Successories Announces Recognition Awards Sale: 24 Hours, 24% Off on Tuesday, January 24
Posted by Salem Global on Jan 24, 2012
Boca Raton, FL, January 24, 2012 – Successories.com, the leader in employee motivation and employee recognition, announced a one-day, recognition awards sale, 24 Hours, 24% Off, on Tuesday, January 24. The leading Web site in unique, exclusive recognition awards, including fully customizable and Create Your Own options, Successories.com offers the best value and widest selection for recognition awards this awards season.
“Successories spends considerable time and resources searching for new recognition award styles each year and carries unique, exclusive awards that you can’t purchase anywhere else online,” said Warren Struhl, CEO of Successories.
For customers to take advantage of the sale, all recognition awards orders must be placed between 12:00 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 and the promotion code Awards24 must be entered during the checkout process. This will be the only time this discount is available.
New recognition awards available for this awards season include the Leadership Curved Glass Award, the Accolade Pyramid, the Flame Award, the Brilliant Accomplishments recognition piece, the Excellence Wedge, the Glacier Award and the Exceptional Star Award, among many others. Successories carries recognition awards in a variety of mediums, including acrylic awards, glass awards and even marble and stone awards.
“All recognition awards purchases are backed by our Awards Advantage, which means that you will always receive free engraving, free set-up, free logo and a 100% guarantee with no hidden fees,” concluded Struhl. “There’s simply no better value for recognition awards available than on Successories.com.”
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About Successories
Successories offers exclusive, high-quality products and programs for your motivational, recognition and promotional needs. Having motivated more than 1 million customers, Successories is the authority on motivation and presents in-depth information on how to motivate yourself and your employees on a daily basis. Successories allows you to personalize any motivational or recognition product – or even design one yourself – with its innovative, unique “Create Your Own” online tool. Successories also features iQuote, the largest curated collection of motivational quotes, diligently maintained by in-house Quoteologists. For more, please visit www.Successories.com .
SalemGlobal Internet Launches Free Internet Marketing Seminars In New York City To Help Local Economy
Posted by Avi Jonas on Jan 18, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jan 18, 2012 – “The Internet and the online technical revolution most probably contributed indirectly to this economic mess we are currently experiencing. The good news is that the Internet and technology can definitely help us get out of it,” said internationally renowned marketing expert Raphi Salem in announcing his plan to help boost the local New York City economy.
“Technology is cheaper than it’s ever been. Buying a domain name, building a website and marketing it are really quite easy,” Salem said. “All you really need is the time, desire and effort.”
To give local businesses, organizations and professionals the power they need to jump start their online knowledge, SalemGlobal Internet is offering free marketing seminars in midtown Manhattan. The first seminar will be hosted by AXA Advisors at 1290 Avenue of the Americas on Thursday, February 2, 2012. 8:30-10am. To RSVP please contact info@salemglobal.com. For a complete list of dates, locations and times, please visit http://www.TheSeminarSeries.com.
These seminars will teach anyone the fundamentals of website marketing with the goal of motivating businesses to start promoting themselves online and professionals how to do it themselves. The SalemGlobal Internet Website Marketing Seminar Series will focus on how to buy strategic domain names, where to host a website, how to write and upload content to a website, develop a linking strategy, conduct keyword research, implement meta data, write articles, construct and distribute interactive press releases, produce online videos (Youtube), use social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), generate leads from Google, Bing and Yahoo local listings and pay per click advertising (PPC).
“My seminars will give local professionals powerful strategies and teach them the skills they need to compete with other businesses already online,” Salem said. “In a matter of weeks to months, any professional can get a website to generate leads and convert visitors to sales, not to mention increase overall revenue or donations for non-profits.”
Salem is reaching out to local businesses and professionals in the healthcare, real estate, auto, insurance and financial sectors, but of course all are welcome. In the past even other marketing and advertising agencies and firms have taken advantage of these free seminars. Salem will also make house calls and teach his formula for success to mostly any group that invites him, sharing his positive attitude and belief that they can really make a difference by using technology and the internet to get ahead.
