Thursday, April 20, 2006
Defective Pacemakers, Heart Valves, and Defibrillators Pose New Risks
Defective Heart Valves, Pacemakers, and Defibrillators Propose New Risks to Weak Heart PatientsMillions of men and women have heart devices implanted to save them from heart attack not increase their risks of heart attack
New York City, New York (PRWEB) April 20, 2006 -- In the last few years, the technology of heart devices has advanced but many recalled devices are being surgically removed after the discovery of fatal defects.
Patients with heart defects or disorders of the aortic or mitral valve may need a mechanical heart valve. Mechanical heart valves simulate real heart valves to maintain the proper flow of blood into and out of the heart. These patients must take anticoagulation medicine, like Warfarin (coumadin) to prevent deadly blood clots.
Years after their removal from the market, St. Judes Silzone and Bjork Shileys Convexo-Concave heart valves are still causing serious problems in patients. To support patients with St. Jude or Bjork Shiley heart valves or other recalled heart devices, LawyersandSettlements.com accepts consumer complaints at: Bjork Shiley Heart Valves
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The St. Jude Silzone Heart Valve was implanted into patients from 1997 to 2000 and was recalled due to leaking and device failure linked to serious fatal risks. One study showed that Silzone heart valves increased a patients risk of thrombosis/blood clot, embolism, and stroke.
Bjork Shiley distributed their Convexo-Concave (BSCC) heart valves from 1979 to 1986 but over 86,000 defective valves are still implanted in patients worldwide. These valves have remained in thousands of patients due to fatal risks associated with the surgical removal process. These valves have been linked to hundreds of deaths when the defective valve fractured and weaken the device.
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Pharmacy Packs Pill Perfectly, Bans Bulk Bottles
Founded in 2003, PrairieStone Pharmacy is one of the nation's fastest growing retail pharmacy chains. Offering a unique model that relies on state-of-the-art technology and automation, the company prides itself on placing its pharmacists closer to its customers as a way to offer exceptional customer service and care. With the launch of its patent-pending DailyMed solution, PrairieStone hopes to further extend its mission of improving retail pharmaceutical care. For more information on PrairieStone Pharmacy, visit www.PrairieStoneRx.com.
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Thursday, April 13, 2006
Crime Not Virtual On The Web
Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by Wendy Davis
Even after all this time, the so-called "Nigerian letter" scam last year managed to bilk the marks who fell for it to the tune of $5,000, on average, according to a new report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center.
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Undercover Marketing Tactics
Advertisers Draw Fire for Using Undercover Marketing TacticsAs advertising has become advertising ad nauseam, and we are forever being pitched to, marketed to, and appealed to by someone trying to sell us something more advertisers are looking at new ways to deliver their message to you. This has resulted in a mix of marketing tactics that are drawing fire. Some are new versions of old techniques and some are very new. Consider that many advertisers are already paying your friends or in some cases even hiring actors to strategically engage you in their product- with or without your knowledge.
(PRWEB) December 4, 2005 -- As advertising has become advertising ad nauseam, and we are forever being pitched to, marketed to, and appealed to by someone trying to sell us something more advertisers are looking at new ways to deliver their message to you. This has resulted in a mix of marketing tactics that are drawing fire. Some are new versions of old techniques and some are very new. Consider that many advertisers are already paying your friends or in some cases even hiring actors to strategically engage you in their product- with or without your knowledge.
If the current trends hold true its almost certain that youll be the target of undercover or referral marketing as more companies use undercover marketing and more of your friends will start trying to make a few extra bucks referring people to the products that offer them commissions for making those referrals.
Undercover Marketing
Whether you like it or not, undercover marketing is here to stay. Whether you know it or not, it may already be a part of your life.
Consider this. The last time a friendly tourist asked you to take their picture with an impressive new camera or an attractive woman at the bar said you could buy her a drink; they both may have been working. These are examples of what is being called Undercover Marketing. In these examples the company paid people to pose as tourists or bar patrons respectively. The tourists job was to show as many people as possible all the features of a new camera that Sony coming out with. The models were paid to look good of course, but you wont see them holding anything but a Sky Vodka. Not when their working anyway.
