The more resources that a Broker spends on promotion, staying ahead of the curve, online marketing, and advertising in general – and the more experience in the area and profession that Broker has, the better qualified that person is to help you, to advise you, and to buy and sell Real Estate with clients.
One way for a new or younger realtor to establish a value statement is to be more high-tech, forward thinking, and creative that their experienced, established competition.
However, a Broker with many years of experience is always better if you can find one who also has high tech skills and is forward thinking.
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In the seldom quoted and controversial book of Revelations, this scripture, in almost every translation of what some call “the living word”, seems to encourage “zeal” as apposed to political hedging as a strategy for spreading the truth.
I am here to tell you that this is still excellent advice for marketing today in the “Book of Life” – otherwise known as social media!
The FFC reports that 29 percent of the conservative movement are evangelical Christians. These evangelicals reside in Southern and Midwestern states, research shows. Reed also said of these evangelicals, “They are the majority of the Tea Party movement.”
Public Opinion Strategies polls found that Tea Party members made up 27 percent of the electorate. Just over half of all self-ascribed Tea Party members identified themselves as conservative evangelicals. Yet, Reed says the reverse is also true: Two-thirds of conservatives also align themselves with the Tea Party.
“These movements are inexplicably intertwined, and there is an enormous amount of overlap,” explained Reed.
Reed says, with numbers like these, “these voters cannot be ignored.”
“Either party ignores them or opposes them at their peril at the ballot box,” he reiterated.
It was Democrats who were put in danger Tuesday night. That night the majority of evangelicals, Tea Party members and mass-attending Catholics voted Republican.”
Have you been told that business, politics and religion do not mix? Think again: here are the real numbers:
Probable online response to no-opinion position articles and posts: less that 1%, if any.
Probable online response to ANY opinion – 5% or more!
Wake up! Satan wants to neuter you! God wants you to be heard, to think, to create – to have a voice, to use it, to learn from the response! Welcome to the proverbial “Book of Life!” (Otherwise known as Social Media)
Google’s maps are almost completely empty! They opened up the API months ago to get us to feed them, and almost no apps have been written, no revenue models created; no good local groups formed to feed Google from the grass roots! Everybody from Realtor.com to the most obscure, ridiculous newcomer has attempted to create a network of local city and community blogs: this is why they do not work:
They are not good for the advertiser
They are not exclusive – simply modern versions of an outdated model that will put you an a page populated by every competitor – not good!
They rank their pages instead of the client page
They start with an empty database, and nobody wants to go first
They are overcapitalized, over-priced, too expensive – again outdated
They lack ‘boots on the ground’ IE: no local connection to real local people
Nobody wants to train and build a real sales force with local people selling good advertising to local people
Their pricing structure is outdated, the internet is less expensive
They are too short sighted – want instant rewards without years of hard work – IE no fundamentalist value to the business.
They do not promise results
Their salespeople do not even understand what they are selling, much less the client – or nobody would buy it.
This is how we will sell $1,000,000 at UpLog.org this year right in front of you (like always, we call it ahead of time, then prove it):
We are exclusive to our clients – not trying to sell everything to everybody – one advertiser per local niche
We love what we do – the goal is not quick riches; instead to do good work, and serve God.
We are willing to do the hard work of building and fully training a local sales force with ‘boots on the ground” one salesperson at a time
Our pricing is ridiculously fair and reasonable – no room for a competitor with higher overhead to come behind us and profit
We are unique – from our independent team approach, to our fair systems of incentives and rewards – all real
We do not believe is cheating, tricks, gimmicks, get-rich-quick, or multilevel bubbles
Our approach is miles ahead of the pack, and we will stay there the same way we got there, with vision.
Make Heaven Your home.com | Do it now mhyh@clmea.com
Are you tired of doing something that you hate for a living?
Were you sold a lie before you were old enough to know better; forced into a life of servitude and slavery by poverty and the fear of not having what you need or being passed by by the mainstream world?
Have you ever wished that you had had the opportunities that others, who have less talent, less character, and less purity have had to pursue their dreams; while you had to toil from behind the proverbial 8 ball to try to catch up?!
If so, this information is especially important for you: read on…
And all this is simply about the ability to survive, and have security, and food, and warmth, and comfort: right?
Wrong! That is a lie, that was sold to you by the same people who put you into the bondage you are now in. What really enslaves you is your own fear and doubt, your pride, your greed, your fear, your weaknesses and your willingness to give in…for without those you could not be enslaved in this way, it would not be worth the trouble to try.
