CEO, Alex Mardikan and the OBPGlobal team launch the NEW Services Website

Newly launched website for the Boutique Agency, #OBPGlobal (Optimized Business Partner Global) enables companies to work Smarter, Better and Faster.  

Visit www.OBPGlobal.com to learn more. 

OBPGlobal is a reliable outsource solution partner specializing in evaluating and enhancing clients' core business activities, brand support and lifestyle development.  The company delivers efficient and effective business solutions, leveraging on industry knowledge and expertise, scalability, resource and network through the strategic management of operating from three continents.



With an effective use of labor, technology and local resources OBPGlobal is able to save the time and energy that are otherwise would be spent in setting up and maintaining an in-house team directed to the competencies required.   Employing structure time-tested methodologies and advance development tools incorporated with creativity and innovation, supports deliverables of quality, efficient and cost-effective services for marketing, communication, technology, in-bound out-bound voice and non-voice support, web solution and back-office administrative functions. 

Areas of expertise that OBPGlobal offer, ranges from the immediate need of people, processes and infrastructure needed to the digital support and development for brands, products and campaigns ranging from:

Targeted Solution

Delivering maximum impact to target demographics.

Responsive Website Development

Let customers access your business in crossover platforms.

Mobile App Development

Reach more customers with a custom app.

Customer Service

Provide customers with real-time support 24/7, 365 days a year.

Product Design

Leverage your business from start to finish.

Information Security

Keep sensitive information in your computer network safe.

Online Marketing

Cultivate customer relationships by strengthening your brand.

Data Encoding

Speed up the backend process of your business.

Merchant Services

Create an eShop and offer efficient payment process solutions.

Brand Architecture

Innovative and rigorous approach to managing aspects of your brand.

#OBPG      #OBPGlobal      #OptimizedBusinessPartnerGlobal     #OneBigPartyGlobal  

www.obpglobal.com

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Looking back at 4H, it reminds me of the simple things and putting it all into perspective.  Like raising a calf for auction;  It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of commitment and a whole lot of love.

If you get lost and you loose track of  those things,  you loose track of yourself and I have defiantly have lost track along the way.   Life is like a long road.... you just got to keep going straight.  Man there are a lot of turns and I have taken quite of few of them... and I'm just trying to get back on a straight road.  

              A LOSS by Carlos Castano {click to listen}       

Again, at a loss for words.

It’s funny to own a space where thoughts are expected to come. To overcome. To reveal, and sometimes, to conceal.

There are far and too few of these beautiful moments.

Again, at a loss for words.

To sit in a room full of comings and goings, and never knowing when to say stop, or go, or just a little bit more.

There are far and too few of these beautiful moments.

Again, at a loss for words.

Belief in the right things at times unexpected. Fill a wall with ideas of yesterday’s lunch and last night’s worries- to a fault, to never forget, to always remember.

There are far and too few of these beautiful moments.

Again, at a loss for words.

Spread out like children on a field of half-dreaming, and half God-moments. God love. God safety. Nothing like the unmistakable feeling of face-first into madness. Guided and mapped out clarity.

There are far and too few of these beautiful moments.

Again, and again, and again a loss for words.

I am everything I always dreamed I would be. Sometimes more, often less, but never lacking. I am sure that this is exactly how it was meant to play out.

There are far and too few of these beautiful moments.

A deeper dive into the Sons Of Mariel

Sons of Mariel is New and has deep meaning just like its founding artists, which happen to be  my close friends and traveling fam:

 What happens when you take two talented musicians with unique ethnic backgrounds and combine them?   The product is the rich sound and meaning of the Sons of Mariel #SOM 

 

 The spirit of George Pajon from the Black Eye Peas and Diego Val from the Voice, and their  native countries Cuba and Peru, combined, to create something extraordinary.  This will be found throughout the new expected release from #SOM the Sons of Mariel album, The Great Divide. 

 

On April 5th, 1980 a few hundred Cubans marched into a Peruvian embassy in Havana seeking refuge attempting to gain diplomatic asylum. A few short weeks later, over 10,000 Cubans had crammed into the embassy. The government swiftly countered these acts and had military personnel block access to the embassy. These events helped trigger the Mariel Boatlift. The Mariel Boatlift was a mass emigration of Cubans leaving from Cuba’s Mariel Harbor to Florida. Cuban president Fidel Castro announced that anyone who wanted to leave Cuba could do as they pleased as long as they had someone to pick them up. The boat left from Mariel Harbor commenced soon after. By the time the boat left ended in October of 1980, over 125,000 Cubans had relocated to Florida.

 Keep a look out for the Sons of Mariel on tour : www.sonsofmariel.com

January 6, marks the time of Celebration and Festivity for Armenians

   Shnorhavor nor Dari yev soorp dzenoont

The holidays aren't over yet... as confusion of why Christmas Trees and festive lighting still twinkle through the night.  As I am Native American and Armenian, I celebrate not just the traditional date of December 25th where Saint Nick comes sledding along with a trail of reindeer delivering a bounty of gifts;  but also the traditional celebration of Christmas {Soorp Dzenoont} on January 6th, to my Orthodox heritage and Armenian culture.

This celebration is the events leading to the incarnation of Christ as it is recorded. The Theophany or Epiphany {Astvadz-a-haytnootyoon in Armenian} meaning the revelation of God, is the centralized theme through the season known as Christmas.  Major events that are rejoiced are the Nativity of Christ in Bethlehem and Baptism in the River Jordan. The day of this major feast in the Armenian Church is January 6th. A ceremony called "Blessing of Water" is conducted in the Armenian Church to commemorate Christ's Baptism.
Christmas being celebrated on December 25th was not established until the fourth century of the Roman Catholic Church, prior to that  all Christian churches celebrated Christ's birth on January 6th

      

According to Roman Catholic sources, the date was changed from January 6th to December 25th in order to override a pagan feast dedicated to the birth of the Sun which was celebrated on December 25th. At the time Christians used to continue their observance of these pagan festivities. In order to undermine and subdue this pagan practice, the church hierarchy designated December 25th as the official date of Christmas and January 6th as the feast of Epiphany. However, Armenia was not effected by this change for the simple fact that there were no such pagan practices in Armenia, on that date, and the fact that the Armenian Church was not a satellite of the Roman Church. 

When Pope Gregory XIII instituted the Gregorian calendar in 1582, some Armenians rejected the reforms and stuck instead to the old, Julian calendar.  Today Armenians living in the Holy Land still use the Julian calendar to determine their feast days. The Julian calendar is now a full thirteen days ahead of the Gregorian calendar. So, when these Armenians celebrate Christmas on January 6 according to the Julian calendar, the Gregorian calendar counts the day as January 19. In the Holy Land of Bethlehem services for Armenian Christians specially take place at the Church of the Nativity on January 19.