<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"><channel><title>Be Followed</title><description>Creating killer content, building quality relationships and using productive technologies</description><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</managingEditor><pubDate>Sun, 6 Oct 2024 20:57:28 -0700</pubDate><generator>Blogger http://www.blogger.com</generator><openSearch:totalResults xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">26</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/">25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><link>http://befollowed.blogspot.com/</link><language>en-us</language><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Creating killer content, building quality relationships and using productive technologies</itunes:subtitle><itunes:owner><itunes:email>noreply@blogger.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><item><title>Coming back to blogger after numerous failed attempts at mobile blogging</title><link>http://befollowed.blogspot.com/2015/08/coming-back-to-blogger-after-numerous.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><pubDate>Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:26:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457313810445704544.post-417494269947983953</guid><description>&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tumblr is &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;great&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;but&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;the&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;mobile&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;posting&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;app&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;sucks!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;I have been using my tumblr app for quite some time and really enjoy publishing my random thoughts to my tumblr blog.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;The problem is I cannot add an image to my posts when blogging on my mobile smartphone.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;As I like to enjoy using Pinterest to share my links this is always a problem as there are never any photos on my blog post.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;Well I can add photos later using my laptop or desktop computer, this is an extra staff I would rather avoid.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;By using my voice to text apps on my android phone, I can quickly create content for my readers without having to spend a lot of time typing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;If only I could add photos to my tumblr blog while using my mobile phone I would be happy. However, the Tumblr mobile app leaves much to be desired!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;This is what led me to my search for better mobile blogging posting apps.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;My search for mobile blogging let me back to blogger. Blogger has been around for a long time and was eventually acquired by Google. How silly of me to forget that Google usually has the answers to my content creation needs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;I am about to try to add a photo to this blog post using nothing but a smart phone. Let's see if it works.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;Well I can add a link by selecting text first, I find myself rather disappointed by the fact I can still not add a photo to this blog post using my smartphone.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Most people don't know how easy it is to create their dream life.&amp;nbsp; They struggle for years trying all sorts of things until they are blue in their face and finally stop believing that they have the ability and power to manifest anything.&amp;nbsp; People think that only a few specially gifted people can manifest miracles and attract whatever their heart desires.&amp;nbsp; The truth is that even though materializing money out of thin air may seem impossible to the rational mind, it is as natural as the warmth from the sunshine above.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;You were born with a natural ability to materialize thoughts into physical form. It is your very nature.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;From the time you were a small child, you had the power to create your reality. It&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a gift you were given to help you learn how to empower and enlighten yourself in this world.&amp;nbsp; By simply learning how to harness the hidden power of your mind, you will start seeing what a magical manifesting being you truly are.&amp;nbsp; The golden key is in learning how to relax your body, focus your mind, and increase your joy vibration.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: navy; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;"Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes, the subconscious mind identically creates." ~Brian Adams&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The greatest cosmic joke on mankind is that we are just human, and not also divine.&amp;nbsp; When the mind opens up to realize the fact that you must have both spirit and matter to exist, then your playground becomes a thousand times bigger.&amp;nbsp; When you accept the divine aspect of yourself, you stop being limited by the thoughts you're thinking and start opening yourself to being the creator of each one.&amp;nbsp; You begin to understand how to manifest your destiny.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;The first thing you want to practice is having a constant positive focus of your mind. By holding a simple positive intention 24 hours a day, you can mysteriously materialize your desires without lifting a single finger!&amp;nbsp; You think this is a joke, yet I do this everyday and it works!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I simply hold onto the feeling of what I want to manifest as if it has already happened, and trust that it's already on its way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Perhaps you are like many of us who were taught to believe that you aren't connected to a higher power, or don't have the time to fool around with learning how to manifest your dream life.&amp;nbsp; You may be running on autopilot, and unaware of the skeptical saboteur that is controlling your thinking.&amp;nbsp; It's often this negativity and resistance to the new, which keeps one stuck in the same old patterns, income, relationships and tired way of living. You have exactly what it takes to let go, and consciously retrain your brain to embrace the new.&amp;nbsp; This is the golden key to become a manifesting magnet!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: navy; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you." ~Shakti Gawain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;The experience of manifestation is a natural occurrence that can happen for anyone when they have the right knowledge, vibration and awareness.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;By practicing this exercise below, you'll begin to create a subtle shift in your thinking, which will take you into FEELING that you can do anything!&amp;nbsp; Below&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;are 4 powerful secrets that will help you start FEELING that you can make this shift and start manifesting your destiny this week!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Secret #1 &amp;nbsp;Have absolute clarity on what you truly want to manifest.&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;The more specific your intention is, the easier it is for the Universe to know what you really want. Specific desires create specific results.&amp;nbsp; Vague request and unclear goals create wishy-washy results.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Secret #2&amp;nbsp; Choose to manifest one thing at a time.