This post and tomorrow's "Use affiliate links, but please use them honestly" by Shelby Sapusek are part of our ongoing "She said, He said" series. Hello, my name is Jim and I'm an affiliate marketer. There, step one is out of the way. Eleven more to go. What is affiliate marketing? First, in case … [Read more...]
Effective team building at 47 years and counting
Three hundred and sixty-five days ago, I published "Unplugged on my Birthday." Like much of my writing that is a year old, it's almost painful to go back and read it. There are two reasons for that. First, I believe the writing on this blog has improved over the last year. More importantly, however, … [Read more...]
The value of systemizing business processes
For a while now, I've been working with a business process just begging to be systemized. The problem is systemizing a business process requires two things many small businesses are short on: owner/manager analysis time and resources (people or equipment) to implement the system. What I noticed … [Read more...]
10 reasons why you should start a business instead of be an employee
It's fun day Monday, so here we go with 10 reasons to start a business! 1. Because you love working half-days. And by half-days, I mean you get to pick which 12 hours to work each day. 2. You love that the buck stops with you. Of course, you also don't love that often times you have no bucks in … [Read more...]
Trust your team, grow your business
I have a confession to make - I'm a control freak. But by growing the team I work with over the last year, I'm learning to let go. We've added some quality folks to the team and it's a whole lot easier to let go of responsibility when you are putting it in capable hands. With fewer day-to-day … [Read more...]
Why I care if you're not wearing pants
Most of us share silly and somewhat meaningless status updates in social media from time to time. That's okay because if you really want to let the whole world know you're not wearing pants, it's actually my problem not yours. Please keep sharing those crazy status updates on Twitter and Facebook. … [Read more...]
Public Speaking Preparation Guide
Preparation is everything when it comes to public speaking. As I look ahead at my April public speaking schedule it's clear I have plenty of preparing to do. I'll be presenting seven different programs (some of them multiple times). We've all seen that guy who reads the script or looks at and then … [Read more...]
Why I picked the Seidio Innocase for the htc EVO
Recently, I wrote about How I doubled my htc EVO battery life. Due to the popularity of that post, I decided to follow up a brief story about how already owning a Seidio Innocase II Surface Case for HTC EVO 4G weighed heavily in my decision to find a battery that didn't change the phone's … [Read more...]
How being human takes the stuffy out of business
"Business is stuffy. Your being human makes you approachable and someone I want to talk to." That's a comment I got recently when a client and friend watched the video below. My friend's comment got me thinking about how both the quality and number of relationships I have with those I used to … [Read more...]
How Premise by CopyBlogger helps build great landing pages
This is the first co-authored post by Jim Raffel and Shelby Sapusek. Together, we'll give you some insight on why we chose the WordPress plugin Premise (affiliate link)from Copyblogger to design the ColorMetrix User Group Meeting landing page, what we liked about it and some advice from our … [Read more...]
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