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Trust Circles Influence Communication Types

March 16, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

The concept of social media circles of trust has caused me to revisit my Three Types of Communication post from last June. I was dealing with trust issues in my life when I wrote Three Types of Communication. In the previous six months I had made many bad choices inconsistent with my long-term life … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, goals, motivation, personal development Tagged With: behavior, circles, circles influence, communication, communication type, equity, ethics, face, human interest, influence, law, meeting people, reputation management, social psychology, sociology, Trust, trust issue, trusts

Commitment Sets Priorities

March 15, 2010 By Jim Raffel 4 Comments

Commitment is turning my choice to deliver 31 blog posts in the month of March into reality. Delivering 31 blog posts in the month of March has required a commitment to new priorities. I made a commitment to myself that writing every day is a priority for me. Reality set in and I realized there … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Choices, goals, motivation, personal development, priorities, social media Tagged With: choice, commitments, goal setting, goals, priorities, raffel, real life, setting priorities, Soclai Media

Scribe Improves Site Traffic

March 14, 2010 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

I have improved my writing and web-site traffic more in the last 30 days than in the previous five year of blogging. ScribeSEO is the tool that has helped me do that. Let's start with the juicy facts, search engine generated web-site traffic at both this site and ColorMetrix.com is up almost 30% … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Marketer, sales, Stuff I Like Tagged With: Brian Clark, business, CopyBlogger.com, google, improve, raffel, scribe, ScribeSEO, search engines, thesis, Third Tribe, Third Tribe Marketing, tools, web search engine

Social Media Has Changed My Business

March 13, 2010 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

Social media is not my business. Over the past six months, however, social media has radically changed how I do business. I've become a solid practitioner of this craft. No I don't have 10,000 followers on Twitter but if that's what I wanted, I could accomplish it within a month or less. Instead I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marketer, motivation, personal development, sales, social media Tagged With: blog, followers, online social networking, sales game, social information processing, social media, Twitter

Goals Define Choices

March 12, 2010 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

Everything you do in life takes you closer to your goals, or further from them. Without clearly defined goals you have no standard by which to judge your choices. Yesterday I shared four of the key choices I have made in my life over the past year. Each of those choices has brought me closer to my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, motivation, personal development, sustainability Tagged With: Authentic, choice, goal, goals, healthy relationships, human interest, jim raffel, life, management, motivation, Real, Sustainable

Choices Define You – Your Choices

March 11, 2010 By Jim Raffel 16 Comments

In the past year, just like you I have made hundreds if not thousands of choices. Four of my choices stand out and helped define who I am today. The payoff has been huge. I have a clear vision of where I, my family and my business are going. I'm taking the steps everyday to stay on the path defined … [Read more...]

Filed Under: motivation, personal development Tagged With: change, choice, define, human interest, in my life, life, radically, raffel, vision, watch tv

Trust as Currency

March 10, 2010 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

Today I experienced first hand what if feels like to hold the currency that is the trust of another human being. Early in the day I learned that a new customer has chosen to go with my proposal based upon the recommendation of "Fred," a customer I wrote about in my Regaining Trust post. Later in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, motivation, personal development Tagged With: Authentic, Books, Chris Brogan, currency, ethics, human interest, jeffery gitomer, raffel, Real, reputation management, Sustainable, Trust

Mind Dumping – vBlog

March 9, 2010 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

A video blog about the concept of mind dumping that I was exposed to earlier today by an aspiring novelist. I find the topic intriguing as I work on my 31 blog posts for the month of March. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging Tagged With: blog, inspiration, mind dumping, Writing

Printing is Not Dead or Even Dying

March 8, 2010 By Jim Raffel 12 Comments

If printing is on the verge of death, then why when I searched Twitter for "Is Print Dead"  did I find over 20 tweets in the past 4 hours? For something dead or dying, printing sure generates a lot of conversation in the Twitter community. The blogosphere also has plenty to say about printing being … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, sustainability, Twitter Tagged With: blog, Debbie Kipp, Mitch Joel, printer, Printing, Printing Industry, Samir Husni, social media, Twitter

Life Needs a Compelling Why – What's Yours?

March 7, 2010 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

My "why" is making JimRaffel.com the best blog I can. Writing for this blog everyday is following my passion. That passion is what drives my desire to find ways to make ColorMetrix more successful with less and less of my time. I've managed to reduce my ColorMetrix work week to about 50 hours (down … [Read more...]

Filed Under: motivation, personal development, sustainability Tagged With: blog, desire, everyday, life, passion, radical

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