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4 Clever Ways To Use Google+ Hangouts

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Google+ Hangouts are powerful ways to reach out to people for free. With Google+ Hangouts, you can do something as simple as talking with your friends or interview the experts of your niche. When you finish a broadcasted Google+ Hangout, the video goes on your YouTube channel, and it automatically gets posted to your Google+ timeline.

Cleverly using Google+ Hangouts will reward you in many ways. Here are 6 ways to cleverly use Google+ Hangouts:

  1. Offer a giveaway for the people who watch your hangout live. Promote this giveaway so people know about the giveaway and your Google+ Hangout. If you are hosting a Q&A, say that one person who asks a question will win a prize.
  2. Remember that a Google+ Hangout becomes a YouTube video. That means you can make any changes to the hangout that you would be able to make to one of your YouTube videos. You can add annotations, music, or links in your hangout in order to enhance its value.
  3. Guests have to call in, but it isn’t live until you start the broadcast. You can talk with your guest off air before you talk to them on air. If you are going to broadcast your first Google+ Hangout, you may be anxious at first. Talking with the guest will relieve you of that anxiety. Your guest may also be anxious if he or she hasn’t done many Google+ Hangouts, interviews, or public speaking. You can also make sure that you and the guest are on the same page by telling them what you will cover in the Google+ Hangout.
  4. Tell people who you are. This is what a lot of people forget. At the beginning of the Google+ Hangout, you can briefly talk about some of your accomplishments and what you are doing. Then you can introduce and talk about all of your guest’s accomplishments. You have everyone’s attention at the beginning of the hangout, and by telling your viewers who you are, they are more likely to remember who you are.

5 Pinterest Mistakes To Avoid

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Pinterest is a social network on the rise. Pinterest beats Facebook in numerous statistics. The impact Pinterest can have on a business is unquestionable. However, when it comes to the newbie using Pinterest, there are a lot of things that can appear confusing. Some people who have been on Pinterest for a long time also make these mistakes. Here are the 5 mistakes that I have seen people make again and again:

  1. Only creating boards and pinning about the business. People don’t just want to see pictures of your products and workplace. They want more. If you have more boards with different categories, you will be able to satisfy the needs of a more diverse group of people. The baseball lovers and social media experts can both be happy with your boards if you have some boards about baseball and other boards about social media.
  2. Not pinning pictures of your products or your business. Like all social networks, Pinterest is a place to promote your business. People worry about making the first mistake so much that they don’t create any boards for their business or products. You should have at least 5 boards for your business and have at least 10 boards out of the business. The more diverse your boards are, the better. If you get a big following on Pinterest, your business needs to benefit from that following.
  3. Pinning only once a week. On Pinterest and every other social network, consistency is key. The only way to get noticed by people who aren’t following you and to be remembered by the people who are following you is by pinning. I recommend pinning at least 10 times a day. When you get used to that rate, bring it up to 20 pins every day. It’s better to pin 10 times every day than to send out 50 pins on one day of the week and then not sending out any pins for the other 6 days.
  4. Creating too many boards too quickly. When you create another board, that board needs to get updated. If you create too many boards, updating all of them is going to be a challenge. I make sure I get one of my boards up to at least 100 pins before I create another board. Then, I add at least 10 pins to the new board. This ensures that the new board has some pins on it, and when someone looks at your board with 100 pins, they will have a lot of pins to look at.
  5. Not following others on Pinterest. When you first create your account on Pinterest, people have no idea who you are. Your account is just another one of the millions of accounts on Pinterest. In order to get noticed, you need to follow other people. As some of those people follow you back, you will begin to get noticed on Pinterest. By following others, you will go from an unknown user to one of those power users with a lot of influence. Here are 11 additional ways to grow your following on Pinterest.

Pinterest is a social network that you should not overlook. It is a game changer that has the potential to transform your business. By subscribing to my blog, you will get free access to the How To Master Pinterest Video Tutorial. In addition, you can take a look at these 100 Pinterest tips.

 

You Get More Exposure Each Time You Follow Someone

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Following back has been proven to work, but a lot of people don’t realize how much exposure you get from following other people back. It took me a long time to realize that for every person you follow, you get more exposure.

When you follow someone, you appear in their list of followers. When someone views that list of followers, they have a chance of finding you. If you follow 1,000 people, you are in 1,000 lists. If you follow 10,000 people, you are in 10,000 lists. All it takes to join a list is by clicking on the follow button. There will be people who appear above you since the list goes from the newest followers to the oldest followers. However, there will be a point when you are the newest follower and your name appears on the top.

