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New Online Community MakeHitSongs.com Lets Singers Download Instrumental Tracks and Beats from Music Producers to Make Hit Songs
MakeHitSongs.com announces a revolutionary online music community that lets independent artists, singers, rappers and songwriters collaborate with music producers from all over the world. Artists can quickly find, purchase and download royalty-free instrumental tracks and beats from producers to make record demos and hit songs.
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Artists can listen to a free 55-second high-quality preview of any instrumental track or beat in just about any style or genre including: Pop, Adult Contemporary, Rock, Hip Hop, RnB, Jazz, Latin, Country, Reggae, and Electronica. After finding instrumentals or beats that match an artist's or songwriter's style, he can purchase and download them, and record vocals or lyrics over them to make a record demo or hit song.
Search Engine Marketing Pioneer Tapped to Write Column for CMOmagazine.com
iProspect, the Original Search Engine Marketing Firm, today announced that CEO and Founder, Fredrick Marckini, has been invited to write a monthly column for CMOmagazine.com. CMOmagazine.com is published by CXO Media Inc. to meet the needs of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and other marketing executives. CMOmagazine.com is also the online companion to the print publication, CMO magazine.
Marckini's column, which launched today and is entitled Change Agent, will feature the search engine marketing pioneer's thought-provoking, and sometimes controversial, insights into digital and search engine marketing. The column will also include Marckini's predictions for the future of marketing, and what he believes is an emerging marketing revolution, including: the impact of DVR, blogs, and the "search centric mass market" has on marketers.
Internal Revenue Service to Address Credit Counseling Industry
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will speak at the Spring Conference of the American Association of Debt Management Organizations (AADMO) in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, May 16, 2006.
According to Mark Guimond, Executive Director of the AADMO, 2c7b the largest trade association for the credit counseling industry, “with so many issues critical to the industry pending before the IRS, we are pleased to have this opportunity”.
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AADMO is the largest trade association for the credit counseling and debt management industry. Nationwide, the majority of licensed and legally operating credit counseling agencies are members of AADMO.
Online Business Community Makes Appeal to LinkedIn, MySpace & Facebook Crowds
BusinessDistrict.com, an online business community that connects entrepreneurs seeking to buy, sell or finance a business, is now free. The company, which has $3 billion worth of business listings, changed its fee-based listing service to free to appeal to LinkedIn, MySpace and Facebook crowds.
Cary Daniel, chairman and CEO of BusinessDistrict.com, said he launched the site a year ago anticipating the exchange of approximately 8.4 million companies over the next decade. "Many of these private businesses are owned by Baby Boomers who are approaching retirement," said Daniel. "Our goal is to connect those Baby Boomers with their most likely buyers, Generation X & Y'ers who are accustomed to social networking sites like MySpace and LinkedIn."
Short Sale Investment Company Launches Website to Streamline Customer Care
The nation's foreclosure crisis is creating a meeting ground on the Internet where homeowners with distressed properties and lenders can find mutual solutions.
Company LogoLast year, more than 2-million foreclosures were filed in the U.S., rocketing up 80-percent from the previous year. In October alone, nearly a quarter-million foreclosure filings were reported nationwide. More people than ever are opting to short-sale their homes to avoid foreclosure. A short sale also saves lenders an average of $40,000 in foreclosure costs.
Cagle Named Vice President of iParametrics
Atlanta-based engineering consulting firm iParametrics has named Ron F. Cagle as its Vice President of Technical Services, responsible for ensuring high quality product delivery through provision of appropriate technical expertise, professional development of technical staff, and quality assurance.
Cagle has over 28 years of experience in the analysis and management of complex capital costs, including 27ec underlying business processes and systems. His areas of expertise encompass cost engineering, project controls,infrastructure asset management, and construction auditing.
Winklevoss Technologies, LLC Announces SimMetric, Analytical Software for Endowments and Foundations
Winklevoss Technologies, LLC introduced a software product today, SimMetric, that will deliver new analytical capabilities to the managers of Endowments and Foundations and their professional advisors, primarily in developing Spending and Investment policies for their funds.
SimMetric's key features include stochastic forecasting, interactive modeling of current and alternative policies, a wide range of possible Spending Policies, efficient frontier calculations, and export of the results directly into a presentation document.
