I’ve finally joined the Yovia blog community.  The trigger was a Twitter message from a friend who had joined after seeing a recommendation from me!

One of the main reasons I’ve joined – and indeed why I am a Yovia fan from way back and a proudly Founding Member of the Yovia network – is that I’ve had the privilege and pleasure of meeting Yovia Founder and CEO, Jalali Hartman, and he is the real deal.

Jalali is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur, who gets genuine pleasure from solving problems for other people and helping them succeed in business.

Some people talk about how, more and more, we want to do business with people we know, like and trust (and as little as possible with those who don’t qualify on those criteria). Jalali definitely qualifies in my book.

Another key factor was that my own business goals are very well aligned with the Yovia philosophy “Spread the word – an active community is worth a 1,000 Adwords!”

And thirdly, the idea of a blog network, managed by Yovia, just made good sense. It is a regrettable fact that some blog networks can become a bit of a challenge to belong to, especially when no one seems to be in charge of standards. I’m completely confident that Jalali and his team will ensure this community doesn’t go down that path and remains as an excellent community and network we’ll all be very pleased to belong to.

I’m looking forward to getting to know the other members of the community and checking out their sites.

Thanks, Jalali, for making this possible – one person at a time.