do something that is absolutely self-serving and mercenary, and still feel good about it. Every time you comment, you can incorporate a back link to your blog, website or newsletter. You have the opportunity to post your name. You build your brand, your traffic and your search engine position every single time that you do this! Help yourself to some high-octane SEO.
-ACTIONABLE ITEMS – IMMEDIATE
Please don’t miss out!
If you haven’t done these things yet, please do them now! As our format is changing, we need every longtime Subscriber, as well as every newcomer, to do take the following steps to assure your continued receipt of our Newsletter, and to gain access to all of our new Resources. Please take a moment and do these things even if you are already a Subscriber:
1. Click on http://TheNationalNetworkerWeblog.blogspot.com/
2. Go to the upper right-hand column of the page and subscribe to either the RSS feed, to the email feed, or both. You must do this even if you are already a Subscriber or a Member. The process will take less than one minute. By the way, the daily email option gives you the weekly Edition of TNNW, daily intelligence and opportunities, and everything contained in the RSS Feed, too.
3. Congratulate yourself! Good things are headed your way.
RESOURCES FOR YOUR SUCCESS
advertisers. Text-messaging now plays a key role in communications – ask Barack Obama (he won, didn’t he?) – His campaigning and fundraising activities were carried out through a communications mix of internet marketing and text-messaging. People might leave their laptops at home, but they carry cellular telephones in their pockets. This a powerful tool for tightening up corporate or group communications in real-time, and for accessing the Gen Y market population... in fact, the market where text-messaging is the most highly-utilized and well-received is for consumers between the ages of 12 and 36. [THIS SERVICE IS ACTIVE]
International Agent/ Distributor Services: The networking community is increasingly international. You can grow at an incredible pace by partnering with international agents, distributors, representatives, vendors and consumers. Through TNNW, you can now access pre-qualified international contacts with personal introductions…or, you can get pre-qualified leads sent to you to follow up directly. We give you choices. Build a virtual import, export or global “division” in cyberspace at a miniscule cost, and become global in no time! [THIS SERVICE IS ACTIVE]
Accordingly, when you speak about yourself to a prospective client or business associate, it carries the automatic liability of being self-serving, and even patronizing of your audience.
In a circumstance where the prospective client or business associate is allowed to "listen in" on a teleconference (formatted as a Q and A interview) between yourself and a professional-sounding interviewer, your presentation stops being a "dog and pony show," and becomes perceived as a critical interview.
No longer viewed as an advertisement or an "advertorial", the TNNW MINI-INTERVIEW is seen as an informative newscast. And that makes you more credible and persuasive, with an implicit third-party endorsement by the interviewer. [THIS SERVICE IS ACTIVE]
Meet Our Advertisers and Affiliates: This page is a master listing of all of our affiliates and advertisers, with their links, buttons, banners and information on display. It is an eclectic collection of wonderful products and services for the benefit of all Subscribers. [THIS SERVICE WILL BE ACTIVATED BY MARCH 7]
SUBSCRIBERSHIP AND MEMBERSHIP GROWTH!
*Bruce Newman, one of our Authors and an expert in the field of qualifying and selecting the most suitable consultants for business needing high caliber services but wishing to reduce their fixed employment overhead to accommodate changes in the business paradigm, global economy and communications and organizational technology, is publishing a brand new newsletter. His company, The Productivity Institute, LLC (http://www.prodinst.com/), will be generating the newsletter bi-weekly, To learn more, and to subscribe for The Productivity Institute Newsletter ™, go to http://www.prodinst.com/articles/PI_current_newsletter.html . If you would be interested in writing for the publication, or in advertising sponsorship, please contact Bruce at info@prodinst.com. The newsletter already has a large opt-in subscriber base, and presents a viral marketing opportunity for every organization which participates in contributing content (you may even be the Featured Company), and re-mailing the newsletter to their own opt-in subscriber lists. The readership growth potential is exponential (hey…that rhymes!), and it is an opportunity to get you and your company in front of an ever-increasing audience. It is essentially a cooperative effort where every participant wins. What’s more, the content promises to be excellent, useful and interesting. Sign up to receive your free Newsletter today.
*Author Michelle Bergquist, who has written the widely read book, How To Build A Million-Dollar Database , and who is a principal of SBR, Inc. is going to be one of our contributing writers. You can learn about Michelle’s unique areas of expertise (especially where converting mere contacts into real, profitable business relationships is concerned) by visiting her website at http://www.michelleberquist.com/ . Her book is a tremendous and authoritative guide, and she is a powerful speaker and a networker who absolutely and unfailingly practices what she preaches. We will be making a special offering of Michelle’s book on our site. What is your ratio of relationships to contacts? Michelle will demonstrate exactly how to increase it, as well as your profits. By the way, Michelle is an excellent speaker with a genuinely warm and inspiring personality. She leaves people wanting to call her back – and that’s a gift.