&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; If you pour your energy into 8 different desires you'll only be giving a little energy to that special one that truly matters.&amp;nbsp; Pick the one that matters THE MOST to you, that makes your heart sing, and stick with it (and only it) for 90 days in a row at the very least.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Secret #3&amp;nbsp; Hold your Intention for 3 minutes a day.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;A powerful intention stems from a true desire found deep inside your heart. Choose to focus on a desire that is totally free from any "shoulds", "need to's", and "have to's".&amp;nbsp; This means you feel empowered, alive and free anytime you think about it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Secret #4&amp;nbsp; Have FUN visualizing your desire happening for you.&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;If you are too serious about it you're cutting off that warm fuzzy flow of manifesting energy. Lightness always wins over hardness in the end, and its best to enjoy each moment of your life to the fullest!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: navy; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;"Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs." ~Vaclav Havel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;If you want to see results fast, it's important to take action in the world whenever your motivation arises.&amp;nbsp; The Universe needs to know that you really want to manifest this one thing, so taking inspired action steps is how you communicate your sincerity.&amp;nbsp; Anytime you act from inspiration it also increases the level of joy in your body.&amp;nbsp; When your energy is HIGH enough the Universe will effortlessly bring whatever you want to you.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;When your joy-valve is 100% open, and you FEEL like you could skyrocket over the moon, the manifestations you desire spontaneously occur.&amp;nbsp; They'll show up like magic, divine synchronicities that may make you think you had nothing to do with it.&amp;nbsp; Yet, as you start living from inspired actions daily, you'll see your desires manifest faster and easier.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;There is a growing trend happening in the Google Plus community that&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;is making it difficult for aspiring content creators and curators to be&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;seen and noticed by their readers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Solution:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Better circle management&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;To the user who&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;wants more followers&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;or just wants to actually be read:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;- Help your users organize their content streams so they will see you!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;To the avid reader&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;tired of sifting&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;through irrelevant content posts:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;- Help the people you follow to get your quality attention at the right time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;_This is just a short introduction post to give readers an idea as to where I am heading in this series. I have been putting a lot of effort into this subject and hope this and subsequent articles will be helpful. Rather than wait for all my notes to be edited and finalized I decided to start publishing in small chunks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Reasons Why Circle Management Is Necessary&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;By organizing your circles effectively you are able to see what you need and at the right time you need it. By having your content professionally organized you are ensuring that you do not get distracted, you do not miss important updates and you do not get a headache from information overload.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;* How Organizing Your Streams Helps the Community*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;It is my belief that it is&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;our responsibility and duty&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;to organize our circles so that the community as a whole can benefit. What do I mean by this?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;By effectively organizing your content streams you will ensure that you are still able to follow new people tomorrow, next week and next month.We all need readers so think about how your efforts to organize will help others to be able to share with you effectively.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Organizing Circles by Topic Alone is Not Enough&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;As we see in the list of four functional aspects above, organization goes far beyond simply sorting by subject. The only exception to this rule is if you are not looking for more followers and if you do not want to engage with others. If you are just here to share with a small network of people then this lesson is not for you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;In the next lesson we will cover some advanced circle structures that take into consideration things such as&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;posting frequency&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;relational&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;correspondences and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;functional&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;uses of circles such as&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;for learning&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;for networking&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;for communicating&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Think:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Who's post can I share?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Instead of thinking&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;How can I get people to my profile?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Think:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;What discussion can I get involved with?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Never quit and be persistent and consistent. Success in any endeavor usually&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;appears&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;to happen overnight but in reality it was the collective culmination of all the tasks you performed to get to that point. When you allow yourself a period of time to get results you no longer approach tasks with a sense of urgency. Urgency only breads stress.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Mapping Your Life Into a Vision</title><link>http://befollowed.blogspot.com/2012/02/mapping-your-life-into-vision.html</link><category>inspiration</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:17:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457313810445704544.post-6943797736278234653</guid><description>&lt;img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-hAvb3Zr9CKM/Tz30B0UbnDI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/WfiKemL3qLQ/w402/road.jpg" /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;(photo from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="ot-anchor" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blmiers2/" style="background-color: white; color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/blmiers2/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white;" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Success is more than economic gains, titles, and degrees. Planning for success is about mapping out all the aspects of your life.