How To Find Your Calling In Life

Many people go around perplexed about their calling in life. Some might wonder what their calling in life has to do with anything. There is a good reason for people to think about their life calling. The reason is that most people need to feel a higher cause for their lives and existence. Most people have a spiritual side. They need to feel that they aren't born to just live through a series of experiences, just to die.

They need to feel that there are reasons why they experience the things that they do. They need to feel that they, or we can use the various experiences that we go through in life for a higher calling or good.

So, with all of this said, just how does one go about finding their calling in life? There are many ways to go about this task. For one thing, a person can set aside some time for contemplation and meditation. As a matter of fact, deep contemplation and meditation are necessary for this accomplishment. So find a nice quiet place that allows you to open up your mind. Think about the things that you have experienced so far in your life. Joyful or painful, those experiences have taught you something about people, and about yourself. Think about how you handled those situations. Did you learn how to handle the situation in a healthy way? Did you handle things in an unhealthy way? Do you know the difference? All of these questions and more can be clues to finding your calling in life.

Particularly for those who have lived lives full of pain and suffering, using those experiences to find your life purpose can be healing. If people thought that they were simply suffering in vain, then this could make a person feel that they have no worth, or that their lives don't matter. If they can share their sufferings, and how they overcame those sufferings, then they now have a life purpose. Their purpose could be uplifting others who have suffered the same fate. You could become a light of hope and aspiration to those who might feel that nobody understands what they are going through.

Another way to find your calling in life is to meditate and contemplate the things that make you happy, and that makes you feel joy. Wouldn't it be great to be able to use your energy, especially professionally doing the things that bring happiness and joy to others? Of course, it would! So take the time to calculate out how you can use your positive energy and light as the purpose of your life.

Finding your life purpose can take years, and sometimes it takes all of your life to look back, and realize what your purpose in life was. However, once you find it, you will find such a sense of fulfilment and peace that others who don't realize their life purpose will never have.

Written by Yola Bastos

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How Kindness Can Get Your Further In Life

 

There are two things I know for sure about kindness. 

1. Kindness is not weak.

2. Often, kindness not easy.

Kindness is often characterised as an individual who is missing his backbone. Someone who apologizes for something that's neither his responsibility nor doing nor who is standing in the background being trampled on and taken advantage of because he has no boundaries.

True kindness, however, is neither weak nor easy. It takes strength, patience, and wisdom to be kind. The "kind" acts that we do to be "nice" to avoid conflict, confrontation or seem to mean aren't kind at all. Unfortunately, by being "nice" we neglect the potential negative impact of our actions. 

Everyone has heard of people doing random acts of kindness and paying kind acts forward without expecting anything in return for themselves. The payout or payoff as many self-help people would say is that they get a good feeling and make their own lives happier just by doing kind acts for others. If you are kind to yourself, kind to others, and kind and gentle to the earth, as Michael J. Chase has said in speaking engagements, your life will be better. Also, your relationships are sweeter and your health is much improved.

Chase is a unique person. He did not experience much kindness in his early life; rather, he endured hard times that caused him to do much soul searching. Eventually, he had a startling and profound realization that completely turned his life around. Rather than keep this new knowledge for himself along, he decided to share it with others and teach them what he had learned. The main way he did this was to write a book about the philosophy of kindness, which explains how spreading good feelings helps everyone in the world.

He'll be the first to tell you that kindness is about much more than just being 'nice'. Paying for the coffee for the car behind you at the drive-thru is being kind, and taking brownies in for your coworkers is kind. As he asks in "Am I Being Kind" it's far more than just being nice, and once you discover these things deep inside yourself, you'll truly understand its full potential for enhancing your own life.

It's so easy to be kind if you just think about it as you go about your day. It won't take anything from your wallet, but it certainly pays in at least a moment or two of happiness for everyone involved. When you do something kind, hopefully, it encourages that person to do the same; and it continues from one person to the next and the next and the next. The result? A better outlook, a renewed sense of the good in others, a desire to be kind and experience the positive feelings for you and others. Don't just read about it here though, try it for yourself and see how your attitude and mood changes; it's hard to be negative or depressed after a simple act of kindness.

Even if you're depressed and feel like you have nothing to give to others, you should realize that this is not true. The next time you have that negative attitude, turn it around by doing something kind for someone else. Share positive feelings, and in turn, you will feel more positive about yourself and your life, and so will those around you. Everyone benefits when people are kind.

Written by Yola Bastos

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Embrace and Just Be Yourself

Fears, doubts and insecurities are all around us, outside and inside of us. Sometimes it may even seem easier to "just want to be someone else" as we wrap ourselves up in these negative feelings. The grass may appear much greener on the other side based on our perceptions and ideas. Which may or may not be slanted in the right direction, based on the past or current experiences we have had. The reality is often the exact opposite and others are more afraid than we are.

