Website, direct mail and ads....Oh my! Like Dorothy tentatively walking down the yellow brick road not knowing which way to turn, franchisees are often in a major quandary when it comes to choosing and implementing their own local marketing programs. Many do get help from their franchisors but in the end isn't it much better for a franchisee to get to know his/her own market and customers? Each market varies so, that often the right tool for one isn't the best for another. Enter ViaLocal, a new program introduced by St. Jacques Marketing based in Morristown, NJ. Specializing ...

Desire Street Books & Press released today the trade paperback edition of "Wolf's Run" by Mississippi native Louis Hillary Park. To celebrate, the novel is on sale for 20 percent off through July 10 and we will be giving away a copy to "Wolf's Run" each day during Independence Day Weekend (July 2-4) through Facebook and Twitter. "It's a celebration of the first soft-cover edition and our nation's independence," said Hugo H. Ottolenghi, business development director at Desire Street Books. "I've been waiting for Desire Street ...

The North Carolina Veterinary Medical Association (http://www.ncvma.org) has announced the release of a podcast discussing how owners should travel with their pets during the summer. In the podcast, Dr. Phil McHugh, former president of the NCVMA, explains the best ways for pet owners to travel safely with their pets, especially in light of upcoming summer vacations. During the podcast, McHugh touches on dangerous practices like letting a dog ride in the back of a pickup truck and letting an animal sit on the driver's lap while on the road. QUOTES: "It is extremely ...

Newly launched this month is Hippo Bingo, a brand new online bingo site, offering a variety of 90 and 75 ball bingo rooms, friendly chat hosts and a great online community. As well as free bingo games and some huge jackpots, Hippo Bingo also offers instant win and video slots games such as Bejeweled, X Factor and Monopoly. There is something for everyone at Hippo Bingo! With tickets for bingo rooms ranging from as little as 1p up to GBP1 plus free bingo games on offer every day, there is something for every budget at Hippo Bingo. Offering many chances to win real cash ...

Each year students are challenged to increase their reading goals. This year the students enthusiastically surpassed their goal to see their administrators kiss a pig. Some principals and assistant principals will do anything to get their students to read. At the Sagemont School, A private school in Weston, Florida, Principal Joann Laskin and Assistant Principal Monica Vigna offered to kiss a pig if their students earned 14,999 points in the Accelerated Reading Program. The students surpassed that goal and earned 16,000 points. That meant Mrs. Laskin and Mrs. Vigna had ...

Orbis Software's North American distributor Fisher Technology will be showcasing the new TaskCentre Web Service Connector Tool at Sage Summit 2011 in Washington DC. The TaskCentre Web Service Connector Tool will enrich Sage Software's Cloud strategy by providing a bridge between on premise and Cloud offerings. "Cloud-based technologies are high on the agenda at Sage Summit 2011. We are excited to demonstrate TaskCentre's new Web Service Connector Tool as it addresses a number of challenges faced by Sage Business Partners." commented Paul Cannon, CTO of Fisher ...

Bronze winner of Best for Training and Development and short-listed for Best for Luxury Lettings at the 2011 Lettings Agency of the Year Awards in association with The Sunday Times and The Times, held at the Lancaster London Hotel on Tuesday 7 June. The event is recognised as one of the most important event in the Lettings industry calendar and attracted agents from across the country. It was once again supported by The Sunday Times and The Times, with the winners presented with their awards by one of Britain's most successful athletes, Dame Kelly Holmes. Hamptons ...

Six students achieved very good results at Grade 8, including three distinctions (Callum Anderson (year 10) piano; Tabatha Curry (upper sixth) harp and Joe Pemberton (year 11) saxophone) and three merits (Daisy Cooper (upper sixth) saxophone; Poppy Duncan (year 9) cello and Georgia Reynolds (upper sixth) piano). Students aged 13 - 18 took the exams, with very notable achievements including 13 year old Isabelle Binney who was awarded a distinction in Grade 4 singing having captivated the examiner. Bedales students perform regularly at public concerts and are currently ...

