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The JAR Group is an interactive marketing agency that helps companies understand online behavior to drive increased traffic, sales, and revenue. By understanding the clients' business objectives and competitive space, the dedicated team can create a comprehensive strategy that is executed with measurable tactics to fit a client's targeted goals. The JAR Group offers a full suite of online marketing services including search engine optimization, digital advertising, market research, affiliate program management, analytics reporting, and social media marketing. The JAR Group was named one of INC. 500’s list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies and Linkshare’s 2010 Agency of the Year.
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Founded in 1831, New York University (NYU) is now one of the largest private universities in the United States. The University, which is composed of 14 schools, colleges, and divisions, occupies five major centers in Manhattan and branch campuses and research programs in other parts of the US and study abroad programs in more than 25 countries. NYU is also one of the largest employers in NYC, with over 16,000 employees and has grown enrollment from a student body of 158 to 50,000-plus. Of the more than 3,000 colleges and universities in America, New York University is one of only 60 member institutions of the distinguished Association of American Universities. The School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS) has for 70-plus years provided professional and continuing education programs to three generations of working adult students in the New York City region. The hallmark of these programs is to provide learning that is immediately relevant to student’s jobs and career growth. These programs span more than 125 fields, 14 industry-focused Master’s degrees, nine-Bachelor degrees, and six Associate degree programs specifically designed for working adults. Today, students come from every state in the union and from 133 foreign countries. The faculty, which initially consisted of fourteen professors and lecturers (among them artist and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse), now totals over 3,100 full-time members and 2,500-plus adjunct faculty. For more information please go to the NYU of SCPS websites www.nyu.edu or www.scps.nyu.edu.
Cinchcast helps companies easily create, share, measure and monetize audio content to reach and engage the people that are most important to their business. Cinchcast’s cloud based software and services power over 1,500 hours of content creation every day for some of the world’s most innovative online publishers and brand marketers including UBM, SAP, Sears, Business Insider and more.
The New York Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA-NY), organized in 1948, is a founding chapter of the PRSA, the world's largest professional organization for public relations practitioners. The Chapter has approximately 700 active members, and provides services to members in business and industry, counseling firms, government, associations, hospitals, schools, professional services firms and nonprofit organizations. We also support PRSSA organizations at local universities. PRSA-NY Chapter holds more than twenty events a year, with something for everyone. The program includes a monthly networking cocktail party, themed "meet the media" programs, skills workshops, special events such as industry roundtables and discussions with senior leaders, and the annual Big Apple Awards competition celebrating the best work of the tri-state area. Visit our web site at www.prsany.org.SEMPO, is a global non-profit serving the search and digital marketing industry and the marketing professionals engaged in it. Its purpose is to provide a foundation for industry growth through building stronger relationships, fostering awareness, providing education, promoting the industry, generating research and creating a better understanding of search and its role in marketing. SEMPO includes thousands of professionals across 50 countries. The organization’s mission is to represent the common interests of companies and consultants worldwide and provide them with a voice in the marketplace. SEMPO's education and outreach initiatives are funded in part by Google and Baidu, and supported through partnerships with SMX, SES, OMS, MediaPost and GroupM Search. For more information or to join the organization, visit http://www.SEMPO.org. The Social Media Monthly magazine is the world's only printedpublication devoted to the exploration and analysis of social media in businessand society. Having launched in April 2011, the magazine is now availablenationwide in Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and other retailers as wellas available in twenty countries. To learn more, go to http://thesocialmediamonthly.com.