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You do realize you are literally robbing and stealing from people their very freedom they could have by learning and using the wisdom you hold in your heart, if you hold back, right?

Wake up and realize it’s not about you.

It’s sure not about me.

The message I have to share arises from my own experiences given as examples as it’s the only life I’ve lived.

Holding back is not reserved only for aspiring business owners or new business owners, either.

Look inside your heart and you’ll instantly know when you’ve played small to avoid putting yourself and/or your business out there.

If you’re not willing to risk feeling foolish in your business, do us all a favor and shut your doors right now.

Before you throw me to the wolves, realize I love each and every one of you, I’m passionate about what I do
because these are people’s lives we’re talking about here.

If you’re not willing to risk feeling foolish, chances are you’re not giving all you can give in the products/services you offer. Chances are if you’re a coach you’re either not giving all you can give to your clients or you’re not living the same life behind the scenes you preach to your clients.

Dust off your inner gold and shine your light even on your darkest day.

It all comes down to being real.

Be YOU

There’s only one original you.

When you’re out there in the trenches on the social media landscape (social networking)

Be transparent

Act on inspiration when it’s given to you

Go the extra .003% with your edge

You may not see it now and yet over time I promise you will see your relationships building on a strong foundation of trust, integrity, fun, value driven, profitable (money and other than money though I cannot promise how much, only you can with how much of you, you put in) heart.

I’ll do me

You do you

Thinking is overrated

Just frickin’ do it

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Hey what’s going on folks!

I miss ALL of you!  I’ve been extremely busy working on something that’s going to BLOW YOUR MIND!  No joke.  Be on the look out for an IMPORTANT announcement from me next week.

Here’s a video that my friend Simon Leung & I did at LAX airport a couple months ago about Social Media Marketing.

It’s a 22 Minute video that Simon entitled: “Social Media Marketing Secrets.”  Look forward to your feedback.

Enjoy folks!

Man what a day!!! Over the past 12 hours i’ve read a dozen posts on “Twitter vs Friendfeed” and “Everyone is leaving Twitter” blah blah blah.

FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.

It’s interesting cause a lot of people have been chatting about Friendfeed over the last week. Michael Arrington from Techcrunch wrote about it, iJustine who is the Internet wrote about it, TechTicker wrote about it, & several other posts & “influencers” in the Social Media world have talked about it. Jeremiah Owyang who is a Sr. Analyst at Forrester Research also wrote about that actually inspired me to write this post & do the Video below (more about his post below).

Techcrunch talks about how much more interesting the conversations are on FriendFeed vs Twitter (which to me are a HUGE part of Social Media), iJustine is talking about “who will go mainstream first – Twitter or Friendfeed” and “asks does it really matter”, and a few others are chiming in.

Check out my thoughts on this 8 Minute video on FriendFeed:

Its very interesting because with Social Media, things change so fast so you can’t focus on the “Social Technologies” but focus on the “Social Touch” side of things, the people, the conversations, the relationships, then figure out which technologies would best fit you.

There’s so many technologies out there and guess what, you don’t have to be on all of them to succeed in Social Media Marketing. I promise.

Listen, I LOVE Twitter, it’s really helped my business & I’ve made some tremendous advancements in my business just become of the little tool. This is NOT about who’s better. Twitter sure has been having some issues over the last few weeks & some of the functionality has been taken away for periods of time, etc. That’s inconvenient for the folks that spend 8 hours a day on Twitter. LOL

Not only is FriendFeed a GREAT solution for when Twitter is down, I think the concept and what FriendFeed is up to is pretty outstanding. They just “get it.”

So back to Jeremiah’s post about the “Herding Behavior on FriendFeed.” A couple more folks who are at Forrester (Charlene Lie & Josh Bernoff) wrote a book called “Groundswell – Winning in a transformed by social technologies” that talks about what Jeremiah referred today in his post. He talked about the Social “Technographics” which is a tool to allow people in business to examine and then create strategies based on the groundswell tendencies of any group of people.

The Social Technographics ladder represents a group of consumers more involved in the groundswell than the previous steps. Take a look at the image below:

Jeremiah says that…“aaside from aggregating content (you can see all my tweets, flickr, digg, upcoming, blogs on one stream) you yourself can be a creator, critic, collector, joiner, or spectator.”

It’s too soon to see who will go mainstream first, and if FriendFeed will do what Facebook did to Myspace, or predict any of those type of things, the one thing that is for sure is that FriendFeed’s concept is RIGHT ON. I think this is where social media is going as having all these tools, sites, etc in one place makes it easier to:

• be more productive (not having to login to 20 different sites)
• monitor you or your brand
• research & staying ahead of the pulse

Who’s to say that Twitter or FriendFeed won’t go under tomorrow, that’s irrelevant, the point is that FriendFeed is onto something with their concept and if the influencers are attracted to it, there’s definitely something to say about it.

Over the next week or so I’m going to be playing with it & will write about my thoughts about it.

What are YOUR thoughts about FriendFeed so far?

Please make sure to also leave your FriendFeed URL.

I’ll start http://FriendFeed.com/successfool

You’ll also wanna make sure to add my good buddy Maria Reyes-McDavis the WebSuccessDiva here: http://friendfeed.com/websuccessdiva

Stay Hungry – Stay Foolish

Alejandro Reyes

Image source, Forrester and FriendFeed, screenshot taken by me