Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. – Gautama Buddha
Four things you can’t recover:
The stone after the throw . . .
The word after it’s spoken . . .
The occasion after it’s missed . . .
The time after it’s gone.
American Diabetes Association fights one of the fastest growing diseases in America. November is American Diabetes Month. Donate via http://www.diabetes.org or call 800-DIABETES (800-342-2383).
Curator: John Kremer
Stay true to yourself because there are very few people who will always be true to you.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Don’t let anyone’s ignorance, hate, drama, or negativity stop you from being the best person you can be.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you some thing else is the greatest achievement. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good Shop: Shop at one of 2,800+ participating stores (from Amazon to Zazzle) and a percentage of what you spend will be donated to the cause of your choice at no cost to you. Bonus: Goodshop lists more than 100,000 coupons and deals so you could save money while doing good! Go to http://www.goodsearch.com/goodshop.aspx to sign up.
Curator: John Kremer
The optimum tweet length for maximum retweets is 71 to 100 characters.
Tweet links for more retweets.
20.8% of retweets have at least one hashtag. The top 10 popular hashtags are #nowplaying, #ff, #jobs, #fb, #tinychat, #youconfessarque, #fail, #tcot, #1, and #followfriday.
Ask for the retweet to get more retweets. Please Retweet generates a 51% retweet rate. PleaseRT has a 39% retweet rate. Without one of those phrases, the normal tweet averages a 12% retweet rate.
Tweet between noon and 2:00 p.m. for maximum retweets.
Tweets on Friday get the most retweets.
Only 1.5% of retweets contain a self-reference so stop talking about you.
80% of users retweet news. 55 to 60% retweet instruction and entertainment.
Tweets about Twitter are retweet twice as often as tweets about Facebook.
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Good Dining: Dine at one of 10,000 participating restaurants around the country and a percentage of what you spend will go to the cause of your choice at no cost to you. Go to http://www.goodsearch.com/gooddining to sign up.
Curator: John Kremer
Here are a few statistics from 2012 to show you how important it still is to have a presence on Twitter.
Twitter has 465 million accounts.
175 million tweets are sent every day.
1 million new accounts are added to Twitter every day.
There are 107.7 million U.S. users, 33.3 million Brazilian users, 29.9 million Japanese users, 23.8 million British users, 19.5 million Indonesian users, 13 million Indian users.
The most popular Twitter users are Lady Gaga with 19.3 million, Justin Bieber with 17.5 million, Katy Perry with 15.1 million, Shakira with 14.1 million, and Rihanna with 13,6 million.
What makes people retweet another user’s tweet?
92% – Interesting content
84% – Personal connection
66% – It’s funny.
32% – An incentive was offered.
26% – The other user requested a retweet.
21% – The other user was a celebrity.
What makes people follow another Twitter account?
69% – Referrals from friends.
47% – Via online search.
44% – Suggested by Twitter.
31% – Via special promotions.
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Good Search donates a penny to the charity or school of your choice every time you do a new search. To sign up for this special offer, go to http://www.goodsearch.com.
Curator: John Kremer
You might know the bounce rate for your website (if you use Google Analytics on your website). But, do you know anything about how it’s calculated, what the average bounce rate is for your industry, or what factors affect your bounce rate? This infographic was designed to provide some tips to help you decrease your bounce rate.
Bounce Rate: The percentage of single-page visits where visitors don’t go on to a second page on your website. High bounce rates indicate that your landing pages are not relevant to visitors. That’s why Google takes bounce rates into account in determining site rank.
Visits to a subdomain on your website counts as a bounce.
The average website has 4.6 page views per visit with a bounce rate of 40.5%. The average time on websites is a little over 3 minutes (190.4 seconds). 62.9% of visitors are new.
9 Factors That Affect Bounce Rates
Pop-up ads, surveys, streaming video, or music
Search engine ranking of page (pages ranked high for irrelevant keywords register more bounces)
Audience type
Landing page design
Emails and newsletters
Load times of pages (with longer load times resulting in more bounces)
Links to external sites (more links result in more bounces)
Purpose of your page
9 Ways to Improve Your Bounce Rate
Maintain top rankings for your key terms.
Provide relevant content for any landing pages.
Build a clear navigation path so users can find the content they want.
Link to a glossary page that defines industry terms.
Feature an internal search function in a prominent position.
Get rid of pop-up ads.
Limit streaming video and music.
Speed up page loads using the Google Page Speed plugin.
Reduce external links (or have them open in a new window).
Water.org helps the 884 million people without access to clean water as well as the 2.9 billion people who need better sanitation. Click on donate your voice at http://www.water.org to give them permission to post on your Facebook page or Twitter profile twice a month to tell your friends of their needs.
Curator: John Kremer
Sadly, the author of the original post here doesn’t understand the value of promotion so this post had to be deleted.
The above graphic of my book, The 7 Rules of Life, is a placeholder for the original bookographic.
Autism Inclusion Resources works with airlines and airports to make air travel easier for autistic children and their families. Details at http://www.autismir.com.
Curator: John Kremer
Here is another Super Bowl commercial from the 2013 game. Jeep and USO offers a really neat video tribute to our military heroes.
Here is the text of this Super Bowl commercial:
We wait. We hope. We pray. Until you’re home again. – Oprah Winfrey
There will be a seat left open, a light left on, a favorite dinner waiting, a warm bed made.
There will be walks to take, swings to push, and baths to give.
On your block, at the school, in your church, because in your home in our hearts, you’ve been lived.
You’ve been needed. You’ve been cried for, prayed for.
You’ve been the reason we push on.
Half the battle was just knowing that this is half the battle.
Because when you’re home, we are more than a family. We are a nation that is whole again.
To learn more, visit http://www.jeep.com/OSR
United Service Organizations (USO) provides support services to American fighting personal overseas (Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force). Let the GIs know that they are not forgotten by donating via http://www.uso.org.
Curator: John Kremer
Videos can be infographics. Listen in to this great TV ad for Ram Trucks narrated by Paul Harvey and aired first at the 2013 Super Bowl.
Here is the text for this ad:
And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, ‘Maybe next year.’ I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make a harness out of hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. Who planting time and harvest season will finish his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon and then, paining from tractor back, put in another 72 hours.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, yet gentle enough to yean lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-comb pullets. Who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the leg of a meadowlark.” So God made a farmer.
It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed, and brake, and disk, and plow, and plant, and tie the fleece, and strain the milk. Somebody who’d bale a family together with the soft, strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh, and then reply with smiling eyes when his son says that he wants to spend his life doing what Dad does. So God made a farmer.
Heifer International supplies cows and milk to needy families around the world. Their work has expanded to providing other animals as well: goats, geese and guinea pigs to bees, silkworms and water buffalo. Their goal is to end world hunger and poverty. Web: http://www.heifer.org/give.
Curator: John Kremer