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5 Reasons Why You Need To Share Your Location On Twitter

June 10, 2014 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

Twitter is a big place filled with a lot of people. Because of this, some people are fearful of including their location on Twitter. They do not want others to know private information that can make it easier for people to find them. However, the location you put does not have to be very specific. You do not have to reveal your address, but being too broad does not solve the problem either. Telling people that you live on Planet Earth is not a good location. On the other hand, telling people that you live in a particular location that is not too specific but not too broad is the best way to approach the problem.

On my Twitter profile, I reveal that I live in Scarsdale, New York. By doing this, I am not giving away my address, but I am not telling people that I live somewhere in the Americas. Just because a lot of people reveal their location does not necessarily make more people want to include their locations. Some people do not include their location on Twitter just because they are amazed that some people would actually put their location up. However, putting up your location on your Twitter account is a very good move if you want to excel on the platform. Here are five reasons why.

You get to make more connections, and those connections will be stronger. If someone currently lives in or used to live in the same town you live in now, you will have a stronger connection with that person. If you talk with this person for a long time on Twitter and find that this person is very trustworthy, you could possibly meet in real life.
You will get more local speaking opportunities. When businesses hire people to speak at their events, they look for the greatest quality for the lowest price. If you live near by, that means the company does not have to pay for a plane ticket for you to speak in public. If someone in New York City is looking for a public speaker, and it is visible on your Twitter profile that you live near the city, the person behind the event will want you to speak at the event.
You will get more fans. Your fans are the people who know everything about you that has been released to the public. They know your marketing strategies, great moments, bad moments, birthday, and location. Giving some people one more thing about you will turn them into fans.
You can connect with leaders in your niche and ask if you would like to meet. If one of the leaders in your niche lives near by, ask that person if they would like to meet you at a restaurant in the afternoon. If you ask a leader in your niche to do this, you must build a strong connection and talk with that person first. If a stranger came up to you and asked if you would like to have lunch together, you would be very likely to say no.
It gives you leverage during news stories and vacations. If you tweet, “Enjoying the sun at my vacation destination,” it will be winter in some parts of the world. When it’s summer in North America, it’s winter in Australia. If you say, “Enjoying the sun,” and your location for that tweet is somewhere in Florida, then you have more leverage. Instead of your followers asking where you are, they will be able to say, “Have fun at Florida.” Florida is not specific enough for people to pinpoint an exact location for where you are, but it is enough to give people an update about where you are.

Including your location on Twitter is an essential way to build more connections, get more engagement, and boost sales. The most common reason why people do not include their Twitter location is because they are afraid of their safety. The chances of someone looking through your account thinking about hunting you down are extremely unlikely. You will be safe if you put a brief but sufficient location for yourself on Twitter. All you need to do for your location is leave the city and the state/province that you live in. What are your thoughts about including your location on Twitter? Have you already put your location on Twitter? Please share your thoughts below.

70 Amazing Twitter Tips

June 9, 2014 by Marc Guberti 52 Comments

Twitter is a powerful social network that has transformed this blog and others as well. However, when it comes to using Twitter, many people get confused. They do not know how to create quality tweets with only 140 characters, build a strong following, or interact with the followers that they have. In this blog post, I will provide numerous tips that cover all three of these aspects on Twitter and others as well.

