HighViz Consulting introduces 24/7 PR - PROMO Challenge (SM) -unique offer of new business concept for companies who need on-demand exposure

HighViz Consulting Group introduces 24/7 “PR PROMO CHALLENGE”(SM), unique offer of new business concept for companies who need text with on-demand exposure

HighViz Consulting introduces 24/7 PR - PROMO Challenge (SM) - boutique firm challenges new clients offer of new promo concept within one business day

HighViz establishes consultative “PR On-Demand” Program - Boutique firm challenges new clients to allow HighVizPR team work on innovative concepts within 24 hour period

Haymarket, VA, November 5, 2009: HighViz Consulting Group, (HighViz), www.highviz.net , a project company serving Information Technology, legal, manufacturing, small business, non-profit and associations and organizations working within federal agencies, is announcing its consulting “PR PROMO CHALLENGE”. This unique offer provides the opportunity for promising on-demand companies and organizations to kick off a value-based trial PR campaign with a senior-level Public Relations Practitioner. This includes working out the beginning concept phase to a starting campaign for each potential client.

In addition, HighViz is offering to consult with those who are interested in taking the “Challenge”, taking the customer step by step through case studies of public relations concepts. “This is how to put high visibility to a business entity’s greatest advantage” Abbe Buck, HighViz’s Principal Consultant and Lead Publicist explains, “By learning what has worked for others who have successfully used public relations promotion techniques, the business who must promote to grow will have a running start in working toward a more intuitive, viral PR planning.”

HOW THE 24/7 PR-PROMO CHALLENGE WORKS

What is the HighViz PR Promo Challenge?

HighViz asks to have those who would like to consider hiring them to put them to the test by asking the team to come up with ideas for their businesses within a business day's time. Abbe Buck also notes, "If HighViz can come up with a starter road map toward a promotional campaign and a COMPREHENSIVE strategy we will do all that we can to earn [our] customer's business. As WWII and adopted HVPR mascot Rosie the Riveter says "WE CAN DO IT!" --and most times we already have."

Past Performance: Buck cites work that has been done for clients in this fashion for the ASSYST, USO of Metropolitian Washington, Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, Information Experts, Molen Enterprises IT, Lani Silver, (author), David Aaker Motivational Speaker, BoardBoost, Sarbanes Oxley Seminars, Jane Trevaskis Success-Catalyst and more.

EXAMPLE:

USAVETBIZ to Urge Congress for Government-Wide Preference Contracting & Set-Aside Programs for all Veteran-Owned Small Businesses

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS166502+20-May-2009+BW20090520

HighViz Consulting's 24/7 PR – PROMO Challenge works with an on-demand concept used within Fortune 500 companies such as IBM. HVCG asks that a form is completed on their website. Once the form is completed, HighViz will contact the marketing management who made the PR Challenge request. At this point, HighViz will do an assessment of the PR campaign needs of the organization, (normally a $1500 value). After the evaluation is completed, it will be presented to the organization, with suggestions, and a suggested “BRAND” or “CONCEPT” to put to use WITHIN ONE BUSINESS DAY (24 HOURS)

“In starting out with our current clients, the 24/7 "PR PROMO CHALLENGE” has worked well because as we thrive on deadlines, we can also share in the customer’s sense of urgency to bring their ideas to fruition and their services “to market” , HighViz's Buck says. "We want to be ‘challenged’ by our customers to go the extra mile. We need these challenges! In an information-packed society, every business, from a 'mom and pop' to a major corporation, must have the opportunity to show who they are, what they provide, why they are in business. It is our job to help them showcase their best attributes.”

To take the 24/7 PR PROMO CHALLENGE, fill out the entry form at the HighViz site:

http://highvizconsulting.com/HVCG_advertisement.html


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About HighViz Consulting Group
Short for "High Visibility", boutique PR and marketing firm HighViz Consulting Group, specializes in raising awareness for companies and organizations. The firm's services include media relations, communications, crisis management, business development, and related marketing services. The company specializes in serving information technology companies and government agencies.

HighViz is a communications and public relations firm dedicated to generating creative and effective communications programs for technology, business and consumer companies nationwide. Since 1999, Since HighViz has provided exclusively senior-level strategic counsel and execution of public relations programs that clearly and consistently deliver return on investment. Our selective client roster has included government agencies, associations, and private, entrepreneurial companies such as Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, Connection Concepts, Inc., BoardBoost, Aaker and Associates, Information Experts, Stellent, Starbase, DSA, Kerrigan Media, EZ Certify, Inc., IBM, USA VET BIZ and the United Services Organization (USO). Our expertise varies from enterprise software including online collaboration to entertainment and association communications.

