During this time, two superstars arose, Chad and Nattida Chong.

Chad and Nattida plainly have the X factor. They stormed up the WGN charts and were said to be making around $500K per week at their prime. Chad and Nattida are founders of ByDzyne.

The Issue Technology Based Multi Level Marketing Business in General

One big problem with technology based online marketing is that things move really quick. This model can deliver incredible growth it can also be easily taken over by competitors with better innovation and more affordable pricing. Generally an innovative online marketing company only has a brief time to run. Once traditional adoption of the technology takes place, clients merely refuse to buy from an overpriced network marketing business. Regular companies do not need to pull affiliates with large compensation packages. They instead reinvest profits back into the business. This allows these companies to continuously innovate. A technology MLM cannot maintain this innovation and will eventually suffer, just like WGN did. It is a big issue.

The Remedy?

Chad and Nattida Chong are really clever operators. They understand that they can capitalize on a brand-new technology product and diversify with non-tech based options.

They are launching with three other options – a skin care product, a CBD product and a travel product.

When it comes to the ByDzyne possibility, they have a solid comp plan. There is a ton of room for big marketers to absolutely crush this.

ByDzyne – Summary Key Figures: Chad & Nattida Chong Product Type: Nearly everything at this stage! Summary: To earn you must be activated by accumulating 150 points in your first order and then maintain 60BV per month thereafter. Active Affiliates are eligible to participate in the Compensation Plan. See The Comp Plan Here. Chad and Nattida are MLM superstars with a massive downline. This will be a big launch. Half of the products seem to be of very high quality. They should drop the smart watch and the discount travel and focus on CBD and skin/beauty. Rating: B Over a very good program. They need to drop a couple of products, in my opinion.

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What Is ByDzyne

Their products

Compensation Plan

What I Like About ByDzyne

What Is ByDzyne?

ByDzyne is a Multi Level Marketing launching in four specific niches. Presently they have a smart watch, a skincare line, a CBD product, and travel. According to Chad, the lines might change based on demand and new products coming to market. Their goal is to follow demand versus deliver what they think the market wants.

The ByDyzyne Product Lines

The first is a smart watch with all the bells and whistles. It’s great for tracking your heart rate and rest top quality etc. The ByDzyne Watch is retailing for $430.

ByDzyne banks that if people will pay $430 for the Apple 4 watch, they will pay the exact same for a MLM smart watch. We will see if this is the case.

Xceler8 Skin Care: Very excellent quality skin treatment and also elegance products. This looks to be a huge hit.

Allur Wellness: CBD is a remarkable material and performs well in scientific research. Even better the market is ready to explode. The quality of their CBD and the potency in the ByDzyne is second to none. This product looks great!

Travel ByDzyne: A great deal of network marketing companies are acquiring wholesale travel prices taking on the price cut on-line travel companies. This is an absolute no brainer. You get cash back every time someone uses the travel vouchers. It is a great customer appreciation gift.

Compensation Plan

Terminology of Comp Plan

1. Retail Customers (RC)
2. Preferred Customers (PC) are customers with autoship. Preferred customers get 30% discount plus loyalty points and travel deals.
3. Brand Ambassadors (BA) Affiliates or distributors participating in the compensation plan by referring people into ByDzyne.

Retail Bonus

30% Retail Bonus for the difference between retail and wholesale price on any retail-priced product purchased by a Retail Customer.

First Order Bonus

For every first order you sell to a personally enrolled Preferred Customer or Brand Ambassador, you will receive a 20% First Order Bonus. Probuilders and above get an extra 5%, making it a 25% First Order Bonus.

3 Strong Leg Commission

Get paid 5% on your strong leg for 6 weeks after enrollment on first and second leg of enroller tree.

Team Volume Commission

This is binary commissions of up to 20% on your pay leg, paid biweekly to Active Builders.

Matching Bonus

A matching bonus is paid on Team Volume Commissions. Depending on rank this is up to 10% and paid 8 levels deep.

Global Pool Vault

ByDzyne put aside 1% of company revenue into a pool for affiliates. Affiliates, depending on rank will earn shares in this 1%. Paid every 6 months.

Luxury Home and Super Car Bonus

Every time you hit Presidential or Crown Zone in a pay cycle you earn 1 point towards this bonus. Once you have 5 Presidential Zone Points, you get $50K cash towards a home or car. Once you have 5 Crown Zone points, you get $250K towards home or car.

What I Like About ByDzyne

Successful, Experienced Founders.

There are very few individuals on the planet that can keep up with Chad & Nattida Chong. They are unusually rare. If you could bottle them up, the world would have lots of millionaire.

As well, among the founders are Nat & Chanida Puranaputra. Nat & Chanida are widely considered by many as the most influential leaders, trainers, and mentors inside the profession of direct sales. With over 40 years of combined experience, they have personally helped to create many millionaires and multi-millionaires across the world. Originally from Thailand, the couple has occupied top leadership positions in several companies and built some of the largest international sales teams in the industry.

Joining them is Henry Marsh. Henry Marsh brings a lifetime of significant achievements and extensive experience in the direct-selling industry to ByDzyneTM. As a young man, he stepped onto the world stage and quickly became a world-class Olympian, holding a record for 27 years in the 3000m steeplechase, later being inducted into the Track & Field Hall of Fame. He continued to bring his spirit of excellence into the business sector, most notably becoming Co-Founder & Vice-President of MonaVie, a company that opened in over 40 countries and broke industry sales records, climbing to over $2 Billion in sales in just five years time.

Lastly is Sophia Wong. For over 22 years, Sophia has been a leading entrepreneur with a proven track record in the areas of technology, finance, operations, and international business. Her most notable venture in the technology industry (PMC.com), quickly became one of the largest digital media companies in the world. Recently, she co-founded and directed a successful nutritional supplement, body care, and organic essential oils business that spanned over 10 countries globally.

