Evergreen Realty Launches New Website to Challenge Real Estate Search Giants

San Clemente, CA (PRWEB) November 11, 2011

Evergreen Realty contracted web design agency blazonco to design and program a website that would outperform standard brokerage sites and hold its own against major property search portals like Realtor.com, Trulia.com, and others. The new site meets a wide array of buyer and agent needs by providing innovative property and agent search features in a format that is professional, powerful, and fun to use.

Evergreen's website allows visitors to search real estate listings across the California Regional MLS, one of the largest providers of listing information in the state, and displays search results in a clean, minimalist layout that allows for easy browsing and quick viewing of photos via a thumbnail gallery. Relevant properties are shown in a unique grid format rather than a list, a feature that places more listings above the fold for rapid viewing.

The website features drag-and-reload Google Maps integration, which allows visitors to scroll through an embedded map on the search page and watch regional property listings load in real time. This functionality allows for an incredibly intuitive, user-friendly real estate search experience that is presently matched only by major sites like Redfin.com and Zillow.com. Evergreen is the first traditional brokerage to feature drag-and-reload map technology on its company website.

The website also makes it easier than ever for visitors to locate and contact any of Evergreen's more than 900 agents. Additional functionality allows Evergreen to capture and display user-generated reviews and ratings for all agents, making the site an invaluable portal for up-to-date information about real estate professionals across California.

The website is built entirely on blazonco's proprietary content management system, which features inline page editing and a drag-and-drop module structure that together allow Evergreen executives to easily edit page elements and make changes across the site. In the future, blazonco will provide individual websites for all Evergreen agents built on this same CMS, providing unity, stability, security, and enhanced marketing options to the entire brokerage.

With the launch of its new website, Evergreen Realty and Associates is positioned to streamline the home purchase process and make real estate search more intuitive and engaging for buyers.

About Evergreen Realty

Since 1993, Evergreen Realty and Associates, Inc. has been serving the needs and meeting the expectations of thousands of home buyers, sellers and investors throughout California. Whether youre a rst-time or experienced home buyer, seller or investor, our REALTORS and professional staff understand that the most important attributes of any real estate transaction are your needs, interests and goals! For more information, visit evergreenrealty.net.

About blazonco

With over fourteen years of experience serving businesses of all sizes, blazonco has developed a suite of robust design and marketing services, including web design, branding, internet marketing, SEO, social media, and PPC management. We help businesses succeed online. Learn more at blazonco.com.

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New England Venture Capital Association Launches CriticalMass Co-Working Space for Entrepreneurs at Cambridge Innovation Center

Boston, MA (PRWEB) March 1, 2011

CriticalMass, a Boston area co-working space powered by the New England Venture Capital Association, launched today at the Cambridge Innovation Center. CriticalMass is the only dedicated workspace designed exclusively for promising start-ups which has the full backing and support of the regional venture trade group and a syndicate of some of New Englands most well-respected venture capital firms, including Bain Capital Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Highland Capital Partners, and North Bridge Venture Partners.

While co-working spaces like this have become more commonplace in New England, said James Nahirny, current chairman, New England Venture Capital Association, and managing director, Bain Capital Ventures, none to date have had the active participation and support of the regional venture trade association, as well as from a group of sponsoring firms, that collectively have 88 investors based in Massachusetts, a network of more than 130 portfolio companies in New England, and nearly $ 10 billion in capital under management. Our shared goal is to make CriticalMass a premiere address of promising startups in the region, and the country.

CriticalMass will provide early stage entrepreneurs with a place to work, learn, collaborate and start new companies. However, CriticalMass will go beyond a typical co-working space because it will bring together a broad cross-section of the Boston area start-up community experienced technology leaders, first time entrepreneurs and investors-- to drive new company creation without an expectation that all the related startup activity needs to be or will be venture-backed.

