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zumBrunnen Presenting Educational Session on Bricks with Sustainable Mortar at Annual Risk Management Conference for The Association of Boarding Schools

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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

zumBrunnen, Inc., an independent building consulting firm, is presenting an educational workshop at The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) and Campus Outreach Services (COS) Annual Risk Management Conference being held June 20-22, 2012 at the historic Hotel Dupont in Wilmington, DE. The conference will bring together boarding school leaders and senior administrators for an in-depth look at best practices on key risk management issues. The conference will help boarding schools identify, evaluate and manage risk by exploring proven policies and practices that are legally sound, fiscally prudent and logistically feasible. John zumBrunnen, Founder and President of zumBrunnen, Inc., will present an educational session focusing on the essential resources executives need in their tool bag to identify and mitigate risk associated with poorly-managed facilities. His session is titled Bricks with Sustainable Mortar.

Executives will learn how to identify facility management teams that are not up to current standards utilizing a self-assessment tool. They will also learn about various methodologies and proprietary techniques used for facility assessment and how to integrate these concepts and tools into a replacement reserve plan. Attendees will discover how information gathered from the assessment process and budgeting phase can yield a truly dynamic report (not a one-time, static report that ends up as a dust cover in a year or two) that ultimately helps lower risk, reduce operating costs and lessen environmental impact.

The building consultants at zumBrunnen specialize in providing educational clients with comprehensive facility assessments and capital replacement reserve budget studies, trademarked as Campus Wide FacilityForecast

New Article Details How Avoiding Five Simple E-commerce Mistakes can Help Companies Retain Customers and Make More Money

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Nashville, TN (PRWEB) June 17, 2012

Customers are always looking for easier ways to shop – avoid the crowded roadways and strip malls – find time to do the more important things in life. So businesses can make sure they are giving their customer what they want, HortonGroup.com has listed five common errors that are sure to drive customers away from their e-commerce website.

A bad shopping experiences at an online location can be just as horrific as one that takes place at physical storefront. For most businesses investing in an e-commerce website is a matter of common sense; however, a poorly designed and managed e-commerce tool will do more harm than good. As the number of people using the web almost exclusively to do the majority of their shopping grows, companies need to reevaluate what they are doing to make that online shopping experience more convenient.

There are a number of factors that come into play when managing an e-commerce website. Horton Group asks businesses to focus on five essential elements of their e-commerce website and ask themselves if they are doing them right. Things to consider when designing an e-commerce website range from overall website performance to e-commerce product management. A slow website, unclear menu navigation and high shipping costs are all factors that can turn customers away and send them to the competition. For more in-depth information on the five e-commerce mistakes that will tank an online store, read the full article at the Horton Group blog.

About Horton Group

Horton Group is focused on helping businesses maximize profits and retain customers through their professional marketing and advertising services. Since 1996 Horton Group has been assisting companies all around Middle Tennessee and across the country with ecommerce website design. The also offer a wide variety of print and online services such as, graphic design, social media management, media buying and strategic business planning.

For more information on Horton Group and their services contact them at, 615-292-8642.







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Rentapen Inc. Congratulates DUECO Inc. For Receiving The Business Of The Year Award

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Waukesha, WI (PRWEB) June 11, 2012

On June 7th 2012,Rentapen joined nine other companies at the Top 10 Businesses of Year Luncheon, which included; ActionCOACH, Davies Orthodontics, DUECO Inc., First Business Bank-Milwaukee, Graphics Systems, QPS Employment Group, Ruekert/Mielke Inc., Tim OBrien Homes Inc., and Waukesha Metal Products.

According to the Milwaukee BizTimes, The winners were selected by an independent panel of judges based upon criteria that included financial growth, employee growth, customer focus, employee relations and community service.

Rentapen congratulates DUECO Inc. for being the number one business of the year. Judie Taylor, President at DUECO, is an inspiration for business acumen, humility, and servant leadership style, said Susan Straley, President at Rentapen Inc. Rentapen, like DUECO, is a Woman-owned Business Enterprise.

It is clear the leaders at DUECO understand that it is about the people inside the company that makes your company succeed. It is about dedication to the customers. Rentapen Inc. agrees and follows that philosophy as well, said Straley.

