Helping tell an exciting story with @SanJuanWBC Hotel

Chef Raúl Correa SanJuan Water & Beach Club

We are always looking for ways to help share local business’ stories and learn from the new relationships we establish when we get hired to help tell them.

We are excited to work with local boutique hotel San Juan Water and Beach Club , @SanJuanWBC on Twitter, on a new story that has unfolded thanks to the hard work of Chef Raúl Correa. He was nominated by Food and Wine Magazine for their People’s Best New Chef Gulf Coast category.

As people learn about Chef Raúl and what amazing meals he creates for Zest Restaurant, our community can read more about his experience as you vote for him in the category Gulf Coast.  Voting started today and ends on March 18th!

As @rj_c stated today on his blog, we are rooting for him to win and the only way to do that is by voting for him!

You can Tweet to @FandW (Food & Wine) and let them know you voted for Chef Raúl Correa for the Gulf Coast Region and use the hashtag #PeoplesBNC.


F&W PBNC

 

Thanks for Trusting us with your New Website @AlianzaPR

Thumbnail of Alianza para un Puerto Rico sin Drogas

We took on the task of re-designing the website for a non-profit organization in Puerto Rico called Alianza para un Puerto Rico sin Drogas. We are glad to announce that their new website is up and running. We would like to thank all those who collaborated with us on this project specially Mindoven, Michael Castro, and Bianca Estrada.

To learn more about @AlianzaPR, visit their website, add them on Twitter and Facebook. Thanks to the organization (Roxanna, Melissa, & Raquel who worked closely with us)  for trusting us with this task.

If you feel your website is not converting browsers into clients feel free to contact us directly to see how are team and partners can make that happen.

 

Brainstorming Sessions

Early Morning January 10, 2013.

Every year we try to come up with new ideas to implement for our business and come up with new projects to help us create more connections with people who might have the same interests.

As a small business, instituting new projects or revisiting old ones and putting a different spin on them has helped us maintain our heads above water when the well has run dry. At the end of last year, Raul decided that we were going to do small brainstorming sessions after various small business people asked him for some advice about projects they wanted to get off the ground.

Brain Drain Game

Raul gets countless of calls from friends and acquaintances that want to do what we call brain drain; pick your brain for ideas, go forth with them, and never contact Raul or myself to know if they were successful.

After many years of playing the brain drain game, we decided to start creating sessions that would serve many purposes.

Disruptive Approach

One purpose would be to help individuals with an ongoing or new project that needed a creative or disruptive way of tackling the obstacles they were facing to get the project off the ground.

The Right Technology

A second purpose was to push entrepreneurs and small business owners to identify the right type of technology and platforms where they can connect with other like-minded individuals.

Getting the momentum going

Lastly, our goal is to also see these projects, through brainstorming sessions, come to fruition and have the small business owner state the success of the project.

Our First Sweet Session

Just recently a small business owner whose wife set up a cupcake, cake, and events company called, Dolce Maria’s Sweet Creations, approached Raúl for a Brainstorming session. We offered four brainstorming packages and they immediately scheduled a session the same week.

Once the session commenced, many ideas flowed between Raul and the client. As the session drew to a close, the clients appeared pleased with the key observations and recommendations offered.

The key objective was for the small business owner to see their value proposition in the services and product they are providing.

Creating a Road Map

To close off the small project we sent a roadmap in the form of a document covering:

-       Overall objectives

-       Accomplishments met within the session

-       Primary and Secondary next Steps

-       Online, Communications, and Business Recommendations

-       Assistance with Pricing Strategy

-       Recommended Reading

-       Tips on using Images on Instagram and Pinterest

We would love to help you make those small or big ideas in your head into successful projects and businesses. Contact us directly.

 

New Partnership @ReceiptLoader Expense Tracking App

We would like share with you that we have partnered with the creators of ReceiptLoader, Pablo and Francisco Tirado of ML Studio, Inc. in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

ReceiptLoader Website

Free 30 day Trial*

The application can be downloaded for your iPhone or Android phones. Currently there is a 30 day (*or 30 receipt) Free Trial offer for if you want  to try the application out.

It would be great if you could also provide us some feedback on the application!

Soon enough we will be sharing more information here on our blog and on the receiptloader.com blog which should up and running in no time.

Also take a look at Raúl’s post with more information on the partnership Track Expenses with iPhone (or Android).

Puerto Rico 140Conf MeetUp unites Entrepreneurs

Recently Raul (@rj_c) has been helping out our friend @Mark_Hayward, owner of The Palmetto Guesthouse in Culebra, Puerto Rico, with organizing a 140Conf Meetup in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Once the details were finalized, we were able to spend time with @JeffPulver , founder of the 140Conf.com and @AlanWeinkrantz who helps with media relations of the #140Conf. We also met Gilad Zirkel and Marc Fischman from @Hashtagart (@Zirkel and @MarcF) who accompanied Jeff and Alan.

We stayed at the San Juan Marriott (Our Client and sponsor of the event) where the event took place and enjoyed conversations with people from all industries in Puerto Rico. The great thing about the event was that many of the individuals, 125 in total, were small businesses owners, entrepreneurs, web and app developers, bloggers who write on a variety of topics, and even a professional clown.

Jeff took the microphone and told us what sparked the #140Conf and what he expected people to learn while attending. One of the key takeaways that stuck in my head was that he wanted all types of people attending the event. There is no elitism and everyone from the farmer to the fisherman should attend this conference.

