Diane and I wrote a book called “Navigating The World of Network Marketing” which talks all about our ex partner at http://JackandDianeBook.com

Well it appears that I now have a new stalker. This a woman on Twitter who is obsessed with me. So much so that she dug through pages and pages of search results on Google to find something to confront me with. Must have taken her hours lol. What she came up with was a page that some guy had written about me 10 years ago. I had known it was there but had forgotten. So thank you crazy stalker lady for reminding me!

heres the page:

http://www.pc-help.org/www.nwinternet.com/pchelp/lockdown/sites/servers.htm

Look down on the page where it says Connecticut and you will see the following Verbiage:

The spamming history of Michael Paris and his
			associates is something I've already uncovered,
			so the hosting of the Lockdown program on the
			personal website of the Top Guy of this spam-
			oriented marketing operation should be no
			surprise.  "MLM Legend" indeed.  As a
			f'rinstance, Jack Bastide is one of many
			"legendary" spammers who kept an account with
	                the hated, now former, Cyberpromo operation run
			by the Spam King, Sanford "Spamford" Wallace.
			Jack's username on cyberpromo.com?  "Awesome."

Crime #1 - I bought a piece of software and become an affiliate

The guy who wrote the page is obsessed with some Guy named “Michael Paris”. I have no idea who Michael Paris is but from what I can gather he created a program called “LockDown 2000″. I vaguely remember buying this program back in 2000. I think it was a firewall program.

From what I can remember I think the program was pretty good so whoever sold it to me asked if I wanted to be an affiliate for the program. I did and put it it on an old domain I had MLMLegend.com. I don’t know if the person’s name was “Micheal Paris” .. it was a very long time ago.

Crime #2 - I bought an autoresponder

The next part of this accusation was my association with “Spam King” Sanford Wallace. I don’t know this guy personally but I do remember him from about 8 or 9 years ago. He had a company called CyberPromo that sold bulk email software I believe. I believe he also sold Autoresponders (Like Aweber and Get Response). I bought one of his auto responders.

Guilt By Association?

So basically I bought a piece of software and an autoresponder and this guy labeled me a spammer simply because he didn’t like the people I bought them from. Heck, if we’re going to talk about guilt by association maybe I should go find a crazy preacher, a few terrorists and other unsavory characters to hang out with. Then I can run for President!

BTW , here is a picture of my accuser I got it off his website. Is it just me or does this dude look like a serial killer? Hey maybe I should fix him up with my wacko stalker on Twitter who is a female (or at least claims to be) I’m sure they would make a nice couple.

I think his name is Keith and his email is pchelp@pc-help.org

I hope the spam-bots harvest his address and he will really see what spamming is all about. Here is his website http://www.nwi.net/%7Epchelp/index.html

In the interest of transparency I have to admit i did “spam” once. Only I don’t think it was even called “spam” back then. It was called “bulk emailing” and everybody was doing it back then. This was like my first week on the Internet … maybe 1994 or so.

I bought a program that downloaded email addresses off the news groups (remember them?) and allowed to to email them all in bulk. I believe the program was called “Net Contact”. I downloaded a bunch of email addresses and sent them an email about a Home Based business I was involved in. I was so naive I even put my home phone number so they could call me for more info!

Within 5 minute I had several calls on my answering machine ,, and they weren’t happy! Within an hour they had shut down my internet access. Alas my “legendary” spamming career was over before it had even begun. And I had such promise as a spammer!

So thats my story and I’m sticking to it. Am I a “Legendary Spammer” as the crazy serial killer looking guy and my wacko Twitter stalker think? You decide!

This video shows Send Out Cards which is a system that allows you to send Real Physical Greeting cards from the Internet. These are not “Ecards” but real physical greeting cards that arrive by first class mail with a stamp. The cards cost under $1 Each!

With this system you can send all you Holiday cards in Ten Minutes! Not only can you send cards you can send gifts as well. You can create custom greeting cards with your picture or logo and send hundreds of cards with the click of the mouse. You can even schedule cards to go out in advance.

Who can use this system? Realtors, Mortgage brokers, Salespeople. Auto Dealers, Financial planners, small business owners. Anybody that has clients or customers they need to keep in touch with can use this system. Last year I took a picture of my two little dogs in front of the Christmas tree and made a greeting card out of it. I sent that card out to about 700 people in a matter of MINUTES!

In addition their is an Optional Affiliate program where you can make money referring this system to other people. I actually make a Full time income from home marketing this system!

For more info contact Jack Bastide at 407-567-7007 or go to http://www.SendCardsFast.com

For those of you that are not familiar with US 192 in Kissimmee it is a very busy road. During rush hour its like a parking lot. Now this was Sunday morning at about 10 a.m. but there were still lots of cars whizzing by quickly.