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Similar to a map, you need to define the following details: origin, destination, vehicle, backpack, landmarks, and route.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Origin: Who you are&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;A map has a starting point. Your origin is who you are right now. Most people when asked to introduce themselves would say, “Hi, I’m Jean and I am a 17-year old, senior highschool student.” It does not tell you about who Jean is; it only tells you&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;what&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;she does.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;To gain insights about yourself, you need to look closely at your beliefs,values, and principles aside from your economic, professional, cultural,and civil status.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;You can also reflect on your experiences to give you insights on your good and not-so-good traits, skills, knowledge, strengths, and weaknesses. Upon introspection, Jean realized that she was highly motivated, generous, service-oriented, but impatient.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Destination: A vision of who you want to be&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;“Who do want to be?” this is your vision. Now it is important that you know yourself so that you would have a clearer idea of who you want to be; and the things you want to change whether they are attitudes, habits, or points of view.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;If you hardly know yourself, then your vision and targets for the future would also be unclear. Your destination should cover all the aspects of your being: the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Vehicle: Your Mission&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;A vehicle is the means by which you can reach your destination. It can be analogized to your mission or vocation in life. To a great extent, your mission would depend on what you know about yourself.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Travel Bag: Your knowledge, skills, and attitude&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Food, drinks, medicines, and other travelling necessities are contained in a bag. Applying this concept to your life map, you also bring with you certain knowledge, skills, and attitudes. These determine your competence and help you in attaining your vision.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Given such, there is a need for you to assess what knowledge, skills, and attitudes you have at present and what you need to gain along the way. This two-fold assessment will give you insights on your landmarks or measures of success.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Landmarks and Route: S.M.A.R.T. objectives&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Landmarks confirm if you are on the right track while the route determines he travel time. In planning out your life, you also need to have landmarks and a route. These landmarks are your measures of success. These measures must be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time bound.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Anticipate Turns, Detours, and Potholes&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;The purpose of your life map is to minimize hasty and spur-of-the moment decisions that can make you lose your way. But oftentimes our plans are modified along the way due to some inconveniences, delays, and other situations beyond our control. Like in any path, there are turns, detours, and potholes thus; we must anticipate them and adjust accordingly.&lt;/span&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-hAvb3Zr9CKM/Tz30B0UbnDI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/WfiKemL3qLQ/s72-w402-c/road.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>The Power Of Quality Followers vs. Quantity of Followers</title><link>http://befollowed.blogspot.com/2012/02/power-of-quality-followers-vs-quantity.html</link><category>google+</category><category>networking</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:16:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457313810445704544.post-6065080368966332885</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-p58e4fuDTrM/Tzwsr0DmVqI/AAAAAAAAAWk/nDb5zA7F9XE/w400/quality-followers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-p58e4fuDTrM/Tzwsr0DmVqI/AAAAAAAAAWk/nDb5zA7F9XE/w400/quality-followers.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; height: 225px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Whether you are just getting started with Google+ or you are&lt;br /&gt;
an established member looking to improve your readership&lt;br /&gt;
it is easy to fall into old&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;web 1.0 tactics&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;where the most&lt;br /&gt;
exposures resulted in the most subscribers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In todays social marketing world it is more important to make&lt;br /&gt;
smaller numbers count. Quality content plus user interaction&lt;br /&gt;
are the 2 main keys to success. This post covers the first.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Google Plus members with large follower numbers are not all created&lt;br /&gt;
equal. Aspiring members who want to get real results from their&lt;br /&gt;
networking and publishing activities should be focused on the&lt;br /&gt;
quality of their readers and not just the numbers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rather than following a bunch of people with large follower counts&lt;br /&gt;
in hopes of getting follow backs (can you say Twitter), you should&lt;br /&gt;
instead become an active member of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;community&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;by&lt;br /&gt;
reaching out to others.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Make your comments&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;on topic&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;by reading the discussion before&lt;br /&gt;
you arrived instead of making half assed&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;me too&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;types of&lt;br /&gt;
comments (ie: comments without engagement)&lt;br /&gt;
with the hope of getting noticed by other commentors.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is not difficult to find posts on your topics of interest and get&lt;br /&gt;
involved in the discussions. By doing so you will get more ideas&lt;br /&gt;
for your business and maybe make a few friends at the same time.&lt;br /&gt;
You should&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;not expect&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;people to follow you though. it is not&lt;br /&gt;
necessary. You can easily have a circle of people that&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
follow and stay in their awareness by visiting and contributing to their&lt;br /&gt;
posts.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I have several people I admire that I am learning from just because&lt;br /&gt;
we both participate in the same discussions. Having them follow me&lt;br /&gt;
back would be nice but I do not get offended if they do not. In some&lt;br /&gt;
ways&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;it is better they do not follow me&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;if they already have too much&lt;br /&gt;
to read in their streams.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I am working on an extensive lesson called&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Circle Management 101&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
