Whew what a weekend! There were 10 year old girls screaming all weekend. Oh yeah I was at my little girls birthday bash all weekend we had fun and here on this misty rainy Monday. I had a few moments to reflect on the past event as I rose in pain early this morning.

More on that in a minute. I really did have a blast. I worked pretty late on Saturday and my daughter, her friends, my wife and my son were all waiting. When i arrived it was late and these girls had tons of “sugar powered energy”. We went till the early hours in the morning.

Then Sunday came along and we did the bowl-a-thon for a couple of hours. These girls had me on three out of the four lanes. I was speed bowling on some rounds when all two or thre lanes lit up with my name. Needless to say last night I was beat. I woke up for an early appointment this morning and felt like a frieght train and I had wrestled around for a couple of hours.

After I finished my morning calls I decided to make a couple of adjustments to my blog and finish up my review of my new friend Chris’s article 2010 the rise of the sophisticated real estate investor. Chris and I met on Facebook several months ago. We have passed a few articles around to one another through various news feed however this particular article really called out to me.

I read the article quickly last week and put the post out to you this week. I really enjoyed reading the article for a second time. Chris provides many tools and resources for you as a real estate investor to weight to use for your arsenal. Having this type of knowledge and education availability is infinately rewarding and extremely valuable.

Chris and I are looking into creating some new ventures. I will definitely keep you posted. In fact I will be featuring this articles tools and others in some upcoming posts. For today Monday I am in a work light get ready for the upcoming weeks activities today. you know the planning, organizing and execution of the rest of the week. I have made several great contacts over the past week and now is the time to solidify the new relations and build the trust and other foundational activities that will enable the scalability and growth of the opportunity going ahead.

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Imagine owning your very own telecommunication Company without actually having to run it. It was so eloquently mentioned by Dell CEO Michael Dell; “Content, Commerce & Community.” Let me back up here for just a second. I was discussing social media topics with a friend of mine. He mentioned this concept by Michael Dell. So let me try to layout our conversation to make sense of where I am going with this.I say; “Whoever can provide the best content to their readers for value and benefit of their products and services will have the platform to establish commerce; whoever can provide the atmosphere, enticement, comfort will provide a platform for community.” “ Who ever combines these three critical components together will be the winning innovator in business.

First you establish a presence for your reader to reach your targeted audience, this is easy everyone knows you need marketing collateral to reach out with your brand. This again established a platform for commerce to take place; however the most important piece of the puzzle isn’t in this one way line of communication.

The Community Involvement

It’s the community of people who are both your raving, loyal fans, it’s also your first time prospects, window shoppers, first time customers and their valued feedback and opinions. Without that critical key input no one would truly have the capability to understand their target customers who keep people coming back time after time. They feel respected and valued while knowing that their voices will be heard.

I know the difference first hand with a company who is customer centric and one who is not. I don’t pitch product everyday like a good marketer, Instead I feel that value comes from knowledge and that knowledge will take people to higher levels of awareness as well as new found consciousness .Money is a difficult idea to fathom, it’s complexities are deep rooted and entangled in a web of debt, liens, over extensions etc. It’s a freaking night mare.

I like to keep it simple, do you?

Keep it simple and answer me these three questions…

1. Are you interested in saving more money?

2. Are you interested in creating more wealth?

3. Why aren’t you taking the advice that has been given to you and placing it into ACTION?

I’ll tell you why you’re paralyzed by the system, in fear of what’s going on in our economy? Takre a deep breath, you will be just fine. You know how I know? I thought you’d remember…

So back to this whole phone, Michael Dell scenario, my customer centric view and these questions, what do they have to do with social media, making money etc. I want to show you a way to reduce your monthly telecom needs by looking at your same service provider the same way but with a twist. I’ve talked about the phone for several weeks, here’s the coolest part.

Simply as a customer for a one time fee you have the ability to resell airtime to your friends family etc. Here’s a great scenario. You have your account and inside of that account is a call center where you can actually buy and sell bulk airtime and you can mark it up as you wish.

This is just as a customer how powerful is that? You have a small business without having to put out a ton of money. The more airtime you start selling the more you can make. You also have the option of starting as a business owner and having the full ability and access to resell all of the telecom packages we provide.

My point is simple you can literally set up your basic account for a one time fee of $20.00 and be in the airtime business in less than one hour, not even any equipment to buy. Just simply get up and running in seconds. With the newest design of our award winning X-LITE Desktop Application,

Here’s the key to all success, online, offline and interpersonal relationships. Communication, if you live in the fast paced, ready to respond to any inquisitive visitor within seconds notice whether that be via the web on a site such as facebook, your blog, your online support forum with nstant chat, maybe you’re handling many clients on the phone as well you’re busy putting out fires.

You need reliability, functionality as well as the most important part of your effort to assist. The clarity in communication. Without these essentials you’re loosing customers and recognition. So back to being clear and heard we want to hear you. I have a personal goal of helping literally thousands of people save more and create more in their lives. When was the last time a company paid you just for doing something you’ve always done?

You see we have provided you the tools to save money, we’ve provided you the tools to make money, now these partnerships that have been created are going to give back to you in a way you have never seen before. We want a community of enthusiast and skeptical people to come together and experience the true power of life changing thinking. We not only want your life on it’s way to recovery and fulfillment, we want to get you off to a fast start in getting your return on investment.

