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Lou Anne Banks posted thisI’m looking for recommendations on photographers/content creators in the greater Tampa area to capture images for restaurant brand that can be used on social.
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Lou Anne Banks reposted thisLou Anne Banks reposted thisWe keep growing at Crawford, which means I need some help. I’m looking for a full time Junior to Mid-Level Copywriter to join our team and work on all our clients. Yes, you’ll have to do every assignment every copywriter has cut their teeth on since the dawn of advertising, but you’ll also get to work on every TV shoot we do for Nothing Bundt Cakes, every activation we do for adidas, and every other cool opportunity that comes in the door for United Community, and so many more. If you’re a copywriter with a little bit of experience and you’re looking to get a lot more, shoot me your site. Bryant Lambert Carissa Niewinski Nate Osbourne
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Lou Anne Banks shared thisOpportunity to work with an awesome team!Lou Anne Banks shared thisHiring 🚨 Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/eTKqmpF9
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Lou Anne Banks shared thisOpportunity to revitalize a brand and work with some great people!Lou Anne Banks shared thisLinkedIn fam, we are hiring on my team. Looking for the following onsite roles; candidates must be in Orlando or willing to be: - A Senior Media Manager who can oversee the media planning process, work hand-in-hand with our agency partners, manage integrated campaigns, reporting & analytics. 5+ years of experience, agency or brand side. - An Associate Manager, Creative Design & Production to manage our in-house creative projects, such as developing our in-store merchandising, local store marketing materials, digital assets (email, web, in-app), as well as lead production prep for photo and video shoots. 4+ years experience, ability to grow with role. Job details are posted here:https://lnkd.in/eiNYPTjn Please share! Thanks.
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Lou Anne Banks reposted thisLooking for a Director of Digital, required Restaurant experience in ecommerce, digital and off premise and will relocate or live in Houston, TX :) Message me if you know someone.
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Lou Anne Banks reposted this**Final deadline coming up on Thursday** to file a claim in the $5.4b Visa/MC Class Action Settlement: the largest class action settlement in US history.Lou Anne Banks reposted thisAnnouncement from National Restaurant Brokers: Final Notice to File Claim in $5.4b Visa/MC Class Action Settlement: Aug. 15th Deadline. If you were in business at any point from 2004-Jan 2019 and accepted Visa/MasterCard as a form of payment, you likely qualify for the $5.4b settlement. https://lnkd.in/eM4xKXPHFinal Notice to File Claim in $5.4b Visa/MC Class Action Settlement: Aug. 15th DeadlineFinal Notice to File Claim in $5.4b Visa/MC Class Action Settlement: Aug. 15th Deadline
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Lou Anne Banks reposted thisWork with one of the best - the other Kim! ☺️Lou Anne Banks reposted thisCome join an amazing team!!Social Media Specialist job in Tampa, FL with Bloomin BrandsSocial Media Specialist job in Tampa, FL with Bloomin Brands
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Lou Anne Banks posted thisNEED SOCIAL VIDEOGRAPHER/CONTENT CREATOR. Working with a multi-unit restaurant client who could use the help of a local social videographer, editor, content creator. Looking for a half day video session monthly on site in South Florida, plus editing to create up to 10 short content videos - primarily for FB. If interested, please PM me with experience, rates, questions. Network, feel free to share :). Thx.
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Lou Anne Banks reacted on thisSuch a great night celebrating another year of impact for Big Brothers Big Sisters! 💚 I’m incredibly proud to serve on this board and be part of an organization that makes such a difference for kids in our community. So much great momentum, an amazing team and a lot to be excited about for the year ahead!
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Lou Anne Banks liked thisLou Anne Banks liked thisSeptember is right around the corner. We are about to enter the final four months of the year and this is usually where you start hearing people talk about everything they are going to do next year. Fuck that. There is still a third of the year left. Four months is a long time. You can close a huge deal. Hire the person who changes your business. Lose the weight. Fix the problem you have been avoiding. Have your best month of the year. Hell, you can completely change the trajectory of your year in four months. I have had plenty of years where things didn’t go according to plan. Bad months happen. Deals fall apart. Employees leave. Shit happens that you didn’t see coming. But the calendar doesn’t care. September 1st is an opportunity to look at where you are versus where you said you were going to be and decide what you’re going to do about it. Don’t start planning for 2027 yet. There is still a lot of 2026 left. Go make something happen. Leap Brands
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Lou Anne Banks reacted on thisLou Anne Banks reacted on thisWe are overwhelmed with gratitude. Because of YOU, Mattie has made it all the way to the Top 3 out of nearly 200,000 amazing children in the Toddler of the Year competition. People across America and Canada voted, shared her story, told their friends and rallied behind a little girl most had never even met. Along the way, some incredible people—including Boy George, Robert Earl, PK, the Baldwins, and Jimmy Wahlberg—helped amplify Mattie’s story and her mission. And while we are still awaiting the final results, this was always about something much bigger than a contest. It was about using Mattie’s story to help make sure the next baby doesn’t need a miracle. It was about bringing awareness to biliary atresia and building support for Mattie’s Law and Universal Newborn Screening for every child born in America. But this week’s achievement carries an even deeper meaning