Very Well Structured

This business will certainly not be closed down due to government violations. Everything looks compliant. This means ByDzyne will be around for a long time.

HOT Products

Chad and also Nattida have chosen four really hot markets. Each of the products has potential for extremely solid growth. Chad describes the necessity to be flexible with underperforming products. This is really creative. Instead of going all in on CBD for example, ByDzyne can ride the CBD boom with a high quality array. However if CBD diminishes, they still have multiple other products.

This approach allows ByDzyne MLM to deliver new products in response to market demand. This adaptability is a huge strength.

Verdict.

Love the products and the company! It’s a solid A.

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A slow mac can lead to a lot of frustrations and you may ask yourself why is my Mac so slow; what could the problem be; how can I speed up my Mac? Let’s explore some of the causes of slow speeds, how to navigate them, and get your Mac back to optimum speeds.

We have divided the article into two sections based on how much impact they will potentially have in speeding up your Mac. These are High impact and Low impact. Doing them in this order should help you get the biggest return on time invested.

Understand that these activities will take some time to complete. Our estimate, depending on your Mac knowledge and skill, are the High impact items will take between 3-5 hours to complete and the Low impact items will take between 1-3 hours to complete. This time can be saved using CleanMyMac X which we estimate will take about 10 minutes to run the first time.

Time to complete:

• High impact (3-5 hours)
• Low impact (1-3 hours)
• CleanMyMac X (10 minutes)

High Impact Activities (3-5 hours)

1. Use Activity Monitor to stop CPU sucking apps

Some applications currently running may be using a big chunk of your CPU power. Closing such applications will considerably speed up your Mac.

You do this by :

• Accessing the Activity Monitor from Mac’s utility folder of your applications.
• The CPU function highlights the consumption of every running application.
• Click to show the amount of CPU being used by each program by clicking on the column name %CPU from which list you are able to determine which applications are using up too much CPU power.
• Close the selected applications by choosing the app and clicking the X button located at the left-hand corner of your Activity Monitor. This step by step process can be done much easier and faster using CleanMyMac.

For a more in depth explanation on the Activity Monitor, see this site.

2. Remove unnecessary startup applications

Multiple applications in the startup process diminish the speed of your mac.  Limiting the number of apps that run when you boot your Mac will increase speed. To do this:

• Go to the Systems Preferences function
• Select Users & Groups
• Click on your username
• Click on Login Items
• Select applications you do not need immediately you boot the system
• Click the “-” button to remove those apps from starting at login

Unfamiliar with System Preferences, here is a good explanation on how to use it.

3. Uninstall unnecessary programs

Removing apps that you are not using will speed up your Mac. There is a misconception that dragging application icons to the rash will uninstall the same; there are files that remain in your hard drive and have to be removed manually. It is a relatively tedious task as these files are stored in different locations which you have to find manually.

It begins with simply dragging the file from your applications folder to the trash. Here are the steps:

• Open a new Finder window
• Select the Applications folder
• Right click on the application you want to remove
• Select Move to Trash
• Empty the Trash

The are other locations of files associated with programs that also need to be cleaned. Some of those locations are listed below

• Support files are found in /Library/Caches

There are over eight other locations in your Mac that you would have to clear files from and this could take a lot of time let alone the fact that you will most likely not be familiar with all these locations.

Using CleanMyMac X to Remove Applications

To perform this function much faster and effectively by removing ALL files associated with uninstalled programs use the Uninstall function on your CleanMyMac X application in a much easier way by:

• Opening the CleanMyMacX application and clicking on the uninstaller function on the left menu.
• Select the application you want to uninstall from a list in the center
• Click on Uninstall or Application Reset at the top.
• Go back to your applications list to remove more if needed.

After each process, you can view a log of the removed items.

4. Clean up your hard drive

Of the most effective means to speed up your Mac is to clean up your hard drive. The quickest and simplest place to start is by removing larger files on your Mac.

Here is the process to locate large files and other larger items in all versions of Mac OS X:

• Open a new Finder window
• Hit Command+F to bring up Search
• Click on “Kind” filter and select “Other”, then select “File Size” from the attribute list
• Click on the second filter and choose “is greater than”
• In the third space, enter the size to search for anything greater than (for instance 100) and choose either KB, MB or GB as the final filter
• To sort by size, select the asterix looking icon on the menu bar, and click “Group By” and size

Take note that this process can take you up to three or more hours while CleanMyMac does the same in five minutes or less. It involves going into your hard drive and removing a file that you do not need. There are thousands of files stored on your hard drive, most of which you do not even know exist or whose location you will find very tasking to find.

5. Update to the current OS (and turn on automatic updates)

Upgrading your Mac’s OS will give you higher operating speeds as new systems often come improved with speed being a major focus. You can find out what version your Mac is operating on by clicking the apple icon in the left-hand corner of your screen and then About This Mac.

Do update the Mac OS:

• Click “Software Update“
• If there is a newer version, click “Update Now“

To turn on automatic updates:

• In the Software Update window, click “Advanced“
• Check all the items present and click “OK“

You can also upgrade your hardware which is an expensive affair. Not all newer versions of Operating Software will be compatible with your computer but these two actions will increase speeds on your Mac.

If you are working on a previous OS to Yosemite, to turn on automatic updates:

• Click on System Preferences > App Store 
• Check the box for Automatically Check For Updates
• Check Install App Updates, which will automatically ensure that apps are updated. 

