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TNNWC Update Bulletin! Developments at 10.04.2010

GROWING PAINS AT 10.04.2010

Dear Members, Colleagues, Readers and Eavesdroppers (if you’re looking over someone’s shoulder):

Version .002 of TNNWC Group’s fully-featured, product- and service-loaded website was supposed to be up and running on October 1^st. Well, it was supposed to be. Then again, my retirement fund was supposed to be worth millions, too, but that is taking somewhat longer than expected…

As it turns out, we are still in the process of finalizing some of the service details, adding some last-minute copy, and dealing with hosting and posting (H&P!) technologies that seem to be feuding with each other. For example: our graphics, logo and button providers (CoolText and Automotivator), Google/Blogger/Feedburner, Windows Live Spaces, MailChimp, and Yahoo! (and of course, the infamous Internet Explorer 8, which has everyone coughing up bile) are taking turns malfunctioning – at any given moment, one of these things will not be working properly.

Pursuant to Murphy’s Law, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, Mercury in retrograde, and other immutable laws of real life, as soon as we fix one problem, another glitch rears its ugly head. It’s like playing a high-stakes game of Whack-A-Mole, or doing that trick where you have to juggle spinning plates on top of long sticks while they play that irritating music in the background.

The good news is that Membership is absolutely exploding – the bad news is that our servers are approaching critical mass, and are acting up.

The Bottom Line: Please bear with us, and try to be patient while we fix all of our glitches and get all of our moving parts to be working in synergistic harmony. In the meanwhile, expect an occasional bit of chaos. We expect to be out of the womb (out of the gate, out of the chute, out of the barn, etcetera) by [cue drum roll]…October 15^th.

Thank you for your patience, for being a part of our Community, and for your support and valuable input. You are appreciated indeed!

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle,

CEO and Co-Chairman

Douglas Castle
Linked In Profile: http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/douglascastle
Become a Member Of TNNWC Group: http://bit.ly/JoinTNNWC
Visit: http://www.DouglasCastleBlogosphere.com and grab my widgets (ahem).
BLOGS: http://TheGlobalFuturist.blogspot.com, http://TheInternationalistPage.blogspot.com, http://Braintenance.blogspot.com, http://aboutDouglasCastle.blogspot.com, http://lifelinksiep.blogspot.com (LINKS 4 LIFE), http://TakingCommand.blogspot.com , http://RadioDAZZ.blogspot.com (A wholly-irrelevant blog, but everyone needs a hobby).

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SAMPLE: OUR URGENT MESSAGE TO COOLTEXT

Subject: Immediate Priority - Our CoolText Buttons and Logos are Not Properly Functioning. Problem Is Intermittent.

Dear Cool Text Mavens:

Your service, which has always been reliable and excellent (and which we have recommended to many others) is not hosting our logos and buttons at certain intervals. Is your server temporarily malfunctioning? When do you expect to be back up again? My colleagues and I count on you for a great deal of our graphics creation and hosting, and much of this material is linked to in a host of publications which go out to our ever-increasing subscriber membership.

Please advise us at your soonest.

We have many blogs and several websites wherein we use CoolText.

You can find a listing of some of them at http://beta.blogger.com/profile/00521679449074072919 , or by going to http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com .

Thank you very much for providing an excellent service, and for your anticipated swift response.

Yours,

Douglas Castle

Co-Chairman, TNNWC Group, LLC

douglas@TNNWC.com

douglas.castle@yahoo.com

p.s. Here’s how we sing your praises on many of our blogs (ahem):

TNNWC Group, LLC™, Global Edge Technologies Group LLC™ and author Douglas Castle unconditionally recommend Cool Text as a fabulous graphics resource and host for all webmasters and bloggers. [This is an unpaid endorsement.] Visit Cool Text – They host many of our buttons and logos.