As you remember I started this community with the sole purpose of gaining like minded people to be heard. Again community is the one voice that stands together to support growth and change. More importantly community builds strength, and eternal goodwill. I Ryan Wegman here do pledge to bring you the ultimate experience for creating awesome change in your life and your wallet.

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Hackers and malware programmers are nothing new to the Internet scene, in fact as the Internet evolves and grows into a living, artificial intelligence of it’s own these threats become more and more frequent as well as evasive to those who fall victim of such threats.

Now your favorite VoIP network has fallen victim of the same attacks used to cripple twitter, facebook and all of the other major networks online. This program actually scares me a bit since I use Skype for my clients conversations and their personal information can be revealed during these calls.

I have often thought of free services as a risk yet the convenience of these programs are awesome. Here is the article I found which came out just a couple of days ago. I often recommend Skype and other free communication tools for my clients since cost savings and value are my main focus.

On the other side of the coin I just started using my new GI Connect service from FDI International. Your new telecom service provider. Sure I am biased to the program since I represent the products and service. Just the simple cost savings I have received since I switched has been enormous.

Imagine having the same simple access such as Skype with the convenience of a cell phone. Eliminate the need for duplicate cellular lines for your air cards. Having the assurance that huge corporations are using the same products everyday. Companies like Hewlett Packard, Nextel, The United Nations, Mitsubishi Corporation, British Airways and many more to the tune of over 300,000 clients from giant corporation to the solo-preneur.

Services like Skype are great when you are at your P.C> or Notebook, however the costs of obtaining mobility can be quite expensive. Once you have established the need for true mobility you would have to weigh the costs. Cell service $39.95 to the tune of $99.95 month, air card for wireless Internet $59.99 a month and that’s just the beginning. Now add in your home residential phone and Internet services.

Sure you can download Skype to any PC or Computer, what if you could still have the same ability to use Skype with your new GI Connect service? How about keeping your same phone numbers and combining the power and freedom of wireless communication to reduce your total costs of communications by 50% to 95% of the money you are already spending.

At one time Skype was new yet people embraced the concept and VoiP started taking off. Now with a shrinking cellular market , VoIP is the newest rage acfross the globe. Great savings on National nad International calls as low as $0.0195 per minute Less tha two cents a minute that’s cheaper than Skype.

You and I both know that in tough times every dollar counts so that’s why I suggest you check out GI Connect for your own needs. Even as a customer you have the ability to open up your own call shops to resell airtime and create your own margin of profit. Wow a customer first attitude all of the way. Get in and turn on your savings today.

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If you’ve been on the Internet for more than 15 minutes it’s not doubt that you have been exposed to numerous websites that use and leverage the social media such as myspace. Facebook, twitter, youtube and countless others of websites using the “web 2.0” technology.

It’s one of the hottest trends on the web, twitter has had news coverage from surgeons teaching medical students about a surgery procedure to Farah’s & Michael Jackson’s deaths and many other worthy events. Today I am at the lovely Hilton Hotel in beautiful Concord, CA listening to Tom Ferry.

Guess what the topic is? Social mediaq and real estate. Even if you have been online and using social media, for any amount of time you are probably using it wrong. If you aren’t using these powerful tools to position yourself as the expert, attract your new prospects, engage them in conversation, and convert them into raving fans you’re missing the boat.

Let me give you a perfect example, if you have clients who are seeking to purchase real estate, you need to be ready to receive an on set of communication via email, text messages and phone communication.

In fact if you aren’t online using these powerful tools you have already missed the boat. Not to worry you can still make your mark with a few selective strategies and free tools to get started. I have investor friends who rely on cell phones as the primary business tools to quicky evaluate real estate deals, by sending out a team of individuals who are armed with camera phones and ready to inspect properties.

How can you compete with technology if you aren’t armed with it.? Answer you can’t! Think about it for a minute what if you can get to the listing to inspect before the court sale or a new property hits the MLS and you have your team there within15 minutes to 1 hour. Visuals are done, comps are being pulled by your office manager or team member.

Using cameras for visuals can quickly help a seasoned investor to make these decisions while on the fly or in the office makes real time data access quick and efficient. Valuations are performed and the offer(s) is/are written all withing nanoseconds compared to the old way of performing the same old real estate procedures of calling an agent, driving to the property, pulling comps and performing neighborhood research aka data mining.

Your in the forefront, on the leading cusp of the industry when it comes to both running your business and as well in the entire real estate investment or agency game. You have been given a chance to become the top of your game simply by using these tools to gain an advantage in your personal business growth and as a way to market properties to flip or wholesale.

Now on the other hand as an agency who brokers real estate imagine having the advantage of being number one online for real estate searches in your local market. This was the premise for the seminar I attended recently and what an eye opener.

The strategies taught were very powerful and shed some real light on how technology and the “power to be found” online sets those who are in the know will exceed all of those who aren’t. The doers from the ones who sit on the sidelines. You can literally take advantage of the search engines with a little strategy, take a listing promote it via online channels as well as promote your self and your brokerage all at the click of a button.

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