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Come celebrate at the Charleston American Marketing Association (AMA) 2022 Spark! Awards — the only awards event in Charleston celebrating creative excellence and marketing talent — held at Harborside East on Wednesday, September 21 kicking off at 5:00 pm.

Finalists will be recognized and winners will be announced across the 19 creative categories, in addition to awarding one person with Marketer of the Year!

• 5:00 – 6:00 pm | Cocktail hour and networking
• 6:00 – 6: 30 pm | Live Comedy Show with Josh Bates & Dan Sweeney
• 6:30 – 7:30 pm | Awards ceremony

It’s Time To Tiki! This party will bring Summer to a close with tropical Tiki vibes. Mix and mingle with local creative professionals, enjoy Tiki inspired food from Swig and Swine and an open bar with specialty cocktails to cheers this year’s winners during the awards showcase.

This year will also feature a live stand up comedy show from local comedians Josh Bates and Dan Sweeney. Josh has been nominated for Charleston’s Best Comic two years running and is responsible for breathing life into Charleston’s new local comedy scene. You may have seen Josh and Dan take the stage at Charleston Comedy Festival, Music Farm, Comedy at The Sparrow, Commodore, or listened to their shenanigans on the Lowcountry Lowlifes Podcast. Get ready for some laughs!

As the premier marketing networking event of the year, anyone is welcome to attend! Go coconuts with your attire, but it’s not required.

• Early bird tickets are on sale from until August 15. $40 for AMA members and $50 for non-members.
• Regular tickets are on sale starting on August 16. $50 for AMA members and $60 for non-members.

Aloha!

Head over to Container Bar after work to talk shop with local Charleston business professionals, marketers, entrepreneurs, and small biz owners while you cool down over beers, wine, and refreshing drinks!

Plus, meet this year’s new Charleston AMA board, and learn how you can get involved as a member or join our board!

Learn from Joey Welling, founder of Ethos Athletic Club about how we are our own brand, and how we value ourselves is how others will value you too.

About Joey:

Charleston SC born and raised. Bachelors in Business Administration from The Citadel Military of South Carolina. Played 4 years of baseball for The Citadel. After graduation I worked two years for a logistics company with an awful boss which I now value the lessons learned as many things NOT to do as a leader. I’m also currently in my seventeenth year of work in the gym business from New York City, Atlanta, and back to Charleston. I’ve learned thousands of things ranging from heath and wellness to building a business from scratch, reinventing a brand, surviving a pandemic, and most importantly building teams. As stated before, I learned the most from a bad leader but I’ve also learned the most from the two failed business’s I’ve been apart of in these seventeen years.

Parking available at event – see you there!

When launching The Art of Hustle and Heart, it was required marketing as well as educating an audience on a new approach to wellness. Learn about the importance of investing in the individual and how focusing on the area of wellness that they need will result in a more productive, happy, and successful you!

Stats that drive their passion –

• 5.5 billion spent by companies on disengaged employees
• 18.3% average employee turnover in tech industry
• 90% employees expect their companies to support them in balancing work and personal commitment
• 61% employees burned out on the job
• 550 million workdays lost to due to stress on the job

About the speakers:

Katie is the founder and CEO of The Art of Hustle and Heart. She is an IT professional, executive coach, educator, mentor, and speaker. She has a passion for wellness and empowering others to live out their dreams.

Julia is the Vice President at The Art of Hustle and Heart. She has always been passionate about helping others and after experiencing burnout, feeling unsupported in a multitude of ways, and subsequently struggling with mental health, she set out to find a company with the same values she has. She first became a health coach with The Art of Hustle and Heart but transitioned into a full-time role and has spearheaded the implementation of a platform and community for clients.

PARKING DETAILS: Charleston Tech Center (CTC): 997 Morrison Drive, Charleston, SC 29403 – 2nd floor – Conference B

Parking: the CTC Parking Garage is adjacent to the building. Enter at 4 Conroy Street. Note: there is free parking on the street and in the surface lot across the street but park at your own risk- sign says you will be towed but the parking machine doesn’t work and they have not towed anyone yet. A lot of people in the building park over there.

Building Entry: the main doors are adjacent to the parking garage on the upper deck of the CTC. Elevator code is 71469 and take it to the 2nd floor for the Charleston Digital Corridor. Conference B is straight ahead and restrooms are down the hallway to the right.

Have a beer and talk shop with Charleston business professionals, marketeters, entrepreneurs and small biz owners at our Summer Networking Happy Hour event at Container Bar!

Do you feel like you are recycling through the same social media content? Creativity feeling a little stale? Not really growing your brand’s audience? You have to look inward, in order to connect outward.