One of the larger companies in this industry is Big Phat Promotions. Theyve drawn both protest and attention for their unique marketing practices that they now employ in 30 cities across the United States and Canada. The company defends their tactics as "spontaneous" and "virile" approaches to product promotion. Critics however, argue that paying actors to target consumers in these settings is unethical.
Even over seas the New South Wales government has enacted legislation preventing tobacco companies from using similar undercover marketing practices.
Adam Salacuse, CEO and President of Alt Terrain, LLC, a Boston-based agency specializing in alternative promotion services, stresses undercover campaigns should only be used in conjunction with larger, more traditional advertising campaigns. "It is always best to be honest with people and if used properly, alternative marketing can be a unique and relevant experience that the consumer will always remember."
Gary McCarron, Asst. Communications Professor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, says the public is already immune to most mainstream advertising and new research indicates that advertising that doesn't seem like advertising, is the new way to reach our jaded minds.
McCarron warns that if advertising becomes so sneaky that it is unrecognizable from the everyday experiences of defenseless consumers, it will damage corporate credibility and the resulting state of distrust could have an extremely negative effect on social interaction.
Referral or Network Marketing
Do the words MLM, Network Marketing or multi-level-marketing ring a bell? These words all describe companies that pay you commissions for referring people to their products.
MLM or Network Marketing is back. The MLM Direct Selling Associate now reports that nearly 75% of all Americans have now used or been presented with a product from a Network Marketing company. The most well known, International, Network Marketing Companies are Amway (now Quixtar), Mary Kay and Life Force International.
The allure of Network Marketing or MLM to consumers is the massive amounts of money that some in the industry claim to make. These companies pay you a commission on all the products you sell. They also pay you commissions on the products that anyone you refer to the company, sells. If the people you refer refer others, you earn commissions on the purchases of those people too.
Sound like a pyramid? Theres a difference. Really. Network Marketing has exploded in the last 20 years since Amway fought their landmark case making and distinguishing the MLM or multi-level commission structure as legal and separate from a illegal pyramid structures.
MLM or Network Marketing companies offer you and your friends of course, commissions for referring people to their products. These companies now sell every kind of product you can imagine.
Marketing expert Chris Tinney is the founder of Best MLM Business (www.BestMLMBusiness.com) and MLM Forums (www.MLMForums.com) and eBusiness Bonanza (http://ebusinessbonanza.com) says many in his industry used undercover marketing in the past but have found parts of it turned the public off, Too many people have memories of going somewhere with a friend only to be surprised to find themselves front and center at an opportunity meeting for some kind of home based business.
He says Network Marketing still teaches people to go into social settings to pitch their products, however, theyve learned it works much better if youre up front about whom you are and what youre doing. Tinney claims that if a marketer has to lie theyve already made a mistake in choosing the social setting. He says this is the most important step. Once in that setting he says to be upfront about the product you represent.
Tinney claims that by being in places where people are predisposed to want your products and being upfront about it, that they'll approach the marketer and initiate the interaction. He claims this is much different than what the public perceives as undercover marketing.
As competition to reach consumers increase undercover and referral based marketing is sure to become more and more a part of our lives. The challenge will be for marketers to use these tactics in such a way that the dont alienate the very consumers theyre hoping to win over.
To learn more about MLM and Network Marketing visit http://www.MLMGorilla.com/movie
Chris Tinney hosts a private forum at http://chris.powerfulintentions.com/forum/webmarketing and has a newsletter of Spiritual Marketing at http://mlmgrilla.com
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Nationwide Launch of Unified eMail Partner Program
Unified eMail Nationwide Launch of Partner ProgramBy establishing a strategic partnership with Unified eMail, integrators now have options they can present to their customers that dont require expensive/complex hardware or software to implement.
Gaithersburg, MD. (PRWEB) April 11, 2006 -- Unified eMail announced today the launching of its Partner Program. System integration companies need to provide a low cost and effective solution to their customers that can reduce/eliminate eMail spam, block viruses and protect their customers during system outages.
By establishing a strategic partnership with Unified eMail, integrators now have options they can present to their customers that dont require expensive/complex hardware or software to implement.
