LOVE AT FIRST TWEET

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This is not your typical love story because I have been happily married for 43 years.  It started in July with a notice from Twitter that I was being followed by Phyllis Neill, a woman I didn’t know…which certainly is not unusual for Twitter.

I quickly reviewed her profile and saw she was a business person living here in Birmingham, so I clicked to follow her.  Being curious, I then searched her LinkedIn profile & invited her into my network.

She quickly accepted & asked to meet for coffee.  The plot thickens. 

I met Phyllis at Starbucks in Vestavia & liked her instantly.  She was smart, aggressive, had a great deal of high level marketing experience, & was a social media wonder.  It dawned on me we could make a great team…so I popped the big question:  “How about becoming business partners?”

Now you may be asking how on our first date I could ask a stranger to consider a partnership.  Well, this is not as far fetched as it might seem.  By the time we met, I had done a great deal of Internet & social media due diligence on her.  I reviewed her LinkedIn profile; examined her work history, recommendations, connections—including our common connections; read her blog & I had Googled her.  I was not surprised she dominated her Google search pages. This woman was a find.

It didn’t happen that day, but Phyllis & I are now partners at WeMentor Social Media Marketing.  We help companies make money with social media. We wouldn’t have met without Twitter.  We wouldn’t have known each other without LinkedIn.  This is the true value of Social Media.  This is David Sher, your e-Networking guy saying it’s not what you know, but whOO you know.