Author: Cynthia

Prosperity Pearls

Prosperity Pearls for Jesus’ Jewels

Daily Affirmations for God’s Virtuous Women in Business

Prosperity Pearls are the positive things you think and then speak over and into your business.  Prosperity Pearls can truly have a major impact on your life. Your business is a part of your life and vice versa. So, if you’d like to see your business thrive like never before, in ways you never thought possible, in ways you never dreamed of, here are some amazing affirmations that can change your course of business in a matter of minutes. Truly, these affirmations are powerful pearls that have the awesome ability to ensure the success of your business every day for as long as you’re in business.

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There are no fancy words for you to speak; none needed; just plain and simple words that you can incorporate into your business to propel you to prosperity. All you have to do is speak these words over your business to be taken to a whole new level.

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Sometimes we do things the hard way truly not knowing and understanding how simple things in life and in business can really be and how we can enjoy all the things that we, as women entrepreneurs, deserve and envision for ourselves. Doing business should be easy although at times we encounter people and personalities that try to make our lives more difficult than they have to be. This is where knowing God, trusting God and having deep-planted faith in God comes in. Knowing God and doing business His way is what helps us to have rich and plentiful businesses. Knowing God is where our knowledge-of-business comes from. It’s where our gifts, skills and abilities are birthed and once birthed, it is then that we can share all the blessings that God has bestowed on us with our sisters forming a long and everlasting sisterhood. That’s what God’s Virtuous Women Entrepreneurs do; we create strong foundations that help to bless our Sisters in Christ Jesus and together we can do great things in Him and for Him.

Are you ready to soar! Let’s go.

I am thankful!

I am powerful!

I am confident!

I am strong!

I am bold!

I am of a good courageous!

I am amazing!

I am awesome!

I am creative!

I am highly skilled!

I am beautiful!

I am abundant!

I am prosperous!

I Can’t Say It Enough-Live Your Dreams

Never Stop Dreaming

I can’t say it enough-live your dreams!  When I began my career into the heart of corporate America it was a journey for which I was truly unprepared. This journey would be one of the most important journeys of my life. Through it all, I reached my destination, unplanned and so unexpected. The experience of a lifetime, my journey into corporate America was definitely a lifestyle change that I didn’t welcome at the time, but realized it was essential to my growth as a human being. 

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Valuable and Important Lessons

Having received some of the most valuable and important lessons from my co-workers, they were lessons, looking back, that I needed and now can honestly say truly appreciated. Believe it or not I could make a a multi-million dollar grossing movie from the things that the doctors, secretaries and chairman of the department of medicine taught me. These are the lessons that have helped to negatively and positively alter my life impacting me in ways so powerful that it helped me to see that corporate was not the place for me.

It’s In Me

Being a program coordinator, I had the opportunity to use just one of my many gifts which was to design flyers for conferences and events for the house staff. The residents in the program also played a very large part in helping me to envision becoming a business owner. As program coordinator of the internal medicine program, one of my many tasks was to take minutes at the Clinical Meetings which were held quarterly. Listening to the doctors discuss and rate the performances of their preceptees, I learned, that I too, had someone who was rating my overall performance. It was in those meetings, along with many other essential factors, that I seriously contemplated becoming an entrepreneur. Yes, I had made up my mind that I needed to move out of corporate America and into the world of entrepreneurship, simply put, to live my dreams. I was ready to go home, spend time with my children and open the doors to my own work from home business; Magic Fingers Typing Services. Even though Magic Fingers didn’t live long, I was still traveling the road to live my dreams.  I knew deep in my heart that something bigger was planned for me.  I believed it and I began living my dreams through the art of design.  I was on to something so much bigger and definitely a billion times better and you know what, I deserved it.  

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Wise Beyond My Tears

Becoming an entrepreneur was beyond the wisest choice I could have made, not just for myself, but for my family as well. I have found and now enjoy a real sense of happiness every day I enter into my office to begin designing tee shirts, personalized keepsakes or whatever the Holy Spirit speaks to the depths of my soul. I have contentment. I have peace. I have joy. I have success and I have been given the power to create my own wealth. I have a wealth of knowledge. I have a wealth of understanding. I have an abundance of prosperity and I have riches. These are all the things that have been gifted to me as an entrepreneur. You see, when you use the gifts God has given you and you use them with passion and thanksgiving, you can’t help but prosper in more ways than you could ever imagine and you’ll begin to live your dreams.

Written by Cynthia G. Boyer

Your Competition

 

Your business is the real thing.