“Working in this industry for the past 20 years has given me the confidence to truly state that we can pick up New York and get our economy moving again,” Salem said. According to the online experts, the numbers make perfect sense:
• 53% of people on Twitter recommend companies and/or products in their tweets, with 48% of them delivering on their intention to buy the product. (ROI Research for Performance, June 2010)
• In a study conducted by social networking site myYearbook, 81% of respondents said they’d received advice from friends and followers relating to a product purchased through a social site; 74% of those who received such advice found it to be influential in their decision. (Click Z, January 2010)
• Online user reviews have the biggest influence on consumer electronics purchases, with 43.7% of purchases affected by word of mouth. (BIGresearch, December 2009)
• 67% of shoppers spend more online after recommendations from online community of friends. (Internet Retailer, September 2009)
• Nearly two-thirds of consumers (61%) use search engines to help them in their product research decisions leading up to purchase. (eConsultancy, July 2010)
A 20-year old-school advertising veteran, Salem has appeared before hundreds of audiences both in the United States and abroad. Salem has spoken to and shared his online money-making strategies with countless students and professionals, at universities and organizations throughout the world.
Raphi Salem is the President of SalemGlobal Internet Website Marketing and Lead Generation. To find out more about his organization, please visit http://www.SalemGlobal.com.
To find out more about The Seminar Series, please visit http://www.TheSeminarSeries.com.
What your organization can learn from NY Giants, Tebowmania, Miss America, Wikipedia Protests, Italian Cruise Ship Disasters, Mitt Romney & Betty White
Posted by Avi Jonas on Jan 18, 2012
Now you might think that if the Giants won, the Green Bay Packers lost. But then of course you would be wrong. Well, at least for the quarterback. You see, it didn’t really matter whether Aaron Rodgers won or lost. It wasn’t even how he played the game…. Regardless of what happened, newly crowned Miss America Laura Kaeppeler from Kenosha asked Rodgers to call her… What I can tell you is that in the words of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “Even the losers get lucky sometime!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwqqZPlAI7E
Motivate your workplace with some motivational posters from http://www.Successories.com
Speaking of losers, did you hear the one about the young up and coming quarterback who believed in America, Jesus, God, religion, mom, apple pie (should I go on?) and football of course…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx3-sxhewlo. Oh that’s right. He also started kneeling on one knee and thanking god every time he made a touchdown. Seems like Toebowmania is over for this season but we sure did get entertained this year. Watch out for Timmy next year when he starts for the Denver Broncos. Let’s see if he can do even better. Congrats on a great first season in the limelight…
The opposite of limelight though is happening on Wednesday, January 18 when Wikipedia shuts its own lights to protest the newest anti-piracy act. Wikimedia foundation claims that if the new bill is passed, it can “seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.” Good luck people. Free speech and privacy are at stake. Let’s see what happens as a result…
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
Speaking of more disasters and bad news, so far 11 people are confirmed dead and 23 still missing as a result of an Italian cruise ship hitting a reef and sinking 50 meters off the coast of Italy. I heard on the radio this morning that its possible that the Captain of the ship went off course as a favor to the head of the kitchen. He requested if they could bring the ship past the island where his parents lived. Oh boy. Someone is in trouble…. The captain is charged with manslaughter and could face up to 12 years in prison. Here are some pictures:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16582060
Back here in the USA, we have a president to elect in less than 12 months. Mitt Romney is leading the GOP pack ahead of Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum (am I the only one who thinks his name sounds like a sanitorium?), Rick Perry (not to be confused with STEVE Perry, Don’t Stop Believing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I-SbwCHJ80) and Newt Gingrich. Some think Romney isn’t the best business person. He did a little bit of the Richard Gere in Pretty Woman business thingie where you buy a bunch of companies and consolidate for profit. Sometimes people lose jobs. Sometimes you make millions of dollars. Who really know? More here:
http://2012.republican-candidates.org/
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Betty White turned 90 this week. Happy Birthday! http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/betty-white-turns-90-honored-mary-tyler-moore-tina-fey-hugh-jackman-article-1.1007427
So you are a business looking for more profit in 2012? Look no further. You found your man. Your company should reach out to us and find out what we are all about. We have been helping companies, organizations and professionals succeed online since 1997. We are the Tim Tebows of the Internet industry. We are young and all we do is win! (Okay maybe not every time. Ok maybe we are the Eli Mannings of the online world) Call Raphi Salem at SalemGlobal Internet Website Marketing and Lead Generation today at 212-222-3292 or email him at info@salemglobal.com. I look forward to working with you, networking with you and hanging out with you and making money with you in 2012. It’s not getting any warmer you know. Pick up the phone and call me today!
