(PRWEB) June 10, 2010 — Socialising and dining at home has become the new going out experience. More and more people are choosing to spend their time adapting and enhancing their living space to create the perfect social and dining environment. A natural extension to this trend is to open up the living space into the garden using folding and sliding doors, bringing the indoor-outdoor living area to life. This inspirational concept of combining living areas with the simple addition of bifold style folding sliding patio doors will allow homeowners to get this contemporary, yet practical aspirational look.

Vufold, a leading folding sliding door and patio door manufacturer offer the perfect high-quality, yet cost-effective solution to creating this indoor-outdoor living experience.

Vufold’s extensive range of pre-finishes and size combinations of internal and external folding doors and patio doors are built with comparable quality of a bespoke folding sliding door but at a fraction of the cost. The hardwood timber doors are designed in the UK and built in a state-of-the-art timber engineering factory. With demand being high, the doors are mass produced allowing the savings of Vufold doors to be passed directly to the consumer providing high quality folding doors comparable to bespoke quality at off-the-shelf low prices.

Installing Vufold folding sliding doors is an in-expensive alternative to a costly and disruptive extension project and provides an alternative to building additional space whilst achieving the designer look.

John Collins, Managing Director of Vufold states;
“Vufold’s internal and external sliding folding door range are ideal for consumers wishing to extend their living area to create a spacious and contemporary enhancement to their home. They are designed to mirror and ensure they create the perfect balance between the interior and exterior living space. With Vufold’s vast range of pre-finishes and size combinations all homes can benefit from this revolutionary folding doors concept to bring the outdoors in.

Creating this additional outdoor room to your house creates a multifunctional living area which allows you and your guests to experience al fresco dinning.”

This indoor-outdoor living experience trend couldn’t have evolved at a better time. With this summer’s predicted heat wave, the Vufold product range will transform the homeowner’s outdoor living area into a harmonious extension to their home.

This new internal and external hardwood door range can now be purchased directly from the manufacturer at www.vufold.co.uk at unbeatable prices.

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(PRWeb UK) June 10, 2010 — If you are looking for business opportunities in Leicester, the area can hold endless potential with lots of businesses for sale as well as numerous money making opportunities there for the taking. However, starting your own business can be a turbulent and stressful time so before making any decisions it’s important to thoroughly research all business opportunities in the area. www.signsexpress.co.uk/franchise/availableterritories.cfm

A Leicester franchise such as Signs Express, is one such avenue where you can start a brand new business, be your own boss and make money; but all with the safety of an already established brand, proven business model and with support along the way.

As the UK and Ireland’s largest signs franchise, working in the B2B sector means that there are no customer constraints, after all every business needs signs in some shape or form.

The Leicester and Leicestershire area in particular is abundant with customer potential and money making opportunities. Centrally-based with easy access through the M1, Leicester is well known as a hive of activity through Leicester University and the local economy. With particular emphasis on Leicester shops, engineering and the restaurant market, the key customer base is already on your doorstep making it a flourishing centre of activity for local business opportunities.

Signs Express customers can therefore stretch from the public sector, local councils such as Leicester City Council and Leicester County Council, professional clients such as solicitors and architects as well as a vast range of small mobile businesses through to industrial and commercial enterprises in many sectors and divisions.

Signs Express currently has 80 centres nationwide www.signsexpress.co.uk/franchise, however, there are still a number of greenfield businesses for sale which are ripe for the picking throughout the UK. The Leicester franchise opportunity is one particular location Signs Express is looking to recruit as there is currently no presence in the Leicestershire area; it therefore holds endless opportunities for a business professional looking to start in franchising and to become a successful Leicester business owner.

As part of an already established brand, the process of setting up a franchise in Leicester is made so much easier www.signsexpress.co.uk/franchise/becomingafranchisee.cfm. As well as including working capital the overall fee to become part of the Signs Express franchise includes help finding premises; unit fit out with everything from printing machinery and computers through to desks and signage materials; help researching the local Leicestershire market along with providing business data; marketing literature and merchandise and help recruiting (Leicester jobs are currently in demand the same as everywhere else); as well as training in accounts, marketing and technical processes to get started.

