Elaine Marie is the proprietor of the Spirit Lake Bed & Breakfast in Lower Lake, CA. She just joined Ryze. Looking at her Ryze page, I can see she has yet to join any networks. I want to encourage every member of this network to reach out to Elaine. She is new to the world of social media. She needs your friendship, your nurture and your willingness to share.

Her bed and breakfast is unique. Beautiful bed & breakfast house. Beautiful and quiet surroundings - including hills and a GREEN lake. If there ever was a place to escape the noise and hectic pace of the rat race, her place is it.

I am originally from Florida. That's a state that is BIG on highway billboards. Well, there are no billboards helping you to find Spirit Lake. If you don't know how to use a Google Map or unwilling to call the resort's phone number, you're not likely to find it. The place really is well-hidden...on purpose. And, the fact it is really not all that commercial actually enhances its value. Get to know, Elaine. Welcome her to the world of business networking. She is eager to learn how the win/win relationship of business networking works. In fact, if you happen to moderate a network, why not invite her to join? Here's the link to her personal Ryze page - spiritlakebnb.

Lamar Morgan
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Tim,

Thanks for the kind words. They are very much appreciated. Business networking, as I see it, is not about pushing an agenda as it is sharing an agenda. Little things mean a lot. They really do. Just welcoming a newcomer can reap benefits - for both you and the newcomer. It should be win/win - not win/lose. It makes no sense to plant seeds one day and dig them up the next just to replant them the next day all over again. The process is a simple one. First, you plant. Next, you nurture (water the seeds). Eventually you harvest the fruit. Well, I think people are an individual's potential garden. How does your garden grow? Well, that depends upon how you nurture it. If you nurture it wrong or not at all, it is likely to die.

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Eileen,

Elaine Marie just needs a little encouragement. I doubt she has ever been a member of a business network before. Just look at her Ryze page. There's not much to it. Why? She does not know how to do what most Ryzers might see as being the simplest things. But, I doubt she is alone in that regard. There are likely a lot of folks here who need a helping hand...but are too proud to ask for it. One has to wonder why someone would join a network and not be willing to ask for help to better use it - especially when there is a way to use it for free.

Lamar Morgan
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"Elaine Marie just needs a little encouragement. "

Or perhaps;     Elaine Marie wishes to live her life and conduct her affairs to fit her requirements.

Just because we understand it's reach and are comfortable using technology. ... Doesn't necessarily mean that others must. ... We all have different criteria for our lives and some prefer to invest their life in other pursuits.

After identifying the need for a solution;   My style is to hit one the buttons on my Yahoo IM list and start asking questions. .... ( That's after I'm feeling the need to explore).

For me;   The tiny flame usually flickers to life from a conversation, seeing an ad, exploring some one's campaign or viewing a post.   However;   Until I have a need for change or the possibility of a major benefit is evident; ... I'll continue to pursue my current priorities.

Whatever product or service we supply. ... We're primarily;   In the information delivery business and must go fishing in a pond where the fishes are.

The fact that Radio/TV and Print readership is plummeting and over 50% of all homes in N. America have at least one computer. ... Said to me that I must learn how to harvest in this growing pond.

View the movie "Clearing the cobwebs about Social Media".  Click Here

"This Bud's for you"!    Doesn't resonate with me but having a million listeners to my radio broadcast does and already a Ryzer has emerged from the mists and offered all the Bandwidth I'll ever need.

When Canada's "Dr Tomorrow" (Frank Ogden) told me "If you aren't part of the Steam Roller;   You'll soon be part of the road" .... I listened. ..... but I'm an immigrant and we're often nosey monkeys.

Whether my delight is lunching at the Four Seasons or in the park watching a new mother with her baby. .... Success for me is;   Living as I choose.

When the student is ready ... The teacher appears.

Bestest.

Teddy Towncrier CPP Towncrier-Media.com Supercharging Your Visions.

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I doubt many Ryzers realize this or not, but Elaine Marie is currently in Hawaii at her Hawaiian Rental. Nevertheless, she is helping to spark some much-needed innovation in Lake County, CA.

First of all, she is one of the participants in that amazing Ryze To-Do-List Board promotion to Lake County. This would not have ever happened had it not been for Ryzer Sherry Simoes in Canada. She is the person who created the boards and really executed the magic here. But, at this point the football at Spirit Lake has been handed off to Elaine Marie's staff person. She si the one who will be handing out copies of that board to folks who come to her Bed & Breakfast. The board will be a nice momento from the quiet gateway from the rat race that Spirit Lake provides. (Rather than telling folks that being on a to-do-list board as an advertiser is a good idea, you simply give them a board to use on the refrigerator. Just let them figure it out.) Dentist Dr. Doug Reams will also being giving out boards to his patients in Lucerne, CA. Jack and Karen Lair will be giving out boards to customers coming into their convenience store located on the main drag through Hidden Valley Lake, CA.

Second of all, Elaine has help initiate what I call "mutual uplift" promotion in Lake County. She has collaborated in an advertising campaign with two other businesses - Ting's Thai Kitchen and the Hidden Valley Food Mart. This was made not only possible, but incredibly beautiful through the design expertise of another Ryzer, Eileen Brown.

I have said this many times before and I will continue to say it - CARING, CONNECTING and having a GOOD DESIGN - is what you need to get from a network like Ryze. If you are not getting any of that, maybe you simply have yet to make the right connections. Send me a private email. I may be able to help. This is not a sales pitch. This is simply what a "goto" person - a netweaver like me - believes. And, since I believe it, I both talk it and walk it.

Lamar Morgan
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