6. Empty Trash Bin Regularly

A regular routine of emptying your trash bin will keep your Mac running nice and fast. Do this by simply right clicking your trash bin and selecting “Empty Trash”. You can also turn this on automatic via Apple Menu > About This Mac > Storage > Manage > and Turn On Empty Trash Automatically.

7. Restart your Mac

Many issues are often solved by restarting your Mac. Speeds and malfunctions by programs may be rectified by:

• Click on the Apple menu in the left-hand corner
• Click on Restart
• Click on Restart on the pop-up menu that appears.

8. Replace your hard drive with a Solid-State drive

A solid-state-drive has got a much higher performance as compared to your normal drive. You must be cautious though and seek the services of a professional as the process is quite complex and could lead to damages or loss of data. On that note make sure you copy all your files in case some are misplaced or damaged in the process.

9. Add more RAM

Are you still asking how do I clean up my Mac? or how do I get it to run faster?

The more RAM the faster your computer. Increased RAM enables multiple tasks to be executed at high speeds and keeps functions from using virtual memory which uses the hard drive and slows down the computer.

To find out how much RAM you have access to:

• Open spotlight search
• Type in Activity Monitor
• Click on the Memory tab at the top of the window

If there is mostly green then your computer has got enough RAM at its disposal, yellow is OK but not the ideal position while Red indicates a lot of stress on your RAM and the need to upgrade it. There is tons of information in this Apple support page to help you upgrade your RAM.

Lower Impact Activities (1-3 hours)

10. Remove caches

Caches refer to a selection of files that speed up processes that you often initiate, for example, a website will open faster when you revisit it because your browser will cache web pages that you visit. It sounds logical to keep these file in your system but remember files take up storage space and when the files are too many they take up extensive storage space that eventually does the reverse and slows down your computer. Clearing these files improves performance. CleanMyMacX can perform this function for you at the click of a button but you can do the same manually by following these steps:

For user cache:

• Open a finder window or from your desktop
• Hit Command+Shift+G
• Type ~/Library/Caches/
• Go to each one these folders an erase everything.
• Go to your trash folder by clicking on the icon in the dock and select empty trash
• Restart your Mac so it can start creating new fresh caches.
• Repeat the process periodically.

For system and application cache:

• Follow the steps as in user cache and select folders of the application whose cache you want to clear.

This process can be done much faster if you chose to use the CleanMyMac application in the following easy steps:

• Open the CleanMyMac application.
• Select System Junk
• Click scan and finally Clean

It’s that simple.

11. Clear your Browser Cache on Chrome

Chrome has is own browser cache clearing function.  To clear this cache, do the following:

• On Chrome, click the word Chrome from the top menu
• Select “Clear Browser Data” from the drop down
• Select the dropdown for “All Time“
• Click the “Clear Data” button

12. Clear your Browser Cache on Safari

Safari also has is own browser cache clearing function.  To clear the Safari cache, do the following:

• On Safari, click the word Safari from the top menu
• Select “Clear History” from the drop down
• Select the dropdown for “All History“
• Click the “Clear History” button

13. Turn off visual effects

The Mac offers some great visual effects though they notably affect the speeds of your iMac and MacBook. Turning off the visual effects on your Mac can greatly improve speeds. You can do this by

• Click on System Preferences > Dock
• Untick Animate Opening Applications and Automatically hide and show Dock
• Click on Minimize windows using
• Change Genie effect to Scale effect

14. Repair disk permissions (Mac OS Yosemite and earlier)

The newly installed software comes with default file settings that allow certain actions to be taken by the user. The user may modify some of these permissions to suit his or her needs and in the process some of these files malfunction and cause the slow response to commands.

Repairing disk permissions is the easiest way to fix this by:

• Opening Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities)
• Choose your startup disk
• Click the First Aid tab
• Click on Repair Disk Permissions to repair any inconsistent permissions

15. Reindex spotlight

One feature of a newly updated Operating System is the slow response when a spotlight is indexing. This will normally not last more than a few hours but sometimes the indexing totally stalls and you then need to reindex spotlight.

This is done in the following steps:

• Go to System Preferences > Spotlight
• Click on the Privacy tab
• Drag your hard drive from finder to the Privacy list
• Now remove it by clicking the sign.

The indexing will start again.

16. Limit iCLOUD functions

We often take for granted how much space is occupied by photos on the Mac. It presents a dilemma when you have to delete photos to free up disk space as deleting photos from your Mac also deletes them from all Apple devices; that is how the application is designed. Turning off the iCLOUD Library function on your Mac use alternatives to store more photos on the cloud such as Dropbox or Google Drive.

Here are the steps to turning off Photo sharing in iCloud:

• Open System Preferences
• Click the iCloud icon
• Uncheck the box next to Photos
• You can also click “Options” and turn off individual items in Photo sharing on iCloud

17. Reset SMC and PRAM

When your Mac is exhibiting unusual behavior including executing commands you have not initiated like shutting down or adjusting backlight levels and slow levels your instinct will be to restart your Mac. This should normally solve your problem but if not you might have to reset your System Management Controller and your Parameter Random Access Memory.

Resetting the SMC for MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and MacBook involves first finding out whether your battery is removable or not.

For non- removable batteries:

• Shut down your Mac.
• Press Shift+Control+Option on your keyboard and press the Power button at the same time.
• Hold all for about 10 seconds.
• Release all keys.
• Press the Power button to turn on your Mac.

For removable batteries

• Shut down your Mac
• Remove the battery
• Press the power button and hold for 5 seconds
• Press the power button again to turn on your computer.

For iMac, Mac Mini, and Mac Pro:

• Shut down computer
• Unplug the power cord and wait 15 seconds
• Plug the power cord in
• Wait 5 seconds and press the power button to turn on your computer

Resetting PRAM

It is quite a simple process:

• Shut down your Mac
• Press the power button
• Press the Command+Option+P+R keys at the same time
• Hold the keys until your Mac restarts
• Release the keys

These processes may seem quite tedious but are very functional when it comes to improving your computer speeds.