With this there are much more business opportunities with faster financial rewards. Through the help available a new Signs Express franchise looks to break even in the first year, receive dividends of £20,000 in year two and £40,000 in year three. In fact, well established franchisees are turning over £1m a year and some longstanding franchisees have recently been celebrating reaching £5m invoiced sales mark.

As a management franchise, prospective franchisees require no industry experience as full training is provided and sign making staff will be appointed to work in this case in the Leicester franchise production unit. Your skills will be based on your own management and sales experience and your ability to lead a team. Ongoing support www.signsexpress.co.uk/franchise/support.cfm is available from sales and marketing, accounts, IT, HR, operations and technical as well as initial training to learn more about technical aspects and business techniques.

For more franchise information on the Signs Express Leicester business opportunity or in any other franchise locations across the UK, please contact us on 0800 731 2255 or visit www.signsexpress.co.uk/franchise/find-out-more.cfm to find out more.

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(PRWEB) April 20, 2010 — Ethoca Limited, provider of Ethoca360 fraud detection services, today announced that IMRG, the UK’s e-retail member community, has chosen to offer accredited retailers its free “Negative Signals” service as part of the ISIS program. ISIS (Internet Shopping Is Safe) is an initiative set up by the IMRG to promote consumer confidence in online shopping. ISIS-Accredited retailers now account for approximately two thirds of all UK online shopping outlets.

Consumers cite a lack of retailer-awareness and fear of online fraud as key barriers to not shopping online. Whilst the established online traders and high street retailers have solid brand exposure to comfort the customer, smaller e-Retailer’s often do not. Use of the ISIS Mark confirms identity and will indicate to those with whom retailers are conducting business that they are using ISIS’s standards. Both large and small retailers suffer from lost sales due to fear of fraud however, making Ethoca’s free Negative Signals service an important contribution to the ISIS program.

Ethoca360 Signals is a fraud detection service that checks transactions in real-time against the Global Fraud Alliance (GFA) repository – a rapidly growing database of over 500 million historical transaction experiences compiled collaboratively by Alliance members – and identifies matches and patterns that indicate either fraud risk or a probable good order through intuitive colour-coded “Warning Signals”. Warning Signals that indicate fraud risk are referred to as “Negative Signals”, while good transaction histories create “Positive Signals”.

Through ISIS, the IMRG now offers Ethoca’s new service which makes the “Negative Signals” from Ethoca360 Signals available for free to participating members. The Retailer Resource Centre collates a variety of high value advice and services to members wishing to bolster their fraud prevention measures, develop their customer proposition, enhance their business continuity plans and promote confidence in online shopping.

“Negative Signals” is designed to be an additive service, complementary to all existing fraud screening tools, processes and methodologies. Merchants may use it to augment automated fraud scoring either through direct integration by their payment or fraud service provider, via custom rules they can add themselves, or as decision support when manually reviewing orders. Offering single order, batch checking and real-time capabilities, Ethoca’s free negative signals service is an exciting innovation for online fraud management, as there has never before been a quality resource of this nature available to merchants at no charge to help fight fraud.

“The IMRG and Ethoca have worked in partnership for a number of years now and so we’re delighted to extend that relationship under the ISIS program. Because of the strong efforts of the IMRG and its ISIS accreditation scheme, customers purchasing goods and services branded under the ISIS Mark can do so with confidence, knowing that merchants have passed an accreditation process and are committed to continuously improving the safety of online shopping through services such as Ethoca’s free Negative Signals product.” said Andre Edelbrock, CEO, Ethoca. “The Retail Fraud Conference seems the perfect occasion to announce this availability as the industry’s biggest players get together in the spirit of collaboration with the end-user retail community.”

