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Here's a Marketing Event to help promote your services, products, and business!!! We got a HECK of a speaker who's very happy to share resourceful information with us. No BUTs No Excuses, 2 hours of your day to learn and network.

Looking for a MAGIC MARKETING BULLET?
Neil Tortorella will cover marketing ideas and tools he's learned and used along the way to promote client businesses and his own. Talk about free and low cost tools out there that are very effective to bust your revenue and exposure. More details to come....

Gatsbys Specials: Happy Hour from 4-8pm; 1/2 price on premium drinks, draft beer and house wine as well as $4 pizzas. From 8pm-3am; 1/2 price premium drinks, beers and wines and one chef selected appetizer special of the evening from our regular menu.

More about Speaker...
Based in the Greater Fort Lauderdale, FL area, Neil Tortorella brings with him over 30 years experience as an award-winning graphic designer, writer and marketing consultant. He has operated his own design and marketing consulting practice, Tortorella Design, for over 20 years. Through Tortorella Design, Neil has worked with several Fortune 500, along with small to mid-sized companies, to develop pragmatic solutions to their communications challenges. His key strength is blending branding and marketing strategy with memorable visuals and copy to create a distinctive impression in the minds of his clients' audiences.

Neil is a cofounder and management team member of CreativeLatitude.com, a popular web site and resource for creatives and the clients they serve. The site provides information about the creative process, ethical business practices, marketing and promotion and a wide array of articles, links and resources. He is also associated with No-Spec.com, a site that combats the proliferation of speculative work requests.

He is also an avid writer on marketing, promotion and business topics. He authors a popular blog, “Inside the Marketing Mind,” which can be found at www.tortorelladesign.com/marketing_mind. Neil’s writing can also be found on BoDo – Business of Design online (www.businessofdesignonline.com), where he’s a founding team partner and author of the Marketing Minute. In addition, Tortorella is a contributing author for HOW Magazine, a leading graphic design publication.

He has conducted workshops and presentations about sales and marketing to the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), SBA partner SCORE – Counselors to Small Business and is a frequent speaker at colleges and universities. He was also a speaker at the 2009 HOW Design Conference in Austin, TX, June 14-27. The conference is attended by 3000 - 5000 designers from around the world.

Tortorella is featured in the book, The Savvy Designer’s Guide to Success, by Jeff Fisher, published by HOW Design Books, Cincinnati, OH and in Creatively Self Employed, by Kristen Fisher. He will also be featured in the soon to be published book, Design Matters: Portfolios, by Maura Keller, published by Rockport Publishers. His work has also been featured in Pitney Bowes’ Priorities Magazine and HOW Magazine.

Drupal vs. Wordpress vs. Joomla vs....why use one rather than the other? What does this mean for your front end and back end development? What's the difference in functionality? All these questions and more will be addressed when Alex Costa speaks to us about his recent experience with Drupal and Colt Taylor will take the Microsoft side (DotNetNuke etc.) I will be contacting Wordpress experts to attend as well so we can have an interesting roundtabel discussion on this very relevant topic. If you have questions you would like to see addressed, please forward them to me at mwsmith@aquent.com See you at the Parrot!

What have you done in the past 6 months to pursue your goals, dreams, and ideas? What’s the biggest obstacle not allowing you to achieve them? I doubt it’s the lack of talent or imagination.

August additional Meetup is all about making your Sugar Plums, dance and bring them to live!

Marvin Greenhut, worldwide inventor of the glue pen, glitter pen, stewardess set for children, a cell phone with a fingerprint scanner to let women check suitors' criminal backgrounds; a barbecue kit with aluminum foil shaped to drain fat, among many other inventions….Claims to have been a poor boy with ideas and invented his way to financial freedom.

Besides being President and Vice- President of the Inventor Society of South Florida for several years. Greenhut spends his time sharing his secret to success and helping others to push the envelope to act on your goals, STOP DAYDREAMING! He’s absolutely right.

I had the privilege of meeting Marvin at an event, the audience loved his words of wisdom and looking-forward mentality. At the very young age of 80, this man has more energy and enthusiasm than a 21 year old drinking vodka and red bull at a night club.

Mr. Greenhut will cover how to make money using your talent, pursuing your ideas, how to promote yourself, spot opportunities, invent your way out of this bull-crap economy while pursuing your goals.

He was thrilled to hear about that this group is made up of creative individuals, as much as I was excited to hear that he would love to speak to us.

We are meeting in a new Dunkin Donuts facility, which by the way it’s very cool. Free WIFI, computers and internet to use. We reserved a special meeting room, the capacity is limited so RSVP soon to save your leather chair.

Today’s landscape of competitive design requires a new breed of thinker. Solutions-minded individuals who can easily cross the once distinct, left-brain, right brain boundaries. The proliferation of RIAs and 2.0 apps cause the need for specialized roles to be replaced with cross-disciplinary functions, such as the “Devigner” (Developer/Designer). But how does a team of cross-functional minds work in today’s adhocracy? Mickey Moran, User Experience (UX) Strategist, Interaction Design (IxD) Professional and Creative Director, will talk abouttoday’s new breed of mavericks and how to merge these cultures into successful design teams. Bring your questions and links and the group can give feedback on your latest work or personal site. It should be fun; it always is. :-)