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What Do You Want To Be Remembered For?

January 4, 2014 by Marc Guberti 2 Comments

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None of us are immortal, and people will have to remember us for certain things. Some people are remembered in a better way than others. How do you want to be remembered? Do you want to be remembered as an expert of your niche? Do you want to be remembered as a stand up guy?

In order to be remembered the way you want to be remembered, you need to take steps of action in order to be remembered that way. If you want to be remembered as a stand up guy, you need to act like and be a stand up guy. If you want to be remembered as an expert of your niche, you need to act like and be an expert of your niche.

There is no right answer to what you want to be remembered for. You can be remembered for being a stand up guy, an expert of your niche, both of those things, or something else. You are the only person who has the power to decide what other people will remember you for.

What do you want to be remembered for?

How I Went From Gaining 10 Pinterest Followers A Day To Gaining 100 Pinterest Followers A Day

January 3, 2014 by Marc Guberti 7 Comments

Since Pinterest is the newest social network, the rules of success are not as established. The rules of success for Twitter and Facebook are common to find on blogs and books. There are not as many established rules for achieving success on Pinterest.

One of the rules to succeed on Twitter is to follow people who are interested in your niche and likely to follow back. I used this method on Twitter and got a dramatic increase in followers. While my Twitter account was growing, my Pinterest account was only averaging 10 followers a day.

I was implementing and testing a lot of methods on Pinterest, but I was still gaining 10 followers a day. While this was happening, my Twitter account didn’t miss a beat. I saw that consistently following people interested in my niche was working on Twitter. The methods I was using on Pinterest were not changing the rate I gained followers, so I decided to follow people interested in my niche on Pinterest.

The results were incredible. I was stuck at around 2,300 followers when I started implementing this tactic. I followed over a thousand people on Pinterest, and I ended up getting 100 new followers that day. On the next day, I gained another 100 followers. I no longer have to follow more than a thousand people in order to gain 100 followers. However, implementing a tactic that I use on Twitter for my Pinterest account allowed me to dramatically increase my following.

Following others is important on Pinterest. You may be the next person to go from gaining 10 followers a day to gaining 100 followers a day.

Why You Need Links To Your Older Blog Posts In Your New Blog Posts

January 2, 2014 by Marc Guberti 5 Comments

The older a blog post gets, the less times it gets visited. As new blog posts push older blog posts to the second, third, fourth, and other pages of your blog, they start to lose attention. That lost attention can also result in a decrease in traffic. However, if you constantly make your old blog posts new, you will be able to increase your traffic to those old blog posts.

When people click on a link to one of your older blog posts, it decreases your bounce rate percentage. Decreasing your blog’s bounce rate is a little known way to boost your SEO. In addition, your visitors will see more of your content. The more someone sees your content, the more likely they are to remember who you are. If someone likes your new blog post and your older blog post, they may search around your blog for a while.

Adding links to your older blog posts in your newer blog posts is the ultimate way to get people to stay on your blog for an extended period of time. Right when someone finishes reading your newest blog post, they can click a link to an older blog post. If your older blog posts have links to your other blog posts, you will be able to increase the amount of time someone stays on your blog.

If you include links in your new blog posts to your older blog posts, you will be able to keep people on your blog for a longer period of time and decrease your blog’s bounce back rate. By implementing this tactic, you will increase your traffic and SEO.

The Problem With Waiting For Something To Happen

January 2, 2014 by Marc Guberti 4 Comments

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Some people who think of a great idea wait for everything to come in place. The problem with waiting for everything to align is that waiting does not result in the alignment. In order to get the alignment, you need to take action.

Goals don’t come to the people who don’t go after them. In order to accomplish your goals, you can’t wait for them to happen to you; you have to happen to them. You are the one who controls your own success. The more work you put in towards accomplishing your goal, the more successful you are going to become.

If you keep on waiting, the time will never be just right. The right time to start is now. There is no reason to wait for something to happen. Waiting does not result in progress. Work results in progress.

After enough waiting, it may eventually be too late to implement a goal–someone thought of it already, what you are thinking of wouldn’t be as popular now as it would have been, or something else. In order to implement your goal before its too late, you need to do the work that will allow you to accomplish your goal.

Don’t wait for a goal to happen. Happen to it.

How To Stay Out Of The 365 Day Mindset/Trap

January 1, 2014 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

The New Year has the potential to kickstart a year of productivity. Some people will have more productive years than others. The best way to stay productive is by staying out of the 365 mindset/trap. There are 365 days in an entire year, and it seems as if it will take a very long time before the next year comes along.

This is the trap that people fall into. January is a month of great productivity. Then, February is a less productive month, and all of the other months aren’t very productive either. This is because most people think that 365 days is more than enough time. In 365 days, many people think that they can accomplish all of their goals while going weeks or even months without doing any of the work needed to accomplish those goals.

This results in a year-end urgency because the end of the year is getting closer. In order to stay out of the 365 mindset/trap, challenge yourself to get more accomplished with a certain time limit. I give myself a 12 week limit to accomplish my goals. Less time results in me staying more productive. I have tripled my progress, and by doing that, I have more time to experiment with other marketing tactics, create more products such as Lead The Stampede, and relax.

The relaxation part comes after the work is done. By working intensively for 12 weeks, you will be able to relax for the entire 13th week. Imagine doing no work for an entire week. You will only be able to accomplish your goals and get an entire week off by thinking of 12 weeks as a year.

The 365 day mindset/trap is not an option because it creeps closer slowly and steadily. The people who have the 365 day mindset/trap end up being the hare. The tortoise (those 365 days) end up passing by without getting noticed. When the change gets noticed, it may be too late.

Instead of thinking of a 365 day year, think of a 12 week, or 84 day year.