Extreme Marketing and Consulting, and Mike Luchen, Founder, have been recognized for their success in providing entrepreneurs wishing to grow a thriving and successful business the tools they need to succeed! Mike, a world-renowned provider of creative and unique marketing has been featured in articles and magazines throughout the world including, the New York Times, The Westchester County Business Journal, The Westchester Wag, Business Week TV on Channel 7 News, Who's Who in Business, Inside WC, Forbes.com, The Wall Street Journal and on the Cover of Broker/Agent Magazine. When ...

Online mixtape retailer Arismixtapes adds internal blog to their popular website to add an extra user-friendly option. When you log onto http://arismixtapes.com/blog you will be able to view the blog and to leave comments. Arismixtapes fully believes in the importance of an internal blog on a real mixtape website. "Many people have no idea what a real mixtape is. They think it is either something a friend makes them, a collection of random songs, or something along those lines. They do not know that a real mixtape features unreleased material from their favorite artists. ...

The Coalition of Theatres of Color (CTC) honored contemporary Black theater pioneer Gertrude Hadley Jeannette, 96, Founder and CEO Emeritus of the H.A.D.L.E.Y Players, on March 28 at a Women's History Month press conference at the Dwyer Cultural Center in Harlem. It included a presentation by actress Ruby Dee and a proclamation from the office of Congressman Charles Rangel. A pioneer in contemporary Black theater, Ms. Jeannette's 70-year career spans theater, television, and movies. Yet, she also made New York City motor vehicle history. In 1935, she was New York City's ...

Barbara Roberts is an active public speaker on issues on death and dying. She openly discusses what she learned during the final year of her husband, Frank's life and how she coped during the subsequent years of grieving. She is the former Governor of Oregon and author of Death Without Denial Grief Without Apology. Open to Hope Radio broadcasts every Thursday. To listen to this show, go to http://opentohope.com/. About Dr. Heidi Horsley Dr. Heidi Horsley, PsyD, LMSW, MS, is a bereaved sibling and a licensed psychologist and social worker. Dr. Heidi is the Co-Founder ...

These days, music is repetitive and derivative; sometimes, it doesn't make sense. Where's the story, the characters, the emotion? Fortunately, there's 25-year-old Ryan Leimkuhler, a singer-songwriter who concocts tunes and melodies filled with stories, characters, and emotions that will stay with you and are guaranteed that you will never forget. Orange County, California is a city known for its beaches, bikini-clad ladies, and surfer dudes, and you'd expect a musician from here to maybe write about the sand, sea, and surf. Not Ryan Leimkuhler. His music is a mix of ...

It's fast becoming the place online for medical humor. FunnySurgeryStories.com just launched a few weeks ago and new funny surgery stories and videos are being uploaded daily. The operating room is a stressful place, so FunnySurgeryStories.com is a shelter that focuses on fun, laughs and drama set in busy hospitals. One of the most popular features of the site is the world's only surgery-based soap opera podcast "As the Scalpel Slices." With the slogan "Love and Laughs, Life and Death in the OR," the website's three-minute medical soap opera "As the Scalpel Slices" ...

Kingpin, the leading retail company in providing the best quality e-cigarette products, liquids, and accessories, recently revealed their newest alternative to the traditional cigarette stick: the T-Rex 510. As an effective smokeless alternative to the conventional cigarette, e-cigs are the next best thing. In place of inhaling smoke, e-cigs produce vaporized liquid to copy the stimulation of real smoke. Users are allowed to pick the flavor and nicotine strength of an e-cig through a liquid solution. The T-Rex gives all these with a few more benefits. The T-Rex 510 ...

The Woodshed Gallery is presenting the work of outstanding Franklin artist Bruce Wood in a solo exhibition of acrylic paintings and oil monotypes of New England. The exhibition starts Tuesday April 11 and continues through Saturday May 7, 2011. A public reception for Bruce Wood will be held Saturday, April 16, from 3:00 to 5:00 PM. Bruce Wood is known as a contemporary American Impressionist painter and an avant-garde filmmaker. This exhibition features a new series of acrylic paintings of Massachusetts coastal scenes and oil monotype paintings based on flowers ...

