ambizion SepT/Oct 2014
Business Mogul and Married to Medicine’s
Lisa Nicole Cloud pg 13
Chris Jasper
Life and Reflection After The Isley Brothers pg 18
Vincent M Ward Evolving in the Hollywood Dream! pg 6
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Ambizion Table of Contents Ambizion the Brand
PG 3
The Importance of a YouTube Channel for Your Music Business
PG 4
Vincent M Ward: Evolving in the Hollywood Dream!
PG 6-7
What is Passion
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Cover Story: Lisa Nicole Cloud
PG 13-16
Chris Jasper: Life and Reflection After The Isley Brothers
PG 18-19
What Makes A Good Movie
PG 20
Three Qualities of Highly-Effective Leaders
PG 21
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The Importance of a YouTube Channel for Your Music Business: Tips for Video Sharing Success
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. We all know that
social media marketing is the way forward. But if you’re involved in music, there is really only one social network you should be using. YouTube is booming in popularity - 3 billion hours of video are watched every month – so if you’re not sharing videos, you’re missing out. Whether you’re a musician, mogul, or marketer; your music business should have a YouTube Channel. It’s free to sign up, easy to fill out your profile, and you can get sharing video content in a matter of minutes. Sharing your content with audiences the world over has never been easier. Why Get a YouTube Channel? In a world where record companies have been replaced by independent musicians, YouTube is playing a vital role. Hundreds of singers, such as Justin Beiber and Esmee Denters, have bagged a record deal after being scouted on YouTube. Video content is perfect for the fast-paced World Wide Web. It is shareable, relatable, and easy to go viral. So even if you’re not an aspiring singer, you can still promote your musicbased business with a YouTube channel. Like many other social networking sites, you can also interact with your audience. People who view you videos can leave comments, ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ what they see, and share the video with friends. This gives you a great platform to communicate with the people who will be buying your products.
5 Tips for Video Sharing Success Sharing a video online is really easy. Not only can you put your video on YouTube, but you can embed it into blog posts and share on your other social media profiles. But putting the content ‘out there’ often isn’t enough to make an impact. If you’re a YouTube newbie, we’ve compiled a number of top tips for video sharing success. Whether you’re looking to go viral, or just share something with your loyal fan-base, these are some tips you should follow: 1. Brand Your Channel You customise your Facebook fan page, and Twitter profile. You should make sure you take the opportunity to brand your YouTube channel. Walmart is one company who’ve really taken advantage of the customisation features. Keeping a consistent brand identity across all your social media pages is a great way to make you instantly recognisable. If you’re a business or an artist, you need to stand out from the crowd. Making your channel stand out is one of the ways to do this. 2. Sharable Content The key to YouTube success is uploading videos that people will share. Upload content that people want to see, and you’ll be able to reap the benefits. If you’re an artist, why not upload a cover of the ‘song of the moment’ to help raise your profile? If you’re selling instruments, make your promotional videos interesting. Relate them to something current, and put your own unique spin on them. Whatever your role in the music business, make sure the content you put out there is unique, exciting, and entertaining. Sept/Oct 2014
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Walking Dead’s Vincent M Ward
Evolving in the Hollywood Dream! Ambizion Magazine: Where does your inspiration come from?
Vincent:
Ambizion Magazine: When did you realize your talent?
Vincent: When did I realize I had talent? I’ve always entertained people growing up playing basketball and dancing in a rap group...I’m still trying to see if I have talent because I’ve set the bar so high for myself because my goal is to win a Oscar. So I will say I’m talented by sticking with this very hard career and not giving up by being patient...Patience is a talent that’s practiced every day and if you don’t have that you will never accomplish the goal
My inspiration comes from believing in GOD; wanting to take care of my parents, my kids and my 4 grand kids...I want to leave something for them. I just want to a positive role model, Christian, father, son, uncle, grandfather, example and native to my little city of Dayton, Ohio. I want to show that with hard work, dedication and drive you can make it without selling drugs, gang banging, selling your soul that you can be successful
Ambizion Magazine: Who are your dream actors to work with?
Vincent: I don’t really have a dream actor to work with because I would work with anyone...I just want to work and do a good job doing it... Sept/Oct 2014
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Ambizion Magazine: What’s next for Vincent Ward?