The truth is right in front of you all the time: you just do not see it, because you are too busy looking for it: you have always been a slave.
It is because you do not realize your own value that this keeps happening to you.
If you are not afraid; if you are fearless: then you are a warrior, a soldier, a general, or a spiritual leader, a good worker or a good manager, but not a slave. You can only be enslaved because you believe a lie: the lie that you are a slave to these circumstances, that you have no choice is really and excuse; that is not your true potential, and you are really not limited in that way: you could accomplish great things.. Somebody who had similar issues sold you that lie to make themselves feel better about themselves, and it did not even really make them feel better. That poor soul who perpetuated that lie was also a victim. Read on, and I will absolutely prove it to you:
My take on the classic novel by Herman Hesse: a man who died in prison during a time when it was considered treason to point out the likenesses of eastern and western philosophy, instead of fighting wars over it: somebody made a lot of money on those wars:
If you want to meet the real Satan in person, forget your scapegoat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoating – instead, look in the mirror, accept responsibility, forgive yourself, for you are human too, and change:
”When Siddhartha ( a member of the Samma tribe who vowed poverty in search of enlightenment) realized that nobody in his tribe ever found anything but poverty and servitude, he left; he went across the River to the city to come to meet with a wealthy merchant in search of a job, with nothing to offer but the rags on his back, and his labor: the merchant said:
In so many words, the wealthy merchant said ’You are hired’.
Later in the story, when Siddhartha had acquired riches and concubines beyond belief, he still he was empty, and not enlightened, and not fulfilled: so he decided to through himself in the river, since life had no value anyway.
As he was about to do so, when he remembered a sacred word, and fell asleep on the River bank.
He was awakened by his friend who had taken him across the river in the first place.
”Siddhartha! Tell me how you fared!” he asked.
Siddhartha told him of his journeys and his conclusions, then prepared again to through himself in the river. His friend stopped him, saying:
”Since you are going to kill yourself, and have nothing to loose anyway; why not help me for a while first – I could use a hand as commerce crossing the river has increased…later n the story, Siddhartha looks into the river boat owners eyes, and sees enlightenment – the River-man has found God in the river. Siddhartha is finally enlightened: he realizes that God was with him all along the journey, not just in the river, but in everyone and everything that happened to bring him to this realization: he just needed to stop seeking for long enough to realize it.
Don’t worry, I will get to the point, and the proof that I promised ( I had to read that whole book and many others and live a full life to get this, so hold on a just a little longer.. it will be worth it).
You see, this paradox between what you really care about and what you must do for a living does not really exist – there is a never ending appetite, greater than our appetite for life itself: it is the desire to be loved and to love, to hear and to be heard, and to seek out and find more and more of the truth which sets us free when we are not afraid. It is only the fear and doubt itself that enslaves us. Proof:
An animal, that can live, eat, reproduce and die is a happy animal: that is as good as it gets. some of you are saying: “What else is there?”, am I right? But the answer is already known to you too: because:
A human who can do only that will emaciate and starve himself, climb rocks, jump out pf perfectly good airplanes, and do all sort of crazy things looking for more, and:
He will eventually kill himslef seeking it if he does find enlightenment, even if he is not conscious enough to know that this is why he feels lacking: you are not fulfilled.
A CALL TO ACTION:
Even in the worst of circumstances, there is inspiration, and you have options. Now watch this video for it all to come clearly together. A word to the wise, bring tissues:
Larry and Shirley Taylor, their daughter, Cheryl, Allen and Charlotte, Mari Mae and my brother David and myself: we all want you to “Make Heaven Your Home”: right now: right here on earth!
If you do not love what you do for a living, fire your boss, hire yourself, do what you love for a living: this is why social media works in the first place: we need each other. Forget politics, religion, money, insurance, driving in traffic, working in a cubical, paying more taxes than anyone else (until it all falls apart any minute!):
Do what you love for a living: join the roar of all of US at upLog.org
By blogging together, we aggregate our content and our voice in a way that allows us to totally dominate the search engines and social networks on behalf of ourselves, and our mutual clients: we are a team of professional bloggers who are building our own media, our own advertising.
As our UpLog.org Exclusive Agent in your area or niche: you become the topic-specific or geographically specific media! Join us!
You must own your own blog: a free blog on WordPress or Blogger or the like will not work because there are dead sites on these. Free blogs at Activerain.com, Realtown.com, Linkedin.com, Facebook.com and many other s can be maintained with the same posts from your own blog, extending your reach.
