QUERY LETTER

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to an add which was published in the Los Angeles Daily news dated November 25^th, 2018 for a Development Coordinator for your company and I have an interest in it.

I would like to introduce myself as Martin Kabutey Adjovu knows in show business as “Nene Kabutey.” A current graduate student at Full Sail University studying MA. New Media Journalism and expected to graduate in May 2019. The development coordinator job is a good fit for me and I will tell you why. I have had the opportunity to intern for Iheart radio, MTV, Urban Houston Network, Ktsu, Tsu Television, Warner Bros just to mention a few. And all these internships taught me a lot that will help me in the entertainment industry.

As a development coordinator, I know part of my job is to help identify, develop, and secure new show opportunities by generating leads and sales, maintaining client relationships, and coordinating promotional activities. When it comes to new shows I have an idea for one and I did write a story on it recently posted on my blog about Developing Story on Global Evolution in African fashion. This would be a great show concept and an opportunity for people to learn more about African fashion. And learn that Africa is not a country but a continent with 54 countries (States) and each country has its culture. An example is Ghana, it has ten regions (states) and each of them has their own local dialect they speak including fashion and culture. This would bring more awareness and help people to learn more about a different culture. This story would be truly relevant especially after Black Panther came out back in February. A lot of people have been on the African fashion bandwagon not knowing more about the African culture.

This show concept can help bring more audience to Asylum Entertainment. Creating content that delivers not only an American perspective of fashion but bringing in more of an international taste to it. It has been known that people are more receptive to a multimedia way of viewing content and this could be one of those shows that would attract more audience.

When it comes to delivering a pilot pitch for this show I can delivery that perfectly well. As a multimedia student I can shoot, edit, write, produce, and create a great pitch idea which would be shot into a pilot to deliver the idea for this show. After the show is picked up into developing, I would be able to use my social media platform to promote it. That would be a way of advertising the upcoming pilot. Using social media as a marketing tool for this show is the fastest and easiest way of attracting an audience. I would be able to track down interactions, follows, reach and impression. This would let me know what to work on for the next post. Knowing social media has certain times you can post. I will be using Hootsuite to schedule upcoming flyers and other related content marketing post that needs to be posted.

Being born and raised in Ghana-West Africa I have learned a lot about our fashion and have worked as a model for African Fashion week, New York Fashion Week, London Fashion Week, African fashion week Houston, LA fashion week just to mention a few. Not only did I work as a model but as a Director for Marketing and PR for African fashion week and Social media coordinator for New York fashion week. All these positions make me more qualified for the job and the pitch story because I have the first-hand experiences working with these companies and I know I can deliver. I have traveled to different fashion shows and have seen how others have no clue about different countries and their fashion.

With that being said I have attached my portfolio with some of my works to show how dedicated and passionate about this position. You can also find some of my multimedia works at Nene Kabutey Lander .

Thanks for your time in reading my email and hoping to hear from you soon.

Best Regards,

Martin K. Adjovu

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IS CYBER DATING ANOTHER WAY OF “FRAUDING” PEOPLE?

Cyber dating has been around for a while and it has helped some people to find true love. Whiles others have had a terrible experience for it and wish they never did. In an online article published by Alberto A. Ferdman titled The truth about online dating according to someone who has been studying it for years discovered some deep stories on how it has affected people.

One thing about cyber dating is that it has helped most people connect with others in various parts of the world and has bridged the gap for online dating sites such as Tinder, Soulswipe, Blackpeoplemeet just to mention a few. Unbelievably social media has also become another way for cyber dating.

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The purpose of most of these dating apps is to help people find others who have something in common with. Ranging from food, games, religion, culture etc. This has brought a lot of people together from a global point of communication where one can find a match in different countries.

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As much as cyber dating sounds fun it has caused a lot of unexpected problems for a lot of people. In the continent of Africa, most people have found a way of raiding people in these online dating swindles. In Nigerian, it is popularly known as 419. This is an act of deceiving other people through online dating frauds and people have fallen as victims of this act. Morgan Easley shared a story about how she became a victim of such act. She said she met a guy through Facebook 8 years ago and they stayed in contact for two months.

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After those two months, they started having feelings for each other which led them to date. The guy gave his name as “Agu Kandu-Igbo” as much as they had fallen in love over the internet Easley did not bother to dig deeper to know if this person was real. They agreed Easley would take a trip from London to go visit Kandu in Nigeria. Before Morgan embarked on her trip Kandu had asked her to send him some money so he could get her a pleasant hotel, a car service and other luxurious things to make her trip an exciting one. So, Morgan agreed and sent Kandu £5000 ($6,365.50) to take care of all those things he had promised prior to her trip. Three days before she departed, she could not reach Kandu. He was not responding to her messages and then realized that Facebook account had been disabled. “I could not believe what was happening. I thought it was a dream but, it was not. I was shocked, devastated, hurt and disappointed, Morgan said.”

419: The Internet Romance Scam

Mrs. Caroline Johnson-Amoah had another perspective to share about her experience. She said she met her husband of 10 years online through a dating app and they currently have three kids. Her experience of dating app was quite different. She said her husband is originally from Ghana and when they met online, she was a bit hesitance about him because prior to that she had heard about 419 activities that had been going on in Nigeria. Though Nigeria and Ghana happen to be on the same continent she was a bit cautious, but her husband was nothing like what she was expecting. “My husband is a gentleman and a family-oriented person. When we first met online, I was expecting the worst because of the 419 stigmas. I agreed to go visit him one summer and that trip changed everything, and I fell in love with him more and we have been inseparable ever since with three beautiful kids, Mrs. Johnson-Amoah said.”

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One person who has handled a lot of these issues is Attorney Gbinkpe who is a Divorce and Immigration attorney based in San Francisco California. He shared some of his expertise on handling such cases. “Most people fall for these online dating scammers and end up bringing them to the States because it’s an effortless way of getting a visa into the US, Attorney Gbinkpe said.” As an Attorney, he has seen a lot of similar issues where people fall in love over the internet and end up flying their so-called lovers from foreign countries to the US. When most of them arrive, they start showing their true colors from stealing, infidelity, physical abuse and a whole lot more.

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According to Attorney Gbinkpe, most of these online scammers know it is easy to get a visa to the US when you date a citizen. So, they use that as a trick to get into the US and when they arrive that’s when they start abusing the relationship that helped them to get here. “I have advised most of my clients to stop searching for love online because it doesn’t always end well. I’ve also been in divorce courts with some of these clients and it’s not always a delightful story to write home about, Attorney Gbinkpe said.”