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Former Lt. Governor Dennis Wicker Named Impact Business Leader
Helms Mulliss & Wicker’s Dennis A. Wicker has been selected by Business Leader magazine as a Triangle area Impact Business Leader for 2008. - January 30, 2008 - Helms Mulliss Wicker
Wealth Strategist Landon Watts Partners with Independent Advisors
Landon Watts has teamed with Independent Advisors to work with clients to ensure they have affordable medical insurance coverage in order to prevent hardship as a result of a medical situation. - January 30, 2008 - Banyan Rock & Talent
How to Promote Your Company’s Green Side
More than 40 million baby boomers say they are more likely to purchase environmentally-friendly products and use services from companies that are socially responsible. Given this, Better Business Bureau offers advice to help guide your company’s social responsibility efforts to boomers and other consumers. - January 30, 2008 - Better Business Bureau of Eastern North Carolina
International Profit Associates' Director Joins Chicagoland Business Leadership Network
Tony Jones, International Profit Associates (IPA-IBA) Director of Business Coordination, recently became a member of the Chicagoland Business Leadership Network (CBLN). The CBLN is a business-to-business consortium allowing members to network, gain best practices and get information regarding... - January 30, 2008 - IPA
Helms Mulliss & Wicker Attorney to Appear on the Cover of North Carolina Super Lawyers 2008
Helms Mulliss & Wicker’s John “Jack” H. Cobb will be featured on the cover of North Carolina Super Lawyers 2008. - January 30, 2008 - Helms Mulliss Wicker
Brian Blomgren & ActionCOACH Announces Birmingham’s U Dirty Dog as New Client
Brian Blomgren, owner of ActionCOACH, an Atlanta based Business Coaching practice, announced today that the company has signed Birmingham-area pet care services, U Dirty Dog, as a business coaching client. “I am thrilled to have U Dirty Dog as one of my clients,” says Blomgren. - January 30, 2008 - Brian Blomgren
Susie Phillips Named to VP Role at Informative Research
Susie Phillips, a former executive at Countrywide Home Loans, has joined Informative Research as the company’s Vice President of Strategic Planning and Business Development. - January 30, 2008 - Informative Research
ACG Chicago Elects James A. McNair as 2008-2009 President
The Association for Corporate Growth Chicago (ACG Chicago) today announced the appointment of James A. McNair, Senior Managing Director of Corinthian Capital Group LLC, an equity investment group, to Chapter President for the 2008-2009 term. “I am very proud to be involved with such an... - January 30, 2008 - Association for Corporate Growth Chicago (ACG Chicago)
DirectBuy of Las Vegas East Now Open
Members-only, one-stop shopping destination offers a low-cost alternative for home improvement needs. - January 29, 2008 - DirectBuy
Pins.com Launches a New Service to Help Visitors Find the Best Custom Lapel Manufacturer
Pins.com, the web authority on lapel pins and collector's pins, now has added a service to help visitors interested in making their own custom lapel pins find the best manufacturer for their project. - January 29, 2008 - Pins.com
www.clickconsult.co.uk Become One of the First MSN Adcenter adExcellence Members
Click Consult, a leading UK Internet Marketing Agency are proud to announce another accreditation, now a member of the Adcenter Excellence programme, Click Consult is a true pioneer in industry standards. - January 29, 2008 - SEO.co.uk
Super Bowl XLII Tickets Selling at Record Pace for New England Broker
Unprecedented Demand for Tickets to the Patriots' Latest Trip to the Big Game - January 29, 2008 - Ace Ticket
Lipsky & Associates Acquires Douglas-Michaels Company, LP
Acquisition Builds on Lipsky & Associates Leading Position in Electronic Payment Processing. - January 29, 2008 - Lipsky & Associates, Inc
Chief Connection Officer and NJEXEC to Open the New York Executives Club NYEXEC
Chief Connection Officer and the New Jersey Executives Club (NJEXEC), New Jersey's leading business organization for Senior Executives, are pleased to announce the formation of a sister club in New York City. The New York Executives Club NYEXEC will be formed in Midtown Manhattan at the New York... - January 29, 2008 - Chief Connection Officer
