Real Estate Blog Marketing Leaders Richard Nacht and Paul Chaney’s New Book offers Realtors the Know-How to Implement and Succeed at Blogging

Princeton Junction, NJ — December 28, 2006 — www.realtybloggingbook.com Real Estate Online Marketing Leaders Richard Nacht and Paul Chaney’s new book, Realty Blogging, is now the best-selling weblogs book on Amazon.com.

“Nacht and Chaney are the first ones to specifically address the huge potential blogging holds for real estate professionals. The authors go beyond the hype and explain in detail the tangible benefits of real-estate industry blogging when used as a strategic marketing medium,” said John E. Featherstone, Publisher of Real Estate Magazine.

Realty Blogging shows Realtors how to utilize blogs as a direct-communication marketing tool giving the reader the know-how to capture the interest and business of local homeowners, buyers and sellers.

Nacht and Chaney have leveraged their extensive blogging, real estate and online marketing experience to help Realtors:
-Develop an effective Internet Marketing Strategy
-Generate leads consistently at almost no cost
-Establish long-term relationships with your customers
-Create content that attracts major search engines
-Create buzz about his/her blog in local media
-Define him/herself as an expert in a particular area
-Serve his/her market niche

Minneapolis, MN, December 28, 2006 – http://www.outsell.com – Outsell LLC, the fastest growing Internet auto sales and marketing company, has signed a group agreement with auto dealer, Sheehy Auto Stores, which is expected to yield over $3,000,000 in gross profit for sales and service in 2007 via interactive marketing and live automotive chat.

“Outsell has been extremely successful in driving customers into our dealership,” said Roy Reutter, Corporate eBusiness Director at Sheehy Auto Stores. “Outsell was a great investment in 2006. Only 3 months into the program, we recorded a 18:1 return on investment. We are obviously looking forward to growing with Outsell in 2007.”

The Sheehy Interactive Sales and Marketing program from Outsell includes:
• Interactive email newsletters
• Email marketing and promotions
• Live automotive chat
• Prospect list development and maintenance
• Customized reporting, tracking and analysis

Outsell creates and manages interactive email newsletters, email promotions and live automotive chat, enabling customers to instantaneously enter into a live discussion with a car expert who turns conversations into sales “ups” for the dealership.

“Outsell understands that dealerships have one desire – to increase car and fixed operations sales,” said Mike Wethington, CEO of Outsell LLC. “Interactive marketing is a proven way of engaging the prospect and growing dealership sales every month.”

Named Best-Selling Realtor in America by Time Magazine, Ralph Roberts details why real estate blogging is the way to win in real estate.

Princeton Junction, NJ — December 14, 2006 — www.bloggingsystems.com - Community Publisher, Blogging Systems’ flagship blogging platform, is gaining endorsement from the biggest names in the industry, including Ralph Roberts, for its ability to position a Realtor as the thought leader in the local community.

Ralph Roberts, the best-selling Realtor in America according to Time Magazine, recently deployed Community Publisher believing that the Realtor who is first to leverage blogging to build community relationships will become the community thought leader not only for news and information, but for real estate transactions as well.

This is accomplished by Community Publisher’s unique platform design that incorporates the brand of the hosting real estate company on each page of the local website, the benefit of which enables the Realtor to increase brand awareness among customer and prospects.

“For any Realtor in the Top 10% of their marketplace, Community Publisher is their ticket to the number one position. For the Realtor who is number one, Community Publisher is their ticket to staying there,” said Roberts.

Minneapolis, MN, December 14, 2006 – http://www.evolvingsol.com/ - Evolving Solutions, an IT storage architect providing data on demand, storage virtualization and disaster recovery solutions, is celebrating its tenth anniversary.

Evolving Solutions offers IT storage architecture services and solutions to help businesses optimize their storage environment for better efficiency and a greater total cost of ownership.  As Evolving Solutions has grown in the last ten years, co-founders Jaime Gmach and Rebecca Olson have watched the IT storage industry also evolve.

