{"id":2440,"date":"2018-04-22T12:15:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2018-04-22T09:48:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T13:48:18","slug":"speaker-spotlight-ray-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker-spotlight-ray-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Ray Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">Ray is the owner of SixFour Web Design &amp; Marketing, which focuses on meeting the unique marketing needs of small businesses and non-profit organizations. He also serves as a Mentor at the Small Business Center at Forsyth Technical Community College.Active in the local community, Ray is a member of, and sits on the board, of several community non-profit organizations.<\/header>\n<header><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">Ray will be presenting <strong>&#8220;You Don\u2019t Have Any Business Cards?<\/strong><\/header>\n<header><\/header>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">This happens a lot at formal networking events, but it happens even more frequently at WordCamp. Do you feel intimidated when it\u2019s time to give your \u201c30 second commercial\u201d? Do you run out of things to talk about once you\u2019ve exchanged names?Effective networking is an important part of building your WordPress business. This presentation will help you get past the \u201cgrip and grin\u201d stigma that people associate with networking and cover some ways that you can get the most out of mixing it up at networking groups, \u201cbusiness after hours\u201d meetups, and of course the Hallway Track at conferences like WordCamp. Whether your an introvert or an extrovert, you\u2019re sure to pick up a thing or two<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray is the owner of SixFour Web Design &amp; Marketing, which focuses on meeting the unique marketing needs of small businesses and non-profit organizations. He also serves as a Mentor at the Small Business Center at Forsyth Technical Community College.Active in the local community, Ray is a member of, and sits on the board, of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker-spotlight-ray-mitchell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaker Spotlight: Ray Mitchell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7973571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Speaker Spotlight: Check out @SixFourWeb present \"You Don\u2019t Have Any Business Cards?\" at #WCRaleigh","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9CHoB-Dm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7973571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}