Vincent: Next for me is continuing to Rise&Grind everyday.. Bigger touring plays, bigger movies and star on a sitcom. Get my own show called The Chill Spot gets up and going and appearing on Dancing with the Stars. Be the voice and face of someone’s brand...Magazines, commercials, billboards. More conventions. I just want what I deserve and what the man above has for me...
Ambizion Magazine: What is Your Ambizion (Your Legacy)?
Vincent: My legacy..I just want to be known as a hard worker that waited his turn, respected all directors, producers, conventions, magazines, crews and cast no matter how big or "small" they were. Family man... A man who fell several times but always got back up stronger... A man who never thought about acting but once I was bit by the acting bug, strived to someday be one of the best in the game...Never compromised himself
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What is Passion? What is passion? Recently after a presentation, I was once again thanked for my passion. The compliment was genuinely given, as was my returned thank you. However, as the day progressed, my thoughts kept returning to passion. What really is passion? For the next several days as I attempted to ponder this question, other questions surfaced. What does it mean when one has passion? What separates people with passion and those without passion? Is passion always positive? Could passion be negative? Is there a relationship between passion and purpose? How does this fit me? Sometimes the best place to begin to define a word is with Webster. Webster’s dictionary states that passion is an emotional response. Being an intellectual conceptualizer or more simply stated a heurist, I wrote down 3 words – passion, performance and purpose. Consider the following: imagine someone standing with out stretched arms and open hands with one hand holding the word passion and the other holding the word purpose. What I would like you to consider is that passion is the present where others as well as ourselves see our emotions. Purpose is the future, our true north, where we constantly strive towards to reach our vision. And the performance is the individual with the outstretched hands. Performance is the collection of all past experiences and current actions where we continually apply knowledge as we hold true to our passion and purpose. Passion exists with our purpose and performance as a partner to help achieve the present and the future that we desire for our businesses, our families, our friends, our communities and ourselves. Now envision yourself as that person of performance. Visualize what your hands are holding. What fills the hand holding your passion? What do you see in the other hand holding your purpose? Keep that vision bright in your mind’s eye. Perform each and every day with a clear focus on realizing both your passion and your purpose.
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Business Mogul and Married to Medicine’s Ambizion Magazine:
Lisa Nicole Cloud
The next company that I have is my media company where we are working on several media projects of course I am a TV talent on Where are you from originally? Bravo’s Married to Medicine, Elite Strategies I’ve had for over 3 years, The Lisa Nicole ColLisa Nicole: lection I’ve had for 3 years and this is going to Baltimore Maryland, My family is also from The Vir- be my second season on Married to Medicine and I do business mentoring and coaching for gin Islands. entrepreneurs where I look at their businesses currently, I help them come up with product Ambizion Magazine: development, ideas to increase their revenue streams in their company, how to grow their Tell me about each of your business endeavors in brand, how to stay productive and really help detail and how long you have been involved with them to achieve their business goals. them?
Lisa Nicole: I have several businesses I made my money in Direct Sales with a company called 5LINX I’ve been in the Direct Sales Industry for 10 years and that’s where I made my first million. I took the money that I made and invested it into other businesses such as Elite Strategies which is a signature marketing firm that works with small businesses to help them have a big business brand. We help them in areas such as legal contracts, taxation strategies, organization, development of policies and procedures. Marketing, social media, web site development, accounting you know all of the different things that a business needs to successfully operate and we even have experts that teach people how to go out and raise capital for their business and that company falls under the brand Elite Signature Group. I also have The Lisa Nicole Collection which is a clothing line for today’s professional woman. The clothing line is sleek and sheik and sophisticated and it really is for the fashion forward business woman you can wear the clothes in the office and can transition to an after 5 evening setting for networking.
Ambizion Magazine: How were you discovered to become a cast member on Bravo TV’s Married to Medicine and how has the experience been so far?
