01 Oct Life as an Advokate Intern
Three weeks ago I never thought I’d have the opportunity to get my foot in the graphic/web design and marketing door....
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23 Sep Press Release: Kate Austin-Avon launches Advokate office/studio/gallery!
Posted at 13:03h
in Advokate, Glens Falls, Marketing, New Business, Press Release, The Shirt Factory
Art activist Kate Austin-Avon has opened Advokate, a marketing, web & graphic design and fine art studio and gallery in Suite 201a on the second floor of The Shirt Factory Arts and Healing Center, located at 21 Cooper Street in Glens Falls, New York....
23 Sep The final steps
The final steps toward full-time Advokate feel like stages of grief, stages of metamorphosis, stages of evolution. There's denial, anger, depression, and moments where I'm not sure if I can breathe. I've had cocoon days. The way I counted the steps down the aisle on my wedding day...
01 Sep The NEW Amity Card Program!
I'm rolling out the new Amity Card program! Schedule regular 1-2 hour marketing sessions with Advokate and after 10, enjoy one free*. Space in this program is LIMITED! Taking sign-ups now to start in October. $75/hour. We'll figure out a time that works for you. What would...
01 Sep Free Seminars for Small Business
Advokate will be offering a FREE seminar on branding during the Shirt Factory's event LocalFest: Stuff Made Here this Saturday, September 6, at 3:15 p.m. Here is more information in the press release that was just sent out. Don't miss it! Free Day of Business Seminars...
31 Aug Jumping off that cliff
In honor of Labor Day, let me share some big Advokate news. Since Advokate's inception, it has been a part-time job for me, needing to fit around volunteer obligations and my part-time position as co-manager of The Shirt Factory. When my son Henry came along about two...
26 Aug Rolling around a new idea
So I do plenty of projects, like websites, or logos, or brochures, and so on. I have a good system for that, with an initial conversation, proposal, checkpoints during the process for revisions and so on. It works well....
13 Jun Sharpening the focus
I've been thinking lately. I had a good talk with a friend who said that Advokate is a necessary service to the community; that I'd be selfish not to give the business its best shot. I've been caught up in doing client work a lot...