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Entertainment, Internet & Online, Media, Shopping, Society, Web 2.0

Having Taken the Internet by Storm Createlinkusa.com Is Launching a Month-Long Top Recruitment Strategy (August 15 through September 15, 2014)

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For Award Winners Writers, Journalists, Fellows, and Interns To Staff Its Newsroom & Blog – Investors Welcomed: 8-12-2014

Forget Everything You Knew About the Internet & Online Browsing & Shopping Home-based in Massachusetts – This Website is The Newest Best Thing on the Internet Today!

 

With an idea, a telephone, and a computer network, new entrepreneur, Marie Y. Winfield is revolutionizing the internet and challenging major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing, as well as Alexa Ranking. And based on its popularity among internet users and its exponentially increased traffic and engagement in its first year, createlinkusa.com stands alone as: What the Web Was Intended to Bring! Forget Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, EBay, and some of the biggest online news websites, U.S. and worldwide users, web designers, and online marketers, all agree that this website offers the most creative, innovative, and integrated approach to browsing and shopping on the internet and the worldwide web today.

In a safe and relaxing online setting, users enjoy shopping for unique products and items that cannot be found anywhere else in store or online. The site includes a Fashion Hub where visitors can browse the website Runway, purchase Red Carpet and New York-style fashion, designer gowns, cocktail and soiree dresses, and casual outfits designed by the website’s designer fashion, Jillian Winfield, a TMD graduate of the University of Rhode Island in Costume and Fashion Design. This Super Hero fashion designer is available to consult with clients on items to meet their style and taste, and she also works on location for theater and film projects.

The website’s Writing Services department offers a wide range of writing services, graphics, photo, and video production for businesses and individuals. Business plans, reports, speeches, dissertations, Grant proposals, news and blog articles, reviews, and webpage content can be produced on any subject, in any language, deadline from Coast to Coast. These services come with an extensive free library of literary, writing, and publishing resources, as well as free remote coaching to meet customers’ needs.

The website’s News-Views & Archives department is phenomenal and is likely to change how news and opinions are written and presented to readers online and in major newspapers, as well as through the electronic media. All news items are real, editor-produced and written for the on-the-go reader. The news is presented based on a print model of the Daily Show, and views and opinions are written with unique angles, and are objective but hard-hitting. The site’s Entertainment Page includes select games and video on the art, politics, science, culture, lifestyle, and events. The site’s Photo Gallery is a sports, art, celebrity, and culture and lifestyle enthusiasts’ hub with three pages of posters that can be customized for gifts and wall decor.

Invitations are now opened for the public to join the Website’s Philanthropic Circle in support of the company’s “Pass-it-Forward Crisis & Emergency Fund” for creative and project workers, such as writers, artists, designers, models and production crew, as well as low-wage workers, with a focus on new graduates, older workers, and those living away from their home base of support.

A limited number of investors will be accepted between now and December 15, 2014.
You may link in to this website via http://www.createlinkusa.com/

Contact Details: 17 Redspring Rd – Andover, MA 01810
888-388-7586
info@createlinkusa.com

Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Technology, Web 2.0

Shake-It-Up! Bar Drinks Re-imagined!

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Shake-It-Up!

Shake-It-Up! Bar Drinks Re-imagined!

SALEM, N.H. – June 23, 2014 – EvrApps, Inc. announces the availability of its newest iOS App, Shake-It-Up!, available now at the Apple App Store.  The free app allows users to build a bar with what they have on-hand and shows only the drinks they can actually make.

Shake-It-Up! allows users to serve up drinks in a fun Tiki Bar Setting and create their own custom bar by simply touching on the alcoholic or non-alcoholic ingredient and dragging it to their bar.  For their personal Shake-It-Up! experience they can also choose their own look from a variety of Tiki Backgrounds.  Once they create their bar they can touch the Shaker or simply give the device a Shake and Shake-It-Up! will display the drinks they can make.  Once their unique drinks are displayed they will have the option to filter the drinks by type, such as Shot, Punches, Highball, etc. touching the drink will show them to make it.  For that social experience, favorite drinks can be shared with friends and family via Facebook or Twitter!

“My vision was to empower people with a tool that would help them be the hit bartender at the party.  With Shake-It-Up! we did just that!”, said Mike Peters, Program Manager at EvrApps.  Mike continued by saying, “We have found that our users create bars with different ingredients for different reasons. For example, a bar with Mom’s favorite fruity drinks, a bar for Dad’s Whiskey favorites and don’t forget the non-alcoholic ones for grandma. We have truly empowered the bartender.”

