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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.

The Impatient Desire To Win

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There are plenty of sports games. There are the debates. There are the board games as well. We have been taught to understand that winning is better than losing. Winning the soccer game is better than losing the soccer game.

However, people want the win too quickly. People think of the fame, the glory, and the rewards that go along with winning. If you beat the competitor, you’re the #1 guy or gal. The thought of #1 makes people set the bar too high. When the bar gets set too high, people become impatient and want to win faster.

Track runners run faster because they want to cross the finish line first. They push up their pace and end up being exhausted on the final lap. Then, everyone comes from behind and catches up. I’ve seen it happen to others and myself as well. Thinking about the fame, glory, and rewards makes us go out of control. We lose out on what could have happened because we were too focused on getting the win.

You can’t go from startup to thriving business with a sprint. Becoming successful is a marathon, and I’m sure you’ve heard that many times. However, some people think that they’re the exception, and they sprint the first mile of the marathon. The other 25 miles aren’t going to end very well.

Some people can’t fish. They are able to go on a boat and throw the line into the water. However, many people aren’t willing to wait that long for a fish to surface. It’s entirely possible that a fish doesn’t bite for hours. Fishing requires a lot of patience in order to get the win, but many people want the win as soon as they can get it.

The fame, glory, and rewards should motivate you to work harder. However, those thoughts should not motivate you to rush to a finish line that is all the way at the end of the rainbow. Persistence is powerful, and it will allow you to get to the other side of the rainbow where you will thrive.

Where To Buy Real Followers

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It seems as if there are more services promoting fake followers. Let’s not forget to mention spam accounts on social networks that claim you can get “1,000 followerz” with their secret method (even though they usually have under 500 followers). These services are tainting what it means to buy followers. There are some services that do what they’re supposed to do: give you real followers.

There are three services that I am going to talk about. I use them all alongside methods that constantly work (following back, posting consistently, etc).

Twiends is a free service that allows you to get more Twitter and Instagram followers although in my opinion, they do a better job with increasing the number of Twitter followers. In Twiends, you use seeds (their currency) to get more followers. There are also paid option in which you can get more seeds or featured for a day. I am going to try the Featured Slot for a day very soon, and I will tell you how it goes. Some people have reported getting 2,000 followers from this option.

PinWoot is exclusively for Pinterest. Just like Twiends, PinWoot’s currency is seeds which you can get for free by following others, referring people to PinWoot, repinning, and liking other people’s pins. With PinWoot, you can do all of the following if you have enough seeds:

  1. Get more followers
  2. Get more repins
  3. Get more likes
  4. Schedule pins
  5. And anything else they feel like adding

You can buy seeds on PinWoot as well. There aren’t any featured options, but there are plenty of deals available. Although PinWoot’s prices are a bit higher than Twiends, PinWoot gives you more options than Twiends. PinWoot also takes spam and unfollowing very seriously and terminates accounts who get caught.

YouLikeHits is another service that will allow you to get more followers on a variety of social networks. Out of all three of these services, YouLikeHits provides the most options. They have options for every major social network except Facebook. There will be some accounts that follow you and only have 1 tweet, but for the most part, YouLikeHits will give you a quantity of followers. I mainly use YouLikeHits for Pinterest, but I sometimes use them for YouTube.

YouLikeHits gives you the most options and the highest amount of followers for your money. PinWoot gives you the top quality Pinterest followers who are unlikely to follow you. Many of the followers I get from PinWoot commonly repin my pins. Twiends allows you to control how many followers you can gain every day if you purchase a package of seeds. However, if you get featured for a day on Twiends, you will get about two thousand real followers in 24 hours which is the fastest of the three services.

UPDATE: Not all followers from YouLikeHits are real, but by getting more followers, you will be able to follow back more people while keeping a good follower to following ratio. In addition, the real followers you get from YouLikeHits have the potential to interact with you.

Trust Comes From Being Seen Frequently

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We buy from the most trusted brands we can find. Every brand competes for our trust because it is our trust that translates into consumers and sales. If you want to get your consumers’ trust, you need to show up a bunch of times.