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Companies Empty Pockets For Blog, Podcast, RSS Advertising
New PQ Media Research: Blog, Podcast, RSS Advertising Grow Fastest Among Alternative Media, Surging 198% in 2005, and Forecast to Grow 145% in 2006 Study Finds Podcast Advertising Will Be Larger Than Blog Market by 2010Combined U.S. spending on blog, podcast and RSS advertising bolted 198.4% to $20.4 million in 2005, and is expected to grow another 144.9% to $49.8 million in 2006, according to exclusive research released today by PQ Media, a custom media research firm.
Stamford, Conn., April 11, 2006 Combined spending on blog, podcast and RSS advertising bolted 198.4% to $20.4 million in 2005, and is expected to grow another 144.9% to $49.8 million in 2006, according to exclusive research released today by PQ Media, a custom media research firm. But podcast advertising, nonexistent until 2004, is expected to be a larger market than blog advertising by 2010, according to Blog, Podcast and RSS Advertising Outlook, the first of five installments in PQ Medias Alternative Media Research series. This groundbreaking series, the culmination of more than six months of primary research, is the first source to define, size and structure the burgeoning alternative media sector.
Blog advertising accounted for 81.4%, or $16.6 million, of total 2005 spending on blog, podcast and RSS advertising, collectively known as user-generated online media. But the blog segment will comprise only 39.7%, or $300.4 million, of overall expenditures in 2010. Podcast advertising, meanwhile, reached $3.1 million in 2005, and is projected to grow at a compound annual rate of 154.4% to $327.0 million in 2010, when it will be a larger market than blog advertising. RSS advertising, non-existent until mid-2005, generated $650,000 in 2005.
Blog, podcast and RSS advertising are being driven by some of the same factors boosting the growth of the overall alternative media sector: continued audience fragmentation, the perceived ineffectiveness of traditional advertising, and the elusive but coveted 18-to-34-year-old demographic, said Patrick Quinn, president of PQ Media. Blog, podcast and RSS advertising have demonstrated an ability to reach younger demographics as well as influentials, and the media tend to be highly engaging. These are attractive trends to brand marketers that are focused on return on investment.
The relatively small size of these markets is an indication of the newness of the media, the lack of standard metrics and various technology issues, Quinn added. As advertising networks become more effective, user engagement escalates, and the industry works through its technology and measurement challenges, we expect user-generated media to grow at triple-digit rates over the next five years, said Quinn.
Technology, auto and media brands are the most active in user-generated media advertising, accounting for more than half of total advertising spending in 2005, with the food & beverage and apparel categories rounding out the top five. The technology, auto and media categories will continue to generate more than half of all advertising in 2010.
Total spending on user-generated online media is forecast to grow at a compound annual rate of 106.1% from 2005 to 2010, reaching $757.0 million in 2010, according to Blog, Podcast and RSS Advertising Outlook. By comparison, the overall alternative media industry including, among others, markets such as branded entertainment, digital out-of-home advertising, mobile marketing and video-on-demand marketing, is projected to grow at a compound annual rate of 14.8% in the five-year period to $253.7 billion in 2010.
PQ Medias Alternative Media Research Series will also include reports covering the overall alternative advertising and marketing industry, including all 22 alternative media segments, and the first report to size and forecast the global market for branded entertainment, among others. These publications are available solely through PQ Medias website at www.pqmedia.com. An executive summary of Blog, Podcast and RSS Advertising Outlook is available online at http://www.pqmedia.com/blog-podcast-rss-advertising.html.
PQ Media is the worlds leading provider of alternative advertising and marketing research. The firm also delivers exclusive data and information on traditional media, including advertising, marketing services, consumer and business media, and media usage. Founded in 2002, PQ Media has two major practice areas through which we provide custom and syndicated research to brand marketers, media buyers, media companies and financial institutions. PQ Media is located at Two Stamford Landing, Suite 100, Stamford, CT 06902. Phone is 203-921-0368; Fax, 203- 921-0367; E-mail, email protected from spam bots.
