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Vertically Challenged? Raising Your Profile in a Vertical Market

Having worked extensively on trade press campaigns on behalf of professional services firms, NB! Public Relations knows that raising your firm’s profile within vertical markets can be challenging. So they have compiled a short list of pointers which you may find useful. 1. Be strategic. - June 30, 2006 - NB! Public Relations

New On-Line Design Tool

Century Marketing recognized the opportunity for resellers to incorporate the PMT (Profit Making Technology) tool on their e-commerce websites. After 26 successful years of manufacturing experience providing award winning custom printed labels, custom printed hang tags, price markers and printed packaging to the retail markekplace, they quickly understood the advantages in using the Internet and resellers to reach hundreds of thousands more potential customers. - June 30, 2006 - Century Marketing

N2growth Announces Relationship with Small Business Review

N2growth’s Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer becomes a contributing editor for Small Business Review. - June 29, 2006 - N2growth

Josh Dinnerman Publisher Interviewed on Site www.editorial-writing.com

www.editorial-writing.com is a site that is focused on editorial topics and media related copy. The interview provides insight into how a publisher views copy and issues related to what a publisher needs to consider in getting copy. - June 29, 2006 - JDDMedia

Logan Tod & Co. Joins Web Analytics Association

Raising the web analytics bar to increase site effectiveness and conversion. http://www.logantod.com/press12.html - June 29, 2006 - Logan Tod & Co

Hummingbird Creative Group Wins American Corporate Identity 22 Competition For Logo Design

Creative Services Firm To Be Published For Footlights Project. - June 29, 2006 - Hummingbird Creative Group

PostcardMania’s Marketing Maven, Joy Gendusa, Exposed in $1,000,000aire Blueprints Business Magazine

PostcardMania CEO, Joy Gendusa, spills her guts on her journey from rags to riches in an in-depth interview with owner of $1,000,000aire Blueprints Founder and Editor In-Chief, Tom Spinks – her purpose: so others could follow. - June 28, 2006 - PostcardMania, Inc.

wayMadAds Gives Madisonians Alternatives

Identity Developments enters the way mad world of online classifieds & auctions. Identity Developments, a web presence design and development firm in Madison, Wis., launches wayMadAds, an online classifieds and auctions site for Madison and surrounding areas. - June 28, 2006 - Identity Developments

VoxDomains.com Registrar Added Another Layer of Security and Integration

The quality low-cost Registrar, featured in HostReview's "Fastest Growing Top 10" list, is helping small businesses easily open and manage online stores. Quick Shopping Cart® now links with QuickBooks® financial software and new TippingPoint™ Intrusion Prevention System for virtual/dedicated servers is deployed to help boost web hosting security. - June 28, 2006 - VoxDomains.com Registrar

Grand Canyon Domain’s Quick Shopping Cart Now Links With QuickBooks

Grand Canyon Domains is helping small businesses easily open and manage online stores. - June 28, 2006 - Grand Canyon Domains

Renasoft.com Releases Personal Site Server with Drag and Drop Web Site Design

Renasoft has launched its newest product: Personal Site Server, which includes InstaFlash Web Designer and their own FlameOn technology for creating web pages using Drag and Drop components. This launch is the result of many years of creative development for the purpose of bringing web site... - June 27, 2006 - Renasoft

Communications Coach Moves Business and Launches New Site

Coach moves business to Maryland and works with graphic designer to launch a new site more reflective of the business and the area. - June 27, 2006 - BlueRio Strategies

Tired of Expensive "Guru" Marketing Solutions that Don't Deliver?

Marketing on the internet can quickly become expensive, costing you thousands of dollars. By learning how to effectively use the internet, you can promote your business on a zero marketing budget. - June 27, 2006 - Jinger Jarrett

President of MMI Associates, Inc. Serves on National Federation of Independent Business Selection Committee

Patty Briguglio Named to NFIB 2006 Selection Committee for the Regional Small Business Champion. - June 26, 2006 - MMI

ThatPRGuy Press Release Service Ranks 2nd Among All Public Relations Web Sites in the World

A PR consultant who writes and sends hundreds of press releases per year has a web site that has been ranked number two in the world among all public relations web sites. The ranking is an improvement from fifth place one year ago. - June 25, 2006 - ThatPRGuy.com