* Author Lillian Bjorseth, who has written Breakthrough Networking – Building Relationships that last, is a dynamic presenter and an expert at such critical image- and impression- related details as how to dress, posture, body language (non-verbal communications), optimum utilization of your voice, gets down to very essence of how to re-create yourself into a masterful networker. These are the skills that you will need to navigate your way through a challenging economy. We will be making a special offering of Lillian’s book, and her patented “action card decks,” as well as some new products and publications in the weeks to come. She is a superb presenter with a powerful air of self-confidence that would make even some of the best Toastmasters envious. Lillian can be reached at 630.983.5308. But first, we would suggest that your immediately go to here website at http://www.duoforce.com/, and forward your questions and inquiries to her via email at lillianspeaks@duoforce.com .
*Author, networker and healthcare practitioner (not to mention superb jazz bass player) Christine Sotmary, M.S., L.Ac., CPC is now writing for us about a variety of issues. She is an expert at so many things, and has a private coaching and mentoring practice. She is an amazing amalgam of talents, as a marathon athlete, technical writer, acupuncturist, metabolic consultant, musical performer and promoter. You have to get a subscription to her newsletter (actually one of several) called “Unplug and Get Your Groove Back,” which you might be able to access through http://sotmary.blogspot.com/, or through one of her other sites, which include http://www.gotbetterhealth.com/, http://www.sotmary.com/ and www.zoomnia.com/gotbetterhealth . You can reach her directly at 917.273.1308, or via email at sotmary@gmail.com. She is a superb coach and trainer, with boundless energy.
* Author Ann Barczay Sloan (abarczay@earthlink.net ), one of our very popular authors, has written a book, titled, “HOW TO USE THE PIECES OF A BROKEN HEART – Recipes for Rebirth” which features some poignant and inspiring short writings, with original and beautiful illustrations by artist Penny McManigal and numerous other inspired artists and photographers, each joyously celebrated and showcased. TNNW is in the process of putting together a small syndicate for the self-publishing, promotion, initial printing and distribution of the finished work. I have a strong personal interest in this wonderful project, and if you speak with either Ann or us at TNNW, you will too. The book is ideal for the times in which we live…let’s participate and get some royalties out of this before a major publisher steps in for wide scale promotion and distribution of the book, and Ann becomes unapproachable because her inspiring and profound work gets Oprah’s endorsement. Should you have an interest please email douglas.castle@yahoo.com, or telephone toll-free at 888-317-6498 (extension 3).
TNNW will be self-publishing this book at first, prior to obtaining a promotion and distribution deal with a major publishing company. The capitalization required is anticipated to be approximately $20,000.00, of which we already have obtained indications of interest in excess of $5,000.00 in three weeks’ time. If you would like to participate and generate substantial royalties, please contact Douglas Castle at 888.317.6498 (extension 3). No brokers please -- serious principals only.
We are in the process of preparing a series of Mini-Interviews with the author, where she speaks about her book and the inspirations that played a part in its gestation, and where she reads some of her own beautiful words in her own voice. These MP3s will be as therapeutic as they will be informative. When the book is published, their value will be incalculable. They will be available to our Subscribers and Members. Please note that a portion of the proceeds of each sale of these downloads will go toward the publication of the book...if you are a purchaser of record, you will be acknowledged and immortalized in the "In Gratitude" Section of the published work. Our bet is that Ann winds up interviewed on OPRAH (with an endorsement of her amazing book) within the next year. You might reconsider getting in touch – you don’t want to be kicking yourself a year from now…or do you?
* Jeff Schomay, of Inspire-Your-Buyer, is an expert at getting recipients to open your emails to them. He uses carefully-selected brief key statements and some attention-grabbing graphic arts effects in order to get your recipients “primed” to focus on your email campaign or newsletter. Jeff will be writing for TNNW, and is offering a special program to our Members. Preview the program, and perhaps take it for a test drive by clicking on http://inpire-your-buyer.com/tnnw_special.html. Think of the incremental increase in your profits if you could increase your email response rate from, say 2% to 15%...that translates into a dramatic increase. Jeff does wonderful work, and gets results. In the words of Sian Lindemann, another TNNW writer, and a vigorous networker in her field, “Jeff got my phone to ring like it’s never rung before.” Everybody wants this. Get your email recipients to pay attention and respond!