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Monday, April 10, 2006
New Trends Often Miss The Point, At First
IN THE LATE 90S, I was working on a campaign to make Compaq hip. The firm attempted to buy itself coolness by sponsoring Sting's world tour and setting up a flashy set of interactive functionality on www.Sting.compaq.com (If you're curious, I'm sure that WaybackMachine has some version or another.)
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High Deliverability Mailer Solution Released
L-Soft Releases High Deliverability Mailer - Solution Built on StrongMail Technology Enhances Companys LISTSERV® Product LineBethesda, MD (PRWEB) April 10, 2006 -- L-Soft, the company behind LISTSERV®, the original email list management software that launched the industry in 1986, announced today the availability of HDMail, a powerful mail server software product designed to combine the time-tested power and performance of LISTSERV with the speed and deliverability advantages of StrongMails mail server technology.
Many businesses outsource their email delivery because of the complexity and critical importance of deliverability. Although outsourcing is indisputably more expensive, it delegates the hassle of deliverability optimization to professionals. With HDMails live updates, you can download best practice rules from L-Soft to your in-house appliance and get the best of both worlds, said Eric Thomas, L-Soft Founder and CEO. We are committed to working with StrongMail to make HDMail the best mail server on the market, bar none.
L-Soft provides HDMail software licenses and appliances, which include hardware and software components in a turnkey solution. The new HDMail product is optimized to work with L-Softs LISTSERV family of products and is being sold in conjunction with that product line.
L-Softs decision to offer StrongMail MTA is indicative of where the market is going said Sam Cece, CEO of StrongMail Systems. A new breed of technology and services is required for email delivery, and businesses will be forced to decide whether to build or buy. The winners will be the ones that invest in their core business, and leave their email infrastructure needs to StrongMail.
Key features of HDMail include:
Outstanding Performance: HDMail can deliver more than 1 million outbound and 2 million inbound messages per hour per server.
Smart Bounce Management: HDMail's bounce filter definitions allow you to get unsurpassed details about bounces and their causes, helping you keep your lists clean.
Differentiated Sending: HDMail allows you to maximize your deliveries to individual ISPs by adjusting speed and routing options according to ISP preferences.
Authentication Standards Support: HDMail supports all leading authentication standards, including Sender ID, SPF and DomainKeys/DKIM.
Real-Time Reporting: HDMail tracks all aspects of your email delivery and offers real-time reporting capabilities, including performance and failure reports per recipient, mailing or domain.
Web Management Interface: HDMail offers an easy-to-use Web interface for management in addition to command line management options.
For additional information about HDMail, visit:
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About L-Soft
L-Soft, which was incorporated in 1994, offers email list and opt-in email marketing software and hosting services for managing email newsletters, discussion groups and marketing campaigns. L-Soft's products send about 30 million messages a day to more than 110 million list subscriptions. L-Soft celebrates the 20th anniversary of LISTSERV® in 2006. For more information visit www.lsoft.com or contact L-Soft via email at: email protected from spam bots or call +1-800-399-5449 or +1 (301) 731-0440.
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About StrongMail Systems, Inc.
StrongMail Systems enables companies to realize the value of digital messaging, with high-performance servers that simplify and enhance outbound email systems. StrongMail servers integrate a complete set of delivery, tracking and management capabilities into a single platform to "business-enable" email and other digital messages, allowing companies to build new revenue streams, improve customer loyalty and reduce costs. StrongMail servers integrate with existing business applications to unlock the potential of digital messaging for enterprises, service providers and ISV's. StrongMail is located in Redwood City, CA and is funded by Evercore Partners, Globespan Capital Partners and Sequoia Capital, the venture capitalists behind Google, Yahoo!, Cisco and Apple. To learn more about StrongMail Systems, visit www.strongmail.com
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Sunday, April 09, 2006
Custom Made Promotional Things Drive Strategic Corporate Branding
Strategic Branding at Corporate Events - Custom Made Promotional ItemsTruly effective promotion can often be attributed to a more subtle approach over risky, big-budget marketing campaigns. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the status-driven world of business conventions and similar industry gatherings.
Corporate occasions are rightly considered as prime opportunities for any business to gain recognition within the marketplace, however many companies still fail to maximise their full potential due to unstructured and often careless preparation.