If you consistently follow more people every day, you will always be on the top of someone’s list. People who seek a targeted following look at the followers someone else has and follows those people. If you are on the top of the list, the people who see you as a targeted follower are going to follow you.

Following others will lead to follow backs, but it also leads to you account getting promoted. This is just another reason why following others on Twitter is essential.

 

How To Rock Pinterest

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There aren’t nearly as many Pinterest tools as there are Twitter tools. In addition, most of the Pinterest tools need to be paid for in order to show what a Twitter tool would show you for free. Tailwind is a Pinterest tool that gives you a week’s worth of statistics for free, and then by paying $29/month, you get some features including statistics for up to 90 days. TwitterCounter is free Twitter tool that gives you 6 months of statistics without any cost.

The Pinterest tools are going to catch up eventually, but for now, there needs to be a way to get a big following on Pinterest. The best way to get more followers on Pinterest is by following the followers of someone in your niche who has thousands of followers.

The follow ratio is not as essential on Pinterest as it is for other social networks. There are a lot of people on Pinterest who have over 1,000 followers who are also following 5,000 people. You may have a ratio like this if you follow this plan, but it’s better to have 1,000 followers while following 5,000 people than having 100 followers while following 0 people.

After you follow as many people as you can until you exceed Pinterest’s maximum follow rate (500 people every hour), pin at least 20 times. The more pins you pin, the more repins you get. When I stopped using Pinterest, I didn’t get as many repins. Now that I am using Pinterest again and sending out at least 20 pins every day, I am getting at least 20 repins every day.

By pinning on boards with a lot of pins, you will also boost the exposure for your past pins. Some of your followers will click on your board to see what other pins on your board are. One of my pins that went viral and then stopped getting repins got repinned 10 times in a day. Maybe it will go viral again, or maybe I send out another pin that goes viral.

The recipe to rocking Pinterest is following a lot of people and being very active on the site. When you do both of those things at the same time, you will get more followers than ever before.

 

Stay Motivated With A Vision

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There are going to be some very difficult days. Everyone has them, and at one point, everyone considers quitting. Many successful entrepreneurs thought of quitting at one point. The reason why people think of quitting is because they don’t have the motivation. The way to tap into your streams of motivation is by creating a vision for yourself.

Where do you imagine yourself down the road? I’m not talking about weeks or months. I’m talking about 3-5 years down the road. Where do you see yourself? Do you see yourself as a bestselling author, an online trainer, or something else? Give yourself that vision.

Thinking about the vision won’t do you any good. Write your vision on a piece of paper and hang it up in your office. Make sure you see what you wrote for your vision every day. Thinking about the success that greets you on the other side will motivate you to do more work. As you do more work, you will get closer to turning your vision into a reality.

Not only should you create your vision. You should tell all of your friends about your vision. When you tell the people who are close to you, you will make yourself committed towards turning the vision into a reality.

When commitment and motivation meld into one, the burst of productivity will come and never go. Your vision will become real. Then, you’ll have to create another vision for yourself.

 

4 Ways To Make Money With Your Blog Content

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Visitors can read your blog content for free. They can view all of your blog’s archieves and read a book’s worth (or more) of content. When most people think of making money with a blog, they think about advertisements. I do not believe in advertising on a blog because the advertisements take people away from your blog. However, you don’t need advertisements to make a lot of money from your blog. These are the ways that you can make money with your blog:

  1. Search through all of your blog post titles, and choose one that can become your next book. Instead of trying to think of new ideas, one of the ideas you already came up with could be your next book.
  2. Create training courses based on your blog’s content. I created a Twitter Domination Training Course combining content from my book, blog posts, and other sources to create a product.
  3. Create YouTube videos about your blog posts while using AdSense in your videos. The reason advertisements on a YouTube video are good while advertisements on a blog are bad is that everyone is used to waiting 5 seconds. After 5 seconds, the viewer can skip the ad, and then they get to watch the video without any other interruption. Ads on a blog will result in constant interruption that ends when someone clicks on an ad and leaves your blog.
  4. Have blog post based consultations available for your visitors. Offer different consultation plans based on your best blog posts. If you charge $200 an hour and consult people for 20 hours every month, that’s an extra $4,000 every month!