For fast improvement, study tactics and look for your opponent's threats.
For long-term improvement, get a coach or use chess.com study plans 
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You want to be better fast?
I recommend to buy the following:
- Ubisofts Chessmaster 12 (Quickest way because of the existance of a red-line to follow.)
It has COUNTLESS interactive voice lessons in all areas (with Quizzes at the end) where you actually have a main red line to follow. You will be helped in every matter and by doing many many tasks too (mostly by Josh Waitzkins Tutorials from his book "The Art of Learning" (best Interactive Chess Tutorial I've ever encountered (following by Chess.com's Chess Mentor)) but there are a lot of more Tutorials series besides Josh's in Chessmaster) which are very long and very enjoyable. You could combine it with chesstempo.com (free tactics puzzles for "pattern recognition).
- Or Chess.com Diamond Membership
Chess Mentor (many courses), Tactics Trainer, Computer Workout, Articles (like the Study Plan for Beginners =>http://www.chess.com/article/view/study-plan-directory), Blogs, Videos, Video-Series, Puzzles, Forum, Vote-Chess.... it's like a big program you buy.
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I have just recently started playing, and i am losing a majority of my games. I was wondering if there are any tips or pointers for a beginner to become better fast. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.