What if the person you think has everything going for them looks in the mirror and hates the way they smile, or how large they think their eyes are? What if everyone else in their family has brown eyes and they are made to feel out of place for having blue ones? If the messages they have heard from family, friends or loved ones has always been negative regarding a certain characteristic or feature, their self-esteem will have taken solid hits from that.

It's comical how others are envied for superficial beauty, wealth or relationships that people would fight to trade places with them because many of them are looking at us and thinking the same thing. You appear as the smartest person around and they wish they had the same people or conversation skills that you do. That feeling of quiet desperation to "be someone else" results in the lack of confidence, low self-esteem and any hope that we can ever improve our situations in life.

This is a perception and not your reality. Rather than spend your life wringing your hands about who you can't be, or what you don't have in it, concentrate on finding out how to make things better for yourself. Ask questions and find solutions to how to be a better person and to accept yourself for who you are. You can always learn new skills, ask trusted friends or advisers for areas they think you could improve in and how.

Just because that's the way "you have always been" doesn't mean that's the way you must always remain. Taking steps to self-improvement can open up new doors of experiences and opportunities for you. Then you can, in turn, inspire and motivate others.

Get rid of the regrets in your conversations with yourself and focus on being a first-class citizen in your own mind. Accept yourself for who you are, improve what and where you can and stop constantly comparing yourself to others. All of us will always be insecure at times but that doesn't have to be a life sentence for being unhappy. Loving ourselves no matter what begins with the act of self-acceptance. Once we achieve that, contentment will follow. 

How To Use The Law of Attraction To Reduce Stress

As much as stress is witnessed in a large portion of our lives, is it important that we practice and appreciate some of the best possible ways to help us calm down the nerves? 

Stress can manifest itself in many ways causing physical, emotional, or even mental issues. It is therefore very critical for stress victims to recognize the source of anxiety and find the optimal approach to either minimize or end it.

The law of attraction together with stress management can help you achieve the much-needed balance. And although most stress reduction techniques are subjective; meaning that what may work for you may not work for another, the law of attraction can work for almost anyone. The law basically uses the power of the mind to achieve a specific outcome where the conscious and subconscious thoughts are put into focus – It is simply using our thoughts to attract what we want.  

There are four steps to be followed when using the law of attraction to reduce or end stress:

1. Focus on what you want

This is achieved by focusing on your life and find out the main cause of stress. Is it your partner? Is it school? Is it work? Would you do a different job to have a piece of mind? – You should focus on what you really want and have a rough sketch of how you are going to achieve that.

2. Ask what you want

Once your focus is on whatever it is that you want, it is now the time to put the power of your mind to work. Let the universe and the energy of your thoughts work together; Choose a different partner, apply for a better pay job, ask for a raise, or you can explore your talent. Let people feel and know your desire.

3. Visualize whatever you want

To visualize whatever you want is to feel, behave, and act as if you already have what you desire. Positive thinking is critical in the law of attraction; negativity and fear should not be within you. Your general outlook should be optimistic then relaxation will follow. Pessimism and doubt should be avoided to have the law work according to plan.

4. Let go of your preconceptions

You never know; there may be another way to reduce your stress level that you’ve never thought of. It is for this reason that you should always remain open to other outcomes to improve your life. This can mean extra cash from working overtime, getting another job, or even getting your superior’s job.

The law of attraction is often used together with other stress relief options to effectively gain the desired outcome. The power of positive thinking is indeed a very powerful option. 

Written by Yola Bastos

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5 Tips To Avoid Being Negative

Everyone does get negative at some point in his or her life. Whether it is at work or home negative situations happen almost all the time. It is rather unfortunate that we cannot avoid them and thus beg the question of how can we change these negative thoughts to positive ones. It is important to be positive in adverse situations, even though it might sound hard or rather impossible, it is very much possible to stay positive no matter the situation. Learning the power of positive thinking assists us to remain in a positive state of mind even in the midst of a tragedy. Additionally, knowing how to convert that negative energy into positive energy can lead to a healthy and comfortable lifestyle.

5 Tips To Avoid Being Negative

I have come up with five ways of how you can avoid being negative and when you put this five key points in mind you will be cheerful and even see some light of positivity in any situation that you may encounter.

1. Stay around positive people.

Hanging out with positive people will certainly help you stay positive. You should avoid negative people because they will only rub off their negativity off on you. They will bring you down from trying to achieve positivity to be a cynical person once more.