Charleston AMA is beyond stoked to have Gabrielle Bazaco –Digital and Brand Marketing Manager of Butcher & Bee, The Daily and Redheaded Stranger — host our next Coffee Talk on “How to Build and Grow Partnerships Using Social Media”

As Digital + Brand Marketing Manager, Gabrielle wears A LOT of hats. Graphic designer, photoshoot coordinator, copywriter, social media manager, TikTok reviewer, model scout, cleaner of chef aprons when they show up to a photoshoot dirty… “Hey, somebody’s gotta do it and I’m happy it’s me.”

With her creative marketing expertise, Gabrielle will share…

• How to choose value-aligned partners
• How to maximize your exposure through partnerships that are meaningful to your brand and your partner
• Creating visual content and compelling copy that will intrigue and engage viewers

This event is limited to 50 tickets. Coffee and pastries provided by our friends at The Daily and Butcher & Bee.

Learn more about Gabrielle…

My name is Gabrielle Nalbone Bazaco.

Above all, I am a mama, wife and human excited about food. I graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2017 with a BA in Graphic Design and a focus in Visual Communications. Truthfully, I went into the workforce kicking and screaming. I was looking for a job where I could combine my love for the restaurant industry with my arts background. Did that even exist?

After scouring the internet, I came across a job listing for a Social Media Manager for Butcher & Bee. The rest is history.

I have been with the Bee (&beyond!) since 2018. As their Digital + Brand Marketing Manager, I wear A LOT of hats. Graphic designer, photoshoot coordinator, copywriter, social media manager, TikTok reviewer, model scout, cleaner of chef aprons when they show up to a photoshoot dirty… Hey, somebody’s gotta do it and I’m happy it’s me.

You need to hit record at Charleston AMA’s April Coffee Talk, hosted at downtown Charleston’s innovative tech hub, Charleston Tech Center! Charleston video marketing guru, Mike Compton will share how you should be utilizing video to amplify the soul of your brand.

• A guide to creating high-quality, shareable content
• Tips on engaging your audience
• Making the MOST out of your content
• Using video to give your customers a deeper connection to your brand and culture
• The essence of your brand is what resonates with your audience.

Before you take in the video marketing tips, enjoy networking with marketing pros and complimentary coffee! We’ll see you there!

Mike Compton is co-founder and president of rumbo advertising, marketing chair of the Mount Pleasant Chamber of Commerce, and Director of Membership Development at Charleston AMA.

PARKING & ENTRY DETAILS:

Charleston Tech Center (CTC): 997 Morrison Drive, Charleston, SC 29403 – 2nd floor – Conference B

Parking: The CTC Parking Garage is adjacent to the building. Enter at 4 Conroy Street. Note: there is free parking on the street and in the surface lot across the street but park at your own risk- sign says you will be towed but the parking machine doesn’t work and they have not towed anyone yet. A lot of people in the building park over there.

Building Entry: the main doors are adjacent to the parking garage on the upper deck of the CTC. Elevator code is 71469 and take it to the 2nd floor for the Charleston Digital Corridor. Conference B is straight ahead and restrooms are down the hallway to the right.

During Charleston American Marketing Associations Signature March Luncheon, Charleston’s Coach for Creatives, Oriana Fowler, will teach creative professionals how to shift the mindset from freelance to CEO. Oriana will provide key info from her 8-week “Creative Entrepreneurs That Own It” course on how to crush your creative career goals.

Join us on March 21 at 11:30 at Serendipity Labs, with lunch provided from Verde.

As a professional photographer, videographer, copy-writer, graphic designer, and marketing professional in any specialty (digital, PR, social media, etc)…owning a business in a creative field can feel a lot like living on a remote island sometimes.

You’re probably thinking…

• How do I make this business full time, so I don’t have to take side gigs and can make more money?
• Am I making the right decisions for this effort?
• How to confidently charge more?
• How do I manage my time?
• Why can’t I stop (take your pick): procrastinating…being a perfectionist…feeling burnt out…. riding the up and down roller coaster…feeling like I’m secretly not good enough?

It takes a delicate balance of art and function in order to be successful in your creative career, and Oriana Fowler will show you how!

Learn more at www.orianafowler.com and follow Oriana @orianafowler.

About Oriana: I teach passionate creatives how to create the life and business they know is in their hearts.

I’m a creative entrepreneurship coach who specializes in personalized, 1:1 coaching designed to energize your business without stretching you thin — by elevating your skills and sense of self-belief.

Before I ever became a coach, I took the leap to quit my nonprofit/arts management job, live abroad, and become a full-time photographer. (It was working with a coach in 2011 that helped bring that leap to life!). As a photographer, I was serving ideal clients, making money, traveling, and building recognition for my art.

What I didn’t see a few years in, was that big-time burnout was right around the corner, leaving clues that my feast and famine seasonal mode of work – not to mention growth without my own inner road map was not sustainable.

It took learning through years of experience and investing in myself and my own mentors, to discover what they didn’t teach in business school.