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Stewartsville, NJ (PRWEB) February 28, 2011

Small Business Bonfire, an online community providing help and support for entrepreneurs and small business owners, launched recently at http://www.smallbusinessbonfire.com. The community, founded by Alyssa Gregory, focuses on collaboration between small business owners.

The Small Business Bonfire challenges entrepreneurs to identify what is not working for their businesses and to change how they operate to improve success. Members of the community gain access to a growing social network of other passionate and talented entrepreneurs who share experiences, exchange ideas and offer small business advice.

Other membership benefits include access to the Red Hot Tool of the Week, which highlights new productivity, social media, Internet or other business-related tools tested by the Small Business Bonfire team. Membership also includes access to the Small Business Library, a collection of reports, guides, tip sheets, swipe files, worksheets, forms and tools submitted by other Small Business Bonfire members.

Alyssa Gregory started the site because she was inspired by support, guidance and advice she received from other small business owners when launching her first business. Gregory feels that all small business owners can benefit from the support of other entrepreneurs.

“We all have a story; we all have the potential for success; and we all face challenges in our small businesses,” says Gregory. “One of the most effective ways to get small business help is by communicating and collaborating with your peers. The Small Business Bonfire provides the environment for entrepreneurs to do that.”

Gregory strives to be more than a silent owner on the site. She plans on sharing her own experiences, advice and resources on the community and says she will not hesitate to ask questions herself.

The website currently offers a free Kindling membership level with paid premium membership levels set to launch by the end of March. In the future, Gregory says Small Business Bonfire plans to launch a printed monthly newsletter, quarterly magazine, live video conferences and a store selling small business products.

To join Small Business Bonfire or for more information, visit http://www.smallbusinessbonfire.com.

About Alyssa Gregory

Alyssa Gregory is a small business enthusiast, writer, speaker and consultant who has a passion for learning, creating opportunities for collaboration, and sharing knowledge. She reaches over 700,000 small business owners and entrepreneurs every month through her many online and offline ventures, and is well respected by her peers for the high quality information and advice that she shares with her readers, clients and colleagues. Her work can be found on About.com, SitePoint.com and a number of other small business sites. A full listing of her credentials can be found on http://alyssagregory.com.

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Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) April 29, 2011

A new suite of strategic services and training tools from Marketing Operations Partners address fundamental challenges marketing leaders and professionals face today, including chaotic marketing complexity and escalating demand for marketing accountability.

Marketing Operations Partners has been leading the way in helping companies transition from Marketing Operations 1.0, a focus on the fundamentals of operational efficiency and accountability, to Marketing Operations 2.0, an emphasis on strategic alignment and integration of marketing operations with the overall corporation through holistic insight and practices.

Marketing Operations Partners? new initiatives accelerate professionalism of the evolving discipline of marketing operations (MO):

MOtivator path for marketing leaders who must tame marketing complexity growing geometrically as organizations scale in size and as new models of Marketing, such as social media and mobile marketing, must be integrated into marketing strategy.
MOver path for marketing professionals and stakeholders who have new operational accountabilities beyond their core competencies and need to get up-to-speed quickly.
MObilizer path for marketing automation providers who need to maximize the value of their solutions to their clients.

Bridging these three paths is the new online training course, ?Marketing Operations 2.0: From 2011 Tactical Discipline to 20/20 Strategic Vision.? First offered through University of California Extension on an annual basis, this new offering is now available worldwide, on-demand, and can completed at one?s own pace.

According to tech industry analyst International Data Corporation, marketing operations has been the fastest growing job role in technology marketing over the past few years and is now the fourth largest job category in large marketing departments. Marketing Operations Certification is also available by completing optional challenges within the course; this is the only existing certification source for this growing discipline.

These initiatives are part of a customer-centric approach Marketing Operations Partners is taking to help midsize to large enterprises overcome stubborn marketing operations obstacles to sustained profitability. In conjunction with this strategy, Marketing Operations Partners Founder Gary Katz has appointed Lynn Hunsaker, a world-renowned authority on customer experience optimization, as the firm?s new president and chief executive officer, a position Katz has held since the company?s inception in 2006.

?Lynn is the ideal person to assume the leadership helm of Marketing Operations Partners at this time,? said Katz. ?She?s been with the company since the outset and her multi-faceted background in strategy, marketing, quality, change management, and organizational development gives her an intimate understanding of how to integrate customer insight into marketing action, as well as what it takes to help clients transform from paying lip service to customer centricity to truly living it ? from the inside out.?

