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Set The Bar (Even) Higher

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When most people think about giving themselves goals, they give themselves the easiest goals imaginable. The goals may be, “writing 1 blog post every week that is only 100 words,” or something similar. While it is good that progress is being made, it is easily possible to make more progress. In order to make more progress, you need to set the bar higher.

When people think of setting the bar higher, they quickly think of reasons why the bar is already set as high as possible. There is no limit to how high any bar can be set. If a bar is set at 14.6 feet, know that it can also go to 15 feet. The bar can keep on going higher and higher.

As you set the bar higher and higher for yourself, you will be giving yourself challenging goals. However, when those goals get accomplished, you will see the results. You will be able to do something far better than ever before. You will be able to break records, be very productive, and ultimately be better off.

Setting the bar high requires work on your part. After that work gets done, you will have the prize: a new record, incredible productivity, a big increase in traffic, a lot of sales for your new product, or something else.

 

How To Make Money On Pinterest With PinBooster

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The big problem with Pinterest is that pinners can’t make money with their affiliate links. Pinterest would be the ideal social network to use affiliate links because of the pictures, the ability to add the price to the corner, and the ability to write a long description about the product.

The reality is that affiliate links aren’t a way to make money on Pinterest. However, there is a way to make a lot of money on Pinterest. If you want to make money on Pinterest, then you need to take a look at PinBooster.

PinBooster is the Sponsored Tweets for Pinterest. Advertisers have offers, and by accepting those offers, you get paid. The advantage with PinBooster is that you get to choose which board the ad goes on. I have a Pinterest board called Advertisements which is where all of the ads go.

Another advantage of PinBooster is that the price per pin is greater than the price per tweet. Sponsored Tweets recommends that I charge over $25 with 24,000 followers. PinBooster recommends that I charge close to $10 based on my 3,303 Pinterest followers (I have over 4,000 followers, but the statistic isn’t updating on PinBooster). I decided to calculate how much I would be able to charge per pin if I had 24,000 Pinterest followers. With over 24,000 followers, PinBooster would recommend my price to be over $70 per pin.

The difference is how each of the social networks work. Twitter is a giant feed that is constantly getting updated. Tweets appear and then get pushed to the bottom of the timeline. Pinterest is more organized into boards which allows the advertisements to be seen by more people. As a result, the cost per pin is greater than the cost per tweet.

PinBooster is one of the best ways to make money on Pinterest. Once you start using PinBooster, all you have to do is wait for the offers to start rolling in.

 

UPDATE: Now PinBooster refers to themselves as Loop88. Here’s the link.

5 Ways To Gain An Edge On The Competition

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The competition is fierce. Competitors are trying to gain an edge in any way possible. Since the ways we can communicate have been dramatically enhanced, niches are getting more crowded than ever before in history. An entrepreneur from Canada has to compete with an entrepreneur from India since the entire world has been connected. Human interaction has never been as frequent as it is now, and people from Canada and India are able to talk and compete with each other.

There are ways to get an edge on the competition and lead the stampede. Here are 5 ways to do that:

  1. Create something remarkable. Be the person who stands out and leads the stampede. By standing out and leading the stampede, you will get more attention.
  2. Focus on quality, price, convenience, or a combination of two. They all have their benefits, but you need to decide which one works best for you.
  3. Have the right mindset and vision. Have the “I can” mindset that will allow you to accomplish goals beyond your wildest dreams. You need the right mind combined with the right vision to give yourself the motivation you need to pass your competition.
  4. Focus on what the competition does not focus on. By focusing on different things, you will attract clients who always wanted someone to focus on what you are focusing on now. If you focus on low prices while your competitors only focus on quality, you will get more clients because you are the only one who focuses on low prices.
  5. Experiment and learn from them. By experimenting with different marketing strategies and products, you will be able to learn faster than the competition. By learning faster than the competition, you will be able to create something remarkable in a faster amount of time.

BONUS: By subscribing to my blog, you will get emailed twice a day with strategies and tactics that will allow you to lead the stampede and gain an edge on the competition.

 

Be Unique In Your Niche By Doing What No One Else Does

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In order to be unique, you need to do what no one else is doing. You have to be the only person who offers a specific product or service. Being the only person based on age and other variables also comes into effect. As long as people know you are the only one or “one of the very few,” you will get noticed.

The problem with being like the competition is that clients can easily go to someone else. By being unique, clients won’t be able to go to someone else without having a completely different experience. By offering your clients a good experience and being unique, they won’t stop buying your products.

What are the problems in your niche that aren’t being given enough attention? You can create a product or service that highlights that one thing that isn’t being given enough attention. By giving a problem attention, people will start to pay attention and realize that the problem exists. When they realize the problem exists, there’s only one solution–you.  If getting more conversations on social media was a problem that didn’t get enough attention, and you gave it attention, everyone would be scrambling to find a solution to that problem. By the time getting more conversations on social media became a well-known problem, find another problem that people don’t pay enough attention to.

This will allow you to be ahead of the competition and change the way that your niche works. Give yourself the driving wheel and steer your niche in any direction you desire.

There are a lot of things that individuals do that no one else would do. Some of these people will do those things for $5 on Fiverr. There are some strange gigs on Fiverr that show people being unique in different ways.

Do the one thing that no one else does. Once you do that, find another thing that no one else does and do that too.

 

10 Ways To Get More Likes On Facebook

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Facebook has over a billion users and is the most popular social network. Being the most popular social network also makes Facebook the noisiest social network in which getting noticed is difficult. However, there are certain ways to get noticed on Facebook and get a lot of people to like your page. Here are 10 ways to do that:

  1. Post consistently. People need to see you as an active user on Facebook in order to remember who you are and go back to your page often.
  2. Host weekly contests that require likes in order to participate. People will like your page to be a part of the giveaway, and soon some of that person’s friends will also want to be a part of the giveaway. You can giveaway your product (book, training course, etc) and get more likes at the same time!
  3. Build your following. The bigger your following is, the more likes you will get. Hosting successful contests is a great way to grow your following on Facebook.
  4. Post what your fans like. If your fans are into social media, posting interesting articles about social media will get more likes.
  5. Embed Facebook posts on your blog. More people will be able to see your post, and as a result more people will like your post.
  6. Post videos. There are some videos that are getting hundreds of thousands of likes on Facebook.
  7. Use humor whenever possible. If you give someone a good laugh, they are more likely to click the like button.
  8. Post random facts that are still relevant to your page. If your page is about social media, posting a daily social media statistic will get the job done.
  9. Post infographics. Infographics are very popular on the web, and most people read the entire infographic because it comes text with pictures.
  10. Post inspirational quotes. Those always get liked on Facebook and shared on any other social network as well.

Those are 10 ways to get more likes on Facebook. These methods will allow you to get more likes than ever before.