1. Leave your troubles or problems outside the door. Enter with a smile, be energetic, positive and outgoing.
2. When someone is speaking with you, give that person your entire focus. LISTEN! 
3. BE a person that others will like. Be genuine. Be YOU.
4. Give and connect. Be generous, people will notice and respect you for your kind nature.
5. Plan ahead. Always have an idea of what the goal is for each event you attend. Keeps you and others on task as well as staying focused and achieving your expected outcome.
6. Never “schmooze” on or at someone. Be genuine in your interactions. Builds trust and YOU as a brand.
   
7. Be genuine and authentic, build trust and relationships, and see how you can help others.
   
8. Become known as a powerful resource for others. People turn to you for ideas, questions, etc. Keeps you visible.
   
9. Ask open ended questions. Opens up the discussion and shows listeners that you are interested.
   
10. Have a clear understanding of what you do. Be able to answer, “What makes you unique from others in the same field?”
    
11. Take advanatage of social networking. Creates new paths to communicate and share information.
    
12. Tap into your passions. Engaging in activities with other like minded people makes the conversation easier.
    
13. If you are scared to network, the best way to overcome that fear is by taking risks. By taking that risk, you are breaking the ice of another individual that may be just as uncomfortable as you.
14. After the conference, follow up with a thank you card to people you had direct contact with. Include something from the discussion. Show your networkers and new connections that you are ready to take action and care.
    

1. A dragonfly called the globe skinner has the longest migration of any insect—11,000 miles back and forth across the Indian Ocean.
2. Drivers kill more deer than hunters.
3. According to the American Society for Microbiology, 90% of women and 75% of men wash their hands after using a public restroom.
4. Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
5. Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
6. When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
7. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
8. You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
9. The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
10. The majority of suicides occur on a Monday.

• The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito.
• Most domestic turkeys are so heavy they are unable to fly.
• People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights.
• 99% of people cannot lick their elbow.
• Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.
• “Vodka” is Russian for “little water”.
• The dot of the letter “i” is called a tittle.
• A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.
• Social Media has overtaken pornography as the #1 web activity.
• Over 50% of the worlds population is under 30 years old.

Thats it for this weeks fun fact Friday. Hope you will come back next Friday for more. Be sure to leave a comment telling me which fact you find most interesting. Have a great weekend.

I am giving the idea a test run this week to see how well it goes. If a success, then we will continue. So what are your thoughts on the idea? Do you like to win?

Have a Great Day!

Jason

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As some of you know, back in March of this year I got very disgusted because no one was commenting on my blog post, my follower count was low and there was no interaction. Basically finding my place was a struggle.  As a result, I took down the blog and erased my presence on twitter. A couple days passed before I started getting emails stating I was being missed and asking where I was at. I proceeded to tell what had happen.

I began to take a look inside myself and asking the question, “Is this the way I want people to portray me as?” I immediately got up brought the blog back and started my presence on twitter once again. Ever since I have seen nothing but positive results. I have realized that my follower count is just another number. Its the quality of my followers that is most important to me. I have now began to find my place in social media as a promoter of my followers and their blogs and developed it into my passion.

In closing, I am here to say never give up or get discouraged in social media. It takes time to develop what your looking for. Dedicate yourself, take initiative and concentrate on a strategy that you can put into place to make you become a winner. Through this journey you will encounter some unpleasant people so you have to remain strong and let everyone know that no one or anything can bring you down. I look forward to the future with each and everyone of you with even more positive results in store.

As a token of appreciation to  my audience here on the blog and followers on twitter, I have decided to give away a $25 @Starbucks gift card. All you have to do to win is leave me a comment stating what you are thankful for in your blog audience or twitter following along with your twitter handle. Winner will be drawn using random.org Contest ends Friday Sept 24 at 5pm ET and Good Luck.

On Facebook, job-seekers use party pictures or pictures of a vacation spot as their profile picture. Also, they fail to give a clear meaning in their Bio what they are looking for in a job, fail to list contact information and job history and leaving their profiles non-private.

On Twitter, they mix personal and business use on the same account, lack of personal branding, lack of networking and building relationships.

On Linkedin, they are not putting time and effort into their profile picture to reflect who they are honestly. Also, they fail to find their audience and develop their brand and fail to be descriptive in their professional headline, not customizing the profile URL to be more precise and self explanatory.

In a voice mail, job seekers speak too fast and not clearly, not clear in the reason they are calling and fail to leave full name and call back number. Also, not having a personalized greeting for when the potential employer calls back.

In an email, most common mistakes include not attaching a resume correctly or in the right form, misspelling of words, not using complete sentences, no complete thought, no personalized signature and using descriptive words in the email address instead of their name.

The impact of these gaffes becomes negative and leads the employer to wonder if a person can survive in a social environment as well as be an asset and create success for the company.

These gaffes can be avoided by never trying to be someone you are not, be comfortable with yourself, always be truthful and honest. Ask yourself the question, “Is this me”? If so practice on making yourself better, listen to constructive criticism and be willing to learn how to conquer this social awkwardness. Always use spell check and for your emails and proofread before sending.

If not avoided the negative impact can be mitigated by being given a chance to learn and improve from information and feedback from the employer. In return, show the employer you can improve through action of what they have conveyed to you.

I hope you have enjoyed this post. If you feel I have left something out or want to add to a certain section, feel free to let me know in a comment.