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		<title>#SXSWi pt 2: People Are Human</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Potts Weinstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post started out as a post-sxsw rant. Against how some people got big as a result of being in the right place at the right time but are not really going anywhere, so now they have that defensive &#8220;look how cool I am and how many big A-lister names I can drop&#8221; thing going on. [...]


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<p><strong><a href="http://pinqued.com"></a>This post started out as a post-sxsw rant. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Against how some people got big as a result of being in the right place at the right time but are not really going anywhere, so now they have that defensive &#8220;look how cool I am and how many big A-lister names I can drop&#8221; thing going on. Ick.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>And then it changed into a post-sxsw worry. <span style="font-weight: normal;">About how people are lonely. Left out of the VIP room. Buried in their iPhone instead of engaging. About how people are wandering the halls looking for connection and instead just finding pitches and panels and Zone bars.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>And then it changed into a post-sxsw love fest. </strong>Rejoicing in how the profound parts of sxsw don&#8217;t happen in the seminar room, they happen in coffee houses and margarita bars and vege wrap restaurants. Sitting on the floor of the hallway sharing a powerstrip or hanging out with someone on the corner of 8th and Congress.</p>
<p>But now, two weeks after sxsw, I realized what is post is about. What sxsw is about. What my business is about.</p>
<p><strong>People are terrible. </strong>They are full of bullsh*t and fear and think they need to cut others down to keep themselves from going backwards.</p>
<p><strong>People are lonely.</strong> They are full of worry and stress and think they might be the only one who feels this way.</p>
<p><strong>People are amazing.</strong> They are full of joy and sharing and think that we are capable of changing the world if we just all come together and help each other fulfill our purposes.</p>
<p><strong>Bottom line &#8211; people are human.</strong></p>
<p>We are capable of anything. Of causing great pain to others and ourselves. Of withdrawing and hiding our brilliance from the world. Of caring and courage and deep, intimate connections to each other and the beyond.</p>
<p>And that is why I started my business.</p>
<p>Why I have not quit. Why I&#8217;m going to keep doing this, maybe for as long as I&#8217;m on this earth with you.</p>
<p><strong>Because I can never be finished with people. </strong></p>
<p>There are six billion of us, chaotic and mysterious and changing every day. And unlike all of the other things that I have studied &#8211; mathematics, chemistry, environmental studies, law, finance &#8211; people (which is what business &amp; marketing is all about), well, I&#8217;ll never be done. I&#8217;ll never have mastered how people work.</p>
<p>So instead of a rant, or a worry, or a love fest &#8230; I forgive those who are being lame out of fear. I&#8217;m developing new programs &amp; events to help those who have lost faith. And, I&#8217;m so freaking excited to come together with those who want to make a difference with each other, and the world.</p>
<p>So perhaps instead of concluding how terrible, helpless, or awesome people are, instead of concluding <em>anything</em>, let&#8217;s rejoice in how infinitely complicated we are. How we are capable of everything.</p>
<p><strong>And &#8230; let&#8217;s get started on the awesome parts of everything, shall we? </strong></p>
<p>(photo of me, @<a href="http://twitter.com/unmarketing" target="_blank">unmarketing</a>, @<a href="http://twitter.com/nummiesbras" target="_blank">nummiesbras</a> &amp; @<a href="http://twitter.com/couchsurfingori" target="_blank">couchsurfingori</a> at Techkaraoke, courtesy of <a href="http://pinqued.com/" target="_blank">Pinqued</a>)</p>


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		<title>#SXSWi pt 1: Unconsummated Fangirl Stalking of @gapingvoid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Potts Weinstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So generally speaking, I don&#8217;t get intimidated by anyone. You make a zillion dollars more than me, are decades older, have a blog with a billion readers? Awesome. I&#8217;m much more concerned whether you are a non-idiot who is funny &#38; has something interesting to say. I pride myself on being able to talk to [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So generally speaking, I don&#8217;t get intimidated by anyone.</p>
<p>You make a zillion dollars more than me, are decades older, have a blog with a billion readers? Awesome. I&#8217;m much more concerned whether you are a non-idiot who is funny &amp; has something interesting to say.</p>
<p><strong>I pride myself on being able to talk to just about anybody.</strong></p>
