Are you a small business owner or entrepreneur ready to connect your brand or product to new audiences? Want to know how to use traditional or digital media sources to grow your business? Join James Lambert and Fund 17 for Ready, Set, Pitch: How to Use Media Relations to Your Advantage. This workshop is designed to help you understand the value public relations and social media can bring to your business, tips to help you build strategic media relations and things you should keep in mind when you're ready to hire a public relations agency or freelancer. This workshop is intended to be hands on. Registrants are encouraged to bring a laptop, tablet or smartphone. About James Lambert James Lambert is a New Orleans based freelance public relations and social media marketer. James has over three years of experience, working with organizations in brand strategy, public relations, social media marketing, and strategic communications consulting. James is a member of Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and Public Relations Association of Louisiana. James is also the recipient of the Public Relations Association of Louisiana New Orleans Chapter's 2018 Ember Award for Rising Public Relations Professional. About Fund 17 Fund 17 is a nonprofit organization that provides financial opportunity, education, and empowerment to micro-entrepreneurs in all 17 wards of New Orleans.The mission of Fund 17 is to combat opportunity inequality in all seventeen wards of New Orleans by providing financial tools for self-empowerment to micro-entrepreneurs. Fund 17 turns hustles into livelihoods. If you are looking for early-stage support on accounting, marketing, legal formalization, or business planning, contact us today at info@fund17.org or 504.656.4177. See other Fund 17 events here: http://fund17.eventbrite.com