Successories.com Offers Five Tips for No-Cost (or Low-Cost) Employee Motivation and Recognition
Posted by Avi Jonas on Jan 16, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- January 16, 2012 - Successories.com, the leader in employee motivation and employee recognition, has released their top five tips for no-cost (or low-cost) employee recognition.
“In this economy, a motivated workforce is crucial, and these days more and more companies are using employee recognition to engage and motivated their workers,” says Warren Struhl, CEO of Successories. “If employees are not motivated or recognized, there’s a tendency to be high employee turnover at that company. And that turnover carries a real-world cost with it.”
World at Work, a total rewards research and trade organization, recently reported that the use of recognition programs to motivate specific employee behaviors has increased from 9 percent to 34 percent between 2008 and 2011, an increase of almost 300%.
Struhl points to some of the most effective strategies he’s advised Successories clients use, in addition to the use of motivational posters and physical recognition awards, to help boost employee motivation and employee morale:
- Present Challenges. If employees don’t feel satisfied with the work they perform on a daily basis, they may become lackadaisical or unenthused about their roles with the company. Employees – human beings in general – are always looking for different and challenging assignments that will expose them to new ideas and enhance their knowledge and skills. Tasks with extra responsibility and tasks that require initiative on the employees’ part will lead to boosts in motivation.
- Measure Fairly. Employees who contribute “more than their pay grade” may expect extra reward. And even though they may not ask for a reward, it is your responsibility as a supervisor to ensure that their extra effort is recognized. Recognition, in this case, doesn’t necessarily mean monetary incentives; incentives like appreciation and recognition can help increase employees motivation and encourage continued efforts. Timely recognition and promotion will make employees loyal and will encourage them to continue to go beyond what’s expected of them for the benefit of the company. Delays in such recognition can generate dissatisfaction and will undoubtedly have adverse consequences.
- Listen, Listen, Listen. Employees will always have grievances. As a supervisor, it’s important that you conduct regular meetings with your team to air grievances and discuss concerns about issues they may be facing. A quick resolution of problems increases motivation and helps employees to focus more on their work.
- Keep an Open Door. A manager/supervisor should make timely and honest communication with the employees. Employees feel highly discouraged when they get important information from other sources. Similarly, open communication should be encouraged and modeled; by doing so a manager is better informed on problems that may later crop up.
- Nurture Self Respect. Humans are sensitive to many issues. Critical issues should be discussed in private meetings and not in front of the entire staff. Treating employees with respect can go a long way in improving their overall performance and motivation levels.
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About Successories
Successories offers exclusive, high-quality products and programs for your motivational, recognition and promotional needs. Having motivated more than 1 million customers, Successories is the authority on motivation and presents in-depth information on how to motivate yourself and your employees on a daily basis. Successories allows you to personalize any motivational or recognition product – or even design one yourself – with its innovative, unique “Create Your Own” online tool. Successories also features iQuote, the largest curated collection of motivational quotes, diligently maintained by in-house Quoteologists. For more, please visit www.Successories.com.
Joseph Federico Announces NJ MET Bus Trip To Support Avon
Posted by Avi Jonas on Jan 11, 2012
NJMET will sponsor its seventh Bus Trip to Atlantic City on Saturday, March 24, 2012. “For those of you in the metropolitan area, we would like to extend a cordial invitation to join us at the Golden Nugget on the Marina for this fundraiser. Buses depart from NJMET in Clifton, NJ at 8:00 AM and will return at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $30 per person with a $20 slot credit,” said Joseph Federico, of NJ MET, headquartered in Clifton, NJ.
Money raised from this trip will be contributed to breast cancer research through the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, (http://www.avonwalk.org/
Anyone interested in participating in NJMET’s spring bus trip or making a donation to the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer is asked to call Joseph Federico at NJ MET in Clifton, NJ @ (973) 546-5393 . Please visit NJ MET at http://www.njmetmtl.com
“NJ MET is thrilled to be able to extend its support for breast cancer research though the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. We are glad to make them the latest recipient of our bus trip fund raising efforts,” said Joseph Federico(http://
Last year, NJMET fund raising bus trips aided earthquake victims in Japan through the American Red Cross and Cancer Research through the Dana Farber Institute, according to Joseph Federico.