Rentapen is in the business of satisfying their customers need to reduce costs. It is only with dedication to efficiency, excellence, and customer services by every team member can Rentapen retain their customers and fulfill their mission.

Rentapens mission is to provide jobs, training, and opportunities for people who work together to help manufacturers reduce the costs of tooling to make their products. This focus has helped drive Rentapens growth and earned its status in the Top 10 along with DUECO.

Rentapen reduces costs for its customers in three ways. First is excellence in 3D weld fixture design and build. Second, is the standardized yet versatile RAPid Tooling Components. Third, is RAPid Shims. Rentapen is known as the Shim King. They sell hundreds and thousands of shims each year.

Constantly innovating to better serve their customers, in March Rentapen launched a new service on their website that allows machine designers to order 3D models of parts from Rentapens RAPid Tooling Components line.

Rentapen is a small business that has stayed positive through these difficult economic times. The company continues to expand with Wisconsins growing manufacturing industry. Rentapens percent growth in revenue has increased 48% since 2008. Rentapen has been helping John Deere, a dedicated customer, for 17 years, as well as a variety of other manufacturers. More manufacturing companies continue to find Rentapen through their marketing efforts.







Cherry Logistics Adds Landscape Manager to Improve Client Services

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North Aurora, IL (PRWEB) May 30, 2012

Cherry Logistics, which bundles and consolidates exterior and interior facility maintenance services, today announced the addition of landscape manager Laurin Czyzyk. Czyzyk will be responsible for developing and organizing the burgeoning landscaping division of Cherry Logistics, and brings with her a horticultural background in sustainable design and maintenance.

Prior to joining the Cherry team, Czyzyk served as an educator and horticulturist, and spent the last 3 years as Account Manager at Western DuPage Landscaping, where she was responsible for managing commercial landscape maintenance, organizing seasonal events and applications for each site, designing and managing the installation of four-season color displays, and monitoring the health of plant material to ensure ongoing insect and disease controls. Laurin Czyzyk attended Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina. During her career, Czyzyk has also given lectures on sustainable landscape design/installation and site grading/drainage. With her former company, Czyzyk received awards for Excellence in Landscaping from the ILCA (Illinois Landscape Contractors Association) and from the City of Schaumburg for Most Improved Landscaping in the retail division.

We are incredibly excited to have Laurin as a part of our team, says Ken Thorne, General Manager of Cherry Logistics. Her experience in the landscaping field, on both sides of the desk, will be a great asset to Cherry and to all of our customers.

About Cherry Logistics

Cherry Logistics, Inc., headquartered in North Aurora, IL, was founded in 2003 as a snow removal service. Since that time the company has become a premier provider of consolidated facilities maintenance services including landscaping, lighting, emergency power, and HVAC, displaying proficiency in each category. Cherry Logistics specializes in offering facilities services for owners of multiple-location real estate. Specific services are offered to each client as needed, including snow removal, lot sweeping, landscaping, and window washing. The company is currently operating within 42 states.

Cherry Logistics prides itself on the fact its staff is comprised entirely of experts with years of experience within their respective field. This diverse team includes managers and executives with experience in retail management, facilities management, customer service, commercial real estate, construction, transportation, information technology, and meteorology. For more information about the company, visit http://www.cherrylogistics.com.







New Report Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Market (2012-2017) by MarketsandMarkets

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(PRWEB) May 29, 2012

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have evolved to overcome the inherent limitations of the Internet in terms of user perceived Quality of Service (QoS) when accessing Web content. A CDN replicates content from the origin server to cache servers, scattered over the globe, in order to deliver content to end-users in a reliable and timely manner from nearby optimal surrogates. Content distribution on the Internet has received considerable research attention. It combines development of high-end computing technologies with high-performance networking infrastructure and distributed replica management techniques. The three components of the CDN architecture are: Content Provider, CDN Provider and End-Users. The Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Market research report covers exclusively in addressing the latest trends, worldwide forecasts, driving forces and application segments.