“We’re tremendously excited to be able to offer the free “Negative Signals” service to ISIS accredited merchants through our Retailer Resource Centre”, said Andrew McClelland, Director of Business Development at IMRG & ISIS. “Nearly half of all consumers who do not yet shop online cite fear of fraud as a primary reason, so this is a vital free service to offer our accredited members. Not only does it help deter fraud, which is an important cost-saving, but improves the perception that merchants are doing all they can to make online shopping the safest of all retail channels. If all ISIS-accredited retailers were to take advantage of this free service, it would contribute to a significant reduction in fraud and bolster overall consumer confidence and perception of safety of the online channel. The strength of this development is that the Ethoca solution compliments other counter fraud tools, thereby adding another line of defence to a retailers’ arsenal and making e-Retail a much less attractive target.”

Andre Edelbrock, CEO, Ethoca and Keegan Johnson, President, Ethoca will be hosting a free session for conference attendees within the MasterClass agenda entitled “How to Reduce Card-Not-Present Fraud and Safely Accept More Online Orders Through Collaboration” – 9.45am-10.30am, Tuesday 20th April 2010 in the MasterClass Theatre. For more information visit: retail-knowledge.com/RF2010/agenda.html

More information can be found, and applications for this free service are now being accepted at http://www.ethoca.com/negative-signals/

About Ethoca

With offices in Dublin, Toronto, and New York, Ethoca provides anti-fraud services to businesses taking credit card orders online, by fax, through catalogs and by telephone. Ethoca pioneered and mastered the concept of collaborative fraud management to fight online credit card fraud. Learn more at ethoca.com.

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London, UK (PRWEB) April 9, 2010 — Sky Songs join with Ditto Music to open doors for unsigned artists.

Ditto Music has tied up a deal with the hugely popular Sky Songs service to make music available from it’s large roster of independent talent. This new deal means that artists without a record contract will be able to take advantage of Sky Songs’ wide network of music lovers.

Ditto Music (www.dittomusic.com), previously responsible for 7 UK Top 40 singles all with unsigned artists, have expanded their vast distribution network, adding new streaming service Sky Songs to their growing list of digital retailers.
Services like Sky Songs have previously been solely for major label talent. Now, thanks to this groundbreaking deal, talented but unheard of artists can benefit from the exposure previously reserved for globally-recognized names such as Coldplay or Lady Gaga.

Sky Songs, an ad-free digital streaming and download service launched on 19 October 2009 providing access to a five million track catalogue supported by EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner. Until now the service has only been available to the majors and a select number of large independent labels.

By providing this new service Ditto Music are empowering unsigned and independent artists to distribute their music without the backing of a major or independent label, holding on to creative control and receiving 100% of earnings.

When asked about the new service Ditto Music, CEO Lee Parsons commented “We are striving to make new opportunities for unsigned artists. Platforms like Sky Songs open up a brand new audience to independent artists, which were previously reserved for major label talent.”

Sky Songs launched on 19 October 2009 and is available to any UK based consumer with an active broadband connection. Unsigned bands looking to get their music on to Sky Songs and start earning royalties from their creativity should visit www.dittomusic.com, where they can now upload their music free of charge and distribute to Sky Songs and hundreds of other stores for the set rate of £0.30/$0.45 per track.

About Ditto Music:
Established in 2005, Ditto Music is the largest independent digital distributor of digital, mobile, ringtone and video content, supplying over 500 stores worldwide. In 2007, Ditto was responsible for the first-ever UK Top 40 single by an unsigned www.dittomusic.com independent artist (Koopa). Since then, Ditto’s distribution model has been posing a serious threat to the major labels. Ditto Music’s roster includes Finch, Suzi Quatro, Tupac Shakur, My Vitriol, Samantha Fox, Gurrumul and Fairport Convention.

Press Contact
e: James Cherry - press (at) dittomusic (dot) com
t. +44 (0)121 551 6624
w. dittomusic.com

About Sky Songs:
Sky Songs is an innovative ad-free digital music service offering music fans instant access to a world of music. Sky Songs allows streaming of audio content and aims to be a preferred alternative to piracy, offering consumers superior user experience. For more information please contact Sky Songs at skysongs (at) bskyb (dot) com.

