On this live show we talked about:

- Twitter Fight:  Ashton Kutcher and Larry King Ashton will be the 1st person to 1 Million Followers on Twitter
- Justin Brooke’s blog growing like crazy because of CONSISTENCY and CONTENT
- How I was voted Top 10 Internet Super Stars of 2009 (please vote for me at the bottom)
- Product Launches with Product Launch Rockstar, Chris Brisson
- I also showed off some AMAZING paintings by my friend David Garibaldi (follow him on Twitter)

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Also, What did you like best about the interview with Chris Brisson?

WOW.  Last night’s Live Broadcast of Successfool.com’s 1 Year Web Birthday was a HIT.  We interviewed some of the most amazing business folks online last night.

You heard me rant, you saw me dance, and you saw the passion last night no doubt.

Thanks so much for a great year and we’re doing it even bigger this year.

Hear interviews from:

Angel McClinton
Ed Dale
Coach Deb
Michelle MacPhearson
Sierra Friend
Lewis Howes
Preston Taylor
Justin Brooke

What was YOUR favorite quote or part of the show?  Leave your comments below & Tweet it up using the “Retweet” button up top.

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Wow, time fly’s when you’re having fun!!

This is a BIG DEAL to me and would mean a LOT if you came.

Successfool.com turns 1 this Wednesday, April Fool’s Day and I’m doing a LIVE Ustream Birthday Bash with all of my friends at 6pm Pacific  (9pm Eastern) time on Successfool.tv

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Wednesday night we’re doing it REAL BIG, you’re invited!

Here’s what to expect on SuccessfoolTV:

- the Successfool Rants & Raves
- Free Book Giveaway
- Special Guests
- Discussion on how I built the Successfool Brand
- The State of the Fool

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The internet is an ever-changing thing. Trends come and go, but the good ones stay forever. It seems that the trend that originated in 2005, and has been steadily gaining popularity, is posed to take over in 2009. I am talking of course of video blogging.

In the world of Web 2.0, many people are looking to further interact with web content. Video blogging is a perfect medium for community interaction, and is closer to real human contact than a regular text blog. The obvious leader in public videos, YouTube, has quickly become one of the largest websites online today. The reason for this is, quite obviously, community interaction. YouTube is now the 3rd most visited site world wide.

Originally, the internet was used simply as a huge database of information. Today, people no longer want to just gather information, they want to interact with it and contribute to it. They want to give their own opinions, critique the content, and question the validity of it. Public interaction ultimately leads to an increased body of knowledge.

Another example of public interaction benefiting a website can be seen in the massive success of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the only major site that allows any content contained on the site to be edited by the general public. This allows for massive amounts of content, which is usually very accurate. Everyone is an expert in something, so everyone can contribute information to Wikipedia containing their personal knowledge.

In my opinion, people today are becoming sick of the isolation of the internet. With the success of Myspace, Facebook, and other social networks, it is obvious that people are looking to humanize the internet. Video blogging is perfect for this, because it is close to actually talking to someone. Take YouTube for example. You can watch a video of someone talking, then submit a text comment, or even an entire video of your own, to respond to the video you watched.

Up until now, common people, as well as internet companies, have been debating trying out video blogging. While a few private video blogs have sprung up, I believe that the popularity of video blogging will explode in 2009. People are always ready for change around the New Year, and I expect video blogs to begin springing up all over the internet, eventually replacing normal text-based blogs.

Up until now, most video blogging has online been done through free public networks such as YouTube. However, I think that once people realize how huge video blogging could potentially become, private blogs will become a common thing. Blogs are not that expensive, and anyone with a webcam can make simple videos for free.

Video blogging is not necessarily a new thing, but it is not very popular yet. In fact, there is already an award for excellence in video blogging. These awards, called the Vloggies, were introduced to the public in 2006. The first known video blog was created in January 2000, but no one really knew anything about video blogging until about 2004.

Collaboration in 2009 is going to be HUGE.

Collaboration is what launched me to go from a “Zero to Hero” (as Joel Comm says) online.

Here’s 1 area where I’m collaborating in 2009.  I’m bringing on several guest bloggers on to write for Successfool covering all areas of “Internet Success.”  This will allow you to learn from different people about internet marketing from different vantage points and skills.

