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Quote From Mike Filsaime - “Follow Me and I Will Follow You!”

Hi!

If you are like many. You are wondering what the heck is TWITTER.

If you are like SOME, you have already realized that Twitter has become one of the most revolutionary communication tools on the planet.

Heck, even the new President of the USA, Barack Obama, uses Twitter. In fact, he has more followers that ANYONE in the world.

Why is Twitter one of the most revolutionary communications tools?

Well, imagine if you combined the following:

- Blogging (Twitter is actually Micro Blogging)
- SMS text messaging
- Instant Messaging
- Chat Rooms
- Communities Forums and Social Networks
- Personal Email
- Email Broadcasting
- Search
- Viral Marketing

What would you have?

You would have the most addicting, most powerful, and most incredible communication tool ever made.

TWITTER can be used as a marketing tool, but beware. It is a relationship building tool and the marketing is a NATURAL byproduct  of the relationship you make with people as you build self and brand awareness.

It works with your Laptop or PC or MAC. It  works on your iPhone or cell phone.

There are dozens of “Apps” and websites popping up that support it for sending not just quick updates, but pictures and even maps of where you are right now.

I would LOVE to tell you all the cool “Apps” there is for Twitter, but for now I just want to talk to you about twitter and maybe a few “APPS” you should use.

First off let me get this point out.

YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND what the heck TWITTER is until you

1 - Join
2 - Follow 10 people you like (you can search for people)
3 - Make your first “Tweet”

I also HIGHLY recommend you install “Twhirl” (Google it)

Twhirl allows you to use Twitter more effectively, sort of like a an Instant Messenger Client like Yahoo Instant Messenger or AIM etc…

So what Tweets are good?

Anything really.

- What you are reading now.
- Ask a question
- Take a poll
- What you thought of a TV show you just watched
- When your new website is going to launch
- Ask what is a good name for your new book
- A picture of your cat
- Ask what are the top 10 MUST HAVE Twitter Apps.
- Reply to someone else’s tweet publicly or private to them.
- Retweet someone else’s tweet that you like.

YOU NAME IT…

It is my predication, as well as MANY, that Twitter will become a MUST have tool for your business and life.

Start using it and start “tweeting” and watch how people start to follow you.

Hint: reply to other peoples Tweets with interesting  stuff, and people will find you. Why, that person will reply with YOUR name and many will see you.

Example if You reply to me. I may reply to you like

@johndoe, You really did not like that movie. I did. But I will make sure to watch the Brad Pitt one as you suggested.

–

Now 6000 of my followers will see his name and can follow him with 1 click! Now John Doe can communicate with his followers.

When I first started using Twitter, my followers we slow. It took me MONTHS to get to 1000 people following me.

I went from 4000 to 5000 in 7 weeks.
I went for 5000 to 6000 in 14 days!

I am now getting about 75 new followers per day.

I even add a note in my SIG file when I email people to follow me on Twitter and put logs to do the same on my blog.

*** So I will make a deal with you ***

Follow me and…

…I WILL FOLLOW YOU. FOR EVER

(As long as you do not spam or just trash talk etc.. - Oh, and please upload a photo or avatar and fill out your profile. Trust me it helps.)

So if you want me to follow YOU as well, just get started and follow me.

You can go to

http://twitter.com/mikefilsaime

or

http://TwitterMike.com

** If you do NOT have an account **
Just click the BIG GREEN “Join Today” button and you will follow me and  I will in return follow you!

** If you ALREADY have a Twitter Account ** Just click the gray “Follow” button under my picture and you are all set and I will in return follow you.

Remember, download Twhirl (it’s free) and use it every day.

This is JUST AS IMPORTANT as list building.

I hope to see you on Twitter!

I look forward to seeing what you are up to.

Thanks, :-DD (Tweet)

http://twitter.com/mikefilsaime

He guys we did a beta run of our LIVE “Daily Show” and it went pretty well.

Below is Part 1. - Part 2 had Frank Kern.

Next week we will be adding even more cool stuff, but we wanted to do a test run to see how it would be received and we wanted to test our technology as well.

I must say it was a big hit.

If you want to know when the next show will be, all you have to do is follow me at http://twitterMike.com (See post below this one.)

For now, check out Part 1 of our beta broadcast.

Talk soon!