Visit: http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/content-delivery-networks-cdn-market-657.html

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 KEY TAKE-AWAYS

1.2 REPORT DESCRIPTION

1.3 MARKETS COVERED

1.4 STAKEHOLDERS

1.5 FORECAST ASSUMPTIONS

1.6 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

3 MARKET OVERVIEW

3.1 MARKET DEFINITION CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORKS (CDN)

3.2 EVOLUTION OF CDN

3.3 MARKET SEGMENTATION

3.4 OVERALL MARKET SIZE

3.5 WINNING IMPERATIVES

3.6 BURNING ISSUES

3.7 MARKET DYNAMICS

Napa Valley To Show Off Meeting, Event and Retreat Services at July Hospitality Trade Show

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Napa, California (PRWEB) June 12, 2012

Napa Valley will be showcasing all it has to offer event planners, destination marketing companies and corporate meeting planners when it hosts the first Napa Valley Hospitality Trade Show on July 17 at Charles Krug Winery in Saint Helena in Napa Valley. The day-long event will highlight the diversity of service providers, caterers, venues, transportation options and other companies that can help make a Napa Valley corporate retreat, off-site meetings, event and conference a success.

The Napa Valley Hospitality Trade show is being produced by the Concierge Alliance of Napa Valley and Sonoma (CANVAS), a 850-member strong wine country organization of local concierge, tour guide, and hospitality professionals.

With its close proximity to three international airports, a large metropolitan area and the state capital, Napa Valley provides and enticing and beautiful venue for corporate retreats, meetings and events, said Colby Smith, executive director and co-founder of CANVAS. We are excited to present the vast range of third party vendors, venues, and caterers available in Napa Valley to businesses seeking to create a successful and unique experience for their next event.

DETAILS:

When: Tuesday, July 17

Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm

Where: Charles Krug Winery, Saint Helena, California

Attendee Cost: $ 25 -$ 95

In addition to an array of exhibitors to meet, attendees will be invited to take part in a morning guided tour of various venues up and down the Napa Valley. The tours of venues will be followed by a lunch, showcasing top chefs from catering services such as Meadowood Resort and Grapevine Catering, in three spaces created by designers who will showcase striking environments to inspire event planners.

ENTIRE SPECTRUM OF SERVICES AND VENUES ON DISPLAY

Attendees are expected to arrive from around the Bay Area and the Sacramento area. Meeting planners and destination marketing professionals likely know of Napa Valley but are unlikely to have been exposed to the full range of and newest local services and venues available to them for planning their events, retreats and meetings. Among the services being showcased at the Trade Show will be transportation providers, caterers and chefs, excursion planners, event venues, rental companies, lighting and sound providers, entertainment agents and talent, parking service providers, specialty gift services, lodging and resorts, and more.

Charles Krug Winery, one of the Napa Valleys oldest and most famous wineries will host the Napa Valley Trade Show in its Carriage House as well as on its Great Lawn, shaded by heritage oaks, one of the premier outdoor spaces in Napa Valley.

Information on attending or exhibiting at the Napa Valley Hospitality Trade Show can be found at the CANVAS website: http://www.conciergealliance.com/TradeShow.







Los Angeles Copy and Print Center Now Offers Affordable Graphic Design Services

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 11, 2012

All companies that would like to remain ahead of the competition will need a comprehensive plan of action when it comes to advertising, marketing, and the spreading of information to all local demographics. It does not take much for these few important steps to become prohibitively expensive though, and this means that some companies are falling by the wayside when it comes to creating an iconic and powerful identity. This is why one of the leading businesses for printing services in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Copy and Print Center, is now offering affordable graphic design services for all those that would like an eye-catching new image.

Companies from all industries will need an experienced and local print shop at multiple points throughout the years. From creating flyers for a new sale or business card printing for new employees, it is important to find reliable services for printing in Los Angeles. Without these few important steps, all businesses will quickly find that their ability to bring in new customers and clients as well as maintain a loyal client-base is exceedingly difficult.

No matter what is needed for printing though, it all begins with graphic design. As a trusted local print shop, Los Angeles Copy and Print Center utilizes a team of graphic design specialists that will assist all customers step by step. Their design services include logo creation, business cards, postcards, catalogs, brochures, signs, calendars, and more. In addition to the graphic design they also offer affordable label printing, color copies, laminating, t-shirt printing, and mounting.

