Market America's website portal and shopping site placed first on the E-Retailer top 500. This is a tremendous accomplishment, especially playing in the big leagues up against the very best in the world in the hottest fastest growing industry in the world. It shows what we can and what happens when there is  team work and a common vision. This is a result of improving functionality and seeing things through the eyes of the user, visitor, or customer. It is all about focusing on the user experience. It began as a realization, then thinking, then a vision, a absolute commitment, followed by belief and focus. This is an example of entrepreneurial thinking and action.

Wanted to take a moment and share this with everyone.  This is an incredibly compelling, but simple piece that explains how social media and social networks work in today’s environment and why they are better than advertising!  I think that anyone who understands our business or the way organizations of UFO’s and customers work should be able to see how this is a powerful tool and perfect fit for the Unfranchise® business system and community. I encourage you to use this throughout your presentations and teachings as well as to virally market it by explaining it on your own social networking profiles or blogs and even emailing it to people with some key points to get light bulbs to go off.

This goes a long way to casting the spotlight on how Market America's Facebook application called ma network works and why it is a valuable tool and platform within our community to be able to reach out to the 400 million Facebook users to fill the bean jar. I think it also helps bring the power of recommendations and reviews into focus. The next step from that is doing 1:1 marketing with it by using the data in each customers profile to serve up different recommendations to each customer, which we are doing. I would be interesting in hearing in what you learned, how you can use this, how we should use it and any results, responses or feedback you receive. I feel this can turn some lightbulbs on for the babay boomers and technologically slow or handicapped. Open this and watch. It is SHORT and in plain English!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIOClX1jPE

Keep growing.

JR

Social media has been the hottest trend on the Internet for the past couple of years. Social media like Facebook, Tencent and YouTube, have created a platform for businesses and customers to interact with one another on a scale never before seen. Customers review products, share products they love with their friends, and stay connect with the brands they are loyal to.

Over the past year, Market Taiwan and Market Hong Kong have added numerous social media tools for their UnFranchise® Owners to use. From each Customer Manager’s web portal, UFOs can share their favorite products with their friends and family on over 200 social networking sites through the share with friends feature that is available on ma-branded product pages. With one click, you can share OPC-3® with all of your friends on Facebook. When your friends click on the product displayed on their Facebook News Feed, they will be taken directly to your Portal where they can purchase the product (as long as the person clicking on the item is not already a UFO or Preferred Customer of another UFO. In that case, they would be sent to their Customer Manager’s portal). Market Taiwan and Market Hong Kong have also build fan pages on Facebook so fans can talk about products, upcoming events, and so much more.

None have been as big as our latest innovation!

On Thursday, April 29, Market Taiwan and Market Hong Kong launched our own social networking community, ma® Chatterbox™ in their respective countries.

Users can:

• Upload photos and videos
• Share their personal and business experiences
• Update their status through microblogging
• Network with other UnFranchise Owners across Hong Kong and Taiwan
• Keep up-to-date with their sales organizations

Just to name a few features…

Our physical social network now has its own virtual social networking platform that UFOs and Customer Managers can use to build their networks and stay up-to-date on all that is going on within Market Taiwan and Market Hong Kong.

This is only the beginning. Many exciting new features will be continuously added, including giving Customer Managers the ability to access multiple social networking profiles all from one ma Chatterbox account.

Taiwan Unfranchise owners visit:

http://machatterbox.markettaiwan.com.tw/

Hong Kong Unfranchise owners visit:

http://machatterbox.markethongkong.com.hk/

Sign up today using your personal Preferred Customer login information. It is free, simple and a lot of fun.

Keeping growing.

JR

This week, I wanted to address an issue that has been coming up a good bit. A reader asked, I created a Facebook fanpage and need to change the title, what do I do?

Answer:

In short, once you have created a Facebook fanpage, you cannot edit the name of the fanpage.

v Twitter Tiny URL’s: these are steps to create tiny url link just incase: Ø http://bit.ly/ Ø copy the long URL to its shorten bar: Ø then you can copy and paste it on to your twitter or facebook pages.