Ugly or Elegant? Inventor Makes the Toilet Brush Disappear

The toilet brush is a necessary evil. Notech Inc. has designed a simple yet elegant solution to keep the toilet brush safely stored and out of sight. It is Brush-Away™, the only in-wall toilet brush cabinet. - June 24, 2006 - Notech Inc

Bonphire Boosts Web Hosting Security

New TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention Systems Protect Dedicated and Virtual Dedicated Hosting. - June 24, 2006 - Bonphire

Bonphire's Quick Shopping Cart Now Links with Quickbooks

Bonphire is helping small businesses easily open and manage online stores. - June 24, 2006 - Bonphire

Prime Visibility Celebrates First Anniversary of Sending Optimized Press Releases

Clients Benefit from SEO/ SEM Solutions that Increase Exposure and Brand Recognition. - June 23, 2006 - Prime Visibility

Virginia Website Company “Affordable Web Design, Inc.” Wins a Golden Web Award

Affordable web Design, Inc. was selected as a Golden Web Award winner for its web design portfolio at: www.affordablewebdesign.us. - June 23, 2006 - Affordable Web Design and Marketing, Inc.

EasyCare, Inc. Selects Karen Chaton as New Marketing Director

Karen Chaton comes to EasyCare with broad experience in horses and business management. She is an avid endurance rider with more than 17,000 miles of AERC competition in Easyboots, Easyboot Epics and Easyboot Bares. She has ridden more miles in hoof boots than anyone in the world. Chaton... - June 23, 2006 - EasyCare, Inc.

The Fastest Independent Growing Promotion Agency in Latin America Arrives in The United States

Promored has extended its services and know-how to the US Hispanic market by opening a full-service office in Miami, FL. - June 23, 2006 - Promored

Patty Briguglio Featured In New Book: The Woman’s Advantage

President Of MMI Associates, Inc. Shares Success With Women. - June 23, 2006 - MMI

CxT Group, Inc. Launches New Site – Platinum Refineries

CxT Group, Inc. (www.cxtgroup.com) has launched the brand new website for Northern Refineries (www.northernrefineries.com), full service refiner of all precious metals, available at www.platinumrefineries.com Northern Refineries is an established full service refinery of all precious metals... - June 23, 2006 - CxT Group, Inc.

StartupNation Teams with PR Newswire and Rembrandt Communications to Offer Small Business PR Packages

Learn how to secure key publicity for your startup when Melanie Rembrandt, small business public relations expert, provides tips on StartupNation Radio, July 1st. - June 23, 2006 - StartupNation

Semi Final - 7Creation Graphic Design Competition

7Creation.Com, a graphic design competition online, announced the results of the top 20 winners from the qualifying season on 15 Jun 2006. There are 9 graphic artworks already being submitted in the semi final to date. - June 22, 2006 - 7Creation.Com

Dial Help Takes on a New Logo Design in Celebration of its 35th Anniversary

Dial Help, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides 24-hour crisis intervention services to the citizens of Michigan State and the Upper Peninsula. Recently, they updated their logo design with LogoBee.com to assist in the growth of their programs and services. The mission of Dial Help... - June 22, 2006 - LogoBee Logo Design

Nusearch v2 Launches

Launch of first UK global search player empowers users, advertisers. - June 22, 2006 - Nusearch

Assertiv eMedia to Hold Master Classes at Direct Marketing 2006

Assertiv eMedia, the region’s leading Pan Arabic Interactive Design and Marketing Agency, will conduct a series of Email Marketing Master Classes at the Direct Marketing 2006 event to be held at Dusit Dubai from 24 -28 June. - June 22, 2006 - Assertiv eMedia

Publisher Celebrates Highest Ever Alexa Rating with Free Book Giveaway

StockInterview.com is giving away 1,000 print copies of its soon-to-be published “Investing in the Great Uranium Bull Market,” to all new visitors to its internet news website. - June 21, 2006 - StockInterview.com

LRA Worldwide Appoints John Roberto to Lead Quality Assurance Group

LRA Worldwide, Inc., a leading consulting, organizational development and research firm in the growing sector of Customer Experience Management (CEM), announced that Executive Vice President John Roberto has been named to head its Quality Assurance Group. - June 21, 2006 - LRA Worldwide, Inc.

