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If you’re a Serious Entrepreneur who’s been involved in Internet Marketing for any length of time, you’re learning that using social media is a great way to promote your business for free.

However, you have to be kind of careful with dealing with those who have power on the World Wide Web. Pissing off the people at Google, and other people who are your online “Friends” can result in having your accounts shut down, and leave you crying in the dust. And those are just your Facebook and Twitter accounts!

That’s because you’ve now been branded as a SPAMMER!

Online social networks are great, especially for our rapidly advancing technological world. People can use them to stay in touch with loved ones who are away or out of the country, meet new people who have the same interests online, make friends, spend time chatting, and much more. Unfortunately, as of all good things on the Internet, some evil monster figured out how to twist these blessings and use them for evil.

An Internet property is basically any kind of web page, and any Internet sites that allow people to people interaction is considered online social media. Web 2.0 is another term referring to sites that in some way allow people to contribute rather than just read from it.

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There are no serious entrepreneurs who have not made New Year’s resolutions.

New Year’s resolutions are made in the heat of the moment, in the enthusiasm of ushering in something fresh. By the end of the week, New Year itself, and New Year’s resolutions with it, become history.

Serious entrepreneurs are optimists who sit up till the clock strikes twelve, so that they can see that precious hour face to face and make New Year’s resolutions.

However, I tried and tossed out some New Year’s resolutions in 2009, just for the heck of it. Why don’t I try to become a star baseball player? Better said than done! Why don’t I start writing a book? But who will read it? Why don’t I quit smoking? And redefine life itself? Definitely not! Maybe improve my business a bit? That may not be a bad idea!

Eventually though, I did do something solid. That was doing an internet marketing course. It was a 90 Day Challenge course, and meant for serious entrepreneurs. The course was worth it for it made an overall change in my very outlook and focus on things. The resolve was not for a week but for three whole months, and the goals were concrete.

1. Leverage my time and money. After experiencing tremendous growth this year, of which I’m very grateful, there’s no better time to hire some help than now. With the economy in the worst slump in decades, people are desperate for work. There are talented people waiting to be discovered. So I’m investing my money in people instead of “stuff.”

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