<p>But I totally have a ridiculous fangirl thing for @<a href="http://twitter.com/gapingvoid" target="_blank">gapingvoid</a> (<a href="http://gapingvoid.com" target="_blank">Hugh MacLeod</a>, author of &#8220;Ignore Everybody&#8221;). I re-read his book once a month. Tell everyone to buy it. Read his blog. Follow his twitter. I&#8217;ve even bought a <a href="http://www.gapingvoidgallery.com/product_info.php?products_id=51" target="_blank">print of one of his cartoons</a> as the first piece of art for my wall. Actually, the first art print I&#8217;ve ever bought in my life.</p>
<p><strong>And he was on my short list of who I wanted to meet (<em>aka stalk</em>) at SXSW.</strong></p>
<p>So instead of finding him in his booth or at a coffee shop or a bunch of other places I could have tracked him down for a conversation (because, as I lamented to <a href="http://twitter.com/sarahrobinson" target="_blank">Sarah Robinson</a>, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I could talk to him!&#8221; or &#8220;I might throw up on him!&#8221;), I chickened out.</p>
<p><strong>And went to hear him on a panel on Monday.</strong></p>
<p>And tweeted about it.</p>
<p><strong>And 15 minutes before the panel, he @ replied back that I should go up to him before they start, and say hi. </strong><em>(omg!)</em></p>
<p>But I missed the tweet, in my lame effort to concern iPhone battery power. #<em>technologyfail</em></p>
<p><strong>And after the panel, even after I had read the tweet, I could have talked to him. </strong></p>
<p>But I freaked and went down the escalator instead to grab lunch with a friend. #<em>lameexcuse</em></p>
<p>Later I tried to find him in the expo at his table. He was either not there or was being interviewed on camera. #<em>stalkingfail</em></p>
<p><strong><em>So what&#8217;s the lesson?</em></strong></p>
<p>I should have talked to him. When he *invited* me to.</p>
<p>Or found him at a coffee house, or some other place where he was not being bombarded by people.</p>
<p><strong>The lesson is that everyone is fangirl/fanboy about someone. </strong></p>
<p>We all are slightly insane.</p>
<p>This happens when someone says or does something that has a huge effect on our lives, before we&#8217;ve connected with them as human beings. It&#8217;s completely one-sided. And can get a bit wonky.</p>
<p><strong>But really &#8230; we are all just people. </strong></p>
<p>We want to make a connection with the very people who love our work.</p>
<p><strong>I mean, wtf are we doing this for anyway, if we don&#8217;t get to talk to each other?</strong></p>
<p>So the next time I get all fangirl over someone, I&#8217;m tracking them down &amp; making a connection before I get too wonky.</p>
<p><strong>And if you see me at a conference or tweetup, and want to come talk to me, do it. </strong></p>
<p>If I&#8217;m sitting by myself, it&#8217;s not because I want to be alone, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m an introvert and networking is scary.</p>
<p>If it helps, send me a @/DM on twitter first, and I&#8217;ll give you a specific invitation.</p>
<p><strong>See you then. </strong></p>
<p><em>Have you ever been nervous to talk to someone?  (Did you every throw up on someone, because I&#8217;m kind of worried about that.) What happened when you got up the guts to talk to them? </em></p>


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		<title>Everything or Nothing: An Ode to the INFJ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Potts Weinstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On days like today, when I wake up at 3:30 am with whorly brain, running something through my mind to find all the ways I was stupid and wrong and a fool, while intellectually understanding that I&#8217;m being completely illogical and unreasonable, I can usually trace my distress to my particular brand of insanity, that [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On days like today, when I wake up at 3:30 am with whorly brain, running something through my mind to find all the ways I was stupid and wrong and a fool, while intellectually understanding that I&#8217;m being completely illogical and unreasonable, I can usually trace my distress to my particular brand of insanity, that of being <a href="http://www.mypersonality.info/personality-types/infj/" target="_blank">INFJ</a>.</p>
<p>For those of you who are not into personality tests or typing, INFJ is one of the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types (you can taken an <a href="http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp" target="_blank">online test here</a> to find your type).</p>
<p>Now I don&#8217;t believe that Myers-Briggs gives all the answers (nor <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/truth-2009" target="_blank">hand analysis</a> or <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/4-words">finding your words</a> or any of the interesting explorations into which we can define ourselves), but whenever I am freaking out &amp; I share it with <a href="http://twitter.com/ElizabethPW/infjsareawesome/members" target="_blank">another INFJ</a>, unlike most people, they understand.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not going to go into the full explanation of personality types, especially since I&#8217;ve known my type for 20 years and I&#8217;m still learning and don&#8217;t consider myself the expert of all things psychological.</p>