With the free version, users will have the ability to create up to 3 bars for family members, friends or any event.  As your bar needs grow, additional bars can be purchased in packs of 3 or 10.  There is also a premium version available which includes the complete Shake-It-Up! Bar Book of over 6,000 drinks and 8 additional backgrounds.

“We understand that a liquor cabinet gets filled with bottles bought once, for some obscure drink,” explained Claudia Skilton, CEO, EverApps.  “With the great features in Shake-It-Up! now no one has to wonder what to do with those bottles, now they can Shake up a drink with what they have.”

Shake-It-Up! is now available to download for free from the Apple App Store. An ad free version can be purchased for $.99 and a premium version is available for $1.99. All versions are compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch and require iOS v6.0.1 or later.

For more information regarding Shake-It-Up!, to view screen shots or download the free app visit the Apple App Store.  For more information regarding EvrApps, Inc., please visit their website at www.evrapps.com.

About EvraApps, Inc.

EvrApps, Inc., headquartered in Salem, New Hampshire, is an app development company committed to providing simple easy to use apps for the mobile community.  It is the company’s goal to empower mobile users with easy to use apps that make a difference!

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Press Contact:
Claudia Skilton
EvrApps, Inc.
pr@evrapps.com
844-387-2777
http://www.evrapps.com

Internet & Online, Web 2.0

ServerPoint Announces the Release of New WordPress Hosting Packages

ServerPoint, a leading web hosting provider offering high quality web hosting services since 1998, has launched a new range of WordPress hosting plans, powered by ServerPoint’s custom-built cloud hosting platform. The new WordPress hosting service is optimized to provide unbeatable performance for WordPress users and includes everything customers need for running successful WordPress blogs.

“WordPress hosting package is the newest addition to ServerPoint’s cloud-based web hosting lineup,” says Erik Johnson, CTO at ServerPoint. “When we created our WordPress service, we followed our tradition to provide top performance, uptime and not cutting corners. The result is a robust product that allows customers to enjoy a simple and easy process of creating WordPress sites that are reliable, fast and secure, at a competitive price.”

The recently released WordPress hosting service uses ServerPoint’s cloud hosting infrastructure, fast servers and high capacity Internet uplinks to provide customers with the best WordPress hosting experience possible. The new service provides superior speed and scalability and is backed 24/7 by a team of WordPress experts from ServerPoint. With the new WordPress hosting packages, customers will be able to focus solely on content creation, while ServerPoint technicians handle the rest – from server set up to performance optimization.

“Our new WordPress hosting service is designed to give customers room to grow with higher server resources available as they upgrade,” says Erik Johnson. “From small WordPress blogs to enterprise level WordPress sites with high traffic loads and server-intensive themes and plugins, ServerPoint’s cloud-based WordPress service can handle the growth.”

Priced from only $4.16/month, WordPress hosting service from ServerPoint includes one-click WordPress deployment, daily backups, unlimited premium bandwidth, up to 50GBs SSD RAID disk space and other great features and extras. ServerPoint combines more than ten years’ experience in the hosting industry, best-in-class hosting infrastructure and expert technical support to provide a trusted hosting platform for WordPress users’ needs.

Customers interested in the new WordPress hosting offering are welcome to visit http://www.serverpoint.com/en/wordpress-hosting/ for more information.

About ServerPoint.

Established in 1998, ServerPoint is a respected web hosting company that offers the highest quality Linux and Windows web hosting services, dedicated server hosting and cloud VPS hosting services to thousands of customers worldwide. ServerPoint’s core values are aimed at providing customer-focused, high-performance web hosting services tailored to meet specific needs of each individual customer. With a fully redundant network, top quality server hardware and professional support, ServerPoint provides customers with improved service levels and a powerful and secure web hosting environment.
For more information about ServerPoint.com, visit www.serverpoint.com

 

Education, Software, Web 2.0

Raptivity to Unveil a New User Interface at DevLearn 2013 Conference and Expo

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From October 23-25, 2013, the Raptivity team will be present in Las Vegas, to participate in the DevLearn 2013 Conference and Expo. During the three days, conference attendees will be able to meet the Raptivity team at booth no. 324 where the brand new Raptivity User Interface will be unveiled.

