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Barbara Hofmeister’s new book “To Be or Not to Be. The Choice is Yours” is
available now. Order through this link to get 47 SUCCESS gifts, including a gift from yours truly – http://www.MegaSuccessDay.com

“The little girl was standing tiptoe on the old brown sofa that served as her
bed at night. She pressed her cheek against the window pane trying to look
down the five stories to the busy street below. But as much as she craned
her head, their little attic room was too high up and the window too small to
see what was going on below. She signed and slipped down again behind
the kitchen table. She really wished her mother would be home to keep her
company and help her with her homework. But Mom was still at work and
when she finally came home she would be much too tired to be any fun.
Since they had fled East Germany life had changed dramatically. Nobody
had time for her anymore and she had left all her friends behind. No more
roaming the countryside with her German Sheppard, no more feeding and
teasing the chickens with her best friend Christine, no more climbing fences
and trees with her cousins. No more beautiful pink little girls room, no more
warm kitchen with Mummy cooking her favorite dinner, no more laughter
with Grandma who could tell such lovely stories. There seemed to be
nothing anymore…

“Not even Sunday morning tickling sessions with Dad.
Tears started running down her cheeks. She didn’t understand – WHY?
Why did they have to leave??? They had everything before – their own
house, a car, even a TV and a telephone – the only one in the village. They
had it ALL and loads of friends and a loving family. Why change this for
nothing?

“Today the little girl is an ‘big’ girl. Her name is Barbara and in this book you
will get to know her because the little girl was me. My parents escaped from
East Germany when I was 8. My father in the trunk of a car, my mother and
I through Berlin. We arrived in the West with just a small case and the
equivalent of 400 Dollars.

“In those days there was plenty of work but no housing. All large cities, were
the work was, had been bombed out during the war. It took my parents
almost 20 years of hard labor before they had again what we left behind in
Communist Germany but my father was convinced that it had been worth it.

“Why? Because it had given him what was most precious to him – the
freedom to live his dream, the dream of becoming a successful
entrepreneur.

Barbara Hofmeister’s new book “To Be or Not to Be. The Choice is Yours” is
available now. Order through this link to get 47 SUCCESS gifts. http://MegaSuccessDay.com and be on your way to living the successful life you have been dreaming about.

Hi!  I’m looking for entrepreneurs to interview that have had success with social media. I’m creating an infoproduct about this topic.  I’d like to show case studies of real people that have had success with social networking.   I just get so sick of hearing people say social networking doesn’t work, when I know it works for lots of people.  You don’t have to have made $1,234,567 bucks on twitter or have gained 100,000 subscribers overnight in order to qualify.

If you made one sale or gained one new client as a result of social networking, I would love to interview you.  Just leave a comment if you’d like to participate.  I’d like to have these interviews done by no later than next Monday.  The people that help me with this will get the chance to help promote the product and get a higher commission than regular affiliates will get.

Update:  I have decided to work on this project during the month of June so you still have time to participate.  Leave a comment if interested.

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I’ve added a forum to this blog! I had one over on ning, but I didn’t like the fact that I really didn’t have control over that forum. I mean if ning went away my forum would have been toast. Therefore, I decided to add a forum to this blog. It’s free to join and I welcome people of all levels of business to this forum. Whether you’re a newbie or a seasoned expert, you’re welcome! Everyone can contribute something! It’s brand new so get over there and start posting some content! To visit the forum go to http://www.learnsmallbusiness.com/forum

As many of you may know, I’m expecting a new baby in February. So as I’m sure you can imagine, especially if you are a parent, I won’t have nearly as much time to blog as I did before I had a newborn baby in the family. With that being said, I’d love to have a few guest bloggers between February and April to give me time to recuperate and get my schedule adjusted to having a new baby. If you write about business related topics or social media, I’d love to have you here on my blog. If this interests you, mention your interest in the comment section as well as a way for me to contact you. Ideally, I’d like to hear from you before December 31, 2009 so I can plan when your blog post will appear. I’ll be posting more details as we get closer to that date.