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The Business Finance Store Discusses Venture Capital and Alternative Business Funding

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Santa Ana, CA (PRWEB) February 21, 2012

The New York Times recently reported how venture capitalist Ben Horowitz provides business lessons to entrepreneurs through rap music. This unorthodox method of information delivery is just another quirk to shake the seemingly glamorous world of venture capital. It seems that almost everyone wants venture capital funding, yet the reality is that relatively few get it. The venture capital, angel investor and other private equity investor world is not an easy one to break in to. In the recent blog post ?Pitfalls of VC Funding: ?Due Diligence? for Small Business Owners,? The Business Finance Store discusses important considerations for small businesses exploring venture capital as a funding option, as well as alternative financing methods.

Many small business owners seek out venture capital funding for the simple reason that it makes their enterprise much more liquid up-front, with the hope that the funds will help skyrocket their profitability. Realistically, small business owners know that?s not always the way it works, and those who haven?t thought about the strings that may be attached to VC funding should think twice about what realities they might face after accepting one of these large amounts of capital. Read more about venture capital funding and alternatives at The Business Finance Store Blog.

The Business Finance Store is a business financing and consulting firm that offers customized Business Financial Solutions. Seasoned professionals offer assistance in a variety of financial solutions to help small businesses succeed such as:Business Financial Solutions, Legal Solutions, and Accounting Solutions.

The staff at The Business Finance Store understands that starting and growing a business is an exciting time. They keep it exciting by taking care of some of the most difficult aspects, by providing legal advice, helping with vital responsibilities like accounting & bookkeeping, and by obtaining business finance. They can quickly and easily guide entrepreneurs through many different complicated processes and put them on the path to success.

For 10 years The Business Finance Store has been helping startups and other small businesses legally structure their companies, find the right franchises, get the funding they need, and achieve the American Dream of owning their own successful business. Since expanding nationwide in 2007, they have helped thousands of companies and have funded over $ 60 Million in business credit lines, not including SBA loans. The Business Finance Store sees limitless potential in the current climate, and looks forward to many strong years of growth to come. Take some time to review their services, and give them a call.

For more information, or a free, no-obligation analysis of your business needs, visit The Business Finance Store website: http://www.businessfinancestore.com. A member of their professional staff will contact you to discuss your business’ short and long-term goals. Whatever you need, The Business Finance Store is there.

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New Technology for Busy Dentists Facilitates Personal Interaction with Patients

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Denville, NJ (PRWEB) February 16, 2012

?Most local dental practices will draw the majority of their business locally, and it?s unlikely patients will spend much time reading your latest Facebook post,? said Chhoda. ?If you?re going to put that much effort into maintaining contact with patients, why not do it with email, print, phone and text messaging? Why not do it with new, done-for-you technologies like Instant Dental Newsletter??

Websites are useful tools that can be utilized to offer patient forms, announce hours of operation and even schedule appointments. What they can?t do is provide the personal touch that only comes with person-to-person contact. Patients want to know their doctor cares, and dentists can offer a critical element of customer service with new done-for-you technologies such as this dental newsletter.

Personal emails, phone calls and text messaging are all offered, providing dentists with a customizable resource to send a simple thank you, appointment reminder or follow up. Chhoda, who is an expert on dental marketing, noted that many dentists overwhelm visitors with information on their websites and spend considerable time and effort on SEO for their website when the focus should be on retaining patients and attracting new clients.

The same can be said for social media platforms. Those who visit Facebook and Twitter do so to connect with friends and family, not be bombarded with the latest marketing ploy. An email, text message or phone call demonstrates to patients that they?re more than just a number in the system. It makes a lasting impression and the personal nature of the contact doesn?t get lost among all the ?likes? and ?friending? taking place online.

?The ability to leverage different modes of communication ? email, direct mail, text messaging and phone calls work best for patients,? said Chhoda. ?Software systems allow dentists to communicate with past, present and prospective patients on a consistent and personal level.?

