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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

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

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

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

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