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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Ladybrille’s Uduak Oduok to Judge the Miss Sacramento County Pageant, Official Preliminary to Miss California USA® Pageant. Sacramento, CA (September 22, 2014) – Uduak Oduok, journalist, fashion and entertainment lawyer, publisher of Ladybrille Magazine and ex-fashion model has been selected to judge the Miss Sacramento County USA Pageant. The Miss Sacramento County and …
LBW 004: Meet Amabel Niba, Publisher and Ladybrille Woman of the Month September 2014
What Does it Take Launch & Successfully Operate a Niche Magazine? Our Ladybrille Woman of the Month for September, Amabel Niba sheds light on what it takes to launch and successfully operate a niche magazine. The Ladybrille ‘Woman of the Month’ is a monthly feature on the magazine’s podcast show ‘Ladybrille Woman Podcast Show and website, that celebrates outstanding women, locally and internationally, for their brilliant contributions to society.
Amabel Niba is a motivational speaker, wife, mother, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Los Angeles based African Vibes Magazine. She earned her Bachelors’ degree in Business Information Systems at Devry College and her MBA at Keller Graduate School, both in Long Beach, California; and was a recipient of a Stanford University Fellowship where she studied Publishing.
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Quick Preview of the Podcast
- How the idea for African Vibes Magazine (AVM) was born.
- Amabel’s research into the publishing industry.
- Reaching out to the publishing industry heavy weights.
- The rejections.
- Determined and figuring how to publish AVM.
- Financing AVM.
- Operational costs and reality of running a publishing business.
- Obtaining sponsorship and advertising.
- The success of African Vibes Magazine.
- Brand expansion to ‘I Wear African.’
- Personal challenge and juggling family and business.
- The breakdown.
- Becoming a mommy.
- Getting back up.
- Tips for hopeful publishers and women entrepreneurs.
Links Mentioned in the Podcast
Amabel Niba’s Personal Website
Contact & Links
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Publishing Guru AMABEL NIBA is LADYBRILLE Woman of the Month for September 2014!
Sacramento, CA (September 17, 2014) Ladybrille Magazine, the pioneer digital platform and authority on African fashion in the West’ and the pioneer voice for the African woman entrepreneur is pleased to announce it has named AMABEL NIBA as its Ladybrille Woman of the Month for September 2014. The Ladybrille ‘Woman of the Month’ is a …