18. Optimize Your iTunes Collections

iTunes collects applications that you install and this has been noted to slow down computer speeds. There is the Optimize iTunes function which can delete items no longer needed. It may be a time-consuming process but often makes a difference.

To do this, follow these steps:

• Select Apple Menu
• Select “About this Mac“
• Click the “Storage” tab
• Click the “Manage” button
• Click the “Optimize” button next to iTunes
• Click “Optimize“
• 

19. Finder tips

Several files are displayed when you open a finder window. The is a perhaps negligible boost in speeds but a boost all the same if you if you change your protocol:

–  Open Finder preferences in Finder and New finder choose the desired folder such as the desktop. You could also make an In Progress folder where you can save work for future access. In future, not every file will be displayed but only the folder you will have selected.

20. Avoid an open idle browser window

A lot of activity goes on in the background when you leave web pages open. Close browsers that you are not currently using.

21. Monitor your email

If you have a busy inbox operation your email application may cause it to hang if you’ve got tons of mail and in the process cause everything else to wait until the app is done doing a particular task. There are excellent instruction on how to optimize Apple mail when it slows your Mac down here.

22. Remove Items from your Preferences Pane

Remove items that you do not access often by right-clicking and selecting remove from preferences pane.

23. Check Your iTunes Folder

Delete music you are not currently listening to or get iTunes Match which allows for cloud storage of music which you can access from any Apple device.

24. Turn off the FileVault Encryption

This function keeps files safe by encrypting them as they are stored but uses a lot of memory. Turning off this function helps improve your computer’s speeds.

25. Perform a Clean Reinstallation of the Mac OS

Ok, this should probably be in the High impact area, but since it is pretty nuclear, we put it at the bottom as a last case scenario. It involves cleaning out the whole boot drive and reinstalling a fresh OS. This process removes all files and gives you a new computer. Make sure before you do, you complete a full backup of your current system.

26. Password saving system

This won’t actually speed up your Mac, but it will help you to work faster without having to remember passwords. Since going to a password remembering system, my  productivity has gone through the roof. I never have to remember passwords, and they are stored in an extremely safe system. The system I use is LastPass. It will change your life!

27. Use CleanMyMac X

As you must have noted by now it is quite tedious and time consuming performing some if not all of these tasks. Get yourself a one stop shop solution to this by getting CleanMyMacX which is designed to sniff out all those unwanted files at the click of a button. It’s what I use and takes 5 minutes every few months to keep my Macs humming along super fast. Try it for FREE and get your Mac back to optimum speeds and speed up your Mac.

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On day one, there is nothing like the speed of a Mac, but unfortunately like all computers, Macs also need occasional “tweaking” to speed up your Mac again to first day newness. These are some of the things I have found to be most useful for bringing back that speed of old. Please consider sharing this article to your favorite Social Media site if helpful!

12 Tips to Speed Up Your Mac:

1. Restart your Mac somewhat frequently.

Like the Energizer bunny, a Mac running OS X can stay on its feet seemingly forever. Launch Terminal (found in /Applications/Utilities) and enter uptime. You’ll learn how long your Mac has been running since the last reboot. If it’s been buzzing along for a while, restarting it may afford it the opportunity to flush out some old junk that’s slowing it down.

2. Keep the desktop clean of files.

If you have a lot of files on the desktop your Mac will slow down. Tidy up those files by placing them in folders and the Finder will be much faster.

3. Clean Out Startup Items

Some applications automatically (or when asked) set themselves as a “startup item”, which causes them to open at every restart or login. You can find out what is in your startup items list by navigating to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items. You may be surprised at how many there are.

To remove them, simply select the item by clicking on its name and then hit the “minus” button at the bottom of the list. However, be sure that you know what you’re removing; otherwise you may kill some critical function for the next time you restart.

4. Remove unnecessary files from your hard drive.

If your hard drive is nearly full, your Mac will run more slowly. Archive or trash old files you no longer need. A good program to do this is MacKeeper. It’s also good for security and increasing speed.

5. Add RAM.

More RAM can speed up some applications.

6. Restart your browser and clear its cache.

Browsers are notorious for slowing down after they’ve been running for a long time. If you find that your Web surfing has been reduced to dog-paddling, quit and restart your browser. If it’s still slow, clear its cache. In Safari choose Safari -> Empty Cache. In Firefox choose Firefox -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network and click the Clear Now button.

7. Check login items.

Background applications and processes can slow down your Mac. Open the Accounts system preference, select your account, and click the Login Items button to take a gander at what’s slated to run at startup. Do you need everything it lists? If not, delete the unnecessary items.

8. Check Activity Monitor.

Launch Activity Monitor (found in /Applications/Utilities), choose My Processes from the pop-up menu at the top of the window, and click the CPU heading. Look at the top several items. This tells you what’s drawing most of your Mac’s attention. Are there items there that you can do without?

9. Quit applications.

Per the last suggestion, it’s very easy to run multiple applications on your Mac. But perhaps there are more running than you need. Look in the Dock. If you see scads of applications with little blue dots beneath their icons (indicating that they’re active), quit those you aren’t planning to use in the near future.

10. Speed up your wireless network.

There are times that your network is the bottleneck rather than your Mac. If you suspect this is the case, you may want to upgrade to the latest router.

11. Buy a faster (or different) drive.

A faster hard drive can speed up your Mac as can a solid state drive (SSD). SSDs can have read and write times that are four to five times faster than a standard spinning hard drive.