New Marketing Operations 2.0 Initiatives

Marketing Operations Partners offers specific advantages to marketing leaders, stakeholders, and automation providers, as follows:

MOtivator ? Enable marketing leaders to successfully socialize and advance MO in their organizations through expert guidance, best-practices and competency development. To help tackle some of marketing?s biggest challenges, Marketing Operations Partners? strategic consulting services include marketing intelligence, customer profitability, buying acceleration, scaling the marketing function for growth, bridging the gap between strategy and execution, and demonstrating return on marketing. More information on MOtivator

MOver ? Guide ?left-brain? imports to marketing (such as financial or IT professionals) who need to most effectively apply their craft to marketing while simultaneously supporting the creativity and innovation of marketing professionals. To align their expertise to marketing and enterprise strategy, Marketing Operations Partners provides competency-specific training that aids tangible demonstration of their contributions to business outcomes. More info on MOver.

MObilizer? Equip solution providers with content and tools to provide greater value and results to their customers by integrating strategy, people and processes with the technology. Marketing Operations Partners addresses a major challenge in the marketing field at the source: how to enable companies to get the most out of marketing automation investments. More info on MObilizer.

New Online, On-Demand Course Bridges Gap Between Left- and Right-Brain Marketing

Marketing Operations 2.0 Course ? Prepare marketing executives and stakeholders worldwide to tackle new post-recession Internet-driven realities. Bridging the gap between left-brain and right-brain marketing, Marketing Operations 2.0: From 2011 Tactical Discipline to 20/20 Strategic Vision is the world?s first self-paced, always-on turnkey operationalized marketing course. Practical operationalized marketing is fully measurable so it can be shaped and refined in real-time to achieve strategic enterprise objectives in a dynamic, turbulent, social Web-dominated business climate.

Course graduates will be learn how to:

Assume leadership in achieving enterprise innovation and growth objectives, not just brand management.
Inform executive-level decision making through an effective data and information integration strategy that bridges disparate systems.
Drive demand generation in alignment with customer requirements for personalized content and support during the buying process ? when, where and how they want it.
Optimize marketing spend, including programs, people and infrastructure.
Demonstrate accountability for achieving tangible business results, including measurable return on marketing investment.

A free 20-minute course preview is available at http://www.marketingoperations2.info and the full course is available now at an introductory price of $ 495 through May 31. The course consists of 9 classes within 4 modules; individual modules may be purchased as well the full course. A 100% satisfaction, money back guarantee is included.

About Marketing Operations Partners

Founded in Santa Clara, California in 2006, Marketing Operations Partners is the first ready-to-go marketing COO (chief operating officer) and change management team dedicated to changing the MO (modus operandi) of marketing, by elevating marketing operations to a true chief of staff function and enabling CMOs (chief marketing officers) to operate like CEOs (chief executive officers). The company brings together leading subject matter experts and thought leaders to enable clients to leverage strategy, process, guidance, metrics and technology to run Marketing as a profit center and fully accountable business. A comprehensive blend of pragmatic and innovative services help enterprises convert insight into value, cultivate an ecosystem of stakeholder support for key enterprise initiatives, maximize customer profitability, accelerate the buying process, build a scalable marketing infrastructure, and demonstrate measurable return on Marketing to management. For more information, call 408-243-7881, e-mail info(at)mopartners(dot)com or visit http://www.marketingoperationspartners.com.

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Irvine, CA (PRWEB) May 10, 2011

Upstart Business Consulting Group provides comprehensive Business Plan books that help individuals start a profitable company with an initial capital requirement of $ 10,000 or less. Each business plan is researched and written by successful entrepreneurs for products and services across a broad range of industries. In addition to paperback books, Upstart Business Consulting Group has launched e-book PDF’s through their website.

?New entrepreneurs may not have the necessary knowledge or experience that is required when developing a business plan,? says Tim Roncevich, the co-founder and award-winning business plan writer. ?We saw an opportunity to help other entrepreneurs start a small business. After all, small businesses are the foundation of the American economy.?

Working with successful entrepreneurs in their specific industry, Upstart Business Consulting Group has unveiled business plans in the following industries:

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Riverview, FL (PRWEB) July 1, 2006

The fastest and easiest way to build a big MLM business is to have a steady flow of hot prospects.

MySecretLeads gives the average person true real-time surveyed MLM prospects who are actively searching for a MLM home business opportunity. These MLM leads are generated through our very own advertising network, not purchased from some broker or reseller. Which means they arrive fresh, responsive, and eager to hear about a home business, just moments after they have expressed interest in MLM.

