Michiana Women Entrepreneur Community is Coming Together to Celebrate & Shop Women Entrepreneur Small Business Spotlight Showcase Event
South Bend, Indiana, 27 July 2021, ZEXPRWIRE, The women entrepreneurs in Michiana are meeting up in the Riverpark neighborhood at the woman owned beautiful Rio Park Events center on Thursday, August 19th 10:00am – 3:30pm. C2 Your Health Women’s Initiative Inc. alongside prominent Michiana women entrepreneur community organizers and leaders are launching the premier event of the summer the Women Entrepreneur Small Business Spotlight Showcase – Advance. Elevate. Innovate. Event. The event will present 40 Spotlight Exhibitors all with boutique shopping galore and celebrating with the Michiana Women to Watch 2021 Awards and Michiana Community- wide Women Entrepreneur Business Grand Opening Launch Party all setting the tone for this one-of-a-kind premier event.
This 5-hour expo type event and so much more. This event brings into the spotlight on local women entrepreneurs creating space to showcase, celebrate and demonstrate their new innovative ideas, products, services while giving the community the opportunity to meet and shop from the business owners creating a unique shopping experience.
“The focus of this event is to showcase women entrepreneurs from low-income neighborhoods who are struggling to showcase their business bringing them into the spotlight encouraging the community to support their business efforts through shopping and encouragement which only happens through relationship building through face-to-face interactions.” Says Cindy Cohen, Founder of C2 Your Health Women’s Initiative Inc.
Showcase Community Partners: The Pokagon Fund, C2 Your Health Women’s Initiative Inc. Mishawaka Business Association, H.O.T. Hear Our Tears, C2 Your Health LLC, and Expo for Women LLC.
Community organizers: Cindy Cohen, C2 Your Health Women’s Initiative Inc., Mary Lou Stevens, Mishawaka Business Association, Debby Canarini, Business Coach, Tiff Klemm, GETGO Get Excited to Get Organized, Sarina Williams, Ylonda Scott, Ylonda Scott’s Womenpreneurs Breaking Barriers, Ashley Stephens, KN Cosmetics, Sonya Smith, Wealth in Motion LLC, Molly Ravin, The Real Molly Made, Vida Harley, Women Entrepreneurs Matter. Demethrias Young, Blessed Hands Photography, Traci Winston Williams, H.O.T. Hear Our Tears.
To reserve your booth space, nominate a woman entrepreneur for the Michiana Women Entrepreneurs to Watch 2021 and / or RSVP your business for the Business Grand Opening Launch Party, see the event schedule and to buy tickets $5.00. Purchase at the door go to Website: www.womenentrepreneurshowcase.com
About C2 Your Health Women’s Initiative Inc.
C2 Your Health Women’s Initiative Inc. (501c3) envisions healthier, happier, and productive communities by providing support and resources for women and young girls. We not only recognize their leadership potential, inspiring them to dream big, focus on the next steps and to realize their potential as entrepreneurs through mentoring. 100% of the proceeds from the Women Entrepreneur Small Business Spotlight Showcase Event go towards mentoring scholarships. www.C2YHWI.org
BLACK ENTREPRENEUR BRINGS UNIQUE AFRICAN TWIST TO E-COMMERCE
CA, 10 June 2021, ZEXPRWIRE, AfroMerch is a black-owned business that is passionate about supplying its customers with traditional, high-quality African fashion statement pieces.
Kader Traore, a fervent Pan Africanist, founded the company AfroMerch in July 2019 and is one of the few successful black entrepreneurs in the world of e-commerce. The idea of AfroMerch was inspired by the increasing need for Afrocentric brands in the e-commerce sector.
AfroMerch stocks a wide range of African clothing, jewellery, home décor, canvas, and accessories and is dedicated to providing great African products with a unique urban twist, emphasising African culture, unity, and technological advancements.
AfroMerch’s vision is to create the most stellar Afrocentric apparel and accessory store for afro centrists. They also plan to dedicate 5% of their profits towards various Black Organizations.
The company believes that more black individuals should build their own successful black businesses. They encourage the building and support of black organizations by black people.
AfroMerch chose E-commerce above other avenues because it is a business recognized by black people globally. They believe that E-commerce is a tool used by everyone and can be used to uplift black people. Because of the wider audience appeal, it is a more efficient way for black people to benefit from creating a business.
AfroMerch encourages black business owners to educate themselves and acquire sufficient knowledge regarding starting and running a business, exercising perseverance and patience, and preparing and learning from each mistake.
The AfroMerch website features an array of products designed with mud cloth patterns and symbols. The way they are arranged reveals various cultural secrets ranging from social status to a person’s characteristics or occupation. The distinctive history of a village can be portrayed in a piece of mud cloth. Some pieces of mud cloth portray African proverbs or histories of various African communities.
