Level Five Associates first book becomes an Amazon best seller

Congratulations to General John Batiste and General Robert Mixon at Level Five Associates! Their first Kindle book, “Cows in the Living Room: Developing an Effective Strategic Plan and Sustaining It” officially launched recently and became an Amazon best seller in all of the business categories it was listed in. The book also reach #4 in the entire Kindle store!

You can check out the book (and even read a preview) by clicking the book image to the left.

Jodi Stern takes pilates online

Jodi Stern from jodisternpilates.com was recently featured in the Democrat & Chronicle. It was a great article about Jodi and her decision to take classes from her Pilates studio online.

In March, Stern introduced JodiSternPilates.com with more than 50 virtual classes and videos to help beginners and others learn pilates.

My Pilates Plus clients have given me ideas for virtual classes and have been very supportive. I think the feedback is really important because these are the people I’m targeting — people who are pregnant and on maternity leave, people who travel a lot, people who have homes in multiple places and can’t always get to a studio — so their feedback to me is very important

Jodi also had a press release that was recently picked up and featured on a billboard in Times Square. (Sidenote: it was pretty cool to see my website work on a billboard in NYC.)

WNY Craft Beer Magazine subscriptions now available

If you live in Western New York and you’re into craft beer, you owe it to yourself to check out the WNY Craft Beer Magazine website. It’s packed with great information on regional brews and breweries and the pubs and restaurants that serve them.

If you prefer your magazines in print form like I do you’re in luck. Print subscriptions are now available. Subscribe here and get WNY Craft Beer Magazine delivered right to your doorstep.

Cheers!

Artful Soldier

When I first met Brian I knew pretty much immediately that we had to work together.

Brian was at a local gallery for a Veterans Business Council social mixer. He’d donated a number of his prints to be auctioned off that night to raise money for the organization. As a veteran himself, Brian is very active in veterans related organizations and causes. He donates his time, a percentage of the proceeds of his art print sales, and often the art pieces themselves to veterans’ charities. He’s also an active First Sergeant in the New York State National Guard, works full-time in Information Technology, and creates a prodigious amount of art. I don’t know how he does it all.

Luckily he’s made some time and Brian and I are working together to relaunch his website, ironart315.com. It should be ready to go in early August so please head over there now and provide your email address to get notified when it’s ready.