| Starting, growing, and maintaining an online | | | | skills. Yes, you have to spend time working on |
| marketing business is something billions of people | | | | the PC or notebook to get your work done. But |
| worldwide are trying to do as one of the ways to | | | | you can't expect to run a healthy online marketing |
| stay hip with technology. If you don't have a PC, | | | | business when you shut out the rest of the real |
| notebook, ipod, Utube video, Facebook profile, | | | | world and real people in it! |
| MP3 player, and the whole shebang, you are just | | | | Have you ever gone out for a nice dinner and the |
| not with the program. | | | | person you're with pulls out their text messaging? |
| I guess that means I'm out of it, even though I | | | | How embarrassing is that!? As your potential |
| am an online marketing business owner, because I | | | | customer, that tells me that you are an online |
| only own a PC, and don't even have a cell phone | | | | marketing business owner who finds me boring, |
| or text messaging. In fact, text messaging has | | | | and you don't care, or think I am at all important |
| become my number one pet peeve lately, with | | | | compared to the technology you have to attend |
| the cell phone being a close second. | | | | to. Uh-oh! |
| People love cells and text messaging to the point | | | | Now you may think that communicating online in |
| that the person they are with in the current | | | | discussion forums, chat rooms, MSN, and this |
| moment is less important than checking for, or | | | | whole cell phone and text messaging thing is still |
| writing messages to someone else! Uh-oh! There's | | | | interacting with others. But wait a minute! You are |
| no better way to make someone feel like an | | | | still losing an essential component of human |
| object rather than a person than to tune her out | | | | interaction here! |
| in favor of that cell or text message. | | | | The human brain is capable of sending a piece of |
| Trust me folks, this is not a handy social skill in | | | | written text over the phone, but only when you |
| your personal life, or your online marketing | | | | are face-to-face with someone and in their |
| business life! Are you losing it because of | | | | presence, can the human brain release neurons |
| technology? If you are trying to win over new | | | | that feel what the other person is feeling, sense |
| prospects and customers, you better not be | | | | what they are sensing. You only get a gist of this |
| thinking your incoming cell or text message is | | | | online. |
| more important than who you are with! | | | | Empathy is something we can all have but it's |
| This is a sure way to lose business if you are not | | | | developed by being with people, not by having a |
| giving your potential customers 100% of your | | | | relationship with your computer. If you know that |
| attention when trying to make a deal, sign up a | | | | human relationships are the essence of all our |
| new member, or just get someone's feet wet | | | | online marketing businesses, then you will realize |
| with your online marketing business programs and | | | | the importance of in-person contact with others. |
| services. | | | | The point of this article is to make you aware |
| If you think this is petty information from an | | | | that your online marketing business and other |
| opinionated online marketing business owner, then | | | | techno-gadgets of this new techno-internet age |
| think again! Do you remember being a kid and | | | | may be ruining your social skills. These skills are so |
| watching TV with someone, and asking a burning | | | | important in building our business and personal |
| question only to be told, "Shhhh! I'm watching this!" | | | | relationships. |
| or "Shhhh! I want to hear this"? How did that | | | | Remember that your online marketing business is |
| make you feel? | | | | about relationships, not about technology. If you |
| It probably made you feel less important than a | | | | have well developed social skills by being around |
| piddly piece of technology! If you run a business, | | | | other people, your business will attract more |
| you can't afford to let it zap you of your social | | | | customers. |