Retweet other people’s tweets. If you share other people’s tweets, then others will be more likely to retweet other people’s tweets. If you have not retweeted anyone else’s tweet in one week, then you are using Twitter wrong.
Grow a targeted following. A targeted following is the best kind of following to have. These kinds of followers are the ones who are interested in your tweets before they even start to read them.
Ask questions. Asking questions will encourage people to respond with their answers. This will allow you to engage more with your followers.
Answer questions to join a conversation. If you want to engage with new people, then look for the people who are asking the question. By answering these people’s questions with a tweet, you may get some new followers, but the conversation will more than likely continue.
Tweet every 30 minutes. Tweeting every 30 minutes allowed me to build a strong presence on Twitter. No, it’s not annoying to tweet this many times every day.
Better yet, tweet every 20 minutes. The more you tweet, the more times people are going to see you. Tweeting every 20 minutes allows almost all of your followers who logged in on that day to see one of your tweets. I didn’t annoy more people by tweeting this much. In fact, I gained more people and saw more engagement for my tweets.
Schedule tweets. The only way you are going to tweet every 20-30 minutes is if you schedule tweets in advance.
Get HootSuite Pro. It will make your life much easier and save you a lot of time. I am able to schedule 36 tweets in just 6 clicks.
Tweet about your blog 80% of the time. If you want to drive more traffic to your blog from Twitter, you need to tweet about your blog at least 80% of the time. Only tweeting about your blog 20% of the time is a mistake. Your followers won’t care if your blog posts are filled with quality content.
Tweet pictures. Pictures have been proven to increase retweets, favorites, and conversations you have with your followers. Basically, it’s something that you must do.
Tweet at the moment. Don’t schedule a question! If you get answers right away, you can extend those conversations by replying as soon as possible.
Get the Twitter mobile app. The Twitter mobile app allows you to tweet at the moment no matter where you are. If you’re in the parking lot waiting for someone to get to the car, you can send out a tweet with the mobile app and respond to people in real time.
Use Twitter’s search engine to find targeted people. It’s cool, reliable, and easy to find targeted people with Twitter’s search engine.
Follow journalists. If you follow these journalists and build a strong presence for yourself on the web, then these journalists will be more likely to write about you in a popular magazine.
Follow the right people. Follow targeted people who are likely to follow back, people that you like, people you want to (and can) build connections with, tweet awesome stuff, and/or the leaders of your niche. Don’t follow the people who are not going to provide more value for your Twitter experience.
Tell everyone about what you do in your niche in your bio. You bio is a place for you to tell people what you are an expert at.
Also tell people about all of your accomplishments. The accomplishments are proof that you are an expert. The social media expert who got on the Forbes Top 50 Social Media Power Users list looks much better than the social media expert with 500 followers.
Get more words in your bio by using commas and incomplete sentences. Your English teacher is not going to come and haunt you if you use sentence fragments and do not have a verb in your bio. Simply list everything you do as well as your accomplishments by separating everything with commas.
Use TwitterCounter to keep track of statistics. The best way to grow on Twitter is to know when you did well and when you did bad. TwitterCounter allows you to see how many followers you gain for up to 6 months (free version). It’s a nice tool to utilize.
Use Tweriod to see when your followers are on Twitter. Using Tweriod will allow you to identify the times when most of your followers on Twitter. Now you know when to send out your most important tweet.
Include RT or r/t at the end of some of your tweets. Including RT or r/t at the end of some of your tweets does lead to more retweets. However, if you overuse RT or r/t, its effect will ware off, and you will not get as many retweets if you include RT or r/t at the end of your tweets.
Thank the people who share your blog posts. Thanking people for sharing your blog posts is an unexpected act of courtesy that can result in this person sharing more of your blog posts and being grateful that you thanked them.
Favorite tweets on occasion. Talking with someone is better than clicking the little star.
Use more verbs and fewer nouns. You will get more retweets this way.
Use hashtags. Using hashtags also has a good effect on getting more retweets. However, any tweet with more than two hashtags does not get retweeted as much.
Make your tweets 70-100 characters long. This is just another way to get more retweets. 70-100 characters seems to be the sweet spot.
Do not connect your Facebook account with your Twitter account. It’s annoying for your friends and followers on Facebook. It’s not worth it.
Use your Twitter account to promote your other social networks. If Twitter is your biggest social network, it may take a small push to turn your other social networks into something extraordinary as well.
Promote your Twitter account on your other social networks. Getting multiple small pushes to leverage your Twitter account can lead to something incredible.
Pin a tweet to the top of your profile. Make it the tweet that you want everyone to see. Choose wisely.
Focus on one specific niche. People follow specific people. If you scatter around from niche to niche, people will not know why they are following you.
Tweet motivational quotes. No matter what your niche is, motivational quotes always increase engagement.
