***ETA: The Black Friday Sale is now LIVE!! Click HERE to sign up!!
Alright!! Here it is....the moment you've all been waiting for!! The 2011 Spread the Love cities & dates ARE.....
You will notice that each STL city covers a span of three days. The first day in each city will be "Spread the Love," our business and life workshop, and the last day we'll be bringing in our full day "Walk Through a Wedding w/ J&M Workshop," which will be limited to only 20 seats. (So be sure to sign up fast before they're gone!!) And then Justin, Julia & I have scheduled a day off in between so that we don't all keel over. :) Seats are being sold separately so you can either sign up for Spread the Love, Walk through a Wedding or BOTH!
Ok, awesome! But I'm kinda new around here....tell me more about these fantastic sounding workshops! :)
Spread the Love: Spread the Love is not a photography workshop...It's a LIFE workshop. So you don't have to be a photographer to attend! Florists, planners, realtors, bakers...basically anybody who owns their own business/works for themselves can benefit from Spread the Love. In this six hour seminar, we'll cover everything from marketing, branding, building relationships, business 101, financial health, balancing life & business, creating systems that stick. and so much more. This is the time for a fresh start, and what better way to kick it off than getting inspired to get back to what you love about not only your business, but more importantly...to what you love about your LIFE again?
The Walk Through a Wedding w/ J&M Workshop , where we will literally walk you through an entire wedding day with J&M! In it, we will cover everything from the getting ready details to shooting in a dark church to posing the couple portraits to shooting the reception & details. We will have everything set up to be just like a real wedding, so this is literally a one-stop shop for all those things you struggle with! ** Obviously this one is aimed at fellow photographers and is limited to 20 seats.
Alright! I'm ready to sign up! When do the seats go on sale??
Seats for STL 2011 will go on sale right here on this blog at 12am EST on Black Friday for a one-day only, crazy good sale. Just to give you an idea, the "Spread the Love" day which will normally be $250/seat will be just $99 on Black Friday. And the "Walk Through a Wedding" day which will normally be $750/seat will be just $450 all day Black Friday (unless they sell out sooner)!
Wow, that's an INSANE deal! You guys are so awesome. Y'know, I'd really love to help you guys spread the word about this!
Oh that's so awesome of you! Thank you for that! :) Because see just like last year, we want this next tour to be a grass roots tour. A homegrown tour. Basically, we want this to be YOUR tour. So we appreciate all the help you will give! So I'm asking...will you twitter, facebook & blog the heck out of this until everyone you know knows about the Black Friday sale? Will you sign up & ask people to come with you (remember for the first day they don't have to be a photographer to attend!) and really go to bat for your city and this tour? Will you spread the word....so we can Spread the Love? :)
And guess what....you guys know us by now. We wouldn't leave you hanging! Because this....this has the makings of one EPIC contest. So how about this:
1) Every time you tweet something about the Black Friday sale with the hashtag #spreadthelove2011 and link back to www.justinmarantz.com you will be entered once into our contest. (Ex: HUGE Black Friday sale on #spreadthelove2011. I'm in...are you?? Check it: www.justinmarantz.com)
2) Every time you FB something about the Black Friday sale and tag JM Spread the Love 2011 (you'll have to like us first!) with a link to www.justinmarantz.com you'll be entered once into our contest.
3) If you blog about the tour and the Black Friday sale and link back to www.justinmarantz.com you'll be entered twice into our contest.
4) And if you do all three, that will get you five extra entries into our contest.
**And if you do any or all of the above, just leave us a note in the comment box below telling us you did so we can keep track of you!
GEEZ-A-LOO that sounds incredible!! But wait....what's the contest for? I think you mentioned something so big we'd have to see it to believe it. What was that about?
OH....did we forget to mention that part? Huh. How bout that. Well, tell them what they could win Alex!
How about.....AN ALL EXPENSE* PAID TRIP TO WPPI!!!!
That's right!! We are going to be picking one lucky winner to receive *round trip airfare to Las Vegas from anywhere in the continental US, 4 nights hotel accommodation and registration to WPPI 2011 (where we will be doing our 2nd platform this year...and we hope you can attend!)
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And don't worry, we also have some great runner-up prizes including a Think Tank bag, Kubota Actions, a Swanky Strap and so much more!!
So get to spreading the word...you only have two and a half days until the sale!! Contest ends at 11:59pm EST on Thursday!
And finaly, this part is so important that I wanted to put it in bold, italics AND red!! Spread the Love is definitely not a "one & done" kind of workshop. From the very beginning, it was always envisioned as a year after year, sharpening the sword, reigniting the fire type of workshop. So if you came last year this does NOT mean you shouldn't come again this year. In fact quite the opposite, we are going to be taking all the foundation we put down last year and building on that. And then next year, we'll build on THAT too ! :) That being said, for the people who didn't come last year and this would be your first time, you guys should also DEFINITELY sign up. Because Spread the Love is for you too. This time around, we will be reviewing all the foundational info you would need to get up to speed from last year and then as a group we'll be taking it to the next level. There. Announcement done. And if I had a loud speaker I'd go ahead and shout it out to get the point across: Spread the Love is for everyone.
***ETA: The Black Friday Sale is now LIVE!! Click HERE to sign up!!
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