Dear Friends,

THE LANDSCAPE IS CHANGING...

Earlier this month, Nielsen release a report which showed that social networking is now more popular than e-mail! 

This means that more people are using social networks to communicate with each other than they are using their e-mail accounts. 

This represents a seismic shift in how people are utilizing the internet, and if you're not utilizing social networking to promote your business, you're missing out on an incredible opportunity and putting yourself at a competitive disadvantage!

SOCIAL NETWORKING IN 2009 IS VERY MUCH LIKE BLOGGING WAS IN 2005 

Back then, some stamping business owners were starting to use blogs as a marketing tool, but most of them were using it incorrectly or, at the very least, not to its fullest.  The people who took the time to learn how to utilize their blogs as a proper business tool were able to gain a competitive advantage for their business while everyone else was playing catch-up.

Today, social networking is in a very similar position.  Many stamping business owners are starting to use these tools (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.), but, again, not in the best way possible to promote their business.

YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO GET IN AT THE BEGINNING!

Right now, you have a unique opportunity to learn how to utilize these tools correctly and effectively, BEFORE most everyone else, so that you can be a leader in this new communication medium... NOT a follower. 

In other words, you have a chance to let everyone else play catch-up with YOU!

To assist you in gaining that position, I'm pleased to announce the first-ever Social Networking Boot Camp!  The Boot Camp will take place over five Tuesdays - April 7th thru May 5th, 2009 - at 10:00 p.m. Eastern.  We'll have four calls with a one-week break between the third and fourth call for implementation and catch-up.  (If you can't make the live calls, don't worry.  You'll have access to the recordings thru July 31st!) 

5/26/09 - NOTE FROM JOHN: There was so much info to go over, we actually ended up having a total of five calls over six weeks, totaling eight hours of phone time!

Each week, we'll go over a different social networking site, and you'll learn, step-by-step, how to establish and maintain a proper business presence on that site!

At the end of the Boot Camp, we'll show you how to tie all of these "micro-sites" together into an overall social media strategy!

Think about how many people you can reach:

• Facebook: 170,000,000 users!

• Twitter:     5,000,000 users!

• YouTube:  Over 40,000,000 registered users (and at least as many unregistered)!

Think about it... if you utilize the three sites above correctly, you can expose your business to a potential audience of hundreds of millions of people... for FREE!

And that's just those three.  We'll actually cover more during the Boot Camp!

Here's a rundown of just some of the things we're going to cover:

We'll also look at these social networking sites:

Finally... we'll discuss how to combine all of these micro-sites, as well as your blog (if you have one) into

ONE GIANT SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY!