Kanye West is following me... and it's scary!!!

Sometimes being a Celebrity is not really all it's cracked up to be. Such is the lesson that a friend of Kanye West learned. It takes a whole team of managers to manage you when your a celebrity. And then the paparazzi and all that jazz... goodness gracious who would ever want to be a celebrity? I mean it's such a tough job... Ok, I'll quit griping now!

Not too long ago, another celebrity decided to join Twitter. Nothing unusual there. That celeb’s name was Kanye West, and what is interesting is his unique approach to Twitter.

Instead of the usual celebrity tactic of following showbiz pals and huge brands, Kanye decided that the Twitterer he was most interested in was Steven Holmes. Kanye followed him, and only him.

You might not have heard of Steven, and it’s not that surprising. If you have heard of him, then I’m assuming it’s because you’re in one of his classes in Coventry, since Steven is an unassuming student with no particular claim to fame or knowledge of Kanye West.

Of course, this kind of attention from a major celebrity is the stuff of marketer’s dreams: free publicity on a massive scale.

However, there is an important lesson here.

Most (if not all) of Kanye’s followers – bordering on half a million – have no interest at all in Steven, and after an unending stream of tweets from people trying to use him as a conduit to the R&B star or trying to find out the latest news about the upcoming ‘Good Ass Job’album he’s already sick of his minor celebrity.

The rest of the story is here: http://econsultancy.com/blog/6384-kanye-west-is-following-me

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Things We Can Learn From Apple

Even if you hate Apple Computer, there are some things that you cannot deny about them. They make some really good products that have been wildly popular. There are many things that have made Apple successful, and those same characteristics that have made Apple successful can be applied to a person's life and make them successful too. This may seem pretty obvious but it's very true and it's something that a lot of people don't think about.

So what are some things that make Apple a successful company? As I've watched Apple for a number of years now, I think I can say there are a few things that make them really successful.

1. Do One Thing Really Well

Ok, so I can hear you saying, wait, Apple does more than one thing, they have a whole bunch of products in the computer industry. This is true, but they also only have one iPhone, one iMac (with the exception that you can get it in different screen sizes) one Macbook, ok you get what I'm saying. Basically what Apple does is offer one product that they do really good at making. And they don't sub anything out. They do it all themselves with their own people. I even read a story about who one of their applications was programmed by just one individual.

2. Blatantly Promote Themselves

As the recent iPhone "antennagate" issue highlights, Apple makes no bones about promoting themselves. They like you to think that they're the only company that makes smart phones because they are the ONLY company that makes the iPhone. It's true that when the iPhone came out, there really wasn't much competition. But the market has changed and Android's have taken a big chunk and seem like they might just grow all over the iPhone.

3. Present a Consistent Image

As mentioned in the last point, Android has been growing like crazy. What does Apple do? Nothing. They keep presenting the iPhone as if it was the only product out there. Sure they do add some features, but they continue to present their very polished image and don't let the waves and bumps in the market move them away from that image.

4. Pay Attention to Details

If you've ever watched Steve Jobs give a "stevenote" wherein he talks about Apple's newest product, you'll agree with me that if just about anyone else went into the detail that he goes into about the products, the presentation would be excruciatingly boring! That's because he talks about every little curve, every little feature, every little button. Everything. And believe me, Apple rarely misses anything when it comes to product design details (unless it has to do with antennas).

Now that's enough raving about the good things that Apple has done. Of course, like anyone else, they're not without some blemishes and I'll go into those sometime too. But my main point in this article is that you can be successful too, like Apple has been. Sure, you may not do stuff the way that they do it exactly, but when someone has been successful it sure doesn't hurt to look at what's made them successful and try to implement what they're doing.

How to Make People Like You...

Ok, so you can't really make people like you can you? I mean, you can't force people who currently don't like you to like you. That's probably mostly true. For instance, it seems like there's a lot of people who like a person just based on their looks. But beauty is only skin deep and there's a lot of beautiful people who you'll never be able to REALLY like. So what is my point?

Ok, so liking people is a little bit liking products. For instance, there's a ton of people out there that like Apple's iPod and iPhone and iPad products. I happen to be one person who at one time was what you could call and Apple Fan, because I thought they were like the best company in the world. I've since become more objective in my perspective of Apple computer and don't really like them as a company anymore but I still like their products? Why? Because their products really are good products that endear me to them. That just basically means that the products have a draw on me, and attraction.

That is what liking is about, it's about being attractive to the person that you want to like you. Some people will like you based on your personality, but you can like someone who's personality doesn't really attract you. For instance, if there's something you need or want and that person has the capability to give you that in exchange for a service, you can "like" them as employer. That is what liking is all about, having an interest or a need that you can fulfill for someone else.