2. Remind yourself what you are grateful for.

In negative situations, we tend to find ourselves thinking of the good things in our lives. You should voice those good thoughts and practice gratitude. Develop a culture of talking about the good things that happen to you other than focusing on the bad ones. Also, it is ideal to keep a journal of all the good things that you have done on a daily basis. By acknowledging what you are grateful and thankful for will help you nature a grateful heart and mind, even in adverse situations.

3. Own up to your mistakes.

If you mess up, take responsibility. If you do something good, reward yourself. Do not blame other people for things that are your fault. This only brings negative energy towards you by thinking about all the negative things about that situation. Instead, accept the situation as it is and move on with life.

4. Avoid drama in your life.

Drama is an unfortunate and nasty characteristic to have. Part of avoiding drama is preventing dramatic people. Avert the gossip at all cost. It will do you no good and only helps to spread negativity.

5. Be kind to people.

By being kind, you will not have time for negative thoughts. Do various acts of kindness every day. This will keep you in a happy spirit. Besides, karma will also pay you back handsomely for your kind deeds.

Conclusion.

Negativity is everywhere, heck even in weddings, days that are considered to be the happiest days in a person's life. You will most likely find some few negative people there. 

It is important to transform yourself into a positive thinker since you will end up living a happy and healthy life. So be positive, and life will be positive with you.

Written by Yola Bastos

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5 Reasons Why Self-Awareness is Important

 

There are many great ways of improving yourself. One of these ways is to look for the positive attributes you possess and appreciating that part of you. Another important way of becoming a better person is by acknowledging your weaknesses and actively working on improving. These two methods of self-improvement define what it means to be self-aware. Being self-aware can help you relate well with people and increase your ability to achieve your goals. These are not the only benefits of self-awareness, however. Here are some more reasons why it is important to be self-aware.

• Increases your social abilities

Human beings are social beings who thrive on relationships. People who are self-aware are very successful when creating relationships. This is because they are able to realize exactly what they want in each person they meet. That certainty comes from knowing one’s own abilities and challenges. Self-awareness also promotes emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence helps us relate to the feelings of other people. Lacking this skill can leave us in conflicts with others. The best way to improve your level of emotional intelligence is by learning your own emotional patterns.

• Promotes versatility and open-mindedness

Knowing yourself can be very crucial to affecting the approach that you have on issues. Self-awareness in itself is the ability to actively seek to listen to the body and mind to know your natural response to change. This consciousness can thus help you have a clear focus when dealing with issues. You are also able to accept opinions, feedback, and criticism from other people without being subjective. Ultimately, you are able to have multiple solutions to a single problem.

• Promotes productivity

People who are self-aware are fast thinkers. They understand themselves and are able to focus on the challenges of the day without hindrances. Without understanding yourself, there is a big challenge where you are held back by uncertainty. This results in time wastage caused by pondering over many different courses of action even when a swift decision is needed.

• Improves leadership skills

One of the most important attributes of a good leader is swift decision-making. A leader should also be impartial and confident. All these are things that we gain by becoming self-aware. Knowing yourself removes internal fear and you are able to focus on important matters.

• Promotes Overall Objectivity

Being self-aware promotes objectivity. People who are self-aware are also self-confident. This means that they can easily make decisions without being clouded by poor judgment.

Written by Yola Bastos

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Dramatically Increase Your Twitter Following with These 5 Tips

 

Unless you are a celebrity like Katy Perry or Barack Obama, you’re going to have to work hard to build your initial following on Twitter. Rather than making slow-and-steady progress, you need to treat your Twitter account as a priority for a couple of months and create lots of content. Studies have shown that the more you tweet, the quicker you can build your followers. 

To help you dramatically increase your Twitter following, here are five methods you can try. 

• Utilize Your LinkedIn and Email Connections

Studies have shown that you are more likely to be followed by someone that you already know. One easy way to do this is by finding your LinkedIn connections on Twitter and following them. While Twitter doesn’t have a way to do this, you can export your contacts into a .CSV file and upload them to your email account contacts. From there you can import your email contact into Twitter. 

• Schedule Your Tweets

There are several free and low-cost tools that you can use to schedule your tweets. Using tools like Hootsuite, save you time and ensure that you are tweeting on a regular basis. When you post content on a regular basis, you tend to see more engagement and have more followers.

• Tweet Inspirational Quotes

Quotes tend to see more significant engagement on Twitter because people enjoy reading them and sharing them with their friends and followers. You can use a free app like Forismatic, to receive a wide variety of inspiring quotes that you can post to Twitter instantly. Along with increasing engagement, this will also save you time. 

• Join a Twitter Chat

Groups within various industries get together on Twitter every week to talk about multiple topics. When you join these chats and engage with others in your industry, you are given the opportunity to meet new people in your industry, play the role of an industry expert, and gain valuable information.

