Homeowner Guide 5 Tips for a Successful Home Remodel Released for Download


Arlington, Virginia (PRWEB) September 30, 2012

Northern Virginia home remodeling company Merrill Contracting & Remodeling, Inc. announced the release of the newest edition of its popular consumer e-guide to home remodeling. The e-guide 5 Tips for a Successful Home Remodel is now available free for homeowners to download at http://www.merrillcontracting.com.

The e-guide includes useful tips that help homeowners have better home remodeling experiences, such as the importance of selecting the right remodeling contractor. The homeowner e-guide to successful remodeling provides links to pages on the Merrill Contracting & Remodeling website where additional and more detailed information can be found, such as methods of setting home remodeling project priorities, specific questions to ask contractors and references, and red flags to look out for when selecting a remodeling contractor as well as other tips about remodeling.

David Merrill, president of Merrill Contracting & Remodeling commented Perhaps the single most important decision a homeowner makes that affects the success of a remodeling project and the nature of the home remodeling experience is the selection of the contractor they use. Its not always easy to determine what company will be best. Some of the secrets in our new e-guide, and articles they link to at our website, will help homeowners learn how to determine if the company they are considering for their remodel is right for them, their project, and their budget. Merrill also said, While our company only works in Northern Virginia our homeowners guide would be helpful to any homeowner in the country planning a remodeling project. The home remodeling tips we offer are universal.

Located in Arlington, Virginia, Merrill Contracting & Remodeling provides design build home remodeling services to homeowners in Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, McLean and other areas in Northern Virginia. The company provides architectural design and construction services for projects such as whole house remodels, home additions, kitchens, bathrooms, basement finishing, green remodeling, interior and exterior remodeling, as well as other home remodeling projects.







New Infographics Released By HealthCompare Educates Today’s Health Insurance Consumers On Hardships


Orange, CA (PRWEB) June 11, 2012

HealthCompare has generated infographics to hep consumers make health insurance decision. Infographics are unique graphics that are growing in popularity across the web are known for utilizing images and colors to help make complex data from scientific reports, demographics, and studies to make them more easily understood by the casual reader. Reports such as the ones used in scientific studies often use jargon and unnecessary language that makes deciphering results difficult for those without the background for these terms. Infographics compress and compile numbers and meanings into aesthetically pleasing arrangements that illustrate rather than tell. They can also functionally layout arguments for debates, complex concepts or any other topic that could otherwise be considered difficult to understand.

These new graphics explain hardships that can effect consumers when it comes to medical coverage. HealthCompare is nationally recognized for caring about patient knowledge and choice. They want consumers to understand as much as possible when it comes to making decisions regarding coverage that suits their needs.

The infographics released in this series are:

Not All Health Insurance Comparisons Are Created Equal – Designed to illustrate how ineffective a poorly prepared quote and comparison can be

Why Is Health Insurance For Self-Employed Necessary – Designed to explain why self-employed people cannot afford to skip health insurance

Individual PPO Vs. Traditional Policies – Designed to illustrate the differences and similarities between PPOs and traditional policies

Where Can Consumers Find Affordable Medical Insurance – Designed to explain how to find affordable medical insurance

What is Private Health Insurance – Designed to educate consumers on what private health insurance actually means

Other infographics can be found here.

HealthCompare, a nationally recognized health insurance comparison site, is releasing new tools in their attempt to help Americans who are in search of health insurance. HealthCompare, who consistently displays concern for consumers, asks visitors that come to their site to ask themselves a series of questions before attempting to find health insurance coverage. These questions are designed to help shoppers decipher what type of coverage is best for them in terms of cost and type of policy.

The questions that HealthCompare encourages consumers to ask themselves are:

What are the consumers current health care needs? Do they currently require medication? Does the consumer have a pre-existing condition? Or are they seeking to start a family in the near future?

Does the financial state of the shopper allow for a lower deductible, thusly giving them a higher monthly premium? Or would having a high deductible (and therefore lower monthly premium) be more beneficial?