“It’s amazing to reflect on how much we have achieved in the last 10 years,” said Jaime Gmach, President and CEO.  “We have grown Evolving Solutions from a husband and wife duo into a $60 Million company with 49 employees. Not only has Evolving Solutions been consistently named one of the fastest growing companies in the Twin Cities, but we have also been recognized as a rapidly growing storage company on a national level.”

At their inception in 1996, Evolving Solutions had many requests for RS6000 hardware and peripherals.  Evolving Solutions differentiated itself by providing technical support which today still remains one of its main differentiators.  Over the past few years, the IT storage industry has started to focus more and more on storage and server virtualization technology and the related benefits, including greater total cost of ownership and a positive impact on a company’s bottom-line.

H.M. Cragg Co. offers new, flexible UPS Battery to its resellers reducing rack space and increasing backup power supply.

MINNEAPOLIS — December 13, 2006 — www.hmcragg.com - H.M. Cragg Co., the leading provider of quality power solutions including Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPS), UPS Batteries, and PEM Fuel Cells, is offering the new Eaton Powerware 9140 Product to its resellers.

Recently released, the Powerware 9140 UPS provides de-centralized power protection for medium and high-density rack environments. The new 9140 delivers:

• Power - online, double-conversion delivers 7.5-10kVA in 6U of rack space including batteries
• Endurance - reliable service in medium and high-density rack environments, extends the life of protected IT equipment
• Flexibility - remote monitoring from anywhere while freeing up rack space for essential IT equipment

The 9140 UPS systems protect rackmount applications from downtime, data loss/corruption and process interruption by providing continuous, clean power.

“Backup power is very important to all businesses in ensuring business-critical information is not lost during power outage downtimes,” said Paul Heggestad, President of H.M. Cragg Co. “H.M. Cragg Co. is very proud to provide its resellers with top of the line backup power products to help their end-users protect information assets.”

Minneapolis, MN, December 13, 2006 – http://www.watermarklearning.com – Watermark Learning, a leading business analysis and project management training firm, is addressing the biggest challenge facing today’s business analysts.

Many companies today understand the benefit of growing the business analysis functions in their organization. While business analysis can add much value to organizations by increasing corporate efficiency and helping to launch new products and services, there are emerging challenges to be addressed.

“I believe the biggest challenge in projects today is defining requirements,” said Richard Larson, Co-Principal of Watermark Learning. “Business requirements analysis is a recurring challenge and getting requirements right is harder than ever.”

According to Larson, the main issues surrounding requirements definition are:

• Lack of time to gather and analyze requirements
• Clients provide solutions in the guise of requirements
• Finding necessary stakeholders and getting them to consensus once they are found
• Clients cannot articulate their requirements or provide incomplete requirements
• Changing and volatile requirements

“With the evolution of technology and global business, there are even more complications added to the requirements definition mix,” said Larson. “Cross cultural relations and geographically dispersed stakeholders all contribute to the challenge.”

Minneapolis, MN, December 7, 2006 — http://www.evolvingsol.com/itxray.html — Evolving Solutions, a data on demand and storage virtualization expert, has launched ITxRAY (SM), a new service designed to provide businesses with a snapshot view and analysis of their current datacenter environment.

Evolving Solutions’ new service “X Rays” businesses’ datacenter environment and provides a detailed inventory of your servers/hosts, storage, applications, services running, and other mission critical data.

“Sometimes, businesses don’t know there’s a problem or that they could be operating more efficiently,” said Chris Taylor, Director of Professional Services and Solution Sales, Evolving Solutions. “Organizations can now come to Evolving Solutions for an ITxRAY like patients would go to a doctor.”

Evolving Solutions uses the in-depth picture provided by ITxRAY to address key business issues faced by today’s CIOs and IT professionals. Properly addressing these issues can reduce overall costs while optimizing and improving service levels for customers and the organization as a whole.

