Cotton Rohrscheib

Tiny Toes in the Sand…

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:34:54 PDT

So when I was a kid we never really went to the beach, we always would go to our family place in Heber Springs for a week, possibly trek our way up to either Dogpatch or Silver Dollar City for a day or two and that was our vacation. Wasn’t ever a big deal for [...]

Ask Me About Pleth Agency of Record / Client Retainer Relationships…

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:05:30 PDT

Have you ever thought about how cool it would be to have an in-house marketing team that you could bounce ideas off of? Not only that, but what if this team also brought you ideas for marketing your business, not just the same old ideas, but ideas that come from a fresh perspective outside your [...]

Prayers for Moore, Oklahoma

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:08:12 PDT

It’s hard to imagine anything worse than Joplin or Tuscaloosa, but I think it’s safe to say that Moore, Oklahoma will now be the deadliest tornado on record, the death toll this morning is reported to be at 91 (many of those are children). It’s safe to say that that number is fluid at this [...]

Jigoshop Product Addons Extension -vs- Native Jigoshop Product Variables / Attributes

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:55:36 PDT

Instead of using the native Jigoshop attribute functionality that’s built into Jigoshop (that sometimes gives customers problems until they understand it’s functionality), I’ve been using an alternative extension as an add-on to Jigoshop called Product Addons. The Product Add-Ons extension allows you to add additional data fields to your individual product pages. That means you [...]

Product Variations w/ Jigoshop

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:30:38 PDT

The Jigoshop plugin is probably one of the best e-commerce plugins for WordPress I’ve ever seen, it’s extremely adaptable to almost any kind of scenario a client can throw at you, and it’s extremely scalable since there are tons of extensions available for it. Probably my biggest frustration with the plugin however is the way [...]

What are your thoughts on the Internet Sales Tax / Marketplace Fairness Act?

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Sat, 11 May 2013 00:35:21 PDT

Last week there was a lot of airtime devoted to the “marketplace fairness act” on just about every news / talk station that I listen to. For those of you that are out of the loop, the “marketplace fairness act” is basically an internet sales tax, and last week it passed the senate and has [...]

Proud Father of a Child Superstar!

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:30:13 PDT

Okay, so I’m sitting in a high school gymnasium wire-framing a website with about a hundred or so actors all in costume waiting for their scene to be called out over the loudspeaker. It’s a pretty cool experience to say the least. Spencer has had a blast this morning getting to know the rest of [...]

Levon Helm Documentary

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 05:20:22 PDT

I’m pretty stoked, the documentary about one of my all-time favorite performers (and homeboy from Turkey Scratch, Arkansas), Levon Helm, is set to be released real soon. I’ve seen a lot of good reviews of the film already. In case you haven’t seen the preview trailers, see below… John W. Barry recently wrote: You learn [...]

Changes: Moving Into New Office!

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:36:55 PDT

This has been a pretty crazy week around here… As a lot of you are already aware, up until this past week I’ve had what a lot of people would consider an awesome run. I’ve been able to work from home, probably 80% of the time, for the past 7 years now. I’ve had the [...]

213 Days Until .buzz TLD

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:49:59 PDT

The other day I made mention that one of my good friends was on the verge of launching one of the most exciting tech startups that I’ve seen in a long time right here in Central Arkansas, .buzz. When a lot of people think startups they typically think about products and services like Facebook & [...]

Updated: Spencer’s Big Break…

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:22:36 PDT

Okay, so here’s something that just totally came out of left field today. I’ve been going back and forth w/ a representative from the movie, ‘Greater: The Brandon Burlsworth Story‘, and long story short, Spencer is going to be in the movie!!! He’s going to be playing the role of baby Aaron, which is Brandon’s [...]

EP:026 – The Cotton Club Podcast

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:11:25 PDT

In episode 26 of The Cotton Club Podcast with Brant Collins & Keith Crawford we discuss the events of the recent week including the Boston Marathon Bombing, the American Airlines Computer Outage, the Ricin laced letters mailed to the White House, and most recently the fertilizer plant explosion near Waco, Texas. I think a lot [...]