Survey Shows the Growing Need for Virtual Assistants
Right-Hand-Man Virtual Assistant Services is ready to meet the needs of the 64% of the adult population that sees the value of hiring a virtual assistant. - January 29, 2008 - Right-Hand-Man Virtual Assistant Services
GamePlan Marketing & Events Establishes Office in New York City
Former AMD marketing leader chosen to manage new location; office is firm's first outside Austin - January 28, 2008 - GamePlan Marketing & Events LLC
Local Entrepreneur, Jill Van Dinter Meets Unmet Needs
Passion and Power Women’s Retreat, LLC is a unique concept beyond the usual women’s retreats. - January 28, 2008 - Passion & Power Women's Retreats, LLC
Uncertain Economy Brings New Life to Old Business, New Company
Retailers feeling the woes of a floundering economy and escalating advertising costs are finding renewed value in one of the oldest forms of advertising---the walking billboard. - January 28, 2008 - Advanced Advertising Promotions LLC
Project Management Training Online Offers “Leading From the Front Line” Online Course Package for PDUs
Project Management Training Online – pmtrainingonline.com – today announced that it is providing 7 new online courses and a simulation of the subject of “Leading From The Front Line”. The courses provide a wide range of interactive online training on this current topic, and... - January 28, 2008 - Project Management Training
Introducing Room Collector™ Space Inventory Collection Software for Pocket PC’s Available from INFORMED LLC, Through Select Consultants in the Industry
Space inventory collection software for Pocket PC’s is now available exclusively from distributors of INFORMED LLC’s products. Compatible with the latest mobile operating systems, the software provides a fast and accurate method of gathering the fundamental building block of any... - January 27, 2008 - INFORMED LLC
New Pacific Consulting Hosts 2008 China Industrial Trends Forum
New Pacific Consulting, a strategy consulting firm focused on China’s basic industrial sector recently held their “2008 China Industrial Trends” forum. The event brought together a panel representing various industrial sectors and around fifty executives from various industrial... - January 27, 2008 - New Pacific Consulting
Bill Gates Speaks About Technology and Business Being the Cure for the US Recession
Bill Gates believes that technology will revive the US economy and help it avoid a recession. He calls for “creative capitalism” which combines Technology with Capitalism to improve living standards around the world. - January 26, 2008 - Business Systems Solutions
New Analysis Shows Telecommuting Could Save Consumers $52 Billion at the Pumps
Telecommuting could reduce Gulf oil imports by 60 to 75%, reduce greenhouse gases by up to 101 million metric tons a year, and save as much as 12 billion gallons of gasoline each year. These findings are based on research conducted by Kate Lister and Tom Harnish from Undress4Success.com. "It's clear that as nation we can and should make the road less traveled the way to work," says Lister. - January 26, 2008 - Undress4Success
And the Winner Is… Rexhame Beach Design Wins Pre-Game Sports Marshfield T-Shirt Contest
They say a picture is worth one thousand words. For Tess Webster, of Marshfield, “Rexhame Beach,” her design using surfboards and shark tales beat out hundreds of other words and slogans to take first prize in Pre-Game Sports’s t-shirt slogan contest. - January 26, 2008 - Pre-game Sports
Cube Management Adds Office Location on the East Coast
Cube Management has executed an Associate Agreement with Ashworth Group, Inc. located in Palm Harbor, Florida. “By signing this agreement, we are taking our first step to formalizing our national sales plan of opening offices in targeted locations across the nation based on our strategy of... - January 26, 2008 - Cube Management
e-Business Profits Now Available to Businesses in San Diego County
World’s Largest Internet Consultants Open Office in California - January 26, 2008 - WSI Internet
WSI Internet Marketing Consultant to Open National Office in Orange County, California