Get in touch with the leaders in your niche. Leaders chat with other leaders. Show people that you are a leader by talking with the leaders. In addition, you will be able to learn new things by talking with the leaders of your niche.
Tweet a tip of the day. This allows you to provide your followers with easy to access knowledge about your niche.
Use Twitter to make a difference. Vivienne Harr has done that quite nicely with her Make A Stand Lemon Aid. She’s also six years younger than me.
Take advantage of trending topics. If you say something clever, you will get more retweets for that tweet than your typical tweets. Trending topics are popular which means when you get discovered, it will have a big impact on your engagement.
Follow others instead of trying to be a rock star. Don’t be the guy or gal who wants to have 100,000 followers and only follow 10 people. It doesn’t work that way, and even if you got that to happen, you are not using Twitter to its fullest potential (building connections).
Use Bitly to shorten links. *Almost* any method you can use to save characters is a good method. Bitly links also come with detailed statistics.
Hire someone to create your background. I hired someone to design my book cover and saw unprecedented success in my book sales. Hiring someone to create an awesome Twitter background for as little as $5 on Fiverr can make you look more professional.
Follow back the people who follow you. This is all about building the connections that you have gained through Twitter.
Do not use automated DMs. That is, unless, you like getting unfollowed.
Properly use DMs to contact some of your followers. Personalized messages to a few followers strengthens the connections you have with those followers. In addition, you can have long conversations by sending DMs back and forth to one of your followers.
Turn your Twitter followers into fans. Tweet incredible content and build your credibility. Become someone who your followers would be proud to show off to their friends.
Become a guest blogger. Guest blogging is an easy way to get more exposure and followers on your Twitter account. In addition, becoming a guest blogger builds on your preeminence.
Get people to interview you. You credibility gets boosted and you get more followers at the same time.
Interview other people. For most people, this tip is easier than Tip #45. The people you interview will be very likely to follow you on Twitter and tell their followers about you.
Give yourself goals to aim for. Instead of striving to gain more followers, strive to gain 10 followers every day. Then go up to 20 followers every day and keep on building.
Proofread your tweets before you send them out. It sounds like something completely unnecessary, but it is important. You would be shocked with how many typos are on Twitter.
Look at the Twitter strategy you already have in place. Identify its strengths and areas of improvement.
Don’t argue with anyone on Twitter. It’s wrong and makes you look bad.
Regularly check your profile and keep it up to date. The information you wrote on your bio three months ago could be outdated. You could also be doing something more remarkable than anything on your bio and may want to add that in your bio.
Only list one person for Follow Friday. Follow Friday is overrated, but if you participate in it, only list one person for every Follow Friday. No one likes to see a list of 10 usernames with no motives to follow those people.
Review your Twitter apps to make sure there are no problems. That’s how you get hacked. I got hacked once because I did not review my apps carefully. Learn from my heartache.
Use ManageFlitter. It’s a great tool that allows you to identify the people who are not following you, the people who are following you, and other cool features as well.
Use Tweepi. Tweepi helps you grow a targeted following by displaying a list of someone’s followers based on last tweet, follow back ratio (the most important), number of followers, and more!
Look at your Bitly links and continue tweeting the links that get clicked on the most. If people liked it the first time, they’ll like it again. If you see a decline in clicks for one of your Bitly links, then that link needs to take a break.
Have perseverance. Remember that Rome was not built in 1 day. Neither was anyone’s Twitter presence.
Don’t ask to be followed. Instead of asking people to click the follow button and build a connection made from pity, build your presence on Twitter.
Don’t ask for a shout out. Just don’t. Ever.
Don’t send out boring tweets. If you send out boring tweets such as status updates of you walking your dog or something else, it will bore the reader.
You should tweet about one thing 80% of the time. Stay focused on one niche. You can go out of your niche sometimes, but use this 80% rule to make sure most of your tweets are the ones that your followers want to read.
Don’t think about lost followers and connections. Instead of looking at what you lost, look at what you have gained.
Know why people follow you and would want to read your tweets. Knowing is the first step towards seeing better results.
Check your notifications three times every day. By checking your notifications three times every day, you will be able to reply to more of your followers faster. If you check your notifications more than three times every day, then that’s even better.
Use a real location in your bio. There’s no harm in adding your location, and it can result in strong connections with people who either live near by or used to live where you live now.
Raise your Klout Score. People look at your Klout score to determine how influential you are on the web…and Twitter!
Have a good bio picture. The bio picture is one of the most important factors when someone decides whether someone will follow you or not.
Use Twitter every day. If you want to become successful on Twitter, you need to be dedicated.
Look at what the leaders of your niche tweet. Then see if you can tweet something similar.
Tweet slideshares and infographics. Those happen to work very well on Twitter.