The biggest challenges faced by today’s IT professionals that can be addressed using ITxRAY include:
• Under-utilized Servers & Storage
• Compliance
• RTO/RPO do not meet changing business climates
• Redundant software licenses
• Data retention policies are not enforced or in place at all
• Business Continuity risks
• Servers and clients exposed to security threats and risks
• Inconsistent software & hardware levels
• Unnecessary applications and services running on servers
• Servers/IT assets used for “non-business” related activities

Dedicated to brain and memory improvement, Smartkit and its Student Guidebook, recommend students stay away from all-nighters and deploy more effective study techniques

Boynton Beach, Florida - December 7, 2006 - www.smart-kit.com – Smartkit, led by board certified neurologist Dr. R.L. Kaplan, is offering study tips to help students studying for finals improve scores with less study time and without painful all-nighters.

Kaplan explains that brain function significantly decreases after an all-nighter, especially memory systems and frontal lobe regions.

Frontal lobe regions are especially important because this region plays a crucial role in the following:

• Oral Presentations
• Essay Tests on literature, history, social sciences and art
• Exams in math, physics, chemistry or economics where students are asked not only to recall information, but to apply it to new situations and problems

According to the research journal Occupational Environmental Medicine, “Moderate sleep deprivation produces impairment in cognitive and motor performance equivalent to that of legally prescribed levels of alcohol intoxication.”

Smartkit developed its Student Guidebook to help improve memory and brain functions by implementing healthy techniques into daily life.

Students can benefit from advice offered within the guidebook including how to improve test scores and decrease study time by:

Minneapolis, MN, December 6, 2006 – http://www.testedandproven.com – DDL Inc, a leading medical device package, product and material testing laboratory, has been named the #42 fastest growing company in the Twin Cities in a recent Growth 50 honor roll released by the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal.

DDL, which has experienced an average annual revenue increase of 25% since 2003, has moved up 8 places from its #50 position in the 2005 Growth 50.  DDL attributes much of its growth to its ability to read the needs of its customers.

“Many package engineers and manufacturers are looking for re-assurance that their packaging will not fail its validation testing,” said Patrick Nolan, COO of DDL Inc.  “DDL offers comprehensive pre-testing consultation via our PackAdvice service pledge, so that the customer feels that the packaging is properly prepared for its testing.”

In 2006, important revisions were made to ISO 11607, the foremost guidance document for medical device package testing.  DDL helped prepare and guide packaging professionals through these revisions with a series of 3 webinars.  DDL has also just launched its “Industry Standards Alert” service, which invites industry professionals to sign up to receive a notification by email or by RSS feed when an industry standard is updated.

Minneapolis, MN, December 6, 2006 – http://www.minco.com – Minco, a leading designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical applications, has released its new Flex Circuits Design Guide, which when used in conjunction with IPC design standards provides the necessary information to successfully design flexible circuits.

While flexible circuits have been around for years, demands from manufacturers for smaller and lighter applications are bringing flexible circuits to the forefront as a viable way of meeting these goals.

“Flexible circuits offer compact, low mass packaging that can reduce space and weight by up to 75%” said Mark Finstad, Principal Applications Engineer for the Flex Circuit Division of Minco and Chairman of IPC-2223 Workgroup.   “Due to limited education available in the industry, engineers are only just beginning to learn the new ways that flexible circuits can be integrated into their designs.”

Minco’s Flex Circuits Design Guide provides the education that engineers need to design with flexible circuits, including design guidelines, specifications, detailed illustrations and instructions on how to build a flex circuit mock-up.

The Flex Circuits Design Guide offers recommendations on how to design flex circuits to optimally fit applications while providing superior electrical interconnection. The guide also provides a tutorial on different types of flex circuits, including Rigid-flex and Flex-Coils™, which are flex circuits containing integral wire coils used for antennas or inductors.