When I started magic fingers typing service all I knew was this;  I was an excellent typist. I typed fast and I typed with 100% accuracy. I designed a flyer and I opened the doors to my business within a few months after I had given it careful and serious thought.

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Magic Fingers was birthed from my gifts and skill set and in September 2002, I opened the doors to my typing/secretarial business; it was an immediate success. I was overjoyed. I did absolutely no research on how to start, promote, market, manage or grow a legitimate business of my own.  I had a thriving typing business that gave me the financial rewards I had longed for, but I was not being fulfilled in terms of enjoying what I did. All the money did was help to pay bills and tuition.  I liked to type, but I didn’t like typing for others and even though business was pouring in in the form of dissertations, term papers, resumes, correspondence, followup letters and more, I just wasn’t satisfied and I was not happy.  In other words, a secretarial business was not for me and that was because once I found my passion to design, which was much greater than anything I could have ever imagined for myself, I had to say goodbye to Magic Fingers almost as quickly as I started it.   

When I started Cyndi’s Light Work Designs, I decided to do extensive research on how to grow a graphic design business.  The one thing that stayed in and stuck out in my mind was, CHECK OUT THE COMPETITION. Well for me the competition was and has never been a question, worry or concern. I look at my business like this and I think you should too.

I started and built my businesses on truth, on the foundation of Gods word which has been the link to my long-lasting success and success for me is not financial, but happiness, peace, fulfillment and contentment. I am a true Christian woman entrepreneur.  How can I accomplish anything on my own strength. I cant. How can I as a Christian woman start a business without God. I can’t and I’m smart enough to not make any attempts to try. How can my businesses live, breathe and thrive without my Savior in whom I love, believe and trust with all my heart, soul, mind, might and strength.  

Successful Christian Women Entrepreneurs

Christian Women Entrepreneurs’ Abundance and Blessings

Successful Christian women entrepreneurs have an endless list and an abundance of blessings that cannot be numbered and that can easily be used to build highly successful and phenomenal businesses. Many of you are already prosperous business owners enjoying the fruits of your brilliancy.

Clothed with Magnificence and Brilliance

Upon you, God has bestowed magnificence and brilliance. You are intelligent, wise and extremely knowledgeable, which has allowed you to birth your business with courage, power, strength and confidence using your unique skillset, your God-given gifts and talents, blessing you with the amazing ability to build, one powerful tool at a time, a mountain-like sustainable foundation that cannot be moved or shaken.

Great Plans of Abundance and Prosperity

As Successful Christian women entrepreneurs God has devised the greatest plan for you and your business. With the commencing of your dreams and everything you envision, you wisely write down all your goals acknowledging the fact that God has assigned to you a well-written, easy to understand and easy to execute plan, never difficult and never confusing, to help you achieve your business goals as you aspire to do fantastic. On your daily list of things-to-do and all that you vow to accomplish, it is imperative that you stay focused to ensure that you never miss a step and you never skip a beat.

Building Mountains

Now, with faith in God, you are ready to create and climb the next mountain, which is higher and stronger than your previous mountain…you know the one you built using your sweat, thanksgiving and praise! This mountain continues to stand giving other women entrepreneurs the opportunity to climb the same mountain which has allowed you to look out into the world to see just how far you’ve come and now to be able to see where God is leading, guiding, directing and instructing you.

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Leaders in Business

With each mountain you build and climb your business grows and prospers. Your business is a treasure chest that contains an abundance of amazing! You have, intelligently and with your brilliant mind, have left your shine, your unique footprints on the world. You illumine the universe with your countenance and your business shines. You have carved a path for the upcoming, super phenomenal, Christian women entrepreneur and with you leading the way, they simply just cannot fail.  

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Written by Cynthia G. Boyer

Owner, GVWE

Not Without Jesus

 

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Years ago, I watched, what I thought was a really good movie, “Not Without My Daughter”. This movie was about an Iranian physician who wants to visit Iran with his American family. He tells his wife, Betty, that his Iranian family wants to meet her and their young daughter, and asks them to come with him for a two week visit. Despite her deep fears about visiting Iran, particularly due to the Iranian Hostage Crisis, Betty reluctantly agrees. Upon their arrival, they are all greeted warmly by her husband’s family, but shortly before their flight back to America, Moody announces to his wife that he wishes for them to stay in Iran. Betty quickly realizes that she has been deceived by her husband, even though Moody took an oath that they would return to America, “swearing” on the sacred Koran. When she protests, Moody strikes her, and nobody in Moody’s family sympathises with her. 

