A Greater Town is a large-scale community marketing site with focus on art, culture, community, business and real estate. Where Plumbing Meets Art!agreatertown.com empowers local self-publishing as well as distribution of national listings in a community context.A magnet for local organic search, our users testify to enhanced visibility in the search engines: agreatertown.com/montclair_nj/testimonials_000415216We currently host over 7,000,000 posts by more than 775,000 registered users including SMBs, real estate agents, insurance agents, loan officers, marketing agencies and PR firms across America. We have attained the status of a trusted citations and local SEO resource, with about 30,000 new UGC submissions / revisions per month. Top partners include HomeAway, VRBO, Hotels.com, Restaurant.com and Veterinarians.com. Users include ReachLocal, SweetIQ, Imprezzio Marketing, CitationsPros, BrightLocal, Mass Marketing and thousands of other smaller agencies and SMBs.Examples: Vacation rentals - agreatertown.com/vacation-rentalsMLS real estate listings - agreatertown.com/real-estate/mls-properties/us We have an especial focus on real estate, and have developed a personal branding and marketing platform within A Greater Town for REALTORS®, insurance agents and loan officers, using real estate listings as the base, with automated distribution through Facebook and Twitter.We help agents and LOs enjoy increased visibility in the search engines and social media, while connecting at the local level. Now that Zillow is in the mortgage business, traditional lenders which lack an intrinsic connection to real estate media are at a distinct disadvantage. Our solutions could help level the playing field!Mortgage Social Boost - agreatertown.com/social-boostPersonal Name SEO - agreatertown.com/post/5699803A Greater Town: A Home Page for Every Town™

goodideaZS is a media company which owns and operates A Greater Town, a local marketing platform with national footprint. Art, culture, community, business and real estate converge by location.Self-publishing aligns with national listing distribution.agreatertown.com/montclair_nj/about_a_greater_town_000512Related projects include:- Blockchain and insurable identity for small businesses: A Greater Chain.- Relaunch of myArtspace, a premier online venue for contemporary art.- Business development for select partners.

My primary training and background is in the visual arts, with extensive experience in painting, printmaking and photography, as well as art teaching, marketing, exhibitions, competitions and community-building.A brief summary of my art bio.BFA - Cooper Union, NYCMA - Villa Schifanoia, FlorenceRotary Fellow, FlorenceTeacher - seventeen years visual arts and art historyPracticing artist - thirty years: exhibited NYC, Newark, Montclair, Florence, Verona, ParisCollections - the late Malcolm Forbes, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, PricewaterhouseCoopers, numerous other private collectionsFounding Member, City Without Walls, An Urban Artists Collective - Newark, NJ http://cwow.orgMember, Studio MontclairMember, Six Men WorkingCo-author, "Stefano Cusumano: A Teaching Artist" - American Artist - March, 1975, Vol. 39, Issue 392drewknapp.com - personal paintings, drawings, prints, inlaysagreatertown.com/new_york_ny/drew_knapp_art_75_000467 - misc painting

Specialized in:Commercial and mixed-use leases and salesMulti-familiesHistoric restorationsRealty for churches and nonprofitsNegotiationsMarketingExtensive experience in commercial real estate brokerage, sales and leasing, with particular emphasis on mixed-use, religious and nonprofit applications. Negotiated a number of deals for Redeemer Montclair, The Episcopal Diocese of Newark and several other religious institutions.Over thirty years experience in other real property matters: as tenant, buyer, landlord, restoration specialist, designer, project manager, property manager, executor and seller.I personally purchased, restored, developed and managed several properties in:- Newark and Montclair, N.J.- Saugerties, Woodstock and Chichester, N.Y.- Loro Ciuffenna, Tuscany, Italyincluding single family residential, multi-families, vacant land and commercial.Worked intensively with a number of small business owners in the process of buying, selling and/or leasing commercial space. Also worked extensively with church congregation Redeemer Montclair as Buyer's Agent in identifying solutions to their expansion needs while remaining within specific budgetary and geographic constraints. In this capacity I assisted them in eleven separate negotiations, two of which involving variances were successfully resolved. The final negotiation culminated in the purchase of Redeemer Montclair's first home: a historic church property in downtown Montclair.I also worked with numerous other congregations and nonprofits in exploring space sharing and rentals, and functioned as Seller's Agent in marketing other religious facilities for the Episcopal Diocese of Newark.Commercial real estate profile: www.agreatertown.com/montclair_nj/000767Licensed in NJ.

