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We Carve Out Our Own Fate

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Sometimes we may feel as if we have lost total control over our business. Simply put, we believe that fate will decide. Fate will steer our business in the direction it needs to be right now. Fate will save us.

The only way fate will save us is if we take steps to carving out our own fate. If we don’t carve out our own fate, we are not taking charge of our lives. In order to become successful and truly take charge, you need to start carving out your own fate.

There is no lucky horseshoe that some entrepreneurs get where they go from nothing at all to riches, virality (every time), and a bunch of products. The only way to get from Point A to Point B is to carve out your own fate.

Get your stone and chisel so you can carve out your fate. Do everything you need to do that will result in a good fate. A good fate is much better than a bad one.

11 Ways To Get More Retweets On Twitter

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When your tweet gets retweeted, it is being shared to potentially thousands of people. If you get retweeted by a person with over 100,000 followers, your tweet will be in front of over 100,000 other people. This is why it’s becoming more important to get those retweets. Here are 11 ways to get more retweets.

  1. Tweet consistently. If you want people to retweet, they have to know when you tweet. Use HootSuite to schedule your tweets.
  2. Tweet motivational quotes. Everyone is looking for those quotes, and almost all of the motivational quotes I tweet get retweeted.
  3. Have a following. Having a following always helps out towards getting more retweets. If you don’t have your first 1,000 followers yet, here are 10 proven ways to get your first 1,000 followers.
  4. Retweet other people’s tweets. Give and you shall receive.
  5. Start more conversations. The people who you talk with may decide to retweet one of your tweets.
  6. Include RT, rt, or r/t at the end of your tweet. Asking improves your changes as long as you avoid saying, “Please Retweet.”
  7. Put tweets up on your blog. Although I don’t do this, I have a Twitter icon which leads to my account. Both work.
  8. Make your tweets retweet-worthy. A tweet with a typo doesn’t get retweeted by anyone. Everyone will notice the typo instead of the rest of the tweet.
  9. Be relevant. If you tweet about baseball, news about baseball teams is what your followers want to see.
  10. Stay on the lookout for the ripple effect. If someone retweets your tweet to 100,000 followers, chances are that some of those 100,000 followers are going to retweet your tweet as well. You won’t get all 100,000 followers to retweet your tweet, and you’d be lucky if you got 100 of them to retweet your tweet. However, you’re bound to get at least 10 retweets that way. The small ripple turns into a big ripple, and then you become viral (being viral isn’t as easy as it sounds though).
  11. Keep on tweeting. You only get all of those tweets by not giving up. When you keep on tweeting, you will eventually get to 100,000 followers. You won’t need the person with 100,000 followers to retweet your tweets. You’ll be that guy with 100,000 followers.

Things Change

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We just have to realize that. Change is something that we resist. Don’t resist the change. Become a part of the change. When everyone else tries to adapt to the change, you will have already adapted to the change. You will have adapted to the change far before your competition.

Things change, and those are the things to take advantage of first.

Good Isn’t Good Enough

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How To Make Your Business Remarkable is a good title. It tells you what the book or blog post is going to be about. We know what we’re getting out of the book or blog post. We will learn how to make our businesses remarkable.

It’s a good title, but in today’s world, good isn’t good enough. Good is a standard. However, when a majority of those people are good, there are too many people at that standard. Good got crowded, and not good isn’t enough.

Seth Godin’s book, Purple Cow, is all about making your business remarkable. He could have just as easily named Purple Cow something like How To Make Your Business Remarkable instead.

The other title is the safe zone. The majority of authors choose titles like those. Who would have ever come up with the title Purple Cow though?

Good is only good. Good is no longer something to strive for. Good has simply become average. Set the bar higher, and if you set the bar right, you’ll find turning your business remarkable as a goal.

Guess What It Is

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Here are the hints:

Something that is everywhere.

Something that we all want.

Something that is abundant.

Something that is wonderful.

Something that a select few can actually see.

Something that isn’t always utilized properly.

Something that can disappear in the blink of an eye.

Something that waits patiently until someone sees it.

Something that we are afraid of when we get it.

What did you guess it was? If you guessed the answer is opportunity you’re right. If you feel like you’ve lost all of the opportunities, you can create a blog, use social networks, try again, and never quit. Then, you’ll be able to finally catch glimpses of opportunity that were waiting to be found. Opportunity doesn’t find you; you find opportunity.

If It Were Easy

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Everyone would be doing it.

If being a bestselling author was easy, everyone would be writing their own book and becoming the next bestselling author.

If having a million Twitter followers was easy, everyone would be on Twitter talking with over a million followers.

If having a mansion was easy, everyone would move into a mansion or turn their house into a mansion.

If having a successful business was easy, everyone would be an entrepreneur, and none of them would quit. Sadly, over 90% of them quit within the first 5 years.

If coming up with a big idea was easy, everyone would be thinking of big ideas. The people who can’t think of big ideas sell products similar to their competition.

If running the mile was easy, everyone would be running that mile without stopping. It isn’t as easy as it appear.

However, it’s not easy. That’s why few people do the difficult tasks. The safety zone is not safe at all. Everyone is in the safety zone which makes individuals in the safety zone become invisible.

Becoming a bestselling author, having a million Twitter followers, having a mansion, having a successful business, coming up with a big idea, and running the mile are not easy. As we get more experience, these tasks become easier.

After writing a lot of books, an author can build a following and eventually become a bestselling author.

After consistently tweeting for years and going viral, it is possible for someone to reach a million followers without knowing how to sing well or buying a million followers.

Everyone who started with a business started at the bottom. Macintosh computers were first made in garage. Now Apple is a multibillion dollar company that pays billions of dollars in taxes. They can pay those billion dollars in taxes and still make a profit with their Macs, iPhones, iPads, and more. Amazon started out as a bookstore. Now Jeff Bezos is a billionaire who recently bought the Washington Post. Not bad for “another bookstore.”

When someone thinks of a big idea, and creates a business based on that big idea, that person has a good chance of becoming successful. Twitter, Facebook. Instagram, Pinterest, and Google are some of the big ideas. The person who came up with an idea for any of these social networks (or Google) is either a millionaire or a billionaire. That’s not bad for an idea that started out on paper. Back in 2004, people would have looked at you funny if you talked about Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest. Google was around at that time, but Google+ was not.

Running the mile becomes easy after a lot of practice. People give up when they run the mile for the first time because it’s excruciating. The people who run day after day will be able to easily run the mile.

It’s not easy, but with practice, dedication, and commitment, you will make it easy.