Holiday Marketing Tips 10/9/14

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Website vs. Social Media Marketing 7/1/2014

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Learning to trust, collaborate, be authentic, believe, & do at EntreFEST

Thanks to Bart Schmitz (@bschmitz14) for snapping this photo of me presenting "Taking Your Email Inbox From Ridiculous To Inbox Zero" on Thursday of EntreFEST. Download the slides of that talk. Last week in Iowa City, EntreFEST 2014 entertained around 500 entrepreneurs, business people, and community members who shared an interest in innovative business ideas [...]

Don’t Miss EntreFEST Next Week & Learn Inbox Zero From Me

Next week on May 14-16, 2014, you'll want to make plans to attend Iowa's entrepreneurial and business innovation mecca, EntreFEST 2014 in Iowa City, Iowa. This year's program is again produced by my friends Amanda West and Andy Stoll (both of Seed Here Studio). Andy has been quoted stating EntreFEST as "If #SXSW had a half-brother in Iowa." If EntreFEST lives [...]

Join me at Startup Weekend Cedar Rapids this weekend!

Have you heard about Startup Weekend Cedar Rapids this weekend? I am participating and you should as well! Startup Weekend is a grassroots movement of entrepreneurs learning the basics of founding startups & launching ventures. Come to the Cedar Rapids edition on February to March 2 to share ideas, form teams, & launch startups. Be part of […]

Marketing, Sales, & Productivity: Presentation Double Dip

Image above via Nick Palatiello and @MAPPSorg. Last week at the 2014 MAPPS Winter Conference at the beautiful Lodge at Torrey Pines along the Pacific Ocean, I had the honor to present two talks to the leaders of numerous geospatial mapping firms.  I was pleased to attend and represent my friends at Aerial Services. It was [...]

Watch me on “Meet the Meetups: Creative Corridor WordPress Group” via WeCreateHere.net

The good folks over at WeCreateHere.net (a project of The Gazette) asked to highlight on video last week's first Creative Corridor WordPress meetup, started by yours truly and my pal Christoph Trappe.  Sarah Binder, their "New Ventures" specialist both attended the session and took some video.  Check it out above or via YouTube. In the video you'll [...]

My New Direction & Dream: Your Marketing Technologist

"All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them." — Walt Disney I'm excited to tell you that I’m following a new dream. I've changed my role at Aerial Services and am moving on to expand my own business — McNary Marketing & Design LLC. While I will continue working with Aerial Services [...]

Technology, Marketing, & Solutions

My work in recent years has been based on helping small businesses utilize technology along with marketing ideas to better their experience/clients. It has looked like taking “tools” and enacting them (website, systems, and services).  What the client may not even know is they are paying me for is my ability to “converge” the issues […]