that I hope will help the community to be able to follow more people&lt;br /&gt;
but for now just assume that most people will not follow you back.&lt;br /&gt;
You only want a few people to follow you in the beginning because&lt;br /&gt;
your objective should be to engage with your new followers.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Further Reading&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My special thanks to&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="proflinkWrapper"&gt;&lt;span class="proflinkPrefix" style="color: #999999;"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="proflink" href="https://plus.google.com/108384201920217141722" oid="108384201920217141722" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Denis Labelle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;for telling me about the first post&lt;br /&gt;
below which in turn lead me to find posts 2 and 3 listed further down&lt;br /&gt;
this page.&lt;br /&gt;
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The following posts are full of great information concerning the value&lt;br /&gt;
of a follower. You will also note that these posts have great discussions&lt;br /&gt;
happening in the comments section. I suggest getting involved in the&lt;br /&gt;
dialogs. In some cases it will have been several days since the&lt;br /&gt;
discussion ended but this is no reason to stop you. Start up the talks&lt;br /&gt;
again!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;1)&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="proflinkWrapper"&gt;&lt;span class="proflinkPrefix" style="color: #999999;"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="proflink" href="https://plus.google.com/100500197140377336562" oid="100500197140377336562" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Alexander Becker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;wrote the following post which takes a look at the&lt;br /&gt;
inflated and over hyped value of the Suggested User List.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Improving the Suggested User List&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a class="ot-anchor" href="https://plus.google.com/108384201920217141722/posts/KpqT8vTsAQQ" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;https://plus.google.com/108384201920217141722/posts/KpqT8vTsAQQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Take note of the amazing quality of commenting going on in the&lt;br /&gt;
above post from the likes of&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="proflinkWrapper"&gt;&lt;span class="proflinkPrefix" style="color: #999999;"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="proflink" href="https://plus.google.com/112352920206354603958" oid="112352920206354603958" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Max Huijgen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="proflinkWrapper"&gt;&lt;span class="proflinkPrefix" style="color: #999999;"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="proflink" href="https://plus.google.com/112254467169147545881" oid="112254467169147545881" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;A.V. Flox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="proflinkWrapper"&gt;&lt;span class="proflinkPrefix" style="color: #999999;"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="proflink" href="https://plus.google.com/100500197140377336562" oid="100500197140377336562" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Alexander Becker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;plus countless others, too many to mention&lt;br /&gt;
here.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;2)&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="proflinkWrapper"&gt;&lt;span class="proflinkPrefix" style="color: #999999;"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="proflink" href="https://plus.google.com/116416314233992548280" oid="116416314233992548280" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Kevin Kelly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;wrote&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;The Ciphers of Social Media&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;which takes a look at&lt;br /&gt;
some fascinating statistics about the percentage of user interaction and&lt;br /&gt;
the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;true&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;value of a follower.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;The Ciphers of Social Media&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a class="ot-anchor" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/116416314233992548280/posts/4WonVFkQUk1" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;https://plus.google.com/u/0/116416314233992548280/posts/4WonVFkQUk1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;3)&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="proflinkWrapper"&gt;&lt;span class="proflinkPrefix" style="color: #999999;"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="proflink" href="https://plus.google.com/112352920206354603958" oid="112352920206354603958" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Max Huijgen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;wrote&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Zombie armies of blueheads are a reality&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Where he asked&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="proflinkWrapper"&gt;&lt;span class="proflinkPrefix" style="color: #999999;"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="proflink" href="https://plus.google.com/112254467169147545881" oid="112254467169147545881" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;A.V. Flox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="proflinkWrapper"&gt;&lt;span class="proflinkPrefix" style="color: #999999;"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="proflink" href="https://plus.google.com/107784212140893392732" oid="107784212140893392732" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Brandon Campeaux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;if they would rather&lt;br /&gt;
have fewer but higher quality followers. Read the post to get the full scoop!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Zombie armies of blueheads are a reality&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;--&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a class="ot-anchor" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/112352920206354603958/posts/b4h2GZEZaf2" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;https://plus.google.com/u/0/112352920206354603958/posts/b4h2GZEZaf2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Conclusion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is clear to me that there are quality people out there making a difference&lt;br /&gt;
so there is hope. The key is in finding these people and making a&lt;br /&gt;
connection with them. Stop looking for followers and make your&lt;br /&gt;
contribution to the Google Plus community.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Followers will come later and they will be real people!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span class="c-C SS0Hfe Ls" role="button" style="clear: both; color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; display: block; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" tabindex="0"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-p58e4fuDTrM/Tzwsr0DmVqI/AAAAAAAAAWk/nDb5zA7F9XE/w400/quality-followers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="Zbbru" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;
