Greetings for a Fabulous Friday,

Did I tell you about my sister? You may remember that she is a Catholic nun, and that she converted to Catholicism some 20 years ago after our mom died suddenly. Maginel(Margaret/Maggie, Eleanor/Nell family name) spent 12 years in Vatican City and has moved around a bit before and since.This week she called me and said she'd decidedto leave the convent in Lufkin, Texas and wasn't sure of her next move. I offered to have her stay with me.This is rare because we only talk about 6x a year and haven't spent more than 3 days together in over 30 years! So I'm getting a roommate. I don't know for how long (until we hate it?) but betting it will be a big change as I'm used to it just being me and Yin + Yang.

Outrageously productive! I've so enjoyed the last 10 days in the mountains without the noise and chaos of Atlanta. I've gotten a lot accomplished and this week has been very rewarding with my www.backtosuccessnow.com teleclass series where I've been sharing the nuts and bolts of blogs, ezines, and article marketing for a Single Simple Strategic System to harness the power of social media. I love hearing from participants about how they will take this to the next level and renovate their business with strategic marketing tools.

Oh, oh and on the productive note! I've created Social Media Tool Time because I am continually talking with business owners and creativepreneurs who seem somewhat awed by how much one small tool (no cost and low cost, of course) can transform their social media networking experience. I am an experimenter and am continually learning new tools so have a large virtual tool box and wanted to share. I'm going to feature tools to ratchet up your success and ease of use on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIN.

Prospering by Design, Always (Can I help you do it too?)

Melissa

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Embrace the masterpiece within you."

~ MG

Social Media Tool Time!

It's coming September 15, 16, 17! Another teleclass trio to take you to the top. This time it's all about the best, fastest, easiest, and simplest of Social Networking Tools. I know well how many hours social networking can devour and require to really get ahead. This is all about shortcuts to:

	Build YOUR presence.
	Extend YOUR reach.
	Boost YOUR visibility.
	Grow YOUR impact.
	Increase YOUR Credibility.

So YOU can skyrocket YOUR Profitability by finding more Perfect Prospects!

Learn more here: www.socialmediatooltime.com

Each day YOU will get 90 minutes of content loaded information with easy to grasp screen shots and live online training so you can immediately implement the tools I share to move your business rapidly forward. Marketing is about building your presence and your profits, this is a fast way to make that happen. YOU will:

	Grow Your Twitter by 200+ targeted followers a day (no spammy tools or tricks.)
More followers means more influence and higher visibility.
	Effectively, appropriately, and successfully interact to get Retweeted
Retweets are the #1 way to expand your reach to your networks followers
	Source great relevant and valuable content for regular interaction
Content is KING and being consistent and persistent will grow your impact
	Understand the major difference between FB & Twitter to harness the power of each
Knowing this allows you to maximize your effectiveness and save time & missteps
	Locate the leaders in LinkedIN so you can mine the gold in your network and theirs.
You are connected to everyone you'll ever need, you just have to tap them.

Learn more here: www.socialmediatooltime.com

What Goldilocks Learned and You Can TOO!

In life and business we all need to know an experimenter if we aren't one ourselves. These are the folks that push the limits, break rules, challenge barriers. These individuals don't see a wall as a wall but instead look at ways to scale it, go around it, go through it, or dig under it. Inventors are most often great experimenters but it isn't limited to inventors. Anyone with a renegade streak is a great experimenter and that means entrepreneurs. Goldilocks was one!

When Goldilocks stumbled across the Three Bears cottage she didn't just select the first bed and take a nap, she experimented. She tried each of the beds until she found the one that worked the best for her. She wasn't playing by the rules; the rules dictated that she would not have even gone into the house. The rules suggested that she not experiment. You've got to learn to push boundaries, break rules when necessary, and find your own success zone.

I do this regularly with social media and the networks. While I have certainly taken many teleseminars, webinars, read ebooks, watched video tutorials, and even been to multi-day live events, I am still finding my own success zone and that means experimenting. I know the boundaries but want to see how far I can push them and what the results will be. Sometimes they are great and sometimes they aren't, but I am always ahead of where I started and have gleaned a valuable nugget to move forward with.