Media Contact: Abbe Buck, Principal Consultant, 1-800-380-2825

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WHAT? NO SHOW-BIZ FEUD on HIS show? What the DNC hath wrought -- NOW! ....... .... (((GROAN)))) ..........abbebuck on twitter: when does it end?

"I hope [Obama] fails….  Someone's gotta say it."  Rush Limbaugh, January 16, 2009 Dear Friend, This isn't just some radio host mouthing off.  Rush Limbaugh is the leading voice of the Republican Party.  Make no mistake.  When Rush says jump, congressional Republicans say how high? From the day he entered office, President Obama has extended his hand to Republicans in a spirit of bipartisanship and asked them to work with him to solve America's problems.  Thus far, they have preferred to kowtow to extremists like Limbaugh rather than accept the good faith outreach of our president. The times are too serious for this nonsense to continue. That is why today I am asking you to join me in telling Senate Republicans to go on record and declare their independence from Rush Limbaugh.   Your comments will be sent to Republican leaders. Click here to join the DSCC in demanding that Senate Republicans reject the disgraceful words of Rush Limbaugh and declare their independence from the divisive politics of the past. America can't afford this childish posturing anymore.  We are in crisis -- and President Obama needs everyone in Washington -- including Republicans -- to work on constructive solutions to get America moving again. Senate Republicans can begin working with our president to tackle the defining challenges of our time or they can continue pandering to the narrowing and increasingly irrelevant angry right personified by Rush Limbaugh. Click here to sign the DSCC's petition -- which will be sent to Republican leaders -- demanding that they reject the disgraceful words of Rush Limbaugh and start working with President Obama on real solutions for the American people. For years, Republicans have been taking their marching orders from Limbaugh.  In 1994, they named him an honorary member of Congress.  Leading national Republicans have called him, "a great leader," "a great American," and "the number one voice for conservatism in our country." Lately, Limbaugh has grown so powerful that two leading Republicans have had to ask for Rush's forgiveness after they dared to criticize him. Rush Limbaugh is free to say whatever he wants. But when people like Limbaugh start dictating the behavior of Senate Republicans and begin jeopardizing the future of America; it is time for an intervention. It is time to send a message. Please join me. Sincerely, JB Poersch   The DSCC is committed to protecting our majority in the Senate. We can't do it without your help. Please click here to make a donation.   Click here to ask your friends and family to join you in demanding that Senate Republicans reject Rush Limbaugh's disgracedul words.

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CNBC: Betting on OBAMA (sic) The Trump Way (and why this does not at all surprise me!)

---to The Donald:  

a) I live and work here (25 miles within DC Metro, 15 miles from Sterling, VA)

b) You said just last week  this is the worst economy since the Great Depression on the today show last week....if you can 'bank on it' benefit from it, so can we (sic)  (((  I have a perfectly good golf course outside of my door, just a few blocks away....Piedmont/ Club Corp I walk my lab there ....the view of Bull Run Mountain is fabulous!  And the Presidents is nearby...., Evergreen is nearby... Robert Trent Jones is a mile down the road .....but a TRUMP Golf course...? I am thinking it over )))

 c) Would you like a real "apprentice" here,  in Sterling, VA?  I'll send your people my CV.  Happy to! 

v/r, abbe b. 

 www.twitter.com/abbebuck

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Betting on Bureaucracy ... The Donald Trump Way

Topics:Donald Trump | Management | CEOs and CFOs

By: CNBC.com | 27 Feb 2009 | 09:54 AM ET

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Real estate mogul Donald Trump thinks we're on the verge of a new era of Big Government ... and he's planning to profit from it.

He's bought an 800-acre golf club outside of Washington D.C.

"The reason I did it is I see Washington as the only growing place in the United States," Trump said during an interview on CNBC. "I mean they are going to own the banks... they are going to own the car companies. They are going to own everything."

The development is the Lowes Country Club on the Potomac River just outside of Sterling, Va. According to the Washington Post, the 800-acre club has been on the market since last summer. The newspaper reported that the seller was the Chevy Chase Bank and the price was about $18 million.