&lt;div class="s-r-fa FwSD8d" style="margin-bottom: 7px; margin-top: 5px;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: #3366cc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="s-r-vc" style="clear: both;"&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/102093544911036326297/albums" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;More photos&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;from&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6457313810445704544" oid="102093544911036326297" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer;"&gt;Gregory Allan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-p58e4fuDTrM/Tzwsr0DmVqI/AAAAAAAAAWk/nDb5zA7F9XE/s72-w400-c/quality-followers.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>A funny thing happened on the way to the Internet.</title><link>http://befollowed.blogspot.com/2012/02/funny-thing-happened-on-way-to-internet.html</link><category>inspiration</category><category>networking</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:14:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457313810445704544.post-4546786525872616749</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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So I get home today and find my Internet is down. Not sure why but there it is. Add to that the fact that the truck I am not using parked in front of my house got a ticket and a warning to remove it. I hasn't been insured for a few weeks.&lt;/div&gt;
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I really wasn't planning on dealing with it till next week. But rules are rules. We are a society of laws after all. Government needs their money.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I am using Android today so I will not be available much. But just as I checked in&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="proflinkWrapper"&gt;&lt;span class="proflinkPrefix" style="color: #999999;"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="proflink" href="https://plus.google.com/106623376466242484336" oid="106623376466242484336" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Eric Cantu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;had something kind to say. What great timing the universe unfolds on us when we least expect it! This is all confirmation to me that I am at the right place at the right time. After losing a few thousands contacts (long story) last year and basically starting from scratch, I have only been using Google+ a few weeks, but already I am grateful to those of you kind enough to follow my stuff, and those of you I follow for inspiration.&lt;br /&gt;
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Let me end by saying, (once again) it is not the size of your follower lists nor any pre conceived expectation we may have about gain, but the plain honest exchange of information without agenda is what will transform many of us into huge successes in the next 12 months. If you are frustrated or wishing more people were reading your posts, just stick with it.&lt;br /&gt;
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Right now we are building equity, earning a reputation. it all pays off down the road, trust me.&lt;/div&gt;
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Social networking is the express way of all communication. That's a fact. It's crazy that just a short time ago it didn't even exist. Now everyone you know stares down at their phones. It&amp;amp;...&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Follow and be followed. Lead the way by following the way.</title><link>http://befollowed.blogspot.com/2012/02/follow-and-be-followed-lead-way-by.html</link><category>networking</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:13:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457313810445704544.post-3528050982458750510</guid><description>&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;I know, kind of a cryptic title but It does reflect what I am thinking about. I am going to assume that most people would like to have a few more people reading their posts, right? Well we all like to have people read us, like us and essentially follow us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Sometimes it just does't seem to happen very fast. Some of you might be here on Google+ just to connect with a few friends and family and if that is you then welcome! We love you too. The rest of this post however is dedicated to those who really do care about their follower counts and want to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;increase their Google+ network&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;It is all too easy to think the number of your followers matters when in fact it is only a small part of your online presence. People with small networks of people can often wield more influence that those with thousands of readers. It all comes down to the quality of your contacts. This is why people who already have a large following are always on the look out for new contacts. (see rule 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;The people you admire are not in some unapproachable ivory tower forbidding you entrance. If you need someone's help, ask for it. We all love to give our opinions on things. Successful people are real people and no decent human being is going to shut you out unless you are breaking rule #3,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Simply put, just start sharing what you know with the community. It does not matter if anyone is reading it now or not. You are building up your futue credibility so when people are deciding if they should follow you they can see a history of your posts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Be excited when you get just one awesomely successful person you admire to comment or respond to your comment.&lt;/span&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Why Google Plus: Power Users Perspective</title><link>http://befollowed.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-google-plus-power-users-perspective.html</link><category>google+</category><category>video</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:22:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457313810445704544.post-5355978090377839717</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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This is huge people! Just by conducting a search, which we already do every day, we can interact with the people posting the information we seek and it immediately can improve our influence and the size of our networks because the very act of searching - reading - responding leads back to people checking our profile and joining our circles.&lt;br /&gt;
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No longer do you have to engage in aggressive marketing tactics. All you have to do is what you already do. Google Plus will eventually be much more than a social network. It is a way to connect everything we do, say and create in a way that helps us be not only more organized but more successful as well.&lt;/div&gt;
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This is huge people! Just by conducting a search, which we already do every day, we can interact with the people posting the information we seek and it immediately can&lt;b&gt; improve our influence&lt;/b&gt; and the &lt;b&gt;size of our networks&lt;/b&gt; because the very act of&lt;i&gt; searching - reading - responding&lt;/i&gt; leads back to people checking our profile and joining our circles.&lt;/div&gt;
