Consumption Conversations: Alaine Portner, Michelle Glover, CJ DiRoma On Success, Branding & Peace!

What's in a simple conversation? Plenty! Consumption Conversations is asking leading creative ninjas in social media, photography, videography and design, as well as savvy entrepreneurs, business networking greats and more, to share their views on everything from building a brand to promoting a business to reading the latest inspirational book.

Available for review, Consumption Conversations, an original, journalistic blog delivered by the editorial and creative team of Consumption Marketing, can be viewed at http://www.asterismgroup.com/Consumption.

Consumption Marketing delivers two business blogs, one on Consumption Marketing updates, news and trends and its very entertaining, Q&A showcase, its sister blog, Consumption Conversations!

Through targeted, unique and entertaining Q&As, Consumption Marketing, a division of The asterism* Group, speaks with leading entrepreneurs, creative executives, marketing ninjas, social media experts, event production champions, professional and personal development stylists. Consumption Conversations truly is an original online resource featuring many great voices!

Featured recently by Consumption Conversations include:

Alaine Portner leads a wellness retreat.

• Alaine Portner is beautiful. You do not have to see her to know this fact about her. Alaine's beauty shines - pure passion, spirituality, wellness, balance. Alaine is so very, very tranquil, open and centered. How can a successful entrepreneur and business owner, dedicated author and gifted medium - did you know Alaine can connect to the "other side" - be so charmingly warm, relaxed and glowingly energized? Who is Alaine Portner? Alaine is the owner of Yoga Center of Medford, NJ, she is a devoted spiritual guide, in the role of medium, to hundreds and hundreds of people throughout the country - and she is a mentor to all she meets. With the launch of her first book on the horizon and a national outreach campaign, Alaine is a woman on a mission - one of peace, love and acceptance all can feel if they allow themselves to UNPLUG!

• After Michelle Glover earned her PhD in Genetics, she discovered she had more of a passion for business and traded in her lab coat for high heels. While working for a Fortune 500 company, Michelle incubated start-ups as serial entrepreneur, founding and co-founding businesses such as: DreamLife Properties, The Tea Oil Tree Review, Alpine View Investments, The Chips and Slime Sandwich. Michelle’s highest desire and calling is to help women in business actualize their dreams.  Her blog on business information and tips can be found at Girl EnTREEpreneur. On Twitter, Michelle is @enTREEpreneurz.

CJ DiRoma & the Station Avenue Girlz!

• CJ DiRoma is a legend. One very savvy ninja diva with a passion for event production, marketing, branding, creative "anything" and a talent for entertainment! CJ DiRoma is Station Avenue Productions, a leading event production firm headquartered in South Jersey and serving all size venues throughout the United States. CJ has worked with legends - Barry Manilow, Kenny Rogers, Charlie Daniels and scores and scores of epic greats in the world of music and entertainment. Has she worked with any great comedians? Has CJ ever worked with any great bands? Ever heard of Boyz II Men? Ever heard of Jim Belushi, Lewis Black, Howie Mandel or "Mike & Molly" star Billy Gardell? CJ is not only gifted at envisioning, organizing and producing events of all sizes - from concerts to non-profit galas - she is also "connected" to all the right entertainers to ensure every event gets the right entertainment. As if that were not enough to impress, CJ is also a branding and marketing expert, who, during 2011, founded The asterism* Group, a boutique marketing and creative services firm that includes the talents of Station Avenue Productions. In addition to the proven event production services of Station Avenue, The asterism* Group delivers services with Station's two sister divisions, Consumption Marketing and Little Flower Creative. Does CJ have too much energy for ONE petite, power player. Probably, but CJ wouldn't have it any other way.

• In 2010, Jill Celeste became an entrepreneur, running her own social media marketing agency called Hound Dog Social Media. Like many creative thinkers, Jill needed to find a way to be one step ahead of her competition. Her business was doing mediocre, at best, and Jill could not figure out why it wasn't attracting ideal clients. Then, it hit Jill – the key to being more successful didn't lie in branding her company; it lied with branding herself. So, being a social media enthusiast and, more important, expert, Jill plugged into all her social media marketing superpowers and created an authentic personal brand that builds her status as a trusted subject matter expert, allowing Jill to network with ideal clients, and have fun and enriching conversations with prospects, customers and peers. Today, Jill has over 3,000 Twitter followers @Jill_Celeste and counting rapidly, and has worked with dozens of leading entrepreneurs and businesses in identifying their core brand and, in the process, empowering their professional opportunities.

• Howard Yermish, one of South Jersey's leading experts on SEO and being SMART, speaks with Consumption Conversations about businesses now looking beyond simple brochure-ware sites. Many are looking beyond gimmicky animations and focusing on showing the character of their organization. Further still, businesses are finding ways to service customers, deliver product, as well as improve internal workflow with their websites. It is different for each business, but the smart ones look for process efficiency, something that software does well.

CONSUMPTION CONVERSATIONS

Consumption Conversations features individual Q&As with diverse, leading business professionals, entrepreneurs and creative leaders. The theme for Consumption Conversations will chiefly focus on marketing strategies, communications campaigns, social media awareness, business event opportunities, public relations techniques and personal creativity expression.

The original blog, created by Consumption Marketing and delivered by Consumption Marketing's editorial and creative staff, will highlight business strategies, as well as personal enrichment stories, to inspire, education, entertain, motivate and energize today's business professionals and entrepreneurs.

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