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How You Can Set Smart Goals and Boost Productivity

How You Can Set Smart Goals and Boost Productivity

 
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If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably got a ton of ideas for new projects or businesses in your head. And, you’re probably sure that they’re winning ideas too.

But, the harsh reality is: ideas alone will rarely get you anywhere.

What really matters is the way that you execute those ideas.

And sure, it can be tough to make sure that you execute your ideas properly, but SMART goals can certainly help you on your way.

But, what are SMART goals? Well, they’re goals which are “Specific”, “Measurable”, “Achievable”, “Relevant”, and “Time-bound”.

Smart, huh?

At Oberlo we’re here to help you succeed, so we’ve created this article to guide you through the process of creating and setting SMART goals for yourself.

We’re also going to walk you through the importance of setting goals, and explain why they’re important for boosting your own productivity.

Okay, let’s get started!

Why Is It Important to Set Goals?

The idea of success is different for everybody. So too is the path that they need to take to achieve that success.

But, there’s one common trait that successful people tend to share: they set goals.

And why do successful people set goals for themselves?

Well, goals are the north star which will guide you along your path to success.

It doesn’t matter how large of difficult your task is, nor does it matter how far away you are from success right now. If you set yourself achievable goals then you’ll give yourself the focus and direction that you need to succeed.

Plus, you can set yourself SMART goals that will help you to boost your productivity. If you follow the framework of SMART goals and make sure that they’re  “Specific”, “Measurable”, “Achievable”, “Relevant”, and “Time-bound” then you’ll certainly be motivated to stay productive.

Why? Well, SMART goals do a great job of making the path to success seem much clearer.

On the topic of making things clearer, it’s time to dive into each aspect of SMART goals, starting with “Specific” goals.

 

 

Andrew Roach

Andrew Roach is a Content Marketer at Oberlo. He is passionate about ecommerce and creating insightful content to help entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses. You can connect with Andrew here.

Guide To The Best Instagram Hashtags

The Ultimate Guide to the Best Instagram Hashtags for Likes

 
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Instagram is a great marketing platform which ecommerce entrepreneurs can use to help grow their ecommerce businesses. It doesn’t matter whether you’re just getting started with your store, or if you’re already making thousands in revenue every month, Instagram is a valuable tool that you can use to your advantage.

Instagram is a free social media platform that can be used for a variety of different functions when you’re using it for your ecommerce business. You can promote your latest products, acquire new customers, or even communicate directly with your existing ones. Instagram has reached 800 million monthly active users. This presents an ideal opportunity for businesses to market their products to a huge audience, without having to spend a large sum of money on paid advertisement. When you’re using Instagram for your ecommerce business it’s critical that you take advantage of hashtags — they are an invaluable resource for growing both your brand’s reach and authority. We know that finding the best Instagram hashtags for your ecommerce business is a challenging task, no matter how savvy you are with social media.

We’ve created this article to help you garner an understanding of how Instagram hashtags work, and how you can find the best Instagram hashtags for likes for your own content. At the end of this article, you’ll be equipped with all the information that you need to start using Instagram hashtags to grow your following today.

Let’s get started.

An Instagram hashtag is a singular word, or series of words, that is marked with a hash symbol (#) which is used in a post’s description, or comments section. These hashtags help Instagram to organize and categorize content, which enables the platform to present the right content to the right users. If you’re a frequent social media user then it’s likely that you’ve already seen hashtags in action.

Instagram hashtags have multiple different purposes — here are a few:

  • Gain More Likes: Instagram users who are interested in a particular field are likely to search for hashtags which are related to it. When you use Instagram hashtags with your content you’ll be giving yourself a chance for said users to access your content, and in turn find out more about your brand — this is why it’s a good idea to find out the best Instagram hashtags for likes.

 

  • Gain More Followers: Instagram users who are interested in a specific niche are always looking for more content that is related to it. Using the right Instagram hashtags is one of the best ways to gain a higher following on Instagram. It extends your reach, enabling your content to be discovered by more people. If they stumble across your account through Instagram hashtags and they find that you’re posting content that is relevant to them, they’re likely to follow your account. This is a great situation for any ecommerce entrepreneur, as you’ll be able to promote your products and your brand to users who are already engaged.

 

  • Make More Sales: Instagram hashtags aren’t just about growing your ecommerce business’ social media following. Whilst this is a valuable outcome from using Instagram hashtags, you can also make more sales by using them for your ecommerce business’ account. If you use niche specific hashtags when promoting one of your products then you’re likely to draw the attention of users who are likely to purchase something related to this content. This means that you’ll be able to boost your store’s sales with well thought out Instagram hashtags used in combination with compelling content.