12. Run Cleaning Software

Whenever things get slow on my Mac, one of the “go to” solutions is to run a utility like MacKeeper.

This utility offers a variety of “jobs” and “repairs” to the system, and my experience has been that it brings a good level of optimization back to my Mac.

Hopefully this has been helpful to speed up your Mac and bringing new life back, and if so please consider retweeting and liking this page for others to enjoying it as well!

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They include 100 quotes from Michael Jordan, Aristotle, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Robert Frost, Henry Ford, Isaac Singer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, etc. and I’d say the are in a pretty good order of 1-100:

1. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
– Aristotle

2. The best way out is always through.
– Robert Frost

3. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
– William B. Sprague

4. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
– Albert Einstein

5. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
– Henry Ford

6. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
– Oprah Winfrey

7. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
– Michael Jordan

8. You must be the change you want to see in the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi

9. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
– Goethe

10. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
– Zig Ziglar

11. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
– Mahatma Gandhi

12. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
– Napoleon Hill

13. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
– Truman Capote

14. Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
– Japanese Proverb

15. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.
– Theodore Roosevelt

16. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
– Isaac B. Singer

17. Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
– Unknown

18. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
– Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor

19. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain

20. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
– Unknown

21. Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
– Unknown

22. Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
– Dan Stanford

23. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
– Albert Einstein

24. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
– Hugh Downs

25. If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
– Marie Osmond

26. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
– Roy Goodman

27. If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
– E. Joseph Cossman

28. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

29. We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
– Mark Twain

31. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
– Mark Twain

32. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
– Mark Twain

33. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
– Mark Twain

34. The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
– Richard B. Sheridan

35. Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

36. “Act or accept.”
– Anonymous

37. Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
– Tim Blixseth

38. The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
– Bono

39. Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
– Dr Phil

40. Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
– Stephen R. Covey

41. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
– Norman Vincent Peale

42. Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
– Anonymous

43. Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
– Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist

44. I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.
– John Cage

45. Fall down seven times, get up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

46. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
– Unknown

47. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
– Unknown

48. Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it.
– Dr. Phil

49. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
– Dr. Denis Waitley

50. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
– Sir Winston Churchill

51. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit.
– Conrad Hilton

52. Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
– Unknown

53. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
– John Wooden

54. There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
– Mario Cuomo

55. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
– Richard Bach

56. Vision doesn’t usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
– Dr. Michael Norwood

57. Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
– Dr. Joyce Brothers

58. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
– Samuel Beckett

59. Flops are a part of life’s menu and I’ve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
– Rosalind Russell

60. Cause Change & Lead
Accept Change & Survive
Resist Change & Die

– Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell

61. Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.
– Matthew Keith Groves

62. An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
– Bill Bernbach

63. An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
– Prescott

64. Life is “trying things to see if they work”
Ray Bradbury

65. If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few.
Anonymous

66. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Dennis P. Kimbro

67. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

68. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

69. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

70. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

71. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Machiavelli.

72. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi

73. “You are what you think about all day long.” — Dr. Robert Schuller

74. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say” — Ralph Waldo Emerson”

75. Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

76. “Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

77. To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
– Elbert Hubbard

78. If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
– J.M. Power

79. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
– Robert Frost

80. I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
– Maya Angelou

81. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
– William James

82. When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?
– Sydney Harris

83. Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. 
– Richard L. Evans

84. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
– Robert Frost

85. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

86. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
– Seneca

87. Do first things first, and second things not at all.
– Peter Drucker.

88. The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
– Foster’s Law

89. Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
– Joe Clark

90. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
– Winston Churchill

91. Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
- Elbert Hubbard

92. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

93. Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
- Swedish Proverb

94. If you’re going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill

95. The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

96. Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
- Voltaire

97. Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
– Friedrich Nietzsche,  The Gay Science, 1882

98. There is no education like adversity.
– Disraeli

99. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

100. Adversity introduces a man to himself.
– Author Unknown

Reader contributions:

101. The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
– W. Somerset Maugham

102. Have the passion, take the action & magic will happen.
– Bar Rafaeli

103. If you’ve got it. use it. If you don’t got it, then get it!
– Reader submitted

104. Son, if you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to redo it?
– Reader’s grandfather said this, and I LOVE IT

105. Faith held solely is the begining of action.
– Reader submitted

106. Positivity is all about overlooking the negative fact.
– Reader submitted

107. Life is all about up and doing.
– Reader submitted

108. You will never get lessons on swimming from a drowning man!
– Reader submitted

109. Life is not about ALL the wrong moves you made, Life is about the one right move that made ALL the difference.
– James Lockhart

110. Be humble enough to admit you’re not perfect, but determined enough to strive to be perfect.
– Babsie Burke (reader)

111. If you can’t sleep do not count the sheep, worship the Shepherd.
– Babsie Burke (reader)

112. Life is a journey, its not a race. Walk through it.
– Reader submitted

113. Everything happens for a reason, you only need to keep on editing your attitude and gratitude so as to sail through.
– Reader submitted

114. The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
– Reader submitted (I really like this one, thanks Sandiso)

115. Love cannot be etched on paper for paper can be shredded, love cannot be etched on stone for stone can be broken, but love can be etched on the soul for the soul never dies.

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Description:	Mackeeper 18 Powerful Utilities
Operating System:	Macintosh
Version:	4.4
Downloads:	134 million +
Review Last Updated:	August 15th, 2018
Consumer Rating:

Mackeeper is a very powerful as well as useful utility for your Mac, especially if you want to learn how to make Mac fast again. Mackeeper can recover deleted files as well as protect your computer from harmful Viruses and Trojans. Mackeeper can protect your computer from malicious Mac viruses and it is rated as #1 antivirus software for Mac. You can use Mackeeper on your Intel or PowerPC Mac and it also works perfectly with Mac High Sierra.  Mackeeper is completely safe and when it is running, you won’t notice even a very slight impact on your Mac’s performance. I’m breaking down this review in various sub-headings and also including latest screenshots so that you can see actually what’s up with Mackeeper.