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT AND LEGAL NOTICE

Mr. Jason Lampa does not have any affiliation with TNNWC Group, LLC or with any of its related companies or businesses. Mr. Lampa was formerly a Featured Columnist for The National Networker Weekly Newsletter™, and had expressed an interest in promoting TNNWC’s Emerging Markets Venture Capital Program™. Mr. Lampa does not have any authority to speak for or to otherwise represent TNNWC Group, LLC, regarding any of aspect of its business or programs. Mr. Lampa is not an officer of or advisor to TNNWC Group, LLC. Any representation to the contrary is untrue, unauthorized and fraudulent.

NEWS RELEASE, PUBLICITY & PR SERVICES

Welcome, Mr. Kent Martin!

We are delighted to announce that Mr. Kent Martin, an extraordinarily gifted and experienced corporate communications and multi-media publicity professional (his experience ranges from writing, to radio broadcasting, to television announcing… Kent’s Linked In Profile will provide you with the incredible spectrum of Kent’s professional expertise and experience – just have a look at http://www.linkedin.com/in/kentmartin ) has joined TNNWC Group, LLC as the Client Services Executive and Divisional President of its News Release, Publicity and Public Relations Services.

Kent will also be playing a Senior Advisory Role to our world-famous TNNW BUZZWORKS™ Team.

INTRODUCING NEW MEMBERS OF THE BUZZWORKS™ TEAM

TNNWC Group, LLC is pleased to announce the selection of three new Members (we call them “Buzzards,” but never in public…) to broaden the power base, capabilities, areas of expertise and market penetration potency of our TNNW BUZZWORKS™ TEAM:

We invite you to learn more about these brave new soldiers in the war for Buzz-To-Brand™ media domination for our Clients:

Mr. Jared DiCarmine

An expert personal trainer, internet entrepreneur, and representative of the new wave of media-launched entrepreneurs, we are delighted to Have Jared on the Team.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jared-dicarmine/23/4ba/704

http://www.blowtorchbellyfat.com/

http://twitter.com/jareddicarmine

Master Soke Joseph Droual

Soke Joseph Droual has been a successful martial arts practitioner, teacher and private instructor for more than 36 years. He has been inducted into the US Martial Arts Hall of Fame, and is an acknowledged and certified master in four different martial arts styles. He is involved in organizing, advising and teaching public safety programs for building self-confidence in children and women throughout Long Island New York. As a side note, Soke was Douglas Castle’s (Sensei) personal teacher in Chowa-Ryu style jiu jitsu.

http://www.newyorkmartialartshombu.com/

http://books.google.com/books?id=DtIDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA64&ots=jD1TpyWslF&dq=soke%20joseph%20droual&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q=soke%20joseph%20droual&f=false

http://www.dragondoor.com/rkc_praise_sept2005.html

http://www.k12academics.com/national-directories/after-school-program/new-york-martial-arts

Mr. Robert Edward Fay

Robert is a remarkable individual with a vast knowledge (some of it through study, much of through intuitive “knowing”) of arcane subjects running the spectrum from personality typing to the most sophisticated teachings of world-renowned theosophists, philosophers and scientific initiators. He has a wonderfully open-minded entrepreneurial spirit. You will be learning a great deal about Robert, and from Robert, during the course of the weeks to come.

In the meantime, if you are impatient (and intrigued) you are advised to contact Robert telepathically – remember, he’s a new friend, so don’t send him any thoughts “collect.” If you try to contact Robert via a mind to mind connection and you get a busy signal, please try again. His mind is quite busy, but when you connect, there will be nothing quite like it.

BONNIE ROSS-PARKER: BOOKS & BUSINESS

Read about the book that Bonnie Ross-Parker of our Cooperative Business Community™ (Bonnie’s websites are http://www.TheJoyOfConnecting.com and http://www.TheLatinaJoyOfConnecting.com) contributed to, and the 150 free gifts included with this book purchase on her Joy Of Connecting Website -- http://www.thejoyofconnecting.com/

Now, more than ever, women are experiencing an awakening of the soul, a call to remove the masks that they wear, to step through their fears, to claim their authentic selves and to fully live the life they are meant to live.


