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Can Small Businesses Survive in This Economy? You Betcha!

Take it from Decatur’s own Eagle Eye Book Shop, who celebrates its 8th Anniversary on April 30th, 2011. With a combination of passion, dedication, quality, and a sense of community, anything is possible! That's the driving force behind this Renown client.

Eagle Eye was opened in May of 2003 when another bookstore at the same location decided to close. Owners Doug and Diane Robinson say they “felt the Emory/Druid Hills/Decatur area needed a quality, value priced bookstore, which also offered new releases, bestsellers and used books,” and with that, Eagle Eye Book Shop was born.

Eagle Eye’s mission is to offer a wide selection of quality books that reflect the needs and tastes of neighborhood customers, all at discounted prices. Specializing in Fiction, Suspense, Thrillers, History, Biographies, Art, Architecture, Theology, Gardening, and Cookbook titles, Eagle Eye is home to over a mile of books. Since it’s opening, Eagle Eye has been a staple in the Emory/Druid Hills/Decatur community, and the go-to place for new releases, author events, book signings and book releases. In addition, Eagle Eye Book Shop is the official bookseller for many metro Atlanta literary events and is active in the book club community by partnering with organizations such as the Atlanta Writers Club and Georgia Center for the Book; and events like The Decatur Book Festival, Gwinnett Fall into the Arts and The Southeastern Flower Show.

Voted Atlanta’s Best Indie Bookstore 2009 by Atlanta Magazine and Atlanta’s Best Bookstore 2010 by Creative Loafing, Eagle Eye Book Shop is another example of a small business soaring above the challenges of today’s economy. Eight years later, they are still going strong...and it shows!

The Anniversary Celebration will kick off with the release of Heywood Gould’s newest novel, The Serial Killer's Daughter, followed by refreshments, Birthday treats and week-long store specials.  

 For more information on the Anniversary festivities, click here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/9q86j2qjx7oc0xb/EEB8thAnniversary.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BIG thanks to Jaclyn Hirsch and the Virginia Highland-Druid Hills Patch for this great coverage on Renown client, Eagle Eye Book Shop!

http://vahi.patch.com/articles/bestselling-author-chats-with-locals#photo-5233060

A nice refresher on Media Relations. What are your thoughts? Is email still King? What do you use most? http://bit.ly/idJpS0

Check out this great coverage on Renown Client, Eagle Eye Book Shop. Thanks to Jennifer Brett and the AJC! This is an event you don't want to miss! http://bit.ly/gAgnf8

Great article! Thought I would share. I love the creativity!
Perfect PR pitches: NYT tech columnist picks his favorites | Articles http://bit.ly/hVYTVz

Congratulations to Renown Client, Eagle Eye Book Shop, for being named "Best Bookstore" by Creative Loafing-Best of Atlanta 2010!

http://clatl.com/atlanta/best-bookstore/BestOf?oid=2121582

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Welcome Sara Lane to the Renown PR Team!

Sara is a results-oriented Public Relations professional bringing seven years of experience in Media Relations, Branding, and Event Planning. Her background includes planning and executing events of all sizes such as The Taste of Marietta, The Marietta Pilgrimage, Press Trips and numerous Community Events, as well as Writing and Collateral Design. Having served on the opening team of the Georgia Aquarium, she also has hands on experience with branding, marketing, and selling. Sara is a graduate of Georgia State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Public Relations and a minor in Marketing.

One Georgia; One Print?

Here's the scoop on the proposed statewide news network that will foster consistent news reporting and sharing throughout the state:

 

GEORGIA NEWSPAPERS ANNOUNCE HISTORIC STATEWIDE PARTNERSHIP

Twelve papers join forces to share content and political coverage

 

ATLANTA (May 21, 2010) – In an unprecedented move to combine journalistic resources, Georgia’s 12 largest daily newspapers announce the formation of an historic partnership to deliver comprehensive political coverage across the state.

 

The combined group, working as the Georgia Newspaper Partnership, will provide deep reporting found nowhere else in the Southeast. Sunday readership of this group alone exceeds 2.2 million.

 

“This partnership helps put an end to the idea that there are two Georgias,” said Bert Roughton Jr., managing editor of the AJC. “The work that these partner newspapers do will go a long way toward providing the state’s voters a more unified voice.”

 

Over the next several months the partnership will deliver coverage of the gubernatorial and congressional races and support three statewide polls conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research.

 

This partnership of daily newspapers is the only large-scale, non-partisan political polling in Georgia for 2010. The newspaper partners include: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Athens Banner Herald, Augusta Chronicle, Chattanooga Times Free Press, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Gainesville Times, Georgia Times-Union, Macon Telegraph, Rome News Tribune, Savannah Morning News, Statesboro Herald and Valdosta Daily Times.

 

“As a small newspaper in southeast Georgia with very limited resources, the Georgia Newspaper Partnership will allow us to give our readers much more in-depth coverage of the governor’s race and every statewide race than we could possibly have produced on our own,” said Jim Healy, executive editor of the Statesboro Herald. “Also, it will hold candidates much more accountable than in the past.”

 

The first statewide polling will appear exclusively in the partner newspapers starting on July 11.

 

About The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the leading source — both in print and online — of news, information and advertising for metropolitan Atlanta, reaching a total print and online audience of nearly 2.2 million people each week. Every month, nearly 2.3 million unique visitors access the newspaper's Web sites, including ajc.com and accessAtlanta.com. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is part of Cox Media Group, a publishing, digital media and broadcasting subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises.

 

 

 

 

 

Client Feature:

Kay Hendricks of UV Gear & Fashion, Melanoma Survivor turned Entrepreneur, Mother of 3, featured in the EPA,CDC's Georgia Fact Sheet on Skin Cancer Awareness, Upcoming Interview on CBS Atlanta's 'Better Mornings' Show and featured in current issue of Northside Woman Magazine- http://www.mediafire.com/file/j34qmz2yxoq/SunSafetyGeorgiaKayHendricks.pdf