Marc's Blog

Content Writing and Marketing Services

The Picture Perfect Solution For Your Blog

by 1 Comment

If you are wondering how to increase traffic to your blog, you should add more pictures to your blog. Pictures are worth a thousand words, and they will catch the eye of your visitors. The picture will also give your visitors an idea of what your blog post is going to be about.

The problem is that when people read a blog post, they may scroll down and forget to read the title. It does happen. The picture is a reminder of what your blog post is about.

Pinterest is also becoming a more popular social network which I have been talking about a lot recently. In order to build an audience on Pinterest, your blog needs pictures, and with pictures, your blog posts look better on other social networks as well.

If you’re trying to get more traffic to your blog, it might have something to do with pictures. If you don’t add pictures to your blog posts, that’s the change you need to make.

Why People Cheat

by Leave a Comment

People cheat so they can get an edge on the competition. People cheat because they want to become elite. People cheat to make themselves look bigger than they really are. When you see someone with over 10 million followers on Twitter, check how many fake followers they have (Twitter Audit and Status People Fake Follower Check are the services I use to check), and you’ll be shocked. Buying fake followers is a way to cheat the system. It makes the consumer look more popular on Twitter than they really are.

People still cheat even when they know about the punishments that come in store…if they get caught. Those last 4 words, “if they get caught,” are the words that encourage a lot of people. They think they won’t get caught.

No matter how many hours they spend hiding their tracks, cheaters always get caught. The system we live in filters out the cheaters and rewards the winners.

The Mind Is Greatest

by Leave a Comment

We’ve all heard of the expression that the pen is mightier than the sword. Some of us may recall the commercial where the man signs a piece of paper with a pen, takes out a weapon, and uses it against the ninja with the sword. The ninja with the sword loses.

The pen is a powerful tool. Many people stop at the pen is mightier than the sword. What many people overlook is that the mind is mightier than the pen. You need a good mind to use the pen to its fullest potential. Your mind control who you become.

You decide who you become by thinking of who you become. If you think of yourself becoming successful, you will become successful. If you think of yourself struggling, you will see yourself start to struggle.

Your mind makes all of your decisions. Your mind has made you into what you are. Your mind can give you a fresh start or a disastrous ending. You decide how to use your mind, but remember that the mind is greater than the pen.

America’s Most Beloved Ballpark

by Leave a Comment

Fenway Park has earned the title as America’s most beloved ballpark. Recently, I watched two games at Fenway Park. To my delight, the Red Sox won. I enjoyed walking through the stadium and being a part of the great atmosphere. Then, I thought about why Fenway Park is America’s most beloved ballpark.

  1. Fenway Park has been around for a long time. Over 100 years later, people are still attending games at Fenway Park and watching the Red Sox play. 21st century technology is not keeping Fenway Park intact. There are many columns that support the upper decks of the stadium.
  2. Fenway Park’s dimensions are different from every other ballpark. I’m not talking about the number of feet. Many ballparks are different in that regard. In right field, it’s very easy to get a ground-rule double. The walls are so small that in order to rob a homerun, a right fielder doesn’t even have to jump (if the baseball is close enough). Center field has a triangle and a bigger wall. Then, in left field is the famous Green Monster.
  3. The Red Sox are a good team. Although the Red Sox had that 86 year curse, they were still very good. By the end of 2013, the Red Sox will have made it into the playoffs more than 20 times. Many of those playoff appearances have been recent which lead to many sell outs at Fenway Park.
  4. Fenway Park has played host to many memorable events. The 100 year anniversary, Fisk’s home run off of the foul pole over the Green Monster, and the All Star Game in 1999 are just some of the few memorable events that occurred at Fenway Park.

Those were the reasons I could think of although I know there are many other reasons why Fenway Park is America’s most beloved ballpark as well. If you want a beloved business, be unique and stay around.