The importance of strategic branding methods can not be overstated and it is an attention to detail that repeatedly prevails in determining the success of a firm's market image.
Corporate events on any scale are seen as key to the long term durability of a brand and ultimately the success of the business as a whole. By remaining visible and current in the eyes of other firms, a company is far better able to negotiate its position.
Strategies vary over time, but the application of small promotional items and corporate gifts has shown itself to be a consistent, cost-effective means of improving brand image. The potential for these items is endless with the potency of simple giveaways like enamel pin badges, key-rings, coasters and even photo frames bearing the company logo still hugely underrated.
The memento remains as a constant reminder long after the event has ended and can be an aide memoir for business opportunities. For companies who want the event visitor to have their contact details easily to hand, a desk message in the form of a PROMO-FLEX soft pvc coaster is ideal. Unlike other coasters, these can be manufactured to literally any shape and size requested. Additionally, they are flexible and can aid stress relief; non-slip, to prevent accidental spillage on those all important papers and long lasting when they get dirty, just pop them in the dishwasher and they come up like new.
Other corporate gifts such as customised jewellery offer further opportunity to display the prestige of a business especially if care is taken in choosing the right packaging in which to present them. Such gifts can act as an everyday reminder to clients and provide more steadfast brand visibility compared with expensive and often fleeting alternatives.
Security, particularly at large events, can be a problem. Delegates and staff wearing bespoke printed or woven lanyards with pass details attached or personalised name badges are easily identified and the security risk is reduced. We can produce all of your badging needs lanyards, passes and personalised name badges.
Pinbadge is Europe's premier supplier of custom made promotional items including badges, lapel pins, key chains and corporate jewellery.
For more information regarding the potential of promotional gifts and branding opportunities visit www.pinbadge.com or, for PROMO-FLEX soft pvc items, visit www.promoflex.co.uk.
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Friday, April 07, 2006
Direct Marketing Consultant Gets $800.00 an hour
Information Products Then and Now: A Look at the Evolution of an IndustryThe Death of the Information Products Business Part Two.
Lake Worth, FL (PRWEB) April 7, 2006 -- As stated previously in The Death of the Information Products Business, there is a new wind blowing on the horizon and Dan S. Kennedy*, as always, gives his prediction so poignantly in The Death of the Information Marketing Business part one.
The consensus of part one being, technology has made it clear that theft and piracy is here to stay*. Part two continues to address this problem, with solutions and logic.
The daring few caught and sued out of existence, will only be minuscule to the ever-growing global challenge.
One combat strategy being products are no longer, the front-end focus, but included in promotion, integrated event sales, give-a ways and so on.
For many, this will be a hard pill to swallow, and they will ignore this fact, this threat, until it is too late.
A question to ask, are entrepreneurs getting lazy?
With education and information products becoming more difficult to sell, quote "we must find ways to deliver 'value' without requiring 'work and implementation. This means the 'value' is either ethereal, such as the overall experience of being at an event, the satisfying nature of being part of something, fraternity, general mental stimulation, a supportive environment, and, importantly, entertainment and/or actual services where implementation and results are provided, such as newsletters, mailing campaigns, web sites, etc." end quote by Dan S. Kennedy
Information entrepreneurs must now evolve from being enraged to correcting their strategies.
Dan S. Kennedy began to implement or practice what he preaches some time ago as he witnessed this 'new wind blowing.'
Part two in the Death Series is another attempt for a Heads Up, a life-saver as it were saving many good people and their free enterprising 'ways of life.'
The full report
*According to the Recording Industry Association of America Each year, the industry loses about $4.2 billion to piracy worldwide.' Webopedia.com notes software piracy is all but impossible to stop and information of any medium is about the same.
*Dan S. Kennedy is one of the highest paid, most in-demand direct marketing consultants in America today. In the last few years, he has worked hands-on with clients in 68 different businesses, industries and sales fields, at fees starting at $800.00 an hour.
His methods transfer easily from one to the other. Entrepreneur Magazine says he has "at least 101 moneymaking ideas for any business owner" -- but 'idea' is really a misnomer; Dan is relentless about providing only proven, practical, usable action strategies.