CriticalMass is one of a series of new initiatives by the New England Venture Capital Association to more actively support and engage entrepreneurs in the region, said Jamie Goldstein of North Bridge Venture Partners and the Associations president. The Association is a platform for more than 80 member firms to advance our collective interest in helping the regions best ideas and brightest entrepreneurs thrive right here in the Northeast.

New England Venture Capital Association members, staff and the venture firm sponsors will spend time at CriticalMass, providing regular programming, as well as informal interaction with and mentoring of entrepreneurs in the space. Each premier sponsoring firm will own a huddle, a conference room space branded by them, open to all, but serving as a location for that firm to regularly meet and interact with entrepreneurs. All Association member firms are encouraged to participate in CriticalMass and should contact Nancy Saucier at saucier (at) openapurpledoor (dot) com or 617-595-8760 for more information about how to get involved.

CriticalMass adds to an increasingly vibrant set of entrepreneur support efforts in New England, said Nancy Saucier, executive director of the New England Venture Capital Association. We look forward to doing our part to nurture and think creatively about building the regions start-up success.

Any entrepreneur is welcome to utilize CriticalMass facilities at the Cambridge Innovation Center for $ 250 per month. Venture sponsors will have the opportunity to defray CriticalMass fees for at least 48 entrepreneurs per year.

Entrepreneurs considering locating at CriticalMass can contact Anna Whitlock at Whitlock(at)cictr(dot)com or 617-758-4200 for more information and a tour.

Press should contact Laura Beck for opportunities to talk with New England Venture Capital Association or the involved venture partners, and details about an upcoming March 31st launch event.

About New England Venture Capital Association

Established and run by venture capital investors in the area, New England Venture Capital Association is the region's premier organization to promote venture capital investing and entrepreneurship in New England. With more than 700 venture capital professionals from more than 80 firms, our members collectively manage more than $ 50 billion in capital.

In addition to CriticalMass, NEVCA hosts a VC Unplugged informational Q&A session and one-on-one Office Hours every other week at the Venture Caf

Oreck Launches Days of Giving Sweepstakes, Contest Offers Multiple Chances to Win Oreck Products and $10,000 Grand Prize Over 31 Days

Nashville, TN (PRWEB) November 12, 2011

Just in time for the holidays, Oreck is making the season more magical by offering consumers a months worth of chances to win a daily prize, as well as a $ 10,000 grand prize. The Oreck Days of Giving sweepstakes runs from November 9 through December 9, 2011.

Days of Giving offers easy ways to enter, daily prizes and the chance for a $ 10,000 grand prize. We invite you to celebrate the season with 31 days of chances to win an Oreck vacuum, steam mop or air purifiereven our new products are included, says Scott Vogel, Chief Marketing Officer, Oreck.

Sweepstakes participants must log on every day for a chance to win that days prize: a vacuum cleaner, steam mop or air purifier from Orecks line-up which also includes brand new products. Logging on daily also affords another chance to win the $ 10,000 grand prize.

Participants can gain additional chances to win by engaging in social media activities including tweeting about the contest, posting it on Google Plus, sharing it with up to five friends via email from the sweepstakes site and signing up for Orecks email list.

Each day during the sweepstakes period, Oreck will select a winner to receive a prize from one of these categories: upright vacuums, steam mops or air purifiers.

Visit http://www.OreckDaysofGiving.com for details.

About Oreck

Headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., Oreck Corporation is a leading manufacturer in the homecare industry, offering a variety of vacuum, air purification and other cleaning products. Oreck sells its products in hundreds of Oreck Clean Home Centers, as well as through phone and online direct sales. The company distributes products in the U.S., Canada and parts of Europe. For more information, please visit http://www.oreck.com.

