WIN A TICKET TO THE BRAND MARKET WORKSHOP IN ATL!

Hello!! -- We've been busy preparing for our first Brand Market Workshop in Atlanta and can't wait to teach a stellar group of ladies all about photography, branding, and marketing for their blog or site! To celebrate our first workshop we are giving away a FREE ticket to our workshop in Atlanta!! A $325 value!! This will include breakfast, lunch, swag bag, and a full day of learning about how to make your business stand out!

GIVEAWAY TIME!
Giveaway will be run via Rafflecopter. One winner will be selected at random and announced within the week. Winner will receive free attendance to The Brand Market Workshop in Atlanta. Workshop will be on November 2nd. If you've already purchased a ticket to the Atlanta Brand Market Workshop and win, you will receive a refund of your ticket purchase. Hooray!!

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ANNOUNCING: THE BRAND MARKET!

Hey friends! Guess what?! For the past couple months, we have been collaborating with the beautiful Anna of In Honor of Design and working on an awesome new project together! Today, we are stoked to officially announce The Brand Market!! What is The Brand Market? It's a one-day workshop dedicated to helping creative entrepreneurs grow their business and nail down their unique brand. In Honor of Design and Maiedae will be working together to host and teach this workshop! Check out more details on our site here: brandmarketworkshop.com, also be sure to mark your calendar for August 9th. We will be launching our full site AND registration!

Workshop Details
To break it down a little more, this workshop will cover three important sections:

1. Photography - Our goal is to help you create beautiful photos that really stand out on your site! This session will include the following:

* How to use your DSLR
* Benefits of having great photos
* Lighting
* Styling photos
* Backdrops - how to find them and make the most of what you have
* Putting together great shoots for outfits, products, and lifestyle photos
* Photo editing, sizing, and saving
* Photoshop tutorials on using type, photo collages, and working with overlays
* You'll receive a professional headshot for your site
* And tons of hand-ons exercises and visual examples!

2. Branding - You'll be getting tons of information and resources to help you create or polish a successful brand identity. Check out Jenny's announcement for more details on the Branding aspect of our workshop! 

3. Marketing - We will help direct you with the next steps of implementing your band into all areas of your business, and resources and ideas to help promote and grow your site. Check out Anna's announcement for more details on the Marketing aspect of our workshop!

On top of these three sessions, you will also receive a one-on-one session offering customized and personal advice on how you can improve your site and grow your business. There will also be a Q&A session time to answer all of your burning questions at the end of the workshop! This class will be packed with SO MUCH good information and provide you with the tools you need to be awesome and grow!

Dates n' Such 
If you're a blogger, small business owner, or creative entrepreneur then this workshop if for you! We will be kicking off with two workshops in 2013. The first will be October 12th in Atlanta, Georgia, and the second will be November 9th in Greenville, South Carolina.

In order to maintain an intimate class setting, we are keeping our class size to 15 people. The cost will be $325 per person and will include breakfast, lunch, snacks, printed materials, swag bags, a professional head-shot, and an entire day of learning goodness to grow your brand and business! Registration opens August 9th on our Brand Market site!!

We are SO excited to bring this workshop to you and we can't wait for the first one in October. It's been so awesome getting to know Anna and working with her on this project. We couldn't be more stoked about this collaboration. It's been a huge passion of ours to equip others to go do and make things happen, so seeing this dream become a reality is thrilling. If you have any questions about the workshop or want to see us in your city in 2014, please email us at hello@brandmarketworkshop.com. 

Site: brandmarketworkshop.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandmarketworkshop
Instagram: @brandmarketworkshop
Twitter: #brandmarketworkshop
Contact: hello@brandmarketworkshop.com 

SNAPSHOTS: BLOGSHOP ATLANTA

Last weekend I got the opportunity to intern with Bri and Angela at their Atlanta Blogshop. It was such an exciting time to help prepare everything beforehand, arrive early in the morning to help set up before the students got there, and assist throughout the weekend. Just to go off on a quick tangent: Bri and Angela have got it going on. It was such an inspiration to see them in their element and hear about their experiences and passions.

On Saturday morning, I got to Big Studio and met up with some amazingly talented folks who helped put the entire event together. There was "cute Bobby" as he was later nicknamed, who ran the studio and helped us out with our many requests. There was also the seriously talented florist//designer, Tami, who put together all of the floral arrangements. I also got to meet local blogger, Anna, who runs In Honor of Design. She put together the decorations for the room and was adorable beyond words. :) I think one of my favorite parts about the whole experience was having the opportunity to meet other creative people in the area. Atlanta is such a small blogging ground, so meeting fellow bloggers is so special.

During Blogshop, I also got to work with Gina. She was also interning and we worked closely together over the two days. We put together swag bags, helped set-up, assisted students with their Photoshop questions, and helped however we could. I immediately connected with Gina when I realized our similar passions for blogging, photography, health, and StrengthsFinder. She and her husband reside in Saint Simons Island, run a photography business, have a bee hive, and keep chickens. I love it! I hope we can cross paths again in the near future. In the meantime, I'll be musing over her blog, Hello There Home. :)

We got the opportunity to spend more time with Angela and Bri over dinner. I loved hearing about their careers, lives, and getting to know such a creative and boss group of women. I loved my experience there and I feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to meet new people, show people around Photoshop, and learn new things. If you are a blogger looking to learn Photoshop to better your blog, I highly recommend taking Blogshop. Seriously.

Jenny and I talked after my experience there and decided that we wanted to invest in attending their Blogshop Video class dedicated to teaching how to shoot and edit video for your blog. We booked our tickets and are going to LA in January! We might even be taking a detour to visit our best friend in Pasadena AND go to Disney...maybe. ;)

PS - We took some way fun Smilebooth pictures that I'll have to share later. ;)