In the new book, A Juicy, Joyful Life, you’ll meet 41 extraordinary women (including Bonnie Ross-Parker), from housewives to radio hosts; from coaches to healers to entrepreneurs – women who have stepped forward to share their inspirational and heart-felt stories and authentic truth with the collective intention of encouraging ALL women to embrace the axiom that “where you’ve been does not define where you will go. You CAN create a new personal story filled with love, hope and purpose.” Please visit the site for the book at http://www.JuicyJoyfulLife.com .

And there’s more about Bonnie: She was recently featured in a fabulous article in People You Need to Know Women’s Magazine.

The article, titled “Bonnie Ross-Parker: Up-Close – Author, Speaker, Supporter of Women in Business” can be found by clicking on http://www.sparkplugpeople.com/business/the-joy-of-connecting/. If you a woman in business are not already a JOC Licensee, there’s no time like the present.

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With Great Things to Come,

Adam J. Kovitz and Douglas Castle

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CONTROL = APPLICATION OF INFORMATION: "Bring Me The Witch's Broomstick"

"Bring Me The Witch's Broomstick!"



-Douglas Castle, http://aboutDouglasCastle.blogspot.com

Dear Friends, Colleagues, Members and Leaders-In-The Making:

I have some faith in an inherent element of Goodness in Human Nature. Although it's been tested with great frequency (and has caused me some increment of disillusionment with every "exception"), I cling to it with tenacity and fuel it with some cautious optimism.

Having said that, I wanted to caution you about a particular behavior exhibited by some of the people in the world of business that can cause you to waste a great deal of time and to leave you very, very disappointed -- usually with nothing but empty pockets and skepticism to show for having had the experience. They take advantage of your obvious hunger or need for assistance or resources, claim to have a solution for you ("I can really help you. Really!"), but there is always a condition: You must do something for them FIRST. And if you are eager, and getting a bit desperate, they simply take advantage of you so that they can profit by either your trusting nature, or your compelling need.

This behavior reminds me of the Wizard's promise to Dorothy and her three friends in the movie "The Wizard Of Oz." The Wizard, amidst much bravado, intimidating posturing and fanfare, told Dorothy that he would solve her problem (i.e., getting back home to Kansas), and each of the most troubling problems of her entourage if they would merely bring him (the Wizard) "the witch's broomstick." Please note that the Wizard was, in fact, a powerless fraud looking for a priceless collectible; the witch was feared throughout Oz because her powers were virtually limitless; and that the task of getting the witch's broomstick was all but impossible.

But the four pilgrims were not fully aware of any of the above three things at the time they agreed to the Wizard's bargain. All they believed (key word here: believed) was that the Wizard had the power to do anything for them (he was very convincing), and that all they needed to do was deliver the super-swiffer to the Wizard and he would, in his greatness and generosity, grant them their greatest wishes [wizards and genies are similar in this regard -- they have this thing about looking powerful and capable, they always promise to grant you several wishes, and they always require that you do something for them first. It must be some sort of cosmic law. And they favor people who have been down on their luck and are desperate for a security or prosperity -- it doesn't even have to be obsessive greed.]

The clueless four never stopped to think that if the Wizard had actually possessed all of the power which he had professed, he could have simply gotten the broomstick himself on a whim. But the four were needy, desperate, and perhaps a little bit greedy...it kept them from seeing that they were being used by a manipulator. Don't go rubbing lamps or chasing broomsticks. It's far better to search a bit longer for a person who 1) actually can help you directly or through a referral, and who 2) actually will help you directly without sending you out on a fool's errand first.

