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Joshua founded Chop Dawg Studios (www.chopdawgstudios.com) when he was only 16 years old back in 2009. Chop Dawg Studios is a "new media marketing company" that helps small and large businesses with their web identity, branding identity, social networking presence, online marketing, and supplies revolutionary new business applications that change the way businesses work on the web.
Only three shorts years after being founded, his website design company has gone from just himself being his only employee to having over thirty individuals working with him across the country dealing with more than 400 different businesses around the world.
Joshua founded Chop Dawg Studios on the belief that small businesses weren't getting the quality product that they deserved. The quality of websites small businesses were paying for were too outdated, too expensive, and weren't helping businesses generate any potential revenue through online sales. This is while corporate competition are paying ridiculous pricing for websites that blow the little guy out of the water.
Joshua's mindset was to change this. Instead of small businesses unable to compete without breaking bank, Joshua instead is hiring some of the most talented website designers in the country and helping businesses with them paying on average under $1,500, which in the market of small business website design is completely under the market value.
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Above all, Joshua and his company is making a difference. They have impacted hundreds of entrepreneurs lives and made them better. He has twenty-nine others working for him, ranging from age 18-60 helping make a difference in the business world and making a dramatic impact on the web.
Joshua has given back to his community. He has taught in the very high school he graduated a year earlier website design to students. His company gives dramatic discounts too non-profit organizations and to veterans who now own businesses.
Joshua is impacting hundreds of peoples lives from his community, his team, to his clients. He is changing the way small businesses can approach the web, and the way websites should work for businesses. Joshua is making a dramatic difference and helping our economy. Without a doubt, this amazing 19 year old is the perfect candidate to show about someone who is making a powerful difference to the world around him and shaping the future the way he wants it to be.
Joshua is approaching his 500th client in only three years soon. Has been featured on multiple news articles across the northeast and is loved by many. You should contact him.
Joshua Davidson
www.chopdawgstudios.com
609-385-6804
206-202-1680
This is the main road connecting River Road and weehawken to the Lincoln Tunnel and the NJ highways and it is closed seemingly forever. There is NO work being done on it, only two large weehawken town trucks blocking this critical road.
I would love to see the Hudson reporter do a story on this to find out WHAT is going on!! The Weehawken Police Department has no answers and has no idea when it will open, despite apparently getting a massive amount of complaints from residents.
To make things worse, Baldwin Avenue being closed permanently forces all cars to use the surrounding roads, which are extremely torn up and FULL of horrible potholes and massive speed bumps.
Can someone please find out what is going on here? It effects thousands of people each day.
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letting firefighters/volunteer firefighters wash there personal vehicles at the firehouse. The taxpayers have to pay this bill. I would say something to them, but they already were found guilty of harassment of a gay couple. So I am scared because I am a minority. Who knows what they might do to me.
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I find it to be pathetic that since Swibinski cried in this post,the Hudson Reporter has not written another piece on the intimidation that is ramping up as the election gets closer.
If people want to see corruption caught on video they can go North Bergen Citizens for Change on Facebook or Youtube and watch video clips of several incidents. City officials harrassing a store owner who put up Column A banners, DPW workers caught red handed going around in a town vehicle picking up Column A flyers while on the clock to do town work, doing sacco's bidding, a Sacco thug attacking a photographer as a housing authority official watched, and my favorite, the footage of the thug Swibinski has his arm around attacking a protester at the rally.
The Reporter got spanked by Sacco and now they won't report the news that the people need to hear. Column A workers were harrassed this week by Frank Piazza, a Sacco bodyguard/thug who told the workers he would have them arrested if they didn't stop handing out literature. The reporter didn't go to the polling places where Sacco goons freely broke laws by handing out propaganda inside the polls and walked the voters right to the booths and told them the levers to pull.
Journalists should report the news good or bad for any situation without influence from intimidation or payoffs but sadly, they are nowhere to be found when the people need them the most. Hopefully on May 10th they will make their presence known so Sacco's goon squad will think twice about pulling the crap they did during the BOE election. Hopefully the Attorney General is not another puppet for Sacco and sends out the resources needed to keep this election fair and lawful.
WAKE UP NORTH BERGEN AND TAKE A STAND, CALL THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND ASK HIM TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS ON MAY 10TH. COLUMN A ON MAY 10TH WILL SET YOU FREE FROM TYRANNY
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WHEN A SCHOOL ASK ME TO TEACH THEY ARE TOLD I CAN NOT TEACH FOR THEM.NOTE THE STATE ALLOWED TWO SCHOOLS (UNION CITY, AND JERSEY CITY TO OPERATE UNDER THE SAME NUMBER WHICH IS ILLEGAL) THE STATE REFUSE TO INVEGITATE ANY THING I STATED BUT THEY WERE QUIT TO TERMINATE MY CERTIFICATION WITHOUT NOTIFYING ME AND TELLING ME WHY. I HAVE LOST OVER $8000 IN TEACHING HOURS BECAUSE ???? STATE REFUSE TO PUT ANYTHING IN WRITING. MEAN WHILE WORKFORCE ADVANTAGE IS STILL STILLING STATE AND FEDERAL MONEY. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HAVE LOOK THE OTHER WAY.
This is wrong. The list of costly antics is piling up....the list of doing what some members of the Commission and the Mayor want to do, without voters knowledge grows. The list of getting voters busy on emotional issues that could stop, or shade other issues.....I could go on and on!!!! The issues at risk, such as rent control, that will ultimately affect/effect all of us.
Please tell me there is a writer/reporter sitting on those steps.
I love Hoboken....Happy Valentines Day!!!