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Haven’t forgotten about my readers. In fact, everything I do on this blog is to serve my loyal subscribers and fans. So, since inquiring minds want to now, this is what I’ve been up to:

1. Besides family, traveling, and summer fun, I’ve been hard at work being a traffic monster. (Teamed up with private company to drive traffic to a new venture.)

2. Started a new company having nothing to do with marketing, but because of this I’m seriously contemplating taking this site on a whole new and exciting direction. It will be some time before I make a final decision about this, but it will be awesome and if you are subscribed to my newsletter you’ll be the first to know.

Let me hear from you. Send me a tweet or leave me a wall post on Facebook. Looking forward to hearing from you.

“Stop philosophizing about what a good man is and be one.” Marcus Aurelius

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Have you ever been asked, “I’ve got good news and bad news.  Which do you want to hear first?” I always answer bad news.  I like to get it out of the way and then end on a good note.

So…

I’ll start with that.

My blog got hacked into a few weeks ago.

It was automatically being forwarded to other sites in some sort of scheme to get clicks to ads.

Fortunately it wasn’t forwarded to a porn site.  Which I’ve heard sometimes hackers do for kicks.
(Sorry to disappoint  guys, not that type of newsletter. )

So that put a little damper on some content I had planned to roll out to you by now.

Not to fret though.

I noticed it in time and though there was some downtime not to mention a few expletives

“Those good-for-nothing &*$#$@#%^”…

(Well, I didn’t actually say it…but I thought it.)

Anyway, the point is I got it fixed.

Obviously the bad news is that it can happen to you too. 
And according to stats, it most likely will.

The good news…

You can learn from my experience and I’ll show you how
to prevent it.

Be on the lookout for a post on the subject in the near future.

But first, on another quite different topic…

With the launch of Google Buzz and some prominent marketers canceling their Twitter accounts, many people are asking, “Is Twitter dead?”

I’ll be posting tomorrow my take on it and what I think you should do.

For first notice make sure you register for my newsletter on the upper right.

As always leave me your feedback on the blog.  Would love to hear from you.

See ya soon. 

I wasn’t sure wether I was going to tell you about this or not, but since I’m on the front page as one of the featured videos, I figured I wouldn’t be able to keep it a secret.

Plus, how good a friend would I be if I didn’t tell you about something I personally reviewed and found to REALLY work.

If you’ve been around the online marketing world any length of time, you’ve definitely seen the hype by marketers surrounding Twitter and all the mumbo jumbo about getting tons of followers and following.

Well, I’ve done it all and this is by far the best I’ve seen.

You don’t have to have a bunch of followers.

You don’t have to follow tens of thousands of people.

You don’t need a product.

The truth is, if you learn the tactics to place yourself in the right place at the right time, you’re golden!

To see how it’s done, my friend Tom is giving away a  FREE DVD with 7 separate tactics that you can implement immediately without any extra software or services.

There really aren’t very many DVD’s left.  (Sorry, that’s my fault.  I should have told you sooner.)

So if you are interested at all, I would hurry.

Get Your Free Twitter Toolkit DVD Here

P.S.  I’m the one on the first video below the fold on the right.  Yes, the one with the terrible lighting and shadows.

P.S.S.  I haven’t forgotten about a free tool I promised to tell you about that I learned from Tim Ferris, the NY Times best selling author.  I’m loving it and hating it. You’ll see why.  Anyway, I’ll send that to you soon.   I just didn’t want you to miss out on this in case you were interested.

Get Your Free Twitter Toolkit DVD Here

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Last week I sent a survey to my list asking them whether they wanted more, less, or the same amount of email from me.

I couldn’t believe the results of the survey!

I wasn’t sure what the results would be…

But here they are:

RESULTS

5.9% said "Yisel you’re sending me too many emails, please slow this train down to about an email once a month."

11.8% said "Yisel, keep things like they are, email me about once every other week and keep me posted with what you think will most help me."

82.4% said "Yes Yisel send me emails any time you have something on your mind – I want EVERYTHING!"

So, I guess I’ve got my work cut our for me to them the best.

Before I sent out the survey I thought the majority would want about the same amount of email from me.

LESSON

If you guess what you’re subscribers want, you’ll be wrong. If you really want to know what they want – ASK THEM!

I did also introduce the 5.9% that said I’m sending too many emails to the UNSUBSCRIBE button.

After all, if I’m not gonna serve them the way they want, it’s best we part our separate ways.

P.S. I also told my subscribers I was working something out for them that would REALLY REALLY help them with blogging, even if they didn’t have a blog yet.
I’ll be sending them an email on this tomorrow.

But, if you’d like to cut in front of everyone before tomorrow and see what it is – here is the link:
http://budurl.com/blognow

Last week I wrote a popular blog post about 5 tools that can help you leverage your time when it comes to managing friends and tweets on twitter.

One of my twitter friends jokingly said Twitter and time-saving in the same sentence was a contraction. I agree. That's why it's important to use the tools properly. Here is my post:

5 Time Saving Twitter Tools For Managing Your Friends and Tweets

My next article goes live today: Stop Chasing Ducks – How It’s Killing Your Online Business.

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See ya soon!

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I’ll be guest blogging on my friend Alejandro Reyes’s hot Social Media Marketing and Internet Marketing Strategies Blog.

You’ll find my posts every Thursday.

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