"I've been after this for so many years and I just did the deal," Trump said.

In his interview Trump, while noting the Obama budget opened the door for his Virgina golf club to take off, also expressed displeasure with the overall fiscal strategy. The tax proposals would make it very difficult for the wealthy, he said, which would have detrimental effect on investment and national spending levels, he said.

"You don't raise taxes at a time like this," he opined.

He also took exception to the proposal to curtail tax deductions for mortgage interest payments.

"When you take mortgage deduction away in the middle of the worst hosuing crisis probably ever ... it certainly doen't seem to make sense on the face of it," he said.

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Paul Harvey, 1918-2009, "and now..you know the rest of the story!"

Paul Harvey, legendary radio host, dies at 90

EW: Feb 28, 2009, 10:36 PM | by Mike Bruno

Categories: Radio

Legendary radio commentator Paul Harvey died today at a hospital in Phoenix. He was 90.

 Known for his distinct staccato delivery, dramatic pauses, and folksy intonations, Harvey's broadcasts were heard on over 1,200 radio stations and 400 Armed Forces networks and his commentary appeared in 300 newspapers, according to his website. He had been hosting his radio shows on a part-time basis for most of the past year, during which he suffered various illnesses as well as the death of his wife Lynne "Angel" Harvey. Paul Harvey's seven-decade broadcasting career includes more than 50 years working for ABC Radio.

"Even after the passing of his loving wife Angel in May 2008, Paul would not slip quietly into retirement as he continued to take the microphone and reach out to his audience," ABC Radio Networks president Jim Robinson said via a statement.  "We will miss our dear friend tremendously and are grateful for the many years we were so fortunate to have known him."

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"Good Day!"

I will miss you but you are with your Angel now, sir.

Love,

Abbe B. and Skitch (I listened faithfully since WLS, 890 AM, Chicago, 1971)

Well, I liked Bobby Jindal! (Gov. LA, (R)

I still do. A week or so goes by -- Rush Limbaugh Huffs and Puffs and still wants to compete wuth a lissome, well-spoken Mr. Obama by saying "i will disown you! (ANYONE WHO DISLIKED JINDAL____)" ~ Look, toots (my message to Limbaugh here: THE WORLD HAS CHANGED - YOUR OPERZATION CHAOS WAS JUST THAT, A FLAME-OUT. GET OVER YOUR DEAF-SELF AND DEAL WITH IT.

and Okay, I like Jindal for his content and character. He may be Pres in 2016.

© Copyright 2009  RJ Matson - All Rights Reserved.

Jindal on American Idol Oh, no! (Hat Tip, RJ Matson,The Moderate Voice) http://tinyurl.com/awmkw8about 24 hours ago from web

abbebuck

Abbe Buck (just little me)

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Listening to the President speak while I Twitter...I think of a quote by Confucius

"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure." --Confucius

(((( 2009 Freshman Administration. It has my buy-in. The new brain trust has been planning... ))))

www.twitter.com/abbebuck 

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Twitter Delight! Politics IS show biz! - the OBAMA Concert at the Lincoln Memorial

  PatrickRuffini RT @Justinoberman: Re: Obama concert. Did we not learn anything from Rome. Politics bcoming entertainment = begining of Republics fall. 1 minute ago fromTwitterFon 

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abbebuck @PatrickRuffini www.highvizpr.blogspot.com Babe, politics IS showbiz. DEAL! Rome burned. Nero played. And it is ballyhoo! less than 5 seconds ago from web in reply to PatrickRuffini

"I can do that" DEPT.: Brief Obama NOW - here's how - YouTube, too, and more (>grin<)

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TwitLinksRSS:  Brief Obama With Salesforce.com’s Idea Generator: Do you have a good idea for President-Elect Barack Obama?...

http://tinyurl.com/7u343p 

 less than 20 seconds ago from twitterfeed

* thanks,  little blue bird!

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Where WAS Rush Limbaugh? Which Prez in DC? # 43? # 44?