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Our company goodideaZS has acquired the important artist community website, formerly known as myArtspace .com. myArtspace was the premier online venue for contemporary art: 7 years in the making, 80,000 members including 3,500 art schools, 160 countries and $1,000,000 in development.Our data base contains 1,000,000 images - most of them high res.The site was taken down in 2012, but can be visualized through cached pages. For screenshots, videos, visit: agreatertown.com/montclair_nj/myartspace_relaunch_000590353myArtspace was a vibrant community and an important cultural repository. When it goes live again it could offer widespread visibility to our partners, as well as generate significant revenue through the sale of art materials, websites and other services to the membership.The image library could provide a very interesting source of content for stock photography houses, and our membership could be coached and incentivized through contests to provide new imagery to match specific themes in demand.Seeking partners to participate in its relaunch.

Handled business development for Cyber Data Risk Managers LLC (CDRM) one of the few insurance brokers in the country to specialize exclusively in cyber & data breach insurance. Broker Christine Marciano has established a reputation as an expert in the space, and enjoys high visibility both nationally and internationally.A Greater Town was also engaged in a non-licensed capacity to promote and market cyber & privacy insurance within technology, e-commerce, healthcare, legal & SMB communities.Developed partnerships with network security consultants, health care SaaS providers, IP law firms and other insurance agencies needing specialized assistance in this space, and a comprehensive, co-branded cross-marketing GTM strategy to reach health, legal, accounting, financial services professionals and other SMBs via numerous channel partners.CDRM has relationships with all the major carriers which handle cyber insurance, including Hiscox, Beazley and IronShore. CDRM's outreach to customer base helps raise awareness of the importance of maintaining proper cyber hygiene, while developing robust incident response plans in the event of a breach. CDRM is based in Princeton, NJ, and works nationwide.CyberInsuranceUSA.com

Worked with LiveTechnology on the launch of a comprehensive local product search directory, with broad distribution network. The goal was to create the single, most precise and universally accessible product search directory, available in microcosm through a network of participating members. "Find Anything" product search code was to be embedded on millions of participating partner sites, across a wide array of partner verticals.

Retailigence is a venture-backed company that powers location-based shopping, supplying mobile apps and websites with retailers' product-specific information by location.Retailigence ensures your retail store is visible when consumers are searching. Partner retailers reach nearby shoppers when their intent to purchase is greatest. By sharing your information with Retailigence, you can reach new and potentially loyal shoppers beyond your own walled-garden of branded websites and apps.Retailigence's mission is to help you reach new customers who may not have thought of your store initially. And once they're there, you know they'll find other products they need as well!Retailigence's inventory hub can connect with practically any retail software program. Even if it's simply a spreadsheet. It's easy. There's no software to install. And no new infrastructure.

A Greater Town partnered with search visibility and lead generation company eLocalListing.com to offer an outstanding service to our customers: we help make their phone ring.We drive visibility for keywords which have been proven to work for small business. Using dedicated tracking numbers and a state-of-the-art dashboard, we track and record phone numbers and calls for future reference which customers can access at their convenience (recordings last for 30 days) as well as providing stats.We are are interested in forming partnerships and strategic alliances with others in local search, local news, yellow pages, SMB marketing and lead generation.As of current date (2015) A Greater Town is still actively engaged with eLocal Listing, as a listing distribution partner.

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Art teacher, 4-8th gradesMultimedia art instruction: painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, architectural design, etc.Emphasis on hands-on, collaborative learning. Class was run as a studio, with teacher as coach, art for personal as well as multidisciplinary expression.

Taught Art History at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts (NSFIA) through a series of hands-on projects designed to impart the history of art experientially.

Core team member in launch of City Without Walls arts organization and gallery in Newark, NJ, property scout, educator, strategy, development.Responsibilities included teaching painting and drawing in numerous venues around Newark, coordinating traveling shows, setting up studio spaces, assisting the street theater troupe and executing outdoor murals.The formation of strategic alliances among various organizations was key, including schools, universities, churches, businesses, libraries, museums, community centers, city council and City Hall.Launching a new art movement in the Central Ward of Newark in 1975, when much of the city was still in the most dire condition, was a monumental task. The fact the gallery was active and vital for more than forty years is a testament to the work of our team.