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Keep Working On Your Projects

July 18, 2010 By Jim Raffel 4 Comments

Just because a project feels stalled and is not ready on the schedule you thought it would be is no reason to quit. Keep working on the project in little bits and pieces whenever you can. Big important work takes time. Stop rushing yourself, unless it's client sponsored work you are being paid for, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, motivation, personal development, Writing Tagged With: ebooks, little bits, projects, urgency

Packing the Jack Spade Messenger Bag for Battle (vBlog)

July 17, 2010 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

A business bag secures and organizes your business essentials while you travel. Here I am packing the Jack Spade messenger bag for action on the road. I'll probably never consider any business bag the "perfect bag." For me, however, the Jack Spade messenger  bag comes closer than any I have owned … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Stuff I Like, Travel Tips Tagged With: business bags, human interest, jack spade, jack spade messenger bag, luggage, messenger bag, packing, road trip, timbuk2, travel light

Blogging 101: Comments; Open or Closed?

July 16, 2010 By Jim Raffel 13 Comments

There is no right answer to open or closed comments. On this blog they are open and unmoderated. That being said I wouldn't hesitate to delete a comment should it cross any lines...my lines as it is my blog. The case for closed. Many of the blogs I read on a regular basis have comments closed. In … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogging 101 Tagged With: blog, bloggers, blogging, blogs, comments, Seth Godin, social information processing, tom peters

Blogging 101: Face Time at Social Media Conferences

July 15, 2010 By Jim Raffel 4 Comments

Do you wonder what it's like to spend a few days face to face spending time with other bloggers and social medial devotees? In my experience, it's some serious fun and that is why I am headed back to BlogWorld this October. At the end of this post you'll have an opportunity to sign up for BlogWorld … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogging 101, conferences, WordPress Tagged With: blog, blogging, conferences, extremely, matt mullenweg, social information processing, social media, WordPress

Blogging 101: The Power Of The Guest Post

July 14, 2010 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

Exchanging posts with a fellow blogger will increase and diversify site traffic for both of you. The intellectual conversations that take place in the comments of both blogs will take on a different flavor as well. One brain only goes so far. Reading this blog each day gets you my perspective on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogging 101 Tagged With: blog, blogging, blogs, guest, perspective, post, randy murry, readers, social information processing

Blogging 101: Be Obsessive About Your Passion

July 13, 2010 By Jim Raffel 6 Comments

Delivering quality blog content is not always easy work. So, being a tad bit obsessive about a topic you have passion for helps drive you to deliver quality content on a consistent schedule. This week the theme for posts is blogging 101. You may find this a bit odd because I recently declared that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogging 101 Tagged With: blog, bloggers, blogging, blogs, obsessive, organic search engine traffic, passion, passionate, successful, topic

Lack of Customer Service: The No I Can't Attitude

July 12, 2010 By Jim Raffel 4 Comments

Today I experienced first hand customer service that is the exact opposite of the attitude I discussed in my Small Business 101: Yes I Can! post from a few days ago. In the course of a couple hours I heard more about how the problem couldn't be solved than how it could be. It started simply enough. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, customer service 101, Marketer Tagged With: attitude, customer, customer service, lessons, touchpoint

Why I Write My Blog Posts One Week Ahead

July 11, 2010 By Jim Raffel 15 Comments

What follows is a guest post by Randy Murray. I enjoy having his blog in my RSS feed every since our mutual Twitter friend Debbie Kipp introduced us. Publishing a blog is in interesting venture. It is, for most intents and purposes, a virtually free press. It’s a remarkable opportunity for anyone … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging Tagged With: blog, blog post, blogs, Debbie Kipp, randy murray, social information processing

Small Business 101: Twitter is Priceless

July 9, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

Seth Godin took the picture accompanying this post. These are some of the folks I attended the Linchpin Meetup(link to Seth's post where the picture came from) with. I knew one of them before Twitter. Now, in this picture of the Meet-MeMe autographed card set Cindi sent to Seth I am surrounded … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Marketer, motivation, personal development, Small Business 101, Twitter Tagged With: business, business tools, linchpins, meetups, meme, online social networking, priceless, Seth Godin, small business, Twitter

Small Business 101: Yes I Can!

July 8, 2010 By Jim Raffel 3 Comments

You are presented with the opportunity to work on a difficult and challenging project. You can either say, "No, that's hard" or "Yes, I can make that happen." It's a simple choice that speaks volumes about you. If it was easy anyone could do it. Many years ago my friend and mentor Dean Eggert said … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Choices, Marketer, motivation, personal development, Small Business 101 Tagged With: attitude, dean eggert, difficult, minimum wage, projects, small business, yes

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