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If Everyone Knew How To Do Everything

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Nothing would be extraordinary or unique. Everyone would know how to make a computer. Everyone would know how to code an app. Everyone would know how to make a robot.

The reason there are extraordinary and unique things happening is because everyone doesn’t know how to do something. There are things that we don’t know how to do.

If you know something that the competition doesn’t know, they will want to know. We won’t outgrow the need for information. If you’re the person who knows how to do something important, people will want to know how to do it as well.

If the thing you do isn’t important, make it important. Tell people why what you’re doing is very important and why they should know too. Then, people will want to know what you know. These people will end up subscribing to your blog, following you on social networks, and reading your biography on Wikipedia or anywhere else they can find it.

The 500th Post And The Will To Continue

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When I wrote the first post for this blog, it wasn’t getting any traffic. 500 posts later, my blog is getting hundreds of visitors every day. Most bloggers give up before they get the hundreds of visitors every day that they were destined to get.

This blog post was not written for me to boast about an achievement. Instead, this blog post provides a testimonial. If you are a blogger who isn’t getting any traffic yet, or if you don’t have a lot of followers on social media, those visitors and followers are going to come. There will be days when you consider doing something else.

If you continue to blog and use social media while finding new ways to reach more people, you will achieve incredible results. You will go from no visitors to hundreds of visitors. You will go from 100 followers to 1,000 followers. You will go from 1,000 followers to 10,000 followers.

Entrepreneurs will all encounter a point in which they will consider giving up. If you don’t give up on your entrepreneurial dream, your ideas are going to soar.

The Difference Between An Entrepreneur And A Wantrepreneur

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Both wantrepreneurs and entrepreneurs want something to happen. They both want more sales, want more traffic, want to create a remarkable product, and want a lot of other things to happen as well.

The entrepreneur takes steps of action to turn the want into a possession. The wantrepreneur wants, but the wantrepreneur just wants to skip to the achievement.

The difference between an entrepreneur and a wantrepreneur isn’t whether or not they want something. Both want a good outcome. The single characteristic that splits these two people apart is the motivation and determination to take steps of action to make those results happen.

Pinterest Etiquette: Follow Back

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Following back on Twitter has been established as a powerful method to get more followers. When I started following back on Twitter, my results changed dramatically. There are many people with over 100,000 followers who are also following that many people. Following people on Twitter also helps build quality connections that are made to stick.

Pinterest is the same story with a different tone. There are some people who say following back on Pinterest isn’t important since it’s a new social network. These people say that following back is not part of Pinterest etiquette. This past week, I decided to test that statement.

I was stuck at around 2,300 Pinterest followers, and I was relying on PinWoot and YouLikeHits to get more followers. They are good places to get more Pinterest followers, but I wanted to find a way to mimic my Twitter results on Pinterest. So, I started a following frenzy. I went from following only 100 people to following well over 1,000 people. I learned about Pinterest’s maximum rate of times you can follow people as well.

I focused on following people who I believed would follow me back on Pinterest. There are people on Pinterest with over 10,000 followers who are following twice as many people. I followed those people and others, and sure enough, I got follow backs.

On the first day I used this plan, I got around 20 followers. When I woke up the next day, I got a notice saying I got 37 extra followers. One of those followers even left a comment on one of my pins. I never gained that many followers in a single day on Pinterest without the use of PinWoot or YouLikeHits. I have been utilizing this plan ever since. In fact, while I was writing this blog post, I was still getting more followers on Pinterest.

Before I started following back on Pinterest, my goal was to get to 3,000 followers before the New Year. Now that I am following back on Pinterest, my goal is to get to 5,000 followers before the New Year. If you follow me on Pinterest, then I will gladly follow you back.

Why Giving Away Your Products Will Dramatically Transform Your Business

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There are a lot of bestselling authors who use numerous methods to promote their books. I have been looking through all of the methods that various bestselling authors shared. There were some of the common ones such as use social media, increase traffic, and so on. However, there was one uncommon practice that commonly appeared as a method used by bestselling authors to increase sales.

Giving away a product for free is an uncommon practice. A majority of people don’t follow this method. The thought of giving your own content away for free baffles a majority of entrepreneurs. After all of that hard work, giving anything away for free seems crazy.

Giving away a product is going to result in you losing some money in the beginning. One bestseller advised to, “Give till it hurts.” The secret is that you’re not famous yet. People don’t know about you, and they don’t know what to expect from your products. If a product is free, the risk of being unsatisfied gets taken out of the equation. By giving your products to consumers for free, the consumer will appreciate your product for its quality. They tell their friends about you, and you’ll get more sales.

Giving away products will also allow you to create testimonials. For bestselling authors, these testimonials appear as reviews on popular e-commerce websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. When a consumer sees all of the good reviews, they are more likely to buy the product. The consumer thinks, “If other people liked the product, I’ll probably like it too.”

Most entrepreneurs aren’t open to the idea of giving their product away for free. When these entrepreneurs imagine giving 100 of their own products away for free, many will avoid giving away their products no matter what happens. However, giving away your product will allow you to create the buzz that won’t go away.

The road is going to be very bumpy in the beginning, but the ROI is going to be legendary.

 

How To Build Connections With The Right People On Twitter

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There is that person we want to contact. That person may be a social media expert, an author, a sports analyst, or someone else. Before you use the methods I am going to share, it’s important to find the right people to build the connections with. If you don’t like music, trying to build a connection with someone who likes music isn’t going to work. Finding the right people to connect with is a starting point.

When you find the right people to connect with, check their past tweets and see if they have had any conversations. The more conversations someone has on Twitter, the more likely they are to respond to one of your tweets. If someone doesn’t respond too often, you should still try to make the connection if you want to, but you’re not as likely to get a response.

The next way to build the connection is by tweeting something that will continue the conversation. Saying “@ThePerson, I am your biggest fan!!!” or “@ThePerson, thanks for following me!” might get a thank you in return. Those kind of conversations aren’t going to continue for a long period of time.

A good way to get someone to notice you is by praising their work. When you recommend one of their products, don’t say, “Product By The Person.” Instead of that, say, “Product By @ThePerson.” @ThePerson will respond, and then you ask them a question to continue the conversation. Here are some examples of good questions:

1. What gave you the inspiration to do what you do? 

2. Would you like to be interviewed for my blog? 

3. What advice would you give to a beginner? 

4. When are you coming out with a new product? I’ll be the first person to buy it. 

5. What would you recommend? (books, movies, blogs, etc but only pick one to ask @ThePerson)

Who are you trying to build connections with on Twitter? You can use the Q&A Part of this blog or leave a comment so I can help out (but only if you want the help). I will also respond to your tweets.