Lisa Nicole: They asked me to be on the show the first season but due to my schedule I didn’t have an opportunity to cast because I was traveling so second season came around and it was good because I got a chance to look at the first season and they approached me again this time I was available for the casting process and I was selected. I thought it would be a great opportunity to shift the perception of black women on reality TV I wanted it to be a positive example that wasn’t about the drama, that was about helping women and supporting each other, uplifting each other, a woman about her
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business and her community and this is the circle of women I associate myself with so the great thing about Married to Medicine is that you have your balance you have real women, real issues with real life drama and yeah you do have some drama queens on the show but you also have characters like myself and Dr. Jackie who try to not have so much drama and try to be a more positive cast on the show. This show is one of the few shows in the reality TV space where African American women are shown in their careers as mothers and wives who are all married and showing our families. So I think it’s the best example of African American family in the reality spacing and so far it’s been a good experience and I hope the next season will continue to be a good experience. They did call me (chuckles) boring at least Mariah did because she is a little intimidated because I just refuse to get caught up in the nonsense but if boring equates to positive, uplifting and motivational then I will just be that person.
successful and a business person but you do spend quality time with your family and your husband and you do make differences in the life of other people. What I would also tell entrepreneurs that entrepreneurship is hard, probably one of the hardest things you will ever do but quitting is not an option because when you quit you are quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your dreams, your family and your children which is not an option so make sure you stick to it. Whatever you set out to do make sure you stick to your dreams and never give up.
Ambizion Magazine: What is Your Ambizion (Your Legacy)?
Lisa Nicole:
I believe it is the responsibility of a parent to leave a legacy… to leave an inheritance to our children this is what the Bible tells us. I have always been accomplished on focusing on just that so I hope to leave Ambizion Magazine: my children a fashion empire one that if they want to work it it’s there for them to work and be a part of or What advice would you give to an aspiring en- they just might want to be Aires to a company they trepreneur? have that option too. I want my children to do what they love but definitely leaving a legacy for them I also want to be a person that when I expire and have Lisa Nicole: my Home Going that people will be able to say that I would encourage everyone in life to pursue your she made a difference in the lives of other people, dreams! My mantra in life is to live your dreams she touched a lot of lives and she was a small giant. it’s possible and I believe people should do what I love love love helping others making differences in the lives of other people, inspiring and empowerthey love because if you do what you love the ing others and just living my life with integrity and money will follow so utilize your GOD given gifts, talents and construct and create a business positivity and living life fully! I believe that if you that you can enjoy getting up and working every don’t design your life someone else will no dream is too big you know there are footprints on the moon single day. I have definitely been an example of and if someone has walked on the moon it’s certainly a woman who turned my passion into profit as the sky is not the limit so I pursue everything that an entrepreneur so I encourage for everyone to comes into my mind and I think I can do anything go out and pursue their dreams you know work your dreams like there is no tomorrow, live every and everything I put my mind to. I just continue to live life in a grand way and make a difference in the day to the fullest, enjoy the fruits of your labor and make sure to create that balance in your life lives of other people and try to be a blessing to other people because I’m a blessed woman. where you are Sept/Oct 2014
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Chris Jasper
Life and Reflection After The Isley Brothers
Ambizion Magazine: What is your personal key to success that you attribute to your longevity in the music business?
Chris Jasper: Education and hard work, and of course faith in God.
Ambizion Magazine: What is your favorite memory of being an Isley Brother?
Chris Jasper:
What advice do you have for aspiring musicians in today’s music society?
Chris Jasper: Learn as much as you can about your craft and have an understanding of the business aspect of the music industry is very important.
Ambizion Magazine: Who are the most important members of staff one should have on their team when pursuing the business?
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Chris Jasper: Legal advisors are very important before you sign any contracts, and of course a good publicist and marketing team.
Ambizion Magazine: What’s next for Chris Jasper?
Chris Jasper: The new CD that will be released this September…”The One”. We are already getting a great response to the title track which was recently released. I am also working with my son on his new CD which should be out sometime later this year.
Ambizion Magazine: What is Your Ambizion (Your Legacy)?
Chris Jasper: I hope my legacy is that I was a good husband, a good father, a good servant of God, and that I made a positive contribution to music.