As a consultant, Dan applies his "marketing wizardry" and moves with remarkable ease from one field to the next -- proving that his methods are universally applicable, although often brought to a particular field for the first time at his urging.
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Thursday, April 06, 2006
Some Minneapolis Library Areas Still Lack Sponsor Names, Ebay Considered
The center, located on the first floor, offers complete wireless computer access, in addition to 16 computers for training, and a variety of educational activities including courses in applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and Outlook. In addition, computer-related workshops will be presented on topics such as resume writing, conducting an online job search, how to use business and government online databases, among other topics.
Minnesota's only U.S. Patent Depository Library, the Patent & Trademark Depository Library houses complete patent records from 1790 to the present, including Minnesota patents for Rollerblades, Scotchgard fabric and apparel protection, Post it Notes and more.
A resource for encouraging self-exploration for job searches and career choices, the Jobs & Careers Center offers a large collection of books on topics such as resume writing, interviewing techniques and job trends and qualifications.
The Small Business Center is a resource for small business owners and entrepreneurs, including materials on developing business plans, filing a business with the Secretary of State, obtaining financing, developing marketing strategies, investigating permit and licensing requirements, learning accounting practices and developing job descriptions and personnel policies.
The Central Library is part of the Minneapolis Public Library system, which was created in 1885 according to the belief that the community would be stronger and more prosperous if knowledge was shared rather than held as a private commodity. Today, the Minneapolis Public Library is an interconnected system of 15 libraries that strives to connect all people with the transforming power of knowledge. In collaboration with the city's other branch libraries, the new Central Library reflects why Minneapolis has prospered into one of the nation's most literate cities.
For digital images of the new Central Library, visit www.mplib.org and click on Minneapolis Central Library.
Minneapolis Central Library, Minneapolis
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Target Wants to Drop Shorts
Target Brands Attempts to Drop 'Ultimate Boxer's' ShortsTarget is attempting to knock out the trademark of a Maryland boxer shorts manufacturer.
BALTIMORE, MD (PRWEB) April 6, 2006 --When a small start-up company selling boxer shorts is contacted by a major department store with 1,400 stores in 47 states, the possibilities can be very exciting.
That's not the case for Ultimate Boxer, a small company located in Baltimore that manufactures and sells it patented men's boxer shorts under the federally-trademarked brand, Ultimate Boxer®.
Target Brands, a division of Target Corporation, has filed a petition to cancel (#92044899) against Ultimate Boxer. According to the petition, Target Brands states that it has used the term Ultimate in connection with clothing goods including Ultimate Polo, Ultimate Tee, and Ultimate Khaki in advertising distributed on or about February 2005.
"I submitted the trademark Ultimate Boxer with the United States Trademark and Patent Office in 2002 and received the rights to the trademark the following year," said Max Hernandez, owner of Ultimate Boxer. "I was completely shocked to receive a document in the mail stating that Target Brands was trying to get rid of my trademark."
Attempting to cancel a trademark registration is a way for the big guy to push the little guy with previous use out, said Mike Oliver, a member of the Maryland Intellectual Property Law firm of Bowie and Jensen LLC. Its a super aggressive way to try to overwhelm a smaller company with court fees and paperwork in hopes they will abandon the trademark or run out of money.
Mr. Hernandez stated he will continue to defend his rights against Target.
About Ultimate Boxer:
Ultimate Boxer is a boxer shorts manufacturer located in Baltimore. The company sells its innovative gap-proof patented boxer shorts under the brands Ultimate Boxer and How Ya Hangin?
Contact:
Max Hernandez, owner
Ultimate Boxer
410-832-5889
http://www.ultimateboxer.com
http://www.howyahangin.com
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[ Editor's comments: Those can compete, do. Those that can't, sue. (hris ]
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Online Legal Service Provider Caves To NP Complaint About Keyword Marketing
LegalMatch and Pine Tree Legal Assistance Amicably Agree to SettlementLegalMatch, a national provider of online legal services, and Pine Tree Legal Assistance, a nonprofit company that provides legal services for Maine's poor, have reached an amicable settlement in a legal dispute that LegalMatch calls, More of a misunderstanding than a lawsuit.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 5, 2006 -- LegalMatch, a national provider of online legal services, and Pine Tree Legal Assistance, a nonprofit company that provides legal services for Maine's poor, have reached an amicable settlement in a legal dispute that LegalMatch calls, More of a misunderstanding than a lawsuit.
