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Soldiers' Angels Receives Donation of 180,000 Holiday Cards for Soldiers to Write Home

Worldwide Music Wholesaler Super D Signs Exclusive Distribution Agreement With CD Baby to Distribute to Retailers Worldwide

Super D, a Worldwide Music Wholesaler has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Internet retailer CD Baby to distribute CD Baby’s 160,000 unique titles of independent artists’ music to retailers worldwide. CD Baby has over 128,000 artists who have consigned their CDs to be sold on CD Baby and now these independent artists have worldwide distribution to retailers through Super D. CD Baby gave the independent artists an opportunity to offer and sell their product online and now the artists have a distribution channel to retailers worldwide.... (Continue reading)

WhatCounts Professional Services Organization Demonstrates Impressive Growth in 2007

WhatCounts, Inc., a leader in comprehensive e-communication programs, announced today the outstanding 2007 revenue growth results for its professional services organization. With almost 800% year-over-year growth, the WhatCounts team is well positioned to perpetuate the impressive growth through 2008.

"Despite the fact that 2008 is almost upon us, there are email marketers who still continue to maintain stale, under-performing programs," said Justin Foster, Vice President of Professional Services for WhatCounts. "WhatCounts' team of experienced email marketing professionals focuses exclusively on enhancing program quality and delivering on the true ROI potential of online communications. Marketing teams of all sophistication levels are becoming aware of the need to focus on the strategic delivery of relevant and personalized e-communications."... (Continue reading)

TopUSAJobs.com Strengthens Management Team With Two Top Executive Appointments

TopUSAJobs.com, the first performance-based, cost-per-click job board, today announced the appointment of Amy Noah and Bill Smith to the positions of National Account Executives.

"Over the last 18 months, TopUSAJobs.com has grown to become one of the nations top job boards, listing more than 250,000 jobs for all professions across the USA," said Don Firth, president. "To continue our expansion, we are delighted to appoint two National Account Executives who both have extensive background and experience in the Job Board and online recruiting business."... (Continue reading)

Internet Bar Code Service Sends People Direct to Web Pages by Entering Bar Code Numbers

People type a bar code number into a search box at keyword.com, click 'GO', and go direct to a web page that the bar code owner has specified. keyword.com enables bar code owners to use their existing bar codes in a new way - for information, instruction, customer service, advertising, marketing, promotion, brand awareness, and for numerous other purposes.

In its straightforward simplicity, Bar Code Service enables a wide spectrum of supply chain, consumer, and industrial applications that are easily implemented, and extremely flexible. You may see or hear the words "enter the bar code at keyword.com" late in this holiday season - very late - since one of the many benefits of keyword.com Bar Code Service is last-minute promotion and near-immediate set-up.... (Continue reading)

Instant Real Estate Nnewsletter Transforming the Way Real Estate Professionals Target Prospects

InstantRealEstateNewsletter.com, a realty newsletter publisher, is putting efficiency and affordability back into the real estate marketing equation with its Instant Real Estate Newsletter. Designed with time-pressed real estate agents in mind, InstantRealEstateNewsletter.com is the frazzled real estate agents best friend. After filling out a brief questionnaire, subscribers to the service will instantly be delivered a professionally worded and crafted newsletter, one that is print-ready for immediate customer delivery, all with only a five-minute time investment involved. Best of all, the newsletter is 100% customized to the individual real estate professionals needs. Real estate agents who are interested in trying out Instant Real Estate Newsletter on their clients/prospects can sign up for a $1 thirty-day trial at www.InstantRealEstateNewsletter.com.... (Continue reading)

Link Between Creativity and Office Design Going Unnoticed: Experts Warn of Risk to UK Business

New research has revealed that British companies rank inspiring workforce creativity and innovation as their lowest priority when planning the working environment, despite calls from the government and industry leaders imploring companies to harness and propagate a creative economy.

An independent survey of the directors of medium-to-large businesses across the UK, commissioned by workplace transformation specialist Morgan Lovell, revealed that 7 out of 10 businesses do not consider the impact of office interior design, and therefore the working environment in inspiring creativity among the workforce.... (Continue reading)

THAT Agency Introduces Spanish to ParadisusPuntaCana.travel

THAT Agency, a leading Florida Web design and online marketing firm, recently introduced Paradisus Punta Cana's website, ParadisusPuntaCana.travel, with a Spanish translation to all content. Visitors can now switch between languages for a more worthwhile and familiar Web experience. Paradisus Punta Cana's decision to adopt this new service came as a response to the mounting traffic ParadisusPuntaCana.travel was receiving from an international Hispanic demographic. With the addition of the translated website, the hotel is capable of catering to potential customers in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.... (Continue reading)

Small Business Owners Drowning in Too Much Information

On the Internet information abounds, it is easy for the average small business owner to go on information overload while looking for important information critical to running their company. Many small business owners spend more time searching for the right information and solutions than managing their businesses. This information overload can actually stop the SBO from taking action because of not knowing what action to take.