MySecretLeads provides real-time surveyed MLM leads delivered instantly. Complete MLM training to explode any MLM business. Membership rewards for every referral affiliates make. Customized MLM lead packages that fit any budget.Daily MLM lead volume control to help manage time.100% guaranteed delivery to email and/or website.

MySecretLeads is also the only real-time MLM lead provider to offer membership rewards to its subscribers. So while you’re making money with the MLM leads you receive, affiliates will also generate additional residual commission by referring new members to us. Membership is free and they can start making money today!

MySecretLeads.com is a group of Internet marketing professionals committed to leveraging our exclusive technology, extensive network relationships, and extreme focus on customer satisfaction. This unique combination of expertise, technology, passion and care is why MySecretLeads.com stands above the crowd.

Peak Impact Inc. is one of the industry’s leading MLM Lead Generation companies. MySecretLeads is dedicated to providing the highest quality, most responsive business opportunity MLM leads to clients throughout the world by partnering with Peak Impact.

MySecretLeads has our own extensive network of lead producing websites, and tens of thousands of network partner MLM lead producing websites throughout North America.

Some key points to remember about MySecretLeads.com

MySecretLeads is not an MLM company; our main goal is providing the highest quality MLM leads in the industry at a fair, competitive price with a powerful rewards program attached.

MySecretLeads is dedicated to customer service and providing the MLM tools and MLM training contacts you need in build your existing MLM business.

MySecretLeads.com is a non company specific MLM leads producer/seller, meaning we provide MLM leads to a large variety of businesses.

MySecretLeads proprietary MLM lead generation, management, and delivery technology is unparalleled in the industry today.

MySecretLeads.com provides you with the freshest, most responsive business opportunity MLM leads available anywhere.

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Within seconds, customers have access to the hottest MLM leads available online today. And any business opportunity will be just the thing they’re looking for!

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 31, 2007

PacketTrap Networks (http://www.PacketTrap.com)], a favored network management solution company, today announced the winners from its recent survey contest. On Oct. 17, 2007, PacketTrap published a survey asking the network management community to rank networking tools that provided the highest return on investment (ROI). There were five winners in the inaugural PacketTrap PT360 survey. Given the choice of an Apple iPhone, Apple Nano, or Nintendo Wii or a $ 250 Amazon gift certificate, one participant chose the Nano and the others won $ 250 Amazon gift certificates.

PacketTrap used the survey to research which technologies network engineers value most when managing their networks on a day-to-day basis. The results of the survey will help shape PacketTrap’s technology roadmap for its network management solutions for organizations of 250-5000 nodes. Launching in November 2007, the PT360 integrates network management tools into a comprehensive, differentiated, centralized dashboard called PTiControl, which provides for dataflow, correlation, and integration between individual tool results. PTiControl displays the network’s key performance indicators as well as the diagnostics of the network’s performance and availability. The dashboard also integrates easily with common browser-based open source products.

The survey had two main objectives: to confirm which components of the beta “toolsuite” were the most appealing to network managers as measured by usefulness, frequency of use, and budgetary valuation, and to find out whether the IT administrator would find value in a network management dashboard.

“We believe our solution is the most automated, effective and economical next-generation network management solution on the market,” said Steve Goodman, CEO of PacketTrap Networks. “The PacketTrap survey confirms there is a real need in the mid-market for an affordable and integrated view into a company’s network and that the solutions we’re building are the ones network engineers really want.”

Patrick Irwin, PacketTrap’s Director of Sales and Support, called the results “a very pleasant and humbling experience.”

“The IT community spoke loud and clear. Their response to our integrated dashboard was overwhelmingly positive.”

About PacketTrap

PacketTrap Networks provides affordable enterprise-class network management solutions including, the PT360 Toolsuite. The company’s network management tools encompass a vast array of network management, network monitoring, network analytics and network diagnostics capabilities. These tools, which were built by engineers for engineers, are integrated and managed within the PTiControl Network Dashboard, PacketTrap’s centralized, personalized dashboard that provides a global view of the IT environment. More information can be found at http://www.PacketTrap.com.

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Nashville, TN (PRWEB) June 29, 2011

Functional Marketing LLC, a strategic marketing company that works with US and international clients, is providing a free eBook titled “Why Most Small Businesses Fail: How to Avoid the Seven Deadly Mistakes Most Small Businesses Make.” This 40 page eBook is loaded with valuable information for entrepreneurs and small business owners. The eBook explains that 25 percent of small businesses fail within their first year, and 50 percent fail within five years. It also explains the most common mistakes leading to business failure and how to avoid these mistakes. Beyond the seven deadly mistakes, it describes how to solve 19 specific problems in operations, finance and marketing.