The Company Corporation Sponsors 'Summer Author Series'; Entrepreneurs Invited to Register for Free Web Events
The Company Corporation®, the leader in helping small businesses to incorporate or form a Limited Liability Company (LLC), recently announced that it will sponsor a series of complimentary Webinars featuring some of today's most dynamic authors. The authors will share valuable insight on topics critical to the success of small business owners.
Our customers will find these sessions highly rewarding
We are pleased to offer free online seminars with some of today's most talented authors.
Focused on further educating business owners, the Webinar series will cover such topics as marketing techniques, goal setting, sales strategies, and how to survive in the current economic environment. Each session will last 60 minutes and will include an interactive question-and-answer session with the author. The series will run from May through August 2009.
Women Golfers Still Feel Mistreated
Women golfers in Washington state report limited progress in how well they are being treated by golf course operators compared to three years ago. Half those who took part in the survey reported being mistreated.
In a recent survey conducted by Golf Marketing Team.com, about one-third of respondents rated overall “customer satisfaction” as “just OK” or “poor.” About the same ratio of women golfers gave courses that rating three years ago.
Similarly, about the same proportion, almost half, of women golfers feel they have been mistreated, insulted or offended at a golf facility in Washington State in 2006 vs. 2003
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Don Morgan, senior partner at GMA Research, who analyzed the results, said the survey provides some actionable feedback on practices or policies that are viewed as attractive – or offensive. “Respondents were clear on their expectations so courses should use this feedback to cater to this important sector,” he remarked.
Multiple Full Sail Grads Work on Oscar-Winning Films
At the 77th Annual Academy Awards, multiple Full Sail graduates enjoyed the distinction of seeing their work on Oscar-winning films recognized on the Academy Awards telecast on Sunday, February 27th. This caps a productive decade for Full Sails graduates, as five of the past ten Best Picture honorees have featured the talents of Full Sail grads in production, including this years winner, Clint Eastwoods Million Dollar Baby.
This year featured nine graduates on projects receiving Oscar accolades, while Recording Arts grad Gary Rizzo was personally nominated for his work as a sound re-recording mixer on this years Oscar-winning Animated Feature Film, The Incredibles. Other Full Sail grads that were a part of The Incredibles team -- which also won in the Sound Editing slot -- include digital artist Jeremy Vickery, sequence modeling lead Kristifir Klein, assistant sound editor Dee Selby, and sound mix technicians Juan Peralta and Jurgen Scharpf.
Oklahoma Nanotechnology Initiative (ONI) Launches Website
The State Chamber announced today the launch of the Oklahoma Nanotechnology Initiative (ONI) website, www.oknano.com. The website is part of a statewide initiative to create awareness of the emerging nanotechnology industry and its potential impact on Oklahoma. The ONI is a project coordinated by The State Chamber of Oklahoma and funded by the Oklahoma Center for Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST).
The role Oklahoma will eventually play in this promising new industry depends largely on actions taken today," said Jim Mason, executive director of the Oklahoma Nanotechnology Initiative and vice president for technology initiatives with The State Chamber. Planting the seeds of nanotechnology in Oklahoma is an important investment in our states future."
Business.com Partners With Entrepreneur.com and SmallBizSearch.com - Leading B2B Search Engine Adds Two Premier Business Publishers to Distribution Network
Business.com, the leading search engine designed and organized for business, today announced a content distribution agreement between Business.com and Entrepreneur.com, the largest and most popular small business website on the internet. This agreement makes Business.com’s contextual search results available to Entrepreneur.com and SmallBizSearch.com users.
Business.com’s targeted search listings are immediately available to Entrepreneur.com’s 5 million unique visitors every month. Additionally, Business.com will power the search and provide directory results for SmallBizSearch.com.
Wedding Budgets, Just How Much Should A Wedding Really Cost?
Pick up any bridal magazine and on average there is approximately ten pages of written information in amongst all the pages. In fact, no other industry has been able to sustain the amount of magazines that the bridal industry has. The industry is designed for brides to be emotional and spend lots of money on their big day. So it would be hard to find somebody who would share the secrets to saving money on a wedding budget?
That is until now -- Paula from Wedding Secrets Revealed has just launched a new service for brides -- wedding planning tele-seminars hosted by industry authorative experts and specialists.