Deborah Carraro, or iDeborah as she's known on Twitter and many other social media sites, is keen to be a part of Team Sheen. Unlike other applicants who have admitted they applied for the position on a whim or as a joke, iDeborah was serious about her intent to become Charlie Sheen's intern from the get go. "Who wouldn't want the opportunity to work with a professional PR team and be on the cutting edge of what's happening in the social sphere?" Carraro said, "Whatever people may think of Charlie Sheen, it can't be denied that he's doing some very interesting things ...

Capitol Lighting, one of the nation's leading retailers of name-brand lighting with eight showrooms in New Jersey and Florida and worldwide at http://www.1-800lighting.com, today announced its Renovation Before & After Facebook photo contest. Each week from April 4, 2011 to April 29, 2011 Capitol Lighting will give away a $100 gift card to the participant whose renovation before & after photos receives the most comments on the company's Facebook wall at http://www.facebook.com/CapitolLighting1800Lighting. How to Enter: Step 1: Become a fan of Capitol Lighting's ...

Cheryl Heppard, founder of Healthy Business Coaching, is offering a free teleclass "Learn Simple Product Launch Success Secrets to Attract More Clients, Sell More Products and Programs and Double Your Income" on Thursday, April 14th, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. ET. The workshop will reveal proven and tested strategies for selling more of what entrepreneurs have to offer. Heppard is a business and marketing coach for small business owners and specializes in health and wellness related companies. "It's crucial for entrepreneurs to understand the possibilities for increasing their ...

Makeovers Salon & Spa raised $3,000 for the non-profit MSPCA-Angell through the festive event. Guests enjoyed live music, refreshments, face painting, raffles, giveaways and amazing silent auction items which included a "Night at Fenway" package of dinner at Cask 'n Flagon, two tickets for Boston Red Sox vs White Sox game and an autographed baseball by Jason Varitek. Also part of the silent auction was an "Ultimate Date Night" package which included champagne and strawberries, a couples massage, men's cut, wash and blow dry for the ladies and dinner for two at Stoneforge ...

ArtFire.com has seen dramatic growth in both Artisan sales and new shoppers and sellers in recent months. In an aim to improve business and technical education resources available to online sellers, ArtFire has launched a fully searchable help center. The ArtFire Help Center aims to increase the amount of help available for both buyers and sellers as traffic for ArtFire continues to rise. The new searchable Help Center creates a knowledge base to answer commonly asked questions for ArtFire members and visitors all in one centralized location. ArtFire offers customization ...

After a long wait, AGC has finally released not only the specifics of its mid range X-Ray gaming computer, but the entire computer for purchase. The X-Ray 135 Hybrid-Shift, as it will be known, was developed as more than just another middle of the road performance and gaming computer, but instead it was a mix and match of different models. The X-Ray 135 Hybrid-Shift mainly mixed features between the X-Ray lineup's 100 model which is at the entry level and the 160 which is the high-end model. AGC Gaming brought energy efficient technologies together with a high-end gaming ...

K2 Adventures Foundation will host a fashion show at the Moroccan-inspired, luxurious Montelucia Resort and Spa in Paradise Valley on May 14, 2011. The "Summer in the City" Fashion Show will showcase independent, local designers of fashion-forward leggings, handbags, clothing, jewelry, accessories and more. Attendees will have an opportunity to purchase fashions in the show from vendors showcasing their designs. Individual tickets for the fashion show and luncheon cost $125. Kevin Cherilla and Kristen Sandquist, co-founders of K2 Adventures, say that the event "is an ...

Jeff Hickman, Manager of Total Health Nutrition Center (www.totalhealthnutritioncenter.com), will present "Six Weeks to a Thinner You" on Tuesday, April 12th from 7:00-8:00pm. This free presentation is open to the public and will be held at the Carolina Center for Integrative Medicine, 4505 Fair Meadow Lane, Suite 111 in Raleigh. Many studies have shown that getting rid of excess body fat can reap major health dividends over the long term. THNC and The Carolina Center embrace several cutting-edge plans for promoting a healthier, leaner body composition and improved long-range ...