Getting to Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway and its 5,300 slot machines gets a whole lot easier for its Bronx neighbors beginning Saturday, July 16, when a full schedule of bus service becomes available. The $20 round trip pricing per person includes $5 in free play at the casino's slot machines, and a $5 food voucher. Buses will depart from Parkchester (2 locations), Pelham Bay (2 locations) and Co-op City (3 locations) with Empire City as the winning destination (the full schedule with locations and times is below) on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. ...

SAPexperts announces a new article, "Effectively Manage Your Customer Service Business Function by Using SAP's Integrated Service Order Functionality" posted to its Financials Expert knowledgebase. This article explains how service order functionality can integrate with the controlling function. This will allow you to accelerate your monitoring of your customer relations. Learn how to actually record, and track both costs and revenues resulting from common customer service scenarios. Capture the desired level of detail pertaining to activities and resources ...

On June 6, 2011, Newark's Mayor Cory Booker, Councilman Darrin S. Sharif, Councilman Luis A. Quintana, and the LGBTQ Advisory Commission helped celebrate Newark-Essex Pride Week for the fifth consecutive year with the raising of the pride flag at city hall. This marked the beginning of Newark-Essex Pride Coalition's (NEPC) 7th annual pride festivities. Over 500 Newark residents participated in the standing-room only press conference that lead to the kick off of events, celebrating this year's theme, "Our Time to Shine." "The city's LGBTQ Commission is ...

Rabine Group CEO, Gary Rabine, invited State Treasurer Dan Rutherford to Rabine Group's headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois to educate employees on Illinois' fiscal condition. Gary Rabine explains, "After having the opportunity to meet Dan Rutherford a couple months ago and spending a few hours with him talking about the condition of the Illinois Government, I realized his passion for servant leadership is a trait not often found in politics and our employees may benefit from learning about this state's financial situation from our State Treasurer himself. By the ...

Riley Robertson is using her summer to make a difference in the lives of others. The five-year-old is only in the first grade, but she is determined to raise awareness of breast cancer and early detection. Riley is setting up lemonade stands throughout the Houston area this summer, handing out breast cancer literature and donating all proceeds to Pink Ribbons Project, in motion against breast cancer. Her goal is to raise $1,000 before she heads back to school in August. If you would like to help Riley meet her goal, you can find her today outside of Hudson Family ...

The Steel Challenge Shooting Association (SCSA), the national governing body for the sport of speed shooting, announced that Smith & Wesson, the 159-year-old iconic firearms maker, is expanding its support for the organization with its platinum level sponsorship of the Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships. Smith & Wesson is joining the National Shooting Sports Foundation and Safariland as a platinum sponsor of the Steel Challenge which marks its 30th anniversary this year when the match gets underway in Piru, Calif. August 18-21. "For well ...

Trade & Clear is sponsoring a new customer event that will register new futures accounts and existing futures accounts that trade a minimum number of E-micro gold futures into a drawing for a free, one-ounce American Eagle gold coin. Drawings will take place monthly. The objective is to bring attention to the new, micro-sized gold futures contract which makes gold trading accessible to new traders and investors in precious metals futures. The event is officially called the Trade & Clear Gold Coin Giveaway 2011. The new E-micro gold futures contract were launched ...

The new OpenCms 8 contains a greatly improved user interface for content managers and numerous other enhancements. The "Advanced Direct Edit" mode allows content managers to create page content by drag & drop. The new sitemap editor allows creating new pages and rearranging the navigation tree by drag & drop. With Version 8.0.1 the sitemap and ADE configuration has been greatly simplified and improved. The properties of a page can now be modified directly in the ADE editor and a "log out" option has been added to the its menu. In the sitemap ...

The City of San Jose Chamber of Commerce and Online Media Magic announce their partnership in bringing "Local Guerilla Marketing: A Hands-on Workshop". Studies have shown that small businesses have the potential to get 10-20 online visitors per day. In this internet marketing seminar, Lisa Schwartz*, MBA with 20 years of Product Marketing & Internet Experience will show attendees a complete walk through of which business types have it easy and which ones need to work harder to fit into the local online marketing landscape. Without this knowledge, one's ...

