Florida Agenda » Mark Haines http://floridaagenda.com Florida Agenda Your Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender News and Entertainment Resource Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:41:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 ‘Jump on’ the Hopper http://floridaagenda.com/2011/05/11/jump-on-the-hopper/ http://floridaagenda.com/2011/05/11/jump-on-the-hopper/#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 23:25:56 +0000 FAdmin http://floridaagenda.com/?p=6142 The Hopper is a safe and free transportation service that runs throughout Oakland Park and Wilton Manors and supports all local businesses. The idea of The Hopper is to create ways for the local community and international tourists to find a safe and economical way to enjoy the area and the great businesses we have to offer.

Bobby Blair, CEO of Multimedia Platforms says that the Hopper will further promote “our online and print publications in a way to ensure that we continue to offer the very best circulation and reach in the market today. It brings us great pleasure to know tourists and locals will be reading our publications as they are transported around Wilton Manors and the Fort Lauderdale area.”
The rollout of the venture started with two cars that will run in the evenings. By June 1st, they will add a day car, with the intention to add cars as demand grows to service the areas.

As it stands now, the Hopper will shuttle people between the bars on the drive and outer bars, such as Boardwalk and Monkey Business on Andrews Ave, Mona’s on Flagler, all the way to Cosmo’s on East Oakland Park Blvd.

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In the future, the Hopper will also service all the Gay Guesthouses in the area.

Jeff Sterling, President of Sterling Tax, said Tuesday, “I am so excited to be working with Multimedia Platforms on the venture. When the Green Hopper closed, it left a void for a free shuttle service in the area. We are very excited to help local small businesses flourish. Most businesses here in Fort Lauderdale are small and we need to attract locals and visitors to all we have to offer and help the area thrive.”

Mark Haines, founder of Mark’s List, said Tuesday, “This is an innovative way to reach locals and travellers while they are out in Wilton Manors. Mark’s List is working on an initiative that will allow Droid and iPhone users to access the site for instant updates and specials using QR Codes that will be made available to Hopper riders. This new feature of the site will make use of the information on Mark’s List in a dynamic way and build business along Wilton Drive.”

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Multimedia Platforms and Sterling Tax Join Forces for The Community – The Hopper is back! http://floridaagenda.com/2011/04/01/multi-media-company-and-stirling-tax-join-forces-for-the-community-the-hopper-is-back/ http://floridaagenda.com/2011/04/01/multi-media-company-and-stirling-tax-join-forces-for-the-community-the-hopper-is-back/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:56:19 +0000 FAdmin http://floridaagenda.com/?p=5064 FORT?LAUDERDALE, FL – Sterling Tax, in a joint venture with Multimedia Platforms, LLC, officially announced this week that they would be bringing a Hopper back to Wilton Manors. They will be approaching local areas business to create branded vehicles over the next two to six weeks.

“The Hopper will be a safe and free transportation service that runs throughout Oakland Park and Wilton Manors and will support all our local businesses”, Bobby Blair, CEO of Multimedia Platforms, said on Tuesday. He continued, “the idea is for us, as a business, to create ways for our local community and international tourists to find a safe and economical way to enjoy the area and the great businesses we have to offer.”

The Hopper replaces the recently sold Green Hopper, which used to offer free transportation between the bars.

Bobby Blair also said that the Hopper will further promote “our online and print publications in a way to ensure that we continue to offer the very best circulation and reach in the market today. It brings us great pleasure to know tourists and locals will be reading our publications as they are transported around Wilton Manors and the Fort Lauderdale area.”

The rollout of the venture starts with two cars that will run in the evenings. By June 1st, they will add a day car, with the intention to add cars as demand grows to service the areas.
As it stands now, the Hopper will shuttle people between the bars on the drive and outer bars, such as Boardwalk and Monkey Business on Andrews Ave, Mona’s on Flagler, all the way to Cosmo’s on East Oakland Park Blvd.

In the future, the Hopper will also service all the Gay Guesthouses in the area.

Jeff Stirling, President of Stirling Tax, said Tuesday, “I am so excited to be working with Multimedia Platforms on the venture. When the Green Hopper closed, it left a void for a free shuttle service in the area. We are very excited to help local small businesses flourish.

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Most businesses here in Fort Lauderdale are small and we need to attract locals and visitors to all we have to offer and help the area thrive.”
Kevin Hopper, Publisher of Mark Magazine and the Florida Agenda (and no relation to the machine!), said, “As the Drive continues to grow, so does a need for convenient transportation. I’m excited the Hopper is filling that void.”

Mark Haines, founder of Mark’s List, said Tuesday, “This is an innovative way to reach locals and travellers while they are out in Wilton Manors. Mark’s List is working on an initiative that will allow Droid and iPhone users to access the site for instant updates and specials using QR Codes that will be made available to Hopper riders. This new feature of the site will make use of the information on Mark’s List in a dynamic way and build business along Wilton Drive.”

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Letter From CEO of Multimedia Platforms, LLC http://floridaagenda.com/2010/10/08/letter-from-ceo-of-multimedia-platforms-llc/ http://floridaagenda.com/2010/10/08/letter-from-ceo-of-multimedia-platforms-llc/#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:46 +0000 FAdmin http://floridaagenda.com/?p=1910 It brings me great pleasure to have the opportunity to bring to you, on a weekly basis, Florida’s only statewide LGBT newspaper which covers international, national and Florida news along with our now-number-one ranked in the United States, LGBT entertainment and news web site, “Mark’s List”. According to Alexa.com, www.jumponmarkslist.com now receives 5,000-7,000 visitors per day from people all over the world. We are also very proud to bring to you Florida’s fastest growing magazine that we renamed earlier this year, “Mark”.

My vision over the years has always been to create a media company that could offer our readers and advertisers every component available in the marketplace from newspapers, magazines, websites, social media outlets, etc. I am proud to say we are reaching our goals.

We are now excited to announce that we are growing again and can now provide our readers and advertisers any printing needs they may have — from post cards, business cards, flyers to posters and banners — you name, it we can do it. This is made possible through our new relationship and infrastructure merger with “Planet Press/Copy This,” South Florida’s premier print shop located on Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors. This infrastructure merger allows us to offer a one-stop shop environment for every marketing need an advertising client could ever have.

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We also welcome our loyal readers and online viewers to benefit from any of our printing services as you may need them from time-to-time.

Our entire team is so happy to call Wilton Drive our home and to have our entire infrastructure and staff “ON THE DRIVE.” This something I wanted years ago when I entered the multimedia marketing business.

On behalf of Mark Haines, Kevin Hopper, Dennis Dean, Brad Casey and our entire staff, we say a big thank you for all your amazing support and continued encouragement as we strive to bring to you, on a weekly basis, the very best media outlets in the world that service our LGBT communities.

Wishing all our local residents, visitors and all business owners a wonderful season, all the best,

Bobby Blair

CEO

Multimedia Platforms, LLC

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