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Shitastic Days Happen

May 10, 2010 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

Yep, I can guarantee it like the sun will rise and set. You will have those days that just plain suck. And when you have a blog those are good days to go unplugged and let people know that even you have those days. Parts of the printing industry continue to shrink. The overall economy is not good … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging Tagged With: days, entrepreneur, good days, happen, hope, Printing Industry, rough day

Moms – take care of yourselves OK?

May 9, 2010 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

I am not the only man who has noticed that when women become Moms many (if not all) stop taking care of themselves. I know to some extent this is just a Mom thing us Dads will never understand, but I still have some thoughts on the subject. Take care of yourself. All my advice in this post can be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, personal development Tagged With: black silk blouse, dad, extent, human interest, mom, moms

Scribe SEO Copy Writing Made Easy

May 8, 2010 By Jim Raffel 4 Comments

I've written about the Scribe SEO copy writing tool before. It's a great service put out by Brian Clark founder of CopyBlogger and numerous other successful ventures like Third Tribe Marketing and the Thesis Theme. Over the last few months the early adopters of Scribe have helped identify the rough … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, personal development, social media, WordPress Tagged With: affiliate programs, Brian Clark, copy writing, human interest, internet marketing, made easy, marketing, scribe, search engine optimization, seo, WordPress

Twitter Follow Friday #UnGeekedelite edition

May 7, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

Late last night I worked out details that will allow me to attend the #unGeekedElite conference in Milwaukee next week. I'm focusing this post on the local luminaries who have provided significant support to me over the last six months. The list has to start with @ThatWoman_Soho, without whom this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Twitter Tagged With: blog, conferences, milwaukee, online social networking, social media, Twitter, unGeekedelite

Help and Encourage Others – vBlog

May 5, 2010 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

A positive encouraging comment about my blog by my friend Katie Felten inspired to me record this vBlog this morning. To help and encourage others was also the topic of a brief conversation with John Amatt and his wife while having dinner last night. John led the first Canadian climb of Mount … [Read more...]

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Scalability ceiling holding you back?

May 3, 2010 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

Doctors and lawyers face the scalability ceiling everyday. For the most part they bill by the hour and have only two ways to make more money, work more hours or find customers willing to pay more per hour. (Sure, the creative few have found ways through the scalability ceiling like owning the clinic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Marketer, personal development, sales, social media, Twitter Tagged With: business, ceiling, project management, sales, scalability, social media, success, Twitter

Info*Flex – Social Media Test

May 2, 2010 By Jim Raffel 7 Comments

Tomorrow morning I board a plane for the Info*Flex trade show. Time for a social media test of the strategies I have utilized over the past six months. My social media test parameters will be to keep track of the number of comments I get about blog posts, Facebook and Twitter activity. My intention … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, conferences, flexography, Marketer, measurement, new media, personal development, sales, social media, Twitter Tagged With: blog, effectiveness, Facebook, online social networking, social information processing, social media, Twitter

Twitter Follow Friday – Meet 'em for Coffee

April 30, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

Twitter is new. Together we are all learning how to utilize Twitter as a tool to facilitate communication. Without any real plan or intention I have been moving towards turning Twitter "friendships" into face to face meetings. Coffee Meetings: This week's Twitter Follow Friday (the blog edition) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Twitter Tagged With: coffee, Follow Friday, human interest, meeting, online social networking, real life, talk, Twitter

Selling Dreams – Vimeo Video and Slide Deck

April 29, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of speaking to the Milwaukee PHP User Group about selling dreams which is what solutions based software companies (like mine ColorMetrix) do. It was fun to have my business partner Michael Litscher there to interject his thoughts about some of the selling dreams … [Read more...]

Filed Under: conferences, motivation, personal development, sales Tagged With: human interest, presentation, selling, selling dreams, slide deck, success stories, vimeo

Selling the Dream – Live Event with Me

April 26, 2010 By Jim Raffel 5 Comments

Tomorrow (April 27th 2010) I am presenting a talk about selling the dream for the Milwaukee PHP User Group. The meeting is open to all interested parties and will be held at the very cool new home of Bucketworks. Since I don't believe in coincidences, I knew there was a reason Justin Kownacki … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, conferences, motivation, personal development, sales Tagged With: coincidence, dreams, event, human interest, justin kownacki, milwaukee, php user groups, selling, the dream

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