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We Assist PR Professionals

We help Public Relations agencies!  We work as a team with PR firms to give great publicity to brands/services! HOW? We work as subcontractors!  We do the footwork, the legwork, and the heavy duty work! 

We are the middleman, the go-between, the wants that make "it" happen with the TV networks, films, the events, and the celebrities.  

We are the "little secret" that helps connect everyone!

WHO receives the credit? The PR agencies get the credit.   You benefit from Celebrity Black Card. 

We help PR agencies and act as "subcontractors"; in turn, you receive all the credit when your client gets the amount of publicity that we connect you to.  We have great opportunities with the entertainment industry that draw publicity, press, and exposure. 

So if you work in PR, find us, contact us, and let's work as a team.

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Newest Client listed with Celebrity Black Card

At Celebrity Black Card we are honored to have signed our newest client Jason Charchan.  Even with Jason's experience he still knows the power and exponential impact of celebrity reviews.  He lives life to the fullest and is excited about the opportunity to gain new clients!   Jason is currently one of the most popular and sought after trainers in Los Angeles with a current and past client list that includes professional athletes, actors, and models as well as successful corporate executives, professors, lawyers, and people just wanting a fit healthy body.  Jason has worked with clients in Los Angeles, Miami, Rome, Milan, Monte Carlo, London, England, Buenos Aires, and Argentina. His brief client list includes:

Soccer player David Beckham

USA men's national soccer team 

Landon Donovan

LA Galaxy (MLS) 

NFL combine training (1st & 2nd round draft picks) 

MAC Defensive player of the year

NHL LA Kings fitness Testing

NHL Anaheim Ducks fitness Testing

MLB Spring Training

Nomar Garciaparra

Ryan Howard

Chase Utley

International polo players

Series regulars on ABC soap opera

Playboy models

Star of Green Day's "American Idiot: The Musical"

Lead voice over artist for "Halo 4"

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Infinite Opportunities with CBC

We are a Los Angeles based product seeding company and we essentially help you get your clients high profile celebrity publicity.  We have a wide range of experience with product seeding, product placement, celebrity association, press coverage, tv/film, etc.  We do "product seeding plus."

CELEBRITY BLACK CARD   

At Celebrity Black Card, we offer a service that connects companies with celebrities. The Celebrity Black Card app allows both products and services to offer free promotions to celebrities in exchange for powerful celebrity reviews. There are no blind mailings or wasted marketing efforts. You choose who receives your product/service.  

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PRODUCT PLACEMENT for TV/Film

We also work with product placement for TV shows, film, etc.  There will be many opportunities with this through Celebrity Black Card. 

VARIOUS EVENTS and SHOWS

DANCING with the STARS :  This is Social Hill’s 8th season doing product placement for Dancing With the Stars, and we've had extreme success in getting exposure for our clients.  Dancing with the Stars is the TOP rated show in America.   Almost always, the products given to the dancers/celebs are seen on television.  We provide $5,000, $10,000, and $20,000 packages that showcase your products with the stars. An ABC on-air "spot" would typically cost $250,000.   Click here for Dancing with the Stars info.

Guinness Book of World Records Event :   This event will draw a large amount of celebrities and press.  If you attend the World Record event, you will also receive the Celebrity Blackcard app free for one year.  People that purchase the World Record package receive Celebrity Black Card free for one year, which typically runs $400 per month.   Click here for  World Record Event info.

SOCIAL HILL

At Social Hill, we have a 24-hour gifting suite where celebs take photos with product in front of a press wall. Your clients get their own personalized press wall with their logo. At our suite, we are known for having high quality products; this draws more celebrities to our suite. We only accept celebrities, athletes, musicians from current television shows, films, etc. You are also guaranteed FIFTEEN celebrities per month to pose for photos with your product.   Social Hill website 

Overall, we deliver results.  We are NOT a traditional gifting suite. We do product seeding plus more.  We WORK to market the brands by giving you celebrity photos, tweets, reviews and more.  We don't let random people walk away with product.  If a vendor is giving product to a celebrity, the vendor receives valuable reviews or photos in return. 

We always have NEW opportunities available!