<p><strong>But I&#8217;ll give you the short version of what it means to be an INFJ, at least for what I&#8217;m talking about here.</strong></p>
<p>INFJ stands for Introvert (as opposed to Extrovert), Intuitive (as opposed to Sensing), Feeling (as opposed to Thinking) and Judging (as opposed to Perceiving).</p>
<p>INFJs are known as the Confident, the Protector, the Mystic, the Counselor.</p>
<p>&#8220;INFJs are gentle, caring, complex and highly intuitive individuals. Artistic and creative, they live in a world of hidden meanings and possibilities. Only one percent of the population has an INFJ Personality Type, making it the most rare of all the types.&#8221; (<em>source: </em><a href="http://www.personalitypage.com/INFJ.html" target="_blank"><em>INFJ personality page</em></a>)</p>
<p><strong>We are regularly mistaken as extroverts. </strong></p>
<p>Probably because we are so interested in people and concerned with the state of the world, we seek connection and interaction with others, unlike many other introverted types. We love learning about people, we love figuring them out.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s one of the reasons I became an entrepreneur, a writer, a coach. Because mathematics, chemistry, law, finance &#8230; all of those were pretty easy to get after a while. But people, their complexities are never ending. I will be able to spend my entire life trying to figure people out, and will never be done, never be board.</p>
<p><strong>Another INFJ trait &#8211; we listen. </strong></p>
<p>I can&#8217;t tell you how many times people I barely know have chosen to share their secrets with me. Speak truths they have never spoken. I don&#8217;t know what it is that I do, but there is something about me that invites confidences.</p>
<p>But regardless of how outgoing we seem, we are true introverts.</p>
<p><strong>While we love people, we are sensitive. </strong></p>
<p>You freak us out when we are exposed to you in mass quantities. We need alone time to find ourselves, to reenergize, to fill ourselves back up so we can give to you from our overflowing.</p>
<p>Yes, I hide in the bathroom at networking events. Yes, I&#8217;ve taken off early from parties without saying goodbye to anyone. Yes, I must have time alone every day. Yes, I&#8217;ve even spent entire weekends away from the company of other humans &#8230; well, except for a bit of texting and social media.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s not because I don&#8217;t love you.</p>
<p><strong>It&#8217;s because I can feel your energy, I can see into your souls. </strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s because I care about your problems, where you are not in resonance with your truth. It&#8217;s because I can&#8217;t fix everything and feel that I may have failed you in some way.</p>
<p>And while we INFJs may know lots of people, we will only share our souls with a chosen few.</p>
<p><strong>The thing is, I&#8217;m everything or nothing with the people I love. </strong></p>
<p>With most of you that I love, I keep you at a distance to protect myself. This may be a physical distance, where I break off most connections to keep negativity at bay. Or, we may spend time together, have fun, do projects together, go on adventures &#8230; but that&#8217;s only a part of me.</p>
<p>On a rare occasion, after much research and consideration and an intuitive hit that the person has integrity and caring, I decide to let someone in. To trust them with my soul. But I don&#8217;t know how to let someone in a little bit. If I let them in, it&#8217;s all the way.</p>
<p><strong>So to most of you, those in my outer circle, my followers, friends, clients, readers:</strong></p>
<p>Even when am hiding at the networking event, when I can&#8217;t talk to you, when I don&#8217;t reply to your email or @ reply or comment or DM, that does not mean I don&#8217;t care about you. On the contrary, I do care. Perhaps too much. But I have to protect myself, reenergize myself, keep a certain part of myself safe behind a wall, to have anything left to give to you tomorrow.</p>
<p>We can have fun, go on adventures, tweetup. We can have amazing conversations, debate controversial issues, gossip about the latest mistakes by the big gurus. I can help you with your business, share resources, give advice. I&#8217;ll speak my truth in videos, write my truth on my blog and twitter, tell the whole story.</p>
<p>But there is a certain part of me you may never get access to. You may see it, read about it, resonate with it, but there&#8217;s only so much of me that I can give.</p>
<p><strong>To my inner circle, my best friends, my confidants, to anyone I trust with my soul: </strong></p>