Installation of Mackeeper

Installing Mackeeper is very straightforward and you don’t need to sweat at all to get the software up and running. When you download the software, you’ll get a small installer file (approx. 370 KB) and once you run that file, actual installer file of Mackeeper will be downloaded directly from MacKeepers servers and installation wizard is fully automated. Here are the screenshots from the installation wizard :

Please note that Internet Security and Anti-Theft features of Mackeeper are not installed by default. You need to install both these modules by clicking a button in Mackeeper and it doesn’t cost anything additional. Installing Antivirus and Anti-Theft is not essential and you can use Mackeeper without installing both modules. However, both modules are very useful and we highly recommend installing them so that you can protect your Mac from viruses.

1. Internet Security

Internet Security is probably the most needed feature of Mac. Last year, a fake antivirus product had attacked lots of Mac computers and Mackeeper’s antivirus engine can block those attacks easily. This module of Mackeeper blocks malicious websites automatically and protects hackers and spammers from taking control over your Mac. Mackkeeper uses several databases to keep track of known bad websites and when you are browsing the web using Safari (or any other web browser) and visit a malicious website coincidentally, Mackeeper blocks the malicious website from opening and thus saves your Mac from any harmful activities.

If you want to block certain websites on your Mac, you need to compile a list of websites you want to block and simply paste the list inside Mackeeper so that those websites are not accessible anymore.

2. Anti-Theft

Your actually never know when your Mac can get stolen especially If you leave your Mac inside your car or travel frequently in buses or trains. Mackeeper’s Anti-Theft feature is very useful in this regard. You might be wondering about how it works and here it is :

A) First of all, when you install Mackeeper, you need to make sure that Anti-Theft is installed in Mackeeper and you’ve actually activated this feature.

B) If your Mac gets stolen, you need to Log In into your Mackeeper account online, navigate to Anti-Theft  and hit a button named  Mac Was Stolen.

C) As soon as the thief runs your Mac and goes online, Mackeeper will automatically take a Snapshot of the thief and his location as well as the Internet Connection he is using. You can use this report to locate the thief or hand over this information to police for further  investigation. What else  can be better than having a Snapshot of the thief?

3. Data Encryptor

If you share your Mac with someone or your want to protect some files on mac so that nobody can view them, Data Encryptor is a wonderful utility to protect your private files and folders so that nobody else can have access to them. For instance, If you’ve saved your banking passwords, credit card information and other vital information on your Mac, you surely want to protect it so that nobody else can view those.  Data Encryptor makes your files invisible on your Mac and nobody can find them even by using Finder or Terminal.

To use Data Encryptor, first you need to create a password for Data Encrypter module in Mackeeper. After creating a password for the Data Encryptor, you need to drag and drop the files or folders you want to protect in Data Encryptor’s work area. You can also use Add button to add files/folders you want to make invisible. You can also use AES-128 or AES-256 bit encryption to make this more secure. Create a password and click Hide button. The lock will close and the files will not be visible to anyone.

Next time, when you want to see those hidden files and folders again, you’ll need to Log In into Mackeeper’s Data Encryption module and unlock the folders you had\ locked. That’s it!

4. File Recovery

The name says everything itself! If you’ve accidentally deleted files from your Mac and even emptied the trash, you can still recover those files on mac using File Recovery module of Mackeeper. Data Recovery products alone cost way more than Mackeeper’s total price!

In Mackeeper, click on File Recovery option,  select the partition where your files were located before deletion. Now click “Start Scan” button. Mackeeper file show you a list of files you can recover.

You can also recover deleted files from USB Hard Drivers, Pen Drivers, Memory cards and the list goes on. Please keep in mind that recovering deleted files on Mac also depends on how long ago those files were deleted from the Trash Bin. If the files were deleted a long time ago (say A Month) then It is somewhat likely that those files are now overwritten by another files and thus the recovery option won’t be able to retrieve those files anymore. If you’re looking to recover the files you’ve just deleted (or a few days before), you can be almost certain that File Recovery option will easily recover those deleted files for you.

5. Backup

You can use this module to create reserve copies of your important files and folders to a USB Flash Drive, a External hard disk or FTP. This utility is specially useful If you have some important documents you frequently edit and you want to make sure that you’ve backups of them in case something happens.

To use this module, all you need to do is, drag the files you want to backup in Mackeeper’s Backup module and select If you want to backup the document manually or automatically. You can also select the default backup location and the three most recent back ups of the file will be reserved automatically on the scheduled time.

6. Shredder

Shredder is a very powerful utility to delete your files permanently so that even specialized recovery software can not recover those files again. For example, say you are selling your old Mac computer to someone and you want to delete the files beyond recovery, then this tool is the perfect one. You can also use it to delete files which you don’t want anyone to recover anyhow from your Mac.

If you simply delete the files from your Mac and put them into trash and empty the trash, please be aware that those files are not actually gone. They can still be recovered by using a specialized data recovery software. To delete files beyond recovery,  just drag and drop the files you want to delete permanently into Mackeeper’s Shredder work area. Click “Shred“ button and that’s it.

Please keep in mind that this operation is irreversible so think several times before shredding a document as you won’t be able to recover it later by any means.

7. Fast Cleanup (the best tool for how to make Mac fast again)

Fast Cleanup is a very useful tool to free up some hard disk space on your Mac and make mac fast again. Although disk space is hardly a problem these days but in case you need to free up some additional hard disk space, you can use this utility. This feature includes 4 different drive cleanup utilities :

A) Binaries cutter

This removed unneeded parts of applications without harming their functionality.