Additionally, Mud cloth is an excellent way of making a fashion statement. Traditional African mud cloth sheets are handwoven and made one at a time. No two pieces of mud cloth are exactly alike. Typically, the colors shown are available, but the patterns vary from one piece to the next. Mud cloth is multi-faceted and excellent for clothing, home decoration, crafts and other creative pursuits. African artisans hand-dye symbols into these fabrics to tell stories of their villages and African proverbs. Mud cloth has a long tradition of being used by West African warriors and hunters to camouflage themselves. Nowadays, people globally are wearing them to stand out and celebrate their passion and connection to Africa.
Kader Traore, through the company AfroMerch, has been successful in building their cross-platform app for both IOS and Android. AfroMerch’s ultimate goal is to become a more popular brand known for its originality and representation of African culture and become recognized as the top Afro-centric store in the e-commerce market.
To learn more about Kader Traore and AfroMerch, visit their website afro-merch.com.
26-Year-Old Entrepreneur Ian Mullins is Transforming the Way Businesses and Individuals Communicate, Listen and Share Information Online
The most forward-thinking Internet Marketing Individual. “We want to transform the way businesses communicate, listen, and share information online.” – Ian Mullins
Ian Mullins, the owner, and founder of Future Online Solutions has been an entrepreneur since his early days in High School. He does have quite the story when it comes to his whereabouts growing up.
Though he was born in Connecticut, living there for a few years while his father worked in International Finance in Tokyo. He moved to Tokyo to join his father at the age of four and lived there for 8 years. After that, his father’s job brought his family to Hong Kong where Ian spent a few months there before getting diagnosed with ADHD which led to trouble in school. Ian then moved to a few different schools in a few different states including California, Utah, and then finally a strict boarding school in Montana where he finished up his high school career with a 4.0 and a full semester of college credits already under his belt.
While in Montana he started his first dot com company where he managed different musicians and marketed many underground artists online through his first website. Music is a passion of his since he has been able to play 6 different instruments since his elementary school days.
Since Ian had multiple academic scholarships to many prestigious universities he decided to attend the University Of Denver for his first semester. He didn’t attend class very often and actually skipped all of his final exams but was lucky enough to transfer to Indiana University for the Business and Information Technology program. This is where he really dived into coding and the understanding of communicating online through different mediums. He lasted about two years before he decided to drop out and finally decide to fully follow his entrepreneurial spirit.
His passion for music led to his second company where he set up live concerts at different venues in Hong Kong and finally setting up his first music festival in Hawaii called The Paradise Music Festival. All the while he was developing his marketing skills in social media, search engine optimization, graphic marketing, and other forms of advertisement.
After one of his concerts took a turn for the worse in Hawaii due to land permits, his concert promotion credibility was ruined on the islands and he decided to move back to Indiana and then to West Palm Beach, FL where he continued building websites and marketing for other companies as a freelancer and honing in on his skills for about 3 years.
At the end of 2019, he decided to make a bold move to North Carolina where his immediate family was living at the time, and jumped into the Fitness Industry and started a fitness franchise called Fitness NC. There are now 5 locations throughout North Carolina and this company is on the rise due to his marketing skills and business mindset. He plans to franchise the company sometime in 2022.
For most, it would seem that managing a fitness franchise would be enough but for Ian Mullins, there are never enough projects or businesses he seems to have his hands in. This is when he decided to finally start his own digital marketing firm: Future Online Solutions. While still in the early stages of the company’s life his pursuit and determination have helped him and his team to take this company to the forefront where they plan on completely changing the way businesses view marketing.
Future Online Solutions is not interested in marketing for the sake of marketing. Rather than that, FOS continuously monitors campaigns and provides regular information on the brand’s performance. FOS team of experts constantly produces excellent outcomes by combining innovative ideas with extensive expertise. They assist in developing a long-term, meaningful relationship with customers by involving them in the business communication cycle. Additionally, they provide years of experience in the digital market from Ian and his teams work with a varied range of multi-location businesses and brands.
Whether it’s legal, healthcare, franchise or restaurant management, or influencer marketing, Future Online Solutions has the edge and know-how to efficiently funnel clients and followers to businesses and brands alike.
Aaron Crewe Wins Entrepreneur of The Year Award 2020
novi.digital Managing Director and Founder, Aaron Crewe, wins Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2020 at the Sub36 Awards, 22nd October. Read the full release here.
Aaron Crewe, Managing Director and Founder of novi.digital, has been awarded Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 at the prestigious Sub36 Awards.
This year’s ceremony was held virtually on 22nd October and celebrated some of most influential young men and women in business.
Taking place via Zoom, winners across 14 categories were revealed on the night. The Entrepreneur of the Year Award was created for entrepreneurs and business owners aged under 36 who have founded a company and grown to achieve notable and significant milestones.
