Who wins in this duel to the death of social media websites? Well, I love Facebook and I can’t get enough of it. Its nothing like logging in and chatting with friends who I haven’t seen in years or browsing through everyone’s photographs. But, there is one thing I LOVE about Twitter and that is, it encourages interaction among people who you do not know. If you don’t know someone on Facebook, it can be extremely difficult to interact with them. Either people send you messages like “How do I know You?” If you attempt to add them as a friend, or they outright ignore your requests.

But, with Twitter, you can follow whoever you want. It is up to them to follow you back, but there are an occasional person or two who actually manually except their follow requests, but the vast majority of people will allow you to follow them without any further action.

For business in particular, this feature is the most important. How do you get new clients or prospects if you can’t interact with them. Facebook has gone to the extreme to “protect” people, making sure no one can thoroughly used their services for marketing but Facebook, that it has become difficult to have a regular page and properly promote.

Following more people quickly is the number one reason I enjoy Twitter more than Facebook, it opens more doors a lot faster than Facebook.

I often use http://search.twitter.com to follow people in different niche markets or people who I feel will be willing to network with me. It is probably one of the best tools out there to use to find other like minded people. I still love Facebook but Twitter is best when it comes to marketing to a given target audience in the less amount of time.

Most of you out there with businesses are using Facebook, but are you using it with an advantage. I would suggest to any one starting out promoting things on Facebook to create a new account. Don’t bother your best friends or your mother with your business posts and links, begging them to visit your pages, this is not the way to do it. If you have a music group, if you have just started an online clothing company or any other type of product or service you would like to offer online, please CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT. It will only take seconds!

Create a new account and add more friends. Instead of adding your same buddies, add other local people from around town who might be interested in your products, or if you are a musician or have another niche product use http://openbook.org/ to search for people who might be interested in your products. Just type in any keyword you would like to search for and then in seconds a list of people who’s profiles contain that keyword will be generated. Add a few people who seem interesting.

Its not hard at all, it could be easy, but you must be proactive.

One of the things I hate is when people add me to Facebook or Twitter and never interact with me. They call it social media for a reason, please be willing to engage with your fans or people who might support your business.

So basically I got a scare of a lifetime on Monday. I woke up on Monday bright and early getting my regular routine down: checking websites, checking in on progress from web developers and business partners across the globe. Then, my mother told me her chest was hurting. She occasionally says she doesn’t feel well, normally for sympathy sometimes (not always lol), but today was different she was stuck stiff in one position, I could tell something was wrong.

Now normally my mother is stubborn and doesn’t like to go to the hospital but today I didn’t have to ask to much and after about 10 minutes she agreed to go. So, we got her dressed and into the car, to the hospital we went. Upon arriving they got her in the back pretty quickly, but my day was only about to begin and it was only 9 am.

Nurses saw her in a matter of minutes, they took a couple tests, EKG and took some chest x-rays, but things didn’t look too bad. The doctor came in and asked a few questions about her medical history. The only noticeable thing they could observe was that her blood pressure kept bouncing up and down up and down up and down. Fast forward a few hours, at about 1 o’clock they decided to admit her for further observation.

We made it to the 3rd floor of the hospital at about 3 o’clock. I could tell this was going to take a turn for the worst because when we arrived in the room, the pillow on her bed was dirty, didn’t look like people got much attention on this floor, looked just like a holding tank for sick people or for sick people who are ready to go home. They didn’t hook her up to any monitor, all she had was a box that recorded the heart rhythm and oxygen, which she didn’t really need.

I asked her was she doing any better, she said, a little bit, at this time it was 3:30 pm probably close to 4 pm. She told me well since I am in here you go home and get some rest and do some other things. I didn’t want to go at first but then I said okay. I knew around this time or a little later one of my brothers would probably come up and check in on her.

She told me she was doing a little better, but still felt some pain, but she insisted that I go home. So, I left her for a little while and called here over the phone at about 6:20 to see how she was doing. We were laughing and joking on the phone, she was already complaining about how uncomfortable things were, how bad the food was etc. We laughed like we normally do, she is a very sarcastic lady, hilarious. So, a nurse came in and she said she would call me back.

Well…need I say I never got the call back from her, but it was a call from my brother that almost gave me a heart attack. The phone rang and my brother U told me “you need to get up here, they found mom on the floor unresponsive and they are working on her now.”

My pulse must have accelerated, panic set in. Grab the shoes first, pray, run out of the door, what to tell the kids (I was babysitting my niece and nephew ages 11 and 9) I didn’t really know what to do first and in what order. I don’t even think I could pray myself or even how to do it, with my nerves getting to me. I called my pastor, who answered the phone on probably the last ring, I told her what was going on and she prayed with me, while I was putting on my shoes, afterward I ran out the door while trying to say as calmly as possible “hey kids I’m going to the hospital to check on grandma again, be good I’ll be back soon.” I had no idea when I would be back or how that night would turn out, but after a little prayer, it calmed me a bit.

Went to the hospital and my brother met me downstairs, he was going to retrieve something in his car at the time. And he said she was stable, but they were still working on her and about to move her to ICU, the doctors were talking to her and she knew her name and so forth.

I could tell my brother was a little shaky, just thinking about it. He informed me, that when he and his wife made it to the floor, they asked him who they were there to see and immediately the nurses started yelling “stay right there, stay right there, you need to go into the waiting room.” He knew something was wrong and all the nurses were running back to her room. Basically she went into cardiac arrest and they only knew it because they heard her fall. About 3 shocks where given to jump-start her heart again, after having 0 pulse.

20 people I must have spoken to over the phone that night, informing my aunts and uncles, my mothers brothers and sisters, what had happened.