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(PRWEB) April 9, 2010 — It is the time of year when many young people are finishing their three years of hard work and looking to join the world of work. Despite sources suggesting that there are more graduate jobs on offer than in 2009, many university leavers may find that it could take months to find a role in the sector that they have trained in. However one Midlands based company, The Creare Group, have web design jobs on offer for talented graduates that wish to be part of a dynamic and fast paced industry.

The Creare Group, currently number one for ‘web design’ in Google and the biggest web design and SEO company within the UK, are hosting a ‘Graduate Recruitment Day’ in their Lutterworth studio on the 22nd May 2010 for those graduates that are interested in graphic design and web designer jobs. 60% of the employees at Creare started shortly after graduating, this is because the company see university leavers as excellent employees due to their urge to learn as well as their ability to bring fresh ideas to the table.

“We at Creare understand the difficulties that many graduates will face when they leave university this summer. We feel this opportunity will not only benefit graduates looking for a career that they have worked hard to get, but it will also help our company to continue to produce fresh and exciting web designs, and remain at the forefront of our industry,” said Mike McKinlay MD

Despite the degree that they have earned, many young applicants may be concerned that they are not compatible for a job in their chosen industry due to a lack of work-place experience. Many companies expect an employee to have at least 2 years experience and a degree, making it almost impossible for graduates to get on the career ladder.

Experience is not all that matters to The Creare Group, their graduate training schemes are designed to boost confidence and provide new starters with the training that is required for a career in web design. As well as web design, SEO is a skill that many of the web designers have learnt since joining Creare and many have developed their skill sets two fold since they graduated.

The Creare Group have maintained their success as a result of their determination and the trust that they show towards employees. They offer various creative roles within their industry in addition to designers, including consultants and writers and their high standards are clear by looking at their SEO results and client testimonials.

Those graduates that are looking for web design jobs, that want to develop their skills and to contribute to an ever expanding company, can find out more about The Creare Group’s Graduate Recruitment Day by contacting their team via their website or by calling 01455 883 700. The Creare Group are encouraging graduates to get in touch for a chance to be involved in an opportunity that is not to be missed.

The Creare Group is currently the largest web design and SEO company within the UK. Based in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, they currently have over 80 employees including web designers, graphic designers, video production, SEO consultants and content writers.

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Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) April 1, 2010 — Email deliverability specialist EmailExpert.org has today announced a strategic partnership with Port25 Solutions Inc. The EmailExpert.org site launches as a dedicated online resource for email marketing professionals.

Inbox placement rates to opt-in subscribers continues to be a challenge in the age of advanced spam filtering, whitelisting, authentication and reputation. “Incorrect classification of email as spam costs business millions every year. Jupiter Research estimated that the email marketing industry will waste US$138 million on undelivered emails” says Andrew Bonar, Email Expert site aims to offer deliverability experts a platform to voice their opinions and solicit feedback whilst introducing senior executives to key industry players through links to twitter profiles, company sites and selected email deliverability whitepapers.

“EmailExpert.org is a specialized portal focused on the email deliverability community. Deliverability professionals will benefit from a variety of hand selected deliverability tools to enhance inbox placement rates, while email marketing professionals will benefit from a host of relevant and timely industry whitepapers from established resources. Leading industry journalists may also benefit from an extensive selection of email deliverability press releases and relevant industry news,” said Fred Tabsharani, Marketing and Industry Relations for Port25 Solutions, Inc

Bonar stated “I speak for the whole team when I say we are proud of the fact our brand will be so closely associated with the Port25 and the developers of PowerMTA™. It is through these ‘best of breed’ partnerships with innovators in the field that EmailExpert.org will be able to offer a solid base of resources for professionals…” going on to say “Whilst the site serves a global audience its primary focus is on the APAC and European regions”

Emailexpert.org is based in London. As part of its launch, Andrew Bonar will be travelling to Australia meeting with local Email Service Providers, related Email Technology Providers, Agencies, ISP’s and marketing companies on a research tour clarifying and understanding requirements.