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Successories.com Adds New Recognition Award Styles for 2012 Award Season
Posted by Avi Jonas on Jan 11, 2012
January 10, 2012 – Successories.com has added dozens of new and updated styles for the 2012 awards season, expanding their industry-leading position as an innovator of unique, custom recognition awards for any company or organization.
“We’ve spent many hours researching and designing dozens of new products for recognition awards. During awards season, industries and business such as education, health care, insurance, financial services, real estate agencies, etc., hand out awards to their best performers, key employees and vendors who deserve recognition. Each year, Successories provides companies something unique to recognize those achievements,” says Ted Struhl, CEO of Successories.
Struhl pointed out just a few of the new recognition award designs that are already flying off the shelves and have quickly become customer favorites:
- Leadership Curved Glass Award. “This award has a large engraving area for those that want to spotlight their logo or a corporate mission statement.”
- Accolade Pyramid. “This distinctive piece was exclusively designed for Successories, and is an elegant, customizable recognition award.”
- Flame Award. “A new addition to our Art Glass Award category, this is a one-of-a kind, hand blown-art glass award; truly spectacular.”
- Brilliant Accomplishments. “This glass award is perfect for recognizing employees for their years of service, as it features a brilliant colored gem, next to the commemoration circle.”
- Excellence Wedge. “This is an update to one of our annual customer favorites with a new message of excellence.”
- Glacier Award. “This is fast becoming our best-selling acrylic recognition award. Its black Lucite base contains a crackled blue mirror that reflects a blue tone throughout the piece.”
- Exceptional Star Award. “This is Successories’ brand new line of Exceptional Awards celebrating Exceptional People. A fantastic addition.”
All of Successories’ recognition awards are customizable, with the ability to add text and a corporate logo at no additional cost. With the Successories Awards Advantage there are never any set up fees or hidden costs. And each award is backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Quantity discounts are also available. For more, visit the Web site at http://www.successories.com.
About Successories
Successories offers exclusive, high-quality products and programs for your motivational, recognition and promotional needs. Having motivated more than 1 million customers, Successories is the authority on motivation and presents in-depth information on how to motivate yourself and your employees on a daily basis. Successories allows you to personalize any motivational or recognition product – or even design one yourself – with its innovative, unique “Create Your Own” online tool. Successories also features iQuote, the largest curated collection of motivational quotes, diligently maintained by in-house Quoteologists. For more, please visit www.Successories.com.
Happy New Year! It’s 2012! Network With Us Already! Exclusive Meeting This Thursday 1/12, 8:30am, AXA NYC. Psst! Wanna Make $380 Million This Year? Embracing Failure, Resolutions, Predictions, Presidents, Tim Tebow, Ricky Lake On Internet Dating, NY Giants Have A Chance!
Posted by Avi Jonas on Jan 11, 2012
While I was doing research for this week’s column, I happened to be reading The Jewish Week’s Gary Rosenblatt’s editorial on “Why Funder’s Need To Embrace Failure.” (http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial_opinion/gary_rosenblatt/why_funders_need_embrace_failure) Rosenblatt sites two references that allow me to jumpstart my writing for this new year of 2012. 1st was the NY Times education supplement in September that published a cover story titled, “What If the Secret to Success is Failure?” 2nd was “My Favorite Mistake,” a small column tucked away in Newsweek that I just found to be very inspiring. Here is one from James Dyson on his 5,000 missteps while inventing his famous vacuum cleaner (http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/05/29/my-favorite-mistake-james-dyson.html). Very inspirational. When you think about rejection, think Dyson. Then think about how another’s loss is your gain. And the latest I could find was Ricky Lake on dating guys on the Internet… http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/11/13/ricki-lake-on-falling-hard-for-a-jerk-she-met-online.html. Turns out even some celebrities have relationship issues…
Embracing failure sticks out in my mind particularly since my company is now officially 15 years old. In dog years – that is a LOT! So now that I have been working for myself for a decade and a half, I have to ask myself, “Am I successful?” Of course, that leads to the question regarding the nature and meaning of success. 
