19 Nov Brandon Johnson Nominated for 2008 Chozen Award: Entrepreneur of the Year

BlackAtlanta.com & BlackInternetMarketing.com Owner Brandon Johnson nominated for Atlanta’s 2008 CHOZEN Award for “…Stellar performance and commitment to the community this year…” for site:  www.blackatlanta.com

Sometimes, a little transparency is needed.  Wattles, in the Science of Getting Rich, states that one should concentrate on where he is going, instead of the adversity of where he has been.  This was in regards to NOT concentrating on the challenges in your life.  Well, without stating my personal challenges, I state that this, like many of your experiences this year, has been a tough year.  Maybe this LOOKS easy… but… well, we will leave it at that!

In my church on Sunday, the verse for the sermon surrounded Galations 6:9 –>  “… and let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap. if we faint not. ” So this is my note to you KEEP RUNNING the race!  Whether it is blogging, creating websites, selling flowers, or picking up trash… Keep running the race and run it HARD.

The field of Ecommerce & Internet Marketing is one in which big dreams exist.

Everyday, I see lots of money being made online.  Having some big brands that can do SO much better online financially, can really pop the gray hairs.  So just when I get close to nearly getting tired… throwing in the towel… giving up… Selling all the domain names I own… and going to school to become a plumber for all the “pity” I am rolling in, something pops up and hits me like a brick.  Check this letter out…

Date:  11/18/08

Good Day Brandon Johnson!

On behalf of Only In The A, Atlanta’s premiere video magazine and BE Public
Relations & Marekting, I would like to inform you that you have been
nominated as one of the 2008 CHOZEN Award candidates for your stellar
performance and commitment to the community this year.

Now that you’ve been nominated, we’re leaving it up to the public and
your peers to award you the top honors in your respective categories.

Your family, friends and peers can cast their votes for you online by
logging on to: http://www.onlyinthea.com/chozenawards today.  You can also
add banners to our website or mailing list that link to polls to encourage
voter to respond.

Polls close on December 3rd  at 11:59 P.M.
Winners will be honored at a cocktail awards reception on December 10th,
2008 at the Hammonds House Museum (503 Peeples Street, SW,
Atlanta, GA 30313).

Special thanks to our sponsors, Blue Boy Media, ATL2nite.com, NABFEME
Atlanta and The Style Suite.

For more information, please contact:

Lenora Bowler
BE Public Relations & Marketing
http://www.onlyinthea.com/chozenawards

Yep, that’s right.  Humbly, your boy Brandon has been nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year : 2008 Chozen Award.

I think that the significance of this award is very meaningful. Fellow nominees for this category include a Lawyer operating a well known firm, a Big time Fashion promoter, an established Gospel marketing and Productions firm… promoting for major celebrities and record labels, and Art on 5… a wonderful art studio here in Atlanta with quite a following.

Again, the significance is this: BlackAtlanta.com started as an idea and evolved to what it is today.  Just a twinkle in my eye way back in the day.  Something created in the basement of our home.

• It did not take years of law study, although it did take years of marketing, self-taught web development education, and sometimes, some “lawyer-like persuasion”.
• Although it has its own beauty and aethetic life, it did not take buying a building to house beautiful portaits.

But what it did take was continual care… continual pioneering of vision… Lots of bruises… Lots of let downs… and yes… LOTS OF COMEBACKS BABY!!!

Having just come off of a nomination for the Black Web Awards, “Best Local/Community Site in Eastern USA”, it is definitely a badge of honor.

So to the reader of this article post, I tip my hat…. And THANK you.  Because without you coming to my sites everyday, and without the occasional recognition of an award nomination… I would have had a REAL excuse to be weary.

and yes… would have gladly fainted a long time ago.

Thank you for supporting our site.  Please vote for us at: http://www.onlyinthea.com/chozenawards