The most elaborate website is a waste of time and money if it isn?t generating new patients or helping the practice maintain contact with existing clients. Chhoda has assisted thousands of small practices in increasing patient numbers with the use of software systems that utilize email, phone calls and text messaging. A website is a useful tool, but it?s the personal contact that patients crave and to which they respond.

Chhoda?s office can be reached by phone at 201-535-4475. For more information, visit the dental marketing blog by Nitin Chhoda

ABOUT NITIN CHHODA

Nitin Chhoda is a licensed physical therapist, a doctor of physical therapy, and a certified strength and conditioning specialist. He?s the author of ?Total Activation: The New 5 Step Fitness Mantra? and ?Marketing for Physical Therapy Clinics.? He?s been featured in numerous industry magazines, major radio and broadcast media, and is the founder of Referral Ignition training systems, Private Practice Summit, the Private Practice Formula and the Private Practice Mastermind group. Chhoda speaks extensively throughout the U.S., Canada and Asia. He?s the creator of the Therapy Newsletter, along with Clinical Contact, a web-based service that boosts patient arrival rates.

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Bop Design Answers the Top 10 Social Media and SEO Questions Posed by Small Businesses

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San Diego, CA (PRWEB) February 16, 2012

Most small business owners understand that their firm needs a SEO and social media marketing strategy. However, there is still much confusion regarding the benefits of SEO and social media, and the best way for a small business to implement an effective plan. Bop Design, a San Diego based marketing agency focused on small businesses, has released a resource titled the “Top 10 Social Media & SEO Questions Answered.” The resource is designed for the small business owner who is cash strapped, time crunched but knows their firm needs an effective SEO and social media plan to increase brand awareness and generate ideal customer leads.

Bop Design Business Principal, Jeremy Durant, comments, “There is a tendency for small businesses to over-complicate their social media and SEO strategy. This causes a strategy to be disjointed, sporadic and undisciplined.” Durant says that a strategy all starts with content creation. “If a firm can generate two relevant, timely blog entries a month, this can be the start of an effective SEO and social media plan.” Durant contends that these blog entries can be re-purposed in regular social media communication and an SEO article distribution strategy. “Social media and SEO truly work hand in hand and where it all starts is content. Content establishes you as a thought leader on social media and creates keyword rich content for on and off page optimization.” Because SEO and social media can work together, Bop Design combined the two topics in one guide.

The Top 10 List includes common questions like: Can a SEO firm reasonably guarantee top ranking on Google? How can I test the effectiveness of my website? How do I determine what keywords my firm?s website should target? Click here to access the guide.

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Top Gun Options Trade on VXX Last Thursday Nets Over $1500 in Under 48 Hours; Potential for $3100 in More Gains as Barrons Sees Dow 15,000

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Miami, FL (PRWEB) February 13, 2012

The cover of Barron?s this past weekend proclaimed ?Dow 15,000?, and ?Dow 17,000 is a 50/50 bet?. The Top Gun Options trading team believes this prediction is fundamentally flawed and explored both sides of this bold prediction to help investors of all levels make an informed choice about where the market is heading.

Follow this link to see the trade that made over $ 1500 or 67% in under 2 days, and Top Gun Options new bearish trade on the SPY:

Top Gun Options Advanced Trade Alert

Written by Gene Epstein, the article titled ?Enter the Bull? often quotes the well-known Wharton School finance professor and author of Stocks for the Long Run Jeremy Siegel.

Their main argument is that history is on their side.

The Barron’s article stated ?Based on cyclical patterns of market history, the odds are better than two chances in three that the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) will reach 15,000 or higher over the next two years. Based on the same cyclical patterns, there?s about a 50-50 chances that the Dow could hit 17,000 or more.?

Citing Mr. Siegel?s stock market performance data dating back to 1871, the market reacts in a cyclical manner, known as the ?rubber band? cycle of expansion and rapid collapse. The stock market saw healthy double digits returns last year but was muted by domestic and European issues.

