I have become active in my wife's travel agency by publishing a new online magazine/website for her business. Unlike other travel agency websites, this is meant to bring interesting travel content to our readers and clients.The website is meant to showcase my work as it relates to the many locations I have covered internationally over the years and of course to stress the importance of utilizing our agency for any travel or cruise trips.https://travelpavilion.comWe will not book travel on this publication, but recommend contacting us for advice and to book travel. It will be rich in content including high resolution images and video we produce for the travel projects we cover for our other publications.

I watched our town's real estate value's decline and decided to publish an online magazine to help our town's residents. I believe it was vital to inform and encourage residents to maintain and improve their homes and property. Our mission was to publish vital information, how-to articles, a library of videos and articles that would show how easy it was to improve ones home and increase its value. I publish many original articles that are illustrated with photos and videos. In addition I identify and review some of the better restaurants, places to shop and businesses in our town and surrounding towns.Over the past year our mission and direction has changed and the Hazlet News is no longer just about Hazlet anymore. We now reach many other towns in our geographic area and publish a wider range of articles including coverage of trade and consumer shows, events, travel and cruise articles and much more. We now cross publish many of our articles on our three websites, the Hazlet News, IMPress Magazine and International Press Associations main site.I also manage a number of vibrant and active Facebook Groups. The Hazlet News that now has 3500 members since Oct. 2014. Our page has over 8,000 likes in that time and our towns total population of men, women and children is just under 20,000, so we are reaching a nice proportion of adults in our township.http://hazletnews.com

In November of 2011, International Press Association launched our newest website and digital magazine, IMPress. The purpose was to recognize the best of our IPA members by offering them an opportunity to showcase their skills in a prestigious online publication and to enable them to gain even more exposure while learning how to self-publish on our site.Each of the qualified staff at IMPress may publish their work and with the help of our support team who will help them fine tune it so that it meets the high criteria our magazine demands. By inviting our best and most skilled members to our staff at IMPress we now have a publication that has gained enormous respect and exposure for our members and for IPA and have found many major corporate sponsors who are willing to financially support some of our projects.Photographers have the added advantage of being selected for our Photo Showcase on IMPress as well. Videographers can now easily embed their videos into their articles too.I personally publish many articles with photos and videos of events I cover. I specialize in trade and consumer shows, parades and public events, travel and entertainment. My goal is to not only add interesting content to our website, but to demonstrate the proper way to cover these types of events so our members can do the same.You can see my articles on our IMPress site at: http://ipaimpress.com/author/lenrapp

See my resume, International Press Assoc. is a 29-year-old organization of photographers and some journalists from around the globe. We have expanded our internet presence with a number of other publications including IMPress Magazine, The Hazlet News and others.I continue to write for Hubpages and my most popular article with millions of reads is: Secret Price Codes Will Save You Money At Costco.I now have over 220 published videos on YouTube with millions of views and continue to be active as a writer, photographer, videographer and website creator.

International Press Association is a 30-year-old international member-based organization. Our members include photographers, videographers, journalists and members of the print, broadcast and web media.Members are given the opportunity to Learn By Doing. They are able to gain certain media access to shows and events so they can cover these events and publish their articles, photos, and videos taken on our two main websites.. By following our program and working with me personally as well as our support team, these members are able to gain the experience covering all sorts of events, write articles about travel, sports, lifestyle and many other topics. By doing so, they can build a professional portfolio of their works on our online publications, IMPress Magazine, and our main member's site. Our working members gain credibility, exposure, and knowledge, helping them in building a successful career.I personally cover many events in the New York area including major trade and consumer shows at the Javits Convention Center and other street events including many of the parades and other important events in New York and New Jersey. I have produced over 350 videos now available on YouTube and hundreds of articles published on our websites and others.I have produced travel videos and articles and personally shoot all of the photos and videos in these articles. and of course, in addition to shooting and editing our videos, I also write all of the copy. We have recently improved our coverage of the many New York events we cover by including a broadcast-quality hosted video that that feature our well known correspondents Andy Peeke and Amy Bursor. You can visit our site at http://internationalpress.org

For 15 years MTI Group offered consulting services in the fields of marketing and corporate communications to major clients including: Kinney Parking Systems, New York Waterways, New York Palace Hotel, CBS Fox/Video, Media Home Entertainment, Paramount and others.MTI Groups former name was Movie Tee's Incorporated, a company that developed premiums and retail products sold to the video manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Movie Tee's created the first "Studio Store" selling licensed movie apparel on the end of major films on video tape. Please see more detailed information on Movie Tee's Below.