The bird was circling over the road. All of a sudden he fell quickly to Earth. I thought he was sick or something and was going to hit the ground. He was falling right into the middle of the road .. with all the traffic!

At the last minute he pulled up with something in his talons. I couldn’t make it out but i think it was a mouse or another small animal. I caught a glimpse of his head and it was snowy white. It was a bald eagle! What a beautiful and majestic sight!

I mentioned this story on Twitter and got a lot of reaction. One person really caught my attention with her response. I will let her say it in her own words …

So the question is …

Are You an Eagle?

Please comment below

Enjoy .. And please leave a comment!

Follow me on Twitter

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Meet Me On Twitter!

I’ve been watching Twitter now for awhile and frankly I didn’t get it at first. I thought that it was just a bunch of people posting random stuff that they were doing at any given moment. But it’s much more than that.

In my opinion the power of twitter is dialogue and conversation. It’s about building relationships and increasing your network. This will help you no matter what business you are in.

Their is a saying that your income will be the average of your 5 closest friends. So the first thing I did when i got on Twitter was seek out the most successful people in my niche (marketing) and “follow them”. This means I signed up for their updates. Well lo and behold some of them actually followed me back!

As I am writing this I have over 1500 followers. The vast majority of them are people that I didn’t know a couple of weeks ago. Every time I post something on Twitter over 1500 people see what I say. But it gets much better than that.

Some of the “big dogs” on Twitter have thousands of followers. Well if you engage them in conversation guess what happens? All of their thousands of of followers see them talking to YOU. And some of them will want to know who you are and will start following you.

One very important thing on Twitter (or any Social Media Site) is time management. It’s very easy to spend hours on these sites. They can be very addictive. The first two days I was on Twitter I was there almost 12 hours a day! So be very careful.

Here is how I manage my Twitter Time

1 - Login into Twitter

2 - Spend a few minutes scanning the Updates

3 - Respond to a few of the Updates which will engage me in conversation with the person that posted the update ( I make at least 4 or 5 new friends every day doing this!)

4 - LOGOUT and go on with my business

I happen to be a Full Time Network Marketer with a company called Send Out Cards which is an Internet based greeting card company. If you are also in to Network Marketing make sure to sign up for My Free MLM Tips: http://www.HowToMLM.com/tips

Since joining Twitter a couple of weeks ago I have accomplished the following:

1 - Built a list of over 1500 followers

2 - Connected with some of the top people in the marketing niche. Have built some relationships through phone and email with people I have met on Twitter

3 - Showed the Send Out Cards Opportunity to several people that I have met on Twitter who were looking for a Home Based Business

4 - Met several guests for my Work At Home Radio Show.

In the next several weeks I am going to be sharing some Tips on Twitter. In the mean time If you haven’t already done so here what you need to do.

Getting Started With Twitter

1 – Sign Up for an Account at http://Twitter.com

2 - Follow me at http://Twitter.com/jackbastide

If you are into Network Marketing aka Multi-Level Marketing or MLM you can follow my MLM account as well. http://Twitter.com/HowToMLM

3 – See who I am following and Who is following me and Follow them to

4 – Search for people you know On Twitter and Follow Them

5 – Engage some people in conversation … they won’t bite!

5 - Have Fun!

Although My Niche is marketing there are people from every walk of life on Twitter. So just jump in the waters fine!

Jack Bastide

No matter how bad things got I was always able to pick myself up and dust myself off. You see every entrepreneur that has accomplished great things in life has failed … many times. One of my favorite types of businesses is Network Marketing also known as Multi Level Marketing or MLM . Now before you run for the hills … NO I don’t want to recruit you into AMWAY!

The Network Marketing company I do is called Send Out Cards The product is a system that allows you to Send Real Physical greeting cards from the Internet. These are not e-cards but real paper greeting cards that arrive in the mail with a first class stamp .

You can send hundreds of cards at the click of a mouse, create custom cards with your picture or logo, schedule cards to go out in advance and much more. And the cards are under $1 Each. You can even send gifts such as brownies, cookies etc. For more info on this system just click on the link that says Send Out Cards. You can find out more about MLM at my MLM Blog.

Ok so enough of this Amway talk What else do I do? Well I have done some copy writing for some of the biggest names in the Internet Marketing arena. I also like to create my own information products in various niches.

ON a personal note I love music. I like to go to concerts. My wife and I have season tickets for Disney world ( we live about 15 minutes away) and go to a lot of concerts at Epcot. I also like to play the guitar and sing myself. So thats a little about me. What about you?

Oh yeah don’t forget to follow me on Twitter.