The 50 Million Dollar Entrepreneur-ess!

Good day, Everyone! Today, a panel discusses 'Business Success' with Renee Fraser and Betsy Berkhemer.

Facebook: Ten Tips to Safeguard Your Facebook Privacy

Good day, Everyone!  Today's post features Facebook Privacy Tips. Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.  As you may know, many individuals, entrepreneurs and companies are utilizing it quite successfully as a business tool.  You'll want to be knowledgeable about safely utilizing Facebook.

10 Solid Tips to Safeguard Your Facebook Privacy
Posted by: Dr. Joseph Mercola
September 29, 2009

"Facebook has over 300 million active users. It is growing VERY rapidly. In July of this year there were 250 million users and 75 days later they added another 50 million users. Please understand that Facebook will become as pervasive as phones and computers, so if you aren’t on already I would strongly encourage you to consider joining.

Unfortunately, most users don’t know the implications of entering personal information, making friends, and playing games on Facebook.

However these concerns are EASY to address if you follow the guidelines below. Please understand that I strongly believe Facebook now offers a very powerful way to leverage our influence and more rapidly change the fatally flawed conventional paradigm.

I am VERY excited about Facebook and spend a lot of my free time connecting with highly leveraged individuals and CEOs of major companies, and news media. I have several major national news correspondents and journalists as friends.

I’m currently in the process of brainstorming a strategy to optimize these new relationships, but once that is done we should be able to get the message out to well over ten million people.

At this time I believe Facebook is going to play a major role in the beginning of the end of the entire corrupt system.

Currently Facebook limits the number of friends you can have to 5000 and I reached that many months ago. So if you haven’t already done so, please join my Facebook Fan page which has around 20,000 fans at this time.

There is a good chance that Facebook will change the rules and open up the Fan page to friends in the near future, so please join my Fan Page now.

Once you join Facebook, or if you are already on it, please follow these guidelines to preserve your privacy.

1. Organize Friends in Lists

Friend Lists are the foundation of your Facebook privacy settings. Select Friends from the top menu, and  use the Create link to create friend lists like Co-workers, Family, College Friends, etc. Your friends can’t see your lists, so you can name them whatever you like.

2. Customize Profile Privacy

Click Settings > Privacy Settings > Profile. Select which parts of your profile will be seen by whom. If you choose Customize in the drop down, you can be more specific. This is where the Friend Lists you created before become really useful.

Also go to the Contact Information tab and choose how you want your contact information to be shared on the Internet.

3. Set Facebook Privacy Level of Photo Albums

On the Photos tab of your profile page, click Album Privacy. Here again, you can use your Friend Lists to set the privacy for each photo album. Note that your profile pictures go into a special album that is always visible to ALL your friends.

4. Restrict Search Visibility

Click Privacy > Search to set your visibility when someone searches Facebook for people. This is an important way to safeguard your Facebook privacy.

5. Control Automatic Wall Posts and News Feed Updates

Your actions in Facebook such as comments, likes, appear as highlights on ALL your friends’ home pages. You cannot use friend lists here, only turn them on or off. Go to Privacy > News Feed and Wall and make your selections.

6. Set Facebook Wall Privacy

Go to your profile page, click Options > Settings under the status box. Here you can control whether your friends can post to your Wall, and who can see the posts made by your friends.

7. Avoid Appearing in Advertisements

Facebook has two types of advertisements: third-party and Facebook. Third-party advertisements are currently not allowed to use your pictures, but there is a setting to disallow it if it is allowed in the future. Go to Privacy > News Feed and Wall > Facebook Ads tab to turn this off.

8. Protect Yourself from Friends’ Applications

Go to Privacy > Applications, and click the Settings tab and uncheck all the boxes. These settings control what information about you is visible to applications installed by your friends. By default, these are set to visible. This means that your information is readily available to one of the million worldwide Facebook application developers, each time any of your friends takes a quiz, plays a game, or runs any other Facebook app. These settings control what applications installed by your friends can see about you, even if you don’t install the application yourself.

