Free Business Directory from MoveThatBlock.com Allows Business Owners to Create a Presence on the Internet

Albany, NY (PRWEB) November 09, 2011

MoveThatBlock.com, The Free Social Marketplace, launches a new division of their site called Business Directory. This adds another dimension to the sites already diversified classifieds sections. Other sections available on the site to search for free include residential real estate, commercial real estate, apartments and rentals, vacation rentals, cars and vehicles, dating and jobs. The business directory allows both small and large companies to make a presence on the Internet.

The recession has certainly had it's toll on most of America and American business owners. Companies have been forced to make difficult decisions based on cutting back on budgets, employees are forced to work under massive amounts of stress and managers are expected to come up with new and inventive ways to expand their business. This does not seem like an easy task by any means but many businesses have been able to overcome and thrive under these circumstances. Frank Gazella Jr. shares his story about creating his pierogies business in Kansas City and how he was able to tap into various markets at such a fast rate. "We have used both traditional and innovative ways of marketing our product. The old fashioned yet reliable word-of-mouth has launched us into the next phase yet the Internet has also played a big role. We have been able to tap into different industries without even leaving our hometown. My best advice is to utilize social medias along with getting on as many webpages as you can, this helps to facilitate cross traffic and really helps in better exposure" Frank Gazella Jr.

Frank Gazella Jr., president and owner of Pieroguys, found a natural need for such a delicious entree in his hometown of Kansas City and has been successful in using the Internet to expand his company. His mission, like many business owners, is to feed the world with his passion. Pieroguys creates and distributes homemade organic pierogies across the country and has the best shipping rate in comparison to their competitors. So how does a local entrepreneur spread the word of his company so fast? "The Internet has allowed my company to grow rapidly. I have been able to fill orders across the country and use the Internet to facilitate more exposure for Pieroguys. With a small staff, it isn't easy to get the word out there but by the use of the Internet we have been able to make connections on a much broader spectrum," Frank Gazella Jr, owner and president of Pieroguys. Frank recently made a decision to put his business page up on MoveThatBlock.com, a local Albany based classifieds site which just released their business review and rating site. This smart and easy decision is one that many business owners are also starting to utilize due to the fact that it is entirely free and allows business owners to put their information out on the Internet for consumers to view.

Something can be learned by Frank's innovativeness and ability to see in the future of where the Internet is moving towards. After recently putting up a business page on a local site called MoveThatBlock.com, Frank has been able to utilize this site to create a stronger online presence as well as for customer service. How did a two man powered company find out about a business look-up ratings and review site all the way in Albany? "I am always looking for business reviews and ratings to put my site up on because they help me with customer feedback. I found MoveThatBlock.com in a simple Google search that came up when I was looking for business reviews. Albany has been known as an incubator for niche markets, so I thought it would be the perfect market to target. Being a business owner, time management is the most important tool for me and putting my business page up on MoveThatBlock.com was the best five minutes I have ever spent," Gazella.

MoveThatBlock.com started only a year ago and already has 1.2million registered users on their site. What originally started as a commercial real estate free listings site turned into something much more! MoveThatBlock.com has now added cars, dating, jobs and a business review/rating feature to their site. With the addition of their business review and rating system, MoveThatBlock adds another dimension to the sites already diversified classifieds sections. This new dimension of their site allows business owners like Frank Gazella and his partner Andrew to conduct business in other states as well as receiving customer feedback without have to pay any sort of cost. "We ship orders all over the country now so it is nearly impossible to keep up with all of the customer service. MoveThatBlock.com allows customers to rate and review our business so even if I was on vacation, which I tend to travel a lot, I am notified of any orders that went out successful or not successful just by a simple comment on their site. Instead of having to pay for a focus group, for free I put up my business page on MoveThatBlock.com and received instant feedback," Gazella. This new feature also allows other businesses to look up neighboring businesses in the area. Anyone can create their business profile and it is easy to maintain, allowing even mom and pop shops to create a presence on the Internet.

MoveThatBlock.com also allows anything from mom and pop shops to multinational companies to create a distinction of their businesses online. "Most business pages such as the ones on Facebook only allow a company to create one page but for most businesses this is not the case. Best Buy has stores all over the country but only one Facebook page. MoveThatBlock.com allows consumers to create more than one page based on location. This helps streamline the customer service process and also attracted me more to the site in case I ever do decide to expand regions," Gazella. MoveThatBlock.com is a local start-up company and therefore understand the needs of other small company business owners while at the same time understand the objectives of national companies looking to create a strong online presence. MoveThatBlock.com is beneficial for both parties and is able to work them in whatever they need, including even creating their business site for them!