B) Languages cutter

This removes unused language files from applications.

C) Logs cleaner

Removes log files which are not actually useful for a Mac user and not essential  to run Mac.

D) Cache cleaner.

Removes cached files by the system.

You can enable or disable any cleaner module by dragging a slider. If disk space is not a problem for you, this feature is not very useful.

8. Duplicates Finder

This module of Mackeeper will search the entire hard drive to locate multiple instances of same files which are taking up the disk space. You can decide If you want to keep the duplicate items or simply remove them from your Mac. You need to click “Duplicate Finder” and then scan the Mac for identical files.

You can also find the duplicates in a particular folder. For example, you have a “Photos” folder and you want to find duplicate photos in that folders. You can simply select that folder and find duplicate files automatically. Duplicate finder can find the duplicate files even If you’ve renamed them. You can also add folders you want to ignore during scanning. Make sure that you review the duplicate items carefully before you remove them.

9. Files Finder

Files Finder is similar to searching files on your Mac using finder. File Finder utility of Mackeeper allows user to view only the select files types like videos, music or other. You can create your own preset custom filters to find the files that matches a certain criteria. You can also add more filter options to find the files quickly and easily.

10. Disk Usage

Disk usage tool scans all the folders and marks them with different colors depending on the file size. For example, If you don’t know which files are taking so large space of your hard disk, you can use this utility to determine the disk usage.

Files less than 1 MB are marked green.
Files more than 1MB but less than 1 GB are Yellow.
Files between 1 and 10 gigabytes are Orange
All larger than 10 Gigabyes are Red.

You can adjust the colors and file sizes according to your desire in preferences. You can also delete the files if you want to or locate them in Finder and move them to any other volume on your hard disk. This tool is very useful to locate the larger files which might be deep inside your documents and you don’t exactly remember their location. You can use this tool to locate those files and actually remove them If you don’t need them anymore.

11. Smart Uninstaller

Smart Uninstaller is a very useful utility of Mackeeper to remove widgets, applications, preference panes and plugins. To start using this you need to click on Mackeeper’s Preferences. Now click the “Advanced“ tab and check “Show System Applications in Smart Uninstaller“.

Now select “Smart Un-installer” and click on “Scan“ button to see all the installed apps. The benefits of Smart Uninstaller is, It fully removes the applications and all the associated files completely. It doesn’t leave anything behind and thus saves disk space.

There is also a section called “LeftOvers“. This section shows remnants of applications which you un-installed previously. It means that If you un-installed an application even before installing Mackeeper and there are left overs, Mackeeper will detect them and show to you so that you can remove the unnecessary files from your Mac completely.

12. Update Tracker

Update Tracker is an absolutely amazing utility which tells you about the latest versions of all applications installed on your Mac. When Update Tracker scans your computer, It marks up-to-date applications with Green color and outdated applications with Red Color. For outdated applications, It also shows the version installed on your computer and the version which is available now.

You can update individual applications as well as all the applications at once. You can also add applications to the favorite list so they get updated frequently. Some applications will get downloaded automatically while for some other applications, you might need to download and update them manually.

13. Login items

Login Items shows all the applications which launch with start-up of your Mac. The more applications launching upon the System Login makes your Mac slower. You can remove the unwanted start-up applications using this utility and make your Mac run pretty much faster as the number of background process running will be lesser.

You can also add an application to Login Items If you want to. Adding an application to Mac Startup is very straightforward and you can easily do that.

14. Default Apps

Default Apps module shows the associations between your files and particular applications which open those files. In this module, you can see the default applications for each file type and change them If necessary.

Sometimes when you install a new application, It changes the file associations automatically. For example, you view your Pictures with “Preview” regularly and after installing another photo editing application,  that particular application is now opening your pictures. You now want to change this and this is what Default Apps is meant for. You can change the way how a file opens by default and you can choose any application for a particular file type.

15. Geek on Demand

Geek on Demand is an enhanced support service that gives MacKeeper and non-MacKeeper related answers to any technical questions. The service is free for licensed users of the software and you can ask for technical assistance for many topics. You can also use Live Chat feature built within Mackeeper to chat with 24/7 live operators to resolve your queries within a few minutes.

Frankly, getting good support is probably the most important thing I personally consider before buying a product or service and Mackeeper handles it very well. All the questions are answered instantly and I’m not sure what else can be best. This is the most fantastic support I’ve seen from a software company.

16. Find and Fix

Now with just a single button, MacKeeper will find and fix everything that is wrong with your mac. Gone are the days of having to run extensive individual pieces of software. This is true piece of mind with a single click. Simply click the “Start Scan” button on off you go with a faster, more secure mac!

Mackeeper is an extremely wonderful software and does lots of things for a very very small price. If you own a Mac, you must own Mackeeper, that’s what I can say about this software. Contrary to what I thought, this software doesn’t slow down Mac at all. It will run in background and you’ll hardly notice it. You can close it down if you want and everything is very flexible. I highly recommend Mackeeper for every Mac user.

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Many business people may look at this as a small site, but the truth is, it is not. New members and users are growing at a fast pace since it started. So, by the looks of it, entrepreneurs and markers cannot underestimate the power of Pinterest for Business.

According to Pinterest’s database, 80 percent of its users are female – which means it is now a powerful tool to attract female customers on the Internet. Below is a list of the top 10 ways to use Pinterest for business.

1. Spread the word about your product through an online photo contest.

Pinterest is a great place to organize contests. Your contest could be a search for the best pin of pictures of your product or your product logo being used by real people in everyday life. Your participants will pin photos of your brand and share them with friends. Therefore, your traffic will increase, as well as your product’s popularity.