• Respond to People

Consider the following users who engage in the same posts that you do. When you comment on, favourite, or retweet a post on Twitter, it will show other users that you are interested in the same type of content, making them more inclined to follow you. 

Using Twitter for your small business will help to bring in new customers. Users are more likely to buy from brands that they follow on Twitter, making it a powerful tool to help grow your business. Use these tips to increase your followers and grow your business. 

Written by Yola Bastos

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Top 5 Ways to Gain More Social Media Followers

 

If you own a small business, you are probably well aware of how important social media can be for increasing your bottom line. However, getting started on social media can be incredibly daunting. With all the different options and ways to gain followers, one can quickly become overwhelmed. Here are the top five ways your business can gain more social media followers and increase your bottom line.

1. Create Strong Profiles and Pages

The best way to start growing your audience on any of the social media platforms is to create strong profiles and pages for your accounts. You need to include branded cover photos as well as profile photos, and detailed descriptions of your business. 

2. Share Quality Content

As you begin your journey to gain more social media followers, you need to create and share high-quality, value-added content that your target audience will enjoy. This can include blog content, videos, podcasts, infographics, presentations, etc. This content can be created by you or by others.

3. Add Links

Not only do you want to be sure to include links to all your social media profiles on your business website, but you want to include your site link in all your social media profiles. It will also help to add links to your top social accounts in your email signature. Adding these links will help you to expand your reach and broaden your exposure.

4. Use friend-finding Features

Most of the social media networks provide ways for their users to connect with other people they know. As you first start to use social media to build your brand, you want to ask people you know to follow your account. By having them like and follow you on different platforms, you gain more exposure to a broader audience base.

5. Cross-Promote Your Social Accounts

If you already have a large audience on one of your social media accounts, why not use that to your advantage. Ask followers to connect with you on your other accounts. This can be as simple as sending out a tweet to your Twitter followers asking them if they are on Instagram, and if they are, asking them to follow you there as well. 

Growing your social media followers is easy to do but will take some time. The more effort you put into creating valuable content for your target audience the more followers you’ll gain. 

Written by Yola Bastos

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How to Market on Social Media and Gain More Followers

 

Using social media to grow your business, generate leads, and build your brand may seem like a monumental task. However, there are specific things that you can do to increase your chances of success. Whether you are just getting started with marketing your business on social media or have been active on sites like Twitter and Facebook for years, but haven't achieved much success, here are some proven techniques to help you gain more followers.  

• Create a Plan

If you don’t take the time to plan your social media marketing strategy, you will never achieve success. Don’t make the mistake of blindly jumping into social media without a solid plan. Your plan should consist of mini-plans for each of the social media platforms that you plan to use.  

• Post Consistently

Sending out a single tweet in a day isn’t going to cut it. While certain platforms like Snapchat and Instagram don't move as fast as Twitter and Facebook, it still is essential to develop a posting schedule and stick to it. If you aren’t publishing new content on a regular basis, your business will quickly be forgotten. 

• Post More Images

Photos have been shown to be the most popular kind of content for engagement on social media. They continue to be the most shared kind of post on Facebook. It’s not a coincidence that both Pinterest and Instagram have been able to gain a ton of traction over the last several years. It’s never been easier to add images to your social media posts with a vast array of free and low-cost tools to help. 

• Interact with Your Audience

Interacting with your audience on your social media channels can be a game-changer. The entire purpose of social media is to engage and socialize with others. This means it is imperative for you to interact on a regular basis with your audience. Engaging with your audience means replying to other people's posts, retweeting, adding people to Twitter lists, liking posts, and adding @mentions to your posts. It is essential for you to switch from one-way communication to two-way communication if you want to build your audience.

With these social media marketing tips, you’ll be well on your way to establishing your brand and building an engaging and valuable audience across all your social media channels. Some of the largest brands have found success with these tactics, and they can work for your business too. 

Written by Yola Bastos

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Top Tips for Improving Your Marketing Strategy on YouTube

 

When it comes to marketing your business on YouTube, there is only one golden rule that you need to follow, volume. As soon as you start increasing the number of videos that you upload, you will see an instant uptick in the number of views that your channel sees. Now, this doesn't mean you publish low-quality, videos that don't provide value to your audience. It means that you need to be consistent with posting high-quality content on a regular basis. Here are five other things you can do to improve the marketing strategy on YouTube drastically.

• Do Your Research

Before you can start publishing content, you have to get a firm grasp on the landscape. You need to take some time to look at the competition in your market and see what they are doing to succeed. As soon as you've got a good grasp on your competition, and you've got a good sense of the content they're publishing, you can start deciding on the content you're going to develop.

