Posted in Blogroll by angela on the January 23rd, 2009

I have been working in PR for many years and have had many successes. I felt that I was an integral part of the growth and made an impact on the positive transitions that my talents afforded my company’s owners as well as our customers. I honored our clients and valued my colleagues. Still something always kept me from feeling satisfied and settled about working for these companies. Recently I was up late working on a bylined article for one of our clients – College Planning ABC. Manuel Fabriquer, the founder of the company, assists parents and students in securing financial aid and free money for college. It hit me when I was describing how the time has come for parents, like me, to start getting creative about figuring out how we will pay for college. I realized that what I lacked in my past positions was true passion. I may have cared but never had this wonderful feeling of purpose – of responsibility for the lifeblood of my clients. In turn our (both my and my clients’) success had become my passion when I realized I was working late for MY client – who had put his faith in Media Owls. 

June 2nd, 2009

Remember the day you brought home your new child and thought, “This is the BEST day, ever! I am going to love being a parent,” then the baby pooped, at which point you realized that this precious child is going to be nothing but hard, stinky work and is going to be the costliest decision you’ve ever made?

Oakland Tribune, Aug 5, 2007 by Aaron Swarts

TRACY -- For parents like Anna Mendoza, the soaring costs of a college education is enough to keep them pacing the floors in the wee hours of the morning.

Her daughter is preparing to enter her second year at a private college, leaving Mendoza and her husband wondering how they are going to pay for more than $40,000 a year in tuition.

"We have had many sleepless nights lately," she said. "My husband and I have been stressing about the situation so much we actually considered sending her back to Delta College."

Enter Certified College Planning Specialist Manuel Fabriquer of College Planning ABC in Tracy.

College planning consultant Manuel Fabriquer’s voicemail is full, and his day calendar is inked with appointments — an indication that the deadline for college-bound students to apply for financial aid is just six days away.

Fabriquer recently launched College Planning ABC, one of the only college consulting firms around Tracy. Parents of prospective college students from as far as Hayward packed six of Fabriquer’s free college planning workshops during the past two months....