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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

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

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

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

Measure Your Way To Success

March 18, 2010 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

A proper measurement methodology is how to gauge success. How can you know where you are going and if you have arrived, when you don't even know where you are? Want increased sales? Determine an accurate way to measure sales today. Using sound business principals calculate what sales need to be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, color, goals, personal development, priorities, sales, sustainability Tagged With: business, gauges, increase sales, jim raffel, measuring, measuring sales, publishing, raffel, sales, success, success measures

Business Must Sharpen The Saw Continuously

March 17, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

As I checked into a brand new Hampton Inn earlier today, it struck me that this is not the same hotel chain I started staying at over 20 years ago. Hampton Inn has done a great job applying Stephen Covey's seventh habit, Sharpen the saw. While Mr. Covey's focus is on personal self-renewal, Hampton … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, monitors, personal development, sales, Stuff I Like, sustainability, WordPress Tagged With: business, business cards, hampton inn, hilton hotels corporation, hotel business, hotel chains, sharpening, stephen covey

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

Unique Small Business Community

February 22, 2010 By Jim Raffel 4 Comments

Today Sunshine Suites houses 1400 "shiners" (they don't call them tenants) representing 600 small businesses. Recently I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Cheni Yerushalmi who co-founded Sunshine Suites 8-1/2 years ago with Joseph Raby. From the beginning it was clear to Cheni and Joe … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, new media Tagged With: business, community, entrepreneur, new york city, shiners, shoplocal, sunshine suites, Third Tribe

Goals: Finding the Path

January 16, 2010 By Jim Raffel 1 Comment

"It" all came together this week. The path to a goal I have held near and dear to my heart for more than 20 years opened up before me like the Red Sea opened before Moses. About twenty pieces of the puzzle that is my life fell into place over the last five days. Luck favors those who are prepared … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, motivation, personal development, sustainability Tagged With: business, goals, human interest, jeffrey gitomer, passion, peter drucker, raffel, red sea

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