Most of My FaceBook Friends Are Women

August 4, 2008

Well I guess I am busted in a way, lol. The other day someone was reading our BLOG article about our clients being mostly baby boomers and decided to do some research on who we really are. According to them their research led to a Dallas Morning News article about our business as a success story. That then led them to our original business site the one80group. Not to be happy with their results they decided to search for us on some sites like linked-In and FaceBook. After a while the individual came across my profile on face book that I setup some time ago. After browsing around my profile for a while they came to a question that they were very curious about.

Why are almost all of your friends and clients women?

To the average person it my look real simple. Here I am a "Married" nice guy with all these wonderful and beautiful women as friends. Conclusion, "hey he likes women," just like all the other men on the planet that fall for hooters and well pretty much anything aimed at men that includes women. Well, hate to disappoint our little researcher, but my friends are mostly women on FaceBook because I love working with open successful women. I am a type of entrepreneur that loves to be collaborative and supportive of each others dreams. I have found from my experience that women on the Internet work better together and believe in a common good. Most of the successful guys I know only want themselves to make more money, not everyone in the group. One of our clients the other day made a joke at the National Association of Women Business Owners event we were speaking at "here’s Mark surrounded by all these women again." I was like yep… I wouldn’t have it any other way. I would rather change the world than change my golf clubs. Here is my top reasons for having mostly women as my friends and clients.

Care about me as a person
Want to make a difference
Ask about my son
Have a sense of humor
If they disagree you can still be friends
Are good at relating to people
Dress as nice as I do, shirt and tie at work even when business casual. No Jacket though
Collaborative
Believe everyone can be successful
Appreciate my knowledge
Know what they like and don’t like
Will buy you a massage
Send nice cards to you
Checks come in pretty envelopes
Ask questions
Will tell you if you smell good
Like nice cars with style like me. I drive a JAG.
They are pretty
They smell nice
Don’t ask how much I bench
Talk about their dreams
Talk about mistakes and success in life
Write nice emails
Appreciate beauty
Like dessert, even if they shouldn’t

Now remember that our clients are not 20 something. So, no need to send me an email saying "I know lots of women and they aren’t anything like this." With age and experience comes wisdom.

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