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Michael Rataj, Head Brain of Bulb Brain Creative discusses how his past as an analyst and animator helps assess risk when making decisions about ad spend.

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If you’re wondering why your resume isn’t generating inquiries – let alone interviews – this is the resume workshop for you. Like everything else over the last ten years, the guidelines for job hunting and career success have changed enormously. This workshop, designed and facilitated by Wendy Lalli, will help job hunters find their way again. It not only covers how to write your resume, but how to deal with employment gaps and other career challenges. Above all, it will show you how to break through the noise created by everyone else who is applying for the same job.

You’ll learn how to:
· Develop a personal brand
· Present career missteps in a positive light
· Position your past experience for future success

Future workshops will follow the same format and cover networking, interviewing, negotiating compensation and using social media to build a personal brand.

Wendy Lalli is an award-winning marketing writer who’s been coaching job hunting professionals in almost every industry for over 20 years. Working as a recruiter for a major staffing company between writing jobs, she transitioned from recruiting into outplacement as the Marketing Director/ Career Coach for the Derson Group. Over the last 15 years, Wendy has written dozens of articles on career management for major newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, several professional journals and had her own career advice column, “Dear Lalli,” in 25 suburban newspapers in the Chicago Sun Times network. She’s also taught college courses in job search and given motivational talks on careers at colleges, libraries and professional associations throughout Chicagoland.

Wendy Lalli discusses ways to build better relationships to generate more business.

Filmed 7-2-19 at Fannie's in Portage Park
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Neal Wankoff of Prairie IT Solutions discusses the many pitfalls small business owners fall into when thinking they're 'secure'.

No animal left behind!

Curt Kessler, Loan officer for Compass Mortgage and president of Real Estate to the Rescue talks about the efforts of the organization to end homelessness in animals in Illinois.

When the organization was started roughly 15% of animals were never returned home and now that number is above 80%. Through their efforts simply installing a microchip allows animals to be returned to their original owners, which allows for a much more expedient and safe return home.

Filmed on location at Fannie's in Portage Park, June 4th 2019 by Michael Rataj of Bulb Brain Creative.

Head Brain Michael Rataj talks at the Warehouse in Deerfield about the different social media platforms and what type of content works best.

Bulb Brain Creative is a visual marketing company, making creative photos and videos to help tell your brand's story.
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Curt Kessler of Real Estate to the REscue and Compass Mortgage discusses the efforts of Real Estate to the Rescue to end homelessness of animals in Chicago.

Through their efforts they found the most effective way is to return animals to their original owners and have been working on an effort to microchip animals.

Filmed live June 4th, 2019 at Fannie's in Portage Park, in part of the Brain Trust Networking group.

Filmed by Michael Rataj of Www.BulbBrainCreative.com

Northwest Side Chicago home walkthrough

After the April first Friday I spent some time at the Northbrook Public Library. What a beautiful building.

Hello Northbrook! I’m extremely honored to join your Chamber of Commerce. Bulb Brain Creative offers affordable, energetic and dynamic videos for your business, including commercial promos, event footage, and high-quality video and photo content for distribution on your social media pages.

For example, we can create a primary video for your YouTube channel, then slice it up for weekly distribution on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and/or Twitter. If you want to create a monthly web series, we can assist with that, too. We can also run paid ads on social platforms, finding your target audience based on behaviors and locations, then managing those ads on a monthly basis.

Pricing is the biggest barrier to entry in video production, with some full-scale projects over multiple days and locations costing more than $16,000. Our approach, however, is flexible and designed to meet your needs at the most efficient price point. We use a lean crew for smaller projects to keep pricing affordable, while still offering a top-quality
product.

I joined the Northbrook Chamber of Commerce because so many friends I had met
through different networking events were all involved in the Northbrook Chamber. I went to a Northbrook event to check it out and was hooked. I love the community and support it provides and wanted to be involved in any way possible.

I hope you enjoy this video on my unofficial tour of your beautiful library. I’m looking forward to collaborating with you!

Best,
Michael Rataj
Head Brain