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BackstreetBoyMusic.com Launches, with Videos of Their Hits

Just launched, BackstreetBoyMusic.com has videos of all of the Backstreet Boys' greatest hits, embedded on one page, for free access.

Everything for Backstreet Boys lovers is available from links at the site, from posters to T-shirts, to their CDs.

The videos will make the most memorable impression -- there is a video of almost every Backstreet Boy hit.

The videos are embedded and play right on the webpage at no cost. There are videos of all of the big hits, including "I Want It That Way," "Incomplete," "10,000 Promises," "Still" and more.

Exchanging Real Estate Tax Free

No one likes writing Uncle Sam large checks. Yet many people needlessly send Uncle 15% of their profit when they sell a rental house or land. There is a simple way to avoid it. Its called a 1031 exchange and it can keep you from losing tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in unnecessary taxes and loss of growth.

The 1031 exchange is named after section 1031 of the IRS tax code. Basically, it allows you to exchange an existing investment property for a different investment property without having to pay capital gains taxes on the transaction. This applies to any investment property including rental houses, raw land, business property, commercial real estate, condos, apartments, etc.

iZania.com Specializes in Targeting Black Online Consumers

Many Black-owned businesses want to target Black consumers, but find it increasingly difficult to reach this target audience, because Black consumers are dispersed geographically. Reaching the Black online audience has just become easier with the iZania Black Networking Community. "We started with a simple Black-owned business directory, and now we have filled out that foundation with a complete community experience - including news, forums, and an e-commerce marketplace," says Roger Madison, founder and CEO of iZania.com. "We provide entry level entrepreneurs with a set of marketing tools and access to a growing online audience that helps them to accelerate the growth of their business. This target audience is comprised of entrepreneurs, professionals and consumers that represent the most likely buying audience for their goods and services."

FormSpring Advances Online Forms; Now Accepts Multiple Online Payment Options

FormSpring, the powerful online form service, announces integration with the four most popular online payment systems. FormSpring has upgraded their PayPal integration as well as integration with Google Checkout, Authorize.net and LinkPoint.

"By integrating with these different payment systems, users will now be able to accept payments in their preferred manner," states Ade Olonoh, CEO of FormSpring. "We are allowing our users to create any type of online order form, event registration form, donation request form, etc., and accept payments with the four most trusted payment processors in the industry."

New IIMA Executive Bootcamps to Help Senior Executives Understand the Impact of Developments in Online Marketing and Social Media Trends

Enterprise 2.0 Bootcamp, the first in its series, will focus on helping executives to understand how the social media phenomenon has changed customer relationships and how we can make a long term plan to profit from it.

Enterprise 2.0 Bootcamp, led by Ean Jackson of Analytics Marketing and John Husband of Wierarchy provides a comprehensive overview for those who feel their business could be missing the boat on social media. Enterprise 2.0 Bootcamp provides them with the opportunity to engage and mobilize customer masses and become brand advocates.

ePromos Wins 2009 Multichannel Merchant Award with High Marks for Navigation/Usability, Content and Merchandising

ePromos Promotional Products, Inc. (http://www.epromos.com), a leading online supplier of logoed merchandise, today announced receipt of a Silver Multichannel Merchant (MCM) Award in the "Web, Business Specialty" category - the top award in the category. The international MCM Awards recognize superior print and catalogs and websites based on the assessments of a panel of industry experts. Web catalogs, like ePromos, are evaluated in the areas of creative, merchandising, copy, customer service, navigation, and marketing execution.

Pacific Media Wins Two Prestigious Telly Awards

Pacific Media, a multimedia communications company based in Silicon Valley, has won two bronze Tellys in the 27th Annual Telly Awards, one of the electronic media’s most prestigious competitions. With a record 13,379 entries from all 50 states and around the world, this year’s Telly Awards was the most competitive in it’s twenty-five year history.

“We Are New York,” a hip, high-energy video produced for Cisco Systems to launch their New York City Showroom with internal audiences, won a bronze telly for Pacific Media in the Employee Communication category.

Valtera Consultants Contribute to Groundbreaking Assessment Science Book

Valtera is pleased to announce that its thought leaders made significant contributions to the recently released book entitled, "Alternative Validation Strategies: Developing New and Leveraging Existing Validity Evidence."

The book, a compendium of current research and thinking on creative approaches to employment test validation, was edited by S. Morton McPhail, Ph.D., a Sr. Vice President and Managing Principal with Valtera. It offers employers cost-effective ways to draw inferences from their selection procedures while meeting stringent legal and regulatory requirements. In addition to Dr. McPhail's work, the book contains chapters from other Valtera senior scientists including Nancy T. Tippins, Ph.D., Julie A. Caplinger, M.A., and Damian J. Stelly, Ph.D., as well as many other leading experts in the field from both academia and practice.