WAY COOL! DEPT.:

Rush Attends Medal of Freedom Ceremony at the White House

January 13, 2009

Rush attends a Medal of Freedom ceremony at the White House. During the ceremony President George W. Bush presented the Medal of Freedom to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

LOOK! It's Rummy! http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011309/content/01125116.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg (((Drive-By))) Photographers catch Rush talking with former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.. http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011309/content/01125116.guest.html  BUT! He offers to help Pres.elect OBAMA! The Latest from Rush... Limbaugh Plan: Bailout the Rich Rush offers to meet with Obama and present his plan. Krauthammer Time: Obama Has Six Months

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From: The Rush Limbaugh Show
To: ABBE BUCK
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:17:59 PM
Subject: Where is Rush Limbaugh?


On Today's Show...
Minnesota's "Mr. Right," Jason Lewis of KTLK-FM, guest hosted at the last minute when El Rushbo was called away to a super-secret meeting in Washington D.C.
» Check Out Jason's Stack of Stuff: By Clicking Right Here  


Jason speculates on Rush's super-secret meeting. Seriously, folks, he didn't give us details. He just jetted to the capital on EIB One. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
 
A Clue? "Now, remember, Obama said, 'Show me what works and we'll do it.' This is serious stuff out there. We need more tax cuts at the top. Ladies and gentlemen, I would be willing to present this tax cut plan to President-elect Obama personally, 'cause it works." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
 
Jason Pearl of Wisdom:"Government never invests for a return on equity. It invests for a return at the ballot box." » Wall Street Journal: We're All Keynesians Again 
 

((((now, this I like!! )))))

Dear, Unemployed...Rush inspires the jobless to abandon the gloom, and use this downturn as an opportunity to do what you love. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)


» Forbes:The Most Intense Period Of The Recession Is Behind Us  (((YEAH. RIGHT. SURE.)))
 
Jason Lewis Pearl of Wisdom: "We don't have a spending crisis, we have an investing crisis. We're spending money like drunken sailors, but as the Gipper used to say, that's not fair to drunken sailors." » Larry Kudlow: How Big-Government Is He? 
 
Rush Flashback:  "The Drive-By Media is going to do exactly the opposite of what they did in the last six years when they were trying to convince everybody that there was a recession when there wasn't. They're gonna focus on what Obama is proposing and what he does whether it has any impact or not, because he's too big to fail.  It's going to be fascinating to watch if people will ignore their real-life circumstances."
» Charles Krauthammer: Economic Blame Game
(Actually, They'll Blame Bush, just like they blame Hoover for FDR's Depression)
 
All that and more when we update WWW.RushLimbaugh.com!
 
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Joe the Plumber ((((spin-around!!)))) NOW! Samuel the Reporter -Live in Israel and he's right-on!

   15 minutes? Heck,  he's gonna have 15 years! Put away the plunger, Sam!

`Joe the Plumber' turns reporter, says Israel has waited too long to strike at Hamas

Jerusalem, Jan.12 : Ohio resident Samuel Wurzelbacher a.k.a. 'Joe the Plumber', who acquired fame for confronting Barack Obama on his tax policy during last year's presidential campaign, arrived in Sderot, Israel, on Sunday, and said the Israelis had waited too long for launching strikes at the Hamas.

He also said that the foreign media should be ashamed of themselves for the way they were reporting on strikes on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

"You should be ashamed of yourself. You should be patriotic, protect your family and children, not report like you have been doing for the past two weeks since this war has started," he said. 

Wurzelbacher has found a new job - as a correspondent for the Internet Web sites PJTV and Pajamas Media. 

Armed with a camera and a temporary Government Press Office card, he got a taste of reality in Sderot, visiting a house hit by a Kassam rocket two weeks ago and experiencing a "Code Red" alert first-hand. 

He also observed and reported from the house where a Kassam landed on Sunday afternoon. 

He also wondered why Israel waited so long to act. "I know if I were a citizen here, I'd be damned upset." 

"When someone hits me, I'm going to unload on the boy. And, if the rest of the world doesn't understand that, then I'm sorry," he added. 

Wurzelbacher had already announced that he would cover Operation Cast Lead for ten days and assist in getting out the Israeli side of the story. 

"I want the average American Joes to understand the story here from the point of view of someone like them," he told WNWO, a TV channel in his hometown of Toledo, Ohio, before heading here.

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We know Blago will fight to his last breath, but what are the consequences for Mr. Obama's new Chief of Staff Emanuel?

Senate-for-sale case threatens new chief of staff 

Friendly rapport with Blagojevich may be troubling liability for Emanuel

Blago: 'I will fight… I will fight…'

updated 24 minutes ago

CHICAGO - Gov. Rod Blagojevich is legendary in Illinois political circles for not picking up the phone or returning calls, even from important figures like the state's senior senator, Dick Durbin.

