Are you absolutely sure that Later will come?  Every day we are given the gift of 86,400 seconds to make the most of.  Are you making the most of the gift of time?  How busy would you be right now if those 86,400 seconds were $86,400 and you had only until the end of the day to spend it or you would lose it FOREVER.  Sure for the first few days, weeks maybe even a month it would be easy to just spend the money on things you wanted and needed, give some to charity and fulfill your dreams and desires.  But then the day would come where it would be hard to spend that money and you would just start to take it for granted knowing that the next day another $86,400 would be deposited into your account.

Unfortunately, this is how many people look at the gift of time.  They THINK that they will get another 86,400 seconds the next day and that they can do those things they should be doing today tomorrow.

PROCRASTINATION IS THE GRAVE IN WHICH OPPORTUNITY IS BURIED

~ Author Unknown

Maybe you are one of the lucky ones and you will have many more days of time deposits…  However, you still should be grateful for each and every day that you have and make the most of it.

I challenge you to take 5 minutes right now when you are done reading this and ask yourself these questions.

• What value do I place on my time?
• What have I been procrastinating about?
• Do I have set goals and a plan?

Then tomorrow or the next business day, take an inventory of your time in 15 minute increments.  See what it is exactly that you do every day and where you can recover some wasted or disorganized time to put towards more worthwhile efforts.

If you begin to think of each and every second of your life as a gift that was given to you and you will never get back you will be amazed at what you can accomplish.  It is just like the day before you go on vacation, look at how much you usually get done in that one day.

Part of your strategy as you engage in social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and others must be to build and maintain a first-class reputation. This is done by having a system of checks and balances and is no longer an option. The statistics are unmistakable: if you want to grow your business enterprise, then you will need to create individualized avenues of communication for your current and future customers. There is no better way to do that presently than to be actively engaged in a social media marketing strategy.

You need to realize that every action that you take online is branding you and your business. You are an entity as a business and you need to give thought to developing your personal brand that will make you unique and attractive to potential prospects.

Tips on how to keep your social media reputation in tack:

• Try to get the same username set up for all of your social media accounts. Your goal is to build a brand so using the same name for all of your social media sites is the ultimate goal.
• Configure your social networking sites with your own name or your business name. This is not the place to use an alias as you are working to develop a brand which means consistency is key. Creating your brand is of great importance and the major search engines like Google and Yahoo will recognize this and reward you with higher organic rankings.
• Whenever adding content of any sort to your social sites, keep your online reputation management strategy in mind. Remember, your digital footprint will last an eternity, so create quality content that will make you and the community at whole proud.

When you start to look at the impact that Social Media is having on the business marketplace, you quickly understand that you have to be personally involved with a strategy for you or your business. With millions and millions of users each and everyday on sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, and others, you literally have multiple hundreds of millions of opportunities to gain targeted prospects. As an online marketer, this is an opportunity that cannot be ignored.

Take action starting today to develop a focused brand presence across your own network of media sites. Social Media is far more than casual communication among friends and family, social media is an opportunity to create success in your life.

Remember that social media is all about providing quality content to other people.  I am sorry to say but your most recent tweet about the fact that you are having a cup of coffee at Starbucks on 3rd and Main is really not of value to me unless I am trying to track you down.

The question is… can you really have an engaging conversation with only 140 characters at a time?  Sure you can tweet back and forth using @ and you can even try and follow a conversation by using search.twitter.com,  but can you really have a conversation.

I would have to say that I agree with Chris in that it is currently impossible to create any type of thread for a conversation on Twitter.  Therefore that Twitter is the place to let people know that you wish to engage in a conversation about a specific topic but not the place to have it.

Use Twitter to let people know what your interests are, what you want to converse about, what is important to you at this point in time.  Once you have engaged the person or persons you wish to converse with, use another channel such as email, or network like facebook where you can have an engaging conversation that can be followed.

Remember to make your tweets with quality information.

Hey there fellow entrepreneurs!  You know with all the instability that is taking place in our country right now between corporate scams, bailing out banks and those that robbed them "can you say inside job", we need to keep focused on what it takes to succeed. 

There has been many a fortune that has been made in a down economy and that is what we need to stay focused on. We need to remember that when things change it is for a reason, sometimes that reason is not clear to us which is why we need to get plugged into a group of like minded professionals that can help us achieve our goals.  

Watch the video above and let me know what you think.  If you like it then by all means subscribe to my YouTube Channel. Make it a prosperous day! David McIver Edwards 530-644-2355