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No longer do you have to engage in aggressive marketing tactics. All you have to do is what you already do. &lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/102093544911036326297/"&gt;Google Plus&lt;/a&gt; will eventually be much more than a social network. It is a way to connect everything we do, say and create in a way that helps us be not only more organized but more successful as well.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;have &lt;b&gt;people directly respond&lt;/b&gt; to us&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;be &lt;i&gt;notified &lt;/i&gt;later if any &lt;i&gt;commented &lt;/i&gt;back,&amp;nbsp;without&amp;nbsp;having to check email&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;reply &lt;/b&gt;back to people and &lt;b&gt;broadcast &lt;/b&gt;to your &lt;b&gt;network &lt;/b&gt;at the same time&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;have people be &lt;i&gt;notified &lt;/i&gt;if their name is mentioned in the post&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;It does not matter if you are a big business or a single individual. Anyone can position themselves to have a huge following of loyal contacts even if you are starting from scratch. Even if you have no product or service to sell. The way the world is going to transform in the next several years will be such that Google will be inter-twined in every aspect of our lives both personal and business alike.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Doom-sayers may cry out against this but in truth it is a good thing. If the entire world is going to be connected like thisanyway then it might as well be done by who can do it the best. The way the + sign works by popping up the name of everyone is&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;amazing&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;. Just that one aspect alone has made such a difference for me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Lastly I want to publicly thank&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="proflinkWrapper" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="proflinkPrefix" style="color: #999999;"&gt;+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="proflink" href="https://plus.google.com/107656088609554509650" oid="107656088609554509650" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Chris Lang&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;again for the ebook he spent all week putting together. It really lays out why people should be on G+ and it has given me the inspiration I needed as it mirrors exactly what I have been thinking.&lt;/span&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>The Magic Wand that Manifests Anything - Video</title><link>http://befollowed.blogspot.com/2012/02/magic-wand-that-manifests-anything.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><pubDate>Thu, 9 Feb 2012 09:11:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457313810445704544.post-322612961084865591</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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Gregory&amp;nbsp;&lt;img alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Being Followed is Something that happens TO you</title><link>http://befollowed.blogspot.com/2012/02/it-is-something-that-happens-to-you.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><pubDate>Thu, 9 Feb 2012 04:54:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457313810445704544.post-8202302873896655981</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Being Followed Is Not Something You Make Happen,It is Something that Happens to you.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Every day I come across people that need help with their business and&amp;nbsp;they are focused on the result they are looking for, and the things they&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;think they need to do to get there. They tend to be more focused on&amp;nbsp;what tools they need to use or what services they need to employ. They&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;want to know how best to create messages that bring people to their products&amp;nbsp;or services.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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This is a flawed approach because when you are focused on bringing people&amp;nbsp;to one of your end points whether it be a sale or a subscriber, the tendency&amp;nbsp;is to mess things up in the details. &amp;nbsp;Success is not about&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" mce_name="em" mce_style="font-style: italic;" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;what&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;you sell it&amp;nbsp;is about&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" mce_name="em" mce_style="font-style: italic;" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;who&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;you are. You are the product, you or your company is the&amp;nbsp;brand but in fact you should not even be selling at all!&lt;br /&gt;
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This is a major reason for the misconception that you need hundreds and thousands of&amp;nbsp;followers and subscribers to turn a good profit. &amp;nbsp;This is due to another&amp;nbsp;false assumption that only 2 or 3 per cent of the people will hand over&amp;nbsp;their money.&lt;br /&gt;
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They know instinctively that most people will not even be interested&amp;nbsp;in what they are offering &amp;nbsp;so rather than increasing their worth in their prospects' minds&amp;nbsp;they just try to reach more eye balls.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Attacking People In the Pursuit of Quick Profits is a Killer&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Growing too fast can actually be a bad thing because once you start to pick up momentum you end up focusing on how to better leverage that growth and how to implement&amp;nbsp;more viral marketing. You start thinking about all of these forms, these tactics&amp;nbsp;and before you know it you have taken yourself out of the game again. You forgot that it&amp;nbsp;is all about sharing what you know.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Most of the great wealthy entrepreneurs online started off by sharing a large&amp;nbsp;amount of their intelligence free of charge without any expectation of rewards.&amp;nbsp;In this&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;quick, quick we want it now&lt;/u&gt;mentallity of the world we get sidetracked&amp;nbsp;by information and hung up on details. Suddenly hours have gone by while we&amp;nbsp;have been doing&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" mce_name="em" mce_style="font-style: italic;" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;so called&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;research or trying to broadcast to as many people&amp;nbsp;as we can or checking our stats or any one of another dozen things we think are&amp;nbsp;important. While these things are important they should not be the primary objective.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is more important to lead the way than to act like a leader. Form relationships by&amp;nbsp;communicating with people. Just look at how many people post 10, 20 or even 30&amp;nbsp;twitter feeds in the space of like 3 minutes and there is not one single solitary&amp;nbsp;bit of actual information in it at all! Nothing but 12 or 13 links is not&amp;nbsp;going to suggest integrity to me and is a sure fire way to get yourself&amp;nbsp;blocked by any serious user.&lt;br /&gt;
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Even worse is 15 seconds after I post something, some joker tags my user names&amp;nbsp;in a message and there is no message at all! No continuation of my topic, not&amp;nbsp;even a 'hello, nice post'! This makes one look really clueless. The good news&amp;nbsp;is that with so many people making these mistakes it is VERY easy to&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" mce_name="strong" mce_style="font-weight: bold;" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;stand out&amp;nbsp;from the crowd&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now you may have some short term success due to the sheer volume of your&amp;nbsp;activity but it is doomed to not last because you are not making any&lt;br /&gt;
