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Business advice from a Deziner

May 19, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

Yesterday I went to share business advice with my friend Cindi Thomas (@deziner) and one of her partners in Translator Mark Fairbanks (@MarkFairbanks). First, how can you not love that Cindi picked a Twitter name one can't forget - Right? If you watch the video you'll see I managed to forget her … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, conferences, Marketer, new media, social media, Twitter Tagged With: business advice, cindi thomas, designer, deziner, human interest, mark fairbanks, Twitter

Self Publishing made easy with Phil Gerbyshak

May 17, 2010 By Jim Raffel 3 Comments

At some point most bloggers think about two things, writing an eBook and self publishing a real book. You know the kind with paper pages and ink and all that. Here in 90 seconds, three time self published Phil Gerbyshak addresses both eBook creation and self publishing. I am going to be following … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Marketer, motivation, personal development, social media Tagged With: bloggers, career, e-book, ebook creation, ebooks, made easy, Phil Gerbyshak, publishing, real book, self publishing, stepping stones

Penetrating the Mobile Space

May 15, 2010 By Jim Raffel 11 Comments

The #MobileDiva Sara Santiago wrapped up day two of #unGeeked with an awesome presentation/question and answer session about penetrating the mobile space. A few months ago Sara convinced me to add a mobile version of this site. It's not that hard to do in WordPress and now 8% of my site traffic is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, conferences, Marketer, new media, social media, Twitter Tagged With: .mobi, cell phones, hand held devices, mobile phone, mobile space, mobile technology, mobile themes, mobile version, penetrated, Sara Santiago, wireless

A Twitter Tale of Two Scotts

May 14, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

Yesterday Scott Stratten made a comment during his #unGeeked presentation, he got on Twitter to meet other awesome business people. Catch that? The guy with forty some thousand followers on Twitter did not get on to sell you something. He got on to network. I got on Twitter for a different reason … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, conferences, Marketer, motivation, personal development, social media, Twitter Tagged With: marketing campaign, online social networking, Printing Industry, scott stratton, social media, technology, Twitter

Tomorrow the #unGeeked Fun Begins

May 12, 2010 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

I'll admit I am excited but I really don't know what to expect. By and large printing industry trade shows and conferences have been a complete disappointment to me over the last several years. Social Media is a relatively young and vibrant industry. I'd say it is a toddler still in diapers. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, conferences, Marketer, personal development, social media Tagged With: business-to-business, conferences, fun, marketing, milwaukee, social media

Find the fun

May 11, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

Find the fun in everything you do. Life is just that simple. For months now I've been watching the people around me I consider most successful. They laugh, they smile, they joke about almost everything. Yes, even the serious stuff. Yesterday the 10-12 hours a day I work and the ever increasing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Choices, motivation, personal development Tagged With: fun, human interest, laugh, life, people, Smile

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

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