Free Webinars for Creatives and Small Business Owners to Gain Vital Visibility

Posted on April 30, 2012 by itees

I’ve created an online webinar series with the intention of attracting creatives and small business owners who are not seeing the web traffic and social media audience they desire for gaining new opportunities, clients and more importantly, sales.

In Hoboken and Jersey City we have a stimulating, thriving artist community, but most creatives are struggling for a number of reasons, and most definitely because they don’t use the web to their advantage. Some still have no website. Some build a simple website presence and leave it, thinking it’ll now do all the work for them. And some don’t like or use social media.

Wake up people, with a little help from your friend here, you could see some dramatic changes.

So, I’m writing this post to outline how these webinars will directly effect YOUR business.

1- If you are not expanding your mind everyday, and learning new things, you are moving backward, not forward.

2- These webinars are currently FREE. Once aired and recorded, in replay mode.

3- The topics I have chosen are critical and power-packed with actionable tips. Topics include Facebook Timeline branding and marketing must haves, Ultimate Marketing Tips, How to Create Effective Marketing Videos, Print vs Web for Gaining New Clients and Doing Business, Writing Rich SEO Content for Websites and Blogs, Alliance and Social Networking, and Work and Life, Finding the “Me” Time. (The Fall has totally different online classes and speakers.)

4 – The guest speakers have brilliant expertise and were chosen by me.

5- When you implement what you have learned, it WILL change your business.

Trust me when I say that I am giving you the information you need to propel your craft, visibility and the world is waiting to hear from you.

What do you have to lose? Tune in, watch a few and I know you will be back from more. Check out these testimonials:

Visit: http://broadcastlouder.com/classes/creativity-abundance-2-0/

Halloween in Hoboken, Jersey City and remembering Queens, NY

Posted on October 29, 2009 by itees

When I was a kid growing up in Queens, New York, I remember as Halloween approached, being excited and also a bit frightened. In those days, the night before Halloween was known as, “mischief night,” and it still is. The supermarkets and groceries would sell out of eggs and the art supply stores, of chalk. What the kids were doing with these items, I’m sure you all know, because like me, for days afterward, we’d see eggs all over the place.

Back in Queens in the 70s, they used to grind up the chalk, load it into socks, and leave marks on houses that didn’t decorate or give out candy. That sure was quite a cleaning job afterward. Today, it would be much harder to do, because there are tv cameras out on the streets, watching.

One thing I definitely remember is how much colder it was back then. Some years the snow was piled so high! Anyone who doesn’t believe in global warming must not remember what winter was like in the 60s and 70s. My mother would make me wear my warm, bulky coat underneath my costume which always made me feel like Ralphie in A Christmas Story.

In Hoboken, every year they have the “Ragamuffin Parade,” which is quite a spectacle. Marching down Washington Street, it has become one of the biggest events in town. In the 80s, when I moved to Hoboken, I can can remember the parade was always days before Halloween and in the afternoon. Not as many people could attend or march in it. A few years ago Hoboken finally realized the parade was best on the actual holiday, and later in the day, so here it comes again this Saturday. Hundreds of people with great costumes, cars/floats, and the costumed pets of course. They can march in this parade and then head into NYC for that parade.

In my neighorhood of Jersey City Heights, the kids also get into their costumes and with their parents they march up and down Central Avenue seeking out candy, and have their photograph taken at various local stores with Halloween setups. I’m usually out there handing out candy bars.

This year, I will have a bit of a costume of my own, and be heading down to Hoboken, but sadly, I will miss the parade. I’ll be seeing some performers dressed up, in Hudson Theatre Ensemble‘s Goldilocks and the Three Bears, at The Hudson School. Then I’ll be doing some trick or treating of my own, with friends.

“Green” through the years and in 2009

Posted on September 19, 2009 by itees

Over the years I have donated my design work to various organizations including the Hoboken 9/11 Memorial Committee, Jubilee Center of Hoboken (for Children), The Central Avenue Special Improvement District, www.jcheights.com, Actors Shakespeare Company at NJCU, www.ascnj.org, Hudson Theatre Ensemble,www.hudsontheatreensemble.com and Chameleon Theatre Company Ltd, http://chameleontheatrecompanyltd.org.

A few years ago, I launched this line of environmental concept t-shirts to promote “green” living. They are meant to be suggestive, for example, encouraging people to ride a bicycle or to stop littering. The response to these t-shirts was quite positive, but I knew there was still more I could do. I was inspired to make a greater impact environmentally, using my graphic design skills.

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In April 2009, I partnered with Mary Jo Rhodes, author of nature books, to create a custom blog, FROGS ARE GREEN, with which we hope to increase awareness about the massive worldwide amphibian decline (up to one-third of species are threatened with extinction). Because frogs are an indicator species of a healthy environment, we also hope to spread the message that healthy frogs mean a healthy planet for all.

The joy of working on this blog has been that we are reaching people all over the world who care about our cause, and it’s a great way to spread our message.