For the first time in my life, I hired a lawn service

Williams Landscaping in Savannah. When I drove home, my yard looked beautiful. Everything cut, trimmed, edged. Made me smile that I didn’t have to DO IT!

Thank you Sam Williams and team.  I highly recommend them – 912-398-7940

College of Business SSU Golf Tournament

I didn’t realize that there are 5000 College of Businesses around the world. Only 540 are accredited – SSU is one of those!

Lanet, Frank, me and Jay at the Savannah Golf Club.

Dr Mo Sarhan and Tony O’Rieley did a great job organizing the event. Over 1oo players.

a new “MYSPACE” type of website, but for the GREEN community in Savannah, GA

Todd Luger has launch a new site
(SAVANNAH, GA) GreenSpace Savannah is a local social networking Web site. Its purpose is to provide a space for businesses to promote their green services and products, community activists to organize, and the general public to find information and make connections with like-minded people. Registration is free. Visit us at http://www.greenspacesavannah.org/.

Savannah Music Festival concert

Kim Tompson called me at the last minute, with an extra ticket – and we got to see the sold-out concert, Kentucky Thunder.

((Robin and Kim ))

Sorry NORM, you missed a fun concert.

Thank you Rob Gibson, of the Savannah Music Festival, for brining such a terrific mix of talent to Savannah. It is so fun to see the thousands of tourist, along with our local community turn out to support a Tradition in Savannah. Keep up the great energy!

Fund Raiser for the American Diabetes Association, party at 24E

 President of the American Diabetes Association Leadership Council in Savannah, GA: Paula Kreissler.

“Guitar Golf” at Southbridge, with John Powers, Mike Plummer and Zach Powers

Dinner at Cathy and Bill Rodgers

GOLF DAY! NWF

I’m off to play golf to raise money for the St. Mary’s house. Our team consists of John Powers or (JP), Mike Plumber, better known as (THE Godfather), me and John’s son, Zach. Tonight, Paula Kreissler with Wound Care, ESU has invited us on a tour of homes to benefit the American Diabetes Association. The tour starts at 24E on Broughton Street, at 7pm.

Swing Dancing was GREAT fun last night at Kokopellis. Dave and Eileen taught us the Charleston and some more basic Lyndy Hop moves. They are giving lessons on Monday nights at Tantra and Thursday nights at Kokopellis. This is a TV clip of Eileen on WJCL, talking about “Dancing for her Life” http://www.thecoastalsource.com/news/local/16608406.html

Leigh Donovan, thank you for writing my article

for the Savannah Magazine, Women in Business. This will be in the May issue.

Carriage Trade Public Relations, Inc.

Marjorie Young, CEO

Visibility in the Community and Online
213 West York Street, Telfair Square
912.844.9990
http://www.carriagetradepr.com

Years in Profession: 13
Words of Wisdom: “Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained”

Marjorie Young is President and founder of Carriage Trade Public Relations, Inc. Established in 1995, Carriage Trade PR is a high-tech PR firm, that helps a business increase their visibility in the community and online.

TEN THINGS THAT MARJORIE IS GRATEFUL FOR:

1. Being a Stay-at-Home Mom
Her daughter Carol, now a senior at Rennsselar Polytechnic Institute, majoring in aeronautical engineering, has always come first. Marjorie methodically grew her business while working from home and raising her daughter on Isle of Hope. She didn’t get her downtown office on Telfair Square until Carol left for college.

2. Family
When her mother died very young of lung cancer, her Aunts and Uncles stepped in and greatly impacted her life.

3. Entrepreneurial Parents
Marjorie was very inspired by her parents who owned and operated publishing and printing businesses in Washington, DC, Her firm is named “Carriage Trade PR” in their honor. Carriage Trade is an old Colonial term which means ‘elite clientele.’

4. Clients
Marjorie has the “Carriage Trade” of clientele in the Savannah business community. CarriageTradePR exclusively represents only one client per industry, that she truly believes in. She becomes their cheerleader within the community.

5. Good Health and Easy Living
Enjoys kayaking from the Isle of Hope Marina up to Skidaway Island, then coming home to her toy poodle Jefferson, and two tabby cats, Amelia and Ari.

6. Simplicity
Over the years Marjorie has streamlined her entire existence. Less is more.

7. Traveling the World
Her business operation allows her to work from anywhere, as long as there is an Internet connection. She recently spent two months working from Lake Como, Italy, where coincidentally she saw George Clooney in a Mexican restaurant.

8. Pearls
The name Marjorie means Pearls in old Greek. Her mother always gave her pearls for special occasions. She never leaves home without them.

9. The Carriage Trade PR Visibility Team
Amy, Angela, Anne, April, Bambi, Brittny, Burton, Chris, David, Elizabeth, Erin, Hannah, Jennifer, Jenny, Jessica, JR, Joe, Katie, Kim, Leigh, Melanie, Myandi, Rose, and Roy.

10. Her Business Support Team
She is grateful for the support she gets from her Women Board of Directors; Diana, Linda and Lois, SBDC, Lynn Voss, the S.C.O.R.E. Boys, The Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce, The Small Business Chamber and Buy Local Savannah.

Marjorie has been honored with numerous
prestigious awards throughout her career. In 2006 she
was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Savannah
Area Chamber of Commerce. She dedicated the award to
her father who was in the audience with Stage IV lung cancer.

CarriageTradePR has a team of writers, photographers, videographers, web optimizers and media relations, for each client. They help them increase their visibility in the community and online. Press Releases, videos, photos and podcasts about your good news are distributed to the local media and online.

Blowin’ Smoke

SEDA will have a ribbon cutting for this new LOCAL BBQ place on MLK. Fitz Haile and I ate lunch there. Ran into Roger Moss, Tayna at the Savannah Business Tribune, and Jay Self, the film commissioner and a few other familiar faces.
Even though it was a chilly day, everybody sat outside and enjoyed some GREAT BBQ.

Met with Ze, he is an art dealer from Portugal. He has beautiful paintings from very cutting-edge artists around the world.

My blackberry went down for 5 hours last night. Kind of nice to not get any emails for awhile.

The backyard bouquet

Ari discovering the outside world

Easter Dinner with the homeless at the Old Savannah City Mission (OSCM)

Over 300 people turned out for Rev. Jim Lewis’ Easter service in the parking lot of Bull and Maupus. At 1:00pm, volunteers started serving a 5 star meal prepared by the OSCM Chef. Over the years, he has been trained by some local master chefs. He started preparing for Easter Dinner 24 hours earlier. In the picture below, he is in the middle.

A group of four men got up and sang to the audience. They were TERRIFIC. I’m going to see if I can get them lined up to sing at various civic organizations. Rotary always starts their weekly meetings with a patriotic song. The Small Business Council has their yearly awards banquet and they always start it off with the Star Spangled Banner.

This is a picture of Brian (below)- he is at the Mission, working in the Thrift Shop. His trade is fishing and told me that he would like to start his own business someday.

One of our newest Public Relations Coordinators is moving to Savannah. I met Jenny and her family at the Easter Dinner. She is in charge of this account. It was great, all 3 tv stations showed up.

See TV coverage by WTOC

http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8055483&nav=menu89_2 

See TV coverage by WSAV: http://www.wsav.com/midatlantic/sav/news.apx.-content-articles-SAV-2008-03-22-0005.html

Below, Kim Thomson our Photographer, and Jenny our PRC

Fun text message from Matt

Chef Matt Cohen, of The New South Cafe sent me a text message last night, “John Cougar Mellencamp is in our restaurant right now”

 

http://thenewsouthcafe.com/

Nice Get-together in Savannah last night

Mary Gwen and Hugh Boyett came up from Jacksonville and Buddy Sullivan drove up from Richmond Hill. The last time we were all together was at Amanda Sullivan’s wedding in Charleston.

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NWF

I think we need to get a proclamation in Savannah -

NO WORK FRIDAYS

Dinner with Jeanie and Dan Agmon

I’m so glad you guys moved to Savannah from Fort Lauderdale and that you are starting to feel settled-in. Thank you for dinner last night at Il Pasticcio. Looking forward to many more get-togethers. Next time, let’s get Munchkin and Jefferson together:)

Picture of Dan fixing an engine on a yacht

www.agmonmarine.com

I remember this party~ cBETA!

Smile Chris Miller – I see you!

Wine Lecture

Celia Dunn Sotheby’s International Realty sponsored a lecture today on wine. Very interesting. He told a cute story about taking his girl friend on a surprise birthday picnic, with fried chicken and champaign.

Hannah did the photography and Chris Helton video taped it.  Afterward I ran into Jack Starr, Jim Carswell and Mehmet Caglayan at Gallery Espresso.

Quiet Dog… too quiet last night

Usually Jefferson coughs throughout the night. Last night he was very quiet. I kept waking up to check on him. He seems to be doing much, much better.  Finally, I got up at 4AM, had breakfast and arrived at the YMCA on Habersham at 5am for a workout.