Top Gun Options looks at a wide range of market data to gather intelligence. The founder and CEO of Top Gun Options, Matthew ‘Whiz’ Buckley, said “Barron’s needed to roll out the worn disclaimer of past performance is not an indicator of future results.”

To see a bearish trade on SPY click here: http://topgunoptions.com/advanced-alert/

Buckley continued, “Greece will most likely fail in its austerity efforts, as will other European nations like Italy who are accustomed to living the high life – bloated civil services with equally under-worked and bloated workers and pension plans. These sovereign defaults will be followed by the United State?s own Greece and Italy ? California and Illinois”. Buckley believes that with their bloated budgets (the state of CA is over $ 25B in the red) and the federal government will be ‘forced’ to bail these sates out. Buckley summarized, “Seems ?fair? right? States like FL who have no state tax, compared to CA?s 10% ?right off the top of your paycheck tax?, do not have issues like CA. The Golden State spends over $ 12.5B in benefits for illegal immigrant services. That?s nearly $ 1500 per legal resident in the state, including children. Seems only ?fair? that the other 48 states and their taxpayers, each with their own issues, bail out these states before they go bankrupt right?”

Top Gun Options believes Mr. Siegel’s hypothesis does not take into account the unemployment and housing issues which are forecast by the government and independent sources such as the National Association of Realtors to remain high. Based on these sources, the Top Gun Options trading team believes unemployment will remain above 8%, which was not supposed to occur according to the Obama administration based on bailouts and QE 1 and QE 2 (quantitative easing). Rising foreclosures will remain clouds on the market horizon, Buckley believes.

Top Gun Options predicts that the federal debt situation will worsen. Buckley said “Bleeding the DoD *Department of Defense) budget down to rubber bands and popsicle sticks won’t fix the problem while we pay for 99 weeks of unemployment insurance. Give the unemployed computer training, health care and a sense of self by having them serve their country instead of the other way around.”

According to the Wall Street Journal ‘Obamacare’ will devastate small businesses. Companies are flush with cash but not hiring because they don?t know if they?ll be the next target of a Washington regulation or law. The Catholic Church got blindsided last week with Obamacare edicts and the contraception mandate but according to the Journal the Obama administration retreated last Friday, while Catholic bishops remained skeptical. “By what authority does the President of the United States seek to impose this immoral policy?” Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence, R.I., asked in a statement. “This is the United States, not North Korea.”

Buckley, a former naval aviator with 44 combat sorties over iraq believe that ‘Overseas, Israel will attack Iran because the United States has become the Barney Fife of the world. ‘Stop! Or we’ll say Stop again!’. We?re going to wake up one day to news of an Israeli strike and oil will go to more than $ 200 a barrel as the Middle East explodes and Israel endures daily attacks, and Assad, shifting attention away from his domestic troubles, will also attack Israel.”

Top Gun Options shows investors of all levels that there are 2 sides to every financial hypothesis, especially in investing, and investors need to decide on their own what they believe is right.

According to the Financial Times there are additional domestic and international concerns to be aware off before investors go all in thinking Mr. Siegel’s article in Barron’s is correct. According to Mr. Siegel markets histrionically tend to go up over time. In the interim investors can potentially profit from the resulting volatility in the market.

Top Gun Options placed a great Advanced options trade on Thursday that made over $ 1500 in less than 2 days, with the potential to make another $ 3100. It was a bullish trade on volatility (VXX), meaning the market would retreat and volatility would go up ? they tend to have an inverse relationship. Follow this link to see the trade and see their next trade on the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY): http://topgunoptions.com/advanced-alert/

Top Gun Options believes the market has had a decent run over the past 5 weeks and is going to take a breather, especially as February 15th approaches. According to the Wall Street Journal this is the deadline Eurozone officials have placed on Greece to cut an additional $ 428.6M in debt or face the potential of a default on March 20th. February 15th is also the day important Eurozone economic numbers are reported.