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Moody becomes more hostile and abusive, preventing her from leaving the house or using the telephone. Betty briefly manages to visit the American Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy, but is told that she is now an Iranian citizen since she is married to an Iranian, and as long as she lives in Iran, she cannot leave the country without her husband’s written consent and has no parental rights over her daughter. Moody learns of Betty’s meeting and threatens to kill her if she tries anything again.

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Knowing that her chances of escape are minuscule, Betty conforms to her husband’s wishes in order to gain the trust of Moody and his family. By chance, during a trip to the marketplace, she meets a sympathetic shopkeeper who overhears her telephone conversations with the Swiss Embassy and puts her in contact with a humanitarian Iranian, Hossein, who offers to help Betty and Mahtob in their passage back to America. The plan becomes complicated when Betty receives news from America that her father is seriously ill and may be dying. Moody approves of Betty returning to see her dying father, but will not let Mahtob go with her. Betty decides to wait to return to America with Mahtob, but Moody unknowingly foils her by having her booked on a flight several days early thanks to his relatives’ contacts in the airport.

Not Without My Daughter

Betty eventually gets what seems to be her last chance to escape when Moody is suddenly called to the clinic for an emergency. On the pretense of going to buy presents for her father, Betty takes Mahtob and they contact Hossein, who manages to send Betty and Mahtob off with some Iranian smugglers, and using fake identity documents, they make their way past the checkpoints. Despite the difficult and very dangerous journey, Betty and Mahtob are dropped off in a street in Turkey, where they see the American Embassy in the distance. “We’re home,” says Betty.

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Not Without Jesus

Betty was determined to return to America, but not without her daughter.  When I think of the title of this movie, a true story, I think about Jesus Christ and I say to myself that we cannot do anything without Him.  We can’t breathe without Him, we can’t think, we can’t focus, we can’t talk, we can’t ambulate, we can’t eat, we can’t thrive; we can’t do anything without Jesus.  We can’t start our businesses, we can’t market our businesses, we can’t manage, grow or promote our businesses.  

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Equipped with Tools Called Greatness!

When God calls us to fulfill a goal or a promise to Him or perhaps to a customer/client, He is going to equip you with the tools to do the job and to do the job right.  Giving glory and honor to God, our hearts should be filled and overflowing with an abundance of thanksgiving because we can rest assured that the outcome is going to be sensational; truly phenomenal because God is in control; we cannot do anything without Jesus.

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Not without Jesus should be one of the fruits we eat every day.  Not without Jesus should be the nourishment that strengthens us. It should be the hope that restores us.  Not without Jesus should be the peace that encompasses us.  It should be the motto and brand for our businesses.  Not without Jesus is the blessing that comes down from the window of heaven and the gift that God gives us to help us in every aspect of life and in every area of our businesses.

Written by Cynthia G. Boyer

 

3 Ways to Make Captivating Videos

Building Your Business with Videos

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Throughout the world, businesses are embracing video in their PR and marketing strategies—and with good reason.

Thanks to smartphones, tablets and social media blanketing the globe, video is convenient to consume and is highly shareable.

It’s time for brands to take the next step by producing more cinematic content. Simply put, video for PR needs to look less corporate and more cinematic to keep people watching and more effectively convey messaging.

You don’t need a huge budget and a Hollywood director. Think about what is going to make people watch the videos you’re putting out there, and then make the right investments. Here are three ways you can produce videos that captivate:

1. Audio

People will suffer through videos with poor visual quality and good audio, but they won’t tolerate the reverse. You shouldn’t want them to suffer at all, so paying attention to audio and light is critical.

Don’t use the microphone that’s built in to your camera. Instead, invest in decent shotgun and wireless lavalier microphones, and remember that the closer the microphone is to your subject, the better your audio will be.

2. Light

Effective use of light will turn run-of-the-mill interviews into more dynamic and engaging videos.

There’s plenty of affordable gear with which to get started. You’ll find that as you play with different lighting scenarios that you’ll have more control over shadows and skin tones of your on-camera talent, along with more latitude for color grading in post-production.

3. Shot Composition
Unimaginative visuals are the hallmark of bad corporate video.

Sidestep this land mine by taking the time to compose your shots, choosing interesting backgrounds with contrasting colors. Also use the lighting mentioned above to control shadows and depth of field for a more cinematic feel.

Avoid shooting your subject in front of a bland painted wall at all costs.