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What Makes A Good Movie Every year numerous movies are made in the entertainment industries but all are not liked: some top the charts while others are kicked out of the box office. Some become the hot topic of discussion for the critics while others just escapes their notice, in short some get a thumps up while others a thumps down. But how many of these, which get a positive feedback, are actually good movies? Well it is not that simple to answer, as it seems. The topic is very much subjective. What seems good to some may not be the same for the others. What appears enjoyable to a few others might be enjoyable for others. Then what exactly is a good movie? To generalize it, we can say that those movies, which are liked by the mass and not by some class category of people, could be considered as a good movie. But what are the traits that are needed for a movie to qualify as a good one. First of all a movie should provide good entertainment. They are of course others: Touch our feelings: A movie should touch our heart and make us talk or think about it instead of just becoming a time pass. It should have the capacity to teach and inspire us and provoke us emotionally. Educative: It should be able to let us know about something new. Nowadays movies are considered to be one of the most effective educational tools used to teach or educate people regarding certain issues. In short a good movie should have some educative value for the masses. Mirror of the society: A good movie must also provide some elements of encouragement and inspire people towards successfully overcoming barriers. Movies are regarded as the mirror of life. Every story of a movie is more or less inspired by our life, by what happens around us.
But this is not all; there are some other factors also which contribute in making a movie, to be considered as good. Following are the points: The Plot: This is the most important part of the movie. Without a good plot a movie fails to attract and retain the viewers in the theaters. Even if they were drawn to it initially for some reasons, people would loose interest sooner than later. The Characters: The second most significant factor of any good movie is the characters of the story. Without them there would be no story and no plot. Characters should be such, that the audience likes them. Be it a positive character or negative one. They should have some qualities to which the people can relate. Actors: We need good actors to make a good movie. Actors, who can justify the characters and make them, come alive in front of the audience. They must be able to portray the characters well so that people say that the characters are made keeping them in mind. They should blend themselves into the characters. Script: Without dialogues movies look dead. Script is the life of movies so they should be very strong and appealing. They can even make people come and see the movie repeatedly. Last but not the least, visual display of a movie with beautiful scenes and sceneries can also influence and draw people to the theaters.
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Three Qualities of Highly-Effective Leaders By Dr. Jimmie Flores I often use a quote from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: “To become a meaningful participant, you must get a seat at the table.” It makes sense that we must take some level of risk, and do something to contribute to the success of our organization. In other words, standing on the sidelines will accomplish nothing. We must participate. Here recently, I heard Matthews discuss the leadership qualities that he finds important. While his discussion focused on the current political candidates, the attributes are equally applicable to those of us in the business community.
If you are easily discouraged when a challenge arises, you lack the passion for that activity, work, and even for your career success. You must continually search for meaningful work. If you often awake before your alarm clock sounds because of your excitement to reach your office, you have passion for what you do. Passionate people have a difficult time accepting failure. Instead, they look for different angles, a unique perspective, and new ways to exploit opportunities. Quality #3: Spontaneity
Quality #1: Motive
Matthews asks, “Can they react to a challenge or moment?” In other words, can you think on your Matthews was adamant that a great leader “must feet? Are you prepared to make smart decisions stand for something.” What are you trying to ac- without falling into the paralysis of analysis trap? complish? Where do you see a gap that you wish While process is important, we must embrace some to bridge? How do you plan to make a difference? level of risk. It’s foolish to believe that we must Until you can express to others why they should have all the facts before making a decision. We can believe in you, nothing happens. expect to make mistakes, but the trick is to identify the error quickly. After the problem is resolved, A leader is not a manager. The people who run you can conduct a lessons learned exercise, which the organization are far-sighted, continually focuses on what was done right, and what should focused on maximizing shareholder’s wealth, be avoided. opening new markets, and providing unparalGreat leaders are committed to getting things done. leled customer support. A manager, on the other Of course, these individuals build a talented staff, hand, takes a tactical approach. These individuand are not threatened by them. The effort is on als create processes, teach those steps to others, high-performance, and not who is going to receive and perform quality checks. The leaders ensure the accolades. that the processes are aligned with organizational strategy, which means they will yield long-term Excelling in a leadership role requires that one results. have a reason to do well. Once we know what is important, we must align our energy to realize the Quality #2: Passion intended benefits. Given that problems will arise, the top-notch leader is agile, constantly taking Matthews states that passion in leaders is decorrective action to meet the organizational objecscribed as “what brings out the emotions, and tives. Finally, successful leaders are willing to share what drives their spirit.” You must know what the wealth, understanding that it takes a competent excites you, and what will keep you going even team to realize the goals that are most important when obstacles arise. for the enterprise. Sept/Oct 2014
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