You blog first on your own site, establishing you as the source of the original high quality unique in all the world human edited data (usually text or video) – Use key words (the same ones) in the title, the body, and the tags (sometimes called keywords)
At the bottom of each post at your blog, have a bookmarking menu and choose digg.com first immediately after posting, to insure that your post is spider-ed immediately.
Have a Corporate Facebook marketing profile, it can be attached to your digg.com profile, press the buttons after digging and Facebook and twitter also immediately, giving your friends and followers notice. Google+ and +1 the post, properly optimized of course….In my case, I have already reached a few thousand people who read everything I post. ( I am sure some of them are competitors lol)
Now re-post your articles in relevant groups on linked in by pushing the linked-in bookmarking button, e-marketers over 200,000 consultants network over 100,000 frog pond…at this point I have reached 500,000 people within 48 hours, but I am only getting started:
Now I post to my profiles at AssociatedContent.com, where some of the articles I have written for clients have been viewed 5,000+ times since I wrote them, and they still rank for the searches they are designed to rank for like: internet advertising consultant
Of course, none of this will work without high quality content and a plan. I could set you up to accomplish the above weekly like I do for $179, earn a living while you do it as part of our social media advertising agency, or use it as a side business to feed your marketing budget for your real estate or other endeavor. Israel Rothman Cell: 805-827-2450
Rothman Guide to Guerrilla Marketing with Social Media
The blog – social media marketing in 2012 starts with a modern website (sometimes referred to as a blog – short for weblog). This website must grow weekly, becoming a more and more popular and a larger and larger online resource. This website must exist as it’s own domain, and be owned by you, so that this ‘cyber real estate’ is owned by you as the business and presence grows. A blog on WordPress.org, or Blogger, or any non-topic-specific behemoth platform will not work for competitive searches – the host must be known for related content for best rankings on competitive searches. The site must be on it’s own machine, or a host that is known for well optimized, related content. A virtual server from a company like Hostgator.com is very inexpensive. We offer free hosting on our servers for the first year to offset setup costs with savings. If you have not done so already, it is time to move your website into WordPress, or some other content management system (CMS) which you personally and all of your staff can edit, change, and add to – a website cannot be a static brochure anymore. CPC, CPA and other auction style advertising models have removed all profit from paid search in the long run – because the big players are getting involved, and they are willing to buy the market. Unless you are very heavily capitalized, and have a crack, state of the art marketing team, you cannot compete on an even playing field. Fortunately, content trumps distribution, which is automatic – and those same large players are not known for innovation, controversy, viral popularity, niche popularity, or non-commercial content – and, thus, the value of these are elevated online. A small or start-up company can compete – but not head-to-head, and not on a level playing field financially. Even the largest of companies need to seek out viral and social marketing experts, outside of their normal chain of command, because innovators and forward thinkers are generally not rewarded in large companies.
The platform – WordPress has over 60 million blogs, and nobody really knows how many other websites are in WordPress – some say over 200 million sites. This means everything for an interactive website, because the users must be able to use the software. Your visitors will not know why, necessarily; however, if your website (which really needs to be a social media enabled, interactive community) is in WordPress, they will be able to use it. >>more about WordPress here>> (If your users can use your software, and they are compelled to do so, your website will succeed)
Strategy considerations – picking a battle that you can win: I often have this discussion with realtors: they all want to come up on ‘city state real estate’ searches, because those are the most searched for; but have you ever wondered by whom? There are, by some estimates, over 200,000 licensed real estate agents in the US: they all search city state real estate often …lets see , that is how many per state….the most expensive words you can buy?! One of the problems with Real Estate is that it pays so well that it is hard to get a Realtor to listen to any strategy other than what all the other realtors are doing. I call this “pack mentality”. I would equate it to guys who concentrate on metrics and measurements and call them self marketers, when all their decisions are made on main-stream accepted and forensic data. The fallacy is that all this information is worthless when it comes to online marketing: if you do what the ‘main-stream’ or your peers are all doing, you will fail, from sheer numbers. The true innovators are the ones making real money – and they do not share their secrets until they stop working. In online marketing, following the pack is sure failure: even more risky than trying something new. For most people and companies, innovation is the only solution that MAY work, while following the ‘pack’ is sure failure. If you are mainstream in real estate, the numbers suggest that you will not be here next year! Online marketing favors the new, the quick, the controversial even, the different. Conventional ‘following the leaders’ will not work online, for anybody but the leader. Online, it is better to become an expert, than to listen to one. What are you an expert at? Start there. What you know has value online, whatever it is , related or not: and somebody with that same interest needs what you are offering. Make your strategy based on your abilities, interests and assets: if you love what you are doing online, you will do it well, and often; and you will succeed. They all live in houses, take vitamins, buy presents, have health concerns, raise children…there is always something to sell to those that you can reach. Pick the battle that YOU can win.