Doug Robertson, Advanced Top Gun Options trader and owner of Blue Water Analytics in Miami, who placed the winning VXX trade last week and placed the new bear call spread on SPY in the Advanced Model Portfolio believes that we’re in for more trouble. “No one can wave a magic wand and make these issues go away. So as the market swings in either direction, we plan to profit from it”.

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Lincoln Leadership Institute to Light Candles on Virtual Birthday Cake for Lincoln

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Gettysburg, Pa. (PRWEB) February 10, 2012

Steven B. Wiley and The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg invite the public to commemorate Abraham Lincoln?s 203rd birthday by leaving a birthday message for Lincoln on the organization?s website http://www.gettysburgleadership.com/birthday-card-2012. Once 203 birthday greetings are received, The Lincoln Leadership Institute will light candles on a celebratory virtual birthday cake. Lincoln?s birthday is Sunday, Feb. 12.

Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 and served as the nation?s 16th president from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Milestones of Lincoln?s presidential service include his 1863 signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, a document that declared slaves free forever, and his Gettysburg Address. Given in November 1863 at the dedication of a military cemetery, Soldiers? National Cemetery in Gettysburg, the Gettysburg Address is one of the most memorable speeches in American history.

Visit http://www.gettysburgleadership.com/birthday-card-2012 to leave a birthday greeting. Share your thoughts on Lincoln?s inspiration for you, the significance of his Gettysburg Address or the impact of his leadership decisions on the American Civil War.

The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg?s headquarters are located in the historic David Wills House located in downtown Gettysburg, Pa. President Lincoln spent the night at the Wills House where he put the finishing touches on the Gettysburg Address before delivering it on Nov. 19, 1863.

For more information about Steven B. Wiley and The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg?s leadership development programs, call 717-338-9971 or visit http://www.gettysburgleadership.com. ?Like? The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg at http://www.facebook.com/GettysburgLeadership and follow ?LincolnLeader? on Twitter.

About Steven B. Wiley and The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg

What do the majority of Fortune 100 companies, such as Apple, Bank of America, Pfizer, Federal Express, ExxonMobil and Time Warner, scores of federal government agencies, including Homeland Security, Departments of Defense, Justice and Interior and over 75 Presidential Appointees and their teams all have in common?

When it comes to motivating, educating and developing their greatest asset, their people, they turn to Steven B. Wiley and The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg.

Steven B. Wiley is a proven entrepreneur, author and highly acclaimed speaker who has trained and entertained tens of thousands of top executives from around the world. He receives?without exception?the highest ratings possible from his audiences, which include the top executives from the world headquarters of Apple, Merck, State Farm, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Bristol Myers Squibb, Novartis, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Homeland Security, Black & Decker, Shell, IBM, Caterpillar, the L.A. Times, Orlando Sentinel, USA Today/Gannett, Pharmetica, Frigidaire, Century 21, Johnson & Johnson, PhRMA, ExxonMobil and the Ford Motor Company.

His business experience includes the founding of three companies: two international franchise organizations and a national chain of fleet management centers. He has successfully negotiated multi-million dollar funding agreements for his own companies with some of the top venture capital organizations in the world.

Steve brings a wealth of knowledge in the areas of successful marketing, negotiation, sales and business development. His lucrative and varied high-ticket consultative selling and negotiating, experience began more than twenty years ago and includes tens of millions of dollars in the sales of companies, divisions, hard goods and services. His strong leadership ability has earned him recognition in top publications, including Venture Magazine, USA Today and Entrepreneur Magazine.

Steve?s speaking experience includes three years as National Spokesperson for the Quaker Oats/Pritikin Longevity Centers for whom he has been featured in television commercials and advertisements in the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and New York Times. Over the past ten years, he has conducted thousands of seminars on negotiation, sales leadership and wellness for numerous public and private sector organizations.