for our family. The photos above are of Mattie with Dr. G, her GI doctor whom we have talked about so many times before. We believe every doctor who dedicates their life to saving children is a superhero—but Dr. G was SUPER HUMAN. He IS the reason Mattie is still in this world. He is the reason we have the privilege of fighting this fight today, trying to change the lives of other children just as he changed ours. This week, after a long and courageous fight with cancer, Dr. G left this world and went straight to Heaven. We honor this extraordinary man and a life amazingly lived. His legacy will live forever in Mattie and in every child whose life he touched, changed or saved. YOU HAVE OUR VOTE DR.G FOR 'DOCTOR OF THE CENTURY'! From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU for believing in Mattie, fighting for Mattie, and most importantly, fighting alongside her for the babies who come next. ❤️ And to Dr. G — we will keep fighting in your name and for all you have done for so many of us. The contest may be ending. The mission is just beginning. AdventHealth AdventHealth for Children AdventHealth Central Florida Allison Walker Beacham
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Lou Anne Banks reacted on thisThank you Fast Company Magazine for showcasing our exciting partnership with T-ROC to deploy up to 1000 CPK vending machines across the nation in the next three years! This partnership will allow us to bring our CPK fan favorite menu items to an airport, hotel, hospital, entertainment venue, university, military base, neighborhood near you!!!Lou Anne Banks reacted on thisCPK Pizza - freshly baked in 90 seconds. Available wherever you are. 🍕⚡ California Pizza Kitchen is expanding in a whole new way. We’re partnering with T-ROC - The Revenue Optimization Companies to roll out automated retail kiosks serving up iconic CPK pizzas in just 90 seconds, with plans for up to **1,000 locations nationwide over the next three years**. That means more ways to get CPK at airports, universities, hospitals, hotels, office buildings and other places where great, ready to eat pizza should be more convenient. Same CPK quality and flavors. Now more accessible than ever. And we're just getting started.
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Lou Anne Banks liked thisLou Anne Banks liked this20 years ago August 21st I opened Outback Shelton. I just signed my 5th contract. What a crazy 20 years. Thank you everyone who helped me along the way!!
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Lou Anne Banks reacted on thisLou Anne Banks reacted on thisThis is what vacation looks like…all smiles. But I am riddled with anxiety throughout the day with work that could have been done, clients, candidates or guests waiting for a response. It’s so hard to be able to balance work and personal life when you are trying to build businesses. Regardless of the capabilities of my team and employees I can never check out mentally. Am I having fun? Yes a blast? Do I kick myself in the ass at the end of the day because I feel I could have squeezed in another hour of work in the morning if I didn’t “sleep in” or if I stayed up just a little later in my sleeping quarters? Yeah I have that lol. Absolutely. But this is what I signed up for and honestly I wouldn’t have it any other way. Unless I won the lottery and could just play golf with my kids and hang out with my family without worrying if bills would get paid. That would be cool.
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Lou Anne Banks reacted on thisLou Anne Banks reacted on thisThis month's Leadership Insight Series spotlight features John Li, Chief Culinary Officer at Wonder! John shares the experiences that sparked his passion for food, the core principles driving his team's menu vision and how robotics and technology elevate kitchen teams. Read more about John’s customer-first approach and how that’s driving Wonder's culinary future: https://lnkd.in/gfeMdDiY
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Lou Anne Banks reacted on thisLou Anne Banks reacted on thisThis week, my Mahjong Ladies surprised me by reuniting me with a former colleague and dear mentor I hadn’t seen in 20 years. The beautiful irony is that this reunion happened because I decided to build a new community. For most of my life, I had no real hobbies. I was always working, traveling or raising my children. This year, I wanted to learn something new, so I joined a Mahjong group. I’m terrible at it. But these women keep teaching me, encouraging me and inviting me back. And somehow, this brand-new community brought someone precious from an earlier chapter of my life back to me. It reminded me how often community has carried me through life’s transitions. At the beginning of my career, so many people helped me find my way. When I became a first-time mom, I had no idea what I was doing. My friends seemed to be loving motherhood, while I was struggling deeply. I sought advice from every mother I could find. I needed a new community. When my children entered school, I was a working mom who traveled a great deal. I wasn’t at the pickup line or the PTA meetings, so I had to find community in a different way. Those Moms had my back when I couldn’t always be there. Years later, when my firstborn left for college, it rocked both my world and my identity. I was living in a new city without my familiar “mom community.” Looking back, I realize I didn’t build a new one—and I suffered because of it. Every chapter of life brings a pivot. And every pivot asks us to find the people who understand the version of ourselves we are becoming. This week, that lesson came back to me through both an old connection and a new one. I also had a wonderful conversation with a friend I met earlier this year through Our Third Place as she prepared to begin a new job and a new chapter of her own. Community isn’t something we find once and keep forever. We have to keep building it—sometimes even rebuilding it—as our lives and identities change. Sometimes a new community helps us move forward. And sometimes, in the most unexpected and wonderful way, it reconnects us with a part of ourselves—and people from our past—we didn’t realize we were missing. I’m deeply grateful for both.
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