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Mark Christopher Lawrence to Host Comedy Show at SDSU Diversity Conference

FRIDAY April 29 8:00 p.m. Montezuma Hall

Hey gang! I will be rockin the funny with MCL and the gang this FRIDAY. 2 stars from CHUCK along with team of diverse funny. Apparently while the show is part of the conference the SHOW is open and ADMISSION FREE to the public. Bring yourself we'll Bring the Funny...

  San Diego, CA - Mark Christopher Lawrence, best known as Big Mike on NBC’s hit show Chuck, is producing and hosting an all-star lineup of comics on Friday, April 29, as a part of San Diego State University’s Fourth Annual Diversity Conference entitled “Diversity: An Integrated Approach.” Joining Mark on stage will be David Kamatoy, Scott Krinsky, Matin Atrushi, Gulden, and Mike Pace. Representing a wide variety of ethnic and comic backgrounds, the group matches the goals of the conference of engaging participants in thought-provoking dialogues on diversity issues in the community.

Although best known now for his work on Chuck, Mark Christopher Lawrence has long been one of Hollywood’s top character actors, as well as a talented comic and producer. Mark’s goal is to provide participants at the conference another way to approach issues of diversity, through the medium of comedy. Joining Mark from the set of Chuck will be Scott Krinsky who plays Jeff Barnes. In addition to his role on Chuck, Scott performs at the Comedy Store and Improv in Los Angeles.

San Diego native David Kamatoy has been hailed as “The
number one Filipino comic juggler in the world.” A regular at Balboa Park, David has taken his act to numerous local venues including Legoland and Seaport Village, as well as to Hollywood and as far as New York. In addition to his rapid-fire wit and observations, he is perhaps best known for his signature “Plungers of Doom” routine.

The Turkish-born Gulden brings her comic talents to the stage as “The only female comic from the Middle East...still alive.” She regularly performs at The Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory, and The Ice House, and was a finalist on Find Me a Comic on station KTLA and on ABC’s Comics Unleashed.

Matin Atrushi brings his unique and personal perspective on the experience of being Middle Eastern in America to his routines. Since his first experience in front of an audience at a coffee house in Los Angeles, he has gone on to share the stage with such comic greats as Robin Williams and Chris Rock.


Mike Pace has been entertaining for over 25 years and has appeared alongside many of the greats in both comedy and music. Mike has also performed shows for the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps and for major companies including Apple, IBM, and Coca Cola. On top of this, he has been nominated for an Emmy for his work on HBO’s Comic Relief.

San Diego State University’s Fourth Annual Diversity Conference takes place April 28 through May 1. The Celebrity Comedy Show is at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, April 29. For more information about the Conference visit the Office of Intercultural Relations website.

 

Cannon Training and Development Announces Success Skills Series

For Immediate Release

Relationship Skills Seminar Begins Series Wed. April 13th 2011

San Diego, CA - Success trainer Fran Cannon will be speaking on  Wednesday, April 13, on the 5 Major Relationships each person has and how those relationships help determine the level of success one can attain. This is part of a weekly Superior Success Skills Seminar Series that will cover skills that will help participants reach their goals. Each week Cannon, who has over 25 years of experience teaching personal, professional, and business success skills, will present one of the 50 Success Skills that can “help you create greater happiness and success in your personal life, your financial life, your relationships, and your professional career or your business.” The seminars take place at the Vision Pulse Creative Event & Meeting Center in San Diego.

“Each one of these relationships...can lift you up or be a problem that hinders your progress.” -Fran Cannon

The goal of the series is to help participants master what Fran Cannon calls the “5 S’s of Goal Achievement.” They are: Structures, Systems, Skills, Support, and Success Coaching. Each week’s seminar will delve into a different skill and show how understanding that skill can help move you farther along the road to attaining your goals. In addition, participants in the series will be able to have access to other people who are working to achieve their own goals. By becoming part of a success “team,” participants will have the opportunity to support and learn from and with each other. 

The first Superior Success Skills Seminar, on Wednesday, April 13, will cover the 5 Major Relationships each person has and how those relationships help determine the level of success one can attain. Each of these relationships can play a large role in reaching goals, either helping or hindering. The seminar will help participants learn how to “honor and deal” with each relationship in order to achieve greater success and happiness.

The second Superior Success Skills Seminar, on Wednesday, April 20, will cover the skill of Wealth Accumulation and will focus on accumulating sufficient wealth in order to retire when you want. Series seminars are held at the Vision Pulse Creative Event & Meeting Center, located at 10211 Pacific Mesa Blvd, Suite #510, San Diego, CA 92121. The investment for each seminar is $20. Seminars run from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and registration ends one hour before start time. For registration visit EventBrite or contact Cannon Training and Development for more information.

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Elance: A little lost...but I am optmistic

We originally hit elance back in the day looking for some outsourcing ala 4 hour work week. We enjoyed the interaction but it was such a long time ago and we were not bidding on projects. 

We are now starting to look at being a virtual provider and expand out networking via our online presence. These are my initial thoughts based on wandering around for a while...

a. Great opportunitty if you can spend the time. We are going to segment a part of the day to virtual submissions and try not to get lost in the sheer numbers....However it is a NUMBERS GAME.

SCHEDULE 1-2 hours a day or days to submit.

b. Create an engaging profile(s). It's one of their biggest tips but I have to agree on this one. Just by looking at the site you can see that every job has multiple bids going in and creating some smart copy is a GREAT IDEA. More and more it bodes to great copy writing and an e-version of the elevator pitch. 

Create a solid Elevator Pitch First Paragraph. Do not be afraid to change the copy until you start getting work.

c. A Lower the hourly rate in order to get jobs and reviews? Elance lists the amount of money and jobs that you've completed. It's only common sense that you would want to work with companies that have a history of achievment. The quickest way to get there is via JOBS and great reviews. 

Consider a discounted rate in order to get jobs & reviews.

d. Don't be afraid to be an AMERICAN... The power or weakness of the American Dollar on this site does freak me out. I mean we originally came to elance via the 4 hour work week looking for cost-effective solutions. 

However in actually outsourcing stuff, I can tell you that there are certain jobs that you want to keep a US based contractor for. Any writing or editing is a definite plus and any project where an uderstanding of it's end application in the business world or US is also important. 

Find a Niche where you can compete based on your location and dollar power.

e. Embrace the restrictions...ARGH! So one of my biggest challenges is the format. We are used to meeting clients in person first. So this FORMAT is extremely foreign to us. Normally our online presence supports our physical presence and in this virtual situation our Virtual presence is now our "FIRST IMPRESSION" and it's not even our site but a profile. 

We will try to keep within the restrictions or elance. I sort of hope its either a booming success and we are able to find a niche on elance for our team or the other business picks up suvstantially. 

 

Hulu's BACK TO THE FUTURE 1996 April Fools gags

NICE!

We were babbling about back in 1995-96 when we were on NEWSGROUPS not FORUMS but NEWSGROUPS and then I click to HULU.com and get blasted back to 1996. A reimagining of if Hulu was up in 1996 which of course it was not....

I just got off the phone with one of my marketing buddies as we were discussing all the internet marketing gurus that are actually refocusing on real businesses lol. WHAT A CONCEPT...

BY the way notice the nice sound of a MODEM they are dropping in pre-roll to the video. Just the sound reminds me of some great old AOL Compuserve action...

YEAH COMPUSERVE BABY!