Blog post by Blogger, Designer, and Techie : Cara Deptula

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http://celebrityblackcard.blogspot.com

7494 Santa Monica Blvd.West Hollywood, CA 90046

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Awards Season Calendar

Stay up-to-date with all of this year's awards show, with the Awards Season Calendar

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Karli Henriquez at Celebrity Black Card

Karli Henriquez is an American radio personality on LA's biggest radio station Kiis FM. She hosts a radio show called Karli from the Block and also is a red carpet correspondent.

Karli Henriquez at Celebrity Black Card

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Best Social Media Book

Our pick for the "must-have" Social Media book is "The Facebook Era: 

Tapping Online Social Networks to Market, Sell, and Innovate" by Clara Shih.  Many books that we have in our library are just technical step by step guides to completing specific tasks with Social Media tools.  However, The Facebook Era is exceptional in its mixing of how tools such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn fit in to the overall philosophy for benefiting your business.  If you are running your own Social Media plan it is a must read, and if you have a Social Media person to help, it should be required reading.  It also is in a nice jump-around format so that you can concentrate on sections that are most appropriate for your business, but as it is such an easy read, we recommend reading every word.

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Jennifer Grey at Celebrity Black Card

Jennifer Elise Grey (born March 26, 1960) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Frances "Baby" Houseman in the hit film Dirty Dancing (1987), Jeanie Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) and for being the winner of season 11 of the American version of Dancing with the Stars.

Jennifer Grey at Celebrity Black Card

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Oscar Gift Suite - Social Hill | PRLog

Oscar Gift Suite - Social Hill | PRLog

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Allison Hagendorf

Allison Hagendorf Allison Hagendorf is a national television personality, a national radio host, music journalist, branded-content producer, and voice actor. Currently, she is hosting the CW's music competition show: The Next: Fame Is at Your Doorstep.

Allison Hagendorf

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Product Seeding Video - Celebrity Black Card

This is our final promotional video that introduces our product seeding style of brand building with Celebrity Black Card.

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Best Social Media Tools: Tweepi

What are the best social media tools for promoting your product seeding and product placement efforts?  Well, the Social Media team at Celebrity Black Card has put together a series of posts about our favorite tools.  Today's tool: Tweepi Tweepi is a free (with a premium service as well) follower management tool for Twitter.  Many brand-oriented Twitter accounts are not successful because the social media managers can't properly make use of a tool that is based on short, consistent posts throughout each day.  On the surface, it seems it is best used by celebrities or news outlets whose audience is always hungry for more data.  Social media for brands should adjust this reasoning and concentrate on using Twitter to funnel followers to other sources, such as a brand's website or Facebook account, where richer sources of information can be found about the brand.  That brings us to Tweepi- a service that allows you to easily manage followers, and specifically, that allows you to "dump" followers that don't follow back.  As Twitter displays the followers of any account, a brand can follow related Twitter accounts' followers list, and hope that they reciprocate.  Doing this in moderation is a very useful way to build a very robust follower list.  It should be noted that you don't want to abuse this process as you would violate Twitter's policies, but done in a reasonable way is the easiest way that we know of getting exposure to new customers.

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Technorati Verification

Just a quick verification for Technorati: EKH9XSZ8Z4W4

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Chelsie Hightower

Chelsie Hightower is a dancer and has performed in musical theatres across the United States. She was a U.S. Worlds finalist in 2005 and competed on Team USA. She was a contestant on So You Think You Can Dance and joined the season 8 cast of Dancing With the Stars .Chelsie received an Emmy nomination for the "Paso Doble/Malagueña" dance that she performed and co-choreographed for DWTS.

Chelsie Hightower visits Celebrity Black Card

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Best Social Media Tools: Twitterfeed

What are the best social media tools for promoting your product seeding and product placement efforts?  Well, the Social Media team at Celebrity Black Card has put together a series of posts about our favorite tools.  Today's tool: Twitterfeed Twitterfeed is a free tool that allows you to basically feed a single post from your blog to other services such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.  Many businesses simply don't have the time to provide unique content all of the time to all of their social media tools.  Twitterfeed takes your blog feed and then with just a few clicks, will automatically create a post for your other social media tools.  You may still create unique content for Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, but this allows you to use your blog as a primary source for content, without spending the time to post individually to other social media tools.

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Ashley Rickards at Celebrity Black Card

Ashley Rickards at Celebrity Black Card She has been in various films and television shows portraying a wide variety of characters, most notably Fly Away, in which she portrayed Mandy, a severely autistic girl. Rickard also starred in One Tree Hill and appeared in American Horror Story.She currently stars in MTV's hit show Awkward, she plays the lead character, Jenna Hamilton. The show has just been renewed for a third season.

