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Show Your Talents, But Not Your Pride

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What are you good at? The question gets asked to many people just like that or through a paraphrase. No one answers by saying nothing. Everyone will say what they are good at. People will say they are really smart, do a lot of sports, have a blooming business, or anything else that they might want to say. It’s okay to tell people what your talents are, but that’s it.

The problem with talking more about your talents is that you’re also talking more about yourself. You can say you have a great business, but don’t say how much better it is than someone elses or emphasize that you started it from scratch. When people ask me what I do online, I say that I’m a blogger and write lenses on Squidoo. I don’t say that I started from scratch and did everything else (I’m not going to take the time to brag because bragging isn’t right). People want to know what your good at, so answer the question. Only give extra details about yourself if they want to know more about you.

As I have said multiple times, if you keep on talking about yourself, you will only be able to talk with yourself.

Yahoo! Offered $1 Billion To Someone ELSE Back In 2006

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Yahoo! made a great move buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Advertising will allow Yahoo! to make more money from Tumblr, and combined with Flickr, Yahoo! is definitely something to watch for. Yahoo! took on the challenge of turning Tumblr into a profit. Tumblr made about $13 million in revenue last year, but that won’t be enough to get a profit, especially since the price was $1.1 billion.

Google was able to buy YouTube back in 2006, and it has turned into a big success story. Google has profited immensely from buying YouTube. Yahoo! offered someone $1 billion for his Social Media website–Mark Zuckerberg.

Buying Facebook would have led to a huge profit assuming Facebook would have been the same either way. However, Zuckerberg turned down the $1 billion even when Facebook wasn’t the Social Media powerhouse it is today. When Zuckerberg was offered $1 billion, Facebook did not have over a billion members. By the way, Facebook now easily generates billions of dollars every year.

There are times when we have to back off and let a deal be done. Tumblr wasn’t going to make $1.1 billion in the direction it was going. Tumblr still continues to be successful, but with Yahoo’s purchase, Tumblr can be monetized more properly. There are also times when you have to stick it out and say no to a really good deal. Zuckerberg said no to Yahoo’s offer, and it was a great decision for him.

Organizing Your Information

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Everyone has a lot of things that they need to access. There are links that should be posted on Social Media, assignments to complete, blog posts to edit, and a lot of other information as well. It is important to be able to organize your information.

Organizing your information will allow you to easily access it when you need it the most. Being able to access more information quicker will allow you to get more work done earlier. Being unable to access information easily will result in you looking for that information before you start working.

Organizing information and having your information unorganized are two business strategies that both have different results. One is a good consequence while the other is bad.

The Ending Is Just As Important As The Beginning (If Not More Important)

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In a giant 600 page book, there are a lot of details that can be forgotten (especially with size 8 font). Everyone can recall the beginning of the book by reading the first chapter, but the ending of a book is just as important as the beginning. The ending is a last impression that is left on the reader.

If the ending is good, the reader will enjoy the book and recommend it to friends because they will only be able to remember that great ending. The ending of a book can decide whether it is the next best seller or the next unknown.

Don’t forget to end what you write with a really good closing sentence or closing chapter because it is the ending that the reader remembers the most.

Small Changes Can Be Big Changes

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You never know how big your changes are, even when they seem to be so small. A small change such as working on your business for an extra 15 minutes a day can lead to a big change such as an extra 450 minutes for you to work on your business every month.

Ike Davis, the first baseman for the Mets has been having a terrible season, but he had a very good rookie season. Here’s the difference.

Small changes are big changes, but not all big changes are good. When you want to change, make sure you realize how it could affect you.

Strive To Do Something

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Everyone strives to be successful. That is definitely something to strive for, but the first question you have to ask yourself is HOW you will become successful. You can’t strive for success until you know what you want to succeed in. Everyone wants success, but not everyone gets it, and one of the reasons that some people are left out is because they can’t decide they want to be successful in. It’s good to strive to carry out ideas, but you have to know from the beginning how you will complete those ideas.