WSI opens a new national office located in Orange County, CA. The office, lead by Tracey Johnson MA, MBA, will partner with businesses to grow their revenue and reduce operating costs by implementing Internet marketing solutions customized to their business needs. Johnson will customize campaigns for ROI, which include dynamic websites, identity design, email marketing, sponsored advertisements, blogs, video, chat, communities, search engine registration and optimization, e-commerce and hosting. - January 25, 2008 - WSI Total Solution
Buyers, Sellers Fed Up with Counterfeit Items on Auction Sites
Overwhelming majority of luxury items found to be counterfeit, frustrating both buyers and sellers - January 25, 2008 - HonestMall
Super Bowl Sunday Biggest Pizza Day of the Year
Local pizza places gear up for "Black Sunday" - the busiest day of the year, Super Bowl Sunday. - January 25, 2008 - Eureka Pizza
You'll be Shocked to Find Out How Much Eyeglasses Really Cost
Samuel Babarinde, founder of Supereyespex.com, an online cheapest optical store, discloses the true prices of eyeglasses and how he saved the population over $4m on their prescription glasses - January 25, 2008 - Super eye spex
Jeff Snell Named to Action for Children North Carolina Advisory Board
ENLIGN Business Brokers (www.enlign.com), which represents profitable privately-held, North Carolina-based companies for sale that have gross revenues in excess of $1 million, has announced that Jeff Snell, principal broker for the firm, has been named to the Corporate Advisory Board for Action for... - January 25, 2008 - ENLIGN Business Brokers
New Online-Service: Skyfillers Hosted Disk – the Virtual Hard Disk
Skyfillers Hosted Disk is a virtual hard disk with easy and everywhere access over the Internet. - January 25, 2008 - Skyfillers
DAVACO Retail Services Names Lora Churcher as Director of National Accounts
DAVACO, Inc., the national leading provider of retail services, announced today that Lora Churcher has been named director of national accounts for DAVACO’s brand development division. In this role, Churcher is responsible for new business development and the management of existing accounts... - January 25, 2008 - DAVACO, Inc.
Bonus Building Care Gains Local and National Recognition from Diversity Business.com
Bonus Building Care, a rising leader in the commercial office cleaning franchise industry, was recently ranked 94th out of the Top 500 Women Owned Businesses by Diversitybusiness.com. Additionally, Bonus Building Care ranked 4th among the state of Oklahoma’s Top 100 Small Businesses. - January 25, 2008 - Bonus Building Care
Networking Outside the Box
LI Connects continues bi-weekly meetings at the Hauppauge Palace Diner for 2008. - January 25, 2008 - L I Connects Networking Group Inc
LIOBmedia Announces Creation of Subsidiary Firm, Liobconsulting
To help its clients meet their employment needs without straying from their core competencies, LIOBmedia is pleased to announced a new subsidiary: LIOBconsulting, intended to spearhead the company's expansion into the IT support services to the small, large, and unique commerical and government... - January 25, 2008 - LIOBmedia
VirtualAssistantNetworking.com Hosts Teleseminar on February 21 to Help Small Business Owners Communicate Confidence and Boost Credibility
Civility expert Lew Bayer to share 10 simple behaviors for increased self-assurance, confidence, and productivity. - January 25, 2008 - Virtual Assistant Chamber of Commerce
VIBCO Vibrators Quietly & Effectively Improve Concrete Screed Process
A VIBCO VS-510 Silent Pneumatic Vibrator replaces the original vibrator supplied with a vibrating screed to produce superior results and eliminate blemishes. - January 25, 2008 - VIBCO Vibrators
Kathryn B. Bardins, President of Bardins Communications, Has Been Selected for Inclusion in the 2008-2009 Princeton Premier Registry
Kathryn B. Bardins, President of Bardins Communications, Has Been Selected for Inclusion in the 2008-2009 Princeton Premier Registry. Kathryn makes her home in Petoskey, Michigan and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Lynchburg College. Kathryn served as Vice President of Community... - January 25, 2008 - Princeton Premier
