Kathy,

Thanks for joining Clusters here on Ryze. Listen, I see from your personal Ryze page that you are in Indianapolis, IN. Just because you are not local to Northern California does not mean you cannot be significantly involved in Clusters. After all, Clusters is not a club with dues, officers, bylaws and articles of incorporation. Clusters is a SIG - a Special Interest Group. It exists to help people who want want help and are willing to help others in the process. That is one of the reasons I decided to include a "virtual mentor" as the fifth member of a four-person cluster. Therefore, there are four people who can physically meet around a card table and a fifth person who can be contacted via the Internet.

Therefore, if you know four people who want to meet and help each other out, you can form your own Cluster right there in Indianapolis. Contact me and I will assign a virtual mentor to your group and include your cluster group in my database. When your Cluster comes up with a project you would like other Clusters in my network to participate, just let me know or check out the online database yourself once it is set up. Might as well keep the system simple so more folks will want to make use of it.

Here are three reasons why I think Cluster groups are important:

1) It is easier to establish healthy relationships with four people than it is with eight or more. Then, use the resources of the small group to connect to other small groups to expand your message in both a cost-effective and positive manner.

2) With energy costs continuing to climb, it is more important than ever before to use the Internet for communication whenever possible...rather than the car, train or plane. Services like Skype, Google Talk, Pamela, Yugma, Talkshoe, Jott, Twitter, Squidoo, Ryze, LinkedIn, MerchantCircle, TeamCircle and Briz, among others, can be a tremendous blessing if used properly. (This is why I advocate having a virtual mentor in every Cluster group - to help folks help themselves. Remember, if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. But, if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.)

3) Mutual collaboration saves folks time and money. If a group of people want to form a Cluster group they need to be willing to mutually collaborate with one another to save everyone time and money.

With my group here in Hidden Valley Lake, CA, I am hoping to convince the owner of a restaurant to purchase a 42" Vizio HDTV and a little ASUS EEE computer, along with a Wi-Fi antenna and Linksys Wi-Fi extenders so my group can converse with marketing gurus from around the world via Skype at weekly meetings.

Lamar Morgan
CDMM - Synergistic Business Marketing
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