My commitment to you in 2009 is to provide you with non-stop insane value and help you grow a solid, long-term, scalable, evergreen business that will allow you to live the Internet Lifestlye.

What do you think about collaboration? Please share your thoughts on the video & what your thoughts are on collaboration.

Special thanks to Ron Hudson who told me about the “Collaborate or Die” article that I believe Forbes wrote years ago.  Please make sure to follow Ron as we’ll be collaborating this year

When you comment below, don’t forget to leave your Twitter URL.

Check out the replay & comment.  Will be adding some bullets from the event soon.

Tonight was fun!  I did something new on Successfool LIVE that I’m going to continue to do as it was a hit.  I did a hot seat with someone needing help with their Internet Business and brought in guest expert that would help them with their business.

David Grau who runs Just Rhymes was in need of some ideas how to grow traffic to his site & better ways to monetize is.

The person that originally had committed to do the show didn’t come so my good friend Jason DeVelvis filled in and ROCKED IT OUT!!!

Jason is a very successful marketer and as you can tell by his advice that he knows what he’s talking about.  Jason is interviewing me for his upcoming http://pureprofitsuccesssummit.com/

The Pure Profit Success Summit is a FREE Telesummit where he’s bringing on some of the greatest minds in Internet Marketing to share with you how to build a successful business.

With that said, here’s the video replay from last nights show:

Leave your comments on what you think of the new idea for Successfool LIVE.

Last Tuesday on my Live Internet Show “SuccessfoolTV,” I interviewed my mentor & passion expert Gary Zelesky on the 10 Commandments of Passion. The response was great so I wanted to post this video on my blog & will continue to post my shows on this blog.

Here’s the 10 Commandements:

1. Wealth: If your Passion is not part of what you do you will never be rich!

2: Career/Business: You must build a career/life around Passion to live without regret.

3: Attitude: Your Passion for life will affect your position in life.

4: Significance: If you do not define your Passion someone else will!

5: Responsibility: Do what you must while you focus on your Passion.

6: Balance: Core values are the difference between Passion and Obsession.

7: Time: Manage your Passion not simply your time.

8: Resiliency: Passion never dies it only gets buried through negativity.

9: Goals: Your goals without passion are fantasy!

10: Enthusiasm: Passion is the fuel of the soul that moves your goals forward to completion.

Enjoy!

Gary Vaynerchuk Lesson 2: “Getting Ahead of the Pulse”

Last week we talked about the “Hoopla Factor” and how you’ve gotta find that thing that separates you from the rest of the world. That God-given talent that makes YOU who you are.

The 2nd thing that Gary talked about is “Getting Ahead of the Pulse.”

“Reading trends is Death City, USA”

In Internet Business, if you just focus on reading trends, searching for the next best keyword, you’re going to have the same results you currently have. Some of you might get lucky, but the true key to making things happen is to get ahead of the curve & be innovative.

Bill Gates calls it the “First Movers Advantage.” Whoever is first wins. Take a look at him and “Windows.” Take a look at what Steve Jobs did in the Music industry AND in the Cell Phone industry. They were the first to put something out that was extremely innovative and ahead of its time.

Gary was one of the first if not the first Wine retail company to have a website back in 1997. When everyone was enjoying the “fruity” California wine’s, and saw an obvious “segue in pallets” as he calls it, and moved to where wine was more fruiy…Australia & Spain.

He understood these things and was able to get ahead of the pulse because he talked to every customer, he read all the emails that he received every day and was literally in the trenches. If you’re able to get ahead of the pulse in your industry or your niche, you’re able to know what’s coming next. If you know what’s coming next and people see that, it will be only a matter of time before you start to rise up in your community as the leader & authority on the subject.

So what next how do you get ahead of the pluse? Here’s a few places you can start:

1. Twitter: Start connecting with people and becoming aware of what the “conversation” is & you’ll start to see things

2. Facebook: Find out what people are talking about most? Find how who’s on the “Top Friends” section of people’s profile.

