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Email, the most powerful weapon in your online arsenal

August 18, 2011 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

Social media tools like Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and even Facebook are pretty powerful weapons in your online arsenal but they haven't got anything on the old standby email. This post isn't even about email marketing and sending bulk emails to lists of folks. Instead, it's a story about how we've … [Read more...]

Filed Under: she said he said Tagged With: 37signals, communication, customer service, e-mail, online, powerful tool, project management, projects, tech support, tools, Twitter, web 2.0

Keep It Simple Stupid

June 15, 2011 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

The other day a commercial came on TV for a furniture-moving device. It was basically a simple machines (a lever and fulcrum) combined to make it easy to pick up the end of a piece of heavy furniture. Then, you could slip a plastic disk under the feet of the furniture and easily slide it across the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marketer, sales Tagged With: 37signals, basecamp, business, furniture moving, gantt chart, keep it simple stupid, kiss, management, new product, opportunities, project management, sales careers, simple machine, technology

Four effective tools to plan and organize

January 7, 2011 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

If you are like me, you struggle with planning and organizing. I keep searching for the perfect combination of tools to match my scattered brain. While the following combination may not be perfect, I feel it's going to be the right mix to make 2011 my best year ever. My Quartet of Tools 1. Notebook … [Read more...]

Filed Under: personal development Tagged With: 37signals, basecamp, moleskine, notebooks, organize, plan, planning, project management software, tools

Sharing Success – The ApplyMate.com Story

August 11, 2010 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

A while back I got an email from Tim Murphy of ApplyMate.com which contained the following excerpt: "...I recently launched ApplyMate.com - a free web-based tool that helps users track school and job applications. Most job hunters submit dozens and dozens of job applications, and most students … [Read more...]

Filed Under: motivation, personal development, Stuff I Like Tagged With: 37signals, business, business success stories, college application, freemium, job application, success, tim murphy, web 2.0

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