1. All the spam followers on Buzz
2. All the Twitter spam on Buzz

Please DO NOT link your Twitter account with your Buzz account. If you send out automated updates from twitter this is regarded as spam. No wonder people can’t keep up to date with what’s going on in their Buzz account. The problem isn’t Google, the problem is that people follow spammers. Why blame Google?

Note that people don’t even know their spamming others. They just go linktastic and link to anything they can find in order to automate everything they do without regard to the outcome.

Don’t follow someone before you’ve checked out their Buzz history. Just go to their Google Profile and have a look at what they’re posting before you follow them. Do you really want to read their Buzz posts?

I have unfollowed Gary VeynerChuck, Mashable, Tim O’reilly because they had too much content making it’s way into my Buzz inbox. The problem is that people are used to using Twitter and the problem with Twitter is that people are into the habit of spamming.

From the screenshot below you can see what it looks like if someone sends their tweets directly to Buzz.



How do you know someone is a spammer? Well look at the proportion of following and followers. If it look’s like this you definitely do not want to follow them. Edwin is following 1600+ people. Do you think Edwin will ever find out that I’m Buzzing about him even though he follows me?

I totally refuse to give up my Gmail account as a spamfest! I will not allow spammers to enter here. Gmail is my safehaven, this is where I keep my passwords and secrets. This is where I do business and personal discussions. (Adwords, Analytics, Google Checkout – Banking, IP, etc). Email is where we have our last line of defence, period.

Here’s the good news. Gmail, Buzz and your documents is managed by https, this is a Secure Socket Layer. The only way to give access to an outsider is by giving them the password:

Entering your password into a 3rd party password captcha site. If you happen to miss the “https://google.com/whatever” part, it might be a password captcha form that you’re unaware of, if you actually miss this, you’ll be in for the ride of your life. Don’t enter your password into third party sites, just out of principle.

To that end. If someone follows you on Buzz, don’t follow them back unless you’ve checked out their profile, espcially what they buzz about.

We’re all publishers, most people just don’t realise it.

This makes Buzz a 100% social search engine. What if they could aggregate all the public Buzz into one easy to search portal? I’m sure they will do this soon.

Bottom line. If you want to rank for Buzz. Create a very targeted Buzz post that encourages “commenting” and “likes”. Keep it going and wait for the search feature to be released. (that is the next logical step).

Here is the full video Buzz launch video (thanks to Margie for sharing via Buzz).

Unlike Twitter, Google Buzz won’t restrict the size of your message to 140 characters.

You can be rest assured that Google Buzz will not become a spam fest. However, this is down to the user. Don’t follow spammers. Simple.

One more thing, DO NOT LINK your Twitter account with your Buzz. People will not appreciate you spamming buzz with twitter updates.

Advantages

• Share privately or publicly
• Hide your Buzz followers and following
• Inbox Integration (ensure  you follow an important post)
• Ability to import sites and other social networks
• Updates in real time
• Easily Integrate with your phone
• HTTPS secure networking.
• No worry that your account will get hacked.

Google Buzz is integrated with Gmail, his is probably the most secure Social Network service on the planet.

Will you use Google Buzz for your business?

• How can I effectively tap the market with Social Media?
• How do I get people to become raving fans?
• How do I build brand awareness?
• How can I get the attention of this celebrity for my
  clothing line or membership site?
• How to maximise your word of mouth ROI
• How can I use Social Media technology to build or accelerate my cash camel.

My Entrepreneurial and Business friends struggle to understand and implement this
social media revolution we’re going through. So I decided to help them
along, you can come along too…

1. I explain what’s going on, right now, with Social Media and how YOU can use it to your advantage.
2. I explain how to incorporate this into YOUR business and personal wealth creation strategy in order to get the maximum results.

Why are you using the networking sites you’re using?

Did you know that Google has a social network?

I want to show you why you should get involved, but more importantly
get involved with the right things on the internet. No one wants to
waste their time on anything! Yet, many people are, and are losing a strategic advantage that’s there for the taking right now. ”Over the next year ALL the amount of information in the
WORLD will double on the INTERNET”

Why do I want to help you? Here is what I wrote down before I even started the Social Media Business Cruise: I want to help people utilize the power of the Internet in order to create long therm wealth (Yes, finances, but more importantly build lasting relationships with customers) without taking on risk to your own credibility or business’s credibility. People like to keep their credibility but also want to accelerate their brand as a individual or business. I aim to get help people and businesses strike the right balance with the correct on-line tools.

