JAXTR

This is an interesting service: JAXTR (www.jaxtr.com).

It allows you to connect to people by phone (and, by the same token, to be reached by phone) WITHOUT revealing your identity.

There's an explanatory video on the site, it's worth checking out.

This (free) service is particulary useful to people who have something to sell, such as their expertise, products or services. Of course, it's also useful for dating purposes since you get to screen incoming phone calls and the caller does not know your name nor your phone number (Jaxtr does the intermediary phone connection and masks all personal data).

Best of all, you can call anyone no matter where they are on the planet -- international phone calls are FREE.

However, it's good to remember what Emerson said when the telegraph was first invented. "We can now connect Maine and Boston. But Maine and Boston may have nothing to say to each other."

In other words, the success secret is to have something VALUABLE to share or trade or sell. That something is usually knowledge.

A lot of people have already started to share their knowledge via a blog or an ebook or a podcast.

However, JAXTR is different in that it's interactive. Concretely, this means the other person can actually help you develop your knowledge, by simply asking you questions.

For example, I can call strangers and say, "I know lots of stuff about how to start a business, how to develop a new product, how to boost your creativity, etc. Now ask me all your questions!"

Then, the other person might ask a series of questions, and I would answer to the best of my knowledge. However, there will be questions whose answers are extremely valuable, so I won't give away those answers. I would instead offer to sell the answers at a certain price. The other person just has to pay me via PayPal, say, $100, and I would then reveal the answers via a PDF document or a podcast or a Jaxtr-mediated phone conversation.