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Prestimedia Launches the Integrated Shopping in Interactive Catalog On iPad

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) July 14, 2011

Prestimedia is a leader in the creation of interactive catalogs, backed by more than 17,000 interactive catalogs made for the web for larger brands. Today Prestimedia announces the significant evolution of its concept CustomPad dedicated to the tablet devices, primarily the iPad. http://www.prestimedia.com/index.php/en/custom-pad-modular/

Renowned specialist in the transformation of paper catalogs into interactive catalogs, Prestimedia expands its range of advanced features for the iPad with the new iShop module. CustomPad already features many modules, including Catalog, Store Locator, Video, Slideshow, Hot Spot, News and Web Content modules. With the addition of the iShop module, customers can shop directly from the CustomPad catalog application, without navigating between the app and websites.

The iShop module built into our CustomPad concept offers a new shopping experience: it is fast, fluid, and, above all, pleasurable, says Isabelle Ciacchella, head of Prestimedia Inc. CustomPad is, indeed, very simple and intuitive, which allows one to browse and buy from an iPad catalog from the comfort of ones couch.

Catalogs and iPads are a perfect combination: the growing number of aggregated apps for catalogs on the iPad is a proof. CustomPad takes the experience further with customized branded apps. The iPad is a magnificent setting for the communication of our customers; the return image of seduction of the CustomPad brand is significant, said Isabelle. The CustomPad app for the Becquet catalog is a good illustration: http://www.prestimedia.fr/index.php/en/becquet_1/

We cover all the market needs in the same way we do on the web: from simple information consultation, through the communication between website and catalog with well-placed hotspots, and integrated purchases. Critical information such as pricing and product availability is dynamically linked to the website and maintained in real time. It was already exclusively on the web; now it is the same on the iPad, explains Gauthier Paris, co-owner of Prestimedia.

Our philosophy is to integrate existing elements (PDFs, videos, etc.), and seamlessly interface them so our customers do not have to develop a specific ordering process that would be costly and time-consuming, adds Paris.

In Prestimedias iShop concept, the retailers shopping cart and ordering process are used to accommodate the orders generated by the catalog on the iPad.

This gives our CustomPad projects an unbeatable quality, price, and lead-time; just like the interactive catalog web projects we undertake with an unparalleled return quality, concludes Paris.

For more information about the CustomPad concept, browse the interactive brochure here: http://www.prestimedia.net/docs/Apps_custompad/appli.htm

About Prestimedia:

Prestimedia Inc, located in San Jose, CA, is a sister company of Prestimedia, headquartered in France. Prestimedia is the leader for interactive catalogs and is the preferred turn key solution provider for more than 500 customers, from Fortune 500 customers like Office Depot, Staples, Toys R Us, Sephora, and many smaller businesses.

Prestimedias website: http://www.prestimedia.com

Contacts

Isabelle Ciacchella

Tel: (408) 621-8589

E-mail: iciacchella(at)prestimedia(dot)com

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"The Recipe" Launches with 2 NYC Events May 10th/11th - Events Spotlight Entrepreneurial Leadership and Teamwork

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 27, 2010

AMA Enterprises and CorePurpose Publishing today announced a private VIP and Media Event to honor three exemplary examples of leadership and teamwork: Lynn Tilton of Patriarch Partners, Monica Crowley of Fox News, and Ken Colburn of Data Doctors.

A serial entrepreneur and pioneer in the earth and human friendly products movement, Antonetti rose to national attention as a mom who when solving a life threatening problem for her child, came across a solution that not only solved her familys problem, but birthed a national brand of green products. A popular speaker, entrepreneurial commentator, and guest on programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The BIG Idea with Donny Deutsch, and Fox Strategy Room, she was amazed at how often the challenges related to teamwork and leadership popped up in her discussions. Her answer can be found in The Recipe: A fable for leaders and teams where shares the lessons learned along her own journey.

So often, events like this are all about the author and the book, shared Joan Koerber-Walker, Chairman of CorePurpose, Inc. and publisher of The Recipe. As we began to plan the event, it was apparent that we needed something different and fitting to share The Recipes message. What could be better than evenings that focus on the books core messages leadership and teamwork.

We wanted to have a great cross section from different parts of the country and different industries representing companies of all sizes added Antonetti. We needed to demonstrate what The Recipe is all about not just talk about it. Now more than ever, we need leaders and teams along with great examples to inspire us all..