I’m going to add Nitro to your Social Media spirit.

If you don’t like my Social Media Business Cruise, toss it into the recycle bin and unsubscribe from the list.

I am confident that my content which I will not openly post on the internet will absolutely blow your socks off.

Dian Joubert
London
United Kingdom

PS Closer to the year end, a REAL Social Media Business Cruise will take place, keep your ear to the ground for this one!

I am up to my eyeballs in research, and at last found the perfect online business strategy and model.

Finally, something generations have been waiting for (at least if feels so). All the tools a human needs to make a huge huge success in the online and offline world. All in one easy to use package.

As you can see from the screenshot. This is GOOGLE! Yes, they’ve started to unleash their monster. Social Networking and newsletters. The long wait is over people. Let’s do business.

Watch this space closely.

(if you want info about how to set this up, just leave me a comment)

22 October 09, By Dian Joubert

Business Trends, Information Overload?

People seem to be confused as to what’s happening right now. Reason. Information Overload!

Let me clarify:

Age 34 and above = 41% growth in socia media
Facebook Pageviews = Google Pageviews (with facebook outgrowing this over the next 3 months)
Social Media doubles every 6 months!
How do people connect? Social Media!

Everything you need is on the Internet. Shopping, friends, business, holiday arrangements, business associates, customers… The big Q is, how do I utilize and integrate this business trend in my personal and business life?

Either by working the trenches or piggyback on other people’s research. (just like Wendy’s burgers do with MacDonald’s, get research worth millions for free by following a simple strategy to open business where they do)

Rules to jumping into the slipstream.

1. Get to know the Internet, training is key here.
2. Learn how social media integrates with other platforms. (My Linkedin, My Google, My Youtube, My Facebook, My Twiiter)
3. Grow your email and social media database right now, it’s still easy pickings. (RSS, Email lists, Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin)
4. Create a on-line machine to handle all your administration. (One word, Google!)

Do you want your business to grow beyond your imagination? SOCIAL MEDIA! (The problem is that it’s impossible to outsource properly. If you’re a small business, implement it yourself and you will be light-years ahead of the competition 2 years from now).

Questions are welcome in the comment section…

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I’m writing a book that will follow along the lines of this article. I’m following Seth Godin’s advice to give it away for free. If you’re interested, become one of my valued subscribers

What I will cover through my blog and book is the following fresh content. (I like comments so we also discuss these subjects).

1. Are We Robbing Our Business And Personal Wealth?
2. Business Trends, Information Overload?.
3. How to use Social Media correctly to promote your business.
4. Out of the box thinking.
5. Choosing your business.
6. How to professionally set-up your business blog.
7. How to break free from the system of debt.
8. How to evaluate your position right now to see if what you’re doing now will make you part of the 5% wealthy individuals.
9. Business Start-up without taking on high risk profile. (how to build a business from what you love doing).
10. Why Search Engine Optimization is so important but comes last on your list.
11. The importance of a good targeted list.
12. You don’t need money to make money – especially now that we have Social Media.
13. How to manage your list professionally.
14. Make your choice, what do you really want in business?
15. Positioning yourself to get exponential growth on your business.
16. Conventional Business Versus On-line business
17. Strategically building your vision and goals in life.
18. The importance of personal branding in your business.
19. Why it’s wise to burn some bridges.
20. Make a choice, what is your passion?
21. The misconception of education.
22. How to safeguard your business and ensure continuity.
23. You don’t need to take risk or chances to become wealthy.

Only my Blog Email Subscribers get the book totally free. No I won’t sell you anything. You will receive one of these personally written articles once a week.

Lets Do This, Lets Decide To Become Wealthy.

22 Oct 09
Dian Joubert
www.dianjoubert.com

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13 October 09, By Dian Joubert

Are We Robbing Our Business And Personal Wealth? (Article for my book)

Through ignorance we rob ourselves blindly, after 20 years we wonder what happened.

Sometimes we have to question conventional strategies with regards to advancing our own financial success in life. Personal Wealth Creation has to be learned. We have to learn to create, preserve and enjoy our wealth.

The protection of wealth is just as important as making it. The moment you create money, the opportunities to lose the money are created too..