Too often, brands focus solely on what’s being said and forget that people have to be engaged by your video’s visuals and audio. Without these elements, people won’t watch long enough to hear what you have to say or see the product demo you want to show them.

Putting extra thought and effort into the production value and personality of your video content will yield far better results.

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Marketing for Money

Marketing for Money in Your Business

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A month ago a gentleman came to my home to give me a price on three windows.  I knew I was going to be conned the second the salesman walked into my home with his briefcase, laptop and pad.  I, of course, let him deliver his marketing speech to me and my husband. He told us how Andersen Windows are the best windows in the business and that my current windows looked horrible.  He then went on to explain to us that vinyl windows are dated, not economic and just down right bad.  He told us that if we decided to purchase his windows, his crew would do an excellent job installing the windows and they would do a thorough cleanup after construction is complete.  

After he told us of all this, he quoted us a price of $13,000 for three windows!  I could not believe what I was hearing.  He pressed on telling us that he was giving us a discount on the windows in addition to another 25% discount “because I can since I’m the boss!”  My oh my is this going to get any worse.  At that moment, my husband had to leave because he had a previous appointment, but before leaving me with this man my husband informed him that he just doesn’t jump without giving the matter careful and serious thought and consideration.  The salesman said that the price would not be valid once he walks out our front door.  I really liked the windows and the transformation potential the beauty of the window offered, but I wasn’t willing to be taken advantage of.  He then told us that we could get the windows financed and we wouldn’t have to pay a penny until next year.  He called his finance company and they approved me right on the spot for the windows.  This man was so pushy and adamant about me getting those windows that I knew it was a bad idea for me to even consider purchasing anything from him.  I don’t think too many people like pushy sales people…I know I don’t.

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Yesterday, Thursday, July 9th, a young man knocked on my door from a pest control company.  He was about 18 years and was going from door-to-door selling this service that promised to kill all the bugs that are hiding in my walls, all the beetles that are lurking outside of my home in addition to the bees and wasps that may have built a nest in the eaves of my home.  He told me that the service $105 along with taxes and any other fees associated with it.  He told me that he was doing a followup with his customers who live in my development.  I kindly asked him who my neighbors were who had acquired his service and he went on to tell me that he didn’t have the list on him.  This poor child was out in all that heat and humidity, clothes sopping wet, desperate for a sale.  I explained to him that I had an exterminator, but of course he told me that with all the dead beetles outside that if his guy sprayed my home I won’t see any bugs at all.  I don’t know how in the world that would be possible when the bugs have been here on this earth long before we got here and will be here long after we are gone.  Anyway, this young gentleman seemed really desperate and he gave the same spiel that the Andersen salesman had just given me a month prior.  I told him that I needed to think about it and he said he wouldn’t be able to give me the same price of $105 once he walks out the door.  Well, five bells rolled around and here he was again, knocking on my front door.  I told him that I wasn;t interested and that I would continue using my exterminator with whom I was really pleased.  He left my home, head down and highly disappointed.  A few minutes later he was knocking on my door again and this time he had something in his hand that looked like a credit card.  He told me that he had called his manager who said they would give me 50% off my initial service.  I told him that I had done research on the company and I read too many bad reviews and I wasn’t interested for the third time.  

Here’s my thought:  I know that marketing is a form of lying; this may sound harsh, but it is. If someone is trying to earn my trust and business, I think the best way to accomplish this is to just be honest because most people can see through this marketing tactic that is old, antiquated and outdated.  It is dishonest and I don’t like to be conned into purchasing services that are overpriced and the quality low to non-existent.  I’m not saying that all companies are this way, but the ones that use this marketing ploy is a complete turn off for me.  

Honesty is Always the Best Legacy!

Ladies, if you are a business owner, you can think outside of the box to come up with an honest and great marketing plan that will help to grow your business so that it thrives for as long as you’re in business.  Remember to be original, be truthful and be yourself!

Last year, I came in contact with a coach who was constantly calling and sending me emails telling me that she had dropped her price for her coaching services and that her price was going to change after 6 pm that same day.  I understand that this is business and for some, this is a way to obtain business.  This has never worked for me.  I believe in being totally honest.  Business is not always about making money, but providing and offering a service or product to those in need to perhaps change their lives or to be a help to make things easier, to flow in their lives is so much more important than making money because I believe giving people what they need blesses them in some way.  The coach was calling and emailing me removed me from her friend’s list on Facebook.  I was really surprised because I thought to myself that this was very unprofessional, but she had every right to remove me since I did not utilize her services and you know what, I’m glad she removed me because it taught me a very valuable lesson.  

