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Seeking to Grow

I am now seeking bad ass sales people. For the last three years I have been the sales team and I have recruited bad ass skilled laborists – developers, designers, writers, SEOs, and more. Then I started seeking bad ass project management, and Ronnie stepped up to the challenge. Now I am seeking bad ass sales people, and Ted has fallen into my life… funny how things work out. But we want more people. What we do for businesses benefits them. Our clients are happy. Selling for RevenFlo is about educating people and serving them to help them improve and grow, it’s about connecting them to that which will make them better off. We don’t sell to those who will not benefit more than the money it costs them.

Lead Generation for Times of Recession

Lead generation makes sense anytime, if it’s done well. But it’s particularly sexy during a recession. For the last two years, we have been helping companies improve their businesses by investing in web technology infrastructure – improve marketing, improve information management, etc. Just recently we launched a local lead generation program, and it is hot to the touch and flying from the shelves. Why? Because everyone’s emphasis is on lead generation. For the smallest service businesses, this is what they should be focused on anyway in terms of the web. When someone types in your service for your city, you want your information to show up and display in a way so that it compells the searcher to contact you. The nature of search qualifies the searcher, that’s the beauty of search engines. You just need to be there and to provide tools/info so that they can contact you. For businesses who are looking to increase marketshare there is much more to it, you will need the appropriate online brand and presence in your local marketplace. Plus, you will need staff trained to use your tools (thus, they need to be lay-friendly tools).

Jason and Ted recording Be Big Online

Radio Free Ted

Ted and Rachael and I spent the better part of Wednesday working on different solutions and models for serving the small business. It was great to have Ted on the radio with me for Be Big Online at WRHI. We just cut loose. Ted’s hilarious. I called him the other day and said, “Dude, do you want to be on the radio with me tomorrow?” And he said, “What time do I need to be there?” He didn’t ask, what are we going to talk about, or what do you mean the radio? And he didn’t know about the show either. I had not yet mentioned it to him.

So, as he is coming into the organizatinon, most people would have brought this radio show up at a marketing meeting and decided that the integration of Ted into the radio show is important. So, then they would have had a meeting to discuss the integration of Ted into the show, and months later, we’d have ted on the show. That’s not the way things work around here. I just said, you want to be on? He said yes, and the next day he was on.

Granted, there’s mistakes and folly in haste but it’s compelling and viral and exciting and more. And here’s the key… IT’S HONEST. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that brain dumps (like this blog post) are inherently more useful or better than well crafted messages. that’s not what I’m saying at all.  Sometimes it takes diligent crafting to be honest. But many times, the process of creating a thing… a marketing plan, a design creative, etc. Is a process of creating something false and lifted from your real experience.

I do not question honesty once I understand it to be honest. Instead, I learn from it, for it is more real than the dirt around us.

Working like a mad fool

Man, I’ve been working like a mad fool on the new RevenFlo websites. Not to mention flushing out all the business details and whatnot. Ted is excited about the new leads program with ServiceQuote.info and Ronnie is ramping up for a few enterprise-level content management builds. Cathy’s putting together reports for a long list of clients for RevenFlo Web Team. We’re just working like mad fools. It feels good when things are intense.

Please excuse the mess


Welcome! Please excuse any messes or errors you may find on this site right now. After much delay on launching my own site I’ve decided to put it up and force myself to get things together. So please check back often for info on new projects, client news and updates to the blog.



Thanks!


—Ronnie

Slideshows + Thickbox + JQuery, a recipe for elegance


Those are the primary ingredients used on the new TribbleCreativeGroup.com web site. Video and photos are presented using Slide Show Pro for flash displayed using the well known Thickbox plugin.



Tribble also wanted a visually pleasing, elegant and usable method of navigating the site. This is where the jQuery comes in. Using simple, standards compliant markup and clean graphics RTC used the jQuery accordion plugin to add a little magic.



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Radio and Drupal multi-site


When WRHI radio station approached Reveflo Web Marketing and RTC about building a new site we new right away that Drupal was the right tool for the job.



In addition to the various modules such as audio and RSS feed aggregators we new that down the road Drupal’s multi-site capabilities would be useful. Since WRHI.com is part of a group of businesses owned by Our Three Sons Broadcasting we needed the ability to serve multiple dynamic web site with minimal headache and resources.


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Eternal Church is born again


After launching the current version of Eternal.gs more than a year ago I’m happy to report the site is going through another transformation. That is from a static web site edited in Adobe Contribute to a happy, shiny WordPress rendition.



Instead of edtiing site navigation by hand in an include file Eternal folks will be able to edit site navigation from within WP using the Navt plugin. As an extra bonus I was able to integrate the output of Navt with the JQuery accordion affects, sans any nasty hacks.


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Anderson Griggs, from portfolio management to content management


A new site is born today from collaboration between Anderson Griggs Portfolio Management, Revenflo Web Marketing and Ronnie Taylor Consulting.



This is another good example of the flexibiltiy of the Drupal CMS. The main talking points of this project are the ability to manage content by the client, automated RSS feeds, web forms and email newsletters.



More to come…

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