Your profiles, outlets, fans, and links – your social network: I post a good, original article or two per week mostly. We require our clients to post weekly, as this is necessary for any presence with any reach: to maintain the profiles and build the fans. If you cannot, or will not do this; then you need to pay somebody else to do it. I can always find somebody to post for you, and we are training an ever increasing number of people to do this well; we have priced this ongoing weekly posting at $100 per month or more depending on the marketplace, and the qualifications and reach of that blogger. I know of very few business that cannot cash flow such an effort from the leads that are generated from the postings and ever growing social media profiles where the posts are bookmarked, shared, liked, tweeted, etc…we have ongoing clients in almost every industry. Think of it as your entire advertising budget – easier to swallow that way. Here are some good places to post and build profiles, with my notes and demographic research for each: thanks to adage.com for this chart
MySpace - I barely maintain my MySpace Profile, but being the oldest, it is one of the top ten on Google when somebody Google me sometimes, and, according to the demographics that follow, MySpace it is actually loosing terribly to Facebook unless you are specifically interested in 18-20-year-olds.
Facebook is a must - we are all there more and more – gaining universal acceptance as a popularity driven social network with controllable levels of access: we have a business endorsement page – and I post my stuff. If you are selling primarily to consumers, I suggest a much more robust viral marketing plan for Facebook – a fan club, thumbs-up tab, viral video, groups, meetings… in many business a full time Facebook marketer is indicated. We are business to business mainly, and I only post my content there, it maintains one slot on Google for my proper name, the company name..I do not get leads from Facebook as a rule, but I do use it to maintain long term personal and business relationships.
Linkedin.com - Our largest referrer; largest source of clients other than our own site: I have a complete profile and I post to about 25 groups that fit my audience: Linkedin.com has made some changes in the last year that re-ignited the site: I do very well here by just re-posting all my articles here. I highly recommend a strong LinkedIn presence for B2B and for recruiting.
Google+ - I like the software, and I like the integration with Google mail, calendar, docs and other apps that I use for maintaining my presence. I was able to transfer most of my presence elsewhere in minutes, and my network continues to grow on its own with nothing by my posting my articles to maintain.
Associated Content – I have been writing here for years. I get lots of traffic and the occasional client from this site. The editor adds no-follow tags, so you will want to post in code or html view, and not use the editor. Pay special attention to the categories: your post will appear there for a short time, and that link is very strong if you are spider-ed during that time. Some of my articles with permanent links to clients have been seen many thousands of times in this one place. A tip: always choose published elsewhere and display purposes only – this avoids their journalistic editors who rarely approve anything, and this makes your articles go live immediately. Another tip: nobody gets through the editors, so my stuff still routinely gets picked up by yahoo news: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/9115503/hooks_industrial_quality_pumps_centrifugal.html (the clients REALLY like that)
Activerain.com - this site recently sold so they may change things a lot, but this is an excellent site for anybody wanting to sell to Realtors or Lenders: and, if you post in code view, you can get strong links to you from hyper local pages. On the flip side, over 200,00 real estate professionals are doing a very poor job of using this resource properly, resulting in a hyper-local page that is populated by their peers ranking on Google for people searching for their proper name and address – not so good!
Realtown, Trulia, Realtor.com, Zillow, etc etc etc – many main stream companies have tried to build a network of community blogs funded by advertising dollars from Realtors – one basic common problem: consumers do not like these sites, populated almost entirely by realtor listings and spam; overpriced, non-exclusive…Good to build links from in the right way. If it is done the wrong way, these sites instantly outrank the real estate professionals’ target site for his proper name – very bad, and not good for the advertiser. Type in your proper name or company name with city and state into Google – is your TARGET SITE number one?!
Niche communities and link building with high quality posts – run a search for the terms that you think will feed you traffic – see who ranks. Do they allow posting? Do they allow comments? Do they need guest columnists? Content is king!
