Getting Hired with a Competitive Edge – Blogging

Get Hired

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You are a graduate. You are looking for a job, especially a marketing job. Before you look further, start a blog to make yourself a distinctive advantage over others to get hired. The reasons are not hard to find. When you start a blog there are three main activities- writing and posting articles, getting your blog posts noticed by search engines, and sending your articles to social media sites. 

 • Article writing: When you write and post articles on your blog you also demonstrate your competency in expressing yourself effectively in writing. This is a very important skill in all jobs.

 • Getting your articles noticed: You have optimized your blog and search engines are able to locate your articles easily. It means you know something about SEO. You have an added advantage over others in a job market. 

 • Circulate your articles: You bookmark your articles at social bookmarking and social networking sites for wider exposure. You also submit your articles to EzineArticles to be read by more readers. You are doing marketing as well as networking at the same time. 

 When you do all these three things together you are actually practicing inbound marketing. Your effectiveness will be noticed by others in the following ways: 

 • Favorable comments on your articles 

• Traffic Rank

• PageRank 

• Links to your blogs

• Word of mouth 

 Your chances of getting a job are further enhanced when your profile is located on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Plaxo. Send an elevator pitch to the right people to get them interested in you. When people in the trade are looking for a suitable candidate, you stand out among others because your blog is the testimony of your working capabilities. 

 Get a blog, start writing, and do online networking to get noticed and hired quickly.

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Herbs For Your Eyes

EYES

Apart from heart disease people are very concerned with vision problems.

Our sight is the most precious of the five senses, it is better to take precautionary measures to prevent such dreadful diseases such as cataract, glaucoma, and macular degeneration. While consuming vegetables and fruits may supply essential nutrients to your eyes, you can fortify your intake of nutrients by taking a supplement that includes A, C, E, and zinc. I would further recommend you to take the following herbs to strengthen your eyesight:

• Eyebright
• Bilberry
• Fennel
• Gingko
• Spirulina
• Chlorella

Eyebright: It is used to reduce redness and swelling. It tightens the mucous membranes of the eyes and appears to relieve the inflammation of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.

Bilberry: Bilberry contains anthocyanosides that may decrease the rate of macular degeneration and prevent other retinal conditions from occurring. It also improves night vision.

Fennel: It is reported that extracts of fennel seed have been shown in animal studies to have potential use in the treatment of glaucoma.

Gingko: It promotes blood circulation to the eyes, thus also improves the supply of oxygen. It has been used in Europe to aid in glaucoma and macular degeneration

Spirulina: It is a rich natural source of Beta-Carotene (Pro-Vitamin A), which helps improve eyesight.

Chlorella: It is a good source of lutein and zeaxanthin. Harvard researchers found that people with the highest consumption of lutein- and zeaxanthin-rich foods lowered the risk of macular degeneration by as much as 57%, compared to people who consumed the least amount of these foods.

You can obtain a mixture of the above herbs over the counter and this is the brand that I am using:

Eyebright Plus from Vitahealth.

It contains the following:

Eyebright

Fennel

Carrot (root powder)

Spirulina

Chlorella

I find herbal supplements to be beneficial to my vision.

Getting followers at Twitter – The Right Way

Twitter

In my previous two articles I have mentioned getting followers without trying in three different ways:

 • Bookmark your articles

• A bio at your profile section 

• Don’t use underscores and numbers for your username

 I find that the most effective way to get people interested in you is your useful articles. No wonder content is king. I have close to 200 followers and most of them follow me after reading my articles. Naturally, I follow back. The most effective way to market your articles is through Ping.fm. Take note of the following point:

 • Tweet your article title. 

It must be appealing enough to entice readers to read and retweet your article. The other meaningful way is to do a search to follow people related to your niche. As an example ‘ self-improvement’ is my niche. When I key in these two words to do a search I can see the latest tweet on this subject. I will select among the list suitable people to follow. In most cases, they will follow me because we are talking on the same wavelength. When I choose someone to follow, the most important thing that I look for is their bio. The more the person tells about himself the easier it is for others to follow. The most effective way is to use an elevator pitch at your bio, short and right to the point about yourself. I will not follow someone without a bio. Happy following and being followed. 

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Health and Fitness- 10 Longevity Tips

Health

Health is wealth. Wealth is health. When you are in good health you can enjoy your wealth fully. When you have lost your health your wealth means nothing to you.

1. Exercise: Invest time to keep fit and be healthy, if not you will be forced to take time off to nurse your illnesses, or worse still when you have succumbed to serious illnesses you will be robbed of your vitality and your productivity.

2. Quit smoking: When you stop smoking, you do not only regain your health but you also save a substantial amount of money every year. As a non-smoker, you also enjoy discounts on insurance premiums.

3. Stop excessive drinking: Regular drinkers are linked to liver disease. It will burn a hole in your pocket to seek treatment for acute liver problems.

4. Maintain your ideal weight: Overweight means a higher risk of high cholesterol, heart diseases, stroke, and other health problems.

5. Annual check-up: Going for a health check on a regular basis means arresting any health problems at an early stage. It is easier to be cured and you also get early recovery .and not to mention the savings on medical expenses.

6. Visit the dentist: Maintain your sparkling smile by brushing your teeth in the morning and evening every day and better still do it after every meal. Make an appointment with your dentist at least once a year. Consume less sugary food means a healthier you and less tooth decay.

7. Balanced diet: This is a very simple rule - eat more fruits and vegetables (alkaline food) and less meat (acidic food).

