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6 Ways To Get More Connections On LinkedIn

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LinkedIn is a different social network compared to the others. Instead of followers, there are connections. When someone gets to 500 connections, it shows up as 500+ connections while other social networks show the exact number of followers someone has. LinkedIn is a social network that allows you to easily email the people who you are following. This will allow you to build your list of quality clients. In order to get more connections on LinkedIn, follow these 6 tactics.

  1. Send out 25-50 invites every day. You are bound to get people to accept the invitations and get more connections. The reason you don’t want to send out over 50 invitations every day is because LinkedIn usually suspend people who have a low approval rate. It may take a few days before some of the people connect with you, but if you send out too many invitations and don’t get enough people approving you, your account is in risk. That’s why sending out 20-50 invitations every day is a good concept to go by.
  2. Promote your LinkedIn account using your other social networks and blog. I am frequently telling others about my LinkedIn profile. The only way to get more connections is by telling more people about your account. If you want to connect with me, send me an invitation here. I will connect with anyone who requests it.
  3. Send invitations to people who viewed your profile. If someone viewed your profile, they know about you. When you send these people invitations, they are more likely to say yes. As you get more people approving your invitations, send more out.
  4. Don’t use the automated LinkedIn message. I won’t penalize anyone who uses the automated LinkedIn message when they connect with me, and I’m sure other people do the same. However, there are some people who will not connect with anyone who uses the automated LinkedIn message. In addition, by not using the automated message, you are more likely to have the person say yes to the invitation.
  5. Use LinkedIn’s search to find people who are likely to connect with you. LinkedIn’s search will allow you to find people who share your interests or are in the same niche. By finding these people, you will be able to identify the people who are more likely to connect with you.
  6. Send invitations to your friends. This one seems like an obvious one, but many people overlook the benefits of connecting with friends. This is especially important for the new people on LinkedIn who have only a few connections. If you send an invitation to a friend, that person is almost guaranteed to connect with you on LinkedIn. As the number of connections build, people will search for you on LinkedIn and connect with you.

Getting connections on LinkedIn will allow you to interact with other people in a way that is different from other social networks. Getting connections on LinkedIn does not have to be challenging, and implementing these tactics will eventually make you become one of those people with 500+ connections.

How To Figure Out The Rush Hours For Your Twitter Followers

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Being in the middle of rush hour traffic on Twitter is a lot better than being in the middle of rush hour traffic on the highway. When the rush hour traffic comes to Twitter, you need to be ready to engage with your followers. That rush hour is when most of your followers are on Twitter. However, it can be challenging to find out when those rush hours are. It can be challenging, but this challenge becomes so much easier with Tweriod.

Tweriod allows you to see when your most recent 1,000 followers are using Twitter. For people with 1,000 followers or less, Tweriod will show you everything you need to know about your followers. Tweriod will identify the rush hours for your followers. This is not about the rush hour traffic on Twitter.com. This is about the rush hour traffic of your followers.

There will be people who have over 1,000 followers and don’t get to see the perfect picture of what’s going on. One way to approach the problem is by using math to figure out the answer. If you have 2,000 followers, multiplying everything by two will give you a better understanding of how many followers are on Twitter. This is not a perfect method, but it gives you an idea. If you have well over 1,000 followers, the best way to get the exact numbers is by buying a premium service.

By identifying the rush hours of your followers on Twitter, you will be able to identify the times that your tweets will be seen the most. You can tweet out a link to your best blog post during the rush hour, and as a result, more people will see that tweet. By taking advantage of knowing your followers’ rush hours, you will be able to send out the best tweets you can and know that most of your followers saw it.

 

6 Lessons I Learned From Typing Over 150,000 Words For This Blog

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After writing a little over 650 blog posts, I have typed over 150,000 words which averages out to 227 words per blog post. It is not possible to spend that much time typing that many words without learning a few lessons, so here are the 6 lessons I was able to learn.