UpLog.org is unique - exclusive to its bloggers: so that a properly optimized upLog.org blog ranks immediately for competitive geographical real estate and other searches, and our client is the only sponsor unless he or she chooses to sell advertising to related businesses on his or her upLog.org blog. At $179 per year with training and support, this is a very inexpensive all encompassing alternative, with high link-authority to get started.
5. About email marketing – I have been appending and mailing out the B2B Home Business Network News .com – business.uplog.org for one year now: I include some recent articles, how-to’s, a plug or two for a client..the double opt-in list is over 125,000 now with no unsubscribes. I was curious, so I moved it to my proper name (israelrothman.com) to see how many people actually got it. To my amazement, only one unsubscribe, just enough to know it is working. This form of marketing is very effective: we purchased a couple of scrapers, and setup the PHPlist ope- source list program – if you do not want to do this yourself we can manage and build, setup and format your list: $500 down, $500 month. We can reach, increasingly so, anybody you want to reach, any demographic, any search…we will promise a 100k list within a year for most industries of you use our strategies. such a list can feed almost any business if done well.
6. About robo-calling or voice broadcasting – again we have been dong this regularly for about a year off and on: it is an effective and easy to generate traffic and even deals – we provide a trial to 1000 numbers that we scrape from key word search or SIC code for $50, and provide the vocie-over if needed, and the list afterward to track results with follow up.
7. Reputation Management – you do not manage your reputation, somebody else will:
8. Google places, Google maps, local search – all the major search engines have a local area – you must have properly optimized profiles there: if you do not want to do it, got to UBL.org and pay them $30 to do an ok job, or hire one of us at upLog.org to do it well for you (using their service as a tool) for $100
Costs and time frames – other than your time, there are some costs:
Hosting – 5-10$ per month or more depending on size
Website – our $599 custom WordPress works well for most. It must be on its own or related server account if you want it to rank for tall, for instance, real estate, and other competitive searches. (we include virtual server for 120/year, first year is free)
Uplog.org exclusive blog for your area or topic: $179/yr – this provides the roar of all of US – translates into very strong link authority to rank instantly for almost any search (note: this only works if you follow instructions!) Instant traffic and all of us looking back at your first visitor created better lead capture – this is a good DYI solution for somebody who is willing to learn, and who has a small budget, or even needs to earn a living doing what we do.
Marketing, posting, commenting, +1ng, liking, tweeting, following etc…this takes about two or three hours per week for the novice, about 15 minutes for a professional, and needs to be done weekly: do it yourself, or pay one of our professionals 100 per month (this option includes the upLog.org exclusive agency blog)
Mass emailing, robo-calling, farming and list building – again, do it yourself in about 10 hours per week, or we will do it all for you for $500 in advance and report to you monthly…
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”
Lets break this down in terms of social media:
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? “ Bookmark, subscribe to, thumbs-up, tweet,+1, like and other wise promote yourself.
” If I am not for others, what am I?” If you only read your own stuff you are a one dimensional personality: share the best of what you read, hear, tweet, stumble upon, like or otherwise benefit from already screened and previewed by you with your unique perspective.
“And if not now, when?” never ask when again. If it is on your mind, when is always now, ASAP, in this, the fastest moving world ever.
“Like the Buddha and Greek philosophers, Hillel taught the Golden Rule well before the time of Jesus. When asked to recite the Torah while standing on one foot, Hillel stood on one foot and said,
“That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary; go and learn.”
He is also known as the author of two popular sayings:
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”
Although not a Buddhist, Hillel had teachings (such as the above) and a calm demeanor that was very Dhamma-like. The exhortation to love peace emanated from Hillel’s most characteristic traits – from that meekness and mildness which had become proverbial, as is seen from the saying:
“Let a man be always humble and patient like Hillel, and not passionate like Shammai” (Shab. 31a; Ab.R.N.xv).
Hille’s gentleness and patience are illustrated in an anecdote which relates how two men made a wager on the question whether Hillel could be made angry. Though they questioned him and made insulting allusions to his Babylonian origin, they were unsuccessful in their attempt. Hillel often debated with Shammai and on several issues, Hillel demonstrated a more open and compassionate mind: Admission to Torah study. The House of Shammai believed only worthy students should be admitted to study Torah. The House Hillel believed that Torah may be taught to anyone, in the expectation that they will repent and become worthy. Hillel wanted Judaism to be open to converts and Shammai wanted the faith open only to those born into the ethnicity and religion. Judaism tended to be more accepting of Shammai on this issue. In general, the House of Shammai’s positions were stricter than those of the House of Hillel. On the few occasions when the opposite was true, the House of Hillel would sometimes later recant their position; similarly, though there are no records of the House of Shammai as a whole changing its stance, a few individuals from it are recorded as deserting a small number of the more stringent opinions of their school, in favour of the viewpoint of the House of Hillel. http://www.dhammawiki.com/.”