<p>You&#8217;ve got my everything, an unlimited amount of listening and insight and help, of fun and laughter and adventure, of caring and creativity and courage.</p>
<p>I accept and love you as you are, I support you in your insanity, I believe in your vision, I stand by you equally in your greatest triumphs and when I think you are making colossal mistakes.</p>
<p>And I will be brutally honest. Tell you all of my insanities. Speak the whole story, even the parts where I am embarrassed and worried about what you will think of me and scared that you may be upset or hurt by what I have to say.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll call you on your bullsh*t. Hold you accountable to what you say you are going to do. Hold up a mirror so you can see who who you truly are.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll protect you from the world. Create a sanctuary, a safe place for you to be 100% yourself.</p>
<p><strong>All I ask is the same in return.</strong></p>
<p><em>Which is a freaking big deal, actually. I get that. </em></p>
<p>And if it ends up that you can&#8217;t do that, then I&#8217;m pulling back.</p>
<p>Not because I don&#8217;t love you. Not because you did anything objectively wrong. Not because there has been some grand betrayal.</p>
<p><strong>But because I can only be everything or nothing. </strong></p>
<p>If I let you in, it must be all the way. And the only way I have anything to give is if I keep myself from constantly falling apart.</p>
<p><strong>So let&#8217;s get back to what I was thinking about at 3:30 am. </strong></p>
<p>Well, I&#8217;m not going to tell that story yet, because it has not played out. And I don&#8217;t even know what the freaking story is yet. Maybe it&#8217;s nothing. Maybe it&#8217;s everything. I&#8217;m probably being an idiot.</p>
<p>Either way, it will make a great paragraph or page or chapter in the yet unwritten Live Your Truth book.</p>
<p><strong>I wrote this post as therapy. </strong></p>
<p>To understand where I&#8217;m drawing the line and how my truth fits into the equation and what it all means.</p>
<p>I feel better after writing this.</p>
<p><em>But I don&#8217;t have an answer.</em></p>
<p>To those of you who are also sensitive, and/or to those of you who are also INFJs, you know exactly what I mean. I&#8217;m not sure if we are blessed, or cursed, or called to be how we are, but you understand my particular brand of insanity, and I thank the powers that be and the social media gods for bringing us together.</p>
<p><em>#thatisall</em></p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>If you are also an INFJ and/or a sensitive person, let me know. I get you.</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Next Steps:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Join us in the<strong> private Facebook group</strong> for us INFJs to learn, share, and connect with each other &#8211;&gt; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/infjs" target="_blank">INFJs Are Awesome</a>.</li>
<li>Watch the free streaming video class called <strong>&#8220;How INFJs Think&#8221;</strong> where I debunked myths about Myers-Briggs and INFJs, explained why INFJs are sometimes seen as extroverts and were our blind spots are hurting us, and shared how to develop your preferences over your life, including turning blind spots into strengths &#8211;&gt; <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/infj-class" target="_blank">How INFJs Think</a></li>
<li><strong>Leave a comment below or <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/contact" target="_blank">contact me directly</a></strong> with your thoughts, feedback, or questions.</li>
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<p><em>I&#8217;m so happy we are all finding each other.</em></p>


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		<title>Skype, Starbucks &amp; Skin Grafts: 11 Strategies to Find Friends in Fantasyland</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><em>I always wanted Friends.</em></strong></p>
<p>Every Thursday night in my Junior year of college, a group of us girls would run back from night class to gather in Mindy&#8217;s dorm room, drink illicit margaritas, and revel in the details of a romanticized version of New York City life.</p>
<p>The scenario portrayed on the 1990s TV show &#8220;Friends&#8221; seemed perfect.</p>
<p>A group of singletons living in the big city. Alone, but together. Always someone to share the events of the day, have a drink with, or support you when your non-secret lifelong crush didn&#8217;t love you back or when you were giving birth to your brother&#8217;s triplets conceived by artificially insemination.</p>
<p><strong>But that never really happened when I got out into the real world.</strong></p>
<p>Yes, obviously I had people I hung out with in law school, work friends from the law firm, and acquaintances here and there from my daughter&#8217;s playgroup or the local business networking event.</p>
<p><strong>But I never really found my people.</strong></p>
