{"id":13145,"date":"2019-05-06T08:32:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T13:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=13145"},"modified":"2019-04-29T08:50:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T13:50:33","slug":"celebrity-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2019\/05\/celebrity-ceo.html","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Celebrity CEO by Ramon Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/celebrityceo.com\">The Celebrity CEO by Ramon Ray<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-13147 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/celebrity-ceo-book-e1556544996829-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover of The Celebrity CEO by Ramon Ray\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/celebrity-ceo-book-e1556544996829-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/celebrity-ceo-book-e1556544996829.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Summary: Community building in a way small town entrepreneurs can identify with. Good section on tools, and lots of timeless techniques.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span id=\"ember2986\" class=\"ember-view\">The title sounds a bit grandiose to small town ears, but the way <\/span><span data-entity-hovercard-id=\"urn:li:fs_miniProfile:ACoAAAABvxQB_K0yFIfuYZ2g5UGSSXlLDvHap1Q\">Ramon Ray<\/span><span id=\"ember2991\" class=\"ember-view\"> talks about building community will sound very familiar. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"ember2991\" class=\"ember-view\">You are the face of your business. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"ember2991\" class=\"ember-view\">You&#8217;re part of a small community. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span id=\"ember2991\" class=\"ember-view\">Serve people like they matter to your whole network.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"ember2991\" class=\"ember-view\">Of course, the section on online marketing tools will age as tools change, but half the book is spent setting out the timeless approach. <\/span><span id=\"ember2991\" class=\"ember-view\">Whether you&#8217;re serving a local market or getting beyond geographic limits, take your small-town sensibility with you.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ember2991\" class=\"ember-view\">Good stuff for rural entrepreneurs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Find out more and buy it from <a href=\"http:\/\/celebrityceo.com\">The Celebrity CEO page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: Ramon Ray is my friend and sent me a copy of this book. I like the book, so I&#8217;m sharing it. Other friends have sent me books that I did not review because I didn&#8217;t find them useful enough to share.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13150\" style=\"width: 761px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13150\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13150\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2016-03-31-Ramon-Ray-and-Becky-McCray-at-SMTulsa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"751\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2016-03-31-Ramon-Ray-and-Becky-McCray-at-SMTulsa.jpg 751w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2016-03-31-Ramon-Ray-and-Becky-McCray-at-SMTulsa-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramon Ray and Becky McCray pause for a selfie at SMTulsa 2016.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/guided-tour.html\">Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Get our updates<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Celebrity CEO by Ramon Ray Summary: Community building in a way small town entrepreneurs can identify with. Good section on tools, and lots of timeless techniques.\u00a0 The title sounds a bit grandiose to small town ears, but the way Ramon Ray talks about building community will sound very familiar. 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