What would you do if you can keep a leash onto your phone like you do with your dog? How cool is it that you loose your phone and now you are able to track it? Like those days you drop your phone in the movie theaters, you misplace it and can't find it, or you are running late to work and your kids accidentally took your phone? I'm always fascinated with other's inventions to make our world easier for us. What do you think of the Zomm? Is this worth the investment? You be the judge! ~Keep Growing JR

As CEO of MarketAmerica.com.  I am always in the lookout for the latest in technology, social media and online shopping. Always trying to stay ahead of the curve, our team is actively in search for new enhancements and updates to keep up with today's technology. Recently we launched a few apps that are not only cool but also very user-friendly and easy to navigate. I ask you to test them as they are now live for you to use on itunes. I welcome and recommendations or suggestions.

Let's face it, technology is changing right before our eyes. Laptops, netbooks, iPods, HDTV's, mp3's -- they're all here one day and easily replaced the next day. Unfortunately, for a lot of people, we fear getting involved with technology for whatever reason and just ramble aimlessly using an older format, because it gets the job done. In the process, technology has passed us by, where we just throw up our arms and say "I'll catch it on the rebound." Unfortunately, things don't really work this way. New products are released, and yet we stay mired in the same process that we were previously in, while others are off being productive because they made the decision to get involved with technology rather then to let it frustrate them.

Case in point, VHS tapes used to be a nouveau idea. A few years later, they were replaced by today's standard, the DVD. How many of you are still using a VHS player? Not many I'm guessing, because technology forced you to adapt. With that said, earlier today, maTV launched an exciting new feature -- the ability to view videos fullscreen. While online video won't be replacing physical DVD's anytime soon, what it does is with the help of technology, it will give you two options to use for showing videos, helping reduce overall clutter and improving means of delivering video content, regardless of where you're at!

At this point, I would give technology a big pat on the back. It has just done two things. First, physical DVD can now be used at home or when you're away from an Internet connection. Second, with a laptop, an Internet connection and access to marketamerica.com, you can now take the UnFranchise® business plan with you and show other entrepreneurs everywhere the best kept secret!

So who has a laptop and an Internet connection and isn't afraid of technology? By accepting technology and learning just a little bit each day, it will help you learn why catching technology on the rebound only just puts us further behind

Are you ready to embrace technology and see how much easier it can help make your life? Check out this great how to: on watching maTV videos in fullscreen -- guess what, you just learned something new and embraced technology rather than catching it on the rebound!

Keeping Growing,

JR

In recent Wired Magazine I caught a very interesting article The Future of Money, where people can transfer money over Twitter for next to nothing, simply by typing a username and a dollar amount? What if we all had this app in our social network pages like chatterbox, facebook, twitter and marketamerica. Will it change the way we make our payments today? Will you find it more efficient or just simply another app you have to rely on?

From Wired Magazine: Just a decade ago, the idea of moving money that quickly and cheaply would have been ridiculous. Checks took ages to clear. Transferring money from one bank account to another could take days, as banks leisurely handed off funds, levying fees nearly every step of the way. Credit cards made it a little easier to pass money to a friend provided that a friend owned a credit card reader and didn't mind paying a few percentage points in fees or waiting a couple of days for the payment to process.

Ivey got around that problem by using PayPal. Since 1998, PayPal had enabled people to transfer moneyt o each other instantly. For the most part, it powers were confined to eBay, the online auction company that purchased PayPal in 2002. But last summer, PayPal began giving a small group of developers access to its code, allowing then to work with its super-sophisticated transaction framework. Ivey immediately used to link users' Twitter account to their PayPal accounts, and his new company, Twitpay, took off. Today, the service has almost 15,000 users. That may not sound like much, but it sends a message: Moving money, once a function managed only by the biggest companies in the world, is now a feature available to any code jockey. Ivey is just one of the many attacking the payment ecosystem, seeking out new ways small and large to tear down the stronghold the banks and credit cards have built.

SkinPut a whole new meaning to typing.