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For over 15-years, Jim Kukral has helped small businesses and large companies like Fedex, Sherwin Williams, Ernst & Young and Progressive Auto Insurance understand how to:

• Build successful new online businesses or energize and refresh existing ones
• Learn how to leverage social media for more sales, leads and publicity
• Create imaginative marketing campaigns that get talked about
• Innovate new products and services that could positively change your business bottom line
• Attract first-class publicity that actually means something and gives an ROI
• Make more profits with less work

A graduate of The University of Akron with a BA in Public Relations and a minor in Sales & Marketing, Jim has spent time working for publicly traded firms and small businesses alike. Jim’s work and experience in the Internet marketing industry has branded him as a leading thinker and thought-leader in the community.

Jim started work in the Internet business in 1995, mostly in the trenches writing code, designing websites and managing large projects for one of the USA’s first Web firms based in Cleveland, OH. Jim is credited with building some of the first major Fortune 500 websites and blogs in America. His work has been viewed by millions around the world.

As a serial Web-entrepreneur, Jim has consistently innovated many online businesses such as Prfessor.com, a web-based solution that allows anyone to instantly create their own online university or training center. Jim was the part-owner/creator of a search engine marketing firm that now ranks as the world’s top 15 SEO agency according to Adage.

A blogger since 2001, Jim has reached millions of readers through online channels/networks and offline by writing for magazines and trade journals that are sent all over the globe.

You can currently see Jim’s writing in magazines like Revenue Today and FeedFront. Jim has also spent time writing professionally for online sources like clickZ and Builder.com as well as the Web’s largest tech group blog at ReveNews.com where Jim served as the Publisher for 2-years.

Jim has done well producing publicity for himself and for his projects or others who have hired him to do so. He has been quoted or featured in some way in online and offline print publications such as Forbes, Brandweek, Entrepreneur, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, BusinessWeek, Inc., Small Business Trends, FeedFront, Revenue Today, Marketing Sherpa and Duct Tape Marketing network…to name just a few.

On stage is where Jim really finds his passion. As a professional speaker Jim has presented to thousands of people at many different events all across America on the topics of Web-entrepreneurism, success and failure, Internet marketing and more.

As an emcee and moderator, Jim has organized countless panels and had the pleasure of introducing some of the Web’s biggest celebrities, such as Newark Mayor Corey Booker, Mahalo’s Jason Calacanis, Dallas Maverick’s billionaire owner Marc Cuban, social media guru Chris Brogan and more.

Most recently, Jim is working on two new books and is actively traveling the globe helping to inspire entrepreneurs to find success online. The first book is all about attention marketing. Attention! This Book Will Make You Money tells stories from businesses and brands that are effectively using creative marketing campaigns and attention-getting ideas to drive more sales, leads or publicity.

The second book is called The Ultimate Pitch and focuses on the art of the pitch and how individuals and businesses use pitches every day to accomplish their goals. You can see all of Jim’s books here.

On a daily basis Jim spends most of his time helping entrepreneurs and small business owners learn how to find success online. His passion for teaching shines through in his training and coaching programs that have been taken by hopeful business owners from around the globe. His latest venture focuses on bringing the power of self-publishing to the masses. You can learn more about this at Digital Book Launch and Content Every Day.

Most recently, Jim serves as a Program Faculty Member for the University of San Francisco’s Internet Marketing Program where he teaches classes to students around the globe on the topics of Internet marketing, Web monetization and social media.

Jim was recently named as one of “The Most Influential Small Business People on Twitter” according to Dun & Bradstreet.

Interviews with Jim Kukral

RISE Episode #282

Is It Possible to Make Six Figures by Creating eBooks on Amazon? The Hidden New World of Publishing – with Jim Kukral

Today on The Rise To The Top: The #1 Non-Boring Business Show: Is it possible to make a living by selling books without a publisher? Welcome, my friends, to the new era of eBooks – and today’s guest, Jim Kukral, who ditched his traditional publisher to create his own empire on his terms. Today we talk about the new era in publishing, monetizing, and how you might be able to get more than what most “traditionally published” authors get in terms of an advance – before you even release your eBook. Enjoy! I use RISE partner Wistia for video hosting because they rock. Check ‘em out. Audio Only Player: Click here to download the audio file. Share This Episode: Links Mentioned: Author Marketing Club – The first 3 people to register at AuthorMarketingClub.com and send Jim an email with the secret word “risetothetop” will get a free custom book cover design done for them by his agency. No Publisher Needed JimKukral.com Lightning Source CreateSpace Business Around a Lifestyle This Episode Of The Rise To The Top Is Exclusively Sponsored By GoToMeeting, ScreenFlow, and Create Awesome Interviews: Here’s a really cool setup you can use to shoot side-by-side interviews on a Mac: GoToMeeting by Citrix, which now has HD Faces so you can get amazing quality videos. I think you can do up to 6 people. And your guests don’t need to have an account or anything – they just click the link, turn on webcam, boom. Try GoToMeeting today, with a SPECIAL… Read More

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RISE Episode #112

How To Earn Attention Online & Turn It Into Business With Special Guest Jim Kukral

Click Here If You Prefer Audio Only Attention. If you don’t earn it, you will have a website without views and social media profiles without friends. Yikes. That sucks. But, all attention is not created equal. There is gimmicky, swarmy attention (yuck!) and then there is GOOD attention. In today’s episode, author of (a new must-read book for entrepreneurs) Attention! This Book Will Make You Money (amazon affiliate), Jim Kukral joins me to share some stories about earning the RIGHT KIND of attention and, more importantly, turning that attention into business (because what good is attention if you can’t bring in the bucks?). Which leads to the questions: What have you done to earn attention? What has worked? What hasn’t? Who do you think earns a lot of attention online? Why? Connect With Jim Nab his book, Attention! This Book Will Make You Money, on Amazon (affiliate link). Check out the book website. This Episode Is VERY Proudly Sponsored By Our Good Friends tSunela Need a little SEO help? Want to see if your website is working like it should? Reach out to JoAnna and Kaysha at tSunela. Oh, and special deal for RISE viewers: Get a FREE website assessment at tSunela.com. Reminders: There are ONLY 10 tickets left for the RISE Lunch on August 25th. Grab your ticket here. Did you know you can subscribe to RISE via email? You should TOTALLY subscribe. Good news! You can now get RISE on your iPhone, iPad, etc. Woohoo for mobile.

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