* Lance Hood has made a career of studying the techniques, histories and winning formulas of the world’s greatest success coaches. He has created a website which shares their wisdom, stories and insights with visitors. He is also producing an affiliated newsletter. Ultimately, if Lance has his way, he will be able to get you featured as one his featured Greatest Coaches to tell your story. Go to his site, and subscribe to his newsletter at http://www.greatestlivingsuccesscoaches.com/. He is also sharing information about a co-sponsorship opportunity for new projects, technologies, websites and brands, which you can access at http://www.promotethemastersgathering.com/ – I would recommend that you review it, and then email Lance directly at Lance@GreatestLivingSuccessCoaches.com with any questions or suggestions. Lance has studied the winners, and we believe that he can help make you one, too.
* Author and networker Jason Jacobsohn has an excellent newsletter which you should subscribe to at http://jacobsohn.com/. The newsletter is called “Network Your Way to Success,” and it is well worth getting. He offers opportunities to contribute content, promote your product or service. Jason’s website, http://www.networkinginsight.com/ will provide you with more useful information. You can reach Jason directly at Jason@jacobsohn.com, or by telephoning his offices at 773.368.0229.
*Cinda Hocking and Barbara H. Marynowski, both new authors at TNNW, are Senior Consultants at INTERNAL ENERGY PLUS™, a revolutionary technique for lightning-speed learning, which utilizes an eclectic blend of unconventional but highly-focused training and entrainment approaches in order to empower self-growth, personal development and professional and financial success. IEP uses such techniques as meditation, NLP, hypnotherapy, subliminal messaging, deliberate breathing, brainwave entrainment, Scripting and certain select energy postures (derived from ancient martial arts) to rid you of stress, fill you with newfound focus and energy, improve your health, and to attain your goals by a linear approach. You can learn, and change at the speed of thought. Your complete personal and business success and happiness are the ultimate objectives of the IEP System, and any person of any age can participate. They offer programs and products (including CDs, DVDs, books, Scripts, etcetera) for home study, as well as various seminars, demonstrations and tutorials for larger teams groups and organizations. Their website is at http://www.internalenergyplus.com/.
Their principal blog is at http://theinternalenergyplusforum.blogspot.com/ , and you can join their free online community at: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/INTERNAL_ENERGY_PLUS/
THE IEP PRODUCTS AND PROGRAMS CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
You might also consider subscribing to some of the other FREE IEP, blogs, services and exciting self-growth tools, including LIFE LINKS, BRAINTENANCE, TAKING COMMAND! , THE INTERNATIONALIST PAGE and THE GLOBAL FUTURIST. Subscribe to these by email or RSS feed – they are all free, and they are great tools for realizing your personal potential.
Visit the INTERNAL ENERGY PLUS website at http://www.internalenergyplus.com/ and take a long look at their product offerings. Develop your inner-personal skills, as well as your interpersonal skills. Some of the CDs, Scripts and other tools for de-stressing, positive affirmations, goal focus, creativity, conquering phobias and attracting wealth and opportunity are among the best available in the market. Program yourself for success. http://www.internalenergyplus.com/ .
*New Member Elaine Ingis is an entrepreneur in the process of building an online social and business community (a membership-based, for-profit organization) which focuses on the interests, culture and needs of the “Baby Boomers” who have reached at least sixty years of age. This highly-interactive community will combine online communications and internet capabilities with actual in-person events centered in the New York Metropolitan geographical area. The Venture, Senior Meetup, LLC, is in its earliest formative stages and promises to be very, very exciting. Elaine’s target market is growing, both in terms of its relative percentage of the total population, and in terms of its vitality and involvement with social and continuing business activities. For further information about this project, or to contribute your thoughts and suggestions, please either email Elaine at esingis@yahoo.com, or telephone Douglas Castle (toll-free) at 888-317-6498 (extension 5).
*New Member Jake Thompson of Eagle Capital Management has some absolutely fascinating (and little-known) financial strategies for creating and preserving wealth. These particular techniques have been utilized for many years by major banks and financial institutions, as well as by some very wealthy individuals, to earn superior returns and accumulate wealth without taking any of the risks ordinarily associated with “playing the stock market” or getting involved in direct participation programs or hedge fund investing. Both Jake and his father, Dan, have done their homework -- the result is that they can make these strategies available to us regular people who have been decimated by the whims of the capital markets, had their 401k plans depleted, and are (in a word) completely disillusioned. Many executives, professional and entrepreneurs now find themselves in a position where they have no latitude left for risky investments or “great investment tips.” This is for everybody.
TNNW will be working with Jake and Eagle to produce a webinar series titled “Becoming Your Own Bank.” Expect to be amazed. Each of the webinars in this information-packed series (covering such topics as “arbitrage,” “dynastic trust planning” and “utilizing hidden equity”) will be an educational program of the highest quality. The series promises to be an extraordinary value. TNNW will keep you apprised of the webinar calendar. Jake can be contacted at jacobtho@cableone.net . TNNW is delighted to welcome Jake to our growing, interactive community.
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