9. Privacy from Your Applications

There is no way to control what applications see about you; it is an all-or-nothing affair. The only thing you can do is to authorize only those applications you require and trust. Go to Settings > Application Settings from the top menu. Change the drop-down from Recently Used to Authorized. Here you can see all the applications you have authorized to get access to ALL your profile information. Remove the ones you no longer need. Also check the list of applications Allowed to Post and Granted Additional Permissions to remove unwanted ones.

10. Quitting Facebook? Delete, Don’t Just De-Activate Your Account

You can easily deactivate your account in Facebook from the Settings page. But deactivation will retain all your profile information within Facebook, including pictures, friends, etc. If you want to permanently delete your Facebook account, click here to submit a deletion request. Note that:

There is an unspecified delay between submitting your delete request and actual deletion.

If you login to Facebook, your deletion request is automatically cancelled.

There doesn’t seem to be any way to confirm that your request was completed.

Even after permanent deletion, copies of your photos may remain on their servers for technical reasons.

Sources: MakeUseOf.com September 13, 2009"



Note: Also, view "3 New Facebook Strategies for Building Your Personal Brand"

2.3 Billion Dollars in Referrals!

Good day, Everyone! Today's video features a discussion with Dr. Ivan Misner, the Founder and Chairman of BNI - the world's largest business networking organization, which has generated 2.3 billion dollars in referrals!

Are You Failing Enough?

Good day, Everyone! This video, above, shares tips on "How Failure is Part of Success.'

Turn Your Passions into Profits!

Good day, Everyone! This video features a panel discussion on 'The New Entrepreneurial Mind' with Wealth and Life Style Strategist, Chris Howard!

Recession or Rebooting?

Hello, Everyone! Today's video explores the "Rebooting of the Economy - Is the Recession a Blessing?"

How to Accelerate Your Life & Your Business

Hello, Everyone! Today's video features tips on how to accelerate your business with CEO of Early to Rise, Mary Ellen Tribby!

THIS Skill Will Boost Your Success!

Hello, Everyone! This video features a panel discussion with Communications & Productivity Expert, Dianna Booher. Watch, listen and learn!

Business & Marketing Legend, Jay Abraham: Is Your Business Recession-Proof?

Hello, Everyone! Watch, listen and learn from the Business and Marketing legend, Jay Abraham!

Benefit from the Social Media Revolution

Hello, Everyone! The following video features the 'Pied Piper of Social Media', Mari Smith, sharing valuable details on maximizing our usage of social media, now.

Video: For Entrepreneurs Only

Good morning/evening, Everyone! 2009 is a great time to become an excellent entrepreneur so as to establish a foundation for your long-term (lifetime) financial independance. Today, I'm sharing information about The Entrepreneurs' Organization to introduce another 'tool', in the form of this organization, which you may utilize to achieve your business goals, dreams & heart's desires.

"The Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) - for entrepreneurs only - is a dynamic, global network of more than 7,300 business owners in 42 countries. Founded in 1987 by a group of young entrepreneurs, EO is the catalyst that enables entrepreneurs to learn and grow from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life." ~ EO. View this 4-minute video to hear and see how EO engages leading entrepreneurs to learn and grow. Also, you may want to follow EO on Twitter for entrepreneurial tweets!

"You Can Acquire & Achieve Everything in Life You Desire, If ..."

Good day, Everyone! Today, I'm sharing some of the wonderful wisdom of Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar. Zig Ziglar, born on the 6th of November 1926, is an American author, salesperson, and motivational speaker. Below, you'll find several wisdom-filled statements and success principles by Zig Ziglar which are so valuable for life endeavors. Be sure to check out the Zig Ziglar Twitter movie linked to at the end of the quotes!

