Categories
Entrepreneurship

Williamsburg Area Arts Commission to Host Forum on Marketing [Video]

WILLIAMSBURG — The Williamsburg Area Arts Commission (WAAC) is inviting community members and representatives from interested arts organizations to its 2025 forum, “Marketing on a Shoestring Budget.”

The event will begin at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 27 at the Stryker Center in Williamsburg.

Stephanie Heinatz, Founder and CEO of Consociate Media, will present the forum. Consociate Media is a full-service marketing company that specializes in branding, media relations, web design, strategy, and storytelling.

Stephanie Heinatz (Consociate Media)

“After last year’s forum, the Arts Commission polled attendees and learned that organizations throughout the area wanted to know more about marketing — at low cost for small budgets — using old and new social media outlets. We are excited to have a local expert, Stephanie Heinatz, speak on this popular subject,” WAAC Chair Thomas Phelps said.

Before the event, the Arts Commission encourages attendees to complete a survey about their personal and/or organization’s marketing experience and background. Click hereto take the …

Watch/Read More
Categories
Entrepreneurship

Petition to remove Alabama city's 'F!' logo over similarities to failing grade [Video]

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — Some residents think a northern Alabama city's new logo might be sending the wrong message. Florence's new logo uses the first three letters of its name — a capital F followed by an L and an O arranged as an exclamation point — to form F! When the city unveiled the new logo this week, it drew immediate backlash and an online petition demanding changes that had nearly 7,500 signatures. The city paid $25,000 to a Birmingham marketing firm for the branding, WAAY-TV reported.