Social Media Marketing Business & Friends to Be Thankful For This Holiday Season

Social media marketing brings us all so much to be thankful for. It brings us a platform to learn and grow business, with people who we want to work with.

A good friend of mine sent this to me. I met her through business, as she
and her husband own a company that is a client of Rostin Ventures.

I have never seen her face to face, just communicated through email, mail - yes people still use snail mail. We are real friends on Facebook, a social media application we both enjoy using to learn about fun things our families are doing, and yes, we - and our companies - do real business together.

We are two business owners communicating in social media to develop relationships and do business together - yes even on Facebook.

This year, she and her husband are going to spend about a month in Hawaii, two
weeks together alone and two weeks with their family joining them for the
holidays.

What a joy it is to work with people like we come in contact with.

Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy reading this.

Julie Ross
President, CMO
Rostin Ventures, Inc.

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Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because
they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't
know it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine.

I got to thinking one day about all those people on the Titanic who
passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut
back. From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.

How many women and men out there will eat at home because their
husband or wife didn't suggest going out to dinner until after
something had been thawed? Does the word 'refrigeration' mean nothing
to you?

How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while
you watched 'Jeopardy' on television?

I cannot count the times I called my sister and said , 'How about going
to lunch in a half hour?' She would gas up and stammer, 'I can't. I
have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known
yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain' And my personal
favorite: 'It's Monday.' She died a few years ago. We never did have
lunch together.

Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule
our headaches.. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to
ourselves when all the conditions are perfect!

We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Steve
toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet.
We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of
college.

Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter,
and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we
awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of 'I'm going
to,' 'I plan on,' and 'Someday, when things are settled down a bit.'

When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to
adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas.
Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five
minutes, and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of
Rollerblades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.

My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It's
just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a
spatula and eliminate the digestive process. The other day, I stopped
the car and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the
way home, I would have died happy.

Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to...not
something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon and had
only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would
you say? And why are you waiting?

Make sure you read this to the end; you will understand why I sent this
to you.

Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened to
the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic
flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you run through
each day on the fly? When you ask 'How are you?' Do you hear the reply?


When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred
chores running through your head? Ever told your child, 'We'll do it
tomorrow.' And in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch? Let
a good friendship die? Just call to say 'Hi'?


When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened
gift....Thrown away.... Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the
music before the song is over.


Show your friends how much you care. Send this to everyone you consider
a FRIEND including me if you consider me a friend. If it comes back to
you, then you'll know you have a circle of friends.

To those I have sent this to... I cherish our friendship and appreciate
all you do. We have some history together.


Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we are here we
might as well dance!