So how do you make people like you? Give them something they need or want and you'll probably get some people that like you pretty quickly.

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Love Conquers All!

I had this thought about love conquering everything, but it really is true. Love really does conquer, but not in a way where it destroys because love doesn't destroy. Love conquers evil. Love conquers the darkness, because when love comes into your heart there really is no room for the dark thoughts. But love is more than most people make it out to be. Love is a kind thought to someone who has a need. It is a hug or a soft kiss on the cheek.

Love can also be the erotic kind but that is not really the kind of love that I want to focus on in this post. Not because I don't love that kind of love because I do. It's just because there's so much more to love than the kind of love that wants to have lots and lots of pleasure. The kind of love that givesmore than it takes is true love. this is the love that embraces other people not because of what they look like or how they act sometimes, but because this love wants to reach out and help others come to love others too. This is the kind of love that is spoken of as the kind of love that even would give it's life for another person. The kind of love that steps in to take a bullet for another person. The kind of love that lifts a heavy burden, or the kind of love that gives a hearing ear when a person is hurting. That's real love.

Inspirational Quotes: Leadership

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
- Anonymous

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
- Karl G. Maeser

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow,
so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
-Anonymous

You really can change the world if you care enough.
- Marion Wright Edelman

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw

Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.
- Anonymous

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
- David O. McKay

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
- Iranian Proverb

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
- John Maxwell

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
-Anonymous

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
- J. Richard Clarke

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Anonymous

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
- Dorothy Day

Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
- Matthew 5:15 (see also v.14- 16)

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
- Hubert Humphrey, U.S. vice president, senator

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
- Welsh Proverb

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
- Zen Proverb

Wisdom for the Week...

Good afternoon to you all. Wisdom of the week.
Why are you carry does bags. It's full of Guilt. All you need to do is, settle them down
and troubleshoot them one by one. At the end, is either you will be on top or you won't, that's when you will know exactly what you're made of.

-- Mr Jade Benz

Inspirational Quotes

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Inspiration and genius--one and the same.
Victor Hugo

To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytton

If

If by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat these two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

My Facebook Fan Club

Since I'm close to reaching my limit of friends on facebook ( 5000 is the limit) and I keep on getting tons of requests (about 200/day), I'm creating a fan club page on facebook for me to connect to all these good folks. Here's the link:

The Jane Phillips Fan Club

How to Create a Facebook Fan Club

I had someone ask me how you create a fan club on facebook and it's really not that hard. Here's what you do.

1. Click on the Facebook icon (the one on the top left of your page).

2. In the menu on the left hand side of the page, click "more." (Unless you already see "Ads and Pages").

3. Click the Create a Page button that appears on the Right.

4. Name your fan club and start inviting people!

How To Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

It's a new world out there and the way to win friends and influence people digitally is a relatively new idea. In some ways it may be easier to win friends and influence people over the electronic wires, since there are many things that you really don't need to worry about so much. Your appearance doesn't have to be perfect all the time since you can just post the perfect picture and you're there. You also don't have to worry about body odor. You may have not taken a shower in weeks, but your digital "friends" probably won't notice.

But those very things that might make digital friendship easier, could also make it harder. For instance, you can't literally go out to your favorite coffee shop with someone online so that makes things quite different. You also have to be more conscious of things that you may otherwise not think of, like "when I write this, how will it 'sound' when they read it online?"

It's not hard to set up a Facebook account and a Twitter account and a blog or two. But the real thing is how do you make connections that will turn into relationships which will ultimately work out for the advancement of your idea. Afterall, that's where influence comes in, when you've successfully built a relationship with someone who before was just a mere connection. That's what we will explore on The Jane Phillips blog–how you can make friends and influence people effectively in a big digital world.

The First Step: Connect

When you see someone who you think has a similar interest to you, you should connect with them. Say something to them. If they don't respond, your connection pretty much ends there. If they do respond (which if it's something that they're passionate about, they'll probably respond). If they respond respond back. That's a connection.

The Second Step: Connect Again

If you let a connection fizzle, you've wasted it. The best way to make friends online is to keep the conversation going. Once they respond, you respond back and repeat this process over and over again until you almost feel like you "know" who you're talking to. Now you're almost there.

The Third Step: Keep Communicating and Building the Relationship

The Third and final step is where the influencing people comes in. Once you've made a friend, you've got someone you can build a relationship with and relationships are about influence.

It's all about connections

So you want to become an expert in Search Engine Optimization, the Internet, or social media? It's really quite simple: get connected. That's what it's all about. You must have connections, links, hundreds, perhaps thousands to make any difference.

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