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Interested in business and perhaps starting your own? Want to connect with other business owners? Love WebTV?

I am writing to say that I hope you will join us MAY 20th CONTEST DETAILS AND EVENT RSVP . We are particularly excited about the local business owners and community members who will be attending.

Space is limited, so please reserve your ticket now.

Styles Fitness Group & RSVPhere.com Launch Web Series and Contest for Budding Entrepreneurs.

RICHMOND, VA (April 6, 2010) — Richmond is home to an artsy crowd, a bustling restaurant scene, cutting-edge medical advancements and most importantly serves as a launch pad for budding entrepreneurs. StylesGroundUp.tv – served up by two local business women is a new web series being launched this spring to highlight the “How – To’s” for executing business ideas.

StylesGroundUp.tv was created by two Richmonders:  Casey Burke Bunn is CEO and Creator of www.RSVPhere.com, a virtual invitation board where anyone can receive, personalize and respond to any invitation – print or web.  Her counterpart, Whitney Martin is owner of Styles Fitness Group in Richmond.   Together they have worked as entrepreneurs, borne the fruits of their hard labor and are now giving back to fresh business organizations with ripe business ideas to be launched. The spring brings a busy season as Bunn and Martin have extended their business savvy to this latest project, an online,  interactive web series to inspire all women to put fuel to the creative fire and run with a business idea.

StylesGroundUp.tv debuted on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 and featured a half hour-long episode of must-dos for starting or launching a business.  The web series airs every Tuesday morning.  This web series provides the most up-to-date resources from two already established Richmond Entrepreneurs. Each episode will include new ideas, checklists of tactics, strategies and trade tips on how to personalize your brand, manage brand awareness for your organization and create a niche market for your idea.

Culminating this web series, StylesGroundUp.tv will run a contest through May 10, 2010 for any entrepreneur or aspiring wannabee to pitch their perfected business idea and win a $1,000 grant towards the execution.  Winners will be called on the finale taping on May 20, 2010 at The Camel in Richmond, VA.  This contest allows entrepreneurs to collect trade tips, solidify their business idea, check in with these two industry experts and develop a solid event which can later be executed.  Ideas which can be launched, acted on or have recently been implemented are eligible to be considered for StylesGroundUp.tv contest.

All Entrepreneurs are invited to enter the contest by answering one question, “What’s the story behind your new unique business idea and why should we pick you?”  Email Whit@stylesgroundup.tv subject: CONTEST to enter and begin branding yourself.  Check out stylesgroundup.tv for full contest details and registration to the upcoming show.

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2) Church/Synagogue

3) Work

4) The movies

5) The theatre

6) The symphony/opera

7) A date

Weddings and funerals

9) Travel.

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1) A ball, charity event, dinner dance

2) Church/Synagogue

3) Work

4) The movies

5) The theatre

6) The symphony/opera

7) A date

Weddings and funerals

9) Travel.

Most people still dress for weddings and funerals, but a lot of those other categories have fallen by the wayside, sartorially. Which is good news and bad, if you’re at all like me; bad because I feel we’ve lost some decorum, good because the vintage/second-hand stores are goldmines of good tailoring if you know what you’re looking for. We’re lucky to have some great vintage stores here in Richmond. I have two favourites, Halcyon and Bygones.

Tonight is a launch party for GRID magazine #4. I was fortunate to be featured last issue and even more so to be asked to author a style column beginning with the issue being launched tonight. I had a great idea to do a piece on vintage finds and accompany it with some home movies. The videos of my visit to Halcyon weren’t framed correctly, but I thought that you might get a kick out of two of them.

So, for your viewing pleasure and amusement, unedited and uncut (I promise to get better or at least seek professional help), Easy and Elegant Life Presents: