If you currently have a membership site, is it serving you well? Or do you still yearn for those additional options or functions that would make life easier?

Actually, I have been underwhelmed by the membership site programs offered, because so often I have wanted or needed different features that just weren’t available. If my requirements were nearly met, the cost was prohibitive.

A new membership site platform called Extreme Member has just been released that is simple, quick and offers a lot of cool features!

If you add up expenses for maintaining an auto-responder and/or mailing list program, and any other separately-maintained and disjointed services for your business, you will most likely discover you can cut some of your expenses, while adding features and services, to increase profits. A few memberships, and the Extreme Member system pays for itself! If the cost were not self-liquidating, I would not think it worthwhile.

In addition to the membership site management capabilities and auto-responder, this cool new all-in-one system also includes:

An Affiliate Marketing System

Payment Integration

WordPress Blogging Platform with professional design and Free Hosting

In addition to the features on the Extreme Member platform, I especially like the added ease and efficiency of an integrated system. If I have a choice, I opt to work smarter, because I know I can’t work harder! I imagine most of us want to work this way, too. Having related tools consolidated in one easy to access place.

If you have a membership site, a mailing list, affiliate programs — or plan to establish them, this looks like a great way to effectively consolidate your efforts on one big, powerful platform!

In social networking circles, the comparison between Friendfeed and Twitter is ongoing!

If you were wondering about the bottomline performance as well as the size differential between these 2 social networking mediums, here is an interesting article written by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.

Based on my experience, I think the “subscription” procedure for Friendfeed gives an advantage in the service’s numbers. For example, the way Friendfeed is set up, subscribing to your Facebook Friends’ feeds is simple and practically automatic.

Friendfeed offers a comprehensive means to receive social networking updates and news items. The service of aggregating multiple feeds makes keeping current a lot easier.

To be completely fair, it does not appear we are comparing exactly the same types of social networking tools in actuality.

In the meantime, I use both.

You can follow me on Twitter: @BeckyCortino

Friendfeed: Becky Cortino

May I follow you?

All this make me wonder:

• What do you think about these two social networking tools?

• What has your personal experience been with Friendfeed and Twitter?

• Do you have a preferred social networking tool?

…and the debate rages on!

In the book Ms. Skillings discusses many feasible options available to be considered, many of which are possible due to technology and the more open environment of today’s marketplace.  Possibilities include starting up a business, freelancing and telecommuting.

A career coach, author, journalist and entrepreneur, Pamela Skillings spent twelve years working as a marketing executive for major New York companies. Eventually, she realized corporate life wasn’t for her. In 2005, she launched her own company.

I agree with Pam’s philosophy that everyone should think as an entrepreneur as related to their career. In countless observations through the years, I have been amazed at those who decidedly did not take this view, blindly choosing to follow like lambs leading off to their corporate demise.

This book resonates with me, because our family comes from a long line of entrepreneurs (on both sides), since arriving here in America several generations ago. I escaped from Corporate America in 1982 to start up my own business, and haven’t looked back.

Innovation gives rise to new business models, and this book gives testimony to that. Based on my reading the excerpts, this book offers insight and encouragement to those who are ready to break free.

If you want to cut through the clutter and reach your ideal
target audience, so you can get your ideas, products and
services in front of millions, then I have some great news
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You see, Ken McArthur has just published a book that is perfect
for people who are on a mission to reach the masses.

Even better …

Ken is handing out thousands of dollars worth of bonuses and
even zero cost tickets to live events to people who order his
book, but even if you DON’T want Ken’s book, you can still make
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Ken is handing out some amazing tips and resources, with audios
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Small Business Owners, Authors, Speakers, CEOs, and champions
of worthy non-profit organizations need to be successful. But
what do all these people have in common?

Right! They all need to reach an large audience.

David Shenk, in his book “Data Smog: Surviving the Information
Glut,” states that in 1971 we were exposed to an average of 560
advertising messages per day. By 1997 that number had grown to
over 3,000.

Today conservative estimates put it at over ten thousand!

That’s each and every day!

Think about it: Every time you flip through a newspaper or
magazine, you encounter hundreds of ads. Add to that everything
from TV and radio ads to product placements, billboards, direct
mail and postcards, ads on the Internet from every direction
(an hour of surfing on the web can easily yield more than a
thousand ads), ads on the sides of trucks, vans, signs hung on
telephone poles, telemarketing ads, door-to-door salesman, the
list goes on.

You can easily see how they add up quickly!

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Everywhere we turn we’re being bombarded with ads from any and
every direction.

And that’s a BIG problem.

It’s one of the reasons why businesses that always found it
easy to turn a profit are starting to see their customer base
dry up.

They’re finding it increasingly difficult to maintain
their growth, even seeing income they once took for granted
shrivel up and die.

And forget it if you’re a newcomer to the entrepreneurial
world.

The odds are stacked higher against you than they ever were in
the history of mankind!

But more importantly, you need to cut through all that clutter
out there and get your message delivered, and more importantly
acted on!

Ken McArthur, just spent a solid year researching and mastering
the problem of how to get your ideas, products and services
noticed, and make sure that people spread your message to the
masses so that you can have a personal impact in a world that
doesn’t always want to pay attention.

Ken shares exactly what he discovered in his new book, Impact:
How to Get Noticed, Motivate Millions and Make a Difference in a
Noisy World.

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Ken surveyed THOUSANDS of people to set up his system through
the MBS Internet Research Center, so you know this is GOOD.

Grab thousands of dollars worth of bonuses and even zero
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Becky Cortino

Small Biz Resources

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Ken McArthur is one person that I trust and over the years Ken has developed quite a stable of “trusted advisors.” They all have their own viewpoints and Ken actually LIKES the fact that they don’t all give exactly the same advice.

 After all, each person is an individual and we all work differently. What works for some, may not work for others. What you need is a BROAD range of advice from people who really know what they are talking about and who you can trust.

To build awareness of his new book, Ken is giving away training from The Pre-Launch Party Webcast will be Monday, May 12th at 9 PM Eastern Time where we will be unveiling a bunch of new surprises and some great prizes with some amazing guests answering all your questions in a great marathon “pick their brains” session. That way you will KNOW well in advance exact what to expect on launch date – Tuesday, May 13th at 1 PM Eastern Time.

A bunch of new surprises will be unveiled, along with some great prizes with some amazing TOP-LEVEL guests answering all your questions about creating impact and reaching a mass audience in a great marathon “pick their brains” session:

·         Glenn Dietzel will be there.

·         Frank Sousa will be there.

·         Michael Angier will be there.

·         Brendon Burchard will be there.

·         Dave Lakhani will be there.

·         Ben Mack will be there

·         John Di Lemme will be there.

·         Stuart Tan will be there.

·         David Hancock will be there.

·         Scott Paton will be there.

·         Warren Whitlock will be there.

·         Jim Donovan will be there.

·         Jason Henderson will be there.

·         JP Maroney will be there.

·         Randy Gilbert will be there.

·         Donna Fox will be there

And that’s just a few of the amazing people. More people are checking in all the time!

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Organizational and leadership researchers believe that the nature of leadership has changed over the last 5 years, according to a White Paper by the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), based on a recently-conducted internet survey. 

Read the Nature of Leadership White Paper special report

My take as related to the opportunities for small businesses based on the findings presented in this White Paper will be available to read here beginning on January 14, 2008…