Lots of .buzz in Central Arkansas…

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:08:05 PDT

There are some pretty big things getting ready to happen here in Central Arkansas and I’m pretty excited about the fact that I can sort of let the cat out of the bag, so to speak. My good friend, Bill Doshier, is in China right now wrapping up the final arrangements for the launch of [...]

Recognizing Radar Signatures

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:37:08 PDT

Now that I’ve confessed that I’m a storm-chaser wannabe meteorologist these days and faced just about as many “are you crazy?” speeches that you can imagine, I’m going to be adding some content about our storms that we chase as well as some storm related blog posts to this already totally random blog. Your first [...]

Chasing Storms…

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:24:59 PDT

For those of you that know me in real life, you are already aware of the fact that I’ve wanted to chase storms for a long time now, probably every since I saw the movie ‘Twister’, but most recently since I met up with Reed Timmer and his crew as they passed through Central Arkansas [...]

EP:025 – The Cotton Club Podcast

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:10:43 PDT

As I mentioned the other night, The Cotton Club Podcast is back online after an almost 2 year hiatus. Last night my good friends Brant Collins and Keith Crawford joined me on the show to discuss a wide variety of topics that will probably surprise a lot of you. Be forewarned, the new shows are [...]

Bringing Back The Podcast…

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:41:32 PDT

Somewhere around July of 2011 things really exploded at Pleth and we really hit a growth spurt. I think back in the day we had like 3 or 4 employees and were primarily doing business out of our Conway and Batesville offices and today we probably have like 20 or something employees, I don’t know [...]

Meeting the Duck Dynasty Crew

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:50:57 PDT

This past weekend the guys from Duck Dynasty snuck into our hometown of Conway, Arkansas for an event they were speaking at in Greenbrier (which is a few miles north of us). They borrowed one of our close friend’s airplane to bring the guys and their wives into town so we had a little heads [...]

Thoughts from Easter 2013…

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:19:19 PDT

I just finally got around to uploading photos from Easter weekend today. We had a great time, my parents were in town for Spencer’s first Easter with us and Donna’s parents came over and we all hung out and dyed Easter eggs the night before and Donna fixed my favorite dinner in the whole world, [...]

Saturday Mornings Meant Rasslin’

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:19:07 PDT

This morning my son and I were hard at work in the kitchen taking Tupperware bowls out of their designated drawer and tossing them about the room, this is a favorite pastime of his, in fact there’s a new YouTube video posted showing him doing just that. I got to thinking this morning how much [...]

Beware: I Have a Facebook Imposter…

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:24:38 PDT

Now the FBI and Facebook are both aware, and I’ve notified the other guy that he’s impersonating, I think it’s time to have some fun now… — Cotton Rohrscheib (@cottonr) March 21, 2013 Just when you think you’ve seen all the stupid that this world can throw at you, something happens and you have to [...]

25th Annual Diabetes Alert Day

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:37:40 PDT

As I’m sure many of you that I’m friends with on Facebook & Twitter are already aware, I was diagnosed w/ Type II Adult Onset Diabetes back in December. A week in the hospital is a heck of a gift for your 40th birthday huh? It actually goes a lot deeper than that, not only [...]

My Pancreas Hates Me…

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 06:59:49 PDT

I just sat down and ordered myself one of those diabetic bracelets a few minutes ago. This might not sound like a big deal, and you might even ask yourself why I haven’t already done this, after all I was diagnosed back in December of last year. You see, for me I’ve been looking at [...]

Video: Our Story of Hope

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:46:55 PDT

About six months ago Donna and I were approached by NLC Creative to do a video interview with us where we openly discussed losing our daughter and adopting our son. This past weekend the video was shown at all NLC campuses around the state leading up to the new series for Easter weekend titled, “A Story [...]

Newest Toy: Baofeng UV-5R Ham Radio

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:28:12 PDT

Why in the world would someone with very little spare time pick up another hobby, especially one that’s going to require him to be tested in order to even participate? I wish I could give you the answer but I don’t even know myself. I think I want to get my amateur radio certification (technician [...]

