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What's the Right Amount of Blogging?

June 7, 2010 By Jim Raffel 10 Comments

If you are a blogger, this topic is bound to catch a little corner of your brain every now and then. It's also one of those questions that if you asked 10 bloggers you'd get 11 answers. There is no right amount of blogging. There just isn't. I try like heck to post once a day either here, or on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Marketer, personal development Tagged With: blog, bloggers, blogging, brain

Social Media & Business Lessons From a Jewel Concert

June 4, 2010 By Jim Raffel 3 Comments

Last night I had the pleasure of attending a Jewel concert with my wife. Here's the three things I learned from Jewel last night after she made sure we knew her Twitter handle @jeweljk. 1. The power of your story. Last night it was just Jewel and her Guitar. Between songs she told the stories … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Marketer, motivation, personal development, social media, Twitter Tagged With: business lessons, business practices, hands, human interest, jewel concert, music, social media

Stop Thinking and Ship it Baby!

June 1, 2010 By Jim Raffel 4 Comments

Last night while watching a mindless episode of tosh.0 with my family I grabbed my MacBook and wrote the previous post Watch Your Thoughts. It took about 20 minutes and about half my attention was devoted to writing the post. You don't know what will resonate. I stopped thinking and started … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, motivation, personal development Tagged With: customers, Phil Gerbyshak, resonate, Ship It, shipping

Watch Your Thoughts

May 31, 2010 By Jim Raffel 9 Comments

Do you ever "step back" and "watch/listen" to your own thoughts? You become what you think about. That's my reason for watching my thoughts. Think about success and happiness and trust me, as sure as the sun rises each day you will become successful. Think about all your bad breaks and how the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, motivation, personal development Tagged With: cheryl, five people, successful people, thoughts

How I Convert Ideas to Profit

May 29, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

If you're reading this post in search of a silver bullet or a get rich quick scheme, sorry move along. I create profit by moving ideas into action and it takes time. If you have a few minutes read on and I'll explain how. Ideation. I read. I observe all the time. I watch what other successful … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Marketer, motivation, personal development Tagged With: create profit, ideas, modeling, profit, silver bullet, success, wealth

Artists Are The Giving Economy's Linchpins

May 28, 2010 By Jim Raffel 4 Comments

Not since reading Crush It! in January have I been this passionately enthusiastic. Today, I listened to an audio interview of Seth Godin that's part of my Captured Mind newsletter subscription (not an affiliate link). Artists are the linchpins of our new giving economy. Artists, Seth explained, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Marketer, motivation, personal development Tagged With: artist, artists, business, capitalism, da vinci, economy, Linchpin, linchpins, mona lisa, Seth Godin, the factory

Human Networking 2.0

May 26, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

In the social media community we talk about having an audience of one. I see Human Networking 2.0 as having an audience of "one at a time." Twitter is just talking and Scott Stratten reminded us of that recently, at the #unGeeked conference. I conduct myself the same way on Twitter, Facebook and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Facebook, google wave, human, linkedin, mark fairbanks, networking, online social networking, scott stratten, social information processing, social media, strategy, Twitter

Planning the Social Media Way

May 22, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

Planning sales "events" with social media while similar to the traditional sales model is not the same. During the #unGeeked conference last week I got a glimpse of the HubSpot social media sales funnel. Sales will always be about the funnel. What changes is how the funnel gets filled and in my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, conferences, education, goals, Marketer, new media, personal development, sales, social media, Twitter Tagged With: hubspot, linkedin, linkedin group, marketing, moleskine, online social networking, planning, sales, sales funnel, sales model, social media, successful sales

Pick Yourself Back Up

May 21, 2010 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

Each day of your life you are going to have small stumbles and sometimes big falls. In your personal life and your professional life you will make mistakes, it's inevitable. None of us, not any single one, is perfect. You woke up this morning and all the rest of it can be fixed. Think about that, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: motivation, personal development Tagged With: adversity, brain surgery, human interest

Amazing Content Means Taking a Stand

May 20, 2010 By Jim Raffel 8 Comments

During the #unGeeked conference last week I was able to capture Scott Stratten (@unmarketing on Twitter) thoughts on the craziness of book endorsements. Scott takes a stand. Here we have a man about to have his first book published and he takes on the publishing establishment by having a whole … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, conferences, Marketer, motivation, personal development, Twitter Tagged With: content, human interest, means, rush limbaugh, scott stratten, Twitter, wishy washy

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