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Kids Birthday Ideas for the New Year: Make-a-Bear Parties for Boys and Girls
Stuff a Zoo® offers creative ideas for your child's birthday party. With a stuff-a-bear party at Stuff a Zoo®, kids get to stuff their favorite teddy bear or other zoo animal. For a new and creative birthday idea, try the Bake 'n Bear Birthday Bash where every child gets to bake a cake and stuff an animal. - January 06, 2009 - Stuff a Zoo
SEO Consult Maintains Its Ranking as the UK’s Number 1 Search Engine Optimisation Company
TopSEOs, the independent authority on search vendors, has ranked SEO Consult, the UK’s leading Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) company, as the number one SEO company in the UK for the second month running. In the ongoing study by TopSEOs, 300 UK-based SEO agencies are evaluated on the basis... - January 06, 2009 - SEO.co.uk
Jody Gabourie Interviews Cathy Demers on a Free Teleseminar Called: "If You Don’t Know Why Small Businesses Fail – You’re Next!"
Join Jody Gabourie The Small Business Marketing Coach, and special guest Cathy Demers, for a free live teleseminar on January 5th to learn the top three things small business owners need to avoid or fix to ensure business success in 2009. - January 02, 2009 - Jody Gabourie Marketing Plan Queen
Option Quest, LLC Announces Seminar to Reveal Fortune 500 Internet Profit Secrets
The Manor Inn in Milldale will be home to a free seminar on January 10th and 13th that promises to bring energy, ideas and insight to both business owners and wage-earners looking for a shot at a solid side income online. A number of secrets and misconceptions about making money online will be revealed and discussed, critical to online success in a fluctuating economy. - January 01, 2009 - Option Quest, LLC
Allied Partnerships Launches a Business Coaching and Consulting Firm to Serve Small and Mid-Sized Businesses in the Mid-Atlantic Region
After serving Small and Mid-Sized Businesses for organizations like Verizon, T-Mobile and Office Depot, Scott Oster has opened Allied Partnerships to help those same Businesses with Increasing Productivity, Strategic Development, Strenthening their Organization and help with Creating New Business... - January 01, 2009 - Allied Partnerships
A Virtual Assistant Helps Your Business Save Money and Turn Profits
Nancy Frye-Swope, an Arizona entrepreneur, announces the launch of her new business website, http://www.nancysvirtualoffice.com, a home-based virtual assisting practice devoted to providing small business owners solutions for handling administrative tasks so they can save money and focus on growing their business and profits. - December 31, 2008 - Nancy's Virtual Office
Greenstone Launches the First "Themed Gathering" on Real Estate Issues
Greenstone, the real estate development subsidiary of Johnny Saadé Holdings, invited two select groups on the 4th and 12th of December 2008 at Vintage (Saifi) to a Dinner/Seminar to discuss key subjects related to the real estate market in Lebanon. Being a first, both gatherings featured the... - December 31, 2008 - greenstone real estate developers
The Changing “Face” of Google - More “Talking Head” Videos to Appear on Search Results in 2009
Two hottest trends in online marketing - streaming video and video SEO - will take off in popularity in 2009. According to online marketing studies, Google's universal search algorythms, which allow multimedia to appear in search results along with web page links, will change the look of Google search results. More video links and thumbnail images of video links will be seen on Google because more people are searching for video than website content. - December 30, 2008 - Vmatrix, Inc.
Jody Gabourie The Small Business Marketing Coach is Offering a Free Teleseminar to Small Businesses Called: "The Missing Pieces to Your Marketing Puzzle"
Join Jody Gabourie The Small Business Marketing Coach for a free live teleseminar on December 30th and discover the missing pieces to the marketing puzzle that entrepreneurs must have. - December 26, 2008 - Jody Gabourie Marketing Plan Queen
SKOLKOVO and RUSNANO to Build Venture Capital Investments Fund
Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies will create the first venture capital investments fund, the assets of which will be used for the innovative projects’ financing. The total amount of the fund will be estimated as 2 billion rubles. - December 26, 2008 - Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
LinkTrigger, Inc. to List on OTC Bulletin Board
LinkTrigger Retained Going Public LLC to Assist Them in Going Public on the OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB) - December 25, 2008 - Link Trigger, Inc.