DevLearn Conference & Expo is one of North America’s leading technology events focused on learning technologies. DevLearn 2013 has been specially designed for training and learning professionals who want to be on the leading edge of the emerging enabling technologies for training, learning, and performance support. DevLearn is a comprehensive showcase of leading tools, technologies, content, ideas, strategies, and best practices to ensure success whether you are new to eLearning or a well-seasoned expert.

Visitors to the Raptivity booth at DevLearn will get the first look at Raptivity’s new and improved user interface. The slick new user interface promises enhanced user experience and improved efficiency for creating interactions. Attendees will also get an opportunity to see the latest addition to Raptivity Evolve, ‘Find in Image’ along with other Evolve interactions like Visual Assessment, Drag-Drop-Sort and Character Dialog. In addition to this, representatives will demonstrate the latest version of Raptivity (7.6) that supports AS 3.0 which has enabled better performance and also makes the integration of Raptivity with third party authoring tools much easier.

Jamaica Glenn, Raptivity Valued Professional, who will be representing Raptivity at the DevLearn Conference, says, “We are glad to be part of such a prestigious event. DevLearn brings together world’s leading learning industry suppliers and it is always a pleasure to be there. Raptivity as a team has always been on the forefront of emerging technologies and innovations in eLearning. DevLearn 2013 Conference and Expo will be a platform for us to share the wide range of possibilities in eLearning courses enabled through interactivity and enhanced user experience.”

To setup an appointment with the Raptivity Team at the DevLearn 2013 Conference and Expo, visit http://www.raptivity.com/company/events?view=events

About The eLearning Guild and DevLearn:

The eLearning Guild is the oldest and most trusted source of information, networking, and community for eLearning Professionals. As a member-driven organization, the Guild produces conferences, online events, eBooks and research reports for the industry. DevLearn is one of the several conferences that the eLearning guild produces every year. It is by far, North America’s leading event focused on learning technologies. This event is designed for professionals who want to be on the leading edge of the emerging technologies in the training and learning industry.

Click here to know more about the conference.

About Raptivity

Raptivity® is a rapid interactivity builder that allows you to quickly and easily create learning interactions. It has a diverse variety of 180+ interactions to select from. Raptivity helps the educators and trainers to enrich their content with the well-designed interactions from various categories like games& simulations, presentation aids, visual aids, brain teasers, assessments and many more.

Raptivity® is a world renowned award winning elearning product that has been appreciated by various learning bodies. It was recently adjudged the winner in ComputED Gazette’s 18th Annual Education Software Review Awards (EDDIES) 2013. It has also won the prestigious ComputED Gazette’s ’19th Annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIE’s) in “eLearning creation website” category.

For more information, please visit the website www.raptivity.com or contact Harbinger Knowledge Products at 425.861.8400

About Harbinger Knowledge Products

Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development. Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 60 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA) and through its partner network worldwide.

For three consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world’s top 100 private technology companies. Harbinger’s patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity®, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod.

For more information on Harbinger Knowledge Products, please visit http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.

Education, Software, Web 2.0

Webinar on “eLearning: Where do serious games make the most sense?” to be presented by Ross Smith from Microsoft Skype Division and Raptivity

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Raptivity, the leading interactivity building tool, will be organizing a highly interactive and insightful webinar on how serious games in eLearning offer an opportunity to accomplish organizational goals. To speak on this interesting topic, Raptivity has on board Ross Smith Director of Test – Microsoft Skype Division. Ross has 25 years of experience in software and 10 years in the domain of productivity games, organizational trust, and management innovation.

In this session, Ross will throw light on how serious games are developed to assist learners achieve a very specific performance or skill based objective with effective assessment strategies as their core driving force. In addition to this, Jamaica Glenn, Raptivity Expert, will demonstrate how Raptivity’s range of games interactions can be used to develop serious games and help you make your eLearning content exciting.
Details of webinar:

Day: Thursday, September 12, 2013.

Time: 10 AM PDT

To register for this exciting webinar, please visit: http://www.raptivity.com/webinar-serious-games-ross-smith.

About Ross Smith

Ross Smith is the Director of Test – Microsoft Skype Division and has 25 years of experience in software and 10 years in the domain of productivity games, organizational trust, and management innovation.