connection with anyone.&lt;/div&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Organizing your Google Plus data streams for maximum efficiency</title><link>http://befollowed.blogspot.com/2012/02/organizing-your-google-plus-data.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><pubDate>Thu, 9 Feb 2012 01:12:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457313810445704544.post-2960374256017740354</guid><description>&lt;b&gt;So much info so little time&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/102093544911036326297/"&gt;Add Gregory to your Circles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
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Information overload and the splitting of our attention makes it increasingly difficult to keep up with the ever growing amount of information in our social network stream Google plus offers the aspect of creating circle that act to filter both incoming and outgoing stream of data and this is a great start, but we need to dig in and customize our accounts to get the maximum use of the system&lt;/div&gt;
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When you follow someone you need to be clear as to why you are following them. Some people you will follow because you simply love their content and what they have to say, while others you may be following in hopes of them following you back. it is this latter category of contacts where the problem arises. Since everyone else besides you are also flooded with too much information you need to be sure that they 1) want to follow you and 2) will not regret following you.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Post your best general topical content to your public stream, less often&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Rather than having potential followers see too much potential information from you, they need to see a modest amount of high quality content from you. You also need to let them know that you have other great stuff available in other circles. If someone comes to you and follows you they need to be able to tell you where to circle them.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Ask new followers which circles they are interested in.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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If you for example publish most of your content to your public stream in the hopes of providing plenty of good reasons for your future follower to circle you back you may end up over doing it. A powerful tactic that I have not seen anyone else talk about yet is the concept of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;pre circling&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pre Circling for future followers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I did some experiments with my Google+ circles and learned the following:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;I find someone I want to follow me back&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I read their posts and profile and get a good idea about which of my topics they would like most&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I follow them and add them to the circle I want them to read&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;They visit my stream and see a few public posts I made&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;But they also see the posts I made to their circle&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;they followed me!&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;This is a powerful feature of circles. If you add someone to a circle, even though they are not yet &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;following you&amp;nbsp;&lt;span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;yet&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;they will see the content of that circle&amp;nbsp;&lt;span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;before&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;they follow you, regardless of what circle they put you in.&lt;/em&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://thebiggandbusiness.com/articles/10-circle-management-tips-to-save-your-time-and-sanity-in-google"&gt;10 Circle Management Tips To Save Your Time and Sanity In Google+&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;Now Go Find Some More&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/106393478695568433143/posts/3CGaFRVrGK8"&gt; Circles To Follow&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZZmVDxwmPIYKVzl8ZXj9qpDJ_vNRTnpoJemqRlbYMEJZMFNR00ZNJAVKQXG5t3wZl5ohhg02kR1dCHp8twZl6p2cTmXrX4EURL6BY2Mxfg-aZh_NFxrhtzde429Lf1Y6Ro6C9D7Efb6UX/s72-c/right-arrow.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Attacking People In the Pursuit of Quick Profits is a Killer</title><link>http://befollowed.blogspot.com/2012/02/attacking-people-in-pursuit-of-quick.html</link><category>networking</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:10:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457313810445704544.post-7229811475977177496</guid><description>&lt;span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white;" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Growing too fast can actually be a bad thing because once you start to pick up momentum you end up focusing on how to better leverage that growth and how to implement more viral marketing. You start thinking about all of these forms, these tactics and before you know it you have taken yourself out of the game again. You forgot that it is all about sharing what you know.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Most of the great wealthy entrepreneurs online started off by sharing a large amount of their intelligence free of charge without any expectation of rewards. In this quick, quick we want it now mentallity of the world we get sidetracked by information and hung up on details. Suddenly hours have gone by while we have been doing so called research or trying to broadcast to as many people as we can or checking our stats or any one of another dozen things we think are important. While these things are important they should not be the primary objective.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;It is more important to lead the way than to act like a leader. Form relationships by communicating with people. Just look at how many people post 10, 20 or even 30 twitter feeds in the space of like 3 minutes and there is not one single solitary bit of actual information in it at all! Nothing but 12 or 13 links is not going to suggest integrity to me and is a sure fire way to get yourself blocked by any serious user.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Even worse is 15 seconds after I post something, some joker tags my user names in a message and there is no message at all! No continuation of my topic, not even a ‘hello, nice post’! This makes one look really clueless. The good news is that with so many people making these mistakes it is VERY easy to stand out from the crowd.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Now you may have some short term success due to the sheer volume of your activity but it is doomed to not last because you are not making any&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;connection with anyone.&lt;/span&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Being Followed in Social Networks</title><link>http://befollowed.blogspot.com/2012/02/being-followed-in-social-networks.html</link><category>being followed</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:09:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457313810445704544.post-6845579556440769512</guid><description>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Being Followed Is Not Something You Make Happen,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;It is Something that Happens&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;to&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Every day I come across people that need help with their business and they are focused on the result they are looking for, and the things they&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;think they need to do to get there. They tend to be more focused on what tools they need to use or what services they need to employ. They&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;want to know how best to create messages that bring people to their products or services.