Cleveland Bloggers Take A Trip To Las Vegas Blog Convention

I did a photo shoot the other day, pic below, to promote that myself and 3 other Cleveland bloggers are taking the trip out the Blog World Expo show in Las Vegas in November. Represent Cleveland! Want to learn more about the blogging industry? Sign up for the free event here in Cleveland on Nov 1st. From our press release… Cleveland lights up Vegas Four Cleveland-based social media experts invited to world’s largest blog convention Bloggers host public event... Read More »

JimKukral.com Was Hacked!

By me. :) Please excuse the horrible link bait-ish headline, but I wanted to get your attention for a special announcement I need to tell you about. You can view the announcement at JimKukral.com.  Read More →

How To Manipulate The Media & Get Free Publicity With Creative Marketing Ideas

Got 10 bucks, an hour of time and a creative idea? Because that’s all it really takes to get all the media publicity and exposure you or your business could ask for, all for almost free. Don’t believe it? I can prove it. This is a story about how I did it, why I did it and the results I got from it. You can do it too. What, you don’t like free publicity for little work? I know you do, read on. The Setup I live in Cleveland, Ohio, and I’m a die-hard... Read More »

Blogs Will Evolve & Integrate Into Google Search Results, Eventually

Cleveland recruiting & blogging guru Joel Cheesman points out that blog results are beginning to show up in the regular Google results. Yeah, they’re probably testing, but I argue it’s going to go further as time goes by. Look, there are now 63 million blogs out there according to Technorati. These blogs are like little tadpoles right now, but watch out, some are going to grow up. And what happens when a blog grows up? It turns into a frog? No, it stops... Read More »

Jim Kukral Is Now Available For Online Marketing Consulting Gigs In Cleveland & Beyond

The video below pretty much explains it all. Essentially, some things have changed in my job status and responsibilities, so I’m now open to go out and do what I love to do, which is to help people and businesses be successful online through use of creative online marketing techniques. I’m based in Cleveland, Ohio, so if you’re a small business out there, or an individual who’s looking to get online, or take your brand online, and do it right, so that... Read More »

Cleveland Internet & Marketing Gurus Know How To Deliver The Goods

You know, I always thought I was the only Internet marketing geek here in Cleveland. Not true, over the past year or so I’ve begun to find out that many talented Cleveland people are also pushing the envelope of web technology and creative marketing ideas. Here’s mashup of a few finds just from this week alone. Cleveland’s own recruiting/HR blogging expert, Joel Cheeseman has just been featured in the Wall Street Journal. “I can work in my pajamas... Read More »

My Best Blogger Award From The Affiliate Summit

This is my blog, so I can be self-promotional, right? That’s still allowed here right? :) Ok, good. A few weeks ago I happened to win an award for “Best Blogger” from the Affiliate Summit event. You will notice the winning badge for it on the right of this blog. I also just got the actual award photo taken by my studio-mate and local Cleveland photographer Hal Stata. It’s a very nice award, and I’m grateful for it. Having been blogging since... Read More »

The Cheeze Comes To My Radio Show Today @ 1pm

Today’s guest (@ 1pm EST, please call in! (646) 915-9539) on Free Online Marketing Ideas Radio Show is Joel Cheesman, award-winning blogger and fellow Clevelander, and yes, creative online marketer. Joel and I will be talking about a few of his projects, as well as a very interesting story about Joel auctioning himself off on eBay. Cheezhead author Joel Cheesman, president of HRSEO and Oaseo, is one of the most widely-read bloggers on emerging recruitment issues in... Read More »

Doppelganger Watch: Jimmy Kukral Spotted Buying Skiis

I have always been fascinated with people who share my name. Fortunately for me, now with the Internet I am able to monitor my name showing up anywhere in the world through Google and Yahoo news alerts. If you don’t use this technique, you’re missing out. You can, for free, setup news alerts on your name, your company names, your competitors, etc.. Anyone. I have about 30 setup and have it set to email me immediately when a “hit” is found. Go to http://news.google.com/... Read More »

My Story (FanProtest.com) On Channel 3 News

I’ll write a full blog entry about this at a later date, but you can see the story in archive on WKYC.com. Enjoy. Video: Jim Kukral on WKYC.com. December 18th, 2006  Read More →

Free Online Marketing Ideas Radio Show - December 19, 2006

Today’s show was just me, all alone. If you didn’t catch it live like the rest, you can listen to the archives here. Reminder, their won’t be a show next week due to the holidays, but I will pick it back up on Jan 02, 2007. SHOW NOTES: I spoke about my latest quick media hit website/story at www.fanprotest.com. I also talked about my latest idea “Donut Juice” :) Hopefully Dunkin Donuts will be sending me a check soon. The rest of the show was... Read More »

Giving Back: Local Entrepreneurism

Ben writes a good blog about giving back as an entrepreneur. He wants to reach out to other, local entrepreneurs in hopes of finding ways to help each other. I’ve been in this same boat for some time now here in Cleveland. Until recently, for the last 7-years or so, I’ve stayed underground and out of the local spotlight simply because my work has taken me global (online). There was really no need for me to focus locally. That’s changing. I recently have... Read More »