• Create Your Content Buckets

One of the best ways to become efficient with your YouTube marketing efforts is to divide and conquer. Your marketing strategy ultimately comes down to choosing a few key areas where you feel you can deliver some kind of value to your viewers, and then mass-producing content that falls into those larger buckets. Once you have your content buckets, you can start creating your videos.

• Be Consistent with Your Content

Without consistency, you’ll never be able to build a loyal audience. The best way to build consistency with your videos is to set the tone from the start, so your audience knows what to expect. Start by making an introduction video that explains the kind of content you’ll be creating and how often you’ll be publishing, and make sure you follow through. 

• Add Subtitles to Your Videos

One of the best tools that YouTube has integrated into their video upload capabilities is the ability for publishers to add subtitles to their content. While it may not seem like a big deal, most people watch videos on their phones with the sound turned off. Without this secondary option, people are going to skip right on by. Subtitles allow viewers to watch videos in any setting. 

With more people visiting YouTube in a year than Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram combined, it’s more important than ever for your business to start publishing online video content. With the right marketing strategy, you can begin to build a loyal audience and start to grow your business.    

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3 Ways to Build a Loyal YouTube Audience

Since its launch in 2005, YouTube has become a mainstream social media platform with more than 2 billion unique viewers flocking to the site every day. Once a small niche market, online video has quickly moved into the mainstream and become a regular part of our media consumption. With online video viewing surpassing some of the largest television ratings, it can be difficult for small businesses to stand out in the sea of content. Here are three ways that you can increase your discovery rate and build a loyal audience on YouTube. 

• Create Meaningful Content

YouTube audiences are fickle, and they are always just a single click away from jumping over to the next video. So, while the saying, “content is king,” still holds true, the key to getting your videos discovered is to create content that will add value to your target audience. It doesn’t matter which creative format you use, be it interviews, how-tos, news-focused, or a scripted web series, you need to make sure they give people a reason to view and share your videos. 

• Brand and Package Consistently

The most significant challenge that everyone faces on YouTube is getting viewers to come back after they've viewed the original video. Having a viral hit is nothing more than short-term success. To get people to go back to your channel, you have to give them a reason to. This is why branding and packaging are so crucial. Your brand serves as a navigation marker in the sea of online videos. Creating content with a strong point of view will help define your brand. This will also help you position yourself as an expert in your industry. 

The packaging of your video is the branding that is expressed around your content. 

For this, you can include graphic intros or end cards that display your URL or YouTube channel name. 

This helps to reinforce your brand, so people don’t have to guess what they are watching. 

• Optimize Your Video

When it comes to being found online, it’s all about SEO. The same rules that apply to making your website or blog discoverable, apply to your online videos. YouTube has become the second largest search platform, so when people go to YouTube, they are often searching for something specific. Optimize your videos by creating clever titles and descriptions with relevant keywords. This will help viewers find your content.

These three strategies are some of the best ways to develop and build your audience on YouTube. They have proven successful for reaching beyond the hype of creating viral videos and moving toward your business being able to build a consistent and genuine community.  

Written by Yola Bastos

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4 Sure Fire Ways to Grow Your Instagram Followers

In the last several years, Instagram has become a well-loved social media platform with over 600 million active users. If your business can build a more substantial Instagram following, it can translate to more sales for your business, more traffic to your blog, and a stronger community for your brand. Building a large Instagram following isn’t hard, but it will take time. 

Here are four surefire ways you can grow your Instagram followers for your business. 

• Like Photos In Your Industry

The best way to get your name out there is by liking other people’s photos. Every day, spend some time on Instagram and like five to ten pictures on someone's account. You should also try and leave them a genuine comment and start following their account. To find users in your industry or niche, check hashtags and view the followers of your favourite Instagram accounts.

• Create a Hashtag

Creating a hashtag for your business is a great way to build your community and gain new content for your account. The first step is creating a unique hashtag that isn't already in use. Next, ask others to use it. Once people start using your hashtag, you can begin to repost the images from their followers. This allows you to build a community by showing your followers that you appreciate their photos and it gives you new content for your account.

• Respond to Your Followers

The entire nature of social media platforms like Instagram is to be social. To grow your Instagram followers, you need to respond to any comments that you receive and leave comments for other people. It is important that your comments be genuine, and they should encourage them to post even more photos. 

• Collaborate with Others

Another surefire way to extend your reach on Instagram and grow your following is to collaborate with others. This can be either through a partnership or sponsorship. A partnership allows both parties to provide value to their followers while expanding their exposure and reaching new audiences. 

With high engagement rates and more than 600 million monthly active users, it’s no wonder getting more Instagram followers is a huge priority for businesses. 