Mike

Stream videos at Ustream

Hello YOU reading my blog - If you are reading this at MikeFilsaime.com, you may want to head over to read this at our NEW corporate site at http://MarketingDotCom.com

Reason? This site will be something SO NEW soon and for our corporate stuff and blog and forum community we are going with MarketingDotCom.com

Yes, the name says it all. Marketing … Dot Com. That is what I do, right? I Market “stuff” on the Internet.

So stay tuned for the new MF.com soon.

But for now, I want to let you know that in a few days I will be doing a DAILY show at a different time EVERY day and the only way to SEE it will be by following me on twitter.

If you are NOT following me, head over now to http://twitterMike.com and then come back here.

Twitter will let you know all my moves ;)

And yes, when my live show is about to go on, I will send a “Tweet” (that means I just made a Twitter post.) I will give the live URL to my show and you will see me and my staff working and having fun.

It will be like you are a guest in my office getting to hang out with me and my staff for an hour or so while we work, talk smack, talk marketing, and have fun.

Heck we may be eating, or we may even have live guests calling in right into the Mic feed for you to listen to. Yep, I will get my friends on live for you to listen in on. (Maybe I will tell them they are live, moo haa haa!)

We will have 3 cameras so you can catch all teh action as well as mixers to allow you to see my screen and listen in when people call in.

There will be little Q*A. It is going to be more like a “Morning Talk Show” where you get to hear AND see everything that goes on in my office.

Sounds cool? Yeah.. I know… It will be fun.

So make sure to get on TwitterMike.com if you want to know when I my show starts every day.

Talk soon!

Mike Filsaime

Yanik Silver and I are trying to raise $30,000 for Charity.

PICTURES ARE LOCATED HERE: 

http://30kSkyDive.com

We are jumping from a plane at 30,000 feet, tandem style, each of us with an expert.

We are matching the funds donated. As of now we have about $4400 raised so that means we are up to $8800 when we match.

We are asking everyone to donate anything as the funds go to help
young entrepreneurs in Africa through Richard Branson’s Virgin Unite
Charity.

The dive that Yanik and I are doing on July 20th will be one of the highest civilian dives in history.

It is called a H.A.L.O. for “High Altitude” and “Low Open” and it
will be 35 degrees below zero (F) and we will need special suits with
oxygen masks to do the dive or we would not be able to breathe.

The dive will last for 2 minutes and 30 seconds as we free fall to earth for this charity event.

Yes, I am getting nervous, but I am so excited I can not even really
worry about being scared. But I am sure when I get up there I might
just freeze. We shall see :)

For more information or to donate, please go here

http://www.maverickbusinessadventures.com/halo/

All donations over $100 get special marketing gifts from Yanik and
Me. So make sure to help out and get some cool learning material as you
help these young kids in Africa.

Of course it is tax deductible

Check us out here:

http://www.maverickbusinessadventures.com/halo/

Well, exactly 3 years ago, I was sitting in a Las Vegas Hotel off the strip at a cafe with Brad Fallon and Paulie Sabol.

We were at the Green Valley Ranch Resort at John Childer’s event.

Brad was talking about how he was #1 in Google for the search term - the coolest guy on the planet -

Over the years, over 100 people have tried to rank #1 for this term in Google. While Brad slipped for a day or 2, no one has been able to take him down.

Yes, it is all in fun, but some people have tried very hard to take him down… including yours truly.

You see, in July of 2005, when Brad was telling me this story, I raced him to my laptop to register the domain name http://thecoolestguyontheplanet.com

I won! I got the domain purchased faster than he could.

Now, while I was not able to knock him off, at least I am happy to know, according to Google, I am the 2nd coolest guy on the planet.

Maybe in a few years (and if I really really try) I might just be the coolest guy on the planet.

So much for this experiment.

Mike

After 1 week, I have shipped out over 10,000 copies of the Printed and Spiral bound copies of my new $297 product. The only thing is, I gave it away for FREE if anyone paid just the shipping and handling and signed up to test drive my new monthly magazine and newsletter.

That is over $3 Million Dollars in product value I gave away for free. Along with that I gave access to a free issue of my Magazine and 18 Full Color Process maps detailing the blueprints I use to run my Million Dollar Business valued at $197.

To top it all off, I I gave access to my $97 best selling product called “The Butterfly marketing Manuscript.”

That is over $6.2 Million Dollars in product Value given away to over 10,000 people in just 1 week… All to anyone that told me where to ship it.

I am not quite sure if anything like this has ever been done before, but we sure did raise the bar.

If you want to get your hands on this, click the video below to see if this offer is still available.

Thanks,

Mike Filsaime

Finally, a video from Maverick Business Adventures that shows the true spirit of the trip we were on.

