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The role of coffee in blog writing

October 31, 2010 By Jim Raffel 7 Comments

Take a look to your right over in the sidebar of this site. As you scroll down you'll see a picture of me holding a cup of coffee. Below that you will find the Idea Box. The title of this post came right from the idea box. So, you too can submit an idea or question over there and perhaps one day … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Writing Tagged With: blog, blog writing, coffee, guinness world records, idea box, Writing

Content marketing scales

October 29, 2010 By Jim Raffel 4 Comments

Make no mistake about it, this blog is a marketing platform. While there are times when I write for my (mental) health even that ends up being marketing, of a sort. Best of all the marketing I do here and the marketing you do when you create content can scale exceptionally well. Especially when … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Marketer, sales, Writing Tagged With: blog, blog marketing, business, content, content marketing, google, head count, marketing, marketing approach, marketing platform, sales, scales

Writing to find more business

October 27, 2010 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

Write about what you've already done or are doing. These are topics you can deliver on should someone choose to do business with you. Flexo Magazine recently published Centralized Color Data Servers, an article I wrote for them. As I speak to potential clients about this technology I am able to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Marketer, Writing Tagged With: articles, business, flexo, spoke, topic, Writing

7 blog post topic ideas

October 25, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

Do you sometimes have trouble coming up with topics for your blog posts? Here are seven topics categories of recent posts on this blog. 1. Answer questions. As your network grows the number of questions you will be asked via various social media channels will grow. You can answer those questions … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Writing Tagged With: blog, blog post, blogging, creativity flow, ideas, post, questions, topic, topic ideas

21 days to a (better) blog – part 3

October 22, 2010 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

This is the third Installment of the 21 days to a (better) blog series. It will make a great deal more sense if you have read week 1: up and running and week 2: the devil is in the details. This week I am leaving out the redundant writing, posting and editing schedule. By now you should have settled … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, WordPress, Writing Tagged With: 21 days, blog, blog software, fine tuning, fun stuff, scribe, seo writing, themes, thesis, WordPress

Rebirth of the salesman

October 21, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

I don't know about you but back in the nineties and for most of the two-thousands, sales became a little too cold and calculated for my taste. It became all about numbers, processes and tools like customer relationship management systems(CRMs). I think many forgot that contained in the word … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Marketer, sales Tagged With: emotion, likable, rebirth, salesman, salesmanship, salesmen, trustworthy

Your story, sharing the hard parts

October 20, 2010 By Jim Raffel 10 Comments

There are parts of your story you may choose to never share. There are other parts you may never share online. Maybe there are parts you plan to share in a book somewhere down the line. If you're like me, however, you will share most of your story face to face once we know each other. There are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Choices, personal development, Writing Tagged With: challange, hard part, story

21 days to a (better) blog – part 2

October 15, 2010 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

Please be sure to refer back to Week 1: Up and running if you didn't get a chance to read the first installment of 21 days to a better blog last Friday. This week I am focusing on some of the devilish little details that separate a fun blog from one that has the potential to be a business … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Stuff I Like, WordPress Tagged With: 21 days, akismet, best blog, blog, blog software, business, devilish, feedburner, google analytics, part 2, spam in blogs, spamming, WordPress, wordpress blog

SGIA and BlogWorld this week

October 12, 2010 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

If you are headed to either SGIA or BlogWorld this week in Las Vegas hopefully we will run into each other. I'll be utilizing the Las Vegas Monorail to travel between the convention center for SGIA and Mandalay Bay for BlogWorld. Some places we might meet Between sessions at BlogWorld - I will be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, conferences, Marketer, new media, social media Tagged With: blogworld, las vegas, las vegas monorail, mandalay bay, monorails, sgia

18 Useful WordPress plugins

October 11, 2010 By Jim Raffel 19 Comments

Recently while speaking at the Central Wisconsin Social Media Conference I was asked by Jim Carlson for a list of the WordPress plugins I use. I figured as long as I was taking the time to pull the list together I may as well share it with you as well. The link included with each plugin is the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Stuff I Like, WordPress Tagged With: ecommerce solutions, google, jim carlson, plugin, WordPress, wordpress blog, wordpress plugins

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