Full Service public relations agency Revolver PR has been listed in the NMA- backed, Reputation Online Top 100 PR Agencies guide for its success and expertise in the field of Digital PR. Backed by New Media Age (NMA), the Top 100 PR Agencies list recognises the leading specialists in the field of digital PR, recording income generated from the rapidly expanding sector. It lists Revolver at #26 - ahead of many of its larger competitors. "Being listed in the Top 100 PR Agencies guide is a great achievement and tribute to the commitment and professionalism of every ...

Ready to use straight from the box, EVOS microscopes are advanced all-in-one workstations featuring patented LED technology, a built-in computer, and integrated imaging software. EVOS inverted microscopes are available in fluorescence or transmitted light models. These microscopes offer a unique ergonomic design and fully integrated optics, LED illumination, digital camera, LCD, computer and software to deliver unprecedented flexibility with exceptional performance and reliability. "PEQLAB Ltd. is delighted to represent the AMG microscopes", said Duncan Borthwick ...

Has Kodak Zi8 surpassed Flip Video's video quality and feature set? Kodak Zi8 manufacture defines himself-It's small enough to fit in a pocket, but why would you ever want to put it there? Whether out on the town or just hanging with friends, the Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera captures every experience in stunning 1080p HD video. Stay in focus while you're on the move with integrated image stabilization. Over the last few years, as the pocket camcorder market has taken off, pioneer Flip Video has narrowly hung onto the lead it built by offering models with arguably ...

Time and again, it has been said that laughter is the best medicine. Even the famous magazine, Reader's Digest, features such a section in its pages for decades now. Apparently, adding humor to elicit laughter and good spirits does not apply only to sick people. Truth-seeker Dr. EsanSakaii, an inspirational cartoonist and engineer, wanted an improvement in the quality of life of people in the society in a way that can be funny but helpful. He founded Wacky Wisdom on March 14, 2011 to create an inspirational way of quality of life education that is combined with humor. Dr. ...

The main Business Software Directory, Buissy.com, has released version 0.92 of the website. The new release is mostly focused on letting software vendors add more information about their products and also show all this information on the product information pages. Some changes have been made to the user interface to make it easier for users to easier navigate through the site and also to fix some minor bugs that were present for navigating through Buissy.com on mobile devices, such as iPads and mobile phones. When going to a product page, users will now also ...

In PC measurement technology, data acquisition via the USB interface has taken an important role in the last years and deservedly so. Simply "Plug & Play" and you can start recording your analog and digital signals. However, there are limits to USB data acquisition concerning interference resistance, continuous quality control, multi-channel measurements, or data acquisition across great distances or at many measuring sites at the same time. To solve the problems mentioned before, BMC Messsysteme GmbH (bmcm), manufacturer for measurement technology made ...

Ravintolamestarit Oy, Finland, established the Isä Camillo restaurant and bar in 1997 and have since grown into a chain of seven restaurants. They identified a business opportunity in Kuopio city, which at the time lacked many noteworthy restaurants. Ravintolamestarit were looking for new and innovative ways to market their business, and on the advice of Avek Esitysratkaisut Oy (Avek), decided to invest in digital signage from ONELAN. They wanted to create a new image for their restaurants by using digital signage, and realised that it could also be used as a unique ...

To keep the oxygen flowing Monitis Inc., the award-winning provider of the world's first all-in-one systems monitoring platform, announces that users can now monitor their MySQL-operated database servers on Monitis's free monitoring service -- Monitor.Us. The new hosted MySQL monitoring service is available immediately. "Our new MySQL monitoring service ensures high availability of database servers and performs a host of tasks to ensure MySQL is running smoothly," said Monitis Founder and CEO Hovhannes Avoyan. "And because MySQL is the most popular database ...