The need to go with expensive graphic designers or cookie-cutter logos is now a thing of the past with affordable graphic design services now being offered by Los Angeles Copy and Print Center.

About LA Copy and Print Center

Going all the way back to 1990, Los Angeles Copy and Print Center has remained one of the leading choices in Southern California for all residents. They experienced and friendly staff provides a full line of services including posters, blueprints, calendars, stickers, envelopes, stickers, and catalog printing.

You can visit http://www.lacopycenter.com or call (800) 554-2202 for more information. LA Copy and Print Center is located at 9130 B. Reseda Blvd. in Northridge, CA 91324.







Cable Assembly Expands Its Global Competitiveness by Opening a Mexico Manufacturing Operation in Tijuana, Baja California

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Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico (PRWEB) June 12, 2012

Cable Assembly views its Mexico manufacturing facility as an essential part of its business strategy with technical high margin harnesses being produced out of its North Carolina facility and mass production harnesses being produced out of Tijuana. “Cable Assembly has the flexibility of providing price options to our customers. We can win business using our Tijuana facility, and the region provides opportunities for us to gain new customers, states Moceri.

Chenesai Offers Business Consulting Services to VSAT Operators

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(PRWEB UK) 12 June 2012

Chenesai Ltd, a UK-based company, offers strategic business consulting services, specialising in the telecom industry and with specific expertise for VSAT operators.

Chenesais Senior Consultant is Michael Darcy, who was directly and personally responsible for signing the largest VSAT contract in the history of the industry – a US$ 200M+ contract for 28,000 sites for the UK National Lottery. The network, including lottery terminals, digital media screens, printers and broadband telecoms, was rolled out on schedule in time for the start of the 3rd licence on February 1st, 2009. The network comprises around 24,000 VSAT terminals, 3,500 DSL connections and 500 3G connections, together with new highly-redundant core network infrastructure and back-office systems.

Michael Darcy was President and Managing Director of the European business of VSAT industry leader Hughes Communications LLC from 2001 to 2009. He was responsible for growing revenues by almost twofold, to more than US$ 100M per annum and at the same time turning substantial losses into net profits of $ 16M per annum. Previously, Mr. Darcy worked in the mid 1990s with Hughes Space & Communications (now Boeing Space Systems) in El Segundo, CA managing the procurement of advanced digital communication satellites, before joining Hughes Network Systems in Germantown, MD in 1997 to manage the development of several large mobile satellite systems, for customers such as Inmarsat, Thuraya and ICO Global Communications. Mr. Darcy has a bachelors degree in engineering (B.Eng) and a masters degree in business administration (MBA).

Chenesai specialises in helping busy executives balance the needs of managing their businesses on a daily basis, with the need to manage the strategic aspects of the business. Commenting on the consulting services, Michael Darcy said Most executives are inevitably consumed by the day-to-day tactical management of their businesses, with precious little time available to spend on the more strategic issues which are critical to long-term success. Chenesai is their strategic partner, providing them with the time and support to produce strategic plans together with marketing, operational and financial audits and action plans guaranteed to improve top and bottom lines.

The services offered by Chenesai include:

-Strategic and Business Plan preparation – writing rolling 3-year plans with detailed 12-month tactical plans which define the right products/services to the target customers, understanding competitors, their market share and relative strengths and weaknesses and defining distribution models optimised to bring the products/services to the target customers most effectively.

-Financial Audit and Planning – conducting financial reviews of a business and structuring the P&L to show true direct and indirect costs of sales, as well as selling and general & administrative costs, which are benchmarked against best-in-class for the industry. Used to identify improvements in pricing models and streamline SG&A costs to improve margins and net profits. Also includes balance sheet reviews with emphasis on reducing working capital and freeing up cash for expansion.

-Sales & Marketing Plans – designing optimal distribution models to bring products and services to the target customers, and strategies which minimise wastage in marketing spend. Specialist knowledge in the use of direct sales teams, direct web-based sales and indirect channel sales.

-Proposal lead or support – Chenesai has vast experience in leading major proposals and customer negotiations, and helps businesses apply the right level of executive support.