Those are 70 Twitter tips. Chances are you will choose some of these tips from the list and implement them one at the time. In order to get the best out of this article, I highly recommend that you revisit this article once a week so you can see how many of these tips you are implementing. By implementing all of these tips consistently for a long period of time, you will eventually be able to gain thousands of followers on Twitter every week.

Why Personal Responsibility Is Powerful

June 9, 2014 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

Personal Responsibility

Someone can tell you what to do and give you all of the methods. That’s what bloggers like myself do. Bloggers give their readers different methods that they can implement. However, there is a level of responsibility that is required by any individual in order to see the desirable results come in. In order to become successful, you need to be good at being responsible.

Learning different methods to get more followers on Twitter is great. It’s what happens after that person learns about getting more Twitter followers that determines the level of responsibility that individual has. Learning how to get more book sales, how to get more repins on Pinterest, and how to get more blog traffic is great. The level of your personal responsibility determines whether you are likely to implement the tactics to see the desirable results or not.

It is possible to lead a horse to water, but it is not possible to make the horse drink the water. This is where personal responsibility comes into play. After seeing how other people become successful, it is up to you to implement those tactics so you can become successful. No one is going to do this for you. You have to take sole responsibility for your goals and vision.

If you want your dreams to come true, then you need to take responsibility for your own success. You are the person who decides whether you will become successful or not. The amount of work you put in and what you do when you are putting in the work determines how likely you are to become successful. Personal responsibility gives you the mindset that allows you to get this work accomplished and achieve your dreams.

Like most of the mindset components that are important for success, personal responsibility is something that we all want to ignore. It’s easier to come up with an excuse and not do anything. It’s also easier to give up on dreams and work at a survival job because, “there’s no other option.” That’s a classic excuse. There are many components that make up success, but personal responsibility is the steering wheel. No matter how fully equipped your car is, it doesn’t go anywhere without the steering wheel.

What are your thoughts on personal responsibility?

Mortality As A Motivational Tool

June 8, 2014 by Marc Guberti 2 Comments

End Of The Road

Everyone is looking for a source of motivation. Some people look for motivation in the music they listen, the books they read, and the inspirational quotes they get from the Forbes list. However, few people are able to keep the motivation they get from the songs and quotes they read and listen to on the internet. In order to gain and keep motivation, you need to think of a bigger picture that will almost force you to accomplish your dreams. It’s very easy to think of, but for most people, it will also be very scary. This kind of motivation is your own mortality.

Although not everyone agrees about where you go once time is up, it is agreed upon that we are by no means immortal. Many people want to think that they will live forever and only pursue dreams at an old age when they seem almost impossible to reach. Although there are success stories such as the one of 65-year-old Colonel Sanders founding KFC, most people give up on their dreams and do not get their goals accomplished at this age. Unfortunately, this occurrence is too common in every age group. Fewer people are pursuing their own dreams because they lack the motivation to do so.

I get my sources of motivation just like anyone else. I have an inspirational quotes app on my iPhone, watch some of Tony Robbins’ videos, and read success stories about people in my niche who make six figures every year. Then came a new way for me to gain motivation–thinking about my own mortality. In my opinion, one of the few problems (depending on how you look at it) technology will not be able to fix is our mortality. Technology has made us live longer and can make us live even longer, but immortality is out of the question.

If someone came up to me and told me about the motivational “secret weapon”, I would be very objective when I heard that the “secret weapon” was thinking about mortality. It’s scary and makes us realize that we don’t live forever. However, the person who used his own mortality as a source of motivation was the leader of a generation, Steve Jobs. I could go on about how he got kicked out of Apple and then ended up saving the day while doing other cool things along the way, but it is more important to realize what motivated him throughout his life. Some of the years he lived were very tough. He was adopted, dropped out of college because his family couldn’t afford it, and right when Apple started to become successful, Steve Jobs got fired. The difficulties he faced and his perseverance alone are incredible. Even when he became successful and regained his position as Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs continued to be innovative. The motivation behind his desire to do so much in his life was his own mortality.