Are you just sitting there, playing by other peoples rules? Do you know how they came by those rules? With the rapid innovations and changing times we live and work in, rules are constantly changing. Why not make up your own? Experiment, step outside of the box you put yourself in, and reach farther for that gold ring. Find gold when you pull a Goldilocks!

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Social Media is OPEN Source

It seems that few business owners and creativepreneurs who climb aboard the social networks realize one of the most incredible benefits. The networks are open source. What I mean is that before social networking came a long unless you were in a networking group like Powercore, BNI, or Ali Lassen's Leads and you met weekly and saw the network face to face, your colleagues and your competitors networks were closed to you. These were unseen, unknown databases of contacts that you might have to go through twelve degrees of connection to access. Today that is all changed.

On Twitter, one of the simplest and best ways to find an audience and followers is to find someone with similar interests and talents to you (don't be so surprised they do exist!) Look at both who that individual is following and who their followers are. You can easily, simply, and quickly follow the same people. Now clearly for them to follow you back requires providing consistent value in your communication and interaction, but what a revolutionary way to leap ahead.

On Facebook, the same applies though the process is a bit more time consuming and restricted. Find those who are sharing your type of audience and check out their circle of friends (this is very rarely restricted.) Then, since Facebook only allows you to invite up to 20-25 friends a day, take a minute to check out specific profiles and send personalized (this is vital) invitations. We all get the generic requests; it is those persons who truly take the time to craft a personal message even when brief that will often have the greatest influence.

On LinkedIN, you can view anyone's network, (yes you can restrict viewing if you prefer not to allow anyone to see yours.) Accessing is a little trickier but the idea that you can generally easily view their contacts is certainly something that can make your climb to the top much faster. Once you know who is the gatekeeper for the connection you desire to make, it can be as simple as crafting a well written request to be connected. Just saying you want to meet is rarely adequate. Most of us on LinkedIN take our role as gatekeeper to our network seriously and only want to connect those who are authentic and genuine and not pitching or spamming. In fact, on LinkedIN, you can see clearly how many degrees of separation exist between you and your desired contact and the best immediate connection to introduce you.

Open source is revolutionizing how networks are built and business gets done. Create your strategy, learn the tools, and implement your success. It really can be that simple and certainly beats wandering aimlessly amongst the networks searching for contacts. Get targeted on who you want to meet, learn who has similar interests, focus and talent and mine the gold that is so readily available.

Want to use this article? You can, just include the text here: For true social media success strategies and your very own arsenal of tools to make social networking time effective, financially rewarding, and easy check out programs and resources at www.todaybydesign.com. When you are ready to take your business to the next level sign on for the www.myprofitablebizmakeover.com and get the tips, tools, shortcuts, and strategy to skyrocket your success.

Hi! I'm Melissa Galt and as a successful business creativepreneur and business owner of the last 15+ years I learned that the key to a profitable business is all in the marketing. I was spoiled at the start because corporate America had done it for me so when I jumped into the wild blue yonder of owning my own business I had a lot to learn, and learn it I did! And I've gone from wasting thousands on advertising, direct response mail, expos and more to creating a finally honed marketing machine that regularly delivers perfect prospects whom I convert to ideal clients for lifetime demand. Can I show you how to do the same?

As entrepreneurs we all have the dream of designing a business that is both profitable, passionate, purposeful, and gives us the lifestyle we deserve and want. That means:

But too often that dream gets buried in 15 hour days, 6 days a week, years without vacation and missing friends and family. Marketing makes the difference and from mindset to strategy, Twitter to Facebook, blogging to article marketing, passive revenue products to your own teleseminars I've got the solutions.

Please consider me your marketing success resource to move your business forward and become the thriving profitable opportunity you dreamed of! I welcome and invite your emails, Tweets, Facebook posts, LinkedIN connections, and even phone calls. I'm old fashioned but learned how to harness today's marketing tools for real success. You can too!