Tue, 29 July 2008
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the show to listen on your mp3 player. Now you can also find us on iTunes by clicking on this link. This
afternoon
we spoke with Melissa Libby with Melissa Libby and Associates. Prior to founding Melissa Libby & Associates (MLA) in 1992, Melissa enjoyed a successful career in hotel public relations, promoting upscale and casual restaurants, beverage outlets and room nights. Since starting MLA, Melissa has opened more than 75 restaurants and served hospitality and retail clients through publicity, event planning and implementation, marketing, strategic planning and crisis communications. Melissa is also active in the community. She is on the Executive Boards of Les Dames d'Escoffier and Adopt A Golden Atlanta, is an Advisory Board member of the University of Georgia"s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, and is a member of the American Institute of Wine and Food, Georgia Organics, James Beard Foundation, National Restaurant Association, Public Relations Society of America, and Greystone Garden Club. Melissa has produced two cookbooks featuring local Atlanta chefs, Atlanta Cooks (2001 Longstreet Press) and Atlanta Cooks at Home (2006 CityBooks Publishing). Melissa graduated from the prestigious Buckhead Business
Association leadership program and has been recognized as one of Atlanta’s rising stars. She will receive the Crohn’s & Colitis
"Citizen of the Year” award in November 2007.
Melissa is an original member of PRConsultants Group, a nationwide group
of PR consultants providing public relations and marketing communications
services to a wide range of clients. For more information about Melissa and her firm please go to her website www.melissalibbypr.com and be sure to sign up for her newsletter The Dish. And for even more please check out her blog at http://atlantadish.blogspot.com |
Tue, 22 July 2008
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Elizabeth Gordon and Lee Kantor host each show. Elizabeth is the author of the upcoming book The Chic Entrepreneur: Put Your Business In Higher Heels and owner of Flourishing Business, an advisory firm for entrepreneurs. Lee Kantor is also the host of the popular Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy show and several other Atlanta-based radio shows. This afternoon we spoke with Annie Jennings and Stacy Amaral Kauffman with the national public relations firm Annie Jennings PR. Annie Jennings PR provides book promotion and message marketing, internet marketing, publicity and book promotion services with high-quality, national exposure. Media placements include major media outlets such as top, high-listenership radio interviews in the major markets, national TV, national major magazines and top newspapers. Annie Jennings PR, has worked with thousands of book authors and experts and has booked thousands of high-exposure radio interviews, TV (including OPRAH), print, magazine, newspaper and internet marketing book promotion articles. Annie's book authors & experts appear daily on the most prestigious, most sought-after TV, radio, magazine and newspaper and internet marketing media in the country including FOX NEWS CHANNEL, CNN, MSNBC, Montel, Associated Press Radio, TV and Wire Service. Annie's passion is to help her clients reach millions all over the world in order to share their powerful and important message. For more information about Annie's unique pay for placement program as well as tons of free information please go to her website www.anniejenningspr.com Also, if you know of a Public Relations professional anywhere in the world that we should know about, please email Elizabeth Gordon at EGordon @ FlourishingBusiness.com. We will try to get them on the show. |
Tue, 15 July 2008
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Elizabeth Gordon and Lee Kantor host each show. Elizabeth is the author of the upcoming book The Chic Entrepreneur: Put Your Business In Higher Heels and owner of Flourishing Business, an advisory firm for entrepreneurs. Lee Kantor is also the host of the popular Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy show and several other Atlanta-based radio shows. This afternoon we spoke with Kevin Avery founder of Mere Words Media Relations. As a freelance
writer, Kevin has published over 300 articles and short stories. His short
screenplay, Four Roses, is in production with an independent director. And his
book, Everything Is an
Afterthought, an anthology/biography collecting the work and recounting the
life of music critic Paul Nelson, will be published in 2009. Kevin is past
president of Writers at Work, one of the United States' largest annual
writing conferences, and formerly vice president of a $200 million Western
regional trucking company. In both positions, he played an integral part in
developing advertising and garnering publicity. In 2006, he launched Mere Words
Media Relations.For more information about Kevin, his writing and his fuirm please go to his website www.merewordsmedia.com |
Tue, 8 July 2008
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Elizabeth Gordon and Lee Kantor host each show. Elizabeth is the author of the upcoming book The Chic Entrepreneur: Put Your Business In Higher Heels and owner of Flourishing Business, an advisory firm for entrepreneurs. Lee Kantor is also the host of the popular Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy show and several other Atlanta-based radio shows. This afternoon we spoke with Amit Gupta with Photojojo. Amit has developed several great online communites and he shared lots of great insight into community building. Amit's an entrepreneur who likes to make fun online. His latest project is
Photojojo. If you like photography, you will like Photojojo.
Before Photojojo, he was a founder of The Daily Jolt, an online community
on 100 college campuses and CommandShift3.com, an online web design contest. He
helped create a non-profit called ChangeThis with Seth Godin, and brought the
technology un-conference BarCamp to NYC. He also started a weekly casual
coworking session called Jelly that now takes place in over 20 cities
worldwide.
And he's consulted for companies such as Pearson, Apple, and Creative Good
and co-authored The Big Moo, a WSJ best-seller, with Seth Godin, Malcolm
Gladwell, Guy Kawasaki, Tom Peters, and others. For more about Photojojo please go the website and sign up for the awesome newsletter www.photojojo.com. And for the latest on Amit please go to his website www.amitgupta.com Also, if you know of a Public Relations professional anywhere in the world that we should know about, please email Elizabeth Gordon at EGordon @ FlourishingBusiness.com. We will try to get them on the show. |
Tue, 1 July 2008
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the show to listen on your mp3 player. Now you can also find us on iTunes by clicking on this link.
Elizabeth Gordon and Lee Kantor host each show. Elizabeth is the author of the upcoming book The Chic Entrepreneur: Put Your Business In Higher Heels and owner of Flourishing Business, an advisory firm for entrepreneurs. Lee Kantor is also the host of the popular Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy show and several other Atlanta-based radio shows. This afternoon we spoke with Joan Stewart creator of The Publicity Hound. Joan Stewart's free publicity campaign started at age 10 when her hometown newspaper wrote a story about a blue ribbon she won for a 4-H sewing project at the Ohio State Fair. From then on, she was hooked on publicity. Today, Joan teaches Publicity Hounds how to catch the attention of frazzled news directors, busy reporters and grumpy editors. In fact, she worked as a grumpy editor at three daily newspapers and The Business Journal in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a media relations consultant and professional speaker, she shows people how to use the traditional media and social networking to establish their credibility, enhance their reputation, position themselves as experts, sell more products and services, promote a favorite cause or issue, and establish their companies as employers of choice. Her popular electronic newsletter called "The Publicity Hound's Tips of the Week" goes to more than 45,000 subscribers worldwide and includes the best publicity tips and good clean dog jokes (one in each issue) you'll find anywhere. Please subscribe to her free newsletter at www.publicityhound.com Also, if you know of a Public Relations professional anywhere in the world that we should know about, please email Elizabeth Gordon at EGordon @ FlourishingBusiness.com. We will try to get them on the show. |