Bajan Sun Magazine - Caribbean Entrepreneurs Vol 1 Issue 10 | Page 52

BAJAN SUN MAGAZINE Q&A with Ceejay - Owner and Manager of StrateUp Productions: Q: What do you aim to achieve through StrateUp Productions? A: When people hear or see the name StrateUp Productions hopefully they would associate us with something positive; we want you to see us as a partner that enables you to share your message to a worldwide audience, and we’re committed to serving clients of any size or budget in excellence and with integrity. In addition to doing my best to honour the various multimedia requests of my clients, StrateUp breathes life into many other initiatives. I’m passionate about using the entertainment medium to inspire and uplift lives, so whether it is our broadcast network WordInSong247.com Radio or our event arm SetSailEvents.com, I want to impact lives positively with spiritual soul food. Q: What would you say are some of your greatest challenges as an entrepreneur in this field? A: I would say that this field is highly competitive in certain key areas, like graphic and web design for example; I jokingly say that everybody is a web designer now, although many of my clients come crying after using one of them. Educating and eliminating certain misconceptions is very challenging at times, but I’m dedicated to building healthy relationships with my clients, so we do our best to help our clients understand how we can help them communicate their message. Often times some clients are apprehensive, not thinking big enough and limiting themselves with the thinking that they have to have an exorbitant budget to achieve good success; but that is often not the case. DEC 2014 As for our Broadcasting Network WordInSong247.com, I’d say that although Internet Radio is one of the fastest growing on demand communication mediums today, surprising many still don’t understand it. I get a lot of questions about how we do what we do, and if we’re really having an impact, but when people tune in and experience it themselves many of them become avid listeners. In regards to the new arm of our event management by way of Set Sail Events, producing our own calendar conferences is new to us, we’ve produced and done event management for others but releasing our own conference series will come with many challenges I’m sure, but we’re excited and looking forward to it. Q: What are some of your achievements within your business? A: Well I guess it would be easy to name, drop and talk about some of the inspirational people I’ve had the honour of meeting and working with or for. But honestly the greatest achievements for me are those achieved behind closed doors consulting with clients. I’m really grateful, knowing we’ve played a small part in making a HUGE project a success, additionally I love experiencing the joy my small to midsized clients get when they achieve their goals, that is the ultimate achievement. How have you dealt with your business challenges or how do you propose to deal with those challenges? That’s a very good question, I’m always in school because every moment is a learning moment, and we’re as good as the last project we worked on. Every project comes with its unique challenges, and every project is an opportunity to learn.