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...]
What's your next dream?
The dream you are working on now is already reality or at least becoming so. What's next? I'm not suggesting you lose focus but it might be time to look forward to what's next. I've worked the better part of two years to make one of my dreams come true. I'm now at the point where the dream is … [Read more...]
Planning the Social Media Way
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...]
Internal Mastermind Group Provides Answers
When faced with a tough decision, I often ask myself What would _________ do in this situation? Or better yet I pull together a group or four or five really smart people in my head to form an internal mastermind group. I first read about the internal mastermind concept in Napoleon Hill's classic … [Read more...]
Social Media 101 (by Chris Brogan) Book Review
I just finished reading Chris Borgan's Social Media 101. This is a must have book for anyone who has a blog, a web-site, a Twitter account or even just an email account on the internet. Chris covers it all. It's been a long time since I used this many post-it page markers and highlighter ink … [Read more...]
#73: From the desk of Jim Raffel
These troubled economic times have transformed many of us in the Graphic Arts into senior level executives. What I mean is that we must all manage a long list of multiple priorities on a daily basis. Each and every day we are asked to get more done with fewer resources of every type. So, success is … [Read more...]