SEO Consult to Add 3 New Search Engine Optimisation Articles to Their Website Per Day
SEO Consult, the UK’s leading Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) agency, today announced that three new SEO blogs and articles would be added to their website per day. To date, the SEO Consult website contains the following: over 263,000 words of content on SEO, a vast online SEO Resource... - December 24, 2008 - SEO.co.uk
New York & New Jersey Minority Supplier Development Council Celebrates “Council of the Year Award” from National Minority Supplier Development Council
The Council's 35th Anniversary Gala Honored Bank of America and Con Edison with Top Corporation Awards for Minority Business Development. - December 24, 2008 - New York & New Jersey Minority Supplier Development Council
Ultimate “Cold Calling” Training Adventure with Dancing Elephants and Ascent Adventure Consultants
Ascent Adventure Consultants and Dancing Elephants Achievement Group holding “Cold Calling for People Who Hate to Cold Call” open enrollment seminar January 16, 2009. - December 22, 2008 - Ascent Adventure Consultants LLC
EEW Magazine Names the Best Business Book of the Year
Spotlight on Marshawn Evans's New Book, S.K.I.R.T.S in the Boardroom. - December 19, 2008 - EEW Magazine
iPhone Web App Thumbdive Goes Beta to Bring People Together in Privacy
Social media mobile marketing company AirGini (http://www.airgini.com) has today announced the private beta launch of Thumbdive (http://www.thumbdive.com), a new iPhone and desktop PC web app for friends to interact and share content from the web’s most popular social sites. Aimed at urban... - December 18, 2008 - AirGini Asia Pacific Limited
1905 Productions' "My Tale of Two Cities," the Surprise Hit of the Season, is Back in Theaters; DVD Now Available for the Holidays
Just in time for the holidays, "My Tale of Two Cities," a "heartfelt and funny valentine to Pittsburgh," is back for families and friends to celebrate the season and their hometown. After opening the Three Rivers Film Festival, selling out a red carpet screening at the Byham Theater, and the sale of 1000 DVDs in less than two weeks, My Tale of Two Cities, will be playing at The Oaks Theater at 5 p.m. from Friday Dec. 19-Dec. 23rd as the DVD is now available for the holidays. - December 18, 2008 - 1905 Productions
Fee Setting Go to Guy Says "Raise Your Rates Regardless of What's Happening with the Economy"
Despite a slowing economy, many businesses are booming. Pricing and business model strategies play a big role in moving forward with a successful business regardless of the economic environment. Tom Buford, founder of Charge What You Deserve, shares such strategies so that service professionals can continue with business and income growth. - December 18, 2008 - Charge What You Deserve
'Soul Currency' is Main Street's Hope to Create Wall Street Value and Abundance, says Author Ernest D. (Ernie) Chu
Ernest D. (Ernie) Chu, a former Wall Street investment banker and capital markets expert, offers a message of hope and practical inspiration for Main Street in his new book, "Soul Currency: Investing Your Inner Wealth for Fulfillment and Abundance." - December 17, 2008 - Soul Currency Institute
Swift HR Solutions Expands Support of Early-Stage Companies with the Addition of a New President
Swift HR Solutions, provider of comprehensive, strategic HR solutions to early-stage companies, has made a bold move in these unusual economic times and announced the addition of Kathi A. Jones as President, Products. Jones will focus her energy on the expansion of the company’s product division. - December 17, 2008 - Swift HR Solutions
Revolutionary Electronic Cigarette is Product of the Year for 2008
High-tech electronic cigarettes from Smoking Everywhere company are popular and convenient for both health and environmental reasons – plus they also save smokers money. - December 16, 2008 - Smoking Everywhere, LLC
MoneyTree GEW Entrepreneurship Challenge Malaysia, 2008
School Kids Edge College Teams At Entrepreneur Challenge. - December 16, 2008 - MoneyTree
BigDeal4U.com Announces Wholesale Clothing Website Revamp
BigDeal4U.com announces website revamp to a more user friendly navigation experience for those wholesale clothing buyers interested in up to 80% savings below wholesale price on wholesale women’s clothing. - December 16, 2008 - BigDeal4U.com
New Electronic Cigarette Franchises Prosper Despite the Economic Downturn
Smoking Everywhere, LLC is expanding its business by reducing air pollution, eliminating toxic secondhand smoke, and making smokers who crave nicotine happy – all at the same time. - December 15, 2008 - Smoking Everywhere, LLC
SL Technological College Foundation Inc. Awarded as Outstanding OTOP MSME Partner