Ironically, this all took place only 1 hour after I talked to her over the phone.

By 9 o’clock they had a catheter inside her heart with dye so that they could figure out what was going on. Long story short, basically her main artery was blocked, the one going down the front of the heart. She wasn’t getting any blood through, she had an irregular heart beat as well. The doctor said she was lucky to be alive. People who have irregular heart beats don’t normally respond well to the shocks from the fibrillator. Stents were placed in the heart to open up the artery in the heart.

There were about 15 people at the hospital there supporting her, a lot of her church members came to pray with us and all of my siblings and my aunt G, cousin G and uncle C.

Things went well after she got revived.

Which makes me ask the question, “Do we have to be half dead in order to get proper assistance in this American Health System we have?”

I find it hard to believe that we were in the hospital 8 hours before she had a heart attack, why couldn’t they find out what was wrong sooner? I keep asking myself this question. I may never know the answer to it, but at least I have my mother here with me and that is enough for me.

Moving forward, there is a lot to be thankful for as well as aware of.

Heart disease the number one killer of women in America. I think I have enough motivation now to lose weight, eat healthier and live a more active life.

Not like I shouldn’t have been more conscious a long time ago, but we all know there comes a time in life where we become more aware of other people’s feelings, our feelings, what we like,what we don’t like, our purpose in life; its a process and if this had to happen for me to take things more serious, I emphasis more here, then so be it… done. I learned what I had to learn….THANK GOD FOR THE TEST. I think I almost failed it, but at least I can go back and look at the score sheet and figure out where I went wrong, it was only a test, but not the Final Exam!

Update on Mom:

My mom is doing much better now, still in the hospital trying to get some rest. She had so many visitors the nurses were getting mad. But she is still resting, trying to recuperate, still on cloud nine because of some of the medication. Trying to talk to someone high on Vikatan is like talking to a newborn baby…they get going in and out of sleep lol its funny to see. She’s doing good just trying to rest.

I want to thank all of you, friends, family and church family who supported myself, my mom and my family this week with prayer, with your presence and with your love. We won’t forget it.

Regards,

“I’m the connoisseur of all things me!”

-Yetta

Welcome to Yetta-Ville: I am Kinyetta Lashawn (Yetta), founder of GOYETTA.COM. I started this website as a case study to see how quickly I could grow a website and how profitable it can become. I have been in the internet marketing field for about 3 years now. I have bought many courses, acquired many mentors, whether they know it or not, started many celebrity gossip sites, done outsourcing all over the world and have even had a business in  Costa Rica. I might admit, I am kind of a hustla!

I have analyzed the top sties across the blogosphere and have kept tabs on how these sites are making money, how the internet is turning people in millionaires and how even the brokest person in the world can take a few dimes and become an internet sensation.

It is happening all around us, whether its Soulja Boy, he started on the internet when there were few on Youtube, the young man was making moves and making money. With Justin Bieber, he did a few cover songs on Youtube and it became a hit, he acquired a manger who helped him attain great SUPERSTARDOM and now he is a phenom and all the young girls love him. Also one of my favorite Youtube stars, Timothydelaghetto, as perverted as he is, I feel the guy is very real in where he is coming form and has found a way to turn his desires, passions and goals into a lucrative business. The Asian brotha sings, acts and does all kinda crazy ish in his Youtube channel, but the dude is mad talented and I love his grind.

From Necolebitchie.com to Sandrarose.com to TheYBF.com these are examples of women who are taking the blogosphere to the next level in the blogging grind. You can’t do a search for urban gossip on Google and not see these names appear.

If you ever wanted to learn how to make money and how to grind in this new era…the internet is the place to be.

I have had many websites in the past, I make money from 2 that I can count, but I want to try something different. I want to give the world a part of me, I want to brand myself into a household name. I don’t want to sit behind a website, computer screen and not get credit for the hard work I am about to put into this site. I’ve learned the way, I know the way, but its finally about to become time to actually do the way, in order to manifest the dreams and the visions.

To all of those people out there who feel they have a passion for something but don’t know the way, my message to them is to stay off of facebook and twitter and actually use Google Search to learn something. I spent countless hours in the books at the library, grinding it out, reading books I felt were going to enhance my life. I have spent countless hours on the internet trying to find out how I was going to “make a meal myself” in the words of Kanye West. The knowledge is out there and as long as you have access to a library, a free platform to educate and elevate, you have the power. Knowledge is power but without access to that knowledge there can be no power.

So, I have decided to give the world ME and Yetta is what you will be getting over the lifecycle of this site. Through this site I will be documenting each step of how I am making money, what I am doing and how I am getting followers and users to this site.

If you ever had a dream to do something on the internet or to become “internet famous” this is the spot for you. I will be walking you through step by step whats going down and how to do it, a-z. For those out there who ever been through the whole “make money online” type things or typed that into Google, well my words of wisdom for you is there is no GET RICH QUICK, system on the internet, you can make money online, millions of people are doing it, but it takes time and it doesn’t come without work and putting time in the grind. So, find something you like, do it, dream it, live it, you can do what ever you want to do, its cliche but its the truth.

Remember when we were a kid and we used to say ” when I grow up I want to be….[fill in the blank]” well my sons and daughters, you’re a grown man/or woman now, its time to find the course of action to get to where you need to be. Man up woman up, don’t do what I say do, do what you see me do.  In Yetta-Ville you will find my thoughts and opinions on many issues and topics we all think about, from money, entrepreneurship, health, politics and more. I plan to edutain you. Learn something, think a little, laugh a little!

“Live the dream: create the vision, study, plan, take action, achieve!”

” I’m the connoisseur of all things me!”

-Yetta