March 10th, 2010
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..
- Friday, March 12th at 9:30 p.m.
- End Time Saturday, March 13th 1:30 a.m.
- Luna Lounge 13 Maryland Plaza, St. Louis, MO
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!!!!
Tags: jci, malaria, nothing but nets, trileaf designs
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March 10th, 2010
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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March 10th, 2010
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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March 9th, 2010
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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March 8th, 2010
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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March 5th, 2010
Take actions that use non hazardous components (e.g., to ward off pests, plant marigolds in a garden instead of using pesticide).
Certain things help your garden, as given the example above marigolds. Marigolds help ward off pests because they do not like the smell. Some other things that help ward off those pests in your garden are the following plants: onions, oregano, pennyroyal, petunia, radish, rosemary, rue, tansy, thyme, mint, basil, and tomatoes. Some of them are even herbs, so they have a double purpose in your garden.
There are also organic pesticides.
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March 5th, 2010
Typography plays a key role in many packaging designs. Part of the typography is a good label include with other graphic elements. They influence people more than others know. People don’t realize that these things influence them but they are. Type plays a key role in the way you view a package, because if you cannot read the product, name, and/or description the outer packaging is useless. You want your packaging to portray and enhance your product not take away from it.
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March 3rd, 2010
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..
- Friday, March 12th at 9:30 p.m.
- End Time Saturday, March 13th 1:30 a.m.
- Luna Lounge 13 Maryland Plaza, St. Louis, MO
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. Malaria is preventable but it causes nearly 500 million illnesses and kills over a 1 million people each year from just becoming infected.Ninty percent of those deaths occur in Africa, which is the leading killer of children. Every 30 seconds a child in Africa dies from Malaria.
$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. This may not seem like much to you, but to the people of Malaria, that survive on about a $1 a day, it is a lot of money.
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!!!!
Tags: birthday party, nothing but nets, trileaf designs
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March 3rd, 2010
Color of a package is a very important detail. You want something that catches attention, yet goes with whatever the product is. It can’t be overzealous over the top because then you are drawing unwanted attention. You want to do key attributes that will send different impressions. Bright colors on an adult product are less likely to work over a child’s product. Color makes people feel differently, so it is a key element and should be thought heavily on when designing the package.
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Tags: atomsphere, color, packaing, product, shape, What is
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March 2nd, 2010
Rent or borrow items like ladders, chain saws, party decorations and others that are seldom used.
This not only saves money, but brings less waste and gives you more room in your house.
For the owners of the product, it is a good deal for you to rent. They are getting more used out of it, while using a product that they typically don’t use. There are also places that you can rent, borrow and/or receive items for free like freecycle.org. They are great for people who are looking to get rid of things or borrow things for a very specific reason or project. This makes less waste because we are reusing materials.
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Tags: borrowing, eco tips, ladders, rent, seldom used, usage
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