Monthly Archives: October 2009

What an Awesome Leadership Training Call Tonight!

If you have not yet attended one of our SponsorDaddy Leadership Training calls, you are really missing out! Tonight we had such a fantastic webinar – even if you’re not interested in SponsorDaddy! For example, George from Australia gave a presentation on exactly how to get your web page on Page 1 of Google in 18 hours or less!
Where else can you get this kind of training?

Contact me now at alanjenkin@gmail.com and I’ll give you all the information on how to get on these calls!

Strategy Call On Wednesday

The second part of the call on Using Facebook to Market MLM will be on Wednesday, October 28 at 11AM Central Time (9AM Pacific, noon Eastern). My intention is to do a quick review of last week’s call and then discuss some additional related topics.

The full program is:

Review (with added comments):
The Process
Daily Operating Procedure (DOP)
Using Facebook

Additional topics:
Using gmail
Using other e-mails
How to say “No

Facebook Failure

Facebook is generally pretty reliable, but it seems like they may be growing too fast.  Yesterday, my Facebook site was out of action for at least 12 hours.  I wondered if I was being punished for using it (!), but it appears that it was just having technical problems – the site was down for maintenance.

It came up a couple of times during the day, but just for a few minutes, so I’m holding the intention that all will be well soon.  Fortunately, there were plenty of other things I could get on with, including preparing notes for tomorrow when I’ll be talking about – guess what – using Facebook for SponsorDaddy!  Today, Facebook seemed to be almost OK – it worked pretty well except that it seems to have lost some of my contact information.

What appears to have happened is that, due to the phenomenal growth of Facebook, it got overloaded.  As far as I can tell, the problem is in the friend linking part of the system.  When I think about it, I have added about 600 friends in the last three weeks.

If each of them has a few hundred friends, think of the number of links (or virtual links) that are needed for me to be able to see all the friends of my 1,000+ friends, and to see which of them are mutual friends!  A few thousand of us doing this can easily bring a system to its knees.

What is the answer?  Never assume any system (or social network) is 100% reliable.  Accept that, just as Windows crashes or freezes sometimes, Facebook or any other system will crash or freeze.  Build redundancy into your way of working, and you’ll be protected!