One of the most important factors to remember when trying to build your Instagram followers is to share great content that is relevant to your target audience, and that provides them with value. 

If you want to develop your presence quickly, use these four tips in your Instagram marketing strategy today.

Written by Yola Bastos

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5 Guaranteed Ways to Get More Fans on Facebook

  

Today, an estimated 40 million small businesses are using Facebook to promote their business and connect with their customers. Trying to attract new "likes" to your page can be a challenge, but one that is well worth the effort. 

One study found that the average value of a single Facebook fan is $174. While this number varies depending on your business and industry, capturing the loyalty of your target audience is essential. 

Here are five guaranteed ways to attract more visitors and garner more fans on Facebook.

1. Images

A regular part of your Facebook content strategy should revolve around images. Posting captivating and relevant pictures to your Facebook page is an excellent way for you to increase engagement with your audience. As your audience shares the photos that you post, you'll begin to see a boost in your reach, leading to more exposure and fans.

2. Produce Great Content

One of the quickest ways to lose fans is by posting less than stellar content. The most common reason people will, unlike a brand page, is because the business continues to post uninteresting content. Keep more of the fans that you've already gained by creating engaging content that adds value and meets the needs of your audience.

3. Hold a Contest

People love to win stuff. Holding a contest on your business Facebook page is still a great way to persuade people to like your page. It is essential to spread the word about the contest on your website as well as sending the information about it to your email list. If the contest is inventive enough, you'll be able to spread your reach even further and gain more fans. Just make sure that you make "liking" your page a requirement for your contest.  

4. Buy Them

Facebook has some of the most targeted advertising at your disposal. You can use Facebook advertisements to drive more people to your page with the hopes of converting them into fans. With this method, it is crucial that you have a compelling call to action on your page to turn these new fans into customers.

5. Cross-Promote 

A part of your overall social media strategy should include cross-promoting your content across multiple social media platforms. Drive some of your Twitter or YouTube followers over to your Facebook page by providing them with high-quality content and quality engagement on your Facebook fan page.

Just like with all your marketing efforts, it is going to take some time to build your fan base on Facebook. By creating great content and engaging with your audience you’ll turn your Facebook Fan page into a thriving community. 

Written by Yola Bastos

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Best Ways to Boost Facebook Engagement

 

Facebook continues to be one of the most popular and influential social media platforms in the world with more than one billion active users. As a business, you can no longer continue to leave Facebook out of your online marketing strategy. If you want to grow your business, you have to have a presence on Facebook. However, to be successful, and build your Facebook fan base, you have to be engaged with your audience. Here are five of the best ways that you can boost Facebook engagement and increase your fan base. 

Ask Questions

A great way to spark dialogue with your audience is to ask them questions. It is by far one of the easiest ways and best methods to boost audience engagement on your Facebook fan page. There are various types of questions that you can ask to get your fans talking. 

Get the Timing Right

When it comes to uploading content to your Facebook page, timing is crucial. The last thing that you want to do is update your wall when everyone is working or asleep. Numerous studies have proven that the best way to engage with your audience is to post at 9 am, 1 pm, and 3 pm. These are the times that your audience is most likely to check for updates. If you don't think you can remember to post at these times, you can always utilize a free scheduling tool to ensure you get the timing right.

Include Call to Actions

Placing a call to action on your page instils psychological nudges that can help you drive your audience to respond the way you want. Something that many businesses miss when they update their Facebook page is a call to action. People tend to respond better when they are told what to respond to.

Use Facebook Ads

Due to Facebook's newest algorithm, only a small fraction of your audience will get to see the wall posts on your Facebook page. If you want to boost the engagement of your audience, you can promote it through page post stories, ads, which will help your posts reach more people.

Posting Frequency

The frequency that you post has been shown to have a significant effect on Facebook engagement. According to recent studies, businesses that post one or two times per day have a 40 per cent higher engagement rate than those who post more than three times per day.

What works for some businesses may not work for others when it comes to boosting audience engagement. However, these tips have proven to help increase engagement when used correctly. 

Written by Yola Bastos

Women Flix Team 

https://linktr.ee/LifeCoachWomenFlix

How to Get the Most Out of Your Instagram Marketing

Like Instagram, the photo and video-sharing social media platform have become more popular; it has created significant possibilities for businesses to connect with their customers and market their brand. If you've never considered using Instagram for your business, it might be time you did. With over 300 million active monthly users, it's a social media platform that you shouldn't be overlooking. Here are several of the best ways you can leverage your Instagram account to grow your business and achieve success.

Be Consistent

If you want to make the most out of your marketing efforts on Instagram, you need to post on a regular basis. You never want to go more than a couple of days between posts if you're going to avoid being forgotten about. Once you establish a routine for posting photos, it is easy to continue to add more photos frequently.