Pervasive Software's Pervasive Data Profiler Ensures Data Quality
Mike Hoskins, CTO and General Manager for Integration Products at Pervasive Software Inc.® (NASDAQ: PVSW), recently participated in an exclusive interview with Ron Powell and the Business Intelligence Network (www.BeyeNETWORK.com). In this interview, Hoskins explains how Pervasive Data Profiler™ helps ensure data quality by eliminating the complexity, risk, and expense associated with manually checking data, allowing organizations to improve internal controls, increase IT productivity and boost ROI.
Click here to read more…Workflow Management Coalition Announces Results of BPMN Model Portability Validation
The Workflow Management Coalition, the leading industry association and standards body dedicated to business process management and workflow, has announced the first results of BPMN model portability validation.
"This is a critical milestone for both business process modeling and the deployment of BPM systems, explained WfMC Executive Director, Nathaniel Palmer. "The work done by the WfMC Conformance Working Group, under the leadership of chair Robert Shapiro, provides the first-ever multi-product test results, and provides the first real risk management strategy for process modeling and re-engineering initiatives."
New Oneupweb Social Media Eye Tracking Study: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube - Search is Going Social
Social media is all the rage. But can marketers take advantage of this growing online trend, and garner actual business for the company? According to a new eye tracking study conducted by Oneupweb, the answer is yes.
Normal viewing behavior on Facebook. Areas of high gaze intensity in red.
"We wanted to know if people actually look at ads when they are on social sites like Facebook and YouTube. Or in the case of Twitter, where will they likely look for those ads when they do begin to appear," explains Oneupweb CEO and Founder Lisa Wehr. "We found that not only do users spend time viewing paid ads on social networking sites, they often look at these ads before actual search results."
RFID Commentary: Your Panties are Broadcasting on my Frequency
From their birth in World War II to their sales of more than a billion units last year, radio frequency identification (RFID) chips have become the smallest and most intrusive force in marketing history. Now, consulting creative director Scott G of G-Man Marketing (www.gmanmarketing.com) has revealed some frightening truths in an article for his "Communication Nation" column, which appears exclusively on the Advertising Industry Newswire (www.AdvertisingIndustryNewswire.com).
The new article, entitled "Your Panties Are Broadcasting On My Frequency," demonstrates the many ways radio signals are going to be beeping from your clothing, cars, keys, canned goods, pets, and practically everywhere else.
Baycom Finalizes Acquisition of TheGlobalNet Broadband Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) Business
Green Bay, Wisconsin (PRWEB) October 16, 2008 – Baycom Broadband, (www.baycombroadband.com) a leading provider of wireless communications solutions, announced today that the company has completed the acquisition of TheGlobalNet, a wireless internet service provider (WISP) in Northeast Wisconsin.
The acquisition expands the Baycom Broadband Network to reach into an additional three counties and over 400 square miles of coverage throughout rural Wisconsin.
“Our goal is simple; provide the most reliable high-speed wireless internet service available and give our customers the greatest, world-class support,” said Baycom President, Steve Elias. “This acquisition helps expand our service network with the potential to reach over 600,000 residents and businesses throughout the state.”
Veterans at Work to Guarantee Commercial and Residential Carpet Cleaning and Upholstery Cleaning at or Below Any Chicago Firm's Fees - In Addition, Nationally, VAW Can Offer Highly Skilled Manpower, Promotional Item Production and More...
Veterans at Work (VAW), a Chicago based group, contracts services and products from Veterans who are in need of jobs, rehabilitation and housing. VAW has a skilled team to do commercial and residential carpet cleaning, upholstery cleaning, bathroom refurbishing and more. VAW guarantees to perform services at or below the lowest bid you obtain.
VAW also supplies workers for general labor:
Employers need not worry about Unemployment, Medical Coverage or Social Security as this is handled by VAW. The cost for labor is approximately $1.00 above minimum wage and covers ALL associated expenses.
Pimsleur Language Courses Offers Fast Way To Learn a New Language
Today people travel more than ever to different countries, and many do not have the time to spend taking traditional language classes before they embark on their journey abroad. One new company, Smartsource Products, is offering the solution to this problem - Pimsleur Language courses. These courses offered by Pimsleur Language give you the ability to learn French fast, to learn Spanish fast, or any other language of choice.
Dr. Paul Pimsleur is the man b 5a8 ehind this method of learning a language. The method was created by Pimsleur using a special scientific approach to learning a new language. After spending his entire life both teaching languages and conducting language testing in various levels, he researched the psychology behind learning a new language and came up with an excellent method of learning, now known as Pimsleur's Method of Language Learning.