Following the success of Japan’s one village, one product, OTOP-Philippines motivates, assists and supports the country’s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to offer, produce and market unique products or services through indigenous raw materials and local skills and talents from a particular locality. - December 14, 2008 - SLTCFI
Top Growth Mid-Market Private Firms Announced for Q3 2008
Ten North American private companies cited for quarter over quarter growth. - December 13, 2008 - Private Company Index
Click Consult Study Finds That Combining PPC and SEO Increases Conversion Rates By 51.5%
Click Consult, a leading UK search marketing agency, today revealed the findings of their combined Pay-Per-Click (PPC) and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) study. The study found that conversion rates for clients who combined PPC and SEO were 51.5% higher than clients who just undertake PPC. A... - December 13, 2008 - SEO.co.uk
SEO Consult Launch New SEO Forum
SEO Consult, the UK’s leading Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) agency, today announced the launch of its new online SEO Forum. The forum is designed to promote an open discussion of all SEO techniques and methods, including SEO content development, on page and off page SEO, the use of SEO... - December 13, 2008 - SEO.co.uk
InnovativeEconomy Reveals Most Important Change to Making Money from Blogs in 2009, Offers Multipack Solution to Kick-Start Blogger Results
The rules of blogging will change in 2009. The single greatest change will be how bloggers begin to improve the value of their reader, rather than the reader contributing a few pennies of value to the blog through ad-sales. InnovativeEconomy.com authors reveal the specifics in their new Multipack program that includes an ebook, membership course and teleclasses for bloggers who wish to make more money for only $27. - December 13, 2008 - InnovativeEconomy.com
IP Launch Offers Up to $50,000 in Free Services to Winner of Innovation Contest, Seeks Contestants
IP Launch, Inc. will give away up to $50,000 in Free valuation and strategy services to the winner of the Innovative Business Contest hosted on InnovativeEconomy.com. The Contest Ends on December 15, 2008. The services awarded include a valuation of the business or technology and the strategy to extract the value under current economic conditions. Any size company may participate. - December 12, 2008 - IP Launch, Inc.
A Once A Year Opportunity for Small Business Owners at the 10th Annual Entrepreneurs Law School - This Year's Focus "Knowing the Times"
Dr. Beth Hagan, who has organized the Entrepreneurs Law School for a decade says, “This is a not-to-be missed day-long event for small business owners who want to hone their knowledge of the legal issues pertaining to their businesses." - December 11, 2008 - Florida Gulf Coast University
Out of the Starting Gate: tyBit’s First Payout to Affiliate Partners
Eleven months ago, tyBit Unified Search (www.tyBit.com) hit the Internet running and after coming out of Beta in September, tyBit is already one of the fastest-growing search engines on the Web. Registering over 60 million searches in September and 70 million searches in October, tyBit’s growth is setting a blistering pace. The tyBit business model trumpets transparency and no click-fraud and it is proving itself as a state of the art ad network. - December 11, 2008 - Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc
NewProductHelp.com Tabbed to Represent Innovative Hardware Accessory to Industry
Chris W., a California-based inventor, has contracted South Florida invention assistance leader NewProductHelp.com to represent his Chainsaw Chain Storage concept for the next 2 years. - December 11, 2008 - New Product Help, Inc.
NewProductHelp.com Designated as Official Marketing Representative of Dynamic New Household Accessory
Pennsylvania-based inventor Terrie Schucker has contracted South Florida invention assistance leader NewProductHelp.com to represent her Schucker Hooker invention for the next 2 years. - December 11, 2008 - New Product Help, Inc.
The Transition Companies Advises Windo-Shade Distributors Inc. on Sale to Innovus Investment Holdings
The Transition Companies LLC announces the sale of Windo-Shade Distributors Inc. of Galveston, Texas to Innovus Investment Holdings LLC. - December 10, 2008 - The Transition Companies
Koldcast TV to Distribute Comedy Series Called Invention with Brian Forbes
Comedy team David Beeler and Tom Konkle inked a distribution and promotion deal with Koldcast.TV for a season of episodes of the hit silly, science chat show, Invention with Brian Forbes. - December 10, 2008 - Pith-e Productions
2009 Small Business Survey Shows Surprising Optimism
Small and medium-sized businesses in the Northern New Jersey area appear to be optimistic about the year ahead, according to the second annual year-end business survey conducted by Samson Media, LLC. - December 10, 2008 - Samson Media
Is Algae Oil Fuel or Nutrition?
