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Buffett’s Productivity Hacks

October 16, 2014 Leave a comment

wealthymatters One day Buffett went up to his pilot named Steve and jokingly said to him that “the fact that you’re still working for me tells me I’m not doing my job.You should be out going after more of your goals and dreams.”

To help him with that, Buffett asked Steve to list the 25 most important things he wanted to do in his life.Then Buffett asked Steve to review each goal and choose the five most crucial ones.After considering a moment, Steve drew circles around five fantastic goals, confirming with Buffett that yes, indeed, they were his highest priorities.

“And the rest?What about these other 20 things on your list that you didn’t circle?” Buffett asked. “What is your plan for completing those?” Steve knew just what to say.”Well, the top five are my primary focus but the other 20 come in at a close second,” the pilot said. “They are still important so I’ll work on those intermittently.”

Buffett suddenly turned serious.”You’ve got it wrong, Steve,”he said.”Everything you didn’t circle just became your ‘avoid at all costs’ list. No matter what, these things get no attention from you until you’ve succeeded with your top five.” Read more of this post

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How To Get Your Hashtag To Trend On Twitter

October 9, 2014 Leave a comment

There are many reasons why certain hashtags trend. Some trend because of a big following while others trend because of the news. Getting your hashtag to trend is by no means an easy feat, but it is possible. In order to get your hashtag on Twitter to trend, these are the 5 things you need.

Have a large, targeted following. Many of the people who get their own hashtag trending tend to have well over 50,000 followers. Find the most successful Twitter user in your niche and follow that person’s followers who are likely to follow back. Your following will eventually grow large enough to get a hashtag to trend on Twitter.
Make the hashtag something good enough to trend. If you are approaching a certain follower milestone, tweet that out. Uber Facts used the hashtag #UberFactsTo6Million to get more people knowing about their approaching milestone.
Give your followers a reason to tweet with the hashtag.Eg Uber Facts decided to do a $100 giveaway.
Ask for tweets and retweets. Anyone who tweeted #UberFactsTo6Million or retweeted Uber Facts tweet with the hashtag got entered into the giveaway. As the hashtag started getting attention, people went to Uber Facts’ original tweet, saw the giveaway, and decided to retweet the tweet and get in on the action.
Give people a reason to continue tweeting. Uber Facts decided to double the prize from $100 to $200 in honor of the tweet trending. This got more people’s attention and resulted in the hashtag trending for a longer period of time.

Those are the 5 things you need in order to get a hashtag to trend on Twitter. It is entirely possible that you become one of those movie stars or influential singers who has million of active followers, but for those of us who won’t be getting those two things, this is the best way to get a hashtag to trend on Twitter.

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Creating A Hashtag

October 9, 2014 Leave a comment

The hashtag began as a humble idea: the tweeter adds the # symbol in front of one word or a word group, no spaces. Doing so allows Twitter to categorize the tweet and group it with others who have tweeted using the same hashtag. Think of the hashtag as a keyword tag and it is easier to understand. People searching based on a specific hashtag receive a list of tweets using that particular tag. The searcher is happy, and so are you, because, in one fell swoop, you have:

•become visible to a new audience
•joined the conversation
•voiced your opinion
•found a like minded audience eager to read what you have to say

Easy, right?But we’re not done. When the right hashtag is added to your tweets, your “retweet” rates rise (other people reposting your original tweets). This opens up your comment to new views and opinions, not to mention new followers, and so the cycle of growth and visibility continues. Read more of this post

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Marketing Yourself Via Social Media

October 8, 2014 4 Comments

Do not be puzzled if you see some or other individual or brand has shot to instant fame with 1 lakh likes on Facebook. Link. Marketing firms are at play here. Individuals and firms are increasingly making use of ‘pay-for-like’ services, at costs ranging from anywhere between Rs. 999 to a couple of lakh rupees.

Though Facebook is not involved directly in such business activity, several advertising and marketing firms are offering this service online, using social media. Business houses, socialites, NGOs and celebrities who crave popularity on the social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter, purchase these services. A basic Rs.999 service ensures 1,200 likes on Facebook and 50 followers on Twitter. The upper limit is a couple of lakhs for other associated services.These marketing firms use email, mobile and other online platforms to market ‘likes’.

To attract genuine likes and followers, marketing firms employ techniques like posting quality content, using vanity URL and frequent posting of hyperlinks to different content, etc. on Facebook and Twitter .

Most Facebook pages relating to celebrities, politicians, business houses and NGOs are managed by agencies or marketing firms.