Subway® Restaurants Finds Football Fans Want Healthier Options While Watching the Big Game
Omnibus survey of more than 1,000 Americans’ snacking habits - January 24, 2008 - Subway
The Federal Banking Co-Op Considers Asking US Senate Banking Committee to Review Consumer Bank Fees and Charges
The Federal Banking Co-op, today formed a committee to research and develop a plan of action to ask the US Senate Banking Committee to review retail consumer fees charged by the banks to their customers. The Federal Banking Co-op will begin raising funds to lobby for changes and caps in these charges. The committee will determine which fees are excessive and ask that these fees be limited on a performance basis, and that there is full disclosure of the actions that account for the fees. - January 24, 2008 - Federal Banking Coop
RISKebiz.com Reports Staggering Growth, Tidy Profits and Enormous Market Driving the Mobile Web
Gone are the days when people need to be attached to a PC or laptop computer to search the net, the new frontier is here and the direction is mobile phone web based searching. This is not a fad but an emerging fact. Mobile websites or websites that allow proper viewing for cell phones and mobile... - January 24, 2008 - RISKebiz Internet Services Inc.
The Only Thing Assist-2-Sell® Discounts is Its Price
Unlike many other discount real estate companies, Assist-2-Sell does not discount its fee by eliminating services. - January 24, 2008 - Assist-2-Sell
New Instrument Enables Investors to Capture Income from Private Company Revenue Growth
Entrex Inc. announces the creation of a proprietary new financing instrument called Top-line Income Generation Rights Contracts, or “TIGR CubsSM”, which are designed to garner high current cash-on-cash returns from investments into growth-oriented private companies. David Weild, the... - January 24, 2008 - Private Company Index
Third Wave Digital Announces Launch of New Website for Georgia Southern University’s College of Health & Human Sciences
Third Wave Digital, a web design and development firm headquartered in Macon, Georgia with offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Orlando, Florida, announced the launch of a completely redesigned web presence to aid the College of Health and Human Sciences at Georgia Southern University in their recruitment efforts. The new website can be found at www.georgiasouthernhealthscience.com. - January 24, 2008 - Third Wave Digital
Q4 High Growth Companies Announced by the Private Company Index
The Private Company Index (PCI) announces its “Top Five Growth Company” slate for Q4 2007. These five honorees experienced overall average revenue growth of 56.3% over their Q4 2006 performance. This diverse group includes a broad spectrum of companies ranging from technology, to... - January 24, 2008 - Private Company Index
Justin M. Balog, Director and Information Technology (IT) for SN Servicing Corporation, Has Been Selected for Inclusion in the 2008-2009 Princeton Premier Registry
Justin M. Balog, Director and Information Technology (IT) for SN Servicing Corporation, Has Been Selected for Inclusion in the 2008-2009 Princeton Premier Registry. Justin makes his home in Mather, California and attended Brigham Young University where he received a Bachelor degree in International... - January 24, 2008 - Princeton Premier
Sepi Asefnia Named Impact Entrepreneur
SEPI Engineering Group, Inc. (www.sepiengineering.com), has announced that Sepi Asefnia, president, has been named a 2007-2008 Triangle Impact Entrepreneur by Business Leader magazine. The Triangle Impact Entrepreneur award recognizes tremendous achievements and contributions made to the Triangle... - January 24, 2008 - SEPI Engineering Group
Anti-Discrimination Policies Are Poorly Communicated, Suggests New i4cp Study
Most companies report that employee claims are frequent. - January 24, 2008 - Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp)
The Changing Future of Social Media Websites - the Global Entrepreneur
Social Media web sites such as Facebook and Myspace have created and dominated the Social Media market of recent. The global Social phenomenon is here, but what does the future hold for the Global Business community? - January 24, 2008 - Million Impossible Plc