While I understand that marketing is important, it’s important to be honest with your customers/clients as well.  You will go much further if you’re honest because I believe most people can see through the dishonesty.

Blessings.  

Lessons From 7 People Who Got Rich and Famous on Social Media

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There are plenty of people that get their big break on social media. Some become well known and others strike it rich. There are also the lucky few who achieve both. It’s not surprising when you consider the fact that when you have fame, money-making opportunities also begin presenting themselves.

However, it is amazing to think that sites and apps such as YouTube, Instagram, Vine, Tumblr and others have the power to put the spotlight on talent across a variety of different disciplines. As you are about to see, though, success stories are in no short supply.

Related: Why This YouTube Star Spends 2 Hours Daily Reading Audience Comments

Let’s take a look at several different individuals who got rich and/or famous on social media, and what we can learn from them.

1. Susan Boyle
Susan Boyle, Britain’s Got Talent

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Susan Boyle

Singer Susan Boyle become a worldwide phenomenon thanks to a YouTube clip that showed her performing “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables on Britain’s Got Talent. This 47-year-old from Scotland became known in Britain after the show aired, but it was the virality of the YouTube video that eventually catapulted her voice across the globe.

Boyle was unemployed when the video was recorded, but record execs everywhere started calling her after seeing the clip. She quickly earned more than $8 million in advertising and recording deals.

The singer is an excellent example of someone who took a chance. She went up on stage, gave it all she had and the judges and the audience couldn’t help but recognize her incredible talent as a vocalist.

If you’d like to learn more about making money on YouTube, take a look at How to Make Money on YouTube: 101 Monetization Tips

2. Brittany Furl, Vine
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Brittany Furlan is Vine’s biggest female star, with more than 9 million followers. This aspiring comedian quickly grew in popularity when she started posting six-second comedy sketches on Vine. Last year, this landed her a development deal for a sketch comedy show to be produced by Seth Green.

No matter what your skills and talents are, if opportunities don’t seem to be forthcoming, try packaging and delivering your ideas in a new format. You never know when it might resonate with a new audience.

If you’d like to start making your own Vine videos, take a read through 4 Tips for Making Memorable Vine Videos.

3. Kate Upton
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We all know who Kate Upton is today, but prior to her success with Sports Illustrated, she was struggling to find work. Part of her success today is due in part to a couple of YouTube videos. In particular, there was a video where she was “doing the Dougie” at an L.A. Clippers game. Not only was the video viewed millions of times, it also gained her 170,000 Twitter followers. Today, Upton has no shortage of work.

Are you short on work? Then why not show your talent on YouTube? You might be able to drum up a little bit of engagement.

4. Wedley Estime
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Even athletes have been turning to social media to get more attention from scouts. Football player Wedley Estime decided to create a highlight video showing his skills and post it on YouTube. This video got passed around to recruiters, who started sending in offers. Estime eventually signed with Virginia Tech, and has since changed his name to Dadi Nicolas.

If you just aren’t getting the attention you think you deserve, it may be worthwhile to turn to social media.

Related: 10 New Features YouTube Is Rolling Out for Creators (Hint: 3-D Is Getting More Immersive)

5. Amalia Ulman
Amalia Ulman, Instagram

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Amalia Ulman with friends; Dean Kissick and Ed Fornieles

Amalia Ulman was fascinated by pop culture’s obsession with Instagram celebrities. When she decided to become one herself, this well-studied Instagram persona quickly gained nearly 65,000 followers. Prior to that, she had actually spent time studying the language, the hashtags and the selfie styles that the most popular Insta-celebs were using.

The moral of the story here is pretty obvious. If you study those who are popular and duplicate their efforts, you too can become known.

Also see Secrets of Succeeding at Visual Marketing on Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube.

6. Alex Lee
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Alex Lee

Is it possible to become famous accidentally? You’d have to ask Alex Lee, who is likely the most unintentional Twitter star of all time.

A teenage girl snapped a photo of Lee while he was working at a Target supermarket. This girl was friends with another girl who had a crush on Lee. Pretty soon, a different Twitter user found this photo on Tumblr and tweeted it out. That’s when the popularity of the photo skyrocketed and got tweeted out more than 800,000 times within a few hours. The hashtag #alexfromtarget then grew to prominence.

Lee was unaware of the trend until after he finished his shift at work. The attention quickly turned creepy, and people started showing up at his job to snap more photos of him. However, it landed him an appearance on The Ellen Show, and he now has roles in a music video as well as a movie. Death threats notwithstanding, this story has a happy ending.