• You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
• A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.
• Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.
• Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
• Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.
• If you don't save something on your current income, you won't save anything on your future income.
• Happiness is not pleasure — it is victory.
• I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
• If you can dream it, then you can achieve it.
• You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
• If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
• If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
• Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
• People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
• Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
• Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
• Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
• Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
• Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
• The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
• The way you see people is the way you treat them.
• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
• You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
• Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

View a delightful 'western/cowboy' themed movie about the Laws of the Twitterverse from Zig Ziglar and see how some of the quotes above apply to Twitter, as well!

The Most Valuable Question You Can Ask

The Most Valuable Question You Can Ask
by Jack Canfield

As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect.

Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work.

Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

Thomas Edison is reported to have tried over 2,000 different experiments that failed before he finally got the light bulb to work. He once told a reporter that, from his perspective, he had never failed at all. Inventing the light bulb was just a 2,000-step process. If you can adopt that attitude, then you can be free to take an action, notice what result you get, and then adjust your next actions based on the feedback you have received.

Ready, Fire, Aim!

Don't be afraid to just jump in and get started moving toward your goals. As long as you pay attention to the feedback you receive, you will make progress. Just getting into the game and firing allows you to correct and refine your aim.

The Most Valuable Question You May Ever Learn

In the 1980s, a multimillionaire businessman taught me a question that radically changed the quality of my life. So what is this magical question that can improve the quality of every relationship you are in, every product you produce, every service you deliver, every meeting you conduct, every class you teach and every transaction you enter into?

Here it is:

"On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the quality
of our relationship during the last week?"

Here are a number of variations on the same question that have served me well over the years...

"On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate...

· our service?
· my teaching?

· our product?
· this class/seminar/workshop?

· this meeting?
· our date/vacation?

· our performance?
· this meal?

· my coaching/managing?
· this book/recording/show?

· my parenting/babysitting?



Any answer less than a 10 always gets this follow-up question:

"What would it take to make it a 10?"

This is where the *really* valuable information comes from. Knowing that a person is dissatisfied is not enough. Knowing in detail what will satisfy them gives you the information you need to do whatever it takes to create a winning product, service or relationship.

There Are Two Kinds of Feedback

There are two kinds of feedback you might encounter - negative and positive. We tend to prefer the positive - that is, results, money, praise, promotion, raise, awards, happiness, inner-peace, etc. It feels betters. It tells us we are on course and doing the right thing.

We tend not to like negative feedback - lack of results, little or no money, criticism, poor evaluations, complaints, unhappiness, inner conflict, pain, etc.

However, there is as much useful data in negative feedback as there is in positive feedback. It tells us that we are off course, headed in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. This is priceless information!

In fact, it's so valuable that one of the most useful projects you could undertake is to change how you respond to negative feedback. I like to refer to negative feedback as information for "improvement opportunities." Here is a place where I can get better.

Ask Yourself for Feedback

In addition to asking others for feedback, you need to ask yourself for feedback, too. More than any other source of feedback, your body will tell you whether or not you are on course or not. When you are relaxed and happy, your body is telling you that you are on track. When you are constantly exhausted, tense, in pain, unhappy and angry, then you are off track.

Take time to listen to what your body is saying to you. Take time to listen to your physical sensations and your feelings. They are sending you important messages. Are you listening?

Remember, Feedback Is Simply Information

You don't have to take it personally. Just welcome it and use it.

For more on Using Feedback to Your Advantage, review Principle #19 in The Success Principles. It's one of the most important principles you can apply.

© 2009 Jack Canfield


Jack Canfield, America's #1 Success Coach, is founder of the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul© and a leading authority on Peak Performance and Life Success. If you're ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get your FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at: http://www.freesuccessstrategies.com/.

Acknowledge and Appreciate Yourself

Hello, Everyone! I'm sharing more articles from Mr. Jack Canfield, America's #1 Success Coach, and I'm very grateful that he allows bloggers to share them on our sites!


Acknowledge and Appreciate Yourself
by Jack Canfield

Pop Quiz: When was the last time you acknowledged and appreciated yourself?

