In A Perfect World...

Today I wanted to take a moment to speak about a lighter subject that I feel has impacted my life and has opened up my blog to readers all across the world! Please take a moment to read what I have to say, I know you will be inspired with a fresh perspective when you are finished! Don't forget to let me know what your thoughts are! PS- Do you see my lava lamp looking widget to the right of the page with the girl on it? Click the notes button (the purple button on the left side above the girl showing the tiny notepad) and read about the fabulous contest I am running right now! Sign up right away and get a head start on winning that fabulous prize!

Now onto my thoughts for today!

In a perfect world we would be able to meet new people all across the globe, inspire others to do business with us, develop secure friendships, and ultimately end up achieving every last dream that we have pondered, fantasized over, or imagined.

Since the world is not so perfect, we need to find the perfect vehicle that will take us places that we have never been able to go to before now.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be at home and be able to travel, lets say to Belgium, or Paris at the same time? What if you could be in Belgium, Paris, Perth, Minneapolis, Miami, Dublin, or Tokyo at the same time? Sound impossible? Not anymore thanks to our favorite vehicle called the Internet!

I can be meeting new people, doing business, learning, developing my websites, and a plethora of many other things all at the same time, in virtually any location on the face of our planet…BUT the question is, what is the perfect vehicle that will take me there?

I’ve discovered an amazing place and community called Entrecard.com on the Internet. It is designed to take you all across the globe, and allow you to meet and connect with others who will read your blog, website, or informational business page, and potentially do business with you. Their network is enormous and you have the opportunity to be seen in the cyber world with everything that your voice has to say.

I was amazed when I came across this addictive option for my blog. They allow you to have a card almost the same as a business card that you would personally hand out to friends, family, business acquaintances and associates as well as new prospective clients.

This is how it works. You go through a list of sites that are categorized under a specific title and then you read through their post(s), and if you like what they have to say, you drop your business card into their Entrecard spot, and voila, you are telling them that you like what they have to say and to come check out your blog too.

I have discovered that it is simple etiquette to read their post(s) first and then leave a comment that you were there before dropping your card. I believe that Entrecard.com is a fabulous tool and vehicle for people whom you would never connect with in your lifetime to see your blog, but I think that there may be many people who are just dropping their card into yours without ever stopping to see what you have voiced for that day! Thus missing a goldmine of information, content, and matters of the heart!

Let me tell you why I have this theory.

I have a tracking software that shows me how many unique or new people have come to my site, where they came from, what pages they were most interested in, and how many minutes they stayed within my site on each page. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, I appreciate every single one of you, however, the amount of people staying less than 10 seconds on my site are astronomical!

Nearly 60% of all people who are visiting my site are there long enough to say “HI” by dropping their Entrecard into my slot. Most aren’t even taking the time to read what is posted or bothering to comment on what I have spent valuable time pouring my heart into for someone else to read.

Now mind you if you are just trying to get more traffic to your site, I completely understand that if you spend time reading each blog and making a comment that you would be trapped at your office or home computer reading all day long, but I just feel I need to remind you that you may very well miss out on a very life changing post or thought within someones blog that you might have very much needed to hear. By simply clicking through and not at least checking it out or marking the blog to come back and re-read later on, you are sometimes selling yourself short by concentrating only on yourself and your own traffic.

So, in my short journey through Entrecard, I have met several bloggers who have been most helpful and nearly bent over backwards to help me in my journey. They are funny, witty, and also have been impacted by the things that I have had to say within my blog and they weren’t afraid to voice that to me either. I wish more people would have the same freedom and say what they truly believe and think!

The experience is addictive! One blog with an Entrecard that I found particularly interesting and insightful was www.dearestjessica.blogspot.com because she is beautiful, real, honest, and has a no bones about it approach which I applauded her for being bold enough to display and show the world! Bravo!

There are also a multitude of contests to win free advertising, and other perks that are extremely competitive and just plain fun!

Do yourself a favor and stop there because they are fabulous!

One last thing that I have found to be an invaluable tool to dropping my card into another persons space, is that if you click the button to drop your card in, and then you hit the ad on the same widget above the button, it will take you to another site where you can read interesting content on a subject that you maybe wouldn’t have chosen on your own. Then you can drop your card in their slot and keep moving forward!

This is the easiest and most efficient vehicle that I can say gets your blog seen, and makes people want to come back to see what you have to say! Its just another one of the steps that you can take that will open the doors of opportunity in your life, and give you the vehicle to touch someone else’s life, with what is in your heart!

This world is not perfect, but there are a lot of people within this world that strive to have perfect hearts, and it is time to reach out and connect with those who are willing to share our hopes and dreams through this beautiful journey we call life! See you again with more thoughts about our destinies, dreams, and more matters of the heart! You are loved, and have a fabulous day!