Prior to the event, Alan had the chance to tour and interview Dana Montenegro, owner of  Seriously Creative or @Space4Ideas on Twitter. This leads us to the video below where you can hear Dana explain the concept behind this unique workspace and his views on startups and entreprenurialship.

I agree with Dana when he says there are talented individuals on this island that are starting their own businesses and collaborating with like minded individuals provided that they are able to come together and meet. This is exactly what the 140Conferences are about; collaboration, innovation, and perhaps the chance to work together in order to create mutually beneficial opportunities.

If we are to enable these types of collaborations on the island we must find Sponsors to bring this 140Conf, that is becoming a global event, to Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. If you or your company are interested in Sponsoring, please let us know in the comments or contact form.

Were you at the #140Conf Meet-Up in San Juan last Tuesday? 

What were your key take aways?

Thanks to Alan Weinkrantz for the video.

 

CIMA goes along for the ride with Food Truck Freak in Chicago

As we write this, we are craving some of the Vegetarian options on some of the food trucks that can be located with the FoodTruckFreak.com .  I have to say that we are more than happy to be part of this awesome concept.

We want to thank Alex Levine for choosing CIMA IT as her business partner to help people in Chicago find their favorite food trucks. The website, in its Initial Phase, has the following:

  • Profiles of Food Trucks with
    • Yelp Reviews
    • Facebook Like Box
    • Foursquare Check Ins
    • Latest Tweets
    • Next Stop on Schedule
  • A Food Truck Locator
  • Truck menu
  • A comment area so people can leave their opinions on each food truck.
  • Blog with reviews of food trucks and experiences.

There are many extras to be added to the site. So if you are in Chicago or are planning to visit, stop by the site and take a look at the options these great culinary artists present to the public on wheels.

With just a few days as a live page, FTF has been mentioned in three news articles; one from London and two from Chicago:

Food Trucks are in gear to stay : Writes about how some people in the Food industry think that Food Trucks have come to a lull or will see its demise soon but sites like FTF prove otherwise.

 

Food Truck Freak helps you find trucks without Twitter Fuss : Writes about how FTF’s site has a feature that allows you to know where the food truck will be located in advance instead of guessing or checking twitter.

Stop the Twitter Stress! Find all your favorite Food Trucks the Easy Way : Writes about how FTF’s site aggregates and facilitates finding your favorite food trucks in one spot.

Our best wishes to @alexklevine and the rest of the FoodTruckFreak.com team.

 

 

Join the Alliance of @PapaHeroes

In collaboration with @RickLipsett of UNDODigital.com , CIMA IT Solutions  co-founders Raul Colon, Lucilla Feliciano, and several parent collaboraters, a new group of Super Heroes have emerged in the form of @PapaHeroes !

@PapaHeroes

 

Why the name Papá Heroes? At one point or another we thought and might still think that our parents could leap tall buildings, bend steel with their minds, or fly to our rescue when we needed them. And they did all of these feats without today’s new technological tools. But when these tools fall into the wrong hands, they  can be a dangerous thing for children and families.

 

DaddyKnows Comic Strip

 

We launched on Father’s Day , June 19th, 2011 with the hopes that dad’s and parents would share the information and sign up to be contributors and receive updates. Badges and banners were also created to post on blogs.

 

Badge or Banner for blog sites

 

You can follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

 

 

 

Thanks and Welcome @LatinaMomBlogs to the CIMA IT Family!

We are excited to add @LatinaMomBlogs, a service of Latina Moms Media, LLC, to our list of clients.

 

@LatinaMomBloggers

 

The site is a collaboration between Manny Ruiz, co-founder of Hispanicize and Latina bloggers, Piera Jolly of JollyMom and Eva Smith of Tech.Food.Life .

 

Eva Smith & Pierra Jolly

 

According to the Hispanicize platform:

” A service of Latina Moms Media, LLC and sister company of Hispanicize, Latina Mom Bloggers (www.LatinaMomBloggers.com) features the industry’s most comprehensive Word of Mouth marketing services targeting influential Latina moms, the most sought after purchase decision-makers in the fast growing $1 trillion Hispanic market.”

Feel free to visit the site and read content relevant to Latina mom bloggers

 

@LatinaMomBloggers

 

Follow them on Facebook and Twitter !

 

 

Basic Website Setup Starting at $495 (Regular Price $995)

We are searching for new ways to help small business owners improve there online presence.  We do offer services where we can customize your website and create a premium solid looking website.

For the entire month of June we will be offering a Basic Website Set up in WordPress with the following features:

  • Premium WordPress Theme
    • Choice of 6 WordPress themes
  • Customizations
  • Improved SEO
  • Upgrades and Support*
  • Maintenance*
  • Hosting*

*The $495 include basic set up (does not include upgrades, support, hosting, and maintenance which are included under the maintenance plan).

Pay the basic setup online and you will get a complimentary free month of our Social Media Assistance Services.





 

 

Here are samples and a demo of the 6 themes that you can choose from!

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If you need a more robust website we do offer premium website and blog design services.

 

 

Interviewed at Hispanicize Conference

Raul Colon, President and Co-Founder of CIMA IT Solutions was interviewed by La Opinion, a Spanish newspaper based in Los Angeles, about the Hispanicize 2011 Conference and his perspective about attracting brands to bloggers.

He was among 450 plus attendees at the 2nd annual conference for Public Relations and Social Media. Raul was invited to moderate and speak at several sessions last week.

Thanks to reporter Jorge Morales Almada for the interview and La Opinion for this opportunity to promote our small business.

A comercializar el blog by Jorge Morales Almada