He explains, “There is no point in pretending that email deliverability is the same in the USA as it is in Australia and New Zealand or even European countries; it is a whole different ball-game out here. The contacts that many hold so dear are not so important in APAC where the local laws and ISP’s are key players in the mix, and its relationships with contacts locally that need to be fostered.

That is why we plan to extend the EmailExpert.org brand to include a number of email rendering, placement and deliverability tools, reputation monitoring services, ROI calculators that are geared for markets outside of North America”

You can visit the “Email Expert” website at Andrew Bonar: BonarMedia.com

Note to Editors

Figures quoted are for 2010 according to a client report published in December 2008 for Goodmail by Jupiter Research (A Forrester Research Company)

Press Release Contacts:

Andrew A.S Bonar

Press & Media Relations

PR Angel Solutions Limited

Tel UK | +44 (0) 207 617 7540

Tel NZ | +64 (0) 6 889 8420

skype: bonarmedia

twitter: @andrewbonar

Specialist subjects include: Email Authetication, DKIM, SPF, Reputation Management, Spam Control, European, New Zealand and Australian Spam Legislation and email marketing best practice.

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Fred Tabsharani

Marketing | Industry Relations

Port25 Solutions, Inc.

E: fred(at)port25(dot)com

O: 510.526.3733

T: @tabsharani

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“Learn to find a perfect match for your business, products or service on the two largest Social Networks, Facebook and MySpace,” stated Steingart.

Whether online or offline, his system is turn-key and is so easy to use, anyone can be up and running in hours instead of weeks or months with a definite increase in sales once the basics of his system are mastered and used on a regular basis.

Max Steingart Available for Comment:
Max Steingart is considered by many as the “Father of Social Networking,” is a respected author, motivational speaker, Social Networking Expert and Trainer. He can offer your audience advice on all areas of building your business with no cash outlay once you begin using his system. http://www.maxsteingart.com/media

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“We are extremely excited to implement the final element to our sales and marketing program. Network Marketing is the best way to place our technology and products into the marketplace. This call center will be operated by 30 of the best Network Marketing Producers in the industry, and managed by our CFO Chris Miner,” stated Angie Tassan, Artfest CMO.

In 2010 Artfest International plans to continue its aggressive Direct Sales and Marketing growth. Artfest expects to grow the Network to approximately 20, 000 members by year end. “Artfest Distributer averages approximately $ 6,500 in revenue per year. With this launch, we expect a tremendous growth as more and more people look for additional income opportunity to supplement their income, and I can’t think of anything better than branded sports products and technology available to our Members,” stated Shirley Casavant, Artfest Member Relations.

Artfest is focused in driving sales to its major sports and college teams, their fan clubs and alumni. Artfest International expects that it will complete several more product manufacturing acquisitions in 2010 with a goal of adding an additional $10 million in assets to the balance sheet. Artfest Internationals’ subsidiary Charity Sports Distributor is working on consummating agreements with dozens of additional college and professional sport teams to become the official distributor of their sports memorabilia. The Company’s goals are to sign an additional 50 teams in 2010 and to become the industry leader in the multibillion-dollar sports memorabilia industry.

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(PRWEB) December 22, 2009 — AdMonsters, in partnership with IASH, will hold its second Network Ad Operations Forum on 21 January, 2010 in central London. AdMonsters developed this forum to extend its unique and unique valuable conference format to address the specific operational and technical issues faced by advertising networks. This event will build on the success of the first Network Ops Forum, which was held in July 2009. Registration is open to anyone who runs ad operations or ad technology within an advertising network or at an agency or publisher that operates a network. Register on the AdMonsters website at admonsters.com.

As with all AdMonsters events, attendees can expect to return to the office with a better understanding of the key challenges facing the industry and a detailed list of short-term, tactical solutions. AdMonsters members regularly rate AdMonsters events as the most valuable forum they attend.

