March Periscope Goals and February 2017 Results

February 2017 Results:

Please note, the reason the follower count went down was because Periscope did a huge purge to get rid of spam and robot accounts and it took my follower count way down. My goal was 900 followers. This changed once the purge happened. I still gained about 20 followers which is my monthly average. I gained 79,014 hearts for the month. Still celebrating small successes.

March 2017 Goals:

For March, I have launched a new Periscope account for my teaching related scopes. My goal for that account is to get to 10 followers and just get as many hearts as I can on the account. For my regular account I would like to get to 750 followers. On that account I am not really worried about hearts at this time.

Why Livestream?

Livestreaming is growing and many businesses and individuals are using it to get themselves out there. People love seeing you Live and being able to interact with you live. It's all about sharing YOU and what you are about while also giving people the opportunity to ask questions and interact with you LIVE without actually being in person. If you are trying to brand yourself and grow your online following, you definitely should consider jumping on the LiveStream bandwagon with apps like Periscope and Facebook Live. 

Follow me on Periscope @amandabeautytip and @teacheralcove 

February Periscope Goals and January Results

January 2017 Results:

I gained 24 followers and over 100,000 hearts. 

February 2016 Results:

 I gained 60 followers and just over 111,000 hearts.

February 2016 to February 2017 Growth:

In a years time I have gained many hearts and over 400 followers. So awesome!

Goals for February 2017:

My goal is to get to at least 900 followers, closer to the overall 1K goal. I do not have a hearts goal this month. I attribute the growth to being a part of the PeriGirls and PeriGirls Heart Tribes communities as well as PeriNewbies and PetLoversTribe. When you find a group, you will gain a following and support group. Thanks so much to everyone that has and is supporting this journey! 

Livestreaming Periscope Goals January 2017

I am so excited about my growth on Periscope over the last year (see image below). This month, I have been challenged to Scope every day in the month of January. I have missed a few days, but I am still pushing on with the goal to get to at least 900 followers. In January 2016, I grew by 74 followers and almost 125, 000 hearts. The hearts are like "likes" and show that your viewers like what they are seeing. From January 2016 to January 2017 I grew by 472 followers and 1,739,042 hearts! That is SUPER amazing! I attribute this growth to continuous scoping efforts, joining groups of Periscopers, taking on scoping challenges, and support from current followers. So excited for the growth to come in 2017! 

Growth In January 2016:

Growth From January 1, 2016 to January 1, 2017:

How do you plan your weekly goals?

In the video below I discuss planning your weekly goals:

For more videos like this, you can follow me on Periscope @amandabeautytip .

How do you plan your weekly goals?

• Planning? Are you kidding? I don't plan anything...
• Sticky notes
• Calendar
• Electronic Calendar
• App
• Planner
• Electronic Planner
• Paper

There are lots of ways to decide what you need to get done in a given day, week, month, year and lots of ways to break down those goals. It's important to remember that setting time aside to get things done and writing things down helps to hold you accountable and makes it easier to get things done. 

Happy New Year! Here are some of my goals for 2017!

In this video I share some things that I plan to do more videos on with my LiveStreaming particularly on Periscope. You can follow me on Periscope and Twitter @amandabeautytip You can also watch online at www.periscope.tv/amandabeautytip

I am still brainstorming what directions to take but here are some of my other goals for 2017:

• LiveStream almost every day if not every day
• Blog 2-3 times a week with the goal to get about 10 posts per month which would equal 120 for the year.
• Put myself out there more as an educator 
• Share more about my direct sales businesses on this blog (about twice a month...once a month for each). 
• Catch up on content that never got posted in 2016
• Write in my handwritten journal regularly

Happy New Year! Reflecting on 2016...

10 Highlights...

1. Moving to a new place!
2. Getting a new job as a private Kindergarten Teacher
3. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
4. Reaching 1,000,000 Periscope Hearts
5. Reaching 500 Periscope Followers
6. Reaching 2,000,000 Periscope Hearts just before midnight on December 31, 2016
7. "Meeting" Wonderful women on Periscope
8. Being on the PeriGirls Heart Tribes and Heart Tribes 2.0 Leadership Council
9. Meeting my cousin's baby girl
10. Discovering adult coloring

10 Disappointments...

1. Missing out on a good job opportunity before I got the one I did end up getting
2. Not reaching 1,000 Periscope followers by the close of 2016
3. Not reaching the sales goals I wanted to for Avon
4. Not reaching the sales goals I wanted to for Kitcheneez
5. Deciding to give up my third Direct Sales business
6. Not seeing my friends as much as I'd like
7. Losing some of my direct sales customers (although I realize people will come and go when it comes to clients)
8. The TV Show Containment being canceled without it being able to be wrapped up
9. The end of Vampire Diaries (yes I realize the finale will air in 2017 but it is still the end of an era of TV)
10. The end of Bones (same as number 9 I realize the actual final season is airing in 2017 but it was canceled in 2016)

On number 9 and number 10, I am just glad both series are given the opportunity to wrap it up as best they can.

3 Game Changers...

1. Moving into the one year old class before I left my one job to take the Private Kindergarten one
2. Periscope and Live Streaming!
3. Getting my new job as a Private Kindergarten teacher

3 Things You Focused On...

1. Periscope
2. Blogging and Learning
3. Work

3 Things You Forgot...

1. Have fun! Yes, I did have some fun, but I definitely could have budgeted out more time for fun.
2. Reading...definitely didn't read enough in 2016
3. Days of Our Lives...I used to watch the show religiously. The forgetting actually started at the end of 2015 and I got way behind. When I moved I was about 3 months behind so I had to read what happened and for the first time in many many years I missed a huge chunk of episodes. I am still a couple months behind going into 2017 looking to catch up. 

