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The power of a social media audience

February 28, 2011 By Jim Raffel 7 Comments

Recently, I was reading an email from Seth Godin about his new book "Poke the Box" that he is releasing through his new publishing venture The Domino Project. Seth was excited because enough of us had tweeted about and purchased the book to bring the price of the Kindle version down to $1.00. Yes, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: new media, social media, Twitter Tagged With: amazon kindle, amazon.com, audience, reach, Seth Godin, social media, story, tweet, Twitter

Subtle Use Of Color

September 8, 2010 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

Recently Seth Godin reminded us Don't forget about color. He's right. Subtle use of color, whether to make airports signs easier to follow or to make your blog more memorable, is a great idea. A Dumb Little Man can't be wrong. When I am skimming posts in my RSS feed I can always identify a Dumb … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, color, Marketer, new media, WordPress, Writing Tagged With: blog, color coding, colors, headlines, Seth Godin, subtle, user experience, website improve

Blogging 101: Comments; Open or Closed?

July 16, 2010 By Jim Raffel 13 Comments

There is no right answer to open or closed comments. On this blog they are open and unmoderated. That being said I wouldn't hesitate to delete a comment should it cross any lines...my lines as it is my blog. The case for closed. Many of the blogs I read on a regular basis have comments closed. In … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogging 101 Tagged With: blog, bloggers, blogging, blogs, comments, Seth Godin, social information processing, tom peters

Small Business 101: Twitter is Priceless

July 9, 2010 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

Seth Godin took the picture accompanying this post. These are some of the folks I attended the Linchpin Meetup(link to Seth's post where the picture came from) with. I knew one of them before Twitter. Now, in this picture of the Meet-MeMe autographed card set Cindi sent to Seth I am surrounded … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, Marketer, motivation, personal development, Small Business 101, Twitter Tagged With: business, business tools, linchpins, meetups, meme, online social networking, priceless, Seth Godin, small business, Twitter

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

Produce and Ship Daily

March 2, 2010 By Jim Raffel 4 Comments

With the release of Seth Godin's Linchpin (which I have yet to read) there has been a whole lot of buzz in the Blogosphere about "shipping it." It's good talk folks about the need to produce deliverable product each day and you should be paying close attention if you are not already doing so. Ask … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, motivation, personal development, sales, sustainability, Twitter Tagged With: audience, engagement proposals, inspiration, Linchpin, motivation, priorities, produce, radical, Seth Godin, Ship It

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