"I've spent literally hundreds of hours looking for solutions for my own small business," says Melody Campbell, small business owner herself. "Sometimes the answer would be easy to find, and sometimes it would take me days. What a waste of time! I thought there must be an easier way!"... (Continue reading)

SmileOnMyMac Acquires Textpander, the Customizable Typing Timesaver Tool

SmileOnMyMac has acquired Textpander, the customizable typing timesaver tool, from developer Peter Maurer. The utility, which lets users define abbreviations for frequently-used text strings and images, will be updated and released as part of the SmileOnMyMac product line shortly.

The update will include new features, and a modified product name, TextExpander. Specific features, release date and price have not been finalized.

"As Textpander users ourselves, we've seen how much time and effort it saves us," said Greg Scown, co-founder of SmileOnMyMac. "Besides customizing our tech support responses and automating coding, it's great for all the little things we'd otherwise have to type out each time we use them, like product names or today's date."... (Continue reading)

Dutch Leather Design Launches Global Leather Fashion Website

Dutch Leather Design has collaborated with Ines Gloves Europe to present creative and inventive leather designs online. For the first time, exclusive Dutch leather designs are available to the international public. This global launch demonstrates the company’s commitment to embrace leather and fashion within the online sphere. It is an amazing collection of several creative designers from the Netherlands that deserves a big hug because the public now has access to the finest leather fashions in the world.... (Continue reading)

Industrial Nanotech,Inc. Announces Expansion into South Africa - Expects Electricity Crisis to Create Opportunities for Nansulate®

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:INTK), an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, announced today that the Company's exclusive African distributor, Megaros Industrial Products, has expanded its presence on the African Continent by signing an agreement with Copper Sunset Trading 440 Pty Ltd of Johannesburg to represent the Company's patented Nansulate® energy saving coatings in the country of South Africa.

"The appointment of Copper Sunset Trading to represent Nansulate in South Africa will open new markets in this region where energy conservation has become a top priority," stated Francesca Crolley, V.P. Operations & Marketing, "South Africa recently announced rationing of electricity in order to ease power outages that have negatively affected both businesses and neighborhoods, so this is an area where Nansulate coatings can make an immediate impact by reducing energy consumption. We are pleased to have this opportunity to assist in the region's economic growth and establishment of an environmentally safe infrastructure and improved living environment."... (Continue reading)

Minitab Listed Among 25 Best Companies to Work For

Minitab Inc., a leading developer of statistical and process improvement software, has been named to the list of the 25 Best Companies to Work for in America in the small business category.

This annual list, now in its sixth year, ranks the top 25 small- and medium-sized companies in America that use smart people-management strategies to develop successful organizations with highly productive and satisfied workforces.

The list was announced before an audience of more than 15,000 at the Society for Human Resource Management's (SHRM) 61st Annual Conference and Exposition in New Orleans.... (Continue reading)

101 Easy Ways To Use Google's New Website Optimizer to "Explode Your Profit"

Google's new "Website Optimizer" tool allows website owners to test different versions of their site to see which is best at "converting" visitors into customers. But it doesn't tell them what to test. A new report by Conversion Rate Experts reveals 101 easy ways to use Google Website Optimizer to greatly increase a website's profitability.

The report reveals...

- Why 2007 will be the year of "The Conversion Rate Wars" between websites.

- The three instant changes that most website owners could make to increase their website's conversion rate.... (Continue reading)

U.S Tech Organization Demands Retraction, Apology for Articles Implicating it in Death of Microsoft Contractor

Scott Kirwin is the president and founder of IT Professionals Association of America, Inc. (ITPAA). The ITPAAs purpose is a political organization to help preserve and improve American information technology professions in the United States. (http:// www.itpaa.org) The web site of ITPAA offers the public information on how many American developed high tech jobs have been offshored. It also provides information on the employment of foreign nationals in the USA and what Americans can do to lawfully become engaged in exercising their US Constitutional rights of Free Speech and seeking government redress.... (Continue reading)

Upcoming Woman's World Article Validates Vinegar Power: Mother's Helper for Mother's Day

A new human interest story will be published in "Woman's World," The Woman's Weekly magazine, June 5 issue (available the last week of May at grocery stores and drugstores nationwide) shedding light on a middle-aged wife, and dedicated mom of three boys, two dogs and two cats. The versatile powers of apple cider vinegar helped this woman to healthy up, slim down. Not only did she drop unwanted pounds--she's got a new, fresh attitude to enjoy for the upcoming spring and summer months.