According to the original suit, (US District Court, District of Maine, Case # 06-CV-45-P-H), advertisements from California-based LegalMatch appeared when a computer user typed "Pine Tree Legal Assistance" into Web search engines including Yahoo!, MSN, and Google. The suit, filed on February 28, 2006 in U.S. District Court on behalf of Pine Tree Legal Assistance, has now been settled with no monies changing hands.
According to Don Keane, Vice President of Marketing for LegalMatch, We [LegalMatch are working with the nations major search engines, including Google, Yahoo, and MSN, to make sure non-profits are not part of our multi-million dollar search engine marketing program. We have the greatest respect for non-profit agencies that service peoples legal needs, says Keane. LegalMatch is a free online legal matching service based in San Francisco, California, and Pine Tree Legal Assistance is a non-profit provider of free legal services to people in need and serving the State of Maine.
About LegalMatch
Established in 1999, with a formal site-launch in 2000, LegalMatch is a leading national provider of online legal services. Corporate offices are located in San Francisco and Los Angeles. For more information regarding the company, please contact Don Keane, Vice-President of Marketing at (415) 946-0855.
About Pine Tree Legal Assistance Service
Pine Tree Legal Assistance is a nonprofit corporation with 501(c)(3) status established in 1966 by private attorneys in Maine to meet the need for legal assistance by low-income residents. Over the past 35 years, Pine Tree has become a recognized part of the justice system in Maine, providing help to over 350,000 Maine people since its doors first opened.
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Last-Minute Tips for Last-Minute Tax Filers
Appleton, WI 54912-8002 April 5 2006
With April quickly flying by, the April 17 (due to the 15th falling on a weekend in 2006) tax-filing deadline is weighing heavily on the minds of last-minute tax filers who are racing to beat the clock. Some estimates indicate that nearly half of all taxpayers flirt with the deadline. If you have not yet filed your taxes, here are some critical tips to assist you.
o Attach W-2s, W-2Gs, 1099-Rs, and 9465s at the front of Form 1040 or 1040A; attach all others behind.
o Payable to the United States Treasury.
o The tax year the check is for.
o The type of form you are filing.
o Taxpayer social security numbers.
o A daytime phone number.
"Professional tax preparers help people with these situations all the time", adds Huston, "so what might be new and time consuming to you could take just a few minutes for an experienced professional to complete. A professional preparer's fees are often paid for by the tax savings they generate or the headaches they prevent."
Char De Coster (cdecoster@natptax.com)
Copywriter / Communications Editor
National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP)
720 Association Drive, PO Box 8002
Appleton, WI 54912-8002
Phone : 800.558.3402 ext. 1172
Fax : 920.968.7472
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Saddam Hussein Sued For Copyright Infringement
Press Release by: PriorMart AG
PriorMart AG with offices in Potsdam and Brandenburg a.d.H., both Germany, is a technology company and a supplier of services simplifying proof in copyright protection. The company was founded in May 2005 and is privately held.
Press contact: Peter Schilling
http://www.priormart.de
press@priormart.com
Secrets to Getting A Thinner Wallet
Secrets to Getting Targeted Traffic To Your WebsiteJohn Reese a veteran marketer who had generated more than 1.57 Billion Web Site Visitors to his sites since he started marketing online, now shares all secrets with actual results.
Orlando, Florida (PRWEB) November 9, 2005 -- After six months of implementing what the new Marketing Course Traffic Secrets has taught, owners entrepreneurs from 52 countries now gathered to show the world real Proofs.
They now shared detailed information about how the course changed their business forever many include screenshots of their web site traffic logs and even merchant account statements to give you Proof of what they accomplished. Altogether, there were over 100 fully documented success stories.
For more success stories and information, Go to : http://www.alotcash.com/
Traffic Secrets covers these following:
How to build and geometrically grow the number of highly targeted leads and prospects coming to your website that translate into cash and profits...