Reflection.

In 2017, I plan to focus on growing my direct sales businesses. I plan to do better with Blogging. I plan to continue to use Live Streaming to grow my online presence. I plan to exercise more. I will focus on being successful. I am taking what I learned in 2016 and applying it in 2017.

Happy New Year! What are your reflections on 2016? What are you taking into 2017? 

It's time for #Scopetober 2016! Wow! Look how much my stats have grown in just 1 year!

Last year during the month of October I went from 13, 589 hearts to 37, 245 hearts and gained 42 followers during the Periscope PeriGirls Scopetober Challenge! In one year I have gained over 1.5 million hearts and am now up to 771 followers. Wow!

My goal for this month October 2016 is to gain at least 50 followers and 50,000 hearts. I say at least because I would LOVE to surpass that goal! My Periscope is @amandabeautytip. I scope on a variety of topics to make a difference in the lives of others by teaching you what I know and sharing with you what I love. Cannot wait to see what this month brings! 

Day 31 of the #SWMBlogChallenge September 2016 Goals

We started this month with some goals and now we are ending the challenge with some goals for the new month. I feel pretty good about the goals I set out for at the beginning of August. I enjoyed doing some informative Periscopes through weekly short scope series. I completed the Savvy Sexy Social Vlog Everyday in August challenge for 2016 on my Amanda D. business page using Facebook Live. I completed this blogging challenge created by Amanda Smith of Spark Within Me Blog and did so by doing mostly daily posts and on time, only having to catch up a couple times. 

For September, my goal is to continue to try to post to this blog at least a couple of times a week. I also would like to do some more Facebook Live content. I will continue to do short scope series on Periscope to inform my viewers. I have to catch up by adding some of my replay videos to YouTube and then re-purposing them for my blog posts. Looking forward to a new month and the start to the fall season. 

On another note, I would like to mention that September will mean a new job for me as well. I hinted at this in a post recently and I decided since I am announcing it that I would go ahead and announce it here as well. I will now be a Private Kindergarten teacher in a new facility than the one I was working in as an early childhood educator. I am excited to begin this new journey!

This challenge was created by Amanda Smith of Spark Within Me--https://sparkwithinme.wordpress.com/  Thanks Amanda for creating the challenge! I have enjoyed participating!

Day 14 of the #SWMBlogChallenge New Years Resolutions Check-In...

Wow how is it August 14th already? So this one is an easy and quick one for me. I don't make new years resolutions and it's because I know I will never keep them. So I didn't make any new years resolutions. I will instead do a quick check-in on my August goals. So far I have done well keeping up with the Spark Within Me Blog Challenge! Woo hoo! I have also done well keeping up with the SSS Vlog Every Day challenge on my FB Live (only missing two days this weekend but then I caught up today)! And I am keeping up with my Periscope goals as well. So I am super proud of so far keeping up and hope as I go into the second half of the month that the same holds true. 

This challenge was created by Amanda Smith of Spark Within Me--https://sparkwithinme.wordpress.com/

My August 2016 Goals #SWMBlogChallenge

I am someone that is famous for setting long term goals without setting short term goals on how I would like to accomplish the long term goals. I am also someone who will set goals without setting a plan. I am also someone who will set goals, set a plan, and then not follow through with the plan. I think you probably get it. 

Anyway, for the month of August I would like to complete this Blogging challenge and Blog at least once per day to complete the challenge without missing a day. I would also like to complete the Savvy Sexy Social Vlog Every Day in August otherwise known as #SSSVEDA challenge on my Facebook Live for my Amanda D. Business Page and go Live on FB Live every day in the month of August. I am also working on the PeriNewbies (PeriNewbies.com) 100 Scope Challenge for Periscope and I would like to complete that challenge without missing a day/stay up with it through the month of August. I will continue to scope almost every day (only some Sunday's may be off days) for the PeriGirls (PeriGirls.com) group and the PeriGirls Heart Tribes 2.0 (www.hearttribes.com) group also on Periscope. 

The links for my Facebook Page and Periscope Account are to the right of this post on the side of the page if you wish to follow along on those outlets. 

This challenge was created by Amanda Smith of A Spark Within Me Blog. (https://sparkwithinme.wordpress.com/) 

30 Day Blog Challenge: Where will I be in Five years?

So in five years, I will be 30! Gasp! I cannot believe that! :-) So, my goals are probably fairly typical of most women approaching the dreaded 30! (Although I'm not dreading it that much right now). In five years, I'd like to be married, either have already started a family or be working on preparing to start a family, and I'd like to be successful. I want to feel like I am in a secure place in life with a family, house, and a job I love. I'd love to see my home businesses grow over the next five years and it'd be amazing if they were something big! 

Happy New Year! What are your goals for the New Year?

Happy New Year! 

I hope everyone has had a great start to the New Year these past couple of days! I certainly have! Wishing everyone the best as we go into 2015! One of my main goals for 2015 is going to be to update this blog more often and keep it up to date and going! I also wish to grow my direct sales businesses and meet new people as well as maintain current relationships and friendships. Let's make 2015 a great year! 

30 Day Blog Challenge: 5 current goals

1. Reach President's Club in My AVON Business
2. Reach Unit Leader in My AVON Business
3. Successfully complete my gifted education courses and get my gifted education endorsement added to my teaching license
4. Expand my Kitcheneez and Jewelry in Candles businesses
5. Finish one of the many book series I have been reading