Ashley Rickards visits the Celebrity Black Card suite

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Kelly Monaco Signs Up for Celebrity Black Card

Kelly Monaco

Kelly Marie Monaco is an American model, actress, reality television contestant and winner of Dancing with the Stars in Season 1. She is well known for playing the character of Sam McCall on the soap opera General Hospital, a role she originated in 2003.

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Celebrity Branding and Facebook: The 5 Golden Rules

Facebook Branding: The 5 Golden Rules Learn these rules and use celebrity branding to build up your business. Similarly to corporate web pages fifteen years ago, social networking is that business device that everyone knows they need to use, but not sure how to use.  Unfortunately, there is a very low barrier to entry with social networking, so most companies find the one person in-house that knows just a little more than everyone else, and counts on that person to launch a proper social networking campaign.  We see it over and over, so we have put together a short list of the Golden Rules that we feel are essential for effective Facebook Branding:

Learn from the best brands and before you start, get all aspects of your Facebook page ready to roll. Generally, a business will fill out the info, add some photos, post up a square logo and off they go.  But take a look at how great brands do it, and give yourself a full checklist by comparing your Facebook Page to theirs--  Why don't we have a long, beautiful profile image? How did they get their 5 images at the top of the page to merge so well with the overall layout and brand image? They have their other related businesses as their Featured Likes, should we do that? What sections should we have under our logo... Reviews? YouTube? Questions? Polls? Custom sections? How do we do that?  In short, know all the parts of a Facebook page and get yours maximized and ready for business before you start.

Engage, be Transparent, and Interact.  Your fans are your gateway to more fans, so treat them well.  With social networking sales/marketing/customer service are all bundled into one area, and you can master them well by interacting often with fans.  It won't cost you anything but time-- use polls, ask questions, run contests, and reply to when a fan has an issue.  Transparency is one of the new buzzwords in the business world and companies that are succeeding are the ones staying on top of and in front of issues.  And remember that you grow your Facebook fan base by keeping your fans engaged, and thus hopefully getting more fans through them... let them be a part of the page to keep them interested in your brand, and your Facebook page will grow.

Give back to fans.  Reward them, and this can be in many different ways.  Musicians can give early releases, Fan only printable coupons, updates to exclusive events, whatever it is, give your fans something in return for the loyalty they have shown for becoming a part of your site.  This can cost you nothing, or you can have a grand promotion, or something in between.  Whatever your approach, it is important to give back to your fans... it is through them that you will grow your Facebook page, so it is good to keep them happy.

Let 'em see behind the curtain!  To be honest, most Facebook brand pages are just extensions of already existing business websites, but that just creates a redundant marketing tool that causes confusion.  The difference between your Facebook page and your business website is your network of fans, and they are an active feature of your page.  A website has value as an unbound source of company info, but your Facebook page is special in that your audience is built right into your content.  Let them be a part of your brand.  Here is an example... let's say you are a fashion company, and you have a very slick website with some professionally made promotional videos.  Yes, it is fine to also bring those over, probably in the format of a YouTube app that just gets all of your videos automatically.  However, your fans will be far more engaged if you make them feel more a part of the business... do some "behind the scenes" videos recorded off of staff mobile devices, and perhaps let them see some of the ins and outs of the business.  Again, no cost, and you fully engage the fans and are providing real value in being a part of your Facebook page.

Sell and/or Advertise on Facebook.  If you have worked hard to build up a loyal and ever-expanding fan base, you would be missing a huge opportunity not to sell you products and/or advertise on Facebook.  Building a store on Facebook has huge advantages--- word of mouth can be instant among your fans that buy products on your Facebook page and they in turn will become like a mini-sales team utilizing the greatest tool of social networking-- transitive trust.  Facebook ads are "hyper-targeted" so you can hit exactly the type of potential customers that you deem worthy, and are beyond compare to traditional spray and pray sales and marketing campaigns.

Facebook is where the customers are at, and utilizing the power of the network of fans and friends is what will separate business over the next decade.  Businesses that understand how to use their Facebook page and other social networking tools will be the ones standing in all of the tremendously saturated markets that exist in each business environment, and using these 5 rules will go a long way in building an efficient social networking plan.