First, check out my Twitter page. http://genuinechris.com/twitter. It’s what you get if you follow me on Twitter.
It does mean something every time I get rejected. Every time I’m not included, it stings a little. I don’t know if that accumulates like mercury poisoning or not, but I do know that it’s never pleasant.. But I’m doing it anyway, no matter what. Because the alternative is being ignored, and I’ll go broke. And when you wade through rejections, you find good or great people in between.
I understand why people try to use 2.0 stuff in a way. Always needing but never asking. Always sort of working but never trying, never…putting themselves out there. Always anxious, almost working, procrastinating, letting tasks build up and frittering away hours on these sites.
Exhausting.
…and the same people cluck like a hen when I suggest that they pick up the phone and call someone. “I…” they say “would never cold call.” You meet people on line. Facebook calls ‘em ‘friends.’ But how many people have you actually talked to, called, offered to help? How many people know you personally? 1016? All 2400? It’s unlikely. It’s more likely that you mass add anyone you can.
I did it too, and now I’m stuck with this big morass of mostly strangers that laughed at a joke I told once. Or didn’t laugh but added me or vice versa because we all have one or two friends in common. And I can’t help them, really, I can’t connect them to the good people that I know and like. So I’m calling to get to know them. And you better believe–since this website is deliberately devoid of what I do–that I’ll be pitching them a little.
If they’re your friends, they’ll help you and you’ll help them. You’ll do them favors and vice versa. Else, what’s the point? In the hope that someday some status update or tweet will connect? Right now, I have too many ‘friends,’ and not enough ‘connections.’ People that I can call on for help.
I figure I need an ever improving list of 10-12 amazing clients. By amazing, I mean world class! I’ll continue to work and build my practice till I’m there.
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