<p>People where I didn&#8217;t have to play a part. Where I was not restricted to doing just what I &#8220;should&#8221; do. Where I didn&#8217;t have to hold back a part of my insanity so I fit into the norm of the group. Where I could share not just the positive stuff, but also all of the crap of my life.</p>
<p>So, I figured that the magical support structure I had envisioned was just that. Fiction. A fantasy.</p>
<p><strong>Fast foreward to one week ago from today.</strong></p>
<p>I was home alone, chatting on Twitter &amp; Skype, working on some tasks for The Live Your Truth Project 2 and planning a weekend of untold productivity &amp; video creation.</p>
<p><em>Then the phone rang.</em></p>
<p>It was my ex-husband. Our 4 year old daughter had suffered second degree burns on her leg from scalding hot water at a KFC and was being transported via ambulance to the Regional Burn Unit at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.</p>
<p>So before I ran off in a frenzy to meet them at the ER, I invoked my support structure.</p>
<p>No, I didn&#8217;t run over to a neighbor or call a family member.</p>
<p><strong>I updated my Twitter account.</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;going to the ER: ex called to say that my daughter has 2nd degree burns from hot water spilling on her. will update.&#8221; 12/4/09 7:55 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>Over the last 7 days I live tweeted my entire experience as the mother of 4 year old who has 2nd degree burns over 10% of her body.</p>
<p>Almost fainting as they cleaned her wound. Her refusal of pain medication, flabbergasting the hospital staff. My sleeping on the worst bed that had ever been invented. Her grilling the surgical resident on the risks of waking up during the procedure. Our nightmare of her needing surgery to attach fake skin to her wound, and relief when we found out three days later that the surgery worked. And our joy a few hours ago when she took her first post-burn steps down the hospital hallways.</p>
<p><strong>The amazing thing is that I didn&#8217;t have to do this alone.</strong></p>
<p>As soon as I sent that first tweet, dozens, hundreds of @ replies, DMs, and text messages immediately came in offering prayers, energy work, and positive thoughts … and asking how they could help.</p>
<p>And these were not empty offers.</p>
<p>I had <strong>Allison Nazarian</strong> (@<a href="http://twitter.com/allisonnazarian" target="_blank">allisonnazarian</a>) on permanent text message alert, available for constant updates &amp; to vent every untwitterable compliant, doubt, internal struggle, and self-punishing thought.</p>
<p><strong>Sarah Robinson</strong> (@<a href="http://twitter.com/sarahrobinson" target="_blank">sarahrobinson</a>) recruited a San Jose local <strong>Karmen Reed</strong> (@<a href="http://twitter.com/kickofftopic" target="_blank">kickofftopic</a>) to deliver my much missed Starbucks mocha to the hospital. Total surprise. And, they got the order right.</p>
<p>Balloons delivered to the hospital from <strong>Scott Stratten</strong> (@<a href="http://twitter.com/unmarketing" target="_blank">unmarketing</a>) &amp; <strong>Alison Kramer </strong>(@<a href="http://twitter.com/nummiesbras" target="_blank">nummiesbras</a>), providing decoration, floating punching bags, and a discussion starter for my 4 year old to entertain her guests (aka hospital staff).</p>
<p><strong>Ori Bengal</strong> (@<a href="http://twitter.com/couchsurfingori" target="_blank">couchsurfingori</a>) texting with original offensive-to-normal-people jokes about burn units to distract me that first long night.</p>
<p><strong>And that&#8217;s just the beginning. </strong></p>
<p>Hundreds (by now, thousands) of well-wishes &amp; thoughts &amp; offers for help via Twitter @ reply and DM, Facebook comments &amp; wall posts, multi-day Skype conversations, emails, blog comments, text messages, flowers, gifts, offers to run errands or pull strings. From clients, friends, family, readers, followers. People I&#8217;ve known for decades and people with whom I have never directly communicated before this week.</p>
<p><strong>And almost all of these people I either met for the first time this year on Twitter or they were casual business colleagues who became real friends via social networking.</strong></p>
<p>Yes, I&#8217;ve got new clients using social media. Yes, I&#8217;ve got speaking gigs and joint venture opportunities from blog and Facebook posts. Yes, Twitter has been my ultimate business  mastermind.</p>
<p><strong>But it is the deep personal/business relationships I&#8217;ve developed using Twitter, Facebook and blogging that are profound.</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s been where I found my people.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been where I brought my Friends fantasy into reality.</p>
<p>And it did not happen by accident. It did not happen overnight. It did not happen using some magical strategy taught by the leading social media gurus.</p>
<p><strong>It&#8217;s actually just simple common sense.</strong></p>
<p>But while we were all born with common sense, somehow it was socialized out of us along the way.</p>