  1. Hard work leads to big rewards. My first 150,000 words on this blog led to a remarkable webinar, more sales for my book, over 350 daily visitors, the ability to meet more people on my social networks, the confidence to write more books, and other things as well. I can only imagine where I will be when I write my next 150,000 words.
  2. No one knows everything about their niche. Some of my blog posts were inspired by other blog posts and videos that I happened to look at before writing the blog post. The best way to have more ideas for blog posts is by watching other people’s videos and reading their blog posts as well.
  3. People notice you as you put in more time. When I went from tweeting every hour to every 30 minutes, more people mentioned me and visited my blog posts.
  4. Some people get better results by using what many people have differently. 30 minutes on Twitter can be utilized by reading all of the tweets for a trending topic. 30 minutes on Twitter can be utilized by scheduling tweets. 30 minutes on Twitter can also be used to connect with your followers. A lot of people forget about connecting with their followers. How people use Twitter depends on how influential they are.
  5. We don’t start out strong (but we get there with time). My first blog post was a very brief introduction of myself. Looking back at the blog post, I could tell that I rushed it in order to click the publish button and have something up when people visited my blog. Even when I first published that post, I was averaging only 1 visitor a day (thanks Mom). My first tweet was even worse. The tweet basically said, “Buy this product” with a link to the product. If you go to that tweet today, the link does not even lead to the product anymore. I was eventually able to learn from my (many) mistakes, and my writing proves it.
  6. You never know how close you are to exponential traffic. I first created this blog towards the end of 2012. I got 38 views in November. I never got over 1,000 views in a single month until September 2013. Ever since that month, my blog traffic has been growing exponentially.  The next month led to over 2,000 views. The following month led to almost 4,000 views. December led to over 5,000 views. To start off 2014, my blog got over 10,000 views in January. If my blog continues to grow exponentially, I may be up to 100,000 views before the end of 2014. There were some times when I did not want to write a blog post because I knew people would not visit it. By not giving up, I was able to go from the 38 views in November to getting thousands of views every month.

Those are the 6 lessons I learned from writing over 150,000 words for this blog. I’m sure I have written over 500,000 words total with my books, tweets, and other blogs combined, and I have learned many lessons throughout the journey. There will be a point when your blog posts reach a combined total of over 150,000 words. By remembering the lessons I have learned, you will be empowered to write more blog posts and take yourself straight to the finish line (those 150,000 words). Once you cross the finish line, it’s time to enter into another race.

 

The Secret Formula To Creating Quality How-To Blog Posts

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What is a quality blog post? There are a lot of definitions of the term. Regardless of the definition you have of writing a quality blog post, it has become more known than ever that writing quality content helps in the process of standing out from the crowd. There is a secret formula that some bloggers use to create quality blog posts, and I am going to share that formula with you. Here’s the secret formula:

  1. Tell people what you are writing about in a clear manner. What is your blog post about? The headline of your blog post tells people exactly what you are going to be talking about. If the headline’s topic is clear, then people will already know the topic of your blog post as they read it.
  2. Have a strong intro. There are millions of blogs to choose from, but your visitors chose your blog. Once they know what your blog post is going to be about, you need a strong introduction. A list of different tactics is not as good as a paragraph or two making the visitor want to continue reading your blog post. Don’t rush into the tactics and the how-to part of your blog post. Give your visitors a quick intro that encourages them to read on.
  3. The first sentence is critical. The first sentence is the difference between having someone read your entire blog post or having someone read another blog. The first sentence needs to grab the visitor’s attention. Common ways to do this are to ask a question, offer a really cool statistic, talk about a big change, or use a testimonial. There are other ways to create a really good first sentence, but it is important to know that the first sentence sets the tone for the entire blog post.
  4. Have good tactics that are organized well. The better your tactics are, the better your blog post can become. Choose your two favorite tactics. Put one of those tactics as the first tactic and put the other tactic as the last one. This is just like the concept of having a dynamic opening sentence and a dynamic closing sentence.
  5. Support your tactics. This is where a lot of people get it wrong. Some people only support their tactics with a short sentence while other people add every word possible to support their tactic so the blog post looks better. A longer blog post does not necessarily equate to a better blog post, but a blog post in which the tactics are poorly supported is not a good one either. I usually support my tactics with a paragraph at most. It is better to support your tactic well with a paragraph than it is to support a tactic well with three paragraphs.
  6. It’s not about the length of the blog post. Seth Godin’s blog post, Polishing Junk, is less than 50 words. Despite that, his blog post was shared over 1,500 times on different social networks. I’m sure there are people reading this blog post saying, “You’re talking about Seth Godin. His blog posts always get shared that many times.” The reason his short blog post got shared many times is because he was able to make his point quickly. He could have added a bunch of statistics and testimonials to his blog post, but he didn’t need to. He already made his point. I’m sure the people who visited that blog post read every word of it. That does not always happen with longer blog posts.
  7. Have a strong conclusion that sums up why the visitors needs to implement the tactics. End your blog post on a good note by telling your visitors what they will be able to accomplish by implementing the tactics you talked about. The conclusion needs to grab their attention just as much as the introduction so you leave the visitor wanting more.

