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Blue Riot Labs

I’m currently part of the Navy Seals of WordPress Web Development, Blue Riot Labs. My role on this crack team is Creative Direction, Marketing, and User Interface Design. We’ve been hired by clients in Technology, Publishing, Health & Beauty, Manufacturing, and more. In addition to design and marketing for the Blue Riot Labs site, here [...]

eye9 Design

I founded this agency in 2004 out of a college dorm where my wife was the RD. 5 years later it was one of the top Denver Web Design firms with 8 employees and a LoDo office. My role evolved from doing all the design and development, to providing Creative Direction and Marketing Strategy for [...]

The 1010 Project

Two years as Executive Director at The 1010 Project changed my life and lives of many in Kenya forever. In addition to my Executive role in organizational development, I also provided Creative Direction and Marketing strategy for our website, letterhead, business cards, banners, and giving cards. My Work at The 1010 Project Design // Marketing [...]

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From the Blog

“Cash is King.” For small businesses, the ability to exploit emerging opportunities, respond to market pressues, and make strategic investments in the future all depend on access to cash. As a healthy heart is the result of eating right and working out, possessing a healthy cash flow is the result of consistent, effective investments in [...]

At Blue Riot Labs, I’ve spent the day compiling data for how our online marketing efforts are working for our clients, and for us. I formulated a data-driven, five part online marketing strategy we have implemented for our clients and ourselves: Search engine optimization Pay-per-click Content creation Newsletter Social media The results are pretty remarkable, [...]

Jun
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Posted by brianrants on June 11th, 2011 at 2:35 pm

Profits are to business as breathing is to life. Breathing is essential to life, but is not the purpose for living. Similarly, profits are essential for the existence of the corporation, but they are not the reason for its existence. Dennis Bakke, founder of AES Profits are a byproduct, like happiness. Those who pursue happiness [...]

As prepared for IT Strategies, University of Denver PMBA. References John Gallaugher’s “Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology:” “Often Imitated. Never Duplicated.” Whoever it was that first uttered this famous marketing adage, it is certainly appropriate as a descriptor of Facebook. The darling of Web 2.0, its meteoric rise has seen it hit [...]

Mar
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IT ETHICS Our use of technology is beautifully (and dangerously) ingrained. The way it has changed our daily lives is profound, and yet we are often unaware of those changes. I often observe a whole-hearted acceptance, even unrealistic allegiance to technology as the messiah of our age. There seems nothing we cannot conquer with technology. [...]

The true promise of Sustainable Development (SD) lies in its ability to drive Creative Destruction. Specifically, we need disruptive technologies that destroy wasteful, inefficient solutions to human needs and create elegant, simple, solutions that mimic nature’s own systems (known as biomimicry). First we must recognize that our most wasteful solutions, such as coal fired power [...]

The “Triple Bottom Line” (3BL) approach to Sustainable Development has not lived up to its early promise. This might be a strange thing to say, since as Gilding et al. point out in Single Bottom Line Sustainability even the President is talking about Corporate Ethics and Responsibility. Increasingly companies have Corporate Social Responsibility reports, and [...]

As someone who believes strongly in the power entrepreneurship and business to break the cycle of poverty, the erosion of trust is sobering. “The erosion of trust is a serious concem as it has allowed MNCS [Multi-National Corporations] to be painted into dark comers in the globalisation debate, Malaysia’s former prime minister. Tun Dr Mahathir [...]

Jan
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Posted by brianrants on January 13th, 2011 at 8:07 pm

In my work as Executive Director of The 1010 Project, I led our team in the creation of The Global Entrepreneur Academy. Directors of orphanages, slum school headmasters, HIV/AIDS support group coordinators, and many others participated in over 50 hours of training in The GEA. For many, it was the first educational certificate of their [...]