Essen Travel Makes Choosing Houston Hotels and Sight Seeing Easier

Essen Travel (http://www.essentravel.com) is proud to announce their new City Guide feature that will help those staying in Houston hotels to plan all of their sight seeing while in the city. Houston is a large city, the fourth largest in the United States, and there is a lot to see and do. This new feature gives visitors to the city great information on fun events, exciting destinations, and more.

Traveling to a new city is always fun, but it can also be overwhelming when it is a big city that has a lot to offer in the way of sight seeing and entertainment. It's been said that everything is bigger in Texas, and all of the sight seeing opportunities in Houston are no exception to this rule. Getting the inside track on what is fun to do in the city will definitely help tourists to make the most of their time.

Corda Delivers an On-Demand Customer Service & Support Dashboard

Alan Hansen, CFO & President of Corda Solutions, recently participated in an exclusive interview with Ron Powell and the Business Intelligence Network (www.BeyeNETWORK.com). In this interview, Hansen discusses Corda’s on-demand Customer Service & Support Dashboard and describes how it delivers powerful data visualization and real-time operational intelligence for case management, contract management and agent performance.

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Their on-demand Customer Service & Support Dashboard for salesforce.com’s AppExchange is evidence that Corda is committed to addressing specific market needs.

“Customer service and support is a process-intensive business. Corda’s Customer Service and Support Dashboard for Salesforce.com delivers the performance management capabilities needed for this very important segment of business,” said Alan Hansen, CFO & President of Corda Solutions. “Corda’s performance dashboard solutions deliver the insight and agility organizations need to stay competitive.”

“Corda delivers anywhere, anytime visual access to data, enabling enterprises to gain greater insights into the big picture as well as the details of performance problems or performance successes so that they can make more accurate -- and more timely -- decisions,” says Ron Powell, Cofounder and Editorial Director of the Business Intelligence Network. “Their on-demand Customer Service & Support Dashboard for salesforce.com’s AppExchange is evidence that Corda is committed to addressing specific market needs.”

To listen to the interview, please click here.

Hundreds of San Diego Homes Available for Under $200,000

San Diego continues to have a large foreclosure inventory, giving potential San Diego homebuyers and investors great buying opportunities. As of November 10th, 2008, there are 5,862 San Diego bank-owned properties. Buyers have been taking advantage of low prices and distressed properties; the current number of 5,862 San Diego foreclosed homes has dropped from more than 7,000 foreclosed properties in October. With over 2,500 San Diego foreclosure properties actively for sale on the San Diego Multiple Listing Service (MLS), the remaining 3,362 bank-owned properties are being processed to be available for sale or are currently in escrow.

The Perfect Gift for This Holiday Season is Relaxed, Silky Hair

Do you know someone who’s always moaning about how their hair is out-of-control, too curly or damaged from over-processing? The perfect gift for anyone who dreams of looser curls or silky, relaxed hair is now available from Xenna Corporation. The breakthrough relaxer is called Curlaway™ Gel, which relaxes hair naturally, without harsh chemicals or the damage that high-pH ingredients can cause.

Curlaway Gel is a gentle, patented, one-step hair relaxing formula that removes curl as well as frizz, and is effective on all hair types, whether Caucasian, Hispanic or African-American. C. J. Buck, CEO of Xenna, says, “The beauty of Curlaway Gel is that it leaves your hair silky-soft and smooth by gradually removing curl and frizz without the need of a neutralizing step. Just apply and wash out. With Curlaway you control just how much curl to remove for just the look you want. Curlaway hair can be styled into ringlets, sexy, full waves, or with continued use, become ‘Asian’ straight. Even African-American hair responds beautifully with regular applications.”

Major Regional Bank Extends Agreement with ERC and Chooses Selectech® Assessments to Enhance Its Job Seeker Pre-Qualification and Selection Services

ERC Dataplus, Inc., a leading Human Resource technology company, announced that a major regional bank has extended ERC's workforce management services for an additional two years. In addition, the bank, an ERC client for more than four years also incorporated ERC's validated, pre-hire assessments to the selection process. The integrated system will be used across all of financial institution's locations.

"As a bank committed to outstanding customer service, setting the standard of performance in the financial services industry, and being an employer of choice, we recognize the importance of selecting and retaining the best qualified professionals who will contribute to our success," a spokesperson for the bank said. "Integral to this process, is our using ERC's pre-qualification and selection system, Selectech® Candidate Management System. We decided last year to incorporate ERC's pre-hire assessment and replace another's because we weren't achieving the results we wanted and because ERC's services were significantly less costly."