By implementing these tactics, you will be able to write how-to blog posts that grab the attention of more people. When you grab more attention for your blog posts, more people will share your blog posts. Sooner or later, you may end up like Seth Godin and get over a thousand people sharing all of your blog posts. That only becomes possible when you write quality blog posts. After you master writing quality blog posts, the only thing left to do is get more traffic. As you share your blog posts on your social networks, and your traffic numbers go up, people will read as many of your blog posts and sharing as many of them as they can.

 

How Sticky Notes Have Become A Big Part Of My Success

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The scenario I am about to describe happens to everyone. The scenario happens to some people more than others, but it happens to everyone. The scenario is the “I forgot” scenerio where something was important, needed to get done by the end of the day, and did not get completed.

Some people encounter the scenario too many times. I used to encounter the scenario frequently as well. The goal of writing 4 blog posts in 1 day turned into a day where no blog posts were written simply because I forgot about the goal. Other goals took its place and I used my time doing different things.

That problem stopped happening once I decided to use more sticky notes. I have all of my sticky notes next to my computer. While I am typing, I quickly look over the sticky notes to remind me of everything that I need to do for the day. Sometimes I use 3 sticky notes in 1 day. Other times, I use 10 sticky notes in 1 day. The amount of sticky notes I use primarily depend on how many things I need to do before the end of the day.

Although I did not start doing this in the New Year, I am going to start saving all of the sticky notes. At the end of 2014, I am going to look at all of the sticky notes that I wrote for the first half of January, and all of the 11 months of the year. Then, I’ll lay them all out on a table to see all of the goals I gave myself to accomplish in the year. We will all be able to figure out if all of the sticky notes will take up the entire table or if I need a second table to put my sticky notes on.

Sticky notes allow me to remember what needs to be done so I have less “I forgot” scenarios. After I write something on a sticky note, the only thing left to do is implement. Sticky notes have become a big part of my success, and when you use sticky notes, they will become a part of your success as well.

8 Ways To Bring Up Your Klout Score

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Your Klout score allows people to know how influential you are on the web. Having a high Klout score can give you more opportunities and more admiration from others in your niche. Whether your Klout score is in the 70’s, 60’s, 50’s or below that, increasing your Klout score is a great way to increase your influence on the web. Many times, when people see someone in their niche with a high Klout score, they are automatically influenced by that person. Since the first time I saw Jeff Bullas’ Klout score, I have been actively reading his blog posts and subscribed to his blog.

There are benefits to having a high Klout score, but in order to boost your Klout score, follow these 8 tips:

  1. Build a targeted following. In order to build a targeted following, find people in your niche with over 100,000 followers and follow their followers. Make sure the people you follow through this method are the people who are likely to follow you back. Following a targeted audience will result in more people mentioning you and starting conversations with you as well.
  2. Tweet content that is worthy of retweets. Retweets are a factor towards boosting your Klout score. By tweeting quality content, you will get more retweets which in turn will boost your Klout score. An easy way to get more retweets is by tweeting inspirational quotes and amazing pictures.
  3. Build a following on your other social networks. Klout score is based on the accumulation of your social networks. The more social networks you have, the higher your Klout score will be. By being influential on multiple social networks, your Klout score will rise.
  4. Host a giveaway that requires people to mention you in order to win. As the amount of people mentioning you increases, your Klout score will increase as well. Increasing your Klout score is one of the many benefits of hosting your own giveaway.
  5. Turn your followers into big fans. Not all of your followers will go from followers to fans, but your fans are more likely to engage with you on your social networks and share your posts.
  6. Interact with your followers…a lot. The more you interact with people, the more your Klout score increases. If someone shares your article, thank that person for sharing your article. That way, your Klout score increases, and that person is more likely to share more of your articles as well.
  7. Ask your friends for help. If your friends retweet your tweets, like your pictures, and interact with you on social networks, they are contributing to your Klout score. Ask them to help out, and they will probably say yes.
  8. Be consistent and stick with it. If you stick with it, you are going to see your Klout score rise dramatically. Soon enough, you will see your Klout score going from the 40’s to the 50’s and beyond.

By boosting your Klout score, you will be given more opportunities to network with the people in your niche. In addition, more of your followers will turn into loyal customers who become eager to buy your products.