Ramon Ray

Unapologetically not boring, Small Business Expert

Real world tools to take your small business to the next level

About Ramon Ray

Ramon Ray is an entrepreneur, author and speaker who loves burnt pancakes, bacon and eggs. His passion and biggest professional accomplishment is interviewing “main street” small business owners and entrepreneurs and sharing their stories. Ramon is not just an ivory tower geek, but as a former technology consultant, he has hands-on experience in a variety of technologies including social media, mobile computing, computer networks, online software and more.

Ramon is the founder and producer of Smart Hustle Media, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Alice and he’s started four companies and sold two. He has been invited as an expert witness to the United States Congress, invited by the Office of the President of the United States to speak at the White House on personal branding. He’s interviewed President Obama in the President’s first live Google Hangout, and was part of the US Delegation to India, led by Ivanka Trump for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit.

Ramon’s expertise is technology, marketing, sales, business startup and growth and his favorite is personal branding. Over his extensive career, Ramon has written thousands of articles, spoken to thousands of business owners and impacted hundreds of thousands of small business owners and entrepreneurs to help their businesses thrive.

“While I was trying to build an altruistic selling environment Ramon was living one. His passion for helping small businesses is second to none and he ALWAYS sees his strategies through the lens of the customer.”

– Bill Hoffman, OpenTech Alliance

About
Ramon Ray

Ramon Ray is an entrepreneur, author and speaker who loves burnt pancakes, bacon and eggs. His passion and biggest professional accomplishment is interviewing “main street” small business owners and entrepreneurs and sharing their stories. Ramon is not just an ivory tower geek, but as a former technology consultant, he has hands-on experience in a variety of technologies including social media, mobile computing, computer networks, online software and more.

Ramon is the founder and producer of Smart Hustle Media, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Alice and he’s started four companies and sold two. He has been invited as an expert witness to the United States Congress, invited by the Office of the President of the United States to speak at the White House on personal branding. He’s interviewed President Obama in the President’s first live Google Hangout, and was part of the US Delegation to India, led by Ivanka Trump for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit.

Ramon’s expertise is technology, marketing, sales, business startup and growth and his favorite is personal branding. Over his extensive career, Ramon has written thousands of articles, spoken to thousands of business owners and impacted hundreds of thousands of small business owners and entrepreneurs to help their businesses thrive.

“While I was trying to build an altruistic selling environment Ramon was living one. His passion for helping small businesses is second to none and he ALWAYS sees his strategies through the lens of the customer.”

– Bill Hoffman, OpenTech Alliance

Ramon in action

CBS 880 Interview with Joe Connolly

Small Business Festival Presentation

Virtual presentation Increase your cashflow

 Sizzle Reel Ramon Ray

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Ramon shares how and why it's important to build YOUR personal brand and be a CELEBRITY in your market! Ramon Ray will show, from his personal experience, the 5 steps necessary to build your personal brand and ensure that YOU (not your logo or your business cards) are on people’s minds when they think of the product or service you sell.

A solid personal brand makes you the ONLY choice and will crush your competition! Ramon will share HIS personal journey in building his brand resulting in book deals, speaking engagements and MORE SALES!

Social content is all about creating relevant content that creates a relationship with you and your customers and potential customers. In this presentation, Ramon will give you a step by step overview of the best practices to leverage social content in your business.

He’ll share concrete examples of what companies have done RIGHT and examples of what companies have done WRONG. He’ll leave you with “take home” insights in how to use content marketing as a powerful tool for business growth.

We're in a world where sharing dominates (ie Uber), where speed is the norm, where mobile is everywhere and where competition is closer than a mouse click away.

Will your business survive? What can you do about it? This presentation will give you the foundations and tools for success in your business - to THRIVE in today's new digital "Uber" economy.

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