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I have already been asked a couple of times what I did to earn my investors so much money this week.  The short answer is that beyond the fact that we are rewarded for almost all of our social interactions, I don’t know. The folks at Empire Avenue wisely don’t want us to know exactly what is in their secret sauce. This way we have to focus on genuine interaction and not some machine like responses designed to juice our results.

Anyway, I haven’t tweeted the most.  I don’t have six RSS feeds hooked up.  I only use Facebook once or twice a day. Many people have me beat on all these fronts.

I do post to this blog a couple of times a day, but others do the same with theirs. I try to do a bit of everything, and that probably gives me a bonus.

My understanding though is that Empire Avenue is not just about how much you say, it’s also about how much gets said back to you and by whom.  The more people that you engage in real two-way conversations the better.  If those people are also very active on the site, I believe you also earn more influence.  It’s better to have Empire Avenue’s equivalent of Oprah write you than the local morning show human-interest story guy.

Two-way conversation is where I think that is where I think I excel here.  I really am a Chatty Cathy.  I also try to leave people comments and the like that elicit a response. I often ask people something about themselves when exchanging shoutouts. (For example, you will notice this blog post ends in a question.)  This quest for real dialog is both something that comes naturally to me and something I cultivate.  After all, real conversation is so much more interesting than the typical online small talk.

So, let’s have a conversation.  I tend to be interested about almost everything. Tap into whatever activity credits you get from my influence score.  What would you like to discuss?