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Investing With a Conscience

By John on April 4, 2011 | Category: Blog | Tags: 75234, accelerator, adbongo, advertising, america, best, cause business incubator, cause marketing, corporate social responsibilty, dallas, entreprenuer ecosystem, environmental, esg, evolution, exxon valdez, financial planning, global warming, green practices, magic, mitch fine, morgan stanley smith barney, negative correlation assets, ninja, organic business development, people, planet, pollution, portfolios, profit, recommended, socially responsible investing, south africa, sustainable business plan, sustainable investing, texas, top, triple bottom line, triple p | 1 Comment

By Mitchell Fine

Mitch Fine is a Financial Planning Associate with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, specializing in
sustainable investing. His practice includes advising clients with the development of their overall
financial strategy, investment asset allocation, retirement and income strategies, and estate and
charitable planning. He is a Certified Life Coach and has years of experience working with others
to help them achieve their goals. Mitch lives in Plano with his wife, Diana, and their son, Jacob.
The Fines are active in their community, working with their temple and socially-responsible
organizations. Read more …

Zero Waste dream team presents EDEN to local county

By John on March 30, 2011 | Category: Blog,News | Tags: 75234, ad bongo, adbongo, adbongo inc, austin, branding, business accelerator, business consulting, cause business incubator, commissioners court, communication design, dallas, economic development, energy inc, ensuring nature, entreprenurial ecosystem, ethical framework, green ox energy, hood county, hub, Incubator, municipal zero waste plan, organic business development, permaculture, permaculture applied to business development, preparedness, project eden, startup america, sustainable business incubator, texas, texas campaign for the environment, triple p, veteran owned, waste management, zero waste, zero waste alliance | No Comments

On Tuesday, March 22nd we had the opportunity to present the Project EDEN (Economic Development Ensuring Nature) plan to Hood County Commissioners Court. Hood County is one of the many locations around the country to whom we have released the details of our EDEN plan. Our goal is to implement EDEN far and wide, and we are starting to see this goal become a reality.
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AFRETLAIN, A PROJECT TO REAWAKEN THE MAYA SPIRIT

By John on March 9, 2011 | Category: Blog,News | Tags: 2012, adbongo, afretlain, branding, business approach to permaculture, business development strategy, cause business incubator, cause marketing, chiul, city planning, civil war, community, corporate social responsibility, creator, culture, dallas, eagle and condor, earthship, education center, god, green advertising agency, green projects, guatemala, indigenous, local leadership, mayans, organic business consulting, public relations companies, pyramids, quiche, school building, small business development program, spirituality, sustainability, sustainable, texas | 1 Comment

We have accepted our first international incubator project.

MISSION:

The global healing of the society of Chiul, and the rebirth of the heart of each inhabitant to create unity within the community and Guatemala.

VISION:

Chiul is a healthy, abundant, sustainable, safe and awakened society. Each inhabitant has access to an education that not only awakens their natural intelligence but also their spiritual intelligence and thus activates their specific gift to the world and their Mayan knowledge. The inhabitants of Chiul live well from the products of their gifts and talents, sharing them with the whole world. All people globally have a specific field in which to use their gift through the project Afretlain Maya in Chiul. Read more …

Why It’s Good to Have a Cause

By John on February 18, 2011 | Category: Blog | Tags: ad agency, adbongo, advertisement agencies, advertising, advertising agency software, advertising design agency, anti-advertising, aquaponics, art direction, branding, business accelerator, business approach to permaculture, business consulting firms, business development advisor, business development strategy, business planning, cause business incubator, cause design, cause marketing, chamber, CMO, conscious consumer, consultants, copywriting, corporate social responsibility, dallas, disaster preparedness, economic development, eden, environmental cluster, executive firms, farmers branch, food production, gardening, graphic design, green business, hub, john bush, just cause, new economy, organic business development, readiness, texas, three e, three p, veteran owned, video production, web development | No Comments

As a cause business incubator, Adbongo recommends clients find a cause with which to align your business. Whether you center your whole business concept on a cause or you align with a non-profit, supporting a good cause is not only good for humanity or the planet, it’s also good for business. Read more …

Business Incubators Are Best Investment of Public Dollars, Study Says

By John on January 29, 2011 | Category: Blog | Tags: 75234, adbongo, adbongo inc, advertisement agencies, advertising, advertising agency software, advertising design agency, anti-advertising, branding, business development advisor, business development strategy, business incubators, business plan consultants, cause business incubator, cause marketing, chamber of commerce, consultants, consulting, corporate social responsibility, dallas, dallas advertising, economic development, eda, executive firms, farmers branch, grant thorton, jobs, marketing help, national business incubator association, north american incubators, organic business development, president obama, resources, small business, starting a new business, texas | 1 Comment

DALLAS, Texas —At a time when the U.S. Congress and President Obama are considering investing $850 billion to create jobs, a recently announced study clearly proves that business incubators need to be part of the job creation equation.

