Charis Johnson : previous career part 2

As marketing executive/entrepreneur with her own company, SpinControl Marketing:

New multimedia marketing firm established in Winston-Salem

A new marketing firm is entering the Triad market with plans to offer business card-size CD-ROMs both to businesses and consumers.

SpinControl Marketing is owned and operated by Charis Johnson, a Winston-Salem native who is returning to the Triad after a career in television and multimedia production in Chapel Hill and Los Angeles.

Several Triad-area firms produce business card-sized CD-ROMs, usually marketed specifically to businesses. SpinControl will call their version the SpinCard.

Johnson said she will market the SpinCard both to the traditional business market and to consumers. SpinControl has designed templates consumers will be able to use to design their own cards with wedding pictures or baby pictures, for example, over the Internet.

SpinControl has three employees based in California, Johnson said. She expects to hire two sales people and two multimedia designers sometime after the company moves into offices at the Hewitt Business Center in Winston-Salem in December.