And then of course you can ask Siri what is the meaning of life and other assorted questions (http://www.sirifunny.com/ and http://list25.com/25-hilarious-siri-responses/). But I digress…
My success and the way that I look at life is rooted in an old article, perhaps in a New York magazine that I once read. It asked this celebrity or business person how they valued life. The answer was a balance between personal and professional. While professional meant “work,” personal had 3 things… health, family and God. I liked the answer and have pretty much stuck with that for many years.
When I asked for New Year’s Resolutions from friends via Facebook, I got back a number of responses… Being a better person to the environment/recycle more/Getting off dating sites/finding a true mate and life partner/Balancing finances/make money, curb spending/Lose weight/take better care of health… and the list goes on. I am actually proud to say that I have increased my exercising and decreased my eating of junk over the last 10 days. GO ME! Let’s see if I can keep it up for another 355 days. Don’t think I am perfect though; I did cheat a bit this past Saturday while no one was looking. But overall feeling good. Trying to lose a mere 13 lbs. I also resolve to be a LOT more organized at home and at work. I am so friggin’ proud of myself already. I actually cleaned up, did laundry and organized most of my papers from 2011 into my filing cabinet. 2012 is looking good…
But if you are a skeptic and don’t think that you have what it takes, I want you to seriously dig down deep inside yourself and consider the Tim Tebow factor of the year. Here is a 23 year old kid who either is the most talented QB in history or just PLAIN LUCKY! Regardless of whether you believe in God or not or luck or the universe or whatever, you can’t deny that something amazing is happening in the NFL.
Funny thing is that I was watching the game until OT between the Denver Broncos and Pittsburgh Steelers. I saw it all unravel and then I thought it was over. So I left. Next thing I know, TT makes the best throw and play of his career and the game was over. I can’t wait until he faces Brady on Saturday. Oh yeah. If you want to see this so called best selling sports book of the year: http://www.amazon.com/Through-My-Eyes-Tim-Tebow/dp/0062007289
Speaking of people who make millions of dollars a year, did you hear the latest about the guy who inherited the CEO position of a lifetime? Tim Cook is taking over Steve Jobs front seat at Apple. Steve took $1.00 a year but was worth billions. So Tim isn’t worth billions so I guess they figured out that if he can hold down the fort and be “somewhat” brilliant that the job is worth $380 million. So you gotta ask yourself…. Was this guy in the right place at the right time? I should say so!
Oh, and for you Google conspiracy theorists, Google will now be known as “Big Brother.” Remember that Google Circles vs. Facebook thingy? Yeah. Well now Google will know everything about you, your family, your dog, your everything. Don’t worry, I am sure Facebook is right up there with them. Maybe not as technical, but definitely invasive. Thank you George Orwell. Bring us back to 1984 please. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioulqXfbF8-Fiu1xVYA_algZVNDQ?docId=f9299864491e44ca84c003fe8f8f6e05
Last minute food and groceries delivered in the Dallas, TX region. Coming soon to Chicago: http://www.Artizone.com
Motivate your workplace with some motivational posters from http://www.Successories.com
Want to know more about internet marketing for the new 2012 year? Need help keeping your resolutions to do a better internet marketing job on the web? Need help choosing a president? (Doesn’t seem like the Republican’s have their house in order at this time. My prediction is Obama takes it again even though he will have to fight for it.) Betting on Tebow or the NY Giants? (They might get lucky too since they played well this past Sunday.) Help with leads, conversions and sales? Look no further! Call Raphi Salem at SalemGlobal Internet Website Marketing and Lead Generation today at 212-222-3292 or email him at info@salemglobal.com. I am looking forward to working with you, networking with you and hanging out with you and making money with you in 2012. What are you waiting for! Call me now!
New Year, New Motivation: Ring in 2012 with Successories’ Six Steps to Starting an Employee Recognition Program
Posted by Avi Jonas on Dec 29, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- Recent Gallup research shows that engaged employees, employees who feel rewarded and recognized by their employers, are more productive employees, more customer-focused, and more likely to withstand the temptations to leave. Yet, many businesses believe than an effective employee recognition program is too hard to plan or out of financial reach. To increase your chance of implementing an effective and budget-friendly employee motivation program , Successories has identified these steps as being the key to starting and sticking to an employee recognition program:
Step 1: Vision-Establish the purpose for the employee recognition program.