About Raptivity

Raptivity® allows you to quickly and easily create learning interactions such as games, simulations, brainteasers, interactive diagrams, virtual worlds and more. Instructors can add the interactions conveniently to their eLearning content.
Raptivity® has won numerous awards in various categories, including the 2011 Best Educational Software Award in the Online Technology Tool category and three 2011 LearnX E-learning & Training Awards from Training Australia Magazine. For more information, please go to www.raptivity.com or contact Harbinger Knowledge Products at 425.861.8400.

About Harbinger Knowledge Products

Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development. Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 57 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA) and through its partner network worldwide.

For three consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world’s top 100 private technology companies. Harbinger’s patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity®, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod.
For more information on Harbinger Knowledge Products, please visit
http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.

Business, Financial, Internet & Online, Small Business, Web 2.0

RankTrader: Get People to Invest in Your Website

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Ranktrader, a website stock market is the way of the future for webmasters who want to have another source of income from their websites. It’s the very first online platform of its kind and truly gives credit to the term virtual real estate.

There are two-fold advantages that site owners can get from this newly introduced platform. Websites can sell their shares to the public after the website owners register for an account and submit their website. The greatest benefit here is that website owners can make more cash when the investors make a purchase on the share of the submitted sites – creating website value.

What exactly would be the reason why investors would opt to buy virtual shares?

If you desire to advertise your site while still being interactive and frugal, all you need to do is to select a site you are at ease with.

Well, you may still be confused as to why traders invest in shares. The answer is simple. These investors are individuals who are trying to find an easy way to obtain money on the web. Doing this, they can get the cash they want without putting in so much effort or even starting their own site. Keep in mind that creating your own website entails many things and a lot of people want to take the short cut in earning money.

When investors opt for RankTrader, they are introduced to the market where they can purchase shares. Also, investors will commonly opt for shares that will double or triple on the longer run. However, investors can also use some of the methods utilized in the stock market just like buy low and sell high principles.

Now webmasters, listen up! Earning money through this process is spelled out below.

You’re sure to generate money the moment these investors invest in your website after seeing it on the marketplace. Once you have extra money that you can invest in your site, more often than not, that means more income. Injecting cash into the site, the right way, will increase the value of your shares. And everybody wins!

But before you get to all that good stuff, you need to join the marketplace. Signing up is simple, so simple that you can register with your Facebook or Twitter accounts. Have your account verified after submitting your site. The RankTrader interface is intuitive, so you’ll have no issues finding your way around.

Keep in mind that the shares you are marketing are not real, but just a virtual version. So it means that you will maintain full rights of your site.

To make your offering look as attractive as possible, your site’s importance or possiblewebsite value must be somewhat apparent. Investors can analyze a certain website’s value through a tool in the interface of RankTrader. Factors such as the Alexa Rank, Page Rank, Site Score, Site Weight, Backlinks, Referring Domains, Recommendations, as well as Votes are all considered.

Well, if your web page isn’t getting great ratings on those aspects, then what you need to do is show traders that your website has a great potential of reaching the top. They will realize that your website is worth your investment. Bear in mind that the quality of the site has a direct connection on its activities. Nonetheless, you should drop by your site every now and then and see what you can feature.

Give Customers a Good Reason to Invest in Your Site

Possibly you have seen some sites place a PayPal Donate button in their website. On the other hand, you might have employed this button to your website. Is it helping you? Nonetheless, , if the results are not that good, , then why would you opt for something ineffective wherein a much efficient technique is right in front of you to make the best website.

If you provide importance, your internet site visitors will be a lot more inclined to invest in your site than to Donate or Buy You A Beer.

What pushed them to do so?

It’s better to ask your website visitors to invest rather than donate. You may ask why? It’s a simple logic, if you will ask them to contribute, they will find it worthless as they have nothing to get in return but, when they invest into your website, it will be fascinating for them. Several are enticed to invest in sites that are known to have excellent value. Investing in a site will instantly make them a shareholder. When they will offer these shares afterwards, they will certainly earn more income without putting too much effort.

So for now, do you have a thought which option is better? As Ranktrader offers plug-ins which are very easy to implement on to your site and starting to sell v-shares can be carried out with just as much ease as advertising your site through any other technique.

Now answer this question, would you pick the PayPal button and await people to make donations or would you rather sign-up in the surefire platform that is RankTrader? Bear in mind that the better option will give you much better odds of getting money.

It’s never too late for you to know the benefits that you can get from making use ofRanktrader, go online right now. Come quote your website!

