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How a content campaign increased visit duration by 79 percent

July 4, 2012 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

Recently, my company ColorMetrix participated in round one of the Social Madness contest run by the Business Journals from around the country. We didn't move past round one, yet our participation still resulted in winning site traffic numbers and Twitter follower growth. The back story When Shelby … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Content Creation Wednesday

How creativity can be your balance point to achieve success

July 2, 2012 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

Do you possess a healthy desire to succeed? Combined with an entrepreneurial spirit, it can be tricky to balance new ideas for the future with the work that needs to be done in the here and now. Let's get started with a definition of balance. "mental steadiness or emotional stability; habit of calm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Monday

The sales cycle

June 25, 2012 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

How does your sales cycle begin? Do you reach out to find clients with traditional marketing methods like direct mail and cold calling on the phone? Or have you built a content marketing engine that brings the leads to you? Either way, that's only one step in the sales cycle and once you've … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Monday

Pagelines with WordPress for Content Creation

June 20, 2012 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

WordPress is a fantastic platform for content creation. If you're building content rich sites that will include a blog, it's arguably the best platform out there. Where I've always felt a little let down by WordPress is the design side of the equation. Since I took over the technical side of this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Content Creation Wednesday

Intersections are where business success is found

June 18, 2012 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

Part of the entrepreneurial mindset is tuning your senses to detect opportunity everywhere you go. Once you've tuned your senses to detect opportunity, the tricky part is picking which ones to pursue. It's not an exaggeration to say that you will come across a business opportunity at least once a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Monday

How to create content that makes you money

June 13, 2012 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

I'm writing this blog post late on a Tuesday evening for publication tomorrow. That's a less than ideal condition for creating awesome content, but sometimes that's the case. The writing for this blog holds a lower overall priority for me than other content creation tasks I needed to accomplish … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Content Creation Wednesday

Be a wolf in sheep's clothing

June 11, 2012 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

The alternate title for this blog post was "Be the perceived underdog." When you are a small business competing against the "big boys" however, the underdog status is almost automatic. Instead I want you to go in as the perceived sheep being beat up on by your larger competition. Make no mistake … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Monday

If you build a WordPress site, will they come?

June 6, 2012 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

Are you focused on the visual aspects and the functionality of the websites you build or the content and strategy to disseminate said same content? For example, I'm not a designer and over the last 15 years I've let my coding skills go in favor of developing sales and marketing expertise. So I build … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Content Creation Wednesday, WordPress

Radio personality Danny Baker tells my company to "Fuck Off"

June 5, 2012 By Jim Raffel 12 Comments

I'm sitting here asking myself why a famous radio personality from England would take the time to tell a small company from the US to "Fuck Off" over a promoted tweet on Twitter. It wasn't a particularly remarkable Tweet to begin with First off, it's funny (and a tad embarrassing because we are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marketer

How social media connects you with your community

June 4, 2012 By Jim Raffel 6 Comments

I'm writing this Sunday afternoon as we wrap up WordCamp Milwaukee. Typically, I'd be writing a "Takeaways" style post, but this weekend I was blown away by the power social media has to connect you with your network. The WordCamp Milwaukee after party last night was organized almost exclusively … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Monday, social media

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