8. Manage stress: There are three easy ways to handle stress:

· Take Prevent measures to avoid stress

· Maintain a positive mental attitude in a stressful situation

· Employ stress-releasing techniques to relax

9. Eye care: This is your window to the world. It is the most important of all your five senses. Taking a supplement that includes vitamins A, C, E, and zinc mineral can be beneficial. Avoid ultraviolet rays by wearing sunglasses. Herbs like eyebright, fennel, and bilberry are also good for your vision.

10. Be happy: Life is short and unpredictable; there is no better time to be happy except for the present moment. Be delighted in every moment of your life. Use autosuggestion to change your outlook in life so that you will look at things on the bright side. Your happiness will boost your immune system and your well-being.

Life is more meaningful when you can enjoy total freedom. You eat the food you fancy, you indulge in doing your favorite things physically and mentally, and you go to places when you feel like it. You also work with peak performance and you appreciate the sight and sound around you. All these are only possible when you are in top form and in good shape.

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7 Secrets of My Blogging Productivity

Blog

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Blogging is about consistency. When you operate a store you open for business every day at the same time as advertised or else your customers will go away. Likewise, when you maintain a blog you do posting of your article at the same time every day to keep your readers. Here are the secrets of my blogging productivity. 

 1. My posting rhythm: When I started blogging in 2007 I decided to write and post an article every day. . It has since developed into a productive habit. I post my article in the morning and it will be live in the afternoon to coincide with the start of a new day in America. 

 2. Reading: I read widely - books, magazines, newspapers in English and Chinese. I get my daily ideas and inspiration from my habit of reading every day. 

 3. Writer’s block: I do encounter writer’s block from time to time. Here are the things that I do when I run out of ideas: 

 • Check and expand my previously written article from a short article to a long one.

 • Turn a point from an old article into a brand new article

 • Looking at old articles with a different perspective and transform it into a new article 

 • Getting ideas from the Net by keying in keywords of my niche such as productivity tips, self-esteem tips, and time management tips. Looking for ideas on the net is like lighting a match stick in the dark. Suddenly, an idea flashes through my mind and I start writing immediately until the end.

 • Take out a book from my collection and see if it can inspire my creativity for a new article.

 4. Surfing the Net: I look for articles relating to self-improvement and I check forums on the same subject. I also go to Twitter and do a search for self-improvement. From there I will be able to learn the latest tweet in the blogosphere about my niche. 

 5. Bookmark my articles: The traffic to my blog is still sluggish so I bookmark my articles at social bookmarking and social networking sites every day. I do it consistently in the evening so it becomes a productive habit. 

 6. Backup articles: I can stop writing for 2 weeks without affecting my productivity because I have written and kept 14 articles at any one time just in case I am unable to write for a few days. This will definitely maintain my productivity in an emergency situation. 

 7. Email: I read and reply to my email on a daily basis. It is more efficient and effective. Allow your inbox to accumulate is suicidal. Share your blogging productivity tips with the readers.

Boost Traffic to Your Blog - 20 Top Tips

How to Boost Blog Traffic

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To send traffic to your blog, you do two essential things: One is to write useful articles to solve readers’ problems; two is to market your articles so that your articles can be read by more readers all over the world:


1. Write articles relating to your niche.

2. Write effective articles.

3. Write your articles in two stages. Write down the ideas first and edit later.

4. Include relevant images to complement your articles.

5. Write your article like a pro.

6. Here are some ideas to overcome writer's block.

7. Craft A Mission Statement for Your Blog.

8. Come up with an elevator pitch to promote yourself and your blog.

9. Join blog directories to expose your blog.

10. Bookmark your articles at a social bookmarking site with the help of Socialmarker.com.

11. Bookmark your articles at social networking sites using Ping.fm.

12. Get more followers at Twitter to visit your

blog.

13. Participate in blog carnivals.

14. Syndicate your popular articles at article directory sites.

15. Let EzineArticles.com Drive Traffic to your Site.

16. Submit your sitemap and blog to search engines.

17. Promote yourself online and offline.

18. Encourage your readers to subscribe to your feed.

19. Install a Statcounter widget at your site to monitor your daily Traffic Rank.

20. Use Google's Analytics to check and analyze the performance of your blog.


Consistency and persistence are the keys to driving traffic to your blog.

Outbound Marketing, Inbound Marketing and Blogging

Marketing

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Outbound marketing

Outbound marketing is the traditional way of doing business. The techniques used are print adverting, ads on TV and radio, telemarketing, direct mail, and email, and many more. These forms of marketing are perceived as an interruption to customers. As an example, when you are watching your favorite TV program you are often interrupted by ads. Outbound marketing means customers are at the receiving end. They are not in control.

Inbound marketing

The emerging of the Internet has changed the way business is done. The customers are very much in control. They actively surf the Net for information and do shopping online. Inbound marketing means customers come to you. It is up to you to attract the customers to go to your site. Some of the new ways of marketing are:

• Blogging
• Search engine optimization
• Networking on the blogosphere
• Buzz marketing
• Pay per click advertising
• A detailed and sophisticated analysis of marketing performance

Blogging

The point I want to highlight is that when we do blogging we are actually practicing inbound marketing. We employ more or less similar methods to attract readers to our sites to read our articles. Here are some of the methods that we do to entice readers to visit our sites:

1. Write and post unique and original articles to solve readers’ problems.
2. Optimize our sites so that search engines can locate our sites and our articles easily.
3. We market our articles to where the readers are: social bookmarking and social networking sites. We also submit our sites to blog directories and our articles to article directories.
4. We network with others with similar niche and interests at social media sites.
5. We employ analytical tools to track visitors to our sites. Arm with the right information we strengthening our uniqueness and reduce our weaknesses.

Isn’t it nice to know that when you do blogging you are also doing inbound marketing, the new way of marketing?