Author Cal Orey (www.calorey.com) believes "The Healing Powers of Vinegar: A Complete Guide to Nature's Most Remarkable Remedy," may be the perfect gift for women this Mother's Day May 13th. According to Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., apple cider vinegar is a notable fat burner year-round. "A couple of ounces of apple cider vinegar a day will put the lid on your appetite because you will be far less hungry and far less bloated," she said in Orey's book.... (Continue reading)

Alice Waters' Socially Conscious Chef Career Highlighted at ChefSchoolReview.com

ChefSchoolReview.com's current Spotlight article describes the chef training and career path of Alice Waters, who built a passion for socially conscious food and agriculture into a distinguished career with far-reaching effects on society (http://chefschoolreview.com/blog/2007/06/chef_spotlight_alice_waters.html). ChefSchoolReview.com is a top online guide to culinary education that features links to top culinary arts schools and articles.

"There is a profound disconnection between the kind of human experience that our society values, and the way we actually live our lives," writes Waters on the Chez Panisse site. Chef training--and a business-savvy partner--helped Waters create a culinary empire: an award-winning restaurant, a powerful foundation, eight top culinary cookbooks and decades of international recognition. Gourmet magazine named Chez Panisse "Best Restaurant in America" in 2001.... (Continue reading)

New Covenant to Care for Children Executive Director Invited to White House

Caryl Hallberg relocated from California to Connecticut in September 2007, becoming CEO of Covenant to Care for Children, a 22 year old state-wide nonprofit that mobilizes and channels the generosity of caring and faithful people to advocate for, mentor and provide direct services to the neglected, abused and at-risk children and youth of Connecticut. Connecticut is well known for being the wealthiest state in the union but few realize it has the four poorest cities in the USA.

"The challenges are huge, working with thousands of volunteers last year we served over 25,000 children, even so we are just scratching the surface of the need," stated Hallberg.... (Continue reading)

Tackling An Alarming Trend - the Increasing Number of Female Athlete Knee Injuries

Train2Change has become a Certified Clinical Site for Cincinnati SportsMedicine and Orthopaedic Centers, nationally acclaimed Sportsmetrics program. This 6 week program was designed to help athletes refine neuromuscular control of the lower limbs. The research conducted by Cincinnati SportsMedicine Research and Education Foundation has proven that females who participate in this jumping program are less likely to suffer a serious knee injury.

Experts from around the world have asked the question Why?" Under the direction of Frank R. Noyes, M.D., researchers at the nationally acclaimed Cincinnati SportsMedicine Research and Education Foundation have focused their efforts on neuromuscular differences between male and female athletes. Dr. Noyes states that our findings show two differences in females. First, there is a marked imbalance of strength and power between hamstrings and quadriceps in female athletes. Women tend to depend on ligaments to protect their knee joints after a jump rather than controlling the inward or outward slack with muscles. The second difference is that females land in a more valgus, or knock-kneed, position which increases the pressure on the knee joint."... (Continue reading)

C3Life.com to Support Get Your Guts in Gear's 210-Mile Midwest Ride

C3Life.com?, a community website for people with ostomies, their caregivers, and loved ones will be supporting Get Your Guts in Gear, Inc.'s inaugural Midwest bicycle ride - to take place October 2-4, 2009. Paris Purnell, moderator of the ostomy website's discussion forum, will be participating in the three-day, 210-mile ride and blogging about his experiences before, during, and after the event.

C3Life - Ostomy Online Community

Get Your Guts in Gear (GYGIG) seeks to empower the ostomy, Crohn's, and colitis communities while raising money for nonprofit organizations that support patients and educate the public about inflammatory bowel disease (IBD, the collective term for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease). IBD affects at least 1.4 million people in the United States.... (Continue reading)

Soldiers' Angels Receives Donation of 180,000 Holiday Cards for Soldiers to Write Home

Soldiers' Angels, the nation's largest volunteer-led non-profit military support organization, announced today its acceptance from ChristmasCardsDirect of a donation of 180,000 blank holiday cards, which will be delivered to all of the military men and women stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan to write home to their family and friends.

Soldiers' Angels is receiving 180,000 blank holiday cards for deployed soldiers to write home.

The blank holiday cards donation consists of a single design with a Season's Greetings theme, making it appropriate for the religiously diverse range of soldiers who are serving our country overseas.



ChristmasCardsDirect's holiday cards donation will be delivered to the deployed military personnel along with holiday care packages, coordinated by the Soldiers' Angels Wrapped in Holiday Spirit program. Each care package will also contain a personalized imprinted holiday card recently donated to Soldiers' Angels by GalleryCollection.com.... (Continue reading)