He is the president of The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg and the founder of the Institute?s Communicating with Executive Presence program as well as its Transformational Journey from Gettysburg leadership development experience.

Through The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg, Civil War history becomes a metaphor, and the battlefield a classroom, as Steven B. Wiley leads your organization toward unprecedented success by developing leaders at all levels. Through the unique and creative use of historical metaphor and an examination of the lives of historic characters we develop ?bookmarks? in the minds of participants.

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Ditch ?The Secret? And Get Some Real Personal Trainer Marketing Guidance

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Chino Hills, CA (PRWEB) February 09, 2012

Sam Bakhtiar is sick of seeing so many personal trainers taken in by hokey ?feel good? personal trainer marketing advice. It?s everywhere these days! But is it really helping anyone achieve success? Cut through the bull and get real solutions to your marketing quandaries at http://www.super-trainer.com. For a limited time, you can download a FREE copy of ?Six Figures In 67 Days.?

If you haven?t heard, ?The Secret? is a book and film promoted by everyone from Jack Cantor (author of ?Chicken Soup For The Soul?) to Oprah Winfrey. Over the past five years, this franchise has exploded into a cash cow for many ?gurus,? ?self-help experts,? ?business mentors? and ?life coaches.? Their answer to personal trainer marketing is to just think positive and dream big ? and ?the universe will conspire to make it happen.? We are supposed to believe that this ancient ?secret? has been guarded by gatekeepers for centuries and that it has been the principle behind the success of the world?s greatest thinkers. What it all boils down to is the power of positive thinking ? and surely, that is nothing more than common sense.

Rather than get trapped into a feel-good program that offers little substance, trainers can get on the fast track to a six-figure income by learning from the master of personal trainer marketing: Sam Bakhtiar. Over the past two decades, Sam has built successful training studios from the ground up from New York to California. He introduces trainers to his basic concepts in his blog posts at http://www.Super-Trainer.com and in his more in-depth blueprint ?Six Figures In 67 Days? ? which is available as a FREE download for a limited time only.

Trainers may then opt to gain more insight from Sam by signing up for one-on-one business coaching by phone or by attending one of Sam?s dynamic weekend workshops, which serve as meeting grounds for masterminds in the personal trainer marketing field. ?If you want to be a millionaire, it?s not so hard,? Sam explains. ?You?ve got to get the ball rolling by hanging out with other millionaires and picking their brains. You?ll find that there are surprising common threads behind every successful business model and that their practices can very easily become your practices.?

Sam?s personal trainer marketing is about as personal as it gets. He doesn?t just give people a manual and send them on their merry way. He holds people accountable and follows up with each and every individual to make sure they are successful in implementing what he teaches. ?Your success is my success, so I?m going to hold you accountable every step of the way. I want to build you up and have you join my network of millionaires. I want the entire industry to be taken up a notch because we are sharing the best practices that work and holding ourselves to higher standards of training.?

?The biggest earners in this industry are the ambassadors of high-quality training, not those who advocate the use of scumbag marketing tactics,? Sam explains. He adds that what is significant in his personal training marketing program (versus others) is that he is also right there in the trenches training clients each and every day. ?Everyone has to start with training so they know what they?re talking about and how to sell. Yet, there is a difference between training just to put food on the table and having the luxury to train because you thrive off it. You can be a much better trainer and make more money once you learn my systems, outsource and automate aspects of your business, and start working for yourself.?

About Sam Bakhtiar

Sam Bakhtiar is a Persian-born American with over twenty years of experience in fitness training and body building. After completing B.S in Premed and Nutrition, Sam also received a degree of doctorate of Chiropractics. Along with being one of the best fitness trainers, Sam is also a business and marketing expert. After establishing a successful fitness training business with substantial income, Sam is helping other professionals in the industry to achieve their business goals. For more information, please contact using the following information.

