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Finding The Needle In The Hay Stack

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This phrase is used to emphasize how difficult it is to find something. However, searching for the needle is well worth the wait. It may take months or even years before you find the needle in the hay stack. There are going to be some times when you won’t want to search for the needle in the hay stack anymore. However, finding the needle is what makes the adventure great.

It’s easy to find ideas. Most ideas are like the hay: common, boring, and used up. When you find the needle in the hay, you are going to come up with extraordinary ideas. Sometimes, when you find a needle in the hay stack, you’ll encounter another needle as well. The unique ideas start to build up, and as you implement them, you’ll be able to reap the benefits.

We know that the needle is in the hay stack. However, we have to find it in order to see what it looks like and the results it can bring forth.

Every Blogger Needs To See This Picture

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Why Bloggers Give Up Traffic Graph

Blogging can get rough at times. After constantly writing blog post after blog post, the same number of visitors come (or at times, less visitors come). However, there is a gold mine waiting to be discovered. That gold mine is your blog. Don’t take your eye off the prize, and do the consistent work that will allow you to receive that prize.

Forever Enhancing

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The entrepreneurs who are made to stick around don’t have peaks or maximum turning points. They don’t finish something, say it’s good enough, and stop enhancing it. The entrepreneurs who are made to stick around are constantly enhancing their products, visibility, abilities, and anything else they can enhance.

Getting 50 visitors a day isn’t enough for entrepreneurs made to stick. They do everything in their power to have 100 visitors every day. Once they make it to 100 visitors every day, it’s no longer good enough. 100 visitors a day becomes 150 visitors every day, and it continues to grow.

It’s important to be happy and grateful for what you have accomplished so far. However, you shouldn’t be satisfied with what you have accomplished. What you have accomplished now isn’t an end-game. There are more things for you to accomplish, and accomplishing them involves work on your part.

Keep on growing your business. When you’ve grown your business the way you’ve wanted to, find ways to enhance your business. Even the multibillion dollar businesses are finding ways to enhance themselves. Apple still comes out with new products. WalMart is still offering big sales. Twitter decided to go for IPO even though it’s already doing just fine.

There is no limit to how much you can achieve or how much your business can grow. By enhancing your business, you will be able to watch it grow like never before. The first “like never before” is going to be replaced again and again. Don’t stop. Keep on going.

5 Proven Methods To Get More Retweets On Twitter

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Twitter is a powerful social network, and retweets are an important factor towards how well you do on Twitter. Although it helps, you don’t need a giant following in order to get more retweets. You can get more retweets with under 100 followers. These are the 5 proven methods to get more retweets on Twitter:

  1. Add good pictures because they make a difference. If you average 1 retweet per tweet, the picture is going to get you 5 or more retweets if it’s really good.
  2. Tweet inspirational quotes. When I first started on Twitter, I wasn’t getting retweets for any of the blog posts (including ones not on this blog) I tweeted about. The tweets that were getting retweeted were the inspirational quotes. Now I send out 4 inspirational quotes every day, and a majority of those tweets get retweeted as well.
  3. If you decide you need to build a following in order to get more retweets, make sure your followers are interested in what you tweet about. Twellow is a great Twitter directory which breaks down its millions of members into different categories. You can find all of the social media experts, sports fans, and anyone else you would like to find. If those people are interested in what you tweet about, they are very likely to retweet what you tweet as well.
  4. #Use #Hashtags because they have been proven to get more retweets. These statistics provided by HubSpot prove my point. However, it’s important that you don’t use too many hashtags in a single tweet. My recommendation is to never go over two hashtags in a tweet.
  5. Tweet consistently because people need to see you. The more people see you, the more they will trust you. If you have one of Apple’s products, you probably bought it because you’ve seen Apple a lot. You’ve seen them in the commercials and their retail stores (which always seem to be crowded). When people see you on your timeline a lot, you are more likely to get retweeted because that trust grows.

Finding The Right Methods Of Growth

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If we all knew the right methods of growing a business, we would all be very successful. When we begin our businesses, we don’t know the right methods. In order to be successful, you will have to go through numerous experiments (not the ones where you dissect frogs) until you find the right methods to grow your business.

There are going to be some good days and some bad days. However, the good days are the ones you can replicate. There were methods you used in that good day that you can use again to produce more days that are just as good if not better.

I went from gaining 20 Twitter followers every day to gaining over 100 followers every day. This was not an on-off switch. I had to experiment with many possibilities before this happened. When you find a method that works once, it is going to work again and again. The methods I use today to get hundreds of Twitter followers are the same ones I have been using for months.

As you continue to experiment with different possibilities, you will learn the right methods and the wrong methods. When you find the right methods, continue using them and eventually find ways to enhance them.

The Problem With Collaborating For A Few Minutes

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A few minutes is the nice way of saying, “As little time as possible.”

A collaboration isn’t going to be successful if it only lasts a few minutes.

People might not even want to do the collaboration at all since it is only a few minutes long. When something is only a few minutes long, it usually gets marked as unimportant in our minds.

We all need to collaborate with a team and our clients. We need to know what everyone wants and find a way to give it to them. That’s how a true collaborative session works.

A few minutes isn’t going to work. Not putting up a time limit for your collaboration will allow everyone to get their say.

If you’re performing any task in a few minutes, it won’t be as effective as not giving yourself any time limit. Don’t stop yourself when you’re on the right path to making progress. Keep on going, and don’t focus too much on the clock.