This official video, narrated by Yanik Silver (founder) is fun and really gets behind the scenes.

In this video you will see Jesse James, star of the hit TV show Monster Garage as well as all of the people that were on the trip. (Yes, there were 5 Mikes.)

You can even spot me wearing a DO-rag.

Later this week, I will be heading to Las Vegas to do a Triple Threat Top Gun Maverick Extreme Vacation. We will be doing a ZeroG Dive, as well as a Top-Gun Combat Simulated Dog-Fight, and on Day 3 we will be doing a helicoptertour to the Grand Canyon.

The guest business person will be the most popular person in the world of skate boarding. (It is in his contract that we can not mention his name. If you know anything about the world of X-games and skate boarding, only one name would come to mind.)

I will be getting videos for you to watch of that as well, but for now, enjoy this awesome video put together by the Maverick Business Adventures team.

Enjoy!

Hey Guys,

Here is a new video I made with http://animoto.com

It shows some pic’s I took at Yanik Silvers “Maverick Business Adventures.”

This was our trip from earlier this year.

Check out the video below to see some pics of the Baja Dessert from a Dune Buggy!

Also check out Yanik’s “Maverick Business Adventures” if you are a successful entrepreneur that enjoys extreme vacations!

Thanks,

Mike Filsaime

I had a chance to visit Joel Comm’s office today.

He has a great place and a great staff!

Check out the video.

Thanks,

Mike Filsaime

Hey Guys,

I will be doing a new form of blogging I call Jing Blogging.

Today I want to talk to you about Twitter.

Please watch the video below.

Make sure to see what I am up to at http://Twitter.com/mikefilsaime

Thanks,

Mike

Hey Guys,

If you were watching the first ever internet marketing reality show, “The Next Internet Millionaire,” then I’m sure you remember one of the highly favored contestants.

His name is Jason Marshall.

He was in the final 4 out of 12 contestants and requested to be eliminated from the competition even though he was favored to win.

Why did he decide to back out of the competition?

No one really knows for sure.

But I have a hunch that it was because he was meant to do bigger, more important things with his life…

…like help a young man named Petey.

Jason is working with Petey who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

This disease is terminal and degenerates Petey’s muscles at a rapid rate.

The symptoms hit by 7 and at this point (age 12) he is in a wheelchair full time. He will then be on a respirator as those muscles get worse.

Life expectancy is early 20s.

He suffers so many limitations in his life. Jason wants to take care of what he can to help make Petey’s life a little easier!

This year he was able to orchestrate getting Petey a power chair and it has totally changed his life. The only problem is that they always went out places but now they can’t.

Jason can’t transport his chair with the current vehicle that he has.

So he’s doing a firesale to raise money for an accessible van.

That’s where your help is needed.

He’s managed to get top marketers to donate some of their best selling products towards this package.

Some contributors include:

* Me

* Joel Comm

* David Cavanagh

* 13 Year Old Affiliate Marketing Phenom David Wilkinson

That’s just a few of the many people that have contributed some incredible products that you can get for mere pennies on the dollar.

And all the money will go towards helping Jason to help Petey.

Go see what these guys and many others are doing to help them get the van they need for Petey to get everywhere he needs to go without any problems.

You can get the rest of the story at:

HearTheirStories.com

Let’s give back.

Thank you in advanced for your anticipated generosity,

Mike Filsaime

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that http://butterflyreports.com when live today in beta!

Make sure to check it out, it can really help you to grow your business!

Thanks,

Mike Filsaime

PS - I will be adding more content to a new blog to be announced soon!
Stay tuned!

Today I came across a BRILLIANT campaign from Burger King where they tell their customers that they no longer sell the whopper. (Those of you in Australia know this as Hungry Jacks.)

They filmed their customers literally FREAKING OUT and you are then told to see how they freak out at WHOPPERFREAKOUT.com

They even give you embed code to place on your site. I am placing the video below.

I recently did a presentation talking about that fact that you CAN manufacture BUZZ and then when combined with keys to viral marketing, it can explode over the Internet in just days. They use a great catalyst with the television spots. Then along with humor and controversy, the buzz is created. Two very important factors in creating Buzz.And then, they leave you hanging for more, so you must go to the site.

After seeing the full video, you are then given a choice to embed the video and send an email about the site to a friend. (Which I did.)

Anyways, here is the video below, or you can visit the site yourself to see it all in action.

Thanks,

Mike Filsaime