Is the consumers physician a factor? If they prefer to continue seeing their doctor of choice, HealthCompare helps them decide what policies allow that.

Are there any other health insurance options for the shopper, such as spouse or parent plan?

Once consumers get their quotes, HealthCompare then helps them narrow their decisions by prompting them to ask further questions, like:

How much will the policies being compared cost them from their pocket when considering deductibles, co-insurance, and co-pays?

What will the policies being compared offer in terms of maximum out-of-pocket expense?

Will the consumers office visits be covered?

Do any of the policies up for comparison offer maternity?

Is prescription drug coverage an option?

How much will the consumer pay for emergency services and ambulances?

Will the current primary physician and local hospitals be accepted under any of the policies being considered?

Health insurance costs are much more involved than mere premiums and buyers must carefully consider all out of pocket expenses to understand what their policies will ultimately cost them.

About Health Compare: HealthCompare was launched in 2009 to work with brokers and carriers to help individuals and families easily research, compare, buy, and enroll in the right health insurance plan at the right price. Based in Orange, Calif., it delivers accurate, customized, health insurance quotes for the country’s diverse population.

Through a unique partnership with its sister company, CONEXIS, HealthCompare has the ability to quickly reach thousands of COBRA-qualifying consumers and provide them with COBRA alternatives at the moment they become eligible for COBRA benefits. This provides these consumers with an opportunity to enroll in individual or family plans and potentially save hundreds to thousands of dollars on COBRA premiums and, at the same time, rewards referring brokers with referral fee income for the life of each policy.

For more information, visit http://healthcompare.org/ or call 888.748.5152.







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NuWave Solutions Released White Paper on Ozone Widget Development Standards


McLean, VA (PRWEB) August 03, 2012

Managing and assuring quality in a widget development effort presents some challenges in regards to best practices and defining areas of responsibility. Due to the varying nature of functionality from the data sources widgets may be using, defining what layers or tiers are needed by a widget in general is challenging. The design choices that are made to satisfy the needs of a widget will also affect the basic architecture. This document sketches out general patterns seen in widget development and what implications these patterns have for implementing best practices. Additionally, this document attempts to define what constitutes a widget to establish the area of developers responsibilities for development and support.

Highlights from Ozone Widget Development Standards white paper include:

New Ebooks To Be Released By HealthCompare In An Effort To Continue To Educate Health Insurance Consumers


Orange, California (PRWEB) July 07, 2012

HealthCompare is a health insurance comparison site that is nationally recognized for their compassion for American consumers. They began their journey toward their reputation for understanding and caring when they consistently displayed a concern for site visitors to make the best health care decisions possible.

They posed probing questions to visitors encouraging them to discover as much as possible about their medical coverage needs. The questions covered topics such as past medical history, current medical needs, current financial capabilities, and more.

If answered, the site visitor would leave their site with a complete understanding of how to find a policy that was effective and affordable for them. Consumers shopping for health insurance should consider the following questions that HealthCompare posed on their site:

What are the consumers current health care needs? Do they currently require medication? Does the consumer have a pre-existing condition? Or are they seeking to start a family in the near future?

Does the financial state of the shopper allow for a lower deductible, thusly giving them a higher monthly premium? Or would having a high deductible (and therefore lower monthly premium) be more beneficial?

Is the consumers physician a factor? If they prefer to continue seeing their doctor of choice, HealthCompare helps them decide what policies allow that.

Are there any other health insurance options for the shopper, such as spouse or parent plan?

Once consumers get their quotes, HealthCompare then helps them narrow their decisions by prompting them to ask further questions, like:

How much will the policies being compared cost them from their pocket when considering deductibles, co-insurance, and co-pays?

Health insurance costs are much more involved than mere premiums and buyers must carefully consider all out of pocket expenses to understand what their policies will ultimately cost them.

However, HealthCompare did not stop there. They chose to continue educating American consumers through means like infographics.

Inforgraphics are aesthetically pleasing graphic images that use pictures and colors to depict complex data derived from scientific reports, demographics, case studies and more.