Readers of the eBook will discover how to make the dramatic mind shift needed to be successful in their business. According to CEO Dave Smith, “Many people who start a business just don’t understand the fundamentals. The biggest problems stem from wrong beliefs about starting and running a business. It’s not enough to have a good product and work hard. You have to work hard on the right things.”

The free eBook, “Why Most Small Businesses Fail”, is available for immediate download by subscribing to Functional Marketing’s free Marketing Mix Newsletter. This free email newsletter is filled with practical small business marketing ideas and concepts that will help sustain small businesses. The newsletter contains how-to articles about marketing and other business topics, new product announcements, subscriber discounts on products and contest announcements.

When asked why Functional Marketing is giving away this eBook, CEO Dave Smith responded, “Our economy is powered by the middle class and by small businesses. In today’s economy, many people can’t find a job. They start a home based business because they are running out of options. Most of those businesses will fail because they were started without the proper planning, focus, and resources in place for success. I’m trying to make a difference. If this book saves one family from financial ruin, I consider that a success.”

Functional Marketing, which specializes in business strategy and marketing strategy consulting, has a unique approach to helping clients. Most consulting companies charge by the hour. Functional Marketing avoids hourly billing, preferring instead to be paid for the results it produces. This approach allows clients to work with Functional Marketing without risk. Smith explains, “We remove the barrier to working with us by eliminating the risk for our clients. The people who need our help can’t afford to pay up front. We know that, so we use an agreement where we are paid after we produce results. It keeps us and our clients focused on results instead of watching the clock.”

The results can be huge. More customers, more margin per customer, and reduced marketing and operational costs all lead to more sales and big profits. Functional Marketing’s clients achieve greater business success and personal success because of the methods used to achieve results. They start with the potential locked in the client’s “personal assets”. These assets include time, energy, knowledge and personal strengths. Then they move on to the potential trapped in business assets, which include customers, products, and suppliers.

About Functional Marketing LLC:

Functional Marketing was started in late 2010 by Dave Smith. The company helps small businesses and entrepreneurs succeed using excellent business and marketing strategies, action-focused marketing plans and business joint ventures. The Functional Marketing website offers a wealth of free information. Functional Marketing provides a 100 % satisfaction guarantee for its customers.

For more information about Functional Marketing LLC visit http://www.functional-marketing.com

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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, is a federally-funded food program supervised and provided through each state in the U. S. SNAP is designed to volunteer assistance to low-income individuals and homes in bringing food to the table. It is solid food and beverage particular and other items such as prescription medicines, pet food, alcoholic beverage, cigarettes and paper goods are not enclosed in the program. It is simple to apply for the Florida food stamps program by visiting a local social security office or locating it on the internet.

Yet, while it is a simple application, there are rigorous guidelines for supplying help. People must be U. S. Citizens, have a valid social security number and proof of Florida residency. Checking and savings account balances, salary and work history and any form of equity must be exposed. For those who fall below the latest poverty level, assistance is available. But, anyone between 18 and 50 years of age who is not disabled, must present proof of work for at least 20 hours a week.

Income and assets are then measured against monthly household expenses including rent, insurance and utilities. Other circumstances include whether any other fellow member of the home already receives federal assistance. Those who have been convicted of drug-trafficking or anyone who has offended an official court order are not entitled for food stamps.

While once being paper stamps, food stamps are no longer stamps at all, but in reality now a plastic card. Each card has a particular authorised balance which is used much like a prepaid credit or debit card. The difference is that at the end of the month, a food card is readjusted with a new balance. Any left funds cannot be put through to the next month. To receive on-going benefits, recipients are scheduled for follow-up visits to affirm their financial condition.

Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, is a separate program offering help specifically to mothers and their young children. Recipients receive dairy products, infant formula, bread, cereal and more, supported upon the needs of the family. There are monthly check-ups of mother and children to assure they are receiving their proper nutritional needs.

For individuals down on their luck, there is help available and the Florida food stamps program is just one method of assistance. You should not be made to look ashamed, but rather take advantage of what assistance you can get when you are in need. The application form is simple and you may receive news within seven days or it could take up to 30. There will be an approval for those sincerely needing help in carrying on themselves and their family fed.

Get more info on how to apply for Florida food stamps. Learn how you can get your home healthy. Visit www.familyfinancialhelpusa.com to find out more.