Be Friendly

It’s rare for a company to have a built-in fan base. To start expanding your reach and exposure, search for hashtags that are in line with your industry. If you own an ice cream parlour, search for photos of ice cream and ‘like’ and comment on them. Potential fans will be thrilled that you’re checking them out, which might lead to them following you. The critical thing to remember is that you want to be genuine with your comments and not desperate.

Edit Outside of Instagram

While Instagram offers an abundance of editing tools and filters, sometimes they’re a bit too much. When it comes to editing your photos, simple is best. There are numerous free and low-cost online editing tools that you can use to edit your photos before posting them to your Instagram account. Try this platform: https://free-us.objectivealign.xyz/

Use Hashtags

A great way to help others find you on Instagram is by using hashtags. Using relevant hashtags in your posts can be highly effective for getting noticed. To determine the best hashtags to use for your business, look at other established brands in your industry for examples of what to do when it comes to creating unique hashtags. While Instagram allows a maximum of 30 hashtags, using fewer will get you the quality responses you want. 

As Instagram continues to be a shining star in the world of social media, it has proven itself extremely valuable for businesses. When done right, large amounts of traffic can be driven toward your company helping to boost customer engagement and increasing your brand recognition. 

Written by Yola Bastos

Women Flix Team 

https://linktr.ee/LifeCoachWomenFlix

How to Build Your Brand on Twitter

Optimize Your Twitter Bio

To get the most out of Twitter, you need to make sure that your company voice and identity are branded and optimized. This means that your bio needs to tell people who you are and include a link to your landing page or website. It is also essential that you keep a consistent tone with all of your Tweets so that people can clearly understand who you are and what your business does.

Interact with Your Industry Influencers

As you begin to post to Twitter, find out who the experts and influencers are in your industry and interact with them regularly. You can use Twitter search or similar tools to find like-minded customers and influencers by searching the keywords that are related to your industry. Once you discover the right people, follow them and interact with them on a daily basis.

Tweet Regularly

One sign of an active and healthy profile is regular tweeting. If you are only tweeting once a week, or once a month people are going to forget about you and your business. To stay on the top of your audience’s mind on a consistent basis, you need to send out daily postings. The information you tweet needs to be useful and relevant that your followers will read, click on, and retweet. 

Offer Discounts to Twitter Followers

Run Twitter contests to get your followers engaged with your business. You can give a specific number of people who retweet your posts special discounts off your products or services or hold a random drawing based on the people that upload pictures of them using your product or visiting your store.  

Integrate it With Your Other Marketing Efforts

Twitter will become much more useful for your business if you integrate it with your other marketing activities. By engaging your audience in more than one marketing effort, you are increasing your reach and followers.

Like all the other social media platforms, the more effort you put into your marketing efforts, the higher the chances of you finding success. These simple tips can help you maximize your marketing efforts on Twitter to build your brand and increase your followers.

Written by Yola Bastos

Women Flix Team 

https://linktr.ee/LifeCoachWomenFlix

Documentação de coaching

As notas de progresso são uma parte importante de uma profissão de ajuda e têm um duplo objetivo.

O primeiro é oferecer o melhor nível de atendimento  aos clientes. 

Manter o controle dos detalhes de cada sessão permite que um coach organize os detalhes necessários de cada cliente, serve como uma atualização para sessões anteriores e é importante para uma transição suave caso um cliente seja transferido de um coach para outro. 

As anotações de progresso também facilitam o acompanhamento do life coach quando os objetivos do cliente estão sendo alcançados e permitem que a reflexão ocorra no ponto de rescisão com um cliente.

Segundo, as notas de progresso mantêm o trajecto de vida legalmente seguro.

Situações de emergência, como ideação suicida ou homicida, devem ser observadas com detalhes para garantir que as autoridades entendam os procedimentos que ocorreram para evitar danos aos envolvidos.

Tradicionalmente, se não estiver anotado em uma nota de progresso, isso não acontecerá.

Termos:

Cl = Cliente

LC = Life Coach

Dados

Faça declarações objetivas.

Inclua declarações de importância que foram ditas diretamente pelo cliente com resumo e citações. Informações importantes podem incluir comentários sobre o processo de coaching de vida, objetivos para treinamento, o que foi aprendido em uma avaliação ou atividade, etc.

Exemplo: 

Cl afirmou que revisou resultados... Cl está de acordo com o tipo ... Cl relatou que seu objetivo de entender ainda mais os resultados ... foi alcançado. Cl afirmou que sente uma “liderança contínua” para ...