What is wealth?

Wealth does not necessarily mean a lot of money. Different definitions and concepts of wealth have been put forth by different authors and in different contexts.

This is the context in which I will discuss it. Wealth is Wellness, having an abundance in every area of life. My definition of wealth does take a bit longer than just going after money, but in the long run it will be well worth it. It relates to health, money (resources), friendships and integrity – spiritually, physically and mentally.

The education system conditioned us into believing that life in abundance is scarce or doesn’t exist.

If you really want to become extremely rich, watch people closely and don’t do what they do.

Income is more important than capital. To build a income stream is easier and more reliable than capital. If you have enough income, you don’t need capital at all. With capital you’ve got a temporal custodianship over it. As soon as you believe that you own the capital, and believe it’s available whenever you need it, is when you set yourself up for failure. Capital is not yours. If the market dips, you’ll be in trouble and might decide the quickest way out, is through the window (and people do jump out of window because of this!).

Belief

If you believe it’s impossible to become wealthy, guess what, you will prove just that. On the other hand if you attain wealth incorrectly it’s almost inevitable that you’ll lose it.

It’s not what we do in life that will determine our success, but it’s how we do it. In life you will realise there are certain ways to do certain things to get certain outcomes. Unless you can identify the risk and growth in any investment or business, it will have a great chance of failure. (Statistics show that 8 out of 10 new businesses fail within the first three years according to MKM Research.).

Identifying risk and growth is a wealth creation law. If you break the law, maybe nothing happens. But the problem comes from habitually doing so. All you need is one bad property or business deal to wipe out 20 years of hard work.

I work on a set of rules that works in any investment type (thanks to one of the greatest mentors I’ve ever had, Hannes Dreyer).

What you have to ask yourself…

1. What do you want?
2. What is your intent?

Do you want capital? Or do you want income? Don’t get confused between the two. There is a massive difference!

When do you want it?
What is the outcome?
Why do you want it?

If you don’t believe your answers are possible, it won’t happen. You will prove it to yourself. Get your belief system right.

Focus on your goals for better results. Double the results, require double the focus.

Take action. Unless you take action, nothing will happen.

Take responsibility. We are taught to give away our responsibility to the experts. If you do this, you will make it hard to become rich. I’m not saying don’t use experts, just don’t give over the responsibility. If you don’t take control and responsibility you cannot change the outcome quickly. The more responsibility you take the more control you have (It doesn’t necessarily mean more work). More control is less risk in itself.

Isn’t it funny that the financial institutions teach “the higher the risk, the higher the reward”. How is it that when I invest, the lower risk the higher the reward? (my own investments and businesses with calculated risk and growth).

Have you heard this one, “You must take chances in life in order to become rich”… Don’t take chances in life! or “Entrepreneurs are risk takers”… No don’t be a gambler. I think what people really want to say is, “get rid of your fear and take action on your idea”.

The moment that you know how it works. The moment you figure out how to work out the risk and return. The moment you realise that emotion and a salesman with a suit has got nothing to do with money, you’re off to a good start!

What percentage of the population will own one of these?

1. Understand the risk.
2. Understand the growth.
3. Understand the relationship and variables within the two. Upside and downside.

People out there are buying, investing, refinancing, building capital, creating fancy structures, then refinancing and then one day they wake up without any money and wonder what happened. Serious! That’s why 95% of the population cannot afford to retire at 65!

Let me ask you this, when do you make money? When you buy or when you sell?… When you buy! This is totally controversial. If you don’t make the money when you do a deal, then there is no deal.

Creating income streams has got nothing to do with the entity you use. The experts tell you that the main thing is to start in the right entity. Then you ask, “should I do it in a close corporation, a trust, a partnership, etc” Listen closely, money has got nothing to do with the entity. Did you know that 90% of trust’s are dormant?

Unless you know how investments work, you will lose it. And lose your marriage in the process. 64% of all divorce cases are due to a lack of funds.

Find people that know what they’re doing, learn from them and follow advice that makes sense. If it confuses you, don’t do it! The biggest secret of the financial institutions are to keep you ignorant so you can keep on handing over your hard earned cash for them to “invest” on your behalf. In the meanwhile they sit back and take a commission risk free.

It’s my passion to challenge the old conventional ways of doing business and to show others what I learn along the way.