For the recognition program to be effective, it must be tied into the goals and objectives of the company or department, but think of more than just “increase sales.” Recognizing behavior (e.g., teamwork, innovation, integrity, excellence) has proven to be a much better motivational goal and allows the company to further stated company goals and corporate values.
Step 2: Criteria-Talk to employees about how they want to be graded and recognized.
Soliciting ideas from employees is a great way to ensure buy-in to get them motivated. It’s also a great way to generate ideas for identifying the best types of awards, frequency of awards, nomination procedures, and award presentation.
Step 3: Form a Recognition Committee.
This step is crucial in getting all employees involved and committed to the recognition program. The committee should then schedule the year’s process of nominations, voting procedures and presentations. The committee can even be given the autonomy to survey nominees to see which rewards motivate them the most.
Step 4: Develop eligibility and frequency of recognition awards.
Now that the vision, criteria and committee for the recognition program have been formed, it’s time to decide who is eligible for a given program (Full-time/part-time employees? Non-managers only?); how nominations are made (Allow self-nominations? Managers/co-workers must nominate?); and how often the awards will be given (Monthly? Bi-Monthly? Quarterly?).
Step 5: Determine budget and awards.
The great news is that recognition programs don’t have to be expensive to motivate employees. Successful program awards can range from gift cards to local stores to professional training courses to recognition pieces or certificates - whatever fits in your budget and is sustainable for the company to continue.
Step 6: Public recognition is the ultimate motivator.
It is vital that the awards presentation be public and permanent. The higher the position of the person presenting the award (CEO, President, Vice-President, etc.) and the more people in attendance, the more meaningful and more motivational the recognition becomes. Plus, having a perpetual recognition piece, such as a plaque or trophy that is posted in a public area to highlight the winners, boosts morale and keeps the focus on core values high.
Formal employee recognition programs don’t replace daily praise or the casual “great job” from a supervisor or manager, but they do promote employee motivation and will keep your workers feeling engaged from the very beginning of the year.
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About Successories
Successories offers exclusive, high-quality products and programs for your motivational, recognition and promotional needs. Having motivated more than 1 million customers, Successories is the authority on motivation and presents in-depth information on how to motivate yourself and your employees on a daily basis. Successories allows you to personalize any motivational or recognition product – or even design one yourself – with its innovative, unique “Create Your Own” online tool. Successories also features iQuote, the largest curated collection of motivational quotes, diligently maintained by in-house Quoteologists. For more, please visit www.Successories.com.
Joseph Federico of NJ MET Announces Its Humanitarian Assistance to Refugees In Sri-Lanka 2012
Posted by Avi Jonas on Dec 21, 2011
Anyone interested in donating any items to aid this cause is asked to contact Joseph Federico at (973) 546-5393. All items will be collected and shipped to Sri-Lanka at the expense of NJ MET Inc beginning January 1, 2012.
Past shipments have included clothing, coffee, tea, candy and toiletries. According to Joseph Federico, “NJMET has clients all over the world and we understand the need for our charitable efforts to be both local and international, ” Mr. Federico said. NJ MET conducts a number of charity drives and events during the year. Recipients range from organizations all over the world.
To learn more about NJ MET and its international charity drives visit the “In the News” section of their website: http://www.njmetmtl.com/
To learn more about Joseph Federico’s volunteer efforts visit: http://josephfedericonj.biz/
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Happy Holidays! Happy Chanuka.com! Happy New Year! Google 2011, Tom Brady, Tim Tebow, Kim Jong Il, Vaclav Havel, Monkey on Dog, Runaway Golf Cart, FedEx Delivery Gone Bad
Posted by Avi Jonas on Dec 21, 2011
Let’s start out with some fun shall we?
First and foremost, I want to send a shout out to an old buddy of mine (Larry Kunofsky) who is a playwright and has a performance going on at The Monkey, 37 West 26th Street. http://www.purplerep.com/ – The Myths We Need – or – How To Begin. Awesome show! See it ASAP!
