8th
The Power of Friends and Networks of Kindness
My website is down. I have approximately 7000 tweets and direct messages and emails and SMS text messages to prove it. Thank you for your kindness.
But here’s what matters:
Friends came right to the rescue. I have seven or eight people all offering to jump in and help out. By the way, I’m taking one friend up on using his hosting company, and will shift my accounts to him.
For everything I do on the web, the most important part are the people. When people come up and ask me how to make millions, it’s kind of the hardest thing in the world to explain, because it’s not what I’m doing on my site, and it’s not what I’m doing with making media. It’s not the direct THING ; it’s the connection.
You know that, “It’s not what you know; it’s who you know” expression? It’s more true now than ever before.
MEET people. Connect. Share. Put your best work out there. Work the HELL out of making connections and find the people doing what you love, and who love what you’re doing. THIS is the payload. THIS is how I do what I do. And if you learned NOTHING from reading my site over the last bunch of years, know that the “secret sauce” of being Chris Brogan is that. Humans. People. Connections.
The tools are just tools.
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