I was asked to join a bankrupt parking company in 1990 by Saul (Sonny) Schwartz a childhood friend who had taken the position of president of Kinney. My challenge was to take this company and design programs to improve the customers experience while helping their team increase their client base by working with major real estate companies who owned parking locations in their buildings. I would visit a location, take photos of that location, then create a report of improvements that had to be made and photo retouch the before photos of the location showing what it might look like after my recommended improvements.With over 300 parking locations in seven states then and an annual volume of $90 million +, Kinney System, was the largest operator of parking facilities in the New York area, is also was one of the largest parking companies in the Northeastern United States. I worked closely with Louis Katz who purchased Kinney, a bankrupt parking operation for $25 million. Under my guidance and their support we were able to build Kinney in a few short years to one of the largest and best known east coast parking operations.Mr. Katz sold Kinney to Central Parking in November of 1997 by Central Parking for $225 million dollars, a profit of $200 million on his investment.Some of the methods I used to achieve our sales and marketing goals were:• Branding Kinney, by redesigning the company logo & creation of Li'l Kinney corporate mascot• Establishment of a successful company newsletter• Introduction of credit card acceptance at all locations• Analysis of individual location problems and their solutions, including NY, NJ Port Authority, NY Waterways, NY Palace Hotel, Leading Hospitals and many others.• Helped real estate team on the successful negotiation and acquisition of new parking locations by creating strong marketing materials and site analysis which helped them close deals• Created the first New York parking company website on the internet.

Movie Tee's was the first company to bring licensed film related tee-shirts to the video market-place. We obtained licenses for Disney, Warner Bros. and other motion picture properties. Worked on premium programs with most of the major video distributors and manufacturers (Disney, CBS/Fox, Paramount). Pioneered the “Studio Store” concept for video tape, by placing commercials for merchandise directly on the video movies. We had offices in Manhattan and a full time and freelance staff in California to design and produce our garments. Was also responsible for writing all press releases and photographing all of our companies products for these releases, advertisements and company price lists. Within the first three months of operation, Movie Tee's sold over 2.6 million dollars in tee-shirts with a net profit of over one million dollars. Movie Tee's was considered to be one of the most important new companies to hit the video market.You can read the entire story of how I started this company at: http://ipaimpress.com/1985-movie-related-apparel/

Trissi was a major manufacturer of women's sportswear. At Trissi I created a new and forceful large size sportswear division. Adapting appropriate styles from their other sportswear divisions, and travelling extensively with our 35 man road force (while meeting store executives and planning major purchasing programs), I was able to build one of the hottest companies in the market. My responsibilities also included helping many stores start their first "large size" sportswear departments, creating powerful ads and promotions and running successful fashion shows at retailers nationally. My divisions volume at the end of three years exceeded $9 million dollars and accounted for 1/3 of Trissi’s total corporate volume.

Vera was a women's sportswear division of Manhattan Industries. While working directly with Perry Ellis, the famed designer, we formed what was to be one of the first large size sportswear companies in the industry. This new division called "Very Vera," was featured in articles appearing in the Wall St. Journal, Women's Wear Daily, and the "Today Show," starring Pia Lindstrom. My achievements included the formation of one of the newest and strongest divisions of Vera, producing an annual volume in excess of $4 million dollars.I was considered one of the leading pioneers in creating fashion sportswear for the large sized woman.

Executive recruitment firm specializing in the placement of sales and marketing personnel. Working closely with executives at client companies I helped them fulfill their sales and management needs. I hired and trained a staff of recruiters who worked for us over the years. Worked with other leading employment agencies during this time period on joint ventures and other business opportunities. Traveled to industry trade shows, conducted recruitment seminars, wrote all advertising to be placed in each weeks papers and personally recruited and placed hundreds of sales and marketing executives each year.