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10 tips to find more time to write

August 23, 2011 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

I'm often asked how I find the time to write four or five blog posts each week. Here's how: 1. Turn off the TV. I do watch TV, but when I do it's typically live sports or shows we've recorded on the DVR and watch as a family (skipping over the commercials to compress time). What I don't do is have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: 10 tips, find, more time, social media, tips, watch tv, write, writing environments

Promise Marketing is a Better Mousetrap

July 1, 2011 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

Awhile back, I was introduced to the concept of "Promise Marketing." Unfortunately, I can't remember her name but the woman who presented the concept owns an agency that works with doctors, lawyers and accountants. These are professions that by and large don't have tangible deliverables they can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marketer, Writing Tagged With: better mousetrap, keyword, linkedin, marking, mousetrap, promise, social media, story, wayne breitbarth

Stop giving content away for free

April 20, 2011 By Jim Raffel 10 Comments

There are a whole lot of people writing for free these days. My question is why? Why would you give away your time? Yes, I believe there are plenty of situations that warrant donating your time to a cause. Open source software projects like WordPress are just one such example. Even contributing blog … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Writing Tagged With: blog, content, donate, open source software projects, WordPress

Where do blog ideas come from?

April 18, 2011 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

I'm frequently asked where all the ideas come from to write five days a week. What follows is a sampling of where the inspiration and ideas come from. Be controversial; preferably not with every post but sometimes. I wrote "Social Media Favors Chicks Over Dicks" for a couple of reasons. First, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Writing Tagged With: blog, blog ideas, communication, ideas, publish, topic

Swearing, vocabulary and the pregnant pause

March 25, 2011 By Jim Raffel 6 Comments

When I wrote "Replace “ums” with Pregnant Pauses when Speaking," I never expected to circle back to the post as a way to swear less on social media - and in real life, for that matter. It is, however, that simple. When you feel like letting an f-bomb (or some equally offensive language) fly - stop! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: personal development, Writing Tagged With: communication, language, pause, pauses, pregnant, profanity, real life, social media, swear, vocabulary

Why fear should not keep you from publishing

March 22, 2011 By Jim Raffel 13 Comments

Every blog you write does not need to be perfect. Want to know why? Because every blog I read is not perfect or in some cases even finished. That's the nature of blogging. The point is to get the idea out there while it's still fresh and perhaps even a little bit raw. It is the ideas I am looking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Writing Tagged With: blog, blogs, comfort zone, Facebook, fear, publish, publishing, Twitter, unpublished

It's always about the compelling story

March 15, 2011 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

To be compelling, a story needs to be authentic and share a real outcome with results. By definiton, that means that sometimes you will be sharing stories with happy endings and other times not-so-happy endings. That's life and people want the good, the bad and the ugly. Telling an authentic story … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Writing Tagged With: happy endings, outcome, result, story

She said, he said posts

March 2, 2011 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

Starting tomorrow, Shelby and I are going to introduce a new series of posts here. We'll be calling them "she said, he said" (ladies first of course). Well, actually, I'm going first tomorrow with a post entitled "Strategy to work with others." The post explores how Shelby and I work together from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, new media, she said he said, social media, Writing Tagged With: editors, feature, he, insightful, issue, jim, jim raffel, perspective, posts, raffel, she, shelby, tomorrow, zeke

Ideas have no schedule

February 1, 2011 By Jim Raffel 3 Comments

Sometimes I have a shortage of ideas and struggle to decide what to write about, like this morning. More often, I have more than enough ideas and it's just a matter of getting in the writing flow and cranking out the posts. Those are the times when I double and triple up on writing and get a few … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: captured, cognition, creativity, environment, idea, ideas, ideation, philosophy, schedule, scheduling, thought

Editorial Planning

January 21, 2011 By Jim Raffel 9 Comments

For one guy who also manages to run a successful business, I generate a fair amount of content. That does not happen by accident. I have an editorial plan and I constantly refine said plan. If you have a blog where you don't publish regularly (like this blog was until July 1, 2010), you know how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Writing Tagged With: affiliate products, blog, blogs, business success, content, continuity, editorial, grow, planning, social information processing, success

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