And now on to football…
It seems that before Tom Brady stopped Tim Tebow in his tracks this past Sunday, ESPN decided to create this very cool autotune song about Tebow “All He Does Is Win.” Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMK9FKMG3Nc
And if you feel like it’s Tebow Time check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc8bp4jsgKI&feature=related
And then Saturday Night Live made this skit about Jesus basically being the cause for all of the Broncos wins: http://www.hulu.com/watch/311565/saturday-night-live-tebow
But then Pat Robertson got involved and blasts the ‘SNL’/Tim Tebow skit as an act of ‘bigotry.’ By the way, you must read the comments on this page. God fearing people vs. atheists. I call it a tie. Perfect after my last week’s post of the Rick Perry video: http://aol.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2011-12-20/pat-robertson-blasts-snltim-tebow-skit-as-act-of-bigotry#ixzz1h94rL5rv
And since we are talking about religion and politics, we should acknowledge the death of Kim Jong Il of North Korea this week. But we should also thank Matt Parker and Trey Stone for their most excellent movie “Team America” in which they portray Kim Jong Il as not the nicest of dictators in recent history. Here’s the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TEvacFETvM And here is Hans Blix of the United Nations acknowledging the spoof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHZYtSfJB74&feature=related
Prior to this week I really didn’t know who Vaclav Havel was. And now I do. Because he died. Vaclav Havel was a Czech playwright (yes – just like Larry Kunofsky, but not the Czech part…), essayist, poet, dissident and politician. A Nobel Peace Prize nominee, he was the Last President of Czechoslovakia and First President of the Czech Republic. http://www.vaclavhavel.cz/index.php?setln=2
Ok. Back to football…
Videos of the week:
Runaway golf cart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=CFlq3ExfbT4
Monkey on Dog during halftime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ2jwqhNtCI
Lastly, ever order something to be delivered by FedEx and it arrives broken? Apparently some dude has a surveillance camera and caught his monitor being flipped over a fence. Apparently this guy was hard to find because he didn’t have a tracking code. Seriously. FedEx announced that they will “look for him.” You mean you can’t ID him on camera? Or maybe it’s just a matter of time. I guess he will lose his job but at least we all got some laughs out of it. I can just see it now. “Sir, I understand you are looking for a new job. What happened to your career at FedEx?” “Well. Um. If we can just login in to YouTube I can explain everything. Honest mistake. Won’t happen again. I mean the monitor literally SLIPPED out of my hands and over the fence.” Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKUDTPbDhnA
Now even though there MIGHT be some backlash against FedEx and people might trust UPS delivery to be safer, this is completely great for FedEx in terms of “bad PR is better than NO PR.” Remember this spoof of a Gatorade commercial? It was such a farce that it never aired. I think it’s awesome! And would’ve gotten some positive feedback: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmSZwj4q3Lc&feature=related
Lastly, check out how we searched in Google in 2011: http://www.googlezeitgeist.com/en/
Japan Earthquake
Tsunamis
Brazil Floods
Osama Bin Laden
10th Anniversary of 9/11
Iraq War Ends – Troops come home
Google+ takes on Facebook
Southern Sudan Independence
Tunisia
Arab Spring
Egyptian uprising – Hosni Mubarak ousted
Greece riots and economy fails
Occupy Wall Street
Elizabeth Taylor, Al Davis, Betty Ford, Andy Rooney, Joe Frazier, Steve Jobs die
Some former radio announcer homeless guy named Ted Williams gets in a video that goes viral and lands a job with the Cleveland Cavaliers
Rebecca Black worst song ever goes viral and makes her a pop star – even stars in Katy Perry videos
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot
Prince William Marries Kate Middleton in a Ceremony Fit for a King
And in NY we had some early snow for Halloween
and Gay Marriage became legal…
And don’t forget about 2nd place Yahoo! Top 10 searches: http://yearinreview.yahoo.com/2011/us_top_10_searches#Top%2010%20Searches
REALLY?!?!?!
1) iPhone
2) Casey Anthony
3) Kim Kardashian
4) Katy Perry
5) Jennifer Lopez
6) Lindsay Lohan
7) “American Idol”
Jennifer Aniston
9) Japan Earthquake
10) Osama bin Laden
Last minute holiday greeting cards: http://dealoftheday.biz/
Last minute food delivered in the Dallas, TX region: http://www.Artizone.com
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