The History of the Eagles on Showtime

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:08:54 PDT

The other night my wife and I sat down and watched both parts of ‘The History of the Eagles‘ on Showtime. I have said many times that they music being produced today can’t hold a candle to what we had in the 70′s and the 80′s and I’ll stand by that. This documentary covered The [...]

Bath Time w/ Granny…

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:27:55 PST

A few weeks ago my Mom introduced Spencer to the joys of bubble bath while she was in town for a visit. Some of you may have seen the super awesome photos my dad snapped of the whole ordeal. A good time was had by all involved. Well, fast forward to just a few minutes ago… I [...]

Happy Birthday Spencer!

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:00:36 PST

It’s been 9 months now since Spencer came into our lives, it just seems like yesterday that we got a phone call from our attorney asking if we could be in Kansas at 1:30pm that following day for a hearing where we could take custody of of this precious 3 month old baby boy that [...]

My Wife is Amazing!!

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:55:03 PST

It takes a pretty special woman to keep me organized and out of trouble, I’ll admit that I’m pretty high maintenance at times. We are fortunate in the fact that she doesn’t work a 9-5 job, but when you factor in all that goes into keeping this house in order, and add in a dog [...]

Growing Up in Helena Wasn’t Bad…

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:37:28 PST

Today there was an article in Arkansas Business stating that my hometown, Helena-West Helena, might not be able to make payroll this week and that some of the elected officials might not get paid. I inadvertently started a conversation when I shared this story on Facebook. I know that this news may not come as [...]

Thoughts on the Grammy’s…

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:04:46 PST

The other night I had every intention in the world of watching the Grammy’s so I could see their all-star tribute to Levon but for the life of me I couldn’t make myself do it. I’m sure a big part of what I’m fixing to say has a lot to do with the fact that [...]

New Responsive Child Theme for Genesis Framework: The Cotton Club

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:29:36 PST

Typically I like to do a redesign of this blog each year, and I’ve known in my head exactly what I wanted to do with this iteration for quite some time, unfortunately, I’ve been pretty busy and haven’t had the spare time to dedicate to this project. Recently, I forced myself to sit down and [...]

The Helena Start-Up Challenge!

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:38:57 PST

I’m honored to have been asked to serve as one of the judges in the upcoming Helena Start-Up Challenge that awards winning entrepreneurs with seed capital to turn their business concepts into start-ups in my hometown of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas. The winner of the challenge will receive $25,000 and the runner-up will receive $15,000 to [...]

Diabetes Update: Crazy Vision + Foot Pain / Sores

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:15:36 PST

I’ve had a couple of people ask me to post an update as to how things are going w/ the whole Diabetes thing so here goes. Before I go any further though, I’m going to go ahead and give you a heads up disclaimer, I’m going to be talking about feet. I know some of [...]

Pleth Recognized as Small Business of the Year!

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:35:09 PST

Okay, so I’m a week late getting this added to the blog, but it’s been a crazy week around here, I promise! Anyway, last Wednesday at the Batesville Chamber of Commerce Business Expo (hosted at the University of Arkansas Community College in Batesville), Pleth was named as the 2013 Small Business of the Year! Needless [...]

Thanks Trump! Expect Fewer Rants from Me…

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:33:31 PST

This past week I had my eyes opened to something that I haven’t given a lot of thought to in a long time, the funny part is who I can attribute my eye-opening experience to, Donald Trump. It’s no great secret that I’m not a huge fan of “The Donald”, in fact, he and I [...]

Weight Loss, Diabetes, and Blood Pressure

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:37:37 PST

I just wanted to post a quick update for those of you that have asked how I’m doing with my new regimen of lifestyle changes (diet, exercise, and nutritional supplements). Long story short I received a phone call the other day from my doctor where he told me to basically start weening myself off of [...]

Inspire International: Nutritional Supplement & Product Information for Lifebeat, Lifethin Plus, Lifethin Shake

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:58:37 PST

Since I lead a pretty transparent life and share the most mundane things under the sun on Facebook and Twitter, just about everyone who follows me and my blog already is well aware of the fact that I was diagnosed w/ Type II Diabetes, a disease that has literally subtracted people from my life that [...]