“The open discussion forum that AdMonsters provides has been a great environment for operations leaders in publisher, agency and network businesses to share ideas and work through industry innovations to the benefit of all participants,” says Federica Apperio, MD of .Fox Networks in the UK. “It’s not often that the operations side of any business can brainstorm and validate their own ideas with likeminded industry people, and AdMonsters gives them the platform to do so in a confidential environment”.

From the efficiencies offered to advertisers and publishers in streamlining the buying and selling of display advertising to the cutting edge targeting capabilities - it is indeed the era of ad networks and its importance and growth in the online advertising industry makes it an area of high interest and discussion.

George Odysseos, Head of Publisher Network and Finance at Tribal Fusion, will get the day started with his keynote address “Are You a Next Generation Network Ad Ops Leader?” George will draw on his years of experience with Blue Lithium and Yahoo and his involvement with IASH to present insights into what it takes to ahead of the game. As an increasing amount of marketing budgets are poised to move online - and an ever increasing share of that to be delivered via networks – defining best practices and building the best possible operations team possible are critical steps to ensure success.

“AdMonsters has delivered two sold out and highly successful Network Ops Forums to date–one in London and one in the US. It is becoming clear that ad networks are an increasingly important part of the online advertising ecosystem,” said Matt O’Neill, AdMonsters President. “It will be crucial for these teams to collaborate on and define best practices to ensure scalability and operations efficacy. I’m very excited to build on the takeaways from the first two events at the network ops forum in January.”

“IASH are delighted to once again co–host the AdMonsters Network Ops forum in London. This forum will allow people involved in Ad Operations to work together on a number of key issues and be able to implement them effectively and efficiently to improve their business,” said Julia Smith, Head of IASH and co–host of Network Ops Forum.

The cost to attend is £250 GBP/€286 EUR (billed as $410 USD) and IASH members are entitle to a 25% discount on the event. The cost includes the full day event, cocktail reception, and dinner afterwards. Please visit the AdMonsters website (admonsters.org) for more information and to register for the event. Registration is limited to 40 attendees and all attendees are screened to make sure they are the right people before being approved.

About AdMonsters
Founded in 1999, AdMonsters is the only professional association dedicated exclusively to online advertising operations and technology. By maintaining their exclusive focus on ad operations, AdMonsters provides a much richer forum than broad industry trade shows. AdMonsters participants are all direct peers, and they focus on specific, technical, actionable topics such as ad serving and related technologies, rich media, video advertising, the trafficking process, workflow optimization, inventory and yield management, advertising product development, best practices in policies and procedures, and industry standards. AdMonsters is about real conversations, real learning, and real best practices, participants come away with immediately actionable solutions that provide real value.

About IASH
IASH exists to encourage best practice among online advertising sales houses through the adoption of an effective code of conduct. IASH also exists to promote the real benefits of the online advertising network business model.
IASH members wish to ensure that display ads placed via their networks do not appear on websites which could jeopardize advertisers’ brands. This Code provides a formal framework for best practice for IASH Members to follow when dealing with advertisers, agencies, networks and site owners. The purpose of the Code is to give those buying, selling or broking Internet advertising space a clear understanding of the types of inventory which can and cannot be used when fulfilling an ad insertion order.

Contact:
AdMonsters
Charles Rozario
crozario(at)admonsters(dot)com

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Brett Basinski has been using the Scraper Pro now for a few days and is very impressed. “I am amazed by the power of this simple, easy to use tool”, Basinski says. “I literally downloaded the software, installed it on my computer, entered some keywords, and hit Start. In less than 10 minutes, I had highlytargeted leads to market my business to. Really amazing stuff!”

Network marketers are always struggling to find new leads for their business. Many network marketers are using old-fashioned “Fred Flintstone” style lead generation techniques like contacting friends, family, and co-workers who have no interest in their business. We are heading in to a new decade and with today’s technology, onlinenetwork marketers are going to have to change the way they do business.

With a tool that allows you to enter some keywords and click “Start”, the thought of never having to buy leads again will make network marketers around the world smile.

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