2. Provide high-quality content for your audience.

Just like other social networking sites, providing high-quality content on Pinterest boosts your site reputation, thus attracting more attention from your followers. Provide useful information and problem-solving tips in the field you are good at until you become an influential user on Pinterest.

3. Pin some helpful shopping lists.

Provide helpful shopping lists to your followers that include your products. Create a Pinterest board and put pins as shopping lists.

4. Suggest gift ideas by adding price tags.

You’ve probably noticed that some items on Pinterest have price tags on them. You, too, can do it by simply adding a price in the description along with this symbol – $.

5. Use Pinterest as a marketing tool.

Find out what your customers think and figure out the products that they need. Also, think about the latest trends and which products sell best at present. With Pinterest’s live feed, you will have an accurate update about what your customers think and need at the moment.

6. Create product bundles.

Another good way to use Pinterest is by creating product bundles. Group some of your products that go well together and pin them as a package.

7. Get product ideas and suggestions from your followers.

Have your customers participate in your company’s decision-making by creating a board that lets them throw up all the ideas there. You could also let your customers decide on which idea is the best.

8. Create a coupon pinboard.

Gather all your product coupons and discount codes and place them on a pinboard. This will give value to your customers as you help them save more money while you promote the products you offer.

9. Show a more in-depth look of your products.

Some customers are curious as to how you make your products so it is a good idea to pin photos of the making of your products. This will also educate your followers about your product’s composition.

10. Pin on your company’s vision.

Make a pinboard showing how you see your company in the next years to come. Create your vision in such a way that you and your team will be motivated to do better in the future.

If you have some other ways you are using Pinterest for business, please leave a comment for me and I will add them to this list.

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The following infographics will help you better determine the “Who” of social media and where best to find your best potential customer. 

Please consider sharing this post on your favorite social media site if helpful.

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Ok, anyone who says Twitter is not effective for marketing nowadays flat out just doesn’t know how to use it effectively. But I have to admit, a 48% click through rate from non-followers even surprised me a bit.

I recently setup a test on our Twitter software Intwelligent to see how much traction I could get, meaning clicks back to my site, from people that were NOT following me.

The goals here were simple:

• Provide a good piece of content I knew people would find value and that was relevant (in this case Social Media ROI)
• Find people talking about the subject matter of the blog post
• Use our tool to introduce the content to them as a tweet in response to their usage of the main keyword (social media ROI)
• Get a whole bunch of clicks
• Add people to my email list that were highly targeted, engaged leads
• Track the results using a bitly.com link and our tools analytics

Results = A 48% Click Through Rate on the Link!

Here is how I did it.

First, I found a really great infographic someone did on how to determine social media ROI. Since they were encouraging people to share their graphic, I put it on my site and added my own language to introduce the graphic.

Second, I researched how many people where using the keyword term “social media ROI” on Twitters search tool, Search.Twitter.com to make sure I wasn’t going to be flooding my Twitter account with tweets. Generally, I only like to respond to about a max of 10 per day. I had to do a little work to filter out keywords I didn’t want to respond to, like “cookbook” and I just added a second which came on strong in the last few day since someone release a new tool for ROI.

With my blog post in place, and the keyword research done, I then turned to our Intwelligent tool and setup the campaign. I wrote 3 tweets I wanted to go out, each in a “hey did you see this as well” fashion. Below are images of each of these being used:

In the campaign for the software, I used a bitly.com link to track my results. Here they are in detail.

As you can see from the below screen shot of our software, it sent out 338 tweets responding to the keywords “Social Media ROI”.

And, as you can see from this bitly.com screen shot, so far this campaign has generated 162 clicks on the link.

If you divide 162 by 338, you get .479, rounded up, that is .48, otherwise known as 48%.

Now, in the land of email, a 48% click through rate is somewhat staggering. You have to really be doing a good job with your copy and have a super engaged list to come anywhere near this number.

I did this from Twitter, targeting people that AREN’T EVEN FOLLOWING ME AND HAVE NO IDEA WHO I AM (the use of caps here is to accentuate my total shock)!!!

I was completely floored by this number. And best of all, these are highly target people who went on to join my list at an optin rate of 17.9%

So, back to my original goals for this “experiment”, how long they each took to setup.

• Provide a good piece of content I knew people would find value in that was relevant (in this case Social Media ROI). This took me 20 minutes to setup
• Find people talking about the subject matter of the blog post. 20 minutes of keyword research
• Use our tool to introduce the content to them as a tweet in response to their usage of the main keyword (social media ROI). Setting up the campaign, writing the messages, and getting the bitly.com link in all took about 30 minutes
• Get a whole bunch of clicks. Automated by our software, 0 time.
• Add people to my email list that were highly targeted, engaged leads. Automated by my site, 0 time.
• Track the results using a bitly.com link and our tools analytics. Analyzing the results, 2 minutes
• Total time = 1 hour, 12 minutes
• 29 Target Lead on my list = PRICELESS

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Even when it comes to Social Media marketing, keywords are essential. Before I setup up any campaigns in either Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn on our social traffic suite of tools, I always first start with researching what are the keywords being used by YOU, my target audience (that is right, I know exactly what YOU are looking for, but that is for another blog post). Then, I begin to look at what content I can provide you (i.e. the enclosed as an example) to add value to your life/businesses, help you build your business, and help you determine what the best activities you can be doing online (i.e. ROI).

Providing great content builds trust. Trust builds relationships, and relationships grow businesses.

While I would have loved to have developed the below inforgraphic myself (just too darn busy with other things), promodo has done a great job to help you better understand the critical component of keyword research.

From: Promodo.com

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