My name is Clayton McIlrath and I am an entrepreneur currently living in CO. I personally enjoy the process of learning, exploring, and doing all things creative as well as sharing my experiences with others. Being an entrepreneur and business owner, I hope that my experiences may help someone else start their own venture and find success and freedom as I have! Feel free to contact me anytime for questions or opportunities.

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Market Yourself: Research

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Clay doing homeworkI started off my series in Marketing Yourself with a little self-discovery. After a decent amount of feedback, I realized that not many people understand or know some basic principles of effective marketing such as researching geographic, demographic, and psychographic data. Hopefully this post will give a little insight to what these terms mean and how to use the data for marketing.

Market Yourself: Self Discovery

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motivationOver the past few months, I’ve been working hard to start my own business and grow on a personal level to master new concepts and skills. I’ve also been making a larger effort to get involved socially and network with new and interesting individuals. These months have really taught me well in what it takes to get a business off the ground and I’ve grown so much on a personal and professional level. Today I want to share my motivation with others, and show you how to use passion as a competitive edge to market yourself effectively both online and off.

How to deal with clients: Patience

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When dealing with clients/customers we have to deal with crap situations that test our patience levels and we have to find a balance between good customer service and being a pushover. It’s important to know how to be patient, so that you can provide quality customer service as well as learn how to control your [...]

Lansing Web Design

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All about SEO Can anyone say, “Misleading title” ?? While this title may be misleading, there’s a good explanation for it… it’s called Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is a process of structuring code and content in a way that Search Engines and other tracking software can easily recognize, categorize, and parse. It’s an important [...]

Recent Projects 1

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It’s sad, my main passion and skills are in front-end development (XHTML, CSS, JS) but it’s something people rarely notice. All the creativity and design is usually credited to the designer.. but do you know how much time and effort it takes to take an amazing, unique and complex design and turn it into a [...]

Presidents that Fail in Business Management

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I’ve been really focused lately on Business Management and learning how to properly manage a business. Psychology has always been a strong suit of mine and lately I’ve been doing more project management with Chosen. I’ve really found myself successful at managing, but it’s a time consuming and delicate process. You have to always be [...]

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