Press Contact:
Robert Abelar
https://www.ranktrader.com 
contact@ranktrader.com

 

Business, Consumer Services, Internet & Online, Marketing, Real Estate, Small Business, Web 2.0

The realWITS Company Launches Websites for Real Estate Companies Dubbed “Smarter”

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An experienced and respected real estate participant and An experienced and respected real estate participant and SEO adviser has launched a new company, realWITS, to help brokers design actionable real estate company websites, get better results and learn how to integrate sales campaigns with modern techniques of leveraging real estate SEO benefits, providing interactive customer service and challenging not only with local online competitors but also with highly recognized online consumer real estate portals.

Real Estate Web Development Demands Compelling Websites

The company’s mantra is “Smarter Real Estate Websites,” and its mission is to educate real estate professionals about online marketing trends so that they can create more functional websites, optimize searches, integrate modern applications and produce dynamic content.

The real estate industry has traditionally resisted change, but modern real estate Web development and real estate SEO for websites require transformations from conservative advertising and marketing strategies to engage new generations of clients.

Randi Thornton, founder of realWITS, has built a reputation as the go-to SEO Google Gurufrom many years of experience in website development, online promotion and the real estate industry. Many real estate websites treat their online efforts as sideline activities or hobbies, and after working with big branded real estate company websites, Thornton feels strongly that the industry fail to take advantage of their full online marketing potential.

Major problems in most company real estate websites include the following shortcomings:

• Brokers do not control their online presence and messaging.
• Website designs fail to meet the needs of people who search online.
• Real estate websites struggle to achieve strong SEO rankings because of the original website build-out.
• Lack of regular technology upgrades force websites to become outdated.
• Failure to take advantage of website lead-generating capabilities.

Smarter Websites Integrate Design, Content and Functionality

Many real estate companies limit their prospects by only trying to compete with other brokerages, a strategy which fails to take advantage of today’s technologies used by other successful industries and the interactive potential of online marketing.

A popular destination real estate broker website strategically focuses on integration of successful leading websites approaches across all industries, and marketers need to incorporate key elements of design, fresh content, Google rankings, mobile technology, and fast processing speeds to keep up with competitors.

Savvy real estate brokers can optimize website performance by considering the following elements of design and function:

Create Distinctive Designs

Website design generates the platforms that launch successful online real estate marketing campaigns, and conceptual elements should compel a casual online website visitor to engage with actionable functionality by incorporating visually appealing design, easy to navigate structures and an intuitive user experience.

• Forward-thinking real estate brokers will take a look around them and learn from other applications that have gone viral.
• Stunning designs often depend on using a simplistic look and feel, clean site architecture, complementary color schemes, accessible search and intuitive controls.
• Functional copy includes compelling content that delivers quantifiable local communications that help buyers make informed and quicker buying decisions.
• A real estate company website needs to offer photo-centric platforms for property listings.
• Websites attract and retain buyers and sellers with property explore functionality that exposes robust search activity.
• Proper usage of on-site real estate SEO including keyword density, on-page SEO best practice techniques, optimize company brands, local authority rankings and online reputations.

Fluidity VS Static

Smarter real estate company websites create fluid designs that make incorporating changes and updating copy easy to accomplish. Google search engines now place great emphasis on freshness of content when ranking websites in organic searches. Effective sites leave room to make modular changes in designs and copy to take advantage of new technology and online trends.

Growing Impact of Mobile Devices

Consumers increasingly use their mobile devices to find products and services, keep track of personal appointments, make social connections and interact with local businesses. Real estate company website designs need to look good and provide searches with the information they seek on a variety of mobile-device screens.

Monitoring Traffic and Online Behavior

Analytic tools study behind-the-scenes practices and chart consumer behavior to help website owners tweak their designs, change their design strategies and respond to customer concerns and feedback. Smarter real estate company websites use these tools to generate leads, predict consumer behavior, stay ahead of marketing trends and create better real estate SEO campaigns.

Real Estate SEO Marketing

Real estate SEO (search engine optimization) marketing works differently than traditional advertising, and learning to leverage the benefits of on-site SEO helps real estate companies establish online authority, build reputations, interact and create enthusiasm for buyers and sellers, regions and neighborhoods.

Clever brokers will take advantage of unique community real estate data so people revisit for information and connections with a relevant, trend setting online real estate source.
Pinterest Type Usage of Imagery

Effective online real estate marketing requires correct usage of photos to productively showcase properties. No matter how well written a property description is it will never grab the attention of a buyer better than a picture will.