Dogtopia, a national upscale dog day care franchise, raised a record amount of donations during St. Patrick's Day week to support local charities with their Lucky Dogs Give Back Fundraiser. Throughout the week of March 14, Dogtopia locations nationwide donated $1 for every dog in daycare to a local charity of choice. In total, the Dogtopia system and customers donated $6,400 for local charities, surpassing their goal by more than $1,400. Some of the local charities included Hounds4Heroes, a non-profit organizations that provide pets to military veterans, Soles4Souls, ...

Five bands will liven the festivities as Deanie's Seafood celebrates the bounty of our favorite crustacean during the second-annual Pinch-A-Palooza Crawfish Eating Contest on Sat., April 16 at Deanie's Seafood in Bucktown, 1713 Lake Ave., Metairie. Festivities kick off at 3 p.m. Five bands will perform, including Interscope Records recording artist Mindless Behavior, the hottest new supergroup on the national music scene; 17-year-old Jive Records recording artist Kourtney Heart of New Orleans, whose debut album Eye Dee Kay follows her hit single "My Boy"; Baton Rouge's ...

New Waco start-up launched wacomarketing.com focusing on bringing competitive offers to local Waco residents. "As an educator that has been caught up in lowering education budgets, I had to find a way to reinvent myself." said Chris R. Mata the founder of MMS. "We are very excited at the prospect of working with local businesses and non-profits and help them gain exposure for the products, services and causes." Wacomarketing.com offers the triple play of advertising services which are online, on the streets and "in your face". Wacomarketing.com is currently working ...

Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) has partnered with Georgia-based TALENThire to launch a breakthrough, cloud-based contractor marketplace solution. The TAG Contractor Marketplace will meet TAG's goal of providing service to members who seek more efficient processes to find top talent to fuel their growth. The solution empowers businesses to easily source contract labor and to manage the associated process. "We currently have a large number of small businesses who are in need of contract labor but don't have the resources to manage the processes. Our Contractor ...

The CIO Utilities Summit team announced today agenda details for the upcoming technology event, June 12-14, 2011 at the InterContinental Montelucia Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. The CIO Utilities Summit is an opportunity for attendees to have in-depth conversations, make new business contacts and learn about the latest technology solutions. The event brings together CIOs, IT executives, analysts and solution providers to attend interactive agenda sessions and discuss the latest technology topics and trends during think tanks, panel discussions, and roundtables as well ...

Wizard World, producers of North America's largest pop-culture tour, brings its annual Comic Con expo to Anaheim Convention Center Friday, April 29 through Sunday, May 1, 2011. Tickets are on sale now for the event that brings together fans of all ages along with fun-loving celebrities and top industry professionals, all celebrating the best in pop culture, movies, comics, toys, television, gaming, original art, collectibles, contests and more. Among the show's celebrity guests include: Adam West (Batman; Family Guy) Burt Ward (Batman [Robin]) Tricia Helfer (Battlestar ...

VQ OrthoCare , creator of the award-winning BioniCare Knee System, is pleased to announce its BioniCare member discount program for National Football League Players Association (NFPLA) former player members and their families. VQ OrthoCare initiated this discount program based on the need for a non-invasive, non-pharmaceutical treatment option for retired professional athletes living with osteoarthritis of the knee. Professional athletes move their knees up to 20 million times per year. In contrast, the average person uses their knees only three million times per year. ...

Internet Business Group (IBG) is pleased to announce the opening of its flagship New York City offices. IBG is a leading Reputation Management firm with over 80 successful clients serviced by Internet Business Group's powerhouse SEO and Marketing team. "We are thrilled to have a foundation in the dynamic and innovative business market of Manhattan and look forward to bringing our signature services to companies and individuals up and down the Eastern Seaboard," Gene Burns, EVP of Worldwide Sales for Internet Business Group. IBG is one of the largest Internet Marketing ...

Marx Layne & Company, a full-service marketing and public relations firm will showcase the real-time application of Twitter and be available to discuss social media services at the next "Ties Like Me" networking event on April 20. The event, which will spotlight a "Twitter Wall," will take place from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. at Via Nove located at 344 W. Nine Mile Rd. in Ferndale. A "Twitter Wall" expands upon the fast paced nature of Twitter by projecting live tweets from event participants onto a screen. Using specially created hashtags, users can update the "Twitter Wall" ...