Thursday, March 18, 2010
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Whole Foods – Town & Country Commons
Be there to discuss energy and water conservation and improving your indoor air quality. There will be plenty of time to ask questions.
Meet Beth Koritz, Owner/Founder of Green It! Eco Solutions
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Contents pages make your brochure seem too lengthy, but if the brochure is bigger you want your consumer to be able to flip through easily to find what they are looking for, so where the line. If your brochure is eight pages or more you will want to do a contents page. Use informative headings, possibly almost like a sales pitch as long as of course you don’t make them sound like sales pitches. You want them to easily find what they are looking for, while getting to look at even more and have your company in the back of their minds for possible other projects or products.
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Monday, March 15, 2010 7:30 p.m.
Crownroom, Schlafly Bottleworks
7260 Southwest Avenue
Maplewood, MO
Admission: Free
Donations: Appreciated
Homegrown is the inspiring true story of the amazing Dervaes family who are living off the grid in urban Pasadena, California. They raise chickens, milk goats and harvest over 6,000 pounds of produce on a tiny suburban plot. This film is an intimate portrait of what it is like to live a Little House on the Prairie lifestyle in the 21st century. They demonstrate just how productive and sustainable a backyard garden can be.
Organic Home Gardening Series of Workshops and Films Sponsored by Schlafly Bottleworks, Slow Food Saint Louis-Urban Homesteading and Brick City Gardens
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Reuse items like envelopes, folders and paper clips.
This I do everyday or try to whenever I touch something like this. At my house, we put all of our coupons in an envelope so that we can keep it from week to week. Or I use envelopes that can’t be used again for mail purposes for to do lists, goals, grocery lists or just scratch paper. I also reuse folders. It’s amazing how many folders I have in my room but I organize stuff by folders of course all of different colors. That is just how my mind works. Paper clips are harder to reuse for me because it is rare that I use them. I am more of stapler person, so if you have any uses that you use again for please share. Though I recently bought two rabbits and the binder clips work great to keep their door closed and make it easy to open.
What do you do with your office supplies?
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The fundraiser is going on tonight at Luna Lounge.
13 Maryland Plaza
St. Louis, MO
It begins at 9:30 p.m. and goes until 1:30 a.m. $10 for a complimentary drink, free appetizers and live music. Why not help the cause!
SEE YOU THERE!
Support a great cause, meet new people, and enjoy some drinks, what else would someone want to do to celebrate their birthday? That is what we thought..
JCI (Junior Chamber International) is partnering with United Nations Foundation for their Nothing But Nets Campaign to create this Nothing But Nets Birthday Party. There is a $10 cover at the door which ALL will go to benefit Nothing But Nets!
If you did not know, Nothing But Nets is a grassroots campaign to provide insecticide treated bed nets to prevent malaria in Africa.
$10 is what it costs to make and distribute a bed net. There for, your cover for the event will provide one net for a family.
If having a great time and saving a family from Malaria at the same time was not a good enough reason to come, everyone who pays the $10 cover charge will receive a voucher for 1 complementary drink!! To top it off even more, there will also be free appetizers! And a live DJ will be present so we can enjoy some great music!
If you are not able to attend this great Birthday event, you are more than welcome to contribute to Carlos’ (the gentleman who came up with this wonderful idea) personal campaign at http://www.mynothingbutnets.net/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=798314&LangPref=en-CA
See you there and feel free to tell everyone about this! If you have had a birthday in the past month, this month or the month to come, please let us know and we could love to add you to the list of birthday celebrators.
Birthday Participants:
Shana Terai
Laura Tabat (Marketing for JCI)
Arie Kaplan
Rachel Boone (Owner of TriLeaf Designs)
Carlos Suarez (Organizer of event)
Cedric Diakabana
Hope to see you all there!!!!
The front cover is the most important part of the brochure. It is what entices the reader to take a longer look and to open the brochure itself. Make a statement. DO NOT use technical jargon that only people in the business would understand. You want it to be consumer friendly to every person who walks through the door. Don’t just put your company name or logo on the front, you need something else along with those things to get them to read more. Don’t get me wrong you do want your name and logo on the brochure just don’t make it the focal point. With these ideas flowing, I ask to share what makes you open one brochure over another?
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Copy and print on both sides of paper.
This saves paper obviously. Your not pulling out paper every two pages this way. This can also be taken into consideration for students as well. I know when I was younger some students would not use both pages of their notebooks. The more you use the same piece of paper the more that is not wasted and less trees are cut down. The average office worker uses 130 lbs of paper in a year. It takes about 15 years to produce a half box of office paper. This can be cut in half by using both sides of the paper and printing only what needs to be printed. Some people say though the other side of these trees being cut down is that they grow back faster. Anyone have any thoughts?
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Marketing Brochures When you read something it must be in the correct order, this means you need to know what your reader wants. Your order needs to make sense or the reader will be confused. You need to answer any questions or concerns the consumer may have before you can call them to do anything. Think of it this way, would you give someone directions to a place before they even knew where they were going. No, so why should your brochure.
An idea to think about is to make a list of questions you think the consumer will ask. Then write your brochure based off those questions in the most logical order. Of course after designing it and writing it, you will want someone else to look it over. You may know exactly what your talking about but another person may be completely lost.
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Put leaves in a compost heap instead of burning them or throwing them away. Yard debris too large for your compost bin should be taken to a yard-debris recycler.
Composting is an important part of keeping your environment in tune. It not only saves space in the landfills but gives nutrients back to the soil. It reduces yard waste by 50 to 75 percent. Though, composting with manure is not questionable especially for food, since the new strains of bacteria. Not only can compost save landfill space but it can be use in your soil and as a mulch saving you money.
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