Not your typical leadership love fest, the featured leaders from across the country will each bring their own unique perspective on leadership and teamwork to the back-to-back evening events. In the words of Leadership Honoree Lynn Tilton "Americans hunger for authentic leaders who will provide them with truth and a path paved with direction and promise. Truth is cold and hard but it is also the first step towards hope and salvation.

Clario Analytics Launches Clario Core

(PRWEB) July 20, 2011

Clario Analytics, a leading expert in cloud-based marketing analytics for multi-channel retailers, today debuts Clario Core, an out-of-the-box solution that provides marketers with an affordable way to manage their customer interactions and drive more profitable relationships. Clario Core is a secure, cloud-powered analytical platform that transforms raw customer data into actionable, customer-level intelligence. In conjunction with this announcement, the company has launched a new website (http://www.clarioanalytics.com) and branding campaign to reflect Clario Analytics strategy to become a larger player in the marketing analytics market.

Today we are ushering in a new era of affordable, easy-to-use packaged applications that are specifically designed to address the most challenging issues faced by a wide range of marketers, said Matt Redlon, Clario Analytics CEO and co-founder. Clario Core delivers clear, concise solutions to real-world problems by putting a flexible toolset directly in the hands of marketers, allowing them to make decisions based on evidence, not intuition. With Clario Core, marketers will be able to craft their future marketing campaigns with more knowledge about how to drive purchase and be able to focus on their most profitable long-term customer relationships.

Unlike general-purpose business intelligence and analytic tools, Clario Core provides the expertise to help marketers create reusable templates backed by industry best practices. The Clario Core Solution is backed by an expert team of retail industry veterans, marketing strategists, analysts and operational talent that help marketers realize the full potential of their own unique data environment. Clario Cores Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription model offers anytime availability and scalability to address any size business problem while benefiting marketing organizations with a predictable budget, lower capital investment and minimal IT intervention.

Clario Core Delivers Clear, Actionable Insight for Marketers

According to James Taylor, president of Decision Management Consulting and industry expert, Clario is tapping into a real market need to speed the adoption of predictive analytics in marketing. By introducing packaged applications that address critical marketing needs, and by supporting these applications with deep industry expertise, they can help marketers rapidly adopt the analytics they need to deliver more insightful and targeted campaigns.

Out-of-the-box Workflow Templates Automate the Analytical Process

Clario helps marketers create reusable templates that are quickly deployed via a cloud-powered SaaS environment. Clario Core templates can be configured to capture customer-level intelligence that resides in data such as: transactions, demographics, Web analytics, and lifestyle information. Five standardized applications targeted at multi-channel retailers are available, including:

Modeling Rich attributes, efficient predictive model development and scoring

Campaign Reporting Quick and effective campaign performance monitoring, including revenue attribution models

Customer Migration Reporting Measure and monitor the size and potential of a marketers customer inventory

Future Value Reporting Long-term value (LTV) estimates for strategic customer segments

Selection Fast, easy list creation matches customers with relevant offers

New Website Launched with Clario Core Information

Clario has launched a new website with detailed Clario Core information, literature, spec sheets, and white papers to help clients learn more about how marketing analytics can empower their decision-making. Also featured on the new website is an Introduction to Clario video featuring Matt Redlon, CEO and co-founder, who shares the companys vision for the next generation of marketing analytics. Visit http://www.clarioanalytics.com for more information.

Pricing and Availability

Clario Core is available now and priced via a monthly subscription that depends on the size of your enterprise. Each optional Clario Core Application is available for an initial configuration charge and minimal monthly support fees.