3. Forums: Don’t waste too much time here, maybe once a week. Find out what people are selling, what the issues & problems are within your industry

4. Turn the TV On: Watch the Hills…just kidding. What are people talking about in the world today? What are Baby Boomers up to? How’s people handling the current state of America.

Interact with people, be engaging, provide value to them, listen to them, be very aware, and soon you’ll find yourself picking up on things.

I’m working on something that NO ONE is really talking about yet. You got a glimpse of it when I was interviewed by Social Marketing Expert Michelle Macphearson last thursday night when I talked about “Influencing the Social Networking Sites”

Get out there and start touching people, kissing babies, mingling and just have crazy awareness of what’s going on. Good luck!

Lesson #1: You Gotta Find Your Hoopla Factor

“You have to be excited about what you’re doing, if you have the hoopla factor it’s because you love what you do.”

Have you found your “Hoopla Factor?” Are you passionate about what you’re doing? In business, especially an Internet Business, you have gotta find your hoopla factor. It’s that thing in your business that you can get excited about, that thing that sets you apart in your niche and you just simply love doing it.

Whatever that hoopla factor is for you, make sure that you’re staying true to who you are. I see too many marketers & entrepreneurs that are just super fake! They see someone doing something that is getting attention so they try and become that person for some reason. That is so sad to me because it just shows that people are lacking a ton of confidence in themselves so they try and act like someone else.

You have got to realize that there’s something inside of you that is extremely special that sets you apart from everyone else. There’s an old proverb that says, “A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before great man.” I believe that thing inside of you, that DNA, that Passion of yours, is the thing that you need to find, that thing you need to tap into, so that you can be totally authentic, real, and transparent! Folks, when that happens, it’s a lot easier to get excited about things.

People are looking for an “Authentic Story.” What’s YOUR authentic story cause that’s your Hoopla Factor. It’s what sets you apart from everyone else. It’s okay to be different. I DARE you to be different and watch what happens. What’s the worse that can happen? People actually like you?

Gary did things different in a MAJOR way. Here’s a couple things he did different then everyone else in his industy.

1. Launching a Website: In 1997 WineLibrary.com was launched and no one was doing that in the Wine Industry.
2. Gary was a bit of a “Freak Show”: When he was 20 years who knew a lot about Burgandy , people would come to see a kid that looked 13 talking about that.
3. Invested Heavily in a Different Product Mix: When everyone else was talking about California wine’s and Gary was pumping out Spain & Australia and getting people really excited about that.

Gary did things different and is still doing things different? What are you doing different that you can get people excited about. People want to get excited and they’re looking out there for someone to get them excited in YOUR niche. Will it be you? I sure hope so.

Here’s what I would do if I were you because I’ve done this myself.:

1. I would take out a piece of paper and write out the things or that thing that you’re most passionate about. That God given gift, talent that you know that if the world just saw this side of me, it would be over! People want to see THAT side of you. Now there can be many things, but try and keep it close to your business as possible. For some of you, you just might not be passionate about what you’re doing and might think to start doing something else?
2. I would call 2 of your closest friends that TOTALLY know the REAL you! Or it can be business advisors. You gotta make sure they’re the friends that you know deep down have your best interest in mind. I would ask them to answer a few simple questions, “What makes ME me?” For me it was, “What makes Alejandro, Alejandro.” What are the good qualities and gifts that you believe separate me from everyone else? What’s ONE word that describes Alejandro.
3. I would take the piece of paper and what your closest friends told you, and start to iron out who you really are and how you can bring that to the table in your business, to your clients, customers, etc.

I want you to take these simple actions and I DARE you to comment below and let me know what YOUR passion & gifts are and how you plan to implement that in your business. Don’t be afraid, we’re all here to help each other out.

I gotta warn ya, you might have to do some soul searching which to some people it isn’t fun. I HAVE to soul search, I HAVE to be in tune with my Passion cause if not, I get bored easy and there’s no excitement for what I do. But keep in mind, if you want that “Hoopla Factor” in your business, you gotta be willing to take the necessary steps.

I look forward to hearing from ya and tomorrow look out for the post entitled: “Get Ahead Of the Pulse.”

I’ll leave you with a quote from Gary:

“You need to create an air of excitement in your business.”