According to a research study conducted for the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration, business incubators provide communities with significantly greater results at less cost than do any other type of public works infrastructure project. Read more …

Adbongo 2010 year in review

By John on January 3, 2011 | Category: Blog | Tags: aamp, acbg, adbongo, advertising, austin art and music partnership, cause business incubator, cause marketing, corporate social responsibilty, coyote legal, csr, dallas, earthship, eco-business park, farmers branch, green ox energy, joe polish, michael reynolds, mogul wealth, organic business development, piranha marketing, sustainable buidling, texas, three p bottom line, waste management | 2 Comments

As the 2010 whirlwind tears towards the border of 2011 at sonic speed, most of us are reflecting on the calendar of memories we’ve created. For some, this reflection will result in a long list of New Years Resolutions. Others will savor gratitude for a year full of blessings. Whatever the emotions that arise as we look back over the year, our reflections will inform the way we’ll choose to live out the next year. As Confucius said, “Study the past if you would divine the future.”

At Adbongo, we’re looking back so that we might make sure we’ve absorbed the lessons the universe laid out for us to learn this year and so that we might set our 2011 goals. While some of this information will stay hidden behind lock and key, we’d like to share a few of our *sniff, sniff* sentimental musings regarding our year. Read more …

Business incubators uniquely positioned to spark job creation

As local, state and national government agencies examine ways to create jobs and turn around the struggling economy, business incubation programs are featuring prominently in the debate – as well they should. For 50 years, incubators like Adbongo have been helping entrepreneurs turn their ideas into viable businesses, promoting innovation and creating jobs by providing emerging companies with business support services and resources tailored to young firms to increase their chances of success. Read more …

Project Eden: Adbongo Talks Trash

By John on December 1, 2010 | Category: Blog,News | Tags: adbongo, adbongo inc, architects, austin zero waste plan, bio gassification, cause business incubator, cause marketing, dallas, dallas advertising, dallas green company, dallas marketing, eco park, economy, energy, engineers, environmental activism, facility, green companies, green energy, green ox energy, jobs, lance abney, landfill, material management, municipal solid waste, net zero waste, organic business development, pepsi refresh, project eden, recoverable materials, recycling plant, solar, sustainable business practices, texas, trash, waste management, waste materials, waste streams, wind, zero waste | 2 Comments

We’re on a mission to clean out your cans. Yep, here at Adbongo, we’ve been talking a lot of trash lately.

For the past few months, we’ve been plotting away with the fellow madmen visionaries over at Green Ox Energy on a project aimed at revolutionizing the way we view trash. In fact, we’d like to scrap the word “trash” altogether. In an effort to nudge a rickety old paradigm over a cliff, we will no longer use the words “trash” or “waste”. From now on, we will refer to the leftover odds and ends as “raw materials”, “recoverable materials”, or just “materials” for short. Why are the terms important? Because they signify our attitudes towards the subject. Recently, we’ve come to understand that landfills are actually goldmines. Now, we respect them as if they’re King Midas’ courtyards. Read more …

Steve Mangum, on DEMAND CLO

By John on November 23, 2010 | Category: Team | Tags: 75234, adbongo, adbongo inc, advertisement agencies, anti-advertising, austin, brand, business consulting firms, business development, business development advisor, business development leadership, business growth, cause business accelerator, cause business incubator, cause marketing, Clean Economic Development resulting in Zero Waste, communication coach, corporate social responsibility, customer business development, dallas, entrepreneurial eco-systems, entreprenuers, farmers branch, flexible on demand teams, green business, landmark, marketing, organic business development, Premium Brand Design Business with heart, resource recovery parks, stanley tools, steve mangum, sustainable development, Sustainable Marketing Plan, texas, veteran owned, zero waste | No Comments

Our Communications Coach and Chief Listening officer, Steve Mangum, transforms communication and creates teams for our clients’ projects. Creating context for organizations and their causes, Steve helps each develop a clear vision to help them achieve their goals. “With clarity comes velocity!” says Steve. As a coach and consultant for the development of Adbongo’s “cause business incubator”, we can personally attest to the power of Steve’s ideas and advice.

Steve chose the marketing path in his school days. He self-financed his education at Texas Tech University, where he graduated with honors with a Bachelor’s degree in Business with Marketing and Management emphasis.

With over thirty years of experience in multiple industries (including grocery, construction, highway engineering, mortgage, health and fitness, energy, auditing), fourteen of which were devoted to sales and marketing for Stanley Tools, a $3,000,000,000, Fortune 250 company, Steve’s depth of understanding and breadth of knowledge are genuine assets to the Adbongo team and our clients. Read more …

Cause marketing turns problems into opportunity

By John on November 5, 2010 | Category: Blog,News | Tags: ad bongo, adbongo, advertisement agencies, advertising design agency, advertsing, branding, business, business consulting firms, business development leadership, business development manager, business growth, business plan consulting, cause business incubator, cause marketing, consultants, corporate social responsiblity, dallas, dallas pr, executive firms, farmers branch, green companies, marketing, new economy, new-paradigm, organic business consulting, organic business development, public relations, social entreprenuership, sustainable business practices, texas, three p bottom line | 1 Comment

A new study released by Cone, Inc. reveals that consumers are far from satiated with cause marketing. Even though cause marketing has become quite the popular trend, consumers are showing no signs of weariness. In fact, they want more.

The data tells us that during hard times, Americans expect companies to step up and contribute to good causes. At Adbongo, we agree. Right now, a seemingly endless parade of problems is marching across the news and across our own front lawns. But, as Robert South said, “Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.” The time is now to perform miracles. Cause marketing experts teamed with companies aiming to help solve economic, environmental and social problems have the power to alchemize lead into gold. Read more …