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The concept of marriage is not a new one. For as far back as humans have recorded their activities there is mention made of men taking wives or women taking husbands. The institution of wedlock is so fundamental to nearly every human society that people who don’t take a wife or husband might be considered odd by their friends and family. Nevertheless, it is a personal and private decision, and there is no actual obligation to get married in most cultures.

The history of the world contains many examples of people being wed to another whom they have not met and did not choose themselves. In the past these weddings may have been politically expedient and serve to reinforce ties between one family and another.

An arranged relationship, usually determined by the parents of both members of a couple even before they are adults, may still be a popular activity in some parts of the world. Though this may appear to contradict some of the romantic and liberated notions of love and spousal arrangements in some people’s minds, the truth is that some couples in these arrangements are perfectly happy with their situation. Sometimes knowing who their husband or wife will be long before actually committing their lives to them can be reassuring to some, especially if the idea of finding a mate for themselves is daunting or unappealing in some way.

The tradition of wedlock serves several sociological, psychological, and anthropological purposes. The actual manifestation of the concept of betrothal is subject to influence from many different sources, and these may include diverse elements such as social standing, religious sentiment and compatibility thereof, and sexual orientation. While virtually every society on the planet engages in matrimony, they do so in their own ways and according to their own traditions.

Being part of a married couple can be an very satisfying position in which to find oneself. One of the most popular reasons for pairing up in this way is the availability of emotional support and intimacy in life.

In the western world, and in other places besides, the state of wedlock need not be a permanent one. It might be true that the increased emphasis on personal choice and fulfillment leads to situations in which one or both members of a couple desire to find someone new, perhaps someone better, to spend their remaining years with.

Cultural relativism warns that it is never appropriate to assume that a foreign society will hold the same priorities and value systems as one’s own. Though the systems of social interaction may be superficially close in some aspects, the actual practice of these customs tend to be rife with subtleties and implications unknown to the outside observer.

Throughout human history, all over the planet, people have entered into long term relationships with a single other person. The tradition of marriage is a very important part of nearly all cultures, though the ceremonial trappings may be different from place to place.

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It is probably safe to assume that people have been looking for ways to dissolve marriages ever since the concept was introduced. The trappings and particular requirements may have changed many times over the course of history, but the ability to divorce one’s spouse remains a fundamental aspect of human partnerships. The ability to extricate oneself from what may be in retrospect a bad decision to have made is as important to personal liberty as the power to select one’s own mate in the first place.

Citizens of the Roman Empire enjoyed the freedom to marry and separate as they chose, and this was seen as a fundamental right in a free society. If a Roman man or woman wanted to end their partnership, it was a simple matter of going to a magistrate and telling him that the wedlock was not working out and that they wanted to dissolve the arrangement. This is not to say that the dissolution of marital ties was a trivial thing, as pressure from the families would usually require a couple to explore other options before ending their betrothal.

During Europe’s Medieval Era, the pervasive power of the Catholic church and other religious institutions removed the authority to pronounce and end marriages from the civil sphere. Marriage ceremonies soon became religious affairs, with a man and a woman bonded together by the authority of the priest and under the auspices of God. Civil courts no longer had jurisdiction over matrimony.

It was during this time that extreme stigma began to be associated with those who had terminated their wedlock. With the church claiming the state of wedlock as part of their purview, the obvious implication was that those who exit such a blessed arrangement have either lied before God or had taken a serious matter very lightly.

Hundreds of years later this sentiment remains, in varying degrees and with different manifestations, in many modern cultures. This may be due to remaining religious antipathy towards the concept of this kind of dissociation, or simply that the culture does not tolerate it very well in general. For whatever reasons, there are many husbands and wives in the world who no longer want to be married to their spouse but do not have the opportunity to easily end the relationship.

The earliest and possibly best known defiance of the Catholic church’s domination of matrimonial proceedings came from the English king Henry VIII. Unable to secure an annulment from the papal authority and increasingly unhappy with his wife Catherine’s inability to sire a male heir, the king took matters into his own hands and broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534.

Since then, most of the western world has a more relaxed attitude towards the breaking up of married households. It is important to note, however, that while religious convictions against the idea of the separation of a man and his wife still exist and remain powerful in many countries, there is a specific and new consideration which has evolved in modern wedlock. Wedlock is seen as more of a civil contract than a spiritual bond in many of the industrial societies today, and as such there are considerable legal aspects involved in its destruction.

For marriage to be as free and unfettered as private citizens deserve, the argument goes, then it is important to provide the means with which to escape if necessary. In some countries the rate of divorce may be similar to the incidence of marriage, but this can be taken as an index of personal liberty and the freedom to make all decisions oneself rather than a moral or ethical failing.

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