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Do you want to enjoy social media?

Truth be told, social media is powerful and if you approach it wisely, there is every tendency that your marketing would grow exponentially. Only few internet marketers have experienced meteoric growths from Facebook, Twitter and the rest. Other folks are just struggling to penetrate the market.

Social Media Outposts (Photo credit: the tartanpodcast)

Here are three social media strategies to keep you alive.

1.    Set A Realistic Goal

If you want everything from social media then, you’ve no realistic goal. It’s good to desire the best things of life and to see your business grow – but it takes time and focus. Setting a goal that’s tangible, smart and realistic can help you wave through the difficulty of initial stage.

There are stages of social media marketing where every step taken seems futile. But you’ve to hold on. Put your legs down and aim effectively. A realistic goal could be to generate 200 leads in 30 days from social media. Run with this single goal and give it all it takes.
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OK so this may not mean a lot to everyone, but it means a heck of a lot to me, over the last few months I was running a slight Twitter Contest, to finally break that 15,000 followers on Twitter that seemed to elude the @BlazingMinds Twitter for a while.

I tweeted out to my followers asking to RT a tweet about a draw which will be made when the Blazing Minds Twitter finally broke the 15,000 mark, quite a few followers ReTweeted the tweet and several ReTweeted it several times.

We Did It! Did What? We Finally Broke 15,000 Followers On Twitter!

So I’ve sorted out who has won an Exclusive Blazing Minds T-Shirt, which will be specially customized for the winner, the winner has been chosen from the 15,000 followers and it is someone who is still following and has done the most Tweets in promoting the contest and believe me it’s taken a while to sift through all the entries, but I’ve finally got down to a winner who has put in quite a lot of tweets and is a loyal follower.

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So It’s now official Vue has acquired Apollo Cinemas for the massive some of £20m, meaning that Vue will now have 85 cinemas across the country. The news spread across several newspaper websites such as The Financial Times, The Independent to name but a few the other day.

Vue Acquires Apollo Cinemas For £20m

Apollo Cinemas is smaller than some of the bigger cinemas franchises such as Odeon, Cineworld and Vue. Apollo Cinemas are also equipped with State of the art Sony 4K digital projection, 3D and some amazing Dolby Digital 7.1 surround systems.

Simon Gregg From Apollo Cinemas said: “I believe that the sale of my late mother’s company to Vue will place the circuit in good hands. We are very proud of what we have achieved and wish all our employees even more success in the future. Being part of Vue allows them new opportunities to progress their careers with the UK’s leading cinema company.”
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Ok boys and girls it was review night for me last night and though I did tweet out that I was going to review “Safe” at a last minute change of mind, mainly to one of my friends going in to see Piranha 3DD, I decided to go in and see that with him instead.

Let me start off by saying it’s extremely hard to take a film seriously that has a selling point of DD in the title and yes that is a a selling point to the male population of between 18-25, but hey, this film isn’t supposed to be serious it’s a comedy-horror and I say horror loosely.

Piranha 3DD – Blazing Minds Film Review

So after the complete carnage of the previous film (Piranha 3D), those hungry prehistoric Piranhas are back to cause more bloodshed and complete silliness in a water park called Big Wet, where scantily clad teenage girls flaunt their stuff to the patrons and to the cinema watching audience in eye-popping 3D.

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If you’re anything like me, and as a rule I assume everyone is like me, you love money. You love the way it can be used to acquire goods and services. You love the feeling of security you get from having huge piles of it. You love the way it feels against your skin, and of course, the way it tastes. Money is great.

But still, it’s possible to love something while still thinking that there’s room for improvement. For instance, I always thought a big failing in the £10 note was that it didn’t have my face on it, and maybe some pictures of dragons and unicorns. I just think it would look cool.

“Yeah, that sounds awesome,” I hear you saying. Yes, I can hear you when you talk at your laptop. “But there’s no way it’s ever going to happen is there? It’s not like you can just make up your own currency.”

Well, it seems like you just fell into my perfectly prepared rhetorical trap, because YES YOU CAN.

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The cultural and economic capital of the Midwest United States, Chicago is rich with historical, culinary and arts attractions that make the city a can’t-miss for travelers. The city has famously frigid winters and high winds, so plan your trip for spring, summer or fall to best take advantage of walking, shopping and views of Lake Michigan, the only Great Lake located entirely within America.

Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, located adjacent to the downtown financial area, is a blend of high-end shopping, historic landmarks, skyscrapers, restaurants and hotels. Book a room at the Hotel Drake, located at the start of the Mile, to stay in luxury in the heart of Chicago. The Drake offers afternoon teatime to help you unwind at the end of a busy day and a speakeasy-style bar that can help you get a taste for the Prohibition Era. Enjoy amenities of both modern living, including high-speed Internet and 1920s luxury in its well-appointed guest rooms and common areas. Leave plenty of time to experience other famous Chicago attractions. There are all kind of unique activities to fill your days, whether you’re enjoying a romantic getaway, luxury vacation or budget family trip.

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It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since the last American Pie Movie, I’m talking about American Wedding in 2003 with the original cast, not those four awful spin-offs that we had to endure over the last 10 years.

So 10 Years after Jim and Michelle got married, we have the American Pie: Reunion (American Reunion) hitting our screens bringing back the original cast of the class of 1999 and now we find out what everyone has been up to and how their lives have changed in the last 10 years. Of course you just know they are all going to be getting up to things they shouldn’t and now, as adults, they should know better, but do they!?

American Pie: Reunion – Blazing Minds Film Review

Let’s face it folks when we had American Pie: The Wedding back in 2003, we all thought that it would be the end of the series of movies and what almost killed the franchise was the spin-offs, “American Pie Presents”, these were really all a poor excuse to try to bring a fresh bit of life to the movies and perhaps introduce a new audience to the American Pie films, but sadly they were terrible.

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