Exemplo: 

Cl afirmou que não concluiu sua tarefa reflexiva nesta semana devido... Cl relatou ter uma semana “dura e desanimadora”porque... Cl afirmou que não havia conversado com ninguém sobre ... Cl afirmou que não sabe quais são seus objetivos para ...

Avaliação

Faça declarações subjetivas. Avalie a sessão como um todo, incluindo impressões do cliente. Inclua também o que foi visto fisicamente, como efeito (sorridente, chorando etc.) e linguagem corporal (aberta ou fechada, como evidenciado por ..., tiques nervosos, etc.).

Se o efeito, o estado mental ou o processo de pensamento foram notáveis, discuta aqui.

O efeito notável inclui expressão facial que não corresponde às palavras do cliente ou o oposto.

O estado mental notável inclui uma discussão de ideação suicida ou homicida ou de qualquer tipo que leve a LC a acreditar que serviços de aconselhamento clínico podem ser necessários.

Processo de pensamento notável inclui padrões de pensamento desconectados ou distorcidos.

Exemplo:

Cl continua a apresentar diiculdade no processo de coaching de vida, como evidenciado ao concluir tarefas de reflexão fora da sessão e ao desenvolvimento contínuo de metas por auto-relato... Cl parece ter uma boa compreensão dos resultados... Cl sorriu enquanto discutia sobre se tornar ... Cl manteve a linguagem corporal aberta, como evidenciado pelo contato visual apropriado e pelas anotações durante a sessão...

Exemplo:

Cl parece não estar envolvido no processo de coaching de vida, como evidenciado por não concluir tarefas nas últimas duas semanas, além de não ter objetivos de coaching de vida... Cl manteve uma postura fechada durante a sessão de treinamento, como evidenciado pela inclinação do CL com os braços cruzados. O processo do Cl foi disperso quando ele pulou de um tópico para o outro e interrompeu o LC para interpor comentários vagamente, ou de modo algum, referentes à discussão em andamento. Nos primeiros 10 minutos da sessão, Cl coçou os braços e o peito... Cl poderia se beneficiar ao consultar um conselheiro sobre sua situação familiar... Cl deve ser encaminhado para o Centro de Estudantes...

Plano

Discuta sobre e planeie a próxima sessão e coloque a data da próxima sessão no final da nota. Coloque a data e as iniciais no final da nota.

Exemplo:

Cl entrará em contato com duas pessoas no campo da educação com as quais ela pode fazer uma entrevista informativa... Agende o próximo compromisso.

Exemplo:

Cl entrará em contato com o Centro de estudante esta semana para agendar uma consulta de aconselhamento, por indicação de LC. 

Obtenha a assinatura do Cl no consentimento para partilha de informações na próxima semana.

Entre em contato com o Centro de estudante do aluno para verificar a presença do CL no aconselhamento após a obtenção do formulário. 

O Cl vai pensar nos objetivos de coaching de vida. 

Discuta as metas de treinamento da vida do Cl na próxima sessão. 

Marque o próximo compromisso.

Competências e atividades de Coaching V

Escultura

Escultura consiste em posicionar as pessoas em relação umas às outras em um ambiente específico.

Na terapia do casamento e da família, é usado para ver como as diferentes pessoas da família interagem através dos olhos de um escultor.

Essa idéia pode ser usada em um grupo para explicar uma situação atual de trabalho ou como são diferentes as influências impactando o indivíduo enquanto ele / ela tentam descobrir o próximo passo em coaching.

Isso também pode ser feito com argila ou brincadeira, em vez de pessoas. 

Benefício: é uma maneira ativa de trabalhar em um grupo que não está apenas conversando.

Às vezes, outros membros do grupo podem obter informações por si mesmos, ajudando outros a trabalhar na escultura. 

Torre de Palha

Divida o grupo em dois grupos menores. Dê a cada grupo menor um saco de canudos. 

Instrua o grupo a construir uma torre o mais alto possível dentro de um certo período de tempo.

O grupo não tem permissão para conversar entre si nos primeiros minutos. O líder pode decidir quando eles podem conversar.

Quem constrói a torre mais alta vence o desafio. Um líder deve ter um prêmio para o grupo vencedor. 

Benefício:

Este é um ótimo quebra-gelo para grupos que precisam interagir melhor.

O líder do grupo pode observar como cada membro está trabalhando com outros e adaptar o grupo para atender às necessidades dos indivíduos.

Declarações de antídoto

Declarações de antídoto são afirmações destinadas a reverter declarações de auto-aversão ou conversas negativas com a auto-afirmação.

Peça aos clientes que anotem todas as declarações negativas que dizem em um pedaço de papel ou um quadro branco.

Depois, peça ao grupo que trabalhe em conjunto para pensar em antídotos para escrever diretamente ao lado de cada afirmação negativa.