His belief in using mortality as a motivational tool towards success was reflected upon in one of his most famous inspirational quotes, “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

We all have an effect on the people around us, and some of us have an effect on people on a global scale. Steve Jobs had an effect on people in California, New York, Europe, and everywhere else in the world. When most people think of Steve Jobs, they think of the visionary that transformed Apple. There are also people throughout history who are remembered for bad reputations and villainous acts. People will remember you for how you lived your life and what you did while you were here.

You may have a bucket list of all of the goals you want to accomplish. You may have the list of 100 places you want to visit before you die. You may want to make $1 million every month so you will be able to live a life without financial worries. You may want to become a bestselling author because it is something you strive for. You may want to run the mile in under four minutes for the glory of doing so. You may want to become successful at a faster rate and start moving instead of staying where you currently are.

We all want to accomplish many things in our lifetimes. However, we only have so much time to accomplish all of the things that we need to accomplish. There are more valuable things we can be doing with our times than watching 32 hours of TV every week. Time gets lost this way; time that you can never get back. Having efficient time management is one part of the puzzle, but a strong motivation the other part of the puzzle.

That motivation, the other piece of the puzzle, is thinking of your own mortality.

It’s something very scary. It’s something that few people ever want to think about. There are so many things uncertain about what happens when mortality creeps in. We have no clear idea of what happens after this stage and are forever left guessing until the time comes. However, there are events in your life that you can control. You may not be living the ideal life right now, but you can change that. Whether you are a stay at home mom trying to bring in more revenue, someone who works at three different jobs, or someone who gets fired too often, there is always enough time to change your life and fulfill your dreams. Colonel Sanders started KFC at 65 years old and got to live to be 90. He did not let the life he lived earlier prevent him from pursuing and eventually fulfilling his dream. Now we remember Colonel Sanders as someone who stayed true to his dream and never gave up on it, not someone who gave up on his life and stopped trying.

The leader of an entire generation used his mortality as a motivational tool to be very productive and accomplish his dream in a predicament where most people would have given up. Although avoiding the thought of mortality at all costs is the easier option, it may be the motivation you need to realize your time is so valuable and you only have so much of it in your lifetime.

8 Ways To Get More Revines On Vine

June 8, 2014 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

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Vine is a social network on the rise with over 40 million users. Vine will continue growing, but in order to take advantage of Vine’s growth, your content needs to spread. Some people have gone viral on Vine while others struggle to get one person to revine their Vine. Getting more revines is super important towards you going viral on Vine and gaining hundreds of followers every day. In order to get more revines on Vine, follow these 8 tips:

Get more followers on Vine. In order to get more revines, people need to know about you. By building your following, you will build an audience of people who will be more likely to revine your videos. I wrote an entire blog post that goes more into detail about how you can get more followers on Vine.
Post content that people would want to revine. Your followers are not going to revine a six second video of a torn up couch. Ask yourself if your friends would revine what you are putting up. If they wouldn’t revine what you posted on Vine, then few people will.
Revine other people’s videos. In order to get more revines for your videos, you need to revine other people’s videos. Some of these people will revine you back while other people will revine you so they get a revine back.
Have a giveaway. If you give away a $25 Amazon Gift Card to one person who revines your video, then most of your followers will come by and revine your video. Who here doesn’t want a $25 Amazon Gift Card?
Use your other social networks to promote your videos on Vine. If you already established a strong presence on one of your social networks, don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Use your strong following on one of your social networks to get some awareness for another social network.
Get some of your friends on Vine. If you are in each other’s videos, then if one friend goes viral, then you all go viral. In addition, you will be able to revine each other and then get more revines from your followers.
Vine every day. If you post one video to Vine every day, your revine rate will go up. Better yet, try posting two videos on Vine every day. It only takes six seconds to create a video (unless you are doing stunts and need retakes).
Don’t give in. You may not a substantial difference in the amount of revines you get within a few days or weeks. However, you will eventually see a big difference in the number of revines you get. By not giving in, you will be able to see the big change happen.

Those are 8 ways to get more revines on Vine. What are your thoughts on the list? Do you have any additional methods you use to get more revines? Please share your thoughts and advice below.