Win a Google Nexus 7 from Pleth!!

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:17:48 PST

Pleth, LLC will be giving away a Google Nexus 7 at the 4th Annual Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce Business Expo & Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, January 23rd. This years business expo will be held at Independence Hall on the campus of UACCB (2005 White Drive) and is open to the public from 12pm – [...]

The Rohrscheib Family Christmas Blog 2012

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 06:02:37 PST

It’s that time of year again. Last night Donna and I took Spencer to his first ever Candlelight Service at New Life Church, and I think it’s safe to say he had a blast (I sure know we did). On the way home last night I got to thinking about how special this Christmas is [...]

Turning 40 & The End of the World

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:01:58 PST

Okay, so I have set this blog post to publish at one minute after midnight on December 21st, which according to the Mayan calendar is supposedly when the world will end. Ironically, they picked my 40th birthday to be the end of the world, go figure. I guess if you are reading this, then… well, [...]

Update: Diabetes Picked the Wrong Guy!

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:29:03 PST

I’ve had some people ask so I figured I would post an update as to how things are going two weeks after being released from an unexpected week-long stay at the hospital where I learned that I have type 2 Diabetes. I’m happy to report that my blood sugar levels have stabilized at our target [...]

Using [shortcodes] in WordPress Widgets

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:20:00 PST

I figured out a cool trick this evening that I thought I would share. Let’s say you have a shortcode that you would like to display inside of a wordpress text widget area, just locate your theme directory and edit your functions.php file to include the following: add_filter( 'widget_text', 'shortcode_unautop'); add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode'); Related Posts:September [...]

Diabetes Picked the Wrong Guy!

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 05:18:11 PST

I’ve had a lot of people call, text, and email me this weekend to ask why I was suddenly off the radar and in the hospital last week. I figured it would be easier to blog everything once than it would be to respond to each and everyone separately, so here goes… I have secretly [...]

For Sale: 2002 Audi TT Roadster – $10,000

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:16:42 PST

Let’s see, I finally made my mind up yesterday that I was going to sell the car, put it on my blog last night w/out even knowing what I was going to be asking for it and I’ve already had 5 people shoot me texts and inbox messages so I figured I had better do [...]

I’m selling my Audi TT Roadster!!

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:23:43 PST

A few months back I was faced with the reality that my two-seated, Audi TT Roadster Convertible, was no longer a practical automobile. I think it was probably that warning sticker on the side of the drivers door w/ a picture of an infant car seat w/ a red ghostbuster styled circle and cross-mark across [...]

Creating an RSS Feed from WordPress Tags

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:56:40 PST

One of the things that WordPress really does well in my opinion is generate feeds out of the box for posts, and even feeds for post categories are fairly easy to pull together, but today I was needing to put together an RSS feed from post tags. For those of you that might be unfamiliar [...]

Operation: Ortner Adoption!

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:23:48 PST

Update: 11/13/12 – I’ve had a lot of people ask how we did w/ this event and what the final number was. I’m happy to report that according to our estimates we are somewhere in the neighborhood of $21,000.00. God Bless Everyone that Took Part!!! A while back Donna and I asked Mike & Melisa [...]

Hope United: Dinner w/ Colleen Nick

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:46:15 PDT

My wife Donna and I are hosting a dinner tomorrow night, actually several dinners are going on simultaneously around the state to raise awareness for the work that the Morgan Nick Foundation does. Through the “marvels of technology” we are linking together video feeds from several dinner parties from around the state to hear a [...]

Visit Pleth at Conway Business Expo

cotton.rohrscheib@pleth.com (Cotton Rohrscheib) — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:56:02 PDT

Just wanted to let everyone know that Pleth will have a booth at the Conway Business Expo and Taste of Conway on October 4th, 2012. Business Expo and Retail Showcase is a business-to-business trade show presented by Southwestern Energy and hosted by the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce. This daylong event is a great opportunity [...]