My business exposure to this kind of manipulation has been (I'm feeling quite ashamed here) fascinating. Here are a few examples of my falling (or almost falling) into the "Bring me the witch's broomstick!" trap:

1) A fellow with an ambitious start-up business venture who initiated a conversation by offered me a salary (a five-year contract) of in excess of $100,000 per year... if I could first raise $5,000,000 for his company. He was offering me an opportunity! I could get a high salary (not even a commission contingent on delivery, or production or results -- which might have actually made some sense) if I ran about on my own and raised him all of the money he needed for his company;

2) An "aristocratic" older woman with a magnificent apartment in a wonderful part of Manhattan (her apartment featured all manner or statuary, balconies, 40 - foot ceilings, sconces, collectible antique furniture and occupied a full floor of a building - it was something to rival the Sistine Chapel) who said that I was a young genius and that she wanted to introduce me to some of the most influential people in Manhattan at a wonderful catered affair at her place -- If I paid her a mere $10,000 to host a big party in my honor. I later found out that she tried to arrange at least one such soiree per month because she had a massive obligation to the Internal Revenue Service, and was barely able to cover her living expenses;

3) A fellow who heard my pleas for contributors (I was an advisor to the Board of Trustees of a young Not-For-Profit organization), and sounded like he was "tapped by God" to help me and our cause -- he actually had no money, but had an affiliate program, where if I put an affiliate link to his company (one of those "Power Mall"-type deals on my website, my foundation could derive tremendous commissions. He was looking for placement on my website so he could sell more of his stuff. Plain and simple.

Beware of the wizard who magically appears in your life and offers you help in your most desperate moments -- some of these people sincerely want to help and to be a part of your happiness and success...but too many of them are opportunists who are dangling a carrot in front of you just to take advantage of you.

Get rid of these lower-level opportunists as quickly as you suspect them. Don't waste your time. It is far better to invest your time with people who can and want to help you, than with people who see your disadvantage and want to enslave your for their own ends.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

p.s. It is also wise to invest time in trying to find your friends and kindred spirits than to try to convince skeptics, naysayers and detractors to work with you. In the most magical terms, find someone who is actually looking for you.




Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
Co-Chairman and CEO
TNNWC Group, LLC

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Mastering the Membership Maze with Glen Gould

Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi is credited with starting each football summer camp by holding up a pigskin and declaring, "Gentlemen, this is a football."

Success in any endeavor in life relies on understanding the fundamentals. Whether football or networking, understanding the rules and knowing the basics cold are essential to success.

It is amazing the jump in attendance most chambers of commerce will see at programs during the month of January. As we approach a new year, what better time than now to reevaluate goals and objectives for attending chamber meetings in 2009. Here are a few tips to consider as you plan your year.

1. Determine your ultimate goal for chamber membership. What do you hope to gain through your chamber membership? As with every other type of marketing, determine in advance what success looks like. Who do you want to meet? How many new clients do you need to receive a satisfactory return on investment of marketing dollars and time spent?

2. Know what you expect to achieve by attending an event. Most people who attend chamber programs have no real goal they expect to achieve by attending. Know your outcome before you attend so you may determine your level of success. Determining what you want from each event gives you the fundamentals you'll need to be successful over the full year of membership.

3. Determine your rate of success for several events. You need to fill your pipeline with qualified leads and referrals to be sure, but you also need to fill your networking pipeline with quality networking partners who can introduce you to new quality leads and referrals. Determine how many qualified leads, referrals, and networking partners you gain from each event you attend.

4. Calculate how many leads and referrals equal a closed sale. You may wish to segment this into: People met, Networking Partners, Leads, Referrals, Presentations, Closed Business. Determine how many people you actually need to meet to get to the number of closed deals you need.

5. Determine the best events to attend to achieve your desired outcome. After sampling all available events and measuring the results of each, choose the one or two different events held each month that are best for you.

6. Attend regularly. Measure results. Achieve success.

If you are like most people, this sounds like a lot of work. It is. But these are the basics for success in attending and being a part of a chamber of commerce if you measure success in business closed. There are many more reasons to join your local chamber to be sure, however those who will flood the chamber in January are likely those looking for new clients.

Armed with a plan for success, you will stand out from the crowd, attract more business, have more meaningful relationships, and have a more fulfilling experience.

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