The main emphasis of a company real estate website should be imagery that tells a story and conveys “I want to see more” from buyers, says Randi Thornton.

The realWITS company offers expert real estate company website design, on site-SEO application, education, and strategy for savvy brokers who want to produce above-average returns from their online marketing dollars. The company will function as an authoritative source of designs, strategies and consultations on all the issues that impact a real estate company website.

About realWITS.com
Randi Thornton founded a mortgage company in 1994 and built her first website during the early years of the Worldwide Web to promote the lending business, but she became increasingly fascinated with the real estate side of the mortgage industry. After selling the first business, Thornton was contractually bound by a non-compete clause, so she began working in real estate as Franchise Sales Director for Realogy, parent company of Coldwell Banker, Century 21, ERA and Sotheby’s International Realty.

The realWITS project successfully brings together the real estate, website design and SEO techniques that Thornton used in business and makes them available to real estate companies that want to maximize their online marketing efforts by staying ahead of fast-changing technology and evolving online promotional trends.

Contact and Resources:

Website: http://realWITS.com
Phone: (855) 732-5948 ~ (855) real-WIT

You can read more about the founder and how her career journey lead to the creation of realWITS, smarter real estate company websites > The Randi Thornton Autobiography

Real Estate Company Website Challenge.pdf

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Business, Construction, Industrial, Internet & Online, Real Estate, Software, Technology, Telecom, Web 2.0

iPhone-iPad App Brings Mobile Technology To Construction Industry

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If you have ever been involved in a construction project, chances are that you have celebrated the day that you can walk through and create a punch list of items that await final completion. Construction Punch Lists mobile application by Moore Quality Apps now allows anyone to create and e-mail a professional punch list directly from the job site.

“For years the construction industry has used pen and paper to create punch lists and the process may take several days before it’s distributed. From home building to commercial construction, mobile technology now allows the process to be easier and faster” said Josh Moore, owner of Moore Quality Apps. “I recently used the Construction Punch Lists app on a large office project and realized that this dream had become a reality.”

Construction Punch Lists by Moore Quality Apps is now available worldwide on iTunes. Features include multiple project lists, integrating pictures and contacts directly from the device, and sorting items before sending. The application can be used on an iPhone or iPad and can be purchased in English and Español. For more information, visit www.constructionpunchlists.com.

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Art, Consumer Services, Entertainment, Internet & Online, Marketing, Media, Technology, Web 2.0

The World’s Top Selling Stock Photographer Yuri Arcurs Launches His Own Direct Sales Platform (PeopleImages.com) To Pave The Way For Other Creatives

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As off today www.PeopleImages.com is officially out of beta testing mode and live! For years, the major stock agencies have been pushing commissions lower and lower, reaching an all time low of 15% last year making it almost impossible for photographers to gain profit from selling their images online. This can be seen in comparison to Apple’s iTunes store where the artists receive a 70% commission for their work. Furthermore, with the introduction of micro prices in 2005, the stock industry has been under enormous pressure and few photographers have been able to survive of their meager earnings.

With www.PeopleImages.com Danish born Yuri Arcurs has shown that it is possible to make it on your own and sell directly to your customers. His site introduces services that all other artists would be able to offer clients, but which agencies would have a problem providing: Custom retouching, image exclusivity options and the ability to request more images of a specific model or particular style.

Quotes:
Lee Torrens (stock photography journalist – microstockdiaries.com)
“With the launch of PeopleImages.com, the hard work and smart decisions of Yuri’s stock photography career come together in a lucrative business model that no other stock photographer is positioned to pull off. What’s more, it pulls market power back from stock photo agencies who have been dropping photographer royalties for years.”

Jenan Mujkic (10 years experience in buying images online – sneezr.ca)
“This site makes all other sites look like they are from the last century. Take note, PeopleImages.com just jumped a curve!”

Yuri Arcurs: (Photographer, creator of PeopleImages.com)
“Very few people that buy images know how small a percentage of the actual sales price the artists receive. It’s a shame, because the small artists have a hard enough time already.”

http://arcurs.com/2012/06/www-peopleimages-com-has-launched-a-post-about-how-it-got-there/

Quotes from the text:

“Managing six IT guys would prove to be more time-consuming and more difficult than managing my entire business.”

