Author: blueprintcreative
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Lessons on How to Make Your Non-profit Successful
I was invited earlier last week to serve as a panelist for the Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce’s Business Empowerment Networking Series (BENS) “Mission Possible: How to Make Your Non-profit Successful.” The keynote speakers were Norman Wedderbrun, President & CEO of Make a Wish Foundation of South Florida; Javier A. Soto, President & CEO of The…
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Small Business Website Design and Marketing Package
Cyber Monday Website Design Sale Starting at $500 Upgrade your company’s online presence or get a new website designed in time for 2013. Sale ends December 1, 2012 It’s that time of year to develop your strategy for next year’s business goals and develop a plan of action on how to increase visibility for your…
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City of Miami Gardens & PlayDate Miami Presents…Give & Play for Relay for Life
Residents and the entire South Florida community is invited to enjoy a fun-filled evening of games and music in support of the City of Miami Gardens’ Relay for Life team. MIAMI GARDENS, FL, April 11, 2011- In an effort to creatively engage the citizens of Miami Gardens and the South Florida community at large to…
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Sign of the times? New York Times Charging to Read Online
It was inevitable, and we knew it was coming. Citizen journalism, downsizing, social media takeover, Kindle, less print more digital…it was the sign of the times. A sign that print media was changing and changing fast. With less eyes on print and more online, newspapers and magazines alike had to think fast. How do we…
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Being Coached to Catch Your Own Fish
Let’s face it. Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh (Notice the Miami Heat connection?) are all great players, but without Eric Spoelstra as head coach the dynamic trio are essentially useless as a team. Steve Jobs, founder and CEO of Apple, but without his Board of Directors, CFO, and other executives, Apple couldn’t become…
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A Social Media Lesson From Miami’s Food Trucks (Part 1)
It seemed to have come from nowhere as if that infamous @Krispy Kreme “Hot Now” light came on. All of a sudden the Twitter universe lit up with talks about it, and if you weren’t expecting it, I guarantee you were left wondering Who? What? When? Where? and How? Like a cult following, the Miami…
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INROADS Announces 2010 Top 10 Providers
INROADS Announces 2010 Top 10 Providers of Corporate Internships for Minority Students United Technologies Heads List for Fourth Consecutive Year St. Louis, MO, January 24, 2011 — As INROADS celebrates its 40th year of developing and placing over 125,000 high performing minority students in salaried corporate internships with some of America’s leading companies, it is…
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Corporate Communications
Client: INROADS, Inc. Overview: INROADS develops and connects high promising minority students with salaried corporate internships at America’s leading companies. INROADS has earned the trust and respect of America’s Fortune 500 companies and have placed students in over 125,000 internships during its 40-year history. Objective: Create a national PR plan to highlight organizational milestones over…
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Restaurants and Brands Take Advantage of Festivus Hype
Imagine creating your own holiday celebration for whatever reason you wish…kind of like that episode on Seinfield where the fake holiday “Festivus” was created as an alternative to celebrating Christmas. In the episode, Festivus was celebrated with a few traditional practices of its own beginning with the “Airing of Grievances” followed by the Festivus dinner…
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9 Tips for Using Twitter to Build Your Nonprofit Network
Twitter, so big and so influential, yet so intimidating for many non-profit organizations. So instead, non-profits choose to stay out of the world of hashtags and 140 character limits and instead choose to continue using the same traditional marketing channels to fight for awareness and donor engagement in the oh so competitive non-profit space. As…