About Clario Analytics

Clario Analytics develops and markets analytic marketing solutions via a cloud-powered, Software-as-a-Service deployment model. Clario brings unique insight into customer behavior through sophisticated analytics and world-class expertise. Clario Core transforms raw customer data into actionable, customer-level intelligence, allowing marketers to create more personalized programs and profitable results. Clario Stream is a powerful contact optimization engine that helps increase both marketing efficiency and effectiveness, while improving customer interactions. For more information visit our website at http://www.clarioanalytics.com or call 952-653-0980 or 866-849-3341.

Clario is a registered trademark of Clario Analytics. All other trademarked names are the property of their respective owners.

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Former Goldman Sachs Exec Launches Hospitality Industry Asset Management and Transaction Advisory Firm

New York, NY (PRWEB) May 11, 2011

This morning, Steven M. Angel, a former Managing Director within Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division, announced the formation of Fulcrum Hospitality LLC (Fulcrum), an asset management and advisory services firm focused on the lodging and gaming industries.

Leveraging Mr. Angels 20-plus year background in the hospitality industry spanning principal investing, investment oversight, consulting, operations and equity research, Fulcrum will focus on assisting both institutional and individual investors in identifying and analyzing prospective hotel and casino investment opportunities, as well as maximizing the value of existing equity and debt portfolios.

As performance metrics improve across key markets globally and capital markets continue to ease, a clear opportunity exists for Fulcrum Hospitality to assist its clients in executing operational and investment strategies designed to enhance the performance and value of lodging and gaming assets, Mr. Angel stated. These same tactics can be leveraged during the diligence of potential transactions to recognize and exploit value opportunities amid highly competitive asset bidding processes.

Mr. Angels unique background positions him well to lead this venture, having played an integral leadership role in the acquisition and subsequent oversight of several billion dollars of hotel and casino investments both in his role at Goldman Sachs as well as his most recent post as a Principal at Highgate Hotels, a preeminent investment and management firm with which Fulcrum will maintain a strategic relationship. Mr. Angel also formerly served as a licensed gaming principal and Chairman of the Board of American Casino & Entertainment Properties, whose assets include the 2,400-room Stratosphere Las Vegas.

These accomplishments combined with Mr. Angels previous work in equity research at Lehman Brothers, as a Managing Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and in hotel operations with dominant brands such as The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, suggest that Fulcrum is primed to become an industry leading advisor.

Contact: Steven M. Angel, 908-998-1400, sangel{at}fulcrumhospitality{dot}com

Tech Leader, Lisa Gansky, Launches The Mesh Directory, the Essential Guide to the New Sharing Economy

Napa, CA (PRWEB) July 7, 2010

Lisa Gansky, co-founder and CEO of multiple Internet companies, including GNN and Ofoto, today launched The Mesh Directory (http://www.meshing.it), the companion website to her forthcoming book, The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing. In The Mesh, being published by Portfolio / Penguin Group in Fall 2010, Gansky reveals how there is real money to be made and trusted brands and strong communities to be built in helping customers buy less but use more.

The Mesh Directory is being launched as a compilation of more than 1500 businesses worldwide that are helping to create the sharing economy by using technology to give people convenient access to goods and services. With the goal of expanding the Mesh that Gansky describes in her book, the directory invites participation from Mesh businesses to connect to one another. Additionally, by providing an official platform for declaring themselves a Mesh business, companies are able to validate their participation in a movement that venture capitalist David Hornik of August Capital says is important for anyone who cares about the planet or is looking to make a ton of money.

Businesses as big as Netflix and as small as a guy in LA who rents Christmas trees, have figured out that access trumps ownership, said Lisa Gansky, author of The Mesh and creator of The Mesh Directory. At a time when were increasingly conscious of how weve raced through our personal, financial, and environmental assets, The Mesh provides a blueprint for reshaping how businesses go to market while improving our communities and our planet.

From gifts and gardening to education and energy, The Mesh Directory provides a searchable index of the companies that are creating, sharing and using social media, wireless networks, and data crunched from every available source to provide people with goods and services at the exact moment they need them, without the burden and expense of owning them outright.