But there was always one call Blagojevich regularly took, say his aides, and that was from Rahm Emanuel — his congressman, his one-time campaign adviser and, more recently — and troubling for Emanuel — one of his contacts with President-elect Barack Obama's transition staff.

The friendly rapport Blagojevich and Emanuel shared over the years has suddenly become a troubling liability for Emanuel and the new president he will serve as chief of staff.

Emanuel and Obama have remained silent about what, if anything, Emanuel knew of the governor's alleged efforts to peddle Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder.

Emanuel did contact the governor's office about the appointment, and left Blagojevich with the impression that he was pushing Valerie Jarrett, a close Obama friend, so he wouldn't have to compete with her in the White House for Obama's attention, said a person close to Blagojevich. The person was not authorized to talk about the governor's discussions regarding the vacancy and requested anonymity.

It was not clear whether Blagojevich inferred Emanuel's motive for advocating Jarrett, or whether Emanuel discussed the appointment with Blagojevich directly or with John Harris, the governor's then-chief of staff who also is charged in the case, according to the source.

Emanuel's refusal to discuss the matter publicly, and the few comments offered by Obama to date, have prompted questions about Emanuel's ties to Blagojevich and what fallout he'll face as the criminal case unfolds, although sources have said he is not a target of prosecutors. Even so, any hint of scandal for Emanuel threatens to tarnish Obama's promise of new political leadership free of scandal and corruption.

Taped conversations
Obama has said he will release a full accounting of his transition staff's interaction with Blagojevich and his aides over his Senate replacement once he receives the OK from prosecutors sometime this week. Until then, Obama has said it would be inappropriate for him or his aides to comment further.

Prosecutors refer in the 76-page complaint to the governor's discussions on FBI tapes about a "president-elect advisor," believed to be Emanuel, but they do not specifically cite contacts with Emanuel or anyone on Obama's transition staff.

Instead, the taped conversations reveal Blagojevich telling others to float his idea by the president's adviser of forming a nonprofit that he hoped would, with Obama's help, receive millions of dollars that the governor could tap later.

Blagojevich said he didn't want the idea associated directly in conversations about the Senate appointment or filling Emanuel's seat in the House, according to the complaint. However, Blagojevich is quoted as saying "I want it to be in his head" for later discussions about Emanuel's successor.

It was Blagojevich who, seemingly out of nowhere, yanked Emanuel into his scandal when answering reporters' questions the day before his Dec. 9 arrest, invoking his name in an apparent attempt to shrug off any perception of wrongdoing.

He said he wasn't concerned about a report in the Chicago Tribune that confidant and former aide John Wyma's cooperation had helped lead federal prosecutors to tape the governor's conversations.

Senate seat only part of case against Blagojevich

Big deal, Blagojevich said. He said he's "always lawful" whenever he speaks, and he was confident Wyma has been "an honest person who's conducted himself in an honest way. That's the John Wyma I know and it's the John Wyma that Rahm Emanuel knows and a lot of other people know."

Blagojevich is right. Wyma does have ties to both him and Emanuel, those close to both have said. And Wyma's clients contributed to both — more than $100,000 to Emanuel's campaigns and causes, and more than $445,000 to Blagojevich's, according to campaign finance records reviewed by The Associated Press.

Wyma and his attorney, Zachary Fardon, did not respond to interview requests.

Emanuel's defenders say he is hardly an ally of Blagojevich.

"They were in different worlds personally and politically," said Peter Giangreco, a political consultant on Blagojevich's 1996 congressional campaign and his two gubernatorial races. "They only dealt with each other because they occupied the same political geography."

Emanuel's effort to promote Jarrett or anyone else for Obama's vacant Senate seat was more a part of his new job description and less a reflection of close ties, Emanuel's supporters have said.

But there was more to their relationship than a polite acquaintance.

CONTINUED : Two share political past, rooted in Chicago

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"Yes, I usually write a snarky little blog...but did I happen to tell you we may go into foreclosure? Um, yes, me. Abbe Buck, from HighViz."

Enough about me, read this instead. (I will be okay. Always am!)

Please meet the Ericksons (at right)

From CNET: After a layoff, a family learns to Cope.

And we do!  ;-) 

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