How to leverage your lead generation to gain more consistency in the number of prospects you get, and create more stability and growth in your business...
How to build so much momentum in the flow of visitors coming to your business that taking your website down is the only way to stop it...
How to easily discover which sources of leads are really making you money (and quickly trash the ones that are sucking your time and profits)...
How to get as much as 4-5 times more leads for the same advertising dollars, and squeeze every ounce of profit out of every visitor you generate...
How to tap many "hidden," super-abundant sources of good quality leads (as many as several hundreds of thousands) for absolutely 100% zero cost...
How to dump, once and for all, all the dumb, costly and ineffective methods that only create one-time spurts of junk traffic that will never buy from you...
How to create and follow a complete "attack plan," especially if you're currently relying on only 1-2 sources for generating your leads because they can change and dry up overnight (they often do)...
How to get your hands on proven, time-tested lead generation strategies that really WORK and not "sounds good" regurgitated "theory" that everyone and their dog has seen, read or heard before...
For more success stories and information, Go to : http://www.alotcash.com/
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Phone: 65-6388-3469
Website: http://www.alotcash.com/
[Editor's comments You have to ask yourself two things when you see a site like the one being promoted in this press release:
1) If this person knows so much and makes so much money, why are they selling what they know to you? If this stuff really works, then they don't need to sell it and must be trying to help out the little guy also make a lot of money. They want to help us, right?
2) If what they say works and they want to help us, why are they charging almost $1,000 for it? I think it's so we will take the offer "more seriously", I mean, if they are charging that much it must be worth it, right?
My advice is not to fall of this or any other "long form" type of offer unless you really do your homework and check them out, ask for references, and make sure you understand what you are getting.
By the way, the above link is just an re-direction affiliate link. If you are really interested in what is offered, go directly to the site here: http://www.trafficsecrets.com. But I would not bother! (hris ]
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Building Retail Traffic with Direct Mail
Building Retail Traffic with Direct Mail
Multichannel Merchant - Stamford,CT,USA
... Catalogs are usually more cost-effective than postcards or other smaller direct mail pieces because the cost of a postcard mailing is almost as expensive as ...
Must-Mail/Must-Not-Mail
Multichannel Merchant - Stamford,CT,USA
... they were dropped. If necessary, insert the must-mail list into the postmerge file to guarantee that they get out. Keep up with ...
Why Postal Trucks Park in Traffic
Washington Post - United States
... much as we all would prefer mail to be delivered before the evening commute, it is a difficult endeavor in this era of increasing amounts of bulk mail, such as ...Postal workers will fight closure despite agreement
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... Canada Post that protects the individual rights of postal workers in Quebec City while maintaining the union's campaign to keep the mail processing plant open. ...Postal Service Shelves Study of Centralia Processing Center ...
WJBDRadio.com - Salem,IL,USA
The US Postal Service has placed a study of the possible consolidation of the Centralia mail processing center into the St. Louis ...
Baucus questions shift in mail processing
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
US Sen. Max Baucus renewed his criticism of a US Postal Service study, which could shift mail processing to Great Falls and possibly delay in-town mail. ...Area houses legacy of women's rights
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA
... The government twice accused Lewis of illegally using bulk mailing rates for a magazine that was more advertising than articles. ...It Came in the Mail
Washington Post - United States
... the door for their freshman year. That's a lot of direct mail and flashy Web site designing. Others say Sevier's numbers are low ...
As Politicos Race to Match Voter Data to E-mail Data, Reactions ...
ClickZ News - New York,NY,USA
... Because these data also are used for phone and direct mail communications, explained Aaron Pickrell, chief operating officer at DCS Online Communications, most ...
Innovations in Online Direct Response Fundraising Drive Results
PNN - Richmond,VA,USA
... running "viral campaigns" in which people forward messages to their friends; and collecting email addresses offline at events and on direct mail reply devices. ...
Italian Post Sees Better Mail Volume, Quality
DM News - New York,NY,USA
... "Our volumes have increased as well as the overall service quality of our mail.". Sarmi also noted a rise in direct mail in the country. ...______________________________________________
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