Igia Announces Annual Financial Results

Revenues up 125%. Tactica plan - effective. - June 21, 2006 - Igia

Could Pixels be the Next Big Economic Indicator?

A new economic indicator to consider when evaluating the strength of the four major economic zones. - June 21, 2006 - Yourcurrencypixeld.com

First Regional Arabic Bluetooth Marketing Service Showcased

Assertive eMedia, the regions leading Pan Arabic Interactive Design and Marketing Agency has announced another first for the region, with the launch of their Anglo-Arabic Proximity Marketing technology. - June 21, 2006 - Assertiv eMedia

Assertiv eMedia to Attend Direct Marketing 2006

Assertiv eMedia, the region’s leading Pan Arabic Interactive Design and Marketing Agency, will feature at the Direct Marketing 2006 event to be held at Dusit Dubai from 24 -28 June. - June 21, 2006 - Assertiv eMedia

LAB38 to Support Web Sites Built with Ruby on Rails

LAB38 providing affordable and innovative web design and web hosting packages, now supports Web sites created using Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails is an open-source framework which lets developers easily assemble rich and dynamic Web sites. Programming with Rails allows a Web designer to wrap... - June 20, 2006 - LAB38

BusinessDo Launches a New Web-Based B2B Network

A new business-to-business network, BusinessDo, is launched today. BusinessDo allows companies to share, discover and connect business services world wide for free. - June 20, 2006 - BusinessDo

Jennifer McLaughlin Joins Interactive Direct Marketing Leader ingage as Marketing Director

ingage, a nationally recognized direct marketing company offering a complete roster of interactive products that deliver superior response rates and innovative measuring tools, today announced that Jennifer McLaughlin has joined the management team as Marketing Director. An accomplished manager... - June 20, 2006 - ingage

DMA Search Engine Marketing Council Presents at DM Days New York Conference

Panel of experts to offer live search marketing recommendations for DMA member web site. - June 20, 2006 - The Direct Marketing Association Search Engine Marketing Council

DanburyDomain.com's Web Site Builder with RSS Feeds Makes Creative Site Design Easy

DanburyDomain.com's Web Site Builder with RSS Feeds Makes Creative Site Design Easy - June 20, 2006 - DanburyDomain.com

SpinSite Garners World Wide Web Awards Gold Award

SpinSite, Incorporated has won the coveted World Wide Web Awards Gold Award in recognition of their website's design and navigation excellence. - June 20, 2006 - SpinSite, Incorporated

TopRank Online Marketing President to Speak at The Direct Marketing Association DM Days Event

The Direct Marketing Association DM Days Conference and Expo hosts Search Engine Optimization Thought Leader Lee Odden as part of a panel of experts. Search Engine Marketing Council (SEMC) Presentations on a Variety of Topics to Take Place During the Conference and Expo. - June 19, 2006 - TopRank Online Marketing

Ideas Squared Principal Jay Joyce Elected to Greater Carolinas Red Cross Board of Directors

Ideas Squared Principal Jay Joyce has been elected to Greater Carolinas Red Cross Board of Directors. In this elected position, Joyce will be responsible for chairing the Chapter's Marketing Committee. - June 19, 2006 - Ideas Squared

Hiltrain Ltd Announces Launch

New training and development company launched. - June 19, 2006 - Hiltrain Ltd

Jux2 Meta Search Engine Offers New Search Enhancements and Functionality

Meta-search engine Jux2 now includes MSN search results and a Firefox extension that makes it possible to search Jux2 from your browser. - June 19, 2006 - Jux2

Complete Identity to Launch the "CI By You" Do-It-Yourself Branding System

For small businesses that don’t want the initial expense associated with a professional branding firm, Complete Identity now offers “CI By You”. CI By You was designed to allow the business owner to create their own identity by providing a business logo, domain name registration... - June 17, 2006 - Complete Identity

Complete Identity Launches Partnership with Platinum Television

Complete Identity today announces the launch of a multi-service partnership with Platinum Television Group. Under the terms of the partnership, Platinum will market 2 custom programs developed by CI as well as CI’s popular translation services. Platinum’s CEO, Doug Scott said,... - June 17, 2006 - Complete Identity