Aaron has been MD of novi.digital since 2009, founding the company at the age of 22. Further information can be found at aaroncrewe.com.
Novi.digital are a multi-award-winning specialist data-driven and psychology-focused specialist search marketing agency. The agency increases the performance of digital campaigns through the use of data, psychology, automation, machine learning and AI.
A spokesperson for novi.digital said:
“We are very proud of Aaron for this amazing achievement. As the Managing Director for novi.digital, he works tirelessly to ensure that the agency always meets the needs of clients.”
2020 has been a stellar year for Novi and the recent Sub36 award is representative of their achievements.
“As is the case with many businesses, this year has not been without it’s challenges. During March and April our billable revenue dropped by just over 40%. Since then, we have managed to not only restore to previously obtained levels of revenue, but to exceed previous figures to achieve record levels for SEO and PPC billables, securing 18 new client contracts since April”, Aaron explains.
“It is our training offering, combined with our proprietary software in the form of Captivise.com that has allowed us to work with our clients to achieve significant growth.” This growth has enabled Novi to be shortlisted for several industry awards this year, including the Drum Search Awards, the Northern Marketing Awards, The DADI Awards and The European Search Awards, in addition to the recent Sub36 win.
The team at Novi explained “The Sub36 Awards win is testament to efforts not only by our Managing Director, but for every member of the Novi teams who have helped clients to pivot to reposition in to areas of growth.”
Aaron credits the award win to a unique approach, proclaiming “From the outset, we have built Novi for long-term sustainability. Unlike other agencies who have had to make redundancies, we have made two further hires and continue to recruit and expand our already brilliant team.”
The Sub36 Awards are organised by Lancashire Business View – the magazine for commerce, industry and regeneration who have been connecting the county since 2005. Headline sponsor of the awards is Positive Pennine, the mentoring partner is Northern Mentoring Programme and the funding partner is Rosebud. The awards are also sponsored by Bigtank Video Productions, Lancashire Skills and Employment Hub, PDS Engineering, Sales Geek, True Bearing Financial Planners and Two Zero.
Richard Slater, publisher of Lancashire Business View, said:
“Sub36 started life as a feature in the magazine and we had so many fantastic stories that it became obvious we needed to honour them properly.”
“Sub36 has grown to a programme of quarterly networking events and awards programme to celebrate the best of the best which has proved very popular. Not only do winners get a trophy to display proudly, but they also get access to our bespoke mentoring programme.”
Following the event, Aaron will be encouraged to continue with his impressive trajectory with a specialist package of support. He will benefit from one-to-one mentoring provided by the Northern Mentoring Programme and have access to growth funding from Rosebud and sales support through Sales Geek.
Media Contact:
Ethan Giles
novi.digital
01524-566-736
ethan@novi.digital
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Aatmnirbhar Yuva 2: A step to change the destiny of the youth and the country
Indore, September: Being self-reliant means having the ability to take control of your life, being motivated from within, and being able to take care of oneself. Put simply, it is relying on one’s efforts and abilities to achieve goals. With the rapid growth of unemployment in the country, the chances of having a secure and flourishing career are diminishing. To tackle this problem, people, especially the youth are looking for startup opportunities to achieve their goals and ambition. But, starting a business is not a piece of cake. Many times people have no idea what field to choose from or what business to start. Therefore, the country’s fast emerging online news platform troopel.com has launched ‘Aatmnirbhar Yuva 2’, a webinar series for the youth to counsel and guide them to the right path of starting a business.
In ‘Aatmnirbhar Yuva 2’s online webinar series, the viewers will get a chance to know the success story of few successful startup founders of the country. They will be discussing various questions like from where they get the idea of a startup, their motivation, how they rose funding for their ideas, what hardships or challenges they faced, etc. The live telecast of the ‘Aatmnirbhar Yuva 2′ webinar series can be seen on the social media page of troopel.com at 4 pm.
Talking about ‘Aatmnirbhar Yuva 2‘, Mr. Atul Malikram, the founder of troopel.com says that, “Our objective behind this initiative is to make the Indian youth recognize their intelligence and abilities. Instead of depending on others for employment, we want them to create their employment opportunities. With this guidance program, we aim to show the right path to these younger generations. In this program, we are bringing those startup ideas to the front that has managed to change the lives of several individuals. These innovative and out of the box ideas have served to strengthen the foundation of self-reliant India at both the local and national levels.”
Apart from being a news provider, troopel.com has made a distinct identity for its unique content creation. Significantly, the first season of Aatmnirbhar Yuva received wide appreciation, and therefore, on the demand of the viewers, the second season, Aatmnirbhar Yuva 2 is starting from 06 October at 4 pm.
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