Okay, so I’m working on business presentations for two different groups that I need to give this month. One is a 10 minute with the option for Powerpoint or other electronic visuals, the other is a 7 minute with no visuals unless I hand them out the old fashioned way. They say that art mirrors life, and in this case I guess it does. The 10 minute business presentation that can accommodate the electronics I have likened to online marketing, and the other business presentation we’ll call traditional marketing. 
In order to chose a topic for the presentations, I start with the questions we often receive from clients and prospects who hope to make the most of their marketing budgets. The top two questions involve Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Marketing. The tie-in topic that comes to mind immediately is how is marketing changing how people shop, and what makes Internet marketing different than traditional advertising? SEO and its relationship to Social Media are two HUGE factors in the new world of Marketing. Read the rest of this entry »
August 30th,2010
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Welcome the newest board and newest volunteers at JSL of Woodstock! They’re starting out their fundraising year for Cherokee county charities with brand new leadership, new energy and a new website design. Inspired 2 Design was honored to be given the opportunity to work with this great group of dedicated ladies.
The new Junior Service League of Woodstock’s website design is a Wordpress blog based site using a customized template aimed at matching the colors and style of the League’s members. Use of Wordpress will enable the Public Relations and Communications chairs to make frequent updates to events, needs, sponsorships, activities and success stories of the League as the years progress. Also new to the website is the ability to purchase tickets to the annual Holiday Tour of Homes fundraiser coming in November, or pay for your sponsorship right online. They also can now take monetary donations online using Paypal or a credit card.
The new website should prove to be a great tool for this dynamic organization. Their hard work and dedication to serving the families of Cherokee county with donations of food, clothing, school supplies, shoes, toiletries, money, and caring concern deserves recognition and a big, giant THANK YOU!
› To learn more about becoming a sponsor of this year’s Tour of Homes, click here.
› To learn more about membership in the Junior Service League of Woodstock, click here.
If you know of a group or organization that needs a more professional, polished and functional website, please tell them about Inspired 2 Design’s website design services. We work with groups in Woodstock, Cherokee county, and all the metro Atlanta area. Plus, we often offer discounts to charitable and faith-based organizations.
Most parents of teenagers are busy planning their kid’s future. College, dorm, apartment, partner, grandkids…. they see it all so clear. But for some parents, the future is not so clear. For them, the future is summed with a single, simple question: What happens to my special-needs child after high school?
Recently, we’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Lori Baker from Next Step Ministries in Woodstock. We’d been introduced briefly at the Woodstock Community Business Association in the past, but this last time we met at the Canton-Cherokee Business and Professional Women’s meeting, enjoyed a meal, and the meeting, and the more formal introduction from Stacy Bailey of Absolutely Clean, also a client of Inspired 2 Design. We’ve worked together on her cleaning company’s website, her personal blog, and the Canton/Cherokee SALT/Triad website.
Next Step Ministries was in need of a new way to get the word out about the work they’re doing down off Trickum Road and Hwy 92 in Woodstock. They’d recently taken over the space occupied at one time by the Baby & More Thrift Store, (small world, we did their website a couple of years ago). Now armed with a ton of space for their work, Lori and Jean (her right hand), just needed to let more people know what they’re doing.
So what are they doing down in Woodstock?
They provide parents with moderately to profoundly involved special-needs young adults need a readily available full day program to maintain the functional skills learned during school and to provide a safe and loving environment. Especially when these young adults can’t manage the day-to-day activities we often take for granted like:
- Feeding ourselves
- Communicating with words
- Performing basic activities without supervision
- Going to the bathroom without help…
Next Step Ministries offers several programs for parents and their special needs kids: Therapeutic Day Care, Saturday Respite, Camps. The Cherokee Tribune covered the Next Step Ministries story earlier this year. So if your business is looking for a special place to help via donations of time, money, or supplies, why not start right here in Woodstock, GA?
- Have time? They could use people to come in and read, play music, games, crafts.
- Have equipment? They’re in need of many things including some workout equipment, kitchen equipment, musical instruments.
- Have cash? Enough said!
Inspired 2 Design is proud to have partnered with Next Step Ministries in Woodstock to help support their mission, and help the families of special needs kids in Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton, Bartow, and Pickens counties. Their new website is a project of love and we’re thrilled to have had the opportunity to bless them with this functional and design-appropriate website design that they can use to educate, inform and capture the families that need their services in Woodstock, Canton, Holly Springs, Acworth, Marietta, Kennesaw, Roswell, Sandy Springs, north Atlanta, and beyond.