This just goes to show you that you never know what’s going to catch on. Experimentation can lead to success in unlikely places.

Looking to learn more about Tumblr? Here’s an article worth reading: How to Make Money on Tumblr: 25 Proven Tips.

7. Nash Grier
Nash Grier, Vine

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Nash Grier

Nash Grier found his popularity on Vine with silly, humorous, spontaneous, almost Jackass style six-second loops. Though he may not be a household name, girls ages 12 to 20 know who he is, and simply can’t get enough of him. Grier currently has nearly 12 million followers on Vine. His other numbers aren’t bad either: he has nearly 8 million followers on Instagram, more than 4 million subscribers on YouTube and 4.7 million followers on Twitter.

Grier also gets a cool $25,000 to $100,000 whenever he plugs products in his six-second clips.

Looks may not be everything, but they certainly seem to help with some social celebrities.

Final thoughts
In addition to the sites already mentioned, it is also possible to earn money on Facebook. Regardless of what social network you turn to, there are opportunities to be had.

Duplicating the successes of those mentioned here could prove challenging, but we could all be making a modest income from social media with a little effort.

Take some time to study 15 Inspiring Entrepreneurs Who Earn Income on Social Media, and find the drive and motivation within you to be a go-getter.

Challenges and Obstacles

Challenges and Obstacles

In business, just as in life, there will be challenges you will have to face and giants you will have to knock down. The good thing about challenges is that they can make you think outside of your comfort zone. Challenges can make you think outside of the box which I consider to be a blessing because it can take your business to new and higher heights.

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Obstacles

Obstacles are giants that you have to knock down from time-to-time that can be the very thing that will make you step back and perhaps even throw in the towel concerning your business, but this doesn’t have to happen. Obstacles can also be the faith-deepening, faith-building component that can change the course of your business creating in you a whole new way of thinking adding a whole new element to your business that you’ve never thought of before. This is when thinking outside of the box comes into the bigger picture of your business. When you find yourself faced with challenges and obstacles that you’re just not sure how to deal with, how do you proceed? What is the best way to handle these unforeseen giants? What are some of the questions that you ask yourself? Do you say, “What am I going to do now?” “How am I going to get over this?” “How am I going to handle this?” “What lesson have I learned from this?”

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 As a Christian woman entrepreneur I have been faced with many obstacles. At first I became so discouraged that I was ready to just walk away and say, I simply cannot do this, but my passion for design, and my gifts from God would not allow me to; no, this was not an option for me. There were days when I was so down that I thought to myself, “It’s me. I’m not an entrepreneur. I don’t have what it takes to make it as a business owner. This feeling lasted for far too long even though I was still plugging away at building my business. I even thought of getting a job outside of my home, but that thought vanished quickly because I knew deep in my heart that if I worked for someone else there would be no one that I would ever get to use my God-given gifts and that hurt my heart. It also put a level of fear in me because I knew what working in corporate America was like and I didn’t want to limit using my gifts, talents, skills and awesome abilities and I didn’t deserve to have a cap on my salary. No, I’m way too talented for that.

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What I Did Next

 In constantly trying to build my design business and trying to knock down those stubborn giants, I found the one thing, the very thing that lifted me up, helped me to build a sustainable foundation for my business, a rock solid path, that couldn’t be knocked down by any obstacle, or pulled from under me, was the deepening of my faith. Yes, faith. I learned quickly that my faith in God was the key to knocking down all those giants that kept trying to get in my way. The fear giant, the no confidence giant, the persecuting giant, the hardship giant and every other giant that kept trying to block my path and my entrepreneurial journey had to flee and with all my faith, and I do mean all my faith in God, it has helped me to soar as I spread my wings and took flight on my amazing entrepreneurial journey. It has been a journey of gratefulness, lessons, hope, joy, laughter, tears, understanding, patience, wisdom, prudence and even peace.

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 Thinking Positively

Faith has even given me a whole new way of thinking. Speaking positive, life changing affirmations has sweetened my entrepreneurial journey and believe me, it can do the same for you.

If you’re forced to deal with challenges and obstacles in your business from time-to-time, the one thing that I can say for sure to help you to knock down those giants is to deepen your faith in God. Remember, you are never ever alone in business. God is right there with you helping you, encouraging you, enlightening you, and motivating you and most of all loving you. Give Him glory. Thank Him for your business endeavors, your dreams and your goals. Deepen your faith in God and every single time an obstacle tries to knock you down, remember your faith will knock them down.