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;This is a flawed approach because when you are focused on bringing people to one of your end points whether it be a sale or a subscriber, the tendency is to mess things up in the details. Success is not about what you sell it is about who you are. You are the product, you or your company is the brand but in fact you should not even be selling at all!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;This is a major reason for the misconception that you need hundreds and thousands of followers and subscribers to turn a good profit. This is due to another false assumption that only 2 or 3 per cent of the people will hand over their money.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;They know instinctively that most people will not even be interested in what they are offering. Rather than increasing their worth in their prospects’ minds they just try to reach more eye balls.&lt;/span&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Personal Branding For Social Networking Success</title><link>http://befollowed.blogspot.com/2012/02/personal-branding-for-social-networking.html</link><category>personal branding</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><pubDate>Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:08:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457313810445704544.post-5698547424777300378</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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Creating a following in social networks requires sharing quality content and building relationships over time. One of the challenges many people have is in understanding&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;who they are&lt;/i&gt;. It is difficult to inspire others when you do not truly know where your talents are or how you can best share what you know.&lt;br /&gt;
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While I am just getting started here on Google Plus I am still working on topics and appropriate circles to post to but I think most people following this stream will agree that personal branding is an important key in today's content driven environment.&lt;br /&gt;
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Personally I am finding that because I have a diverse background from software development to music production and half a dozen other interests and talents (like we all do) that zero-ing in on what I should focus on is becoming a challenge. So one of my research projects is&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;personal branding&lt;/b&gt;and what follows are some good resources on that subject.&lt;br /&gt;
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Where do your opinions diverge from the conventional thinking? What aspects of your expertise have not gotten enough attention? What sets you apart from those who have already created their personal brand? Knowing this information will help you further define your own identity.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a class="ot-anchor" href="http://www.personalbrandingblog.com/7-keys-to-moving-your-brand/" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"&gt;http://www.personalbrandingblog.com/7-keys-to-moving-your-brand/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;In the past I was posting at several different blogs until I ran into a dillema. The more ideas I came across, the more confused I started to get.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;I started seeing conflicts between by topical interests. I would think to myself “should I post to this blog or that blog?”. Before too long I got burned out with information overload and ended up creating nothing for a while!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;I kept reading all over that you need a tightly focused niche topic for a blog to be successful. If you want a lot of traffic from the search engines it is important to keep your topics to a narrow range. Well I tried that by diversifying across multiple websites and months later I still found that competing for search engine traffic was just too time confusing. When you care too much about SEO your content starts to suffer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;The problem with having a lot of websites is that you end up wasting too much time jumping around from place to place. Then, when you try to keep your topics tightly focused you just limit yourself and your creative abilities. So I finally made a choice. I choose to not care about search engine optimization more than I care about creating the actual content.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Google Plus works fairly good as a blogging tool, well kinda. It lacks the html editor only found on the Profile/about page but I am warming up to doing more article posting here instead of on a blog.&lt;/span&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total></item><item><title>Build 2 Responsive Opt-in Lists From Your Efforts &amp; Others.</title><link>http://befollowed.blogspot.com/2012/02/build-2-responsive-opt-in-lists-from.html</link><category>emailers</category><category>viral marketing</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><pubDate>Sat, 4 Feb 2012 17:14:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457313810445704544.post-2407580802005903691</guid><description>&lt;br /&gt;
I personally got tired of trying to earn money&amp;nbsp;through other people on the internet. I hated&lt;br /&gt;
having to rely on others for my income. That is&amp;nbsp;why I was so excited when I heard about&lt;br /&gt;
The List Machine.&lt;br /&gt;
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This system was designed to not only allow me&amp;nbsp;to build my own opt-in list from my own promotion,&lt;br /&gt;
but also from the promotion of others in the system.&amp;nbsp;Not only did I get access to my own leads, but I&lt;br /&gt;
also have access to leads from The List Machine&amp;nbsp;opt-in lead matrix!&lt;br /&gt;
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I have believed for a while now that the money&amp;nbsp;is really in the list, but up until a few days ago&amp;nbsp;never put much effort into actually building a list&amp;nbsp;of my own. But, when a trusted friend and associate&amp;nbsp;recommended The List Machine to me, I felt like I&amp;nbsp;should at least try it out. I can't tell you how&amp;nbsp;happy I am that I did!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Here's what sold me on The List Machine:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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1. It's free to join&lt;br /&gt;
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2. I wanted a huge list of opt-in leads of my own&lt;br /&gt;
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3. I needed to start earning more money&lt;br /&gt;
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Honestly, this system practically runs itself. Sure,&amp;nbsp;I've taken about 10 minutes a day the last few days to&lt;br /&gt;
let some fellow marketers, like yourself, know about&amp;nbsp;the system, but really that's all I've needed to do.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Want to see for yourself what I'm so excited about?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thelistmachine.com/index.php/wynpublishing"&gt;Join me here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Thanks,&lt;br /&gt;
Gregory Allan&lt;br /&gt;
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After you join up, make sure to tell your friends about&lt;br /&gt;
the system (this will send your list building efforts&lt;br /&gt;
into hyper-drive)!&lt;br /&gt;
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