Such reports often bury the meaning of their results in difficult language causing the reader to get lost in their jargon. Seeing this inherent complexity in their industry, HealthCompare designed inforgraphics to help health insurance shoppers decipher the true meaning of the hardships that may be imposed by health insurance.

Some infographics they released are:

How To Find Affordable Health Insurance – Designed to help health insurance consumers find affordable health insurance

Buying Health Insurance – Designed to help todays health insurance shopper buy health insurance online

Finding Cheap Health Insurance – Created to educate consumers on the best ways to find cheap health insurance

What To Look For In Childrens Health Insurance – Designed to educate to help todays consumers ask the right questions about childrens health insurance

Find Health Insurance Online – Created to help health insurance shoppers to find effective health insurance online

Other graphics can be found here.

Evolving from infographics, HealthCompare has chosen ebooks to be their next avenue of education for the consumers of health insurance.

With the explosion of ereaders and ebooks coupled with their affordability and portability, more shoppers than ever are reading again. HealthCompare has seen this as an opportunity to reach more consumers than ever. Their series of ebooks will begin a weekly release in July, 2012. And consumers can look for titles that will guide them to make the right decision no matter what their stage in life.

About Health Compare: HealthCompare was launched in 2009 to work with brokers and carriers to help individuals and families easily research, compare, buy, and enroll in the right health insurance plan at the right price. Based in Orange, Calif., it delivers accurate, customized, health insurance quotes for the country’s diverse population.

Through a unique partnership with its sister company, CONEXIS, HealthCompare has the ability to quickly reach thousands of COBRA-qualifying consumers and provide them with COBRA alternatives at the moment they become eligible for COBRA benefits. This provides these consumers with an opportunity to enroll in individual or family plans and potentially save hundreds to thousands of dollars on COBRA premiums and, at the same time, rewards referring brokers with referral fee income for the life of each policy.

For more information, visit http://healthcompare.com/ or call 888.748.5152.







How to Handle Hourly Pay Plus Commission New EzPaycheck Payroll Software Tutorial Released


Orlando, FL (PRWEB) June 19, 2012

Aimed at helping small businesses cut costs, accounting payroll software provider, Halfpricesoft.com, recently added a new video tutorial on how to handle hourly pay plus commission with EzPaycheck payroll software.

Found online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuIDcsWrV2Q, Small Business Payroll 101: How to Handle Hourly Pay plus Commission walks viewers through the process company set up, employee set up and new check generation.

By using ezPaycheck payroll software, users can print paychecks and print tax forms quickly and smoothly. EzPaycheck payroll system is designed to automate paycheck processes to reduce the time spent on running payroll. The softwares graphic interface leads users step-by-step through setting up employee information, importing data, calculating payroll – including calculation of federal, state and local taxes; deductions for Medicare, insurance and 401(k) plans; and printing paychecks.

ezPaycheck payroll software is loaded with intelligent, intuitive features, but not burdened by complicated suites of expensive applications small businesses will never use or need. The software is ideal for owners of small to mid-sized businesses, and was designed and engineered for ease-of-use by those who have only basic computer skills and little accounting know-how.

Now is the best time for small businesses to automate their payroll processes with ezPaycheck Payroll Software. During the downturn, how to increase business productivity is critical for any company, said Dr. Ge, founder of Halfpricesoft.com. “We hope this new video helps small businesses take advantage of all the time- and money-saving features of ezPaycheck payroll software.”

New customers considering ezPaycheck 2012 can download and sample the payroll software without charge or obligation for up to 30 days. The free download, which is available at http://www.halfpricesoft.com/payroll_software_download.asp, includes a sample database, to make it easier for customers to test drive all the features of ezPaycheck 2012 before purchasing a license key.