That’s right: YOU. Not your spouse, not your children, not your boss, co-workers or friends. Just YOU!

Seriously, think about it!

And if it’s been too long since your last pat on the back, then I want you to take the time right now to acknowledge and appreciate yourself for everything you've accomplished today, throughout the year, and in life.

Ask yourself: How many times have you succeeded in the past month? The past year? The past 10 years? Are you able to recall your successes as easily as your failures and missteps?

This is not a selfish or egotistical act in the least. By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you’ve achieved—and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses—you actually can enhance everything about you!

Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is a regular practice of acknowledging and appreciating what they have.It can offer an oracle into the future because it not only tells you where you are but it also helps clarify where you want to go in life. Whatever that might be. The road then becomes easier to navigate—easier to see from the distance and walk confidently step by step.

Don’t forget to think about both big and little accomplishments. Many people under-appreciate the minor things they do successfully every day . And yet they can recall in detail all the times they have failed or made mistakes. That's because the brain remembers events more easily when they are accompanied by strong emotions.

For example, you might vividly recall a graduation, losing 10 pounds, having a child, winning an award, or landing a highly sought after position. But see if you can identify just as many minor, more subtle successes, such as your intimate conversation with your spouse last night, the re-connection you established with an estranged friend last month, the quality time you were able to spend with your children today, how you checked off all your list of To-Dos for the weekend, how you learned a new task at work, or got your kid to school on time.

These may seem like minor acts in the grand scheme of life, but they are what make us feel whole, happy, and accomplished along the journey toward those larger, and much more deeply satisfying moments.

Acknowledging your mistakes also has it pluses, but we often don’t have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders. And a mind stuffed with negative chatter about the gaffes of life won’t fuel your energy, nor your confidence, creativity, and motivation to keep going.

Consider this, too: if you only remember the mistakes and failures, you won't be as ready to take risks that will lead to your successes. Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again.

Give yourself permission to toot your own horn and don’t wait for anyone to praise you. Here are two suggestions:

1.) Record Your Personal History. Take time to write your achievements down. Start when you were very young and think of all your achievements since then. Don't just pick the major milestones; write down all the things you take for granted. For example, if you list your college degree, write your appreciation for having the opportunity to go to college and forge friendships that will last a lifetime.

You can also create a log of success every day and review it when you are faced with a new challenge. By writing it all down daily, you're securing it in your long-term memory and it will become a part of what makes you tick. It can even become a source of positive reminders and affirmations for when you’re feeling down, as well as a personal record of you that becomes your legacy.

2.) Celebrate Yourself with Mementos. Surround yourself with reminders of your successes. Put up pictures, articles, trophies, awards and other pieces that bring your attention to your success. Make your environment speak to you about your achievements. Be proud of them!

By the way, showing appreciation for yourself and accomplishments has many rewards that go far beyond boosting your own self-confidence.

Appreciating yourself creates a cascading affect—your heightened confidence will spill over into other aspects of your life. Watch what happens when you gain that special trust in yourself. You’ll attract opportunities, experience more fulfilling relationships, and have no trouble reaching loftier goals.

Remember, people like to be around those who have a healthy self-esteem and who are achieving their goals. Commit to acknowledging your achievements and your brain will begin to tell you the truth: that you can do anything!

© 2009 Jack Canfield


Jack Canfield, America's #1 Success Coach, is founder of the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul© and a leading authority on Peak Performance and Life Success. If you're ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get your FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at: http://www.freesuccessstrategies.com/.

Twitter: To Tweet or Not to Tweet (5) - Twitter Tools

Hello, Everyone! Today, I'm sharing the fifth part of a wonderful presentation series entitled, 'Twitter: A Conversation - To Tweet or Not to Tweet', which of course is about the amazing tool, Twitter! The first four of the five presentations posted here, 8/23/2009. Each of them is enlightening and helpful. The following presentation is Part Five - 'Twitter Tools'

A Conversation About Twitter - Part Five

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