How to Find the Best Instagram Hashtags

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Now that we’ve covered the benefits of using them, it’s time to explain how you can find the best Instagram hashtags for likes for your ecommerce business. When you’re running your ecommerce business it’s a great idea to take some time to research what the best Instagram hashtags for likes are, especially ones which are related to your niche. It’s always best to make data-informed decisions when you’re handling marketing for your online store.

There are a variety of different tools which are available which will provide you with information about the best Instagram Hashtags for likes. It doesn’t matter what your online store’s niche is, you’ll still be able to find hashtags that are relevant to your content. Here are some tools which you can use to generate the best Instagram hashtags for likes:

TagBlender: TagBlender is an Instagram hashtag generator tool that you can use to source hashtags that will bring a high engagement rate to your social media content. You’ll be able to generate the perfect set of Instagram hashtags from various different fields like ‘People’, ‘Urban’, ‘Fashion’, or ‘Art’. The tool is simple to use, and it’s free, so you’ll can try it for yourself.

HashtagsForLikes: HashtagsForLikes is a great tool that you can use to generate Instagram hashtags for your ecommerce business’ social media accounts. This tool is easy to navigate, and you’ll be able to source the best Instagram hashtags that are related to your ecommerce business in no time.

InstagramTags: Instagram Tags is a tool that ecommerce entrepreneurs can use to access ready-made sets of  popular hashtags. Their tool offers hashtags that relate to various different fields, from ‘Hair’ to ‘Throwback’. You can use InstagramTags to find plenty of the best Instagram hashtags for likes, and grow your store’s presence on social media.

Seekmetrics: This is another analytics tool which provides you with comparative metrics to see how you are performing alongside your competitors. This Instagram hashtag generator tool uses the Instagram API to find the related hashtags. To use the hashtag generator, you simply have to type in a hashtag and click on “generate”. You’ll then be offered all the similar hashtags related to the one you entered.

All Hashtag: This hashtag generator tool allows you to create and analyze the top relevant hashtags by generating thousands of relevant hashtags that you can then simply copy and paste into your Instagram posts. This Instagram hashtag generator curates hashtags based on a selected keyword which you enter. With three different filter options, you have the chance to search for the Instagram tags that you’re looking for.

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Andrew Roach

Andrew Roach is a Content Marketer at Oberlo. He is passionate about ecommerce and creating insightful content to help entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses. You can connect with Andrew here.

 

How to Stay Focused

How To Stay Focused Throughout the Day

 

If you’re anything like me, you probably find it hard to stay focused sometimes, especially with distractions coming from every angle.

In fact, when I arrived at work today I was distracted by an email, a Facebook notification on my phone, a Slack message, and a colleague passing by to ask a question. This all happened within the first 20 minutes of me being at work.

Apparently I’m not alone in this situation too – recent research from the University of California found that the typical office worker is interrupted every 11 minutes.

So, if you work for 8 hours in a day, you’ll be distracted 43 times on average.

I was pretty shocked when I first found out about these statistics, so I decided to dig a little bit deeper. Then I found that it takes an average of 25 minutes to return to the task at hand with full focus.

That’s right. The average worker is distracted every 11 minutes, and it takes 25 minutes to fully focus on a task again.

It’s evident that distractions can be seriously detrimental to the quality of our work output, so it’s essential that we can decrease the number of distractions that we face every day.

Over the past month I’ve been trying to stay as focused as possible, and I’ve created this article to share the best tactics that I’ve found which helped me to block out distractions during work hours.

Let’s jump into it!

Why Do We Get Distracted?

Before we dive into the list of top tips for staying focused during the workday, it’s important that we understand why we get distracted in the first place.

Whenever your phone vibrates in your pocket, or you hear that “ka-ching” alert after you’ve received an order from your Shopify store, you brain recognizes that alert as something which has changed.

Our brains have defense mechanisms hardwired into them which compel us to check something which is different, just in case it’s a danger to us. And that’s exactly why you feel that burning urge to drop everything that you’re doing and check what the sound or vibration was.

So, there’s nothing wrong with getting distracted – it’s totally normal. But unfortunately, we only have a finite amount of time every day to achieve our goals, and we need to stay focused to achieve them.  

(For the record, I love getting distracted by that sweet, sweet “ka-ching” alert.)

Now, we can’t avoid some distractions, like a colleague coming to your desk and asking for help, or a delivery worker arriving at the door with a parcel, but there’s a lot that we can do to ensure that we stay focused throughout the day.

Interested how? Then let’s get started with our top tips for staying focused. https://www.oberlo.com/blog/stay-focused

Andrew Roach

Andrew Roach is a Content Marketer at Oberlo. He is passionate about ecommerce and creating insightful content to help entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses.