The main features of this PC payroll application include:


Up to date tax tables for all 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C. and federal taxes
Capability for adding local tax rates
Automatically calculate tips, commissions, federal withholding tax, Social Security, Medicare tax, employer unemployment taxes, and other pre-tax and post-tax deductions
Print paychecks using a standard laser printer on blank computer checks or preprinted checks
Use check-in-middle, check-on-top, or check-at-bottom check stock formats
Able to print MICR numbers on blank check stock to save on pre-printed checks
Print signature image on checks for a customized look
Built-in report functions users can customize
Calculate and print daily, weekly, biweekly, semimonthly and monthly payroll periods
Option for masking employees’ Social Security Numbers on check stubs
Compile and print federal tax forms w2, w3, 940 and 941
Unlimited free technical support

Available for just $ 89 per year ($ 59 to renew), ezPaycheck payroll software is affordable for any business. To start the30-day free test drive, please visit http://www.halfpricesoft.com/index.asp

About Halfpricesoft.com

Halfpricesoft.com is a leading provider of small business software, including payroll software, employee attendance tracking software, check printing software, W2, software, 1099 software, and barcode generating software. Today Software from halfpricesoft.com is trusted by thousands of users and help small business owners simplify their payroll processing and business management.







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Worlds First Web Competitive Analysis Tool for Singapore Released


Chicago, IL (PRWEB) May 31, 2012

Global marketers targeting Asia and especially Singapore prospects can now use the recently updated SEO Recon 2012— the worlds only widely available commercial software that dynamically maps the unique competitive landscapes for a companys product or service offerings and the first web competitive analysis tool for Singapore.com domains.

One month licenses for SEO Recon can be purchased at http://184.168.68.129/ALM-SEOSoftwareBundle.html.

Priced at only US$ 50/month (single license rate), SEO Recon levels the playing field for companies of all sizes– making it possible for ANY company to dominate their space on the web.

Michael Marshall, developer of SEO Recon explains that this newest version of SEO Recon was developed in response to multiple requests from companies that market to Asia in general, and especially attendees to his advanced courses on search engine optimization.

SEO Recon 2012 uses the modestly priced Majestic SEO from the UK in lieu of the formerly free data feed on site linking that had been available from Yahoo prior to its merger with Bing.

SEO Recon 2012:

Driveway Gate Entry Construction Resources Released on GateCrafters.com for the DIY Consumer


Odessa, FL (PRWEB) May 30, 2012

With the current immobility of a large number of home owners, improving property value and security is one common outlet for expendable income until the housing market rebounds. A popular project that historically pays off in added resale value is a property entrance remodel. To assist gatecrafters.com has released architect drawings to assist the homeowner with planning and construction.

GateCrafters.com has available professional gate plans for constructing a driveway entrances that are friendly for automatic gates. The plans were professionally drafted by Berlin Architecture of Tampa, Florida. Normally an expensive undertaking, the drafting of plans for a driveway gate entrance and column building, GateCrafters.com is strategically giving these away for free in hopes that as customers build their entryway they will have a gate built through the website and shipped to them.

Anthony Gaeto, President of Gate Crafters, commented on the production of the entrance and column plans, The cost was an easy decision for us. We spend the money once and because of the web the information is available to everyone free forever and gets widely distributed. This helps us in that it makes more people into do it yourselfers. And the more people doing DIY installation the better the chances they will end up our customer at some point because of our support and selection catering to to the DIY customer.

Do It Yourself installation has become a more popular phenomenon with the decline in money able to be pulled from a home’s value for remodels. In previous decades home equity played a big part in financing contractors and specialists. In the current economy many individuals have turned to the web for resources on improving their homes themselves. The driveway gate and automatic gate opener niche is where GateCrafters.com attempts to be a resource for the DIY community.

The architect instructions cover a range of topics such a internal structure of a concrete column. Mounting the gate to make the installation automatic gate accessible. Layout of the entryway and fence line. And column footer construction information.

For additional information contact Bill Anthony at GateCrafters.com.

About GateCrafters.com, inc:

Gate Crafters is a division of Web Direct Brands, Inc., a Florida corporation that owns and manages multiple specialty websites based on in depth end user product knowledge and usage.