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Scalability ceiling holding you back?

May 3, 2010 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

Doctors and lawyers face the scalability ceiling everyday. For the most part they bill by the hour and have only two ways to make more money, work more hours or find customers willing to pay more per hour. (Sure, the creative few have found ways through the scalability ceiling like owning the clinic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Marketer, personal development, sales, social media, Twitter Tagged With: business, ceiling, project management, sales, scalability, social media, success, Twitter

Info*Flex – Social Media Test

May 2, 2010 By Jim Raffel 7 Comments

Tomorrow morning I board a plane for the Info*Flex trade show. Time for a social media test of the strategies I have utilized over the past six months. My social media test parameters will be to keep track of the number of comments I get about blog posts, Facebook and Twitter activity. My intention … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, conferences, flexography, Marketer, measurement, new media, personal development, sales, social media, Twitter Tagged With: blog, effectiveness, Facebook, online social networking, social information processing, social media, Twitter

Start-up is a mentality not a business stage

April 15, 2010 By Jim Raffel 3 Comments

A few days ago while reading Rework I thought about something a professor said while I was getting my MBA and then threw it out there as a Tweet. The tweet grew legs and was retweeted and then discussed a bit. I love it when my friends on Twitter decide the topics of blog posts for me - thanks … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marketer, motivation, personal development, sales, Twitter Tagged With: borrow, business, craigslist, ebay, lease, mentality, rent, startup, tweet

Social Media Is Killing Traditional Sales

March 19, 2010 By Jim Raffel 30 Comments

The traditional sales prospecting model is becoming increasingly ineffective over time. Five times in less than two weeks I have been solicited by voice mail message or email. Wait, by the same person! This is downright annoying. Obviously I have the tools to filter this noise out of my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Marketer, personal development, sales, social media, sustainability, Twitter Tagged With: business, internet marketing, jim raffel, marketing, marketing strategies, sales, sales prospecting, social media, strategy, telemarketing, telemarketing scripts, traditional

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

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