<p><strong>So here are 11 reminders as you navigate the mysteries of the social media revolution to get you back into living your truth. So you can find <em>your</em></strong><strong> people. </strong></p>
<p><strong>1. Give a sh*t about people.  <span style="font-weight: normal;">If there was nothing else that you take away from this post, this is it: care. Really care about people. Who they are. What they want. Their dreams. Their problems. Their greatest fears. What makes them excited. What rocks their world. If you really, really give a sh*t about people, you will never go wrong. In social media. And in life.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>2. Treat your &#8220;friends&#8221; as if they were your friends.</strong> When we crossed the line from having prospects &amp; leads to having friends &amp; followers, some marketers continued to market in their slimy way and others stopped marketing entirely. Obviously, neither extreme is effective.</p>
<p><em>Here&#8217;s the social media promotion test</em>: if your &#8220;in real life&#8221; friend had a problem that you knew you could solve, would you tell them about how you could help them, or keep silent? Of course you would tell them.</p>
<p>If that&#8217;s the energy your self-promotion comes from, then tweet/post/email it. You&#8217;re not shamefully (or shamelessly) promoting yourself. You&#8217;re making sure your friends are aware that you can help solve their problems. You do us a disservice by hiding your brilliance. Let us know how you help.</p>
<p><strong>3. Let them know you&#8217;re listening. </strong>The difference between 10,000 followers and 4 million followers is irrelevant. Seriously. It&#8217;s all about the relationship you have with your followers. Or friends. Or subscribers.</p>
<p>Ask questions. Answer @ replies. Reply to blog comments. Join the Facebook comment stream on your recent status post. Reply to emails. <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/tell-me-more" target="_blank">Let people call you</a>. People want to feel like they are being heard, that their opinions, their stories, their passions really matter. But make sure that you&#8217;re not just listening in silence … to develop a relationship, they must <em>know</em> you are listening.</p>
<p><strong>4. Join the conversation</strong>. So what if you don&#8217;t already have a bunch of followers/readers/friends? (don&#8217;t forget, *all* of us started with 0 followers on twitter.) What you do is join other people&#8217;s conversations. What are they tweeting about? Where is the debate going on in blog post comments? Who posted an interesting link on Facebook?</p>
<p>And these conversations don&#8217;t all need to be about business. Actually, most of them won&#8217;t be. They&#8217;ll be about regular life, the stuff you would talk about if you were meeting for coffee or having drinks in vegas. About travel. Kids. Dogs. News. Coffee. The latest preparation strategy for bacon. Creative uses for duct tape. Methods for killing ants using all organic ingredients. Share your resources, stories, opinions, laughs. Join the party.</p>
<p><strong>5. Speak the things that everyone thinks but no one says.</strong> Everyone is walking around with a thousand things they are thinking but not saying (tweeting, blogging) out loud. And I know this because, for some reason, people tell me about their unspeakable things. And while I would never reveal any one&#8217;s unspeakables, when I see a trend, a common internal conversation, one of the reasons I&#8217;m on this earth is to bring that conversation into the open.</p>
<p>Not only is entering into the conversation in people&#8217;s heads a brilliant method for writing great copy, it&#8217;s also a way to skyrocket to leadership of a conversation &#8212; simply be the first to say what everyone thinks. People will be grateful &amp; empowered to speak their own truth. You will be a nexus for a movement, an influencer of the big idea.</p>
<p><strong>6. Be vulnerable</strong>. There&#8217;s a lot of talk about being authentic and transparent. And yes, I try to be both of those things. But so many people resist authenticity as a cliche &amp; transparency as sharing too much information, I want to give you another way to think about sharing enough to bond you to your community.</p>
<p>Share the <em>whole</em> story about something. The bad side of what didn&#8217;t work out. The truth of the project that failed. How your business is great but your personal life has gone to heck. What&#8217;s not working in your business.  And of course, share how you are turning it around, the lessons you have learned, what you are changing for next time.</p>
<p>My videos sharing how my business <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/confessions-of-unprofitability" target="_blank">did not make a profit</a> &amp; how I was getting <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/divorce-is-weird" target="_blank">divorced</a>, and my blog posts on <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/signposts" target="_blank">being a crazy person</a> and the <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/all-in" target="_blank">bad side of transparency</a>, were the most commented on &amp; read of anything I have shared. Everyone has stuff that does not work out. There is always a &#8220;whole story&#8221; … sharing yours builds trust &amp; endears you to your audience.</p>