New algae oil products are valuable as Omega-3 DHA Therapy™ [patent pending] for high triglycerides and serving diabetes. A recent international peer reviewed publication places a question mark on biodiesel from algae oil as a current business model for commercialization. The future remains to be seen. Now, in contrast, the report points to commercial viability instead in omega-3 nutritional oils. - December 10, 2008 - Source-Omega
Professional Engineer Michael Malcolm Slay Recognized on Top ‘Aggie 100’ List for Second Year Running
President of Slay Engineering Company, Incorporated, achieves double-digit growth in revenue for two consecutive years, ranking 55th among recognized businesses led by Texas A&M ‘Aggie’ Graduates. - December 10, 2008 - Slay Engineering Co., Inc.
NewProductHelp.com Set to Represent Innovative New Kitchen Concept to Industry
Teddy S., a Virginia-based inventor, has contracted South Florida invention assistance leader NewProductHelp.com to represent his Dish Rack Soaker invention to manufacturers and marketers. - December 10, 2008 - New Product Help, Inc.
NewProductHelp.com Tabbed to Represent New Consumer Electronics Invention
Anthony E., a Missouri-based inventor, contracts invention assistance leader NewProductHelp.com to represent his D-A-R invention to industry. - December 10, 2008 - New Product Help, Inc.
NewProductHelp.com Set to Represent New Pet Accessory to Industry
Florida-based inventor Todd B. has contracted Miami, Florida invention assistance firm NewProductHelp.com to represent his K-9 Couch Patrol concept to industry. - December 10, 2008 - New Product Help, Inc.
ezBusinessNeeds.com Announces New Strategic Approach Towards Online Marketing
With the economy taking a downturn, ezBusinessNeeds.com announces strategic internet marketing services which can help local companies achieve better online visibility and ROI. - December 09, 2008 - Easy Business Needs
Easy-Forex™ Opens in London
Easy-Forex has established an office in London, just months after launching its new forex trading platform, the Visual Trading Machine™. - December 09, 2008 - easy-forex
“Changes in Healthcare Recruiting for 2009” Conference Call
A panel of Owner/Operators within the Health Career Agents network will join the President of Health Career Agents, Brian Marchant-Calsyn, on - Tuesday, December 9th, at 8pm Eastern - to discuss the immediate future of the healthcare recruiting marketplace. A new US President, a recession,... - December 09, 2008 - Health Career Agents
Entrepreneurs Lose Money Because They Don’t Know the Steps to Create a Powerful Lead Generating Product
Offering a free-giveaway is one of the fastest and most reliable ways to build a list of prospective clients. That's why Jody Gabourie The Small Business Marketing Coach has written an important new ebook Ready Made Marketing Plan™for Free-Giveaways, designed for busy entrepreneurs. - December 08, 2008 - Jody Gabourie Marketing Plan Queen
Direct Online Marketing’s Paul Woodhouse to Speak on Blogging at SES Chicago
Direct Online Marketing’s Paul Woodhouse presents a case study on the Tinbasher Blog during the Blogging for Business session at SES Chicago on December 10, 2008. - December 06, 2008 - Direct Online Marketing
Learn to Write Proposals Provides Tools for First-Time Bid Writers to Write and Plan Proposals
Learn to Write Proposals are pleased to announce a toolkit specifically for new sales people, project managers or anyone who has to write a business proposal for the first time. As the name suggests, Learn to Write Proposals was created to help sales professionals, bid team members and managers... - December 06, 2008 - Learn to Write Proposals
SEO Consult Ranked Number 1 for SEO in the UK
SEO Consult, the leading UK Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Agency, has been ranked as the number one Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) company in the UK for December, 2008. In an ongoing study conducted by TopSEOs.com, 300 UK SEO agencies were evaluated on the basis of several variables. These... - December 05, 2008 - SEO.co.uk
CEO Challenges Reports Record Year
2008 events attracted 137 CEOs from around the world, $13,800 donated to charity. - December 05, 2008 - CEO Challenges