Contact Information:

Sam Bakhtiar

Fitness Concepts

909-393-9075

http://www.super-trainer.com





SmartDesign? Infrastructure from Emerson Network Power: An Intelligent, Integrated Design Approach to Optimize Data Center Infrastructure for Today, Tomorrow and Beyond

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Columbus, OH (PRWEB) February 07, 2012

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global leader in optimizing efficiency, availability, capacity of critical infrastructure, today introduced the SmartDesign? infrastructure, an intelligent, integrated design approach that leverages industry best practices for improving data center infrastructure performance throughout the lifecycle of the data center.

The SmartDesign approach simplifies the complex environment of data centers by bringing together the most comprehensive power, precision cooling, monitoring and infrastructure management technologies. It also extends the Emerson Smart Solutions benefits into data centers requiring room-scale power and cooling configurations. Each data center configuration utilizes intelligent, integrated infrastructure systems that are efficient, economical, simplified and controllable?not only today, but in an ever-changing IT future as well.

SmartDesign Approach Leverages Industry Best Practices

Every SmartDesign recommendation leverages several or all of the following best practices:

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Long Time SUSE Executive Joins Open Source File Sharing Company

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Boston, MA (PRWEB) February 02, 2012

ownCloud Inc., the commercial entity behind the popular open source file sync and share project, announced today that former SUSE executive and ownCloud co-founder Holger Dyroff, has joined the company as vice president, sales and marketing.

ownCloud — with more than 350,000 users — offers the ease-of-use and cost effectiveness of Dropbox and box.net with a more secure, better managed offering that, because it?s open source, offers greater flexibility and no vendor lock in. ownCloud users can run their own file sync and share services on their own hardware and storage, use popular public hosting and storage offerings, or both.

Dyroff will have global responsibility for all company sales and marketing efforts. He joins the company from SUSE where he was vice president of business development. Dyroff has also served as Novell?s vice president, product management and marketing and SUSE?s general manager, Americas.

?ownCloud is challenging the cloud storage marketplace by offering businesses the tools they need to sync and share data where and how they want, from their own data centers, in the cloud, or both,? said Markus Rex, founder and CEO, ownCloud. ?Aside from being a brand name in the open source business community, Holger brings to ownCloud vast management, sales, partner and marketing experience. He will be essential in forming the products enterprises look for to keep control of their critical data as well as build up ownCloud

Join Us Virtually for The Fundamentals of Web Design

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Fargo, ND (PRWEB) February 02, 2012

Onsharp will be hosting a free webinar about web design on February 10th at 10:00 am CST. Whether it’s a designer new to the web design world or an experienced designer, it’s going to be ?FUN? while presenting Functionality, Uniformity, and Numbers. Get it now? The webinar is about the FUNdamentals of Web Design.

Onsharp believes that client education is a foundation to delivering an unparalleled customer experience. That?s why Onsharp offers different resources, such as The Fundamentals of Web Design webinar and many different blog posts about design. One post that talks about planning of your web design and things to keep in mind is ?Your Website is for your Visitors, Silly!?

We?ve also created an infographic- ?The Power of Web Presence?

Businesses of all sizes are encouraged to sign up to attend The FUNdamentals of Web Design. There are things to know before designing a website that will fuel a company’s success. When attending our webinar about the Fundamentals of Web Design, Onsharp will discuss how to have a better understanding of how a website design should function. Also, review and explain of the importance of consistency and uniformity, and teach which numbers will reveal success. Registration is required.

Onsharp is an interactive agency that architects, builds, and supports web-based solutions. We’re passionate about technology, but not just because we think it’s cool. We are experts at helping businesses understand how new technologies and trends can help them meet customer demand while improving productivity. Onsharp strives to create success in the lives of all people, businesses, and communities they serve. For more information about Onsharp, please visit http://www.onsharp.com or call toll-free at 1.866.ONSHARP.

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