<p><strong>7. Tell a story. </strong>Every communication you have should tell a story. Every blog post, podcast, video … and even every tweet. The collective work of all of your content should share the story of you, and your business.</p>
<p><em>Yes, you can tell a story in 140 characters.</em></p>
<p>Not the whole story, of course (and besides, telling only part of the story creates a great cliffhanger). But you can share how the smell of these cookies baking remind you of your great-grandmother. The fact that you are not just buying shoes, you are buying your 45th pair of shoes. How you are not just hiking, you are climbing your 27th peak and can&#8217;t wait to read the peak log to find out who has gone before you.</p>
<p>Everyone loves a story. We as humans have been bonding over stories since we first sat around the original campfires. That&#8217;s how we bond with our children, and what we love to hear from our grandparents. Share your stories, and we will listen.</p>
<p><strong>8. Don&#8217;t believe your own bullsh*t. </strong>When I go on someone&#8217;s bio or twitter profile and it says &#8220;social media expert&#8221; or &#8220;social networking guru&#8221; I involuntarily cringe. Why? Well, either they are trying to B.S. that they are an expert (when they are not), or they have some expertise but have lost touch &amp; become lame know-it-all&#8217;s, unable to learn or listen.</p>
<p>Stay humble. No one knows everything. We are all still learning. And besides, everything keeps changing.</p>
<p>Find people who know something you don&#8217;t. Share when you screw up. Acknowledge when people with less experience or notoriety get it right (sometimes newbies have perspective we don&#8217;t, anyway). Be open. Pay attention.</p>
<p><strong>9. Have fun. </strong>This is real life. And real life is pretty freaking ridiculous. Real people are ridiculous. Every kind of human, opinion, race, religion, political party, business model, theory, lame marketing campaign, and insanity is rampant through the social media universe.</p>
<p>So instead of spending time being offended or getting into a hot debate, have fun. Laugh it off. Share your own ridiculousness. Tell us how you are an idiot. Get over yourself &amp; get real.</p>
<p><strong>10. Be patient. </strong>The above &#8220;going to the ER&#8221; tweet was about my 19,000th tweet. Assuming around 100 characters a tweet, that&#8217;s over 300,000 words. Enough raw content to fill at least 6 or 7 books.</p>
<p>You will not get profound results from being on twitter for 5 minutes a day. You will not develop relationships from a few weeks of implementing a social media plan. Building relationships takes time, energy, and effort. Adjust your expectations. Make the investment.</p>
<p><strong>11. Take it to the next level. </strong>Chat on skype. Talk on the actual telephone. Text message. Email. Have coffee, drinks, lunch. Connect at seminars. Tweetup.</p>
<p>Social media is a low transaction cost, highly scalable method to start a conversation and create a bridge between your other connection points.</p>
<p>But only by connecting <em>in real life</em> (IRL) can you feel the energy of the other person, who they are being, their presence. That next level is where life long friendships and business partnerships are made. Connecting IRL is what has changed my life (<em>&#8230; and that&#8217;s a story for another blog post</em>).</p>
<p><em>So has social media worked for you? Are you getting any results from Twitter? Are you still looking for your people? Please, share your story / questions / comments / feedback below!</em></p>


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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I went to Las Vegas. Why? Well, it&#8217;s Las Vegas. Okay, I also went there to throw a tweetup and hang with the other entrepreneurs attending Ali Brown&#8217;s Shine Event. After 5 days in Vegas, here&#8217;s what I learned: Sometimes you need to do it with your eyes open. The first &#8220;event&#8221; after [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week I went to Las Vegas.</p>
<p>Why? Well, it&#8217;s <em>Las Vegas</em>. <img src='http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Okay, I also went there to throw a tweetup and hang with the other entrepreneurs attending Ali Brown&#8217;s <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23shine" target="_blank">Shine Event</a>.</p>
<p>After 5 days in Vegas, here&#8217;s what I learned:</p>
<h2>Sometimes you need to do it with your eyes open.</h2>
