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How To Keep The Momentum Going On Your Social Networks

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The growth of a social network is a slow process. However, when a social network starts to see a big pick-up in growth, you want that growth to either last as long as possible or for that growth to not stop at all. I remember when I went from gaining 50 followers every day to gaining 300 followers every day, I wanted that growth to last.

I ended up implementing the same tactics that resulted in me gaining 300 followers on a consistent basis. As a result, I was consistently gaining 300 followers every day. My following count rose dramatically.

After you get a momentum, you want to keep that momentum going. In fact, you want to get better results as well. Ever since I decided to tweet every 30 minutes, I have been getting more engagement for my tweets. My retweets, favorites, and Klout score have all gone up ever since I decided to tweet every 30 minutes.

In order to get better results after you master keeping the momentum, you need to dig deep into the facts, statistics, and articles on the web. The method I used to get 300 followers every day was following a highly regarded person’s followers in my niche. This person was also gaining 300 followers a day. However, my results became dependent on that person. When this person gained 150 followers for the day, I usually gained something close to that (this does not apply for famous people who gain thousands of followers every day). This 300 followers a day increase suddenly went down to a 150-200 follower increase every day.

I did some research and found the #1 most influential social media expert. This person gains over 500 followers every day. I decided to follow this person’s followers instead. Now, I am gaining over 500 followers every day as well. Now I have a stronger momentum which will most likely catapult me onto Forbes’ next Top 50 Social Media Power Users List.

How could I keep the momentum going? I could tweet every 15 minutes. Although that would require a colossal amount of time, I am considering pursuing the task. In addition, I am deeply considering buying access to HootSuite Pro to make scheduling tweets much faster. I could send out more tweets at the moment with pictures to get more retweets and favorites. Building strong presences on Vine and Pinterest will allow me to get even more followers on Twitter.

In order to keep the momentum going, you need to have a big goal in mind. For me, that goal is to be gaining 1,000 followers on Twitter every day before 2014 comes to a close.

 

The Hardest Thing To Do

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Taking responsibility for a mistake. Sometimes, we do not know we made a mistake. At other times, it is obvious that we made a mistake. Eventually, we learn to admit that we made a mistake. However, admitting that we made a mistake is not the same as taking responsibility for that mistake.

Admitting that you did wrong is acknowledging that you are not perfect. This is the right step towards freeing yourself from the shackles of perfectionism. However, this is not the hardest thing to do.

John F. Kennedy admitted that he made a mistake. He also took responsibility for that mistake. The public loved him for the fact that he took responsibility for a big mistake he made. For the time he was alive, John F. Kennedy proved to be an effective and charismatic president. To this day, we remember him from his saying, “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”

It is a lot easier to point fingers and accuse others. Taking responsibility for something you did is the hardest thing to do. I am fully aware that there are other hard things to do such as going vegetarian–or the opposite: going from vegetarian to eating meat. However, the option to take responsibility commonly gets presented but rarely gets implemented.

The easier, safer, and ‘better’ option is to play the blame game or at least not take responsibility for a mistake. However, the people who take responsibility for their mistakes are the ones who win respect, and in John F. Kennedy’s case, taking responsibility for a big mistake won him nationwide respect.

 

What The New York Times, Apple, Twitter, Lego, and JetBlue Have In Common

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They all started as ideas. Implementing the idea was the hardest step towards making these businesses thrive. The people who created these businesses knew that an idea is flaky until it gets implemented. You can think of the next Facebook, but that does not mean anything if the idea does not reach the real world.

Thinking of the winning idea is easy. All you need to do is make a small innovation on something that already exists (much easier). You can also think of something revolutionary that has the ability to change the world (don’t limit the realm of possibility).  The only way the small innovation or revolutionary innovation is going to have an impact on your business is by implementation.

Implementation is the most challenging part of business there is. Implementation forces us to get up and do work. Although many do not like the implementation phase, that’s what The New York Times, Apple, Twitter, Lego, JetBlue, and countless others did to get noticed.

 

20 Thoughts To Live By

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We always need motivation in order to get the challenging goals accomplished. Having the right mindset is an important factor towards channeling motivation into productivity. The mindset affects how you view goals and the work you need to do to accomplish them. In order to develop a stronger mindset, you need to live by these 20 thoughts.

  1. The grass may be greener on the other side, but instead of switching over, you can make your side greener.
  2. A goal that is 99% complete is a goal that is 1% incomplete.
  3. The more practice we put in, the better we do on game day.
  4. Leaders get to where they are by making it happen, not watching it happen.
  5. The only limitations we have are the ones we put on ourselves.
  6. We are able to do more if we believe we can do more.
  7. Success comes as a result of taking action.
  8. The only bad mistakes are the ones we do not learn from.
  9. It’s better to make a choice than it is to ponder on the choice for years.
  10. Quit on the things you do not want to do so you can focus on what you are good at.
  11. One person can do so much. Many people can do more.
  12. No one became successful in 1 day. It took many years to build Rome.
  13. Power comes from within the individual, not from someone else.
  14. Be better than you are expected to be.
  15. Putting in the work will allow you to become what you want to become.
  16. We do not need more. We need to start.
  17. 99 is a big number. It can either represent your problems or your successes.
  18. Each struggle you go through gets you closer to success.
  19. We all have great potential. We just need to unlock it.
  20. All of the hard work you put in pans out one way or another.

Which one was your favorite? Do you have any others to add? Please share your thoughts and insights below.

What To Do When The Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

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The phrase of grass being greener on the other side is a popular one. In several cases, the grass is not as green on the other side as it appears to be. However, there are some cases when the grass is much greener on the other side. Whether income on the other side is better or there is more happiness on the other side, there will be moments when the grass is greener on the other side.

The most common choice is to simply stare at the greener grass with the “I wish that was me” attitude. Looking at the greener grass on the other side does not make your situation any better. Your grass will not get any greener than it is now. In fact, the grass on your side may get worse.

The less common choice is to do what you can to make your grass greener than the other side. You do not necessarily have to convert to the other side to have greener grass. Many times, by going to the other side, you will be able to understand what you lost by going to that side. As a result, the grass on the side you left suddenly looks greener. The best thing you can do is work on making your grass greener. There is no reason to accept the rules that everyone else follows.

Don’t go for the greener grass. Make the grass you already have greener.

 

There Are No Limits To Success

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The easier road is to make up your own limits. It is easier to say that your boss won’t give you a raise than it is to work more often to eventually get the raise. It is easier to say that you are not qualified to write a blog post every day. The more challenging task is to write the blog post every day and get better results.

It is easier to give ourselves limits and define our boundaries. The problem with setting limitations is that once we start, we get good at it. A 10,000 follower increase becomes the limitation for the year because that’s how much effort will be put into gaining more followers. After a few bad days, the new limitation becomes a 5,000 follower increase for the year. If that goal gets reached, it was a good year for your social network…but it could have been better.

Instead of giving myself limitations, I give myself minimums. Ever since my following count soared, I gave myself a goal to gain over 200,000 followers every year. Although that goal sounds crazy, the rate in which I have been gaining followers will result in 200,000 followers every year (as long as the rate is consistent). I could gain more than 200,000 followers, but that is my minimum.

Limits prevent growth. Setting minimums and striving to exceed those minimums encourages growth.