Examples of well-known Mesh companies include Zipcar, FedEx, Amazon Web Services, and craigslist. Other lesser-known companies found in the book and the directory, include:

The Most Addictive Mobile App on the Planet, Opinionaided, Launches on Android

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 20, 2011

Mobile question-and-answer company Opinionaided today announces that its popular app is now available on Android phones. The launch will continue to grow the companys highly engaged user base, which spends an average of over two and a half hours using the app each month.

Opinionaided is the fastest way to share and receive opinions and advice. On average, responses start to arrive only six seconds after being shared and users receive between 50 and 100 responses overall. The company is finding that its user base consists of people who are augmenting their traditional social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, with its opinion-based community to get unbiased, honest feedback in real-time.

How it works:

1. Anyone can download the free Opinionaided Android app from the Android Market to start asking and answering questions in a variety of categories, such as relationships, sports, politics, fashion and technology.

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Online Reputation Management Launches New Service to Tackle Negative Spam Posted Online by Competitors

New York, NY (PRWEB) November 13, 2011

Online Reputation Management has launched a new service to proactively tackle the increasing amount of negative spam that companies have to deal with. Online Reputation Management focuses on repairing and managing the online reputations of businesses and individuals alike. A bit of bad press, online or off, goes a long way and can have a major impact on the revenues of a business or the success of an individual.

Negative spamming is when negative reviews, articles or other commentary are posted online by a competitor or someone with intent to harm. The majority of negative spam posted about online businesses by competitors is usually posted on industry related forums or online review websites. Sites such as Yelp, City Search, Google Maps, and even RipOffReport.com are frequent targets. As people are increasingly relying on information they find on the Internet, Online Reputation Management is one of a limited number of companies that are able to tackle the issue of negative spamming.

This new service has already proved to be a huge success. Online Reputation Management has worked with several companies on this issue and succeeded in having almost all negative spam reviews removed. Most recently they worked with a company owning a small chain of restaurants that needed help in dealing with false negative reviews. The upscale restaurant chain was being targeted by a competitor on a range of review websites. Online Reputation Management successfully proved the reviews to be false, and the negative posts were ultimately removed from the popular review websites.

According to management, the restaurant company (which cannot be named for legal reasons) saw an immediate increase in online bookings once the reviews were removed. Businesses particularly the more traditional, offline businesses often underestimate the power of these online review websites. Even if your business itself does not operate online, it is likely to be partially reliant on and susceptible to the effects of reviews online. And just as in the offline world, a negative review tends to go a lot further than a positive one. When these negative reviews are false, it is additionally frustrating, noted Ed Eshel, Founder of Online Reputation Management.

Similarly to the offline world, with the right exposure just one negative review can have severe repercussions. Articles and comments posted online are immediately available to literally millions. Almost anyone can post a review about almost anything. It is very difficult for the reader and potential customer to decipher which online reviews are legitimate, and which reviews are deliberate spam from a competitor. Dealing with negative spam reviews is going to become increasingly common and necessary for businesses wanting to maintain a positive online presence.

About Online Reputation Management

Online Reputation Management is a top online reputation repair and management company leading the way in providing effective solutions to companies and individuals alike. Online Reputation Managements success lies in driving search results away from negative online reviews, removing online spam, and ensuring that search results and review sites will all highlight the positive reviews and information about you or your company. Online Reputation Management has an acute understanding of the importance of branding and consistent marketing and adheres to your companys unique and specific needs and style throughout all reputation repair or reputation management projects. With a proven track record of both short term and long term success, Online Reputation Management can resolve any online reputation issue your company may experience and help increase the volume and quality of your business.

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Top U.S. Childrens Wall Art Manufacturer, Oopsy Daisy, Fine Art For Kids Launches Retail Website And Charitable Giving Campaign

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) November 22, 2011

Just in time for holiday shopping and seasonal giving, Oopsy daisy, Fine Art For Kids launches a retail e-commerce site filled with great gifts, with the added bonus of effective charitable giving. For every retail order received on the site, the childrens wall d