Here is another pretty harsh but very true quote from Hillel:
“He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.” ouch!
Life is a never ending lesson in humility: DOGS ARE BORN WITH THESE NATURAL GENETIC TRAITS:
Character
loyalty,
love,
honesty,
authenticity, or genuineness
fierce courage: they protect their own
All automatic for a dog, yet so rare in humans. Here is why:
We are humbled coming into the world, small, weak, helpless, at the mercy of our surroundings.
As we grow, we develop more and more influence over our surroundings ( something a dog cannot do)
As our power grows, it expands faster than our maturity, faster than our humility. We are proud of the power that we have from of our parents hard work, and the gift of being human and alive.
When we are young we think we know so much more than our parents, they are so old, and fussy and outdated.
We are modern, young, quick, unencumbered – what a bummer to be them.
Then something does not work out as we planned, and the first chink appears in our armor, perhaps we are not completely perfect.
We dust ourselves off, get back up, and go back to work, beginning to establish what a dog is born with, consistency and character, singleness of purpose.
We get to feeling really good again, get a little cocky..then: BLAM, something really bad, irreparable happens: now we are angry and depressed.
Then we are inspired by someone who has done more with less, and we get up again, and get back to work, humbled now that we are obviously not perfect nor better than anybody else.
The next challenge, we are ready: with confidence, and character, and a knowledge that we can face the future.
Unfortunately, we are not naturally strong, brave, honest, forthcoming, loyal or giving: we must learn to be all those things. A 2 year old, who never has his hands slapped, is being setup for failure, or early death, or drug addiction, or worse. It is life’s hardest times that make us worthwhile, and strong: it is in these times that we are offered the option to rise to the potential of being all that a human can be, ad to make ourselves proud of whom we are. And, unlike a dog, it does not come naturally: it must be learned, learned and earned and cannot be given. I honestly believe that a 2 year old without discipline, remains a monkey.
Where am I going with this? Consider technology, and your learning curve: I was humbled by being the last holdout on the car-lot to not have a cell phone, what a fool! I was also the oldest salesperson to not be a manager. That was very humbling for me.; especially so because I was always a top salesperson, and it was my fault. I expect that you have a cell phone now, and a computer, and an Internet connection..but let me ask you a few questions:
How long will you hide your head in the sand and act like the work of media and advertising has not changed
How long will you resist social media technology and the reach that it gives those who use it.
How long will you complain about your income, then refuse to do anything about it?
Will you still be in the same business or have the same job then?
Who will YOU blame it on?!
I did not have the luxury of ever being perfect: one leg is shorter than the other, and I was very short until after high school. I did not have time to be angry, or even afraid: orphaned at 11, foster homes and group homes until I became an emancipated minor at 17: I was too busy dealing to complain, and everybody else looked to me like Ozzie and Harriet. And I never realized how many opportunities that simple truth kept me from because people passed judgement on that being a qualification..not knowing that somebody could be from that background and still be OK; and me being too straight not to tell them (duh!). The main stream was never likely for me, for many reasons; and there are no handouts, entitlement programs, or bleeding heart media to help out an underprivileged Jew – thank god- people just do not think of us that way for some reason.
And all of this is perfectly fine, because of the wonderful god given gifts that I own, just like a junkyard dog who survives: god gave me everything that I needed in the beginning: like a grand experiment: all I had to do was to stop resisting it, and to discover his plan for my life.. Some things never change: join me:
In this, the third consecutive living Rothman Guide E-book, we will provide and solicit tips and advice for expanding your web presence by way of modern social media marketing techniques, and intentional organic search and social media traffic. A preview of topics we will discuss, and solicit feedback on in the coming year 2012:
Now that you have a website, and profiles that nobody sees or links to…..
How to write advertorial – blogging to two or more audiences at the same time
Modern distribution and syndication – where is the cheese?
Media Merge – the trends that will shape the future, and where it is going.
Modern Media is different – how you can actually become a media for your target market.
Local strategy, online malls, bulletin boards, community links, maps, free ads and blogs…
Israel Rothman
Israel Rothman