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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

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

Selling Dreams – Vimeo Video and Slide Deck

April 29, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of speaking to the Milwaukee PHP User Group about selling dreams which is what solutions based software companies (like mine ColorMetrix) do. It was fun to have my business partner Michael Litscher there to interject his thoughts about some of the selling dreams … [Read more...]

Filed Under: conferences, motivation, personal development, sales Tagged With: human interest, presentation, selling, selling dreams, slide deck, success stories, vimeo

Selling the Dream – Live Event with Me

April 26, 2010 By Jim Raffel 5 Comments

Tomorrow (April 27th 2010) I am presenting a talk about selling the dream for the Milwaukee PHP User Group. The meeting is open to all interested parties and will be held at the very cool new home of Bucketworks. Since I don't believe in coincidences, I knew there was a reason Justin Kownacki … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, conferences, motivation, personal development, sales Tagged With: coincidence, dreams, event, human interest, justin kownacki, milwaukee, php user groups, selling, the dream

The Help Others Manifesto

April 20, 2010 By Jim Raffel

In my life, acts of kindness and giving back have always yielded unexpected rewards. Sometimes the rewards came years later. From A Business Perspective Until 2005 ColorMetrix hosted a meeting for our users in Las Vegas. The financial objective of the meeting was always the same, break-even. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, goals, motivation, personal development, social media, Twitter Tagged With: blogger, business, google, help others, manifesto, manifestos, online social networking, referral business

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

Unplugged on my Birthday

April 13, 2010 By Jim Raffel 7 Comments

Today I turn forty-six (and still feel 26). Following are some unplugged thoughts I had this morning. Warning this post is probably rated like PG-13. I decided to cuss a little like I do in real life. 1. I want world peace (no really I do). On my birthday even I get to be idealistic. I spend the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, motivation, personal development, sustainability, Twitter Tagged With: baseball bats, blog, feature, human interest, my birthday, real life, unplugged, world peace

Reading and 30-Day Action Plans

April 8, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

The power of the month long action plan was revealed to me about a month ago, when right here on this blog I committed to write 31 blog posts in 31 days and then I did it. In a month, repeated behavior becomes a habit. That is the real power in planning a month at a time. In my case I love to write … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, monitors, personal development Tagged With: action plan, communication, education, habits, plan reading, planning, reading, reading log, writers block

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