Can you believe it, a massive snow storm in Rapid City on April 25th?! Believe it! It's not the first time and the Black Hills area has had record snow fall this year. It's pretty but also kinda sucks. A lot of my family is sick so I haven't seen half of the gang, adding too the suckiness. BUT........it's great to be home and spend time with my loved ones too. Monday and Tuesday, I have meetings to discuss additional SoDak. video projects, which would be great for our production company. We'll focus on a few golf courses and the areas and activities around them, and possibly some of the area's larger national and international golf tournaments. We'll see!?

We're still reeling with excitement after the OR Gov. Conference on Tourism. There is so much positive energy around PDXposed and the messaging we're creating for communities. People just can't afford to pay high agency prices for average results, as in the past. PDXposed and more importantly, The Digital Studio, can offer top quality production at very reasonable prices. We can do much more than just TV too -- radio, print, billboards, etc. I'll give you a great example of high agency pricing. Last year when we got the SD video project, their own IN HOUSE video production company couldn't do the project for what we could do it for. It would have cost them more to hire their own people. We have low overhead so we can underbid most everybody, while at the same time we can make money. Most importantly, we deliver superior results. The goal for anybody with a marketing/promotional campaign is MEASURABLE RESULTS, which we are also delivering. People are watching our shows, getting in their cars and traveling to these communities to experience what we showed them. I'm not just telling you this, it's happening. We hear it from Newport, Lincoln City, Seaside, Astoria, etc... Even Japan! We look forward to putting more $$'s into local area communities this year, especially with our struggling economy. It means a lot to us that we can help and we'll continue to make that one of our missions.

You can expect to see us focus more locally (OR/SW WA) for PDXposed and our production company will continue to branch out in my home state of SD and of course, in Hawaii. They need more help with tourism than any other state in the country and again, with our value and quality, who better to assist them with video than us!? And yes, it's a pretty damn nice place to film, and yes, Mary is there. You "feel me" I'm sure.

LOVE the Seahawks draft picks, only two on the first day, but both should be impact players. I sucked it up and bought my season tickets again this year. My seats rock (see pic) so I had no choice. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and I just don't want to give that up. Plus, we might be striking a mutually-beneficial deal with SeaPort Airlines which might mean some trade (=flights to Boeing Field/Seattle!!), so it might make it even more convenient to get to Seattle for the games.

Speaking of games, time to tune back in to the NFL Draft and get ready to cheers on the Blazers tonight. My best from the winter wonderland known as Rapid City, South Dakota!

Make good memories this weekend!

Jon

OK Lucy!! I promised you I'd make a blog entry today and it's not too late. Just to prove to you that I'm a man of my word and a good friend, I'm writing this especially for you! The BLAZERS JUST WON and we filmed the game from a suite, which was awesome. What a day, starting early in Salem for the Oregon Governor's Conference on Tourism and ending with a crazy, exciting Blazer win!

Sean and I had a blast at the conference and we're very glad we attended. The attendees were exactly whom we need to focus on this year and we have something very good to offer them -- affordable and measurable television advertising/marketing. That's what we do! We just received our 5th and 6th Emmy nominations, so clearly our peers are valuing the quality of what we do and it was fun to see our customers telling others at the conference that they should work with us. As you can see from the show, we DO HAVE FUN but we take our job seriously as well and it pleases us greatly to hear the communities we've featured say that we are definitely driving tourism to their towns/cities!

I'm finally going home to see my family in South Dakota this weekend, haven't been home since last September when we did all those Black Hills videos, which you can view at www.youtube.com/blackhillstourism . It is always good to see my family and I miss my nieces and nephews and of course my siblings and my parents. I do have a pretty damn cool family if I do say so myself.

And yes, you guessed it, we're filming in Hawaii again in 3 weeks. I met Mary one year ago from May 8th, and I'll be there with her on that day to celebrate. Neither of us had any clue we'd be dating at this point, from 2,500 miles away -- not the plan. But, it worked out that way and I'm excited to see her and her precious little ones in a couple weeks. The crew comes over on May 13 and will leave the 20th. I come back on the 24th. I'm working on some "other projects" in Hawaii, so we'll see where that might go.

Time to chill in front of the boob tube, a term not used much since my childhood when my mother said it often. I'm exhausted, but I promised dear Lucy that I'd update my blog, so this one's for you baby! GREAT seeing you and everybody at the conference this week. We're excited for the future of PDXposed "Xposing" more of what our great state of Oregon has to offer. Oh and the photos are from the Blazer Pep Rally in Pioneer Square last week, total pandemonium and a blast. The second one is thanks to my new I Phone App, which I'm learning more and more about (pretty cool stuff)! Ok, nighty night!

Make good memories, always!

Jon