<p>The first &#8220;event&#8221; after arriving in Las Vegas on Wednesday was arranged by my friend <a href="http://alexismartinneely.com/" target="_blank">Alexis Martin Neely</a> &#8212; a yoga-ish tantric-ish bodywork-ish class facilitated by Alexis&#8217; friend <a href="http://www.EmbodyTantra.com" target="_blank">Charu</a>.  Don&#8217;t ask me to explain what this class was, I am totally not the woo-woo girl who knows about this stuff (yes, I own yoga clothes, but it&#8217;s for wearing on laundry day, not actually doing yoga).</p>
<p>Bottom line is that this class was designed to get this small group of women back into ourselves so we can access the power &amp; truth in our bodies.</p>
<p>After working with us for a while, we each paired up with another woman in the group and did exercises which involved extended eye contact. <em>This totally freaked me out.</em></p>
<p>Not because it was a way to really connect with another person (I&#8217;m totally into seeing other people&#8217;s stuff) but because it involved letting the other person into my stuff. Whoh.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the thing, I have a history of doing it (<em>ahem</em>) with my eyes closed to keep the other person at a bit of a distance, to maintain the artifice of who I think I appear to be.</p>
<p><strong>So standing right there, with that woman in front of me, I decided frak it, I&#8217;m keeping my eyes open.</strong></p>
<p>And I kept my eyes open for the next 5 days. Strangely, people seemed to still like me. Or at least they didn&#8217;t run away screaming.</p>
<h2>Maybe I <em>shouldn&#8217;t</em> get used to having fans.</h2>
<p>Something weird happened in the last 6 months. From some magical combination of making transparent videos &amp; sharing TMI (too much information) on twitter, I became a famous person.</p>
<p>Okay, not an <em>actual</em> famous person. More like famous in a tiny tiny little world. I don&#8217;t know, maybe to like 5 people or something.</p>
<p>What I mean by &#8220;famous&#8221; is that people know me, really well, who I don&#8217;t yet know back. Not that I don&#8217;t <em>want</em> to know them &#8230; I just have not yet connected with everyone who feels that they have already connected with me.</p>
<p>So when I had my <a href="http://twtvite.com/7gp5mo" target="_blank">pre-shine tweetup</a> on Wednesday night, not only did people actually show up (whew!) but some of them came to see <em>me</em>. Well, I&#8217;m sure they also came to talk to other people, but they wanted to connect with me in person, since they had seen my videos, followed me on twitter, or been on my list, and already knew me. Except I didn&#8217;t know them. Yet.</p>
<p>And let me tell you, that&#8217;s really strange. People I don&#8217;t know asking me to be in a picture with them, or just wanting to introduce themselves &amp; say how much I have helped them. Awesome, yes. But really, really weird.</p>
<p>At first I thought, well, I have to get used to it. Get used to being a famous-in-a-tiny-tiny-world person, so when I&#8217;m an <em>actual</em> famous person, it&#8217;s easy. But the thing is, &#8220;getting used to it&#8221; might involve expecting it. Getting jaded. Holding myself up over the &#8220;other&#8221; people. <em>Gross</em>.</p>
<p><strong>So never mind re getting used to it. I&#8217;m just going to get okay with being freaked out about it.</strong></p>
<p>And, I&#8217;m going to keep connecting, keep engaging, keep nurturing the relationships I have with my tribe. So the next time I hook up with them IRL (in real life), it will be, well, <em>less</em> weird.</p>
<h2>I am already awesome.</h2>
<p>On day 1 of Shine, we were supposed to fill out a worksheet to figure out what needed to be done about our business and lives.</p>
<p><strong>Question: how are you frustrated about your business &amp; life?</strong></p>
<p>Answer<em>:</em> Objection, question assumes facts not in evidence. (Sorry, inside lawyer joke there.)</p>
<p><strong>Answer: My life &amp; business are awesome</strong>.</p>
<p>Any frustrations I have are little things (my computer not working fast enough, the Starbucks chick forgetting to stir my mocha, etc.) that are easily moved through or solved.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s huge. Every other year, I had a whole list of reasons my life &amp; business sucked. But for the first time, I realized that they don&#8217;t. My life &amp; business are freaking awesome. And whenever they aren&#8217;t, I immediately take action to make them so.</p>
<p>Really, that was worth the price of admission.</p>
<p><strong>Knowing that I don&#8217;t need anything. Knowing that I&#8217;m already kickass. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Now <em>that</em></strong><strong> is freaking awesometastic</strong><strong>.</strong></p>
<p><em>(coming soon &#8211; part two, including: &#8220;If it worked yesterday does not mean it will work tomorrow&#8221; and &#8220;Bullsh*t does not work on social media.&#8221;)</em></p>
<p>Did you go to Ali Brown&#8217;s Shine event?  What did you think?  I want to hear from you &#8212; leave a comment below. <img src='http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>


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