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5 Ways To Leverage Your Blog With Social Media

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When it comes to getting more traffic to your blog, social media can have a powerful impact. There are a lot of components that stop people from maximizing the potential of their social network and bring a lot of traffic to your blog. These are some ways to leverage your blog with social media and get the best results:

  1. Post your blog posts on social media consistently. On Twitter, I tweet about my blog 20 times every day. The other 4 tweets I send out on a daily basis are motivational quotes.
  2. It’s okay to have repeat posts on social media about the same blog post. Not everyone will see what you post on social media. In order to get more of your followers to see your blog posts, you need to send out multiple posts on your social networks about the same blog post. Depending on the blog post and how many tweets I already have scheduled, I usually tweet about an individual blog post once every two days. The blog posts that I tweet frequently get clicked and retweeted.
  3. Connect with your followers. If they have questions, you need to answer those questions. If your followers see you as a reliable person, they will ask you more questions and look at your blog.
  4. Add your blog’s link in your bio. This is a step that people miss. When you follow this step, there are some benefits. The benefit that a lot of people know about is when people view your bio, they may decide to look at your blog. A benefit that less people know about it that these links to your blog count as backlinks. Just by adding my blog’s link to my Pinterest account, I got a backlink from Pinterest. Having a backlink from a social network is a quality backlink which will boost your blog’s SEO.
  5. Quality, quality, quality. In order for a blog post to spread, it needs to be a quality blog posts. No matter how much marketing you do for a low-quality blog post, it won’t work in the long run. By writing quality blog posts, your marketing tactics will be able to work, and people will recognize you as an expert of your niche.

Social media is a powerful tool that has the potential to transform your blog if used to its potential. By utilizing these tactics, you will be able to dramatically improve your results and get more traffic to your blog.

Do you have any additional tips or suggestions that can help us all leverage our blogs with social media?

Why You Need To Have A Reward System

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We all get assigned or have to do a lot of work. On some days, the work is easy. On other days, the work can take hours. In order to consistently perform in a successful way, you need to stay motivated. Having a vision is important towards staying motivated. However, you also need to reward yourself every once in a while.

Some people focus on the work and forget about the reward. You need feel rewarded in order to stay motivated, and the best way to feel rewarded is by taking a break by doing soemthing you enjoy. You may enjoy running outside, watching your favorite TV show, or talking with friends on social media. Whether you enjoy any of these things or you enjoy to do other things, you need to reward yourself by taking a break.

After you give yourself the reward, you will be able to work with a clear mind. You will feel better about yourself because you rewarded yourelf. Rewarding yourself has the power to dramatically increase self-confidence.

Give yourself the break that you deserve. You will be better off with that break, and when you resume your work, you will feel empowered to achieve further greatness.

Focus On One Big Goal

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There are a lot of people who have many unrelated goals. The time these people spends accomplishing their goals gets scattered, and as a result, these people know a little bit about many things. In order to have a thriving business, you need to focus on one big goal.

All of your goals should impact the big goal. The big goal may be to increase blog traffic. Using social networks, writing longer blog posts, and doing some research on SEO are some of the things that you would have to do in order to increase blog traffic which is the big goal.

Few people focus on a big goal. However, those people are the ones who we know about. The farmers who plant the small pumpkins don’t get remembered as well as the farmers who plant the giant pumpkins.

You should focus on planting a giant pumpkin instead of planting many small pumpkins. It is better to be an expert in one particular area than to be an expert at everything. An expert at everything is really an expert of nothing, but an expert in a particular area is the expert that is highly sought.

What do you want to accomplish the most? That’s what you need to start first. All of your other goals should be related to what you want to accomplish.

5 Pinterest Mistakes To Avoid (Part 2)

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A while ago, I wrote a blog post about 5 Pinterest Mistakes To Avoid. After learning more about Pinterest and using it more often, I decided to come up with a second part for this post. Pinterest is a powerful social network, but it is important to avoid these mistakes:

  1. Not following others. I made the mistake of not following others back when I wrote Part 1. I decided to follow people on Pinterest in an attempt to get more followers. Before I followed people on Pinterest, I was gaining around 5-10 followers every day. Now that I am following back on Pinterest, I am gaining over 100 followers every day. More people know about following others on Twitter, but I encourage you to also follow people on Pinterest.
  2. Not commenting on other pins. By commenting on other people’s pins, more people will be able to see your account, and you may have a conversation with the pinner. Only 1% of an average pinner’s time is spent commenting on other people’s pins. By commenting on other people’s pins, your comment will appear on the top. If you are the only person who left a comment on a pin that went viral, a lot of people are going to see your Pinterest account.
  3. Not utilizing Pinterest’s search feature. When I follow people, I make sure to follow people who would be interested in what I have to say. I use Pinterest’s search engine to find popular boards about social media. I follow that board and a lot of that board’s followers. Then, I get more followers, and all of those new followers are also interested in what I pin about.
  4. Not making money on Pinterest with advertised pins. I am not a big fan of advertising on a blog, but Pinterest is different. You can create a board with all of the advertisements. You will be able to receive a commission for each of those ads. You can make money with advertised pins on Pinterest by using Pinbooster or by allowing advertisers to contact you on your blog.
  5. Not pinning infographics. It is possible to be successful on Pinterest without infographics, but they are very helpful. Mix some infographics with the other things that you pin.

Those are the 5 mistakes to avoid on Pinterest. You can take a look at Part 1 here.

 

6 Advanced Twitter Tips

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6 Advanced #Twitter Tips.

Twitter is a simple social network. Tweets cannot go over 140 characters and your bio cannot go past 160 characters. However, there are some advanced ways to use Twitter. By using Twitter to its fullest capability, you will be able to get more followers and engagement on Twitter. Here are 6 advanced Twitter tips that will dramaticaly improve your results.

  1. Use Twitter’s search engine to find targeted followers. Your targeted followers are the ones who are in your niche or are interested in your niche. By following the people who are likely to follow back, your following will grow, and your followers will be your targeted audience.
  2. Have a background picture that tells people about you. Use the background picture to tell people about your other social networks, your products, a phone number, and anything else that you want your followers to know about.
  3. Tweet links to your blog posts for most of the day. This will lead your blog to getting the most traffic possible. When I started tweeting about my blog more often, my blog’s traffic increased by over 300%. Social networks are all about building an awareness for something. In order to make people aware of your blog, you need to tweet about your blog more often.
  4. Include “r/t” at the end of some of your tweets. Tweets with “r/t” at the end get more retweets. Include “r/t” at the end of the tweets that you want to get retweeted.
  5. Use HootSuite to schedule your tweets. This will allow you to tweet consistently throughout the entire day. In addition, you should tweet every hour so more of your followers can see your tweets.
  6. Embed tweets on your blog. By embedding tweets on your blog, people will be able to follow you, retweet your tweet, or favorite your tweet with the click of a button. In addition, you should only embed your best tweets. Here’s how to embed tweets on your blog.

Twitter is a simple social network, but taking Twitter to the advanced level will allow you to get better results. You will get more followers, retweets, favorites, and mentions by utilizing these methods over time.

 

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.