Lets look at what the financial institutions are telling us. Everyone knows what a balance sheet is. This is how the banks value businesses and people. They advice us to balance the balance sheet. If you ask me, this is crazy. Why would I want to take on assets and liabilities only to have my net-worth equal zero after 20 years? Oh, it’s OK, after all, its nice to say “I’m investing”.

Do you think any expert will tell you not to invest in their products. No! Otherwise they get no commission. As long as the bank feels they’ve got enough security from you, they will give you a loan. Irregardless of what it is.

All these guys love the commissions they get from you.

The first step to financial freedom is to get out of debt (more about that in my free book for subscribers). Rid yourself from any debt placing a burden on your mind to think freely. If you have the wrong property, and you’ve done the calculation to verify that it’s better to sell. Take the hit, and sell! Then use the extra cash you would have pumped into the investment and divert it to something that make sense.

It’s better to have one exceptional deal than 10 mediocre deals.

It’s the risk that kills! Not the growth! Without cash-flow there is no business!

Property is not an investment, it’s a business. I’ve got deals everyday of property 50% or more discounted from the peak price in 2007/8. But, just because it’s a good deal doesn’t mean it suits your goals. Ensuring the management and cash-flow aspect is taken care of is more important than the deal itself. (The deals I get are sourced from Choices, I’m a retained client with them and receive this everyday. To become a retained client they require £1700 and £35 monthly subscription. If you drop me an email with what area you’re interested in, I will send deals your way for free!)

Remember, it’s not what you do but how you do it (If you’re into wierd schemes, this isn’t for you, please don’t subscribe).

I’m writing a book that will follow along the lines of this article. I’m following Seth Godin’s advice to give it away for free. If you’re interested, become one of my valued subscribers

What I will cover through my blog and book is the following fresh content. (I like comments so we also discuss these subjects).

1. Business Trends, what’s happening right now.
2. How to use Social Media correctly to promote your business.
3. Out of the box thinking.
4. Choosing your business.
5. How to professionally set-up your business blog.
6. How to break free from the system of debt.
7. How to evaluate your position right now to see if what you’re doing now will make you part of the 5% wealthy individuals.
8. Business Start-up without taking on high risk profile. (how to build a business from what you love doing).
9. Why Search Engine Optimization is so important but comes last on your list.
10. The importance of a good targeted list.
11. You don’t need money to make money – especially now that we have Social Media.
12. How to manage your list professionally.
13. Make your choice, what do you really want in business?
14. Positioning yourself to get exponential growth on your business.
15. Conventional Business Versus On-line business
16. Strategically building your vision and goals in life.
17. The importance of personal branding in your business.
18. Why it’s wise to burn some bridges.
19. Make a choice, what is your passion?
20. The misconception of education.
21. How to safeguard your business and ensure continuity.
22. You don’t need to take risk or chances to become wealthy.

Only my Blog Email Subscribers get the book totally free. No I won’t sell you anything. You will receive one of these personally written articles once a week.

To our wealth, health and success.

09 Oct 09
Dian Joubert
www.dianjoubert.com

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I’ve looked into the system as a whole and realized that Google Wave is still in it’s early development stage. People are still figuring out what it can be used for best. The way I see it is that Google Wave is only a tool that brings together other online services. It’s in the application where the power lies. I don’t think it will have much use for the average user, but for businesses, especially IT businesses, it will give a tremendous boost towards their business models if integrated correctly.

This integration will depend on the people themselves. Yes, developers will create programs that will be useful. However, I think the big money will lie in the developement of your own “robots” or programs that uniquely fits your business profile and adds towards ease of use internally and externally (employees and customers).

People with a bit of savvy will realize that this is an ongoing creation and not a finished product. Have a look at Ubuntu Linux. This operating system beats any other hands down. The problem comes from integration and ease of use. It’s taken Ubuntu Linux years and years to create a great operating system, all done by the community for the community. I’m not saying that Google Wave will take years and years, but people will have to give it time to mature.

The fist ones to realize this and acts accordingly will have a huge advantage for the future to come.

06 Oct 09
Dian Joubert

Forums:
Google Wave Security
Google Wave Directory

Go to http://www.google.com/friendconnect/admin/site/socialbargadget

Click Social Bar and follow the instructions.

If you don’t know how to use FTP, here is a video how by Chris Lang: