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Black & White Self-portrait wit glasses by Wix Photographer Juliette Jourdain

"This above ALL: to thine own self be true."

~ William Shakespeare

(Hamlet)

LOL, I have to chuckle. I admit that I try a number of different online outlets or portals to connect and network. As I continue to explore, I extrapolate a lot of mistakes being made by a similar group of people.

It would appear as though the majority of marketers think that their prospective clients are dumb or tuned out. They think they are making the rules, when , in fact, they are breaking the rules. I thought of a few to get started to those who reach out to prospect for others to hire you as a social media expert.

Rule No. 1 Know your audience and what they are looking for

Rule No. 2 Lead by example

Rule No. 3 Ensure your follower to follow ratio is weighted by who is following you, not the other way around.

Rule No. 4 Try to get a few online influencers in your corner.

Rule No. 5 Be your own unique voice, don't try to say what you THINK others want to hear.

Rule No. 6 Be creative, be thought provoking, be visual

Rule No. 7 Don't try to build your acclaim by 3 degrees of separation

Rule No. 8 Do NOT plagiarize others' ideas and claim them as your own.

Rule No. 9 Give credit where credit is due

Rule No. 10 Say thank you, show gratitude, share appreciation

These rules can be expanded. I likely will. The main idea is to get started with the idea and then let things flow and the ideas evolve.

Rule No. 11 Test your ideas, check for traction, respond to interaction or reaction

Start at Rule No. 1 again. Like a snowball, go through the process again, see what you can attract and build upon as you go through the steps each time.

Rule No. 12 Comment to an idea originator if something they said, you tried, and share what worked, what didn't work.

Rule No. 13 You will only build a crowd once you fade into the crowd or are enveloped within one.

Tulip: my favorite flower

As today putters to an end, I bid adieu to 55 and resolve to coasting towards 60 now that I've crossed from the mid-point to the other side. Thanks to one of my greatest Social Media friends, Mott, shared Conan O'Brien's birthday post on Facebook and I happened to see this morning. How cool is that eh? I like the idea of having "something in common with Conan O'Brien" .... and a whole list of greatest in the following company whom we keep on celebrating an April 18th birthday .... Bon Fete mes ami :o)

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April 18 Famous Birthdays (SOURCE: BIRTHDAY NINJAs)

The zodiac sign of a person born on April 18 is Aries ♈.

The following famous people celebrate their birthday on April 18th. The list is arranged in chronological order and includes celebrities like actors, actresses, models, singers, rappers and producers. Click the after the name to explore the birth date info and know the meaning of their life path number.

The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 1 - 20.

1480

Lucrezia Borgia, Italian daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519). Life path number 8
1503

Henry II of Navarre, (d. 1555). Life path number 22
1590

Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1617). Life path number 1
1605

Giacomo Carissimi, Italian priest and composer (d. 1674). Life path number 7
1648

Jeanne Guyon, French mystic and author (d. 1717). Life path number 5
1666

Jean-Féry Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1747). Life path number 5
1740

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (d. 1810). Life path number 7
1759

Jacques Widerkehr, French cellist and composer (d. 1823). Life path number 8
1771

Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (d. 1820). Life path number 2
1772

David Ricardo, English economist and politician (d. 1823). Life path number 3
1794

William Debenham, English founder of Debenhams (d. 1863). Life path number 7
1797

Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (d. 1877). Life path number 1
1813

James McCune Smith, American physician and author (d. 1865). Life path number 8
1819

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist (d. 1874). Life path number 5
1819

Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1895). Life path number 5
1838

Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist and academic (d. 1912). Life path number 6
1857

Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (d. 1938). Life path number 7
1857

Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and author (d. 1935). Life path number 7
1858

Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee (d. 1962). Life path number 8
1863

Count Leopold Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat, Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (d. 1942). Life path number 22

1863

Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (d. 1920). Life path number 22

1864

Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (d. 1916). Life path number 5

1874

Abd-ru-shin, German author (d. 1941). Life path number 6

1874

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet (d. 1938). Life path number 6

1877

Vicente Sotto, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1950). Life path number 9

1879

Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar (d. 1962). Life path number 2

1880

Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (d. 1968). Life path number 3

1882

Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler (d. 1964). Life path number 5

1882

Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d. 1977). Life path number 5

1884

Jaan Anvelt, Estonian educator and politician (d. 1937). Life path number 7

1888

Duffy Lewis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1979). Life path number 2

1889

Jessie Street, Australian activist (d. 1970). Life path number 3

1893

Violette Morris, French shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1944). Life path number 7

1896

Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948). Life path number 1

1897

Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001). Life path number 2

1897

Per-Erik Hedlund, Swedish skier (d. 1975). Life path number 2

1898

Patrick Hennessy, Irish soldier and businessman (d. 1981). Life path number 3

1901

Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967). Life path number 6

1901

László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (d. 1975). Life path number 6

1902

Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish author (d. 1972). Life path number 7

1902

Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981). Life path number 7

1904

Pigmeat Markham, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1981). Life path number 9

1905

Sydney Halter, Canadian lawyer and businessman (d. 1990). Life path number 1

1905

George H. Hitchings, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998). Life path number 1

1907

Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (d. 1995). Life path number 3

1911

Ilario Bandini, Italian businessman and race car driver (d. 1992). Life path number 7

1911

Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (d. 2011). Life path number 7

1914

Claire Martin, Canadian author (d. 2014). Life path number 1

1915

Joy Davidman, American poet and author (d. 1960). Life path number 2

1916

Carl Burgos, American illustrator (d. 1984). Life path number 3

1916

Doug Peden, Canadian basketball player (d. 2005). Life path number 3

1917

Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1947). Life path number 22

1917

Frederica of Hanover (d. 1981). Life path number 22

1918

Gabriel Axel, Danish-French actor, director, and producer (d. 2014). Life path number 5

1918

André Bazin, French critic and theorist (d. 1958). Life path number 5

1918

Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 5

1918

Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, founded ''CliffsNotes'' (d. 2001). Life path number 5

1918

Tony Mottola, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004). Life path number 5

1919

Vondell Darr, American actress (d. 2012). Life path number 6

1919

Virginia O'Brien, American actress and singer (d. 2001). Life path number 6

The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 61 - 80.

1920

John F. Wiley, American football player and coach (d. 2013). Life path number 7
1921

Jean Richard, French actor and singer (d. 2001). Life path number 8
1922

Barbara Hale, American actress. Life path number 9
1922

Lord Kitchner, Trinidadian singer (d. 2000). Life path number 9
1923

Alfred Bieler, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2013). Life path number 1
1923

Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, English engineer and politician (d. 2015). Life path number 1
1924

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005). Life path number 2
1924

Henry Hyde, American commander, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007). Life path number 2
1924

Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (d. 2015). Life path number 2
1925

Bob Hastings, American actor (d. 2014). Life path number 3
1925

Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer and author (d. 2005). Life path number 3
1926

Doug Insole, English cricketer. Life path number 22
1926

Günter Meisner, German actor (d. 1994). Life path number 22
1927

Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist, author, and academic (d. 2008). Life path number 5
1927

Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2013). Life path number 5
1927

Charles Pasqua, French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior (d. 2015). Life path number 5
1928

Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (d. 2015). Life path number 6
1928

Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (d. 2014). Life path number 6
1929

Peter Hordern, English soldier and politician. Life path number 7
1930

Clive Revill, New Zealand-English actor and singer. Life path number 8

The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 81 - 100.

1931

Bill Miles, American director and producer (d. 2013). Life path number 9
1934

James Drury, American actor. Life path number 3
1934

George Shirley, American tenor and educator. Life path number 3
1935

Jerry Dexter, American voice actor (d. 2013). Life path number 22
1935

Costas Ferris, Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 22
1936

Roger Graef, American-English criminologist, director, and producer. Life path number 5
1936

Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1997). Life path number 5
1936

Tommy Ivo, American actor and race car driver. Life path number 5
1937

Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (d. 2009). Life path number 6
1937

Tatyana Shchelkanova, Russian long jumper and heptathlete (d. 2011). Life path number 6
1937

Teddy Taylor, Scottish journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland. Life path number 6
1939

Thomas J. Moyer, American lawyer and judge (d. 2010). Life path number 8
1940

Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. Life path number 9
1940

Jaak Lipso, Estonian basketball player and coach. Life path number 9
1940

Mike Vickers, English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter (Manfred Mann and The Manfreds). Life path number 9
1941

Michael D. Higgins, Irish sociologist and politician, 9th President of Ireland. Life path number 1
1942

Michael Beloff, English lawyer and academic. Life path number 2
1942

Steve Blass, American baseball player and sportscaster. Life path number 2
1942

Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic. Life path number 2
1942

Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (d. 1970). Life path number 2

The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 101 - 120.

1943

Zeki Alasya, Turkish actor and director (d. 2015). Life path number 3
1944

Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza, English academic and politician. Life path number 22
1944

Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent and spy. Life path number 22
1944

Philip Jackson, Scottish sculptor and photographer. Life path number 22
1945

Bernard Arcand, Canadian anthropologist and author (d. 2009). Life path number 5
1945

Richard Bausch, American author and academic. Life path number 5
1945

Robert Bausch, American author and academic. Life path number 5
1945

Margaret Hassan, Irish-Iraqi aid worker (d. 2004). Life path number 5
1946

Jean-François Balmer, Swiss actor. Life path number 6
1946

Irene Fernandez, Malaysian activist (d. 2014). Life path number 6
1946

Hayley Mills, English actress and singer. Life path number 6
1946

Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, drummer and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape) (d. 1999). Life path number 6
1947

Kathy Acker, American author and poet (d. 1997). Life path number 7
1947

Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (d. 2013). Life path number 7
1947

Dorothy Lyman, American actress, director, and producer. Life path number 7
1947

Herbert Mullin, American serial killer. Life path number 7
1947

Cindy Pickett, American actress. Life path number 7
1947

Greg Quill, Australian-Canadian singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2013). Life path number 7
1947

Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter. Life path number 7
1947

James Woods, American actor and producer. Life path number 7

The epic list contains 285 persons. Showing 121 - 140.

1948

Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 8
1949

Geoff Bodine, American race car driver. Life path number 9
1950

Paul Callery, Australian footballer. Life path number 1
1950

Tina Chow, American model and jewelry designer (d. 1992). Life path number 1
1950

Kenny Ortega, American director, producer, and choreographer. Life path number 1
1950

Grigory Sokolov, Russian pianist and composer. Life path number 1
1951

Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer and coach. Life path number 2
1951

Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian businessman and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Life path number 2
1953

Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter. Life path number 22
1954

Robert Greenberg, American pianist and composer. Life path number 5
1956

Eric Roberts, American actor. Life path number 7
1956

Melody Thomas Scott, American actress. Life path number 7
1957

Ian Campbell, Australian jumper. Life path number 8
1957

Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress and educator. Life path number 8
1958

Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer and coach (d. 1999). Life path number 9
1958

Karen Mayo-Chandler, English actress and model (d. 2006). Life path number 9
1958

Thomas Simaku, Albanian-English composer. Life path number 9
1958

Tarmo Teder, Estonian poet and critic. Life path number 9
1959

Susan Faludi, American journalist and author. Life path number 1
1959

Frank Mulholland, Scottish lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland. Life path number 1

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Follow the rules before you define them

April 18 Famous Birthdays (SOURCE: BIRTHDAY NINJAs)