11 Ways To Get More Followers On Pinterest

by 8 Comments

logo_1

I am very impressed with Pinterest. I never thought I would be using it, but here I am today pinning as much as I can. Pinterest is powerful social network that is the perfect place to share your hobbies, products, and more. Here are 11 ways to get more Pinterest followers:

  1. Pin a lot. A majority of people with over a million followers also have thousands of pins. Don’t expect to get 1 million followers when you get your first 1,000 or even 5,000 pins, but just keep pinning. Don’t make it annoying for your followers though. Pin 3 times on one board and shift to the other. No one likes spam.
  2. Include pictures on your blog. This is one of the rare times this blog has a picture of it, but with a picture, you can promote your blog posts on Pinterest. I might even revamp some of the blog posts just to make my blog more Pinterest friendly.
  3. Comment on other people’s pins. When people look at a popular pin, they will see your comment. If your comment is the only one there, you get the spotlight.
  4. Pin quality pictures. No matter what you pursue, quality is essential. You need quality pins in order to get more followers. Make the pictures shocking, relevant, humorous, or meaningful. Quality beats quantity.
  5. Use Pinterest as much as you can. The Pinterest power users (all of those people with over a million followers) use Pinterest a lot. One person said she uses Pinterest more than she uses her email.
  6. Don’t talk about one thing. People aren’t going to follow someone just for social media advice. You are going to have to offer a wider variety of pins. If some of your boards are about food, create some boards about some of your favorite product. Then, create some boards about animals, architecture, sports, and anything else that you can think of.
  7. Be as specific as possible. Social media advice is not narrow enough. Social media advice is advice for Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and so on. Instead of creating one giant board, create boards with specific niches such as “Facebook Advice” or even better, “How To Market Your Facebook Page.”
  8. Use a lot of hashtags. When you use hashtags, more people will find you on Pinterest. When I pin about getting more Pinterest followers, I always use “#Pinterest” because more people will be able to find me. That board is also my most followed board.
  9. Spend most of your time on a few of your boards. The people who have over a million followers on Pinterest usually have only one or two boards that are actually being followed by millions of people. The other boards get followed by tens of thousands of people which is still good though. Focus most of your time on one, two, or three boards at most.
  10. When choosing the board to work on, look at how many people are following each of your boards. The most followed boards are the ones you should work on because people want to know more about that topic.
  11. Get to your first thousand followers. Once you get there, you’ll get a lot more followers. This applies for all social networks. It will take longer for some people to reach 1,000 followers than others. However, when you reach that milestone, more people will start following you. When my Twitter account reached 1,000 followers, I went from gaining about 10 followers a day to gaining over 20 followers every day.

 

You won’t go from 250 followers to 25,000 followers in 3 days (unless you’re Andrew “Oyl” Miller). It takes time to grow a big following, but with time, you will eventually have that big following you’ve always dreamed of.

Timeless

by Leave a Comment

There are few things that are truly timeless. Leadership is timeless because every society, country, group, and business organization needs leadership. Without leadership, everything falls apart.

If a book’s lessons and ideas still apply 10 years from now, we’ll have to wait a little longer to see if that book is actually timeless.

When the lessons and ideas from a book published in 1851 still apply in today’s world, that’s a book that becomes timeless. In fact, my favorite book was published in 1851. I read this book during before I started the journey of becoming an entrepreneur or turned reading and writing into recreational hobbies. That book was Moby Dick, and I have read it twice. In fact, I plan to be reading it again in the near future.

When I come up with a reading list of my favorite books, Moby Dick will be on that list. There are many lessons that can be learned from reading that book, and the adventure is incredible.

Create something that is timeless so that everyone will be able to enjoy it. Don’t just strive to be a bestselling author this year, decade, or even this century. Strive to have a big audience centuries later. People still read Moby Dick, and even though the book was first published over 150 years ago, people are using 21st century technology to promote a 19th century book. Your story stays alive, forever.