HOP ON THE TRAIN FOR OUR OUR AUGUST EVENTS AT THE SAMSUNG EXPERIENCE:

Gitomer Defined (git-o-mer) n.

1. a creative, on-the-edge, writer and speaker whose expertise on sales, customer loyalty, and personal development is world renowned. 2. known for presentations, seminars and keynote addresses that are funny, insightful, and in your face. 3. real world. 4. off the wall. 5. on the money. 6. gives audiences information they can take out in the street one minute after the seminar is over and turn it into money. See also: salesman.

Thru special arrangements with Jeffrey, we are able to offer a $20 discount off his events in NYC on October 14th

Morning Seminar:Sales Attitude – based on his New York Times best-selling books, The Little Red Book of Selling and The Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude
7:00 – 8:00 am: Registration, Networking, and Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 11:30 am: Jeffrey Presents!

$79 for SobelMedia Attendees and FOBS ($99 for the general public)

Afternoon Seminar:
Managers Event – Real world leadership for Sales Managers, Executives, Business Owners, and Decision Makers.
2:30 – 3:00 pm: Registration, Networking, and Refreshments
3:00 – 5:00 pm: Jeffrey Presents!

$179 for SobelMedia Attendees and FOBS ($199 for the general public)

You MUST use the promo code SOBEL to receive the discount

CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION

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My good friend Robert Raciti was a panelist at a recent Media Summit a few weeks ago and a young woman sitting next to me asked if I knew who he was. Turned out the woman was Betty Liu the morning anchor at Bloomberg Television and she was impressed with what Robert had to say. Being the “master connector” I agreed to make the introduction and she must have been quite impressed…Robert appeared on her program this morning.

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The race will be available on Direct TV’s newly launched 3-D channel n3D, as well as on Comcast, Time Warner, and Bright House cable systems. NASCAR is also providing coverage on it’s RaceBuddy 3D website.

FOR THE COMPLETE STORY ON NASCAR IN 3-D CLICK HERE

FOR THE COMPLETE STORY ON n3D CLICK HERE

Still no further details on the “Starbucks Digital Network” scheduled to roll-out this fall, offering free access to some paid content. The network will be available in US stores only and will be a partnership with Yahoo.

FOR THE COMPLETE STORY ON FREE WIFI CLICK HERE

FOR THE PRESS RELEASE ON STARBUCKS DIGITAL NETWORK CLICK HERE

(Thanks to Engadget and ReadWriteWeb.)

FYI, Hundreds of thousands of children in the New York City metro area attend schools that have little or no access to the arts. Arts to Grow (ATG) seeks to remedy this inequity by offering inner-city children the chance to explore the visual, literary and performing arts. ATG has partnered with area public schools and community-based organizations to provide a variety of classes to at-risk kids and young adults between the ages of 5 and 22.

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Once again we are pleased to support the fine work of the Fresh Air Fund and help spread the word about “Countdown to Summer 2010″

The Countdown to Summer 2010 is on and The Fresh Air Fund is in need of host families. If you or someone you know is able to host, please sign up now.

In 2009, The Fresh Air Fund’s Volunteer Host Family program, called Friendly Town, gave close to 5,000 New York City boys and girls, ages six to 18, free summer experiences in the country and the suburbs. Volunteer host families shared their friendship and homes FOR up to two weeks or more in 13 Northeastern states from Virginia to Maine and Canada.

The Fresh Air Fund relies on donations to provide memorable summers to NYC children.

The Fresh Air Fund needs hosts for the summer of 2010.

More than 65% of all Fresh Air children are reinvited to stay with their host family, year after year.

FOR MORE INFO CLICK HERE

The CBSAC/NY event, produced in association with SobelMedia,  featured four seasoned and successful entrepreneurs – Dorian Benkoil, Marshall Sponder, Jeremy Merrin and Lawrence Sherman – who actively use social media in their businesses. They described how they have applied the tools of social media to support their business goals .

FOR A COMPLETE OVERVIEW COURTESY OF C. B. WHITTEMORE CLICK HERE

Many of you remember our event earlier this year on the subject of Augmented Reality. It was a great event and I am still getting feedback about it…including my good friend Dan Smigrod, CEO & Chief Creative Officer at GREAT! Dan has been in the media &  entertainment markeing/promotion business for many years and has always been on the cutting edge of the marriage of technology and marketing….and his recent blog posting is no exception.

By December 31, 2010, a major broadcast or cable TV network and one or more national brands – or Facebook – will do for QR codes in the U.S. what American Idol did for mobile texting. If you work at a major broadcast or cable network or major U.S. consumer brand and are first (in a big, useful, powerful way), you’ll also benefit from a massive amount of traditional consumer and trade media coverage; social media and word-of-mouth buzz.

This means you need to get started – today! QR codes just took-over Times Square, reports Mashable (6/11/10). Facebook is experimenting with quick response codes, reports TechCrunch (3/16/10. Google started testing the scan code waters, also reports TechCrunch (4/7/10). Now is the time to figure-out which scan code uses makes the most sense for your business. Like Twitter, scan codes cross corporate silos. (Marketers must take the leadership role among silos so that your company takes the correct scan code path to success from day 1.)

FOR THE COMPLETE STORY CLICK HERE

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From today’s New York Times

Comcast, the nation’s biggest cable provider, has long played hardball with competitors and content providers. Now that it is seeking control of NBC Universal in a $30 billion transaction, those competitors are piping up, expressing fears that Comcast will use its consolidated power to favor its own content and squeeze out rivals.

But one group has been noticeably silent: local television broadcasters.

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