What a blast
Last night, at 11:59, I sent out an announcement of the release of The Zen of MLM to my email list. As I hit “Send,” I wondered how long it would take to get my first reply. It took about 48 seconds.
At 12:00 midnight I received an email from Doug Firebaugh: “I love it! How can we help, dude?” Within another few minutes I’d received an invitation to talk about the book on a radio show, several invitations to appear on national training calls to promote the book, declarations from several others that they would promote the book widely in their own networks, and one networking leader (John Stetler) actually turned around and sent my announcement out to his entire leadership list. (That was at 12:31, a whole thirty-two minutes after I sent the announcement.) It was hard to go to sleep.
And in the morning, the notes kept pouring in. I know it’s the Internet, but that’s not what it feels like. It feels like everyone I know just showed up for a barn-raising.
Not all notes were positive. One complained that all the endorsements are by men (I know, believe me; I’m working on this!); another pointed out that it was hard to find the place where you order, and still another reported that the “Buy the book” links didn’t work for her (both problems quickly addressed by my wizardly Webmaster Luke–and yes, he does use the Force). Throughout the day there have been numerous fixes, darnings, tweaks and fidgets on the site–especially the page where you actually buy the book. If you encounter any difficulties, glitches or annoyances, please let me know!
So . . . the launch is officially underway. And man, that barn is going up fast. You people are amazing!