The person who is very trustworthy is a best friend. One of the reasons a best friend is very trustworthy is because you see that friend a lot. The more we see someone, the more we will trust in them. You are going to see your best friend a lot, and thus the trust you have in each other grows.

In order to create a trustworthy brand, people have to see your brand a lot. This is when people are quick to go to advertising. People will see who you are, but they’re forced to see who you are. Consumers can’t control which advertisements come up on a website or on a channel, and they’re preoccupied with something else: reading the article or watching the show.

Social media is a different kind of advertising that is very effective. However, people have to see you frequently in order for your social media strategy to be effective. You’ve been taught that posting on your social networks consistently is essential, but you weren’t given a reason why. This is the reason. By updating your social networks consistently, more people get to see you more often. As more people see you, they start to trust you. They take a look at your profile, and your posts, and your blog, and your blog posts, and your product.

All of this happens once you are seen frequently. Be seen so you can see the results come in abundance.

A Rock, A Nest, And A Box: Pet Rock, The Million Dollar Business

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Those three things were all Gary Dahl needed to create one of the biggest fads of the century (although there were many others as well). It was called Pet Rock. Have you heard of it? Probably not, and if you have heard of it, you probably don’t have one.

I’m not tricking you. In a span of 2 years, 1.5 million Pet Rocks were sold making Dhal a millionaire. Pet Rock went out of business after that due to a decline in sales, but that’s all it took. A rock, a nest, and a box resulted in millions of sales.

Would you rather create a fad that makes you millions, or would you rather create a product that sticks around but doesn’t make the millions of dollars right away (and the million isn’t guaranteed)?

Bragging Rights And New Products

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When a product first comes out, it has the potential of getting a lot of sales right away. Consumers see the new product, and they want to be the first of their friends to have that product. There’s a commercial about a giveaway for the Playstation 4 that would be awarded to a lucky winner before it came out. If you have heard, “Play the future first” before, then you have probably seen this commercial.

Consumers who get the new product first get to show off the product to everyone they know. The consumer doesn’t have to shout, “Hey! Look at what I got!” Simply seeing that Playstation 4 in someone’s room does the trick. As long as the new product is on display in some way or fashion, friends are going to notice.

The Playstation 4 is going to get old. Friends who once saw the Playstation 4 being displayed are now going to have their own Playstation 4’s. Then Sony will come out with the Playstation 5 or something like that. Then, people will get the Playstation 5, friends will see it on display, and the cycle will continue.

By buying new products, we get to show off what we have. Millions of consumers bought the iPhone 5C and 5S. Those consumers are going to show off their new iPhones to their friends. The conversation might go like this, “Is that an iPhone 4S? Well, I have the 5S.”

Both the iPhone 5C and 5S are going to get old. The people who were boasting about their iPhone 5C’s and 5S’s will have to find something else to show off. By then, the iPhone 6 will have come out, and a new line of consumers will have something to talk about.

Remember when the iPhone 4S was the big thing? You can now get that for free on Apple’s official site. It would only be able to hold 8 GB, but if you want a free iPhone, the 4S is the phone for you. It used to cost a lot. It used to be the one featured in commercials. That no longer happens since it’s become old. Now everyone has an iPhone 4S or a more updated version of the iPhone.

Has it come down to bragging rights? It is a factor, but getting the enhanced product is also a factor. The iPhone 4S came with Siri which made it a big enhancement from the other iPhone devices. The usefulness of Siri can be argued, but Siri was an enhancement. People want something that is going to be better than what they already have. If we didn’t believe in enhancing what we have, we’d be stuck with those big computers that are incredibly slow.

Things do break, and they need to be fixed. That’s another reason why people make changes. However, most of the people who make this kind of change can’t help but say, “Look at what I have.”

When it comes to innovation, making enhancements and fixing what is broken plays a part. However, the reasons for buying a new product go back to bragging rights. If people can brag about your product when they get it, that product will sell. When more people have the same product, less people get to brag about it. That’s when you need to come up with a new product.