“Very few people will tell you to your face “this will not work” or “we need to delete 1,000 hours of code work because it will create bugs.” Especially not if they are hired by you.”

“News of the launch was leaked to the media three days before our original launch date, and it was posted on the front page of the biggest newspaper in Denmark. It became quite clear what we had to do. We had to launch now. Not in in three days. Not tomorrow. Now.”

“All the tools that a normal manager can use to direct a project are inaccessible to an IT manager that is not a developer themselves.”

“We, as artists, are perfectionists, we have to be, but for a perfectionist to ever create anything great, you must be able to say: “Stop – Enough with the details!” and settle with the less attractive option.”

“Programmers love detailed planning, and most other people do, too, but great interactive design was never arrived at from the very first go-ahead. It is, by its very nature, an experimental process and you will find yourself often arriving at the best solutions when you start using the interface yourself. The only problem is at this point somebody has already had to build it and be ready to discard it.”

“We discarded the whole site two times and had to start over. Most people would consider that a total flop, a loss in all ways, but it ended up getting us closer and closer to having a thorough understanding of how the site would need to behave.”

“Preparing for the launch event, I had a 6min live TV spot lined up on the launch date in front of 1.5 million viewers. I was extremely lucky to get this pitched to the editor in such a way that they ended up running the story. But when it actually was about to unfold I was more nervous than I have ever been prior to any interview. I only had about 15 hours of sleep the last week before the launch, and had to be ready to go live at 8am in the morning with 4 hours of “airplane sleep” – and, naturally with all the stress involved in the launch, I fell ill the day before the TV spot. It was simply madness, but it had to be done and it had to be done well.”

Get a personal comment from Yuri for your article him directly on yuri@arcurs.com or his assistant on alessa@arcurs.com.

If you are creating an article we will grant you any image you would like from PeopleImages.com and set you up with a VIP account with $150 already on it. This should take care of any need of images you have for the article and still leave a decent amount on your account which you can use as you see fit.

We can process such requests very fast. Send to: support@peopleimages.com

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Business, Financial, Internet & Online, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media, Society, Technology, Web 2.0

Michael Blakey & Paul Grant speaking on EFactor Business Bootcamp June 21

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A day full of succeeded Entrepreneurs and the Best Funding Experts in the field, Michael Blakey & Paul Grant!

Want to learn more on what to do when you are on theEntrepreneurial Frontline? Or how Bootstrapping can be an effective way to run your operations? What Investor Types & Funds are out there? And what are the Legal Aspects of Investments? Sign up now for EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT, lunch & drinks included! http://www.efactor.com/ukfunding1206

We provided you with a special program with some great names in this industry:

John Spindler CEO of Capital Enterprise. John has had over 15 years’ experience as an entrepreneur and business advisor/consultant and as well as being responsible for the day to day management of Capital Enterprise is also a director and co-owner of audio designer and manufacturer Ferguson Hill.

Michael Blakey: has been a successful, active, early-stage investor in the UK since 2000 and having invested in some 17 businesses and realized 3 profitable exits to date. Co-investing with his brother, Simon, he is responsible for all our marketing and deal origination activities. Michael was voted by AngelsNews as “the Business Angels You should now”.

Paul Grant: is an experienced entrepreneur who has founded his own London based company through private equity and debt finance. He managed to build a network of over 500 business angels at Capital Partners Private Equity Ltd and more recently at BA Capital Ltd, during which time he never ceased to assist young businesses with fundraising and coaching. He is also the founder of “The Funding Game” seminar series, which offers practical guidance and networking opportunities for entrepreneurs seeking capital for early-stage and growing ventures.

Jaan Larner: is a business minded lawyer at Keystone Law with an MBA from Oxford University. He is a corporate and commercial lawyer with a particular interest in entrepreneurial activity. He advises clients on their corporate structures as well as their on-going day-to-day commercial activity. Jaan qualified as a Solicitor in 1997.

WE HOPE TO WELCOME YOU AT 21 JUNE – INNOVATION WAREHOUSE – LONDON

SEE FOR MORE DETAILS OF THE PROGAM: http://www.efactor.com/ukfunding1206

Please Eva Hukshorn for your questions.

Lunch and drinks are included in the event price.

This event is sponsored by RBS, Capital Enterprise and Keystone Law To attend this event being a member of EFactor is mandotory, you can sign up (for free) on www.efactor.com.

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