-Operational Audit and Planning – conducting operational reviews of a business and ensuring that the operations team is capable of delivering new contracts, with focus is on project management for new network implementation, as well as optimisation of data service delivery in today’s environment with bandwidth-hungry applications such as web-browsing, real-time streaming and peer-to-peer.

-Customer Introductions – Chenesai has an extensive network of company contacts at executive level in blue-chip companies and governments throughout the world, in particular those utilising VSAT services.

-Due Diligience – Chenesai can help executive teams minimise the distraction of time-consuming due diligence and prepare a DD report covering business, operational, legal and financial aspects.

-Fund Raising – Chenesai can help prepare investment briefs as well as Business Plans to support fund raising needs, and introduce investment sources of all types including Venture Capitalists (VCs), Private Equity (PE) funds and High Net Worth (HNW) investors, to cover investment requirements from a few hundred thousand all the way up to several millions.

For more information go to http://www.chenesai.com, or contact Michael Darcy at michael(at)chenesai(dot)com or +44-7515-377770.







iCONECT and Mindseye Create Seamless Workflow

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Reston, VA (PRWEB) June 13, 2012

iCONECT Development, LLC, the industry leader in litigation support and eDiscovery software, and pioneers of the revolutionary web-based XERA eDiscovery Review Platform, introduce a new intelligent integration solution with Mindseye, producers of TunnelVision Software. The new system streamlines the way law firms and corporations interface with technology in an intuitive, efficient and easy to use fashion, helping reduce time and costs involved in the eDiscovery process.

Weve studied extensively how people interact, process and interpret information throughout the entire eDiscovery lifecycle, said Bob Krantz, CEO of Mindseye. Our philosophy is to focus extensively on our core business and look to integration efforts to blend advanced technologies together to provide firms with best of breed solutions that streamline workflow throughout all EDRM stages.

Built upon a powerful multi-threaded distributed architecture, Mindseyes TunnelVision enables organizations to process, investigate and filter documents using a simple web interface to create pre-formatted load files that import seamlessly into iCONECTs intuitive XERA eDiscovery Review Platform.

Built with HTML5 technology, XERA is designed with universally used web technologies to streamline the review, analysis and production of electronically stored information (ESI). XERA enables worldwide multi-party review via the most popular browsers and iPad devicesdelivering instantaneous collaboration to a new generation of tablet toting lawyers, paralegals and experts anytime, anyplace.

Our commitment to combine best of breed technologies like TunnelVision and XERA saves the results-driven legal professional valuable time while reducing the high cost of litigation, said Ian Campbell, Chief Business Development Officer at iCONECT. Pulling the strength of two industry-leading technologies together makes this a very powerful eDiscovery offering.

XERA, the next era in eDiscovery technology, is an easy-to-administer solution and the first to deliver established web tools such as faceted search, social collaboration and intuitive navigation in a powerful review platform.

TunnelVision maximizes technology investments to process data faster with minimal resource requirements through a simple web-based interface that delivers maximum effectiveness and efficient management of multiple document types.

ABOUT iCONECT DEVELOPMENT, LLC

Providing hosted litigation and eDiscovery software for more than a decade, iCONECT Development, LLC is a trusted technology partner for law firms, corporate legal departments, government agencies and legal service providers. Whether deployed on-premise or hosted by a legal service provider, iCONECTs products reduce the excessive costs and process inefficiencies associated with eDiscovery. With the release of its XERA platform, iCONECT raises the bar for user-friendly application interfaces in eDiscovery. The company is based in Reston, VA (Wash D.C.), with offices in Los Angeles and London, Canada. For more information, visit http://www.iconect.com.

ABOUT MINDSEYE SOLUTIONS LLC

Mindseye was formed in 2008 as a privately held organization and launched its flagship product, TunnelVision, the following year. TunnelVision was purpose-built to address the challenges that organizations are facing when supporting eDiscovery and Information Governance. The technology is a simple yet flexible platform, designed to scale, and delivers full transparency. TunnelVision carries a predictable cost model and helps in managing risk, identifying exposure, and eliminating wasted time throughout the process. Discover More. Review Less. by visiting http://www.mindseyesolutions.com

iCONECT and the iCONECT logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of iCONECT Development, LLC or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.