Elliance Launches Revolutionary Sweepstakes Tool for DIY Marketers

Until now, online sweepstakes have been a secret weapon used by large corporations to increase customer acquisition, engagement and involvement. By creating ennectSweeps, Elliance levels the playing field between enterprise corporations, who could always afford to run sweepstakes, and smaller firms interested in an inexpensive DIY approach.

With ennectSweeps, an organization of any size is empowered to quickly and inexpensively tackle critical issues in customer service, sales, marketing and product development.

ClearFlite Air Cleaners Announces New W3C Compliant Web Site

ClearFlite Air Cleaners announces the introduction of their new W3C compliant website www.airpurifiers.com to assure compatibility with all current and future browsers. The new site maintains the appearance and ease of use of the old site but has had all of the HTML tuned to assure compatibility with the W3C standards.

“We invested several man weeks to reach this level of compatibility. The first task was to assign a proper document type and font tag to each of the over 300 pages. Then each page was run though the W3C HTML validator and tuned until it passed.” Said Ted Zajac Jr., Vice President of Technology for ClearFlite Air Cleaners. “While this was a tremendous amount of tedious work it was necessary for two reasons. First, we can now be assured that our customers will “see” the site properly now and in the future. Secondly, we were concerned that the search engines may add an attribute to there algorithms which was influenced by the quality of the HTML on the site.” added Zajac.

Merchant Warehouse Launches Unique Affiliate Program With Phone Call Tracking

Merchant Warehouse, a premier provider of merchant accounts and credit card processing solutions, this month announced the release of their new and ground breaking Merchant Account Affiliate Program. This is the first affiliate program in the Merchant Services industry that is fully capable of tracking offline phone call conversions, significantly increasing the earning potential of the program.

"There is no doubt this will help our affiliates make more money than they could with a traditional program," said Brian Waldman, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at Merchant Warehouse. "Not only do we get more phone calls than online leads to begin with; phone calls are also better leads that close at a higher rate. The fact is; as an affiliate, if you are not getting credited for the phone calls you generate, you are just not making the money you deserve."

Introducing MadeitMyself.com, an Online Marketplace for Handmade Arts and Crafts

Painters, sculptors, woodworkers and other artisans now have a way to turn their hobbies into profitable businesses.

Introducing MadeitMyself.com, a new online marketplace where users can buy and sell handmade goods. It's the perfect way for vendors to display their unique wares while buyers search for and purchase one of a kind, hard to find items.

For buyers, MadeitMyself.com eliminates the need to spend countless weekends scouring the craft fair circuit to find that special item. Collectors of imported goods no longer need to travel abroad or pay exorbitant importer/exporter fees, or bid on items at live auction.

Vehicle Protection Association Offers Regulatory Training to Members

As part of its ongoing effort to promote regulatory education and compliance in the automotive service contracts industry, the Vehicle Protection Association (VPA) today announced that regulatory training for all member firms will be provided on July 22, 2009 at 2 PM Central, 3 PM Eastern.

VPA regulatory training will cover compliance requirements related to consumer protection and respect for consumer marketing preferences including Do Not Call, Privacy, CAN SPAM, fax laws, registration statutes, UDAP, and other applicable regulatory frameworks.

Curbs & Concrete, LLC Provides both Commercial and Residential Concrete Services at a Affordable Price

Curbs & Concrete, LLC provides both commercial and residential concrete services including landscape curbing, paver installation, concrete driveways, patios, sidewalks and/or repairs of driveways, patios, pool decks, walkways. Also resurfacing, stain & seal of worn/damaged concrete.

Benefits of pavers

Pavers when installed properly are a far superior product over concrete. the main advantages include soil stabilization by installation of a subbase under the pavers, high compressive strength of 8000 psi for pavers compared with 2500 to 3000 psi (standards for concrete) and ease of paver replacement.

Black History Month Effort Supports Young Doctor for Nobel Prize

For Black History Month 2006, the Organization of Tribal Unity (OTU) is commencing a world-wide effort to generate support for the nomination of Dr. Rick Kittles of Ohio State University for the Nobel Prize. The OTU is a New York non-profit that uses DNA research to link African Diasporans with their African ethnic and national groups for cultural education opportunities.

Dr. Kittles, a 40-year-old geneticist who descends from enslaved Africans, was selected for this honor due to his unique contribution to the field of genetics. His original DNA research and analysis is repairing the effects of 450 years of slavery related ethnic cleansing committed against people of African descent. His unique method compares genetic sequences to restore ethnic and national identity -- two of the most fundamental human attributes. Kittles' own DNA links him to the Yoruba ethnic group of Nigeria.