How to Stay Focused Throughout the Day

How to Stay Focused Throughout the Day

How to Stay Focused Throughout the Day

How to Stay Focused Throughout the Day

 

 

How To Eliminate Limiting Beliefs

Eliminate Limiting Beliefs In Yourself and Your Abilities

I want to talk about limiting beliefs and how I define my own. 

Over the years I have come up with what I believe are amazing, wealth increasing, financial building and life changing ideas that I brilliantly converted into my own potential empire or at least that was my goal. 

I wrote out each plan for every new creation I was able to design to ensure my success. I even designed a bevy of unique marketing materials and I wrote all the content for my business which for me was a blessing as I love to write. I had put a great system together and everything that I needed to prosper in business was in place. 

 

Here’s Where I Failed. 

Although I had a remarkable system in place my mindset was not in sync with my goals and dreams. As I was taking inspired action to build my businesses my mind was focused on my limits as a business owner.  Everything I had ever dreamed about in terms of business and all I aspired to be would ultimately fail because  besides having a fantastic system in place I also had a good amount of limiting factors in place as well. Why was this? I’ll  share with you exactly why I failed. 

As I was building my dynasty I was jumping for joy excited to launch and share with the world my life transforming products, ebook and designs. Oftentimes I was awakened by God’s loving Holy Spirit Who spoke to my heart telling me what to write. Grateful for His direction I penned the words He graciously spoke to me for I already knew that not only would my life be impacted but so would my audience. I was overjoyed. I knew in order to drive traffic to my self made website I would have to utilize social media to help grow my business. I froze. I was ashamed and embarrassed to let my friends on Facebook know or see the businesses I had uniquely designed. Why was I limiting myself. Was it about being embarrassed to let people know that I was trying to earn a living because I needed money? Yes. That’s one reason. The other reason was I just didn’t think any of my friends would ever support me and let me tell you something; I was exactly right but then I didn’t expect them to. Again my mind was not in sync with my goals and endeavors. I had great limiting beliefs even though I am highly creative with some of the most fantastic gifts and talents any woman could ever wish for in her life. 

I Lived Like This For a Lot of Years, But Never Again

And now I look at myself and all I can say is my oh my.

My creativity has taken on new meaning and my mindset is in a new place. First of all I have trust in God. This was extremely important to me. To know and understand the important of trusting in God. And then there’s faith. My faith is stronger than it’s ever been and that’s because I know the meaning of of the word. It has changed my life. All of this is something I didn’t have before. 

Limiting beliefs are no longer in my life. I got rid of them because they were stilling my steps and preventing me from living my greatest, most amazing and awesome potential. Talk about grateful. Talk about powerful. Talk about creative. Talk about profound. Talk about courageous. Talk about bold. Talk about high self-esteem. Talk about soaring. Talk about great life changing success. Talk about abounding in abundance and talk about wealth riches and prosperity and you’re talking about my life. 

How I Was Able to Overcome My Limiting Beliefs

Before I was ever able to eliminate my limiting beliefs, I had to get over fear which I learned was a complete waste of time because it didn’t have a purpose in my life. There is never a need to be fearful to use what God has placed in your heart and mind to do. 

I also had to trust in God knowing that He has always been right here with me, leading, guiding, directing and counseling me with His infinite.  He is indeed the greatest Coach in my life.  He inspires me so much so that I look forward to building up my businesses in ways that are unique and highly creative. I also had to learn another essential factor which was to have faith in God.  My lack of faith in God was another component that held me captive, but once I decided to break free from bondage it was at that very moment that my life changed and my entrepreneurial spirit soared higher than it ever has before. 

I decided that I was going to change my mindset and try my best to think positive thoughts with images of myself working my businesses and enjoying the success that comes with and lines up with my goals.  My focus and ultimate mission is to be a help and a blessing to others simply because God is always helping me and I must share my blessings.

If you feel you are being limited by your thoughts, change your mindset right now.  I know it is not as easy as just saying it, but once you’ve made up your mind to see images of yourself being success and wealthy and your life overflowing with milk and honey you will shift and your financial forecast will change as well.

Because every business woman and entrepreneur needs encouragement!

Cynthia

 

 

Refresh Your Mind

To Let New Ideas Come In

Hello Brilliant Ones, It’s Time For A Vacation,

I want to talk to you today about taking a vacation. 

It is extremely important for you to take a vacation even if you stay home and rest, that’s a vacation.

As female business owners we are constantly on the clock trying to propel our business straight into the path of prosperity.  I commend you for using your unique gifts exclusive to you; from God of course.

It is important that you take time to refresh your mind to allow new ideas to come in to help you to constantly build upon your empire.  When you rest you’re giving yourself the chance and time to refocus, regroup. refresh and rejuvenate you and your business.  You deserve this time for yourself and your business will be better for it.

Blessings,

Cyndi