It is a tough economy out there, business owners are constantly learning more innovative and cutting-edge ways to increase their sales, traffic and customer satisfaction without breaking their budget. The presence of the Internet has transformed the way people do business and has allowed many business owners to stay connected to their customers all the way across the country. Maintaining social medias can be a grueling task for many business owners who barely have time in their busy schedules. Sites such as MoveThatBlock.com allow these busy business owners to create a page easy and simple without taking a lot of time out of their day. "Time management is by far the most important thing to me as a business owner, so I have to choose wisely about what I invest my time in based on the return Ill get from it. Setting my business page up on MoveThatBlock took a negligible amount of time, maybe five minutes, but has generated results and continues to do so. I also use MoveThatBlock.com to look up other businesses in the area, anything from lawyers and doctors to pizza shops and bars, theyve got it all covered. It is a great resource and I really think that the Capital Region has been waiting for one-stop site like this," Chris Wessell, owner at Pinnacle Recruiting & HR Solutions, Albany NY.

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Vacation Rental Owners Profit from Successful Internet Advertising

Miami, FL (Vocus) February 7, 2010

Its no big secret that the travel industry has felt the pinch of a weak economy. The housing bubble and unemployment are just some of the factors that have made the vacation rental industry almost a ground zero of this economic downturn with many owners and investors loosing their second homes all over the world. Despite these economic troubles, Rentalo.com; a leading vacation rental advertising company; has managed to help many property owners achieve success via effective internet advertising.

The quality of service my company has experienced and the ease of use that Rentalo's web site offers property managers is second to none. With out the exposure that my beach house gets from listing with Rentalo I would have had little hope of making it through the difficult down turn in the economy. Thank you to every one at Rentalo for helping my company thrives in a challenging economy. Morrision H. Gross, Owner/manager of an oceanfront vacation home in Lincoln City, Oregon.

I have been using Rentalo for 4 years and most recently, during tough economic times, Rentalo has exceeded my expectations in 3 important ways: 1. A referral from Rentalo resulted in a client couple renting a vacation villa for 4 months; they loved our resort and visited countless waterfalls, hiked the Highlands and themselves referred 8 more guests to Cabot Shores. 2. Rentalo's search engine promotion got Cabot Shores in December to the top of AOL travel recommendations 3. A number of prospects/guests saw our lobster fishing video as a result of Rentalo promotion and booked adventure packages with us and extended their stay at Cabot Shores. My business results are up 40% during a recession. I give Rentalo thanks for helping our business excel during what are otherwise tough times. Dr. Paul Weinberg, owner and operator of Cabot Shores Wilderness Resort in Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.

The vacation rental niche is travel industrys best kept secret, says Alfredo Purrinos, President and founder of Rentalo.com a growing awareness of this market is increasing, and wise vacation rental property owners should be prepared to fully capitalize on this opportunity.

Here are some basic but essential things that every vacation property owner should keep in mind when advertising online:

1. Make sure all your property information is up to date. Review the text on all your internet ads and make sure it is free of grammatical errors and inconsistencies. Edit any information that has changed or remove what does not apply anymore. Make sure your prices are current and are competitive within your market segment and that your calendar has the correct booked dates crossed out. When writing the description of your property, make sure you include relevant keywords to your vacation rental. For example, if you have a vacation rental in Orlando, think about what keywords a traveler would type on a search engine to find vacation rentals in Orlando in Florida. Include those phrases as naturally as you can in the body of your vacation rental ad. Take advantage of sites that allow unlimited text, but dont over do it, nobody likes to read a dissertation.

2. Update your Photos. A picture has a better chance of enticing a potential guest than a nicely written sentence does. Photos sell, and this is your chance to show off your vacation rental to the world. Make sure that you have high resolution photos of your property. If you can afford a professional photographer to do it, it is highly recommended. Whatever you do, make sure you dont upload scanned or low resolution images. Look for vacation rental advertising sites like Rentalo.com that allow owners to upload unlimited high resolution photos and even give you a slideshow feature to show them off.

3. Be creative. Vacation rental property owners should think of creative ways to make their property stand out. Special Offers are a great way to accomplish this. Run a special on weeks that are usually slow, that will get people to look at your property and maybe inquire on dates that are not in special. Offer amenities that other owners in your area do not offer. Extend a discount to repeat customers or first time guests. Some vacation rental directories allow owners to broadcast their specials or post them on their ad.

4. Be ready to answer your leads. Technology can be your greatest ally when it comes to answering your leads in a professional and timely fashion. Owners should not let their leads sit for hours before they are answered, inquiries from potential travelers should be answered immediately. Make sure you have all your gadgets configured to get your e-mails wherever you are. Rentalo.com offers a unique tool that allows you to quote offers to travelers 24/7 without you having to do it manually. No matter how you make it happen, make sure you are answering leads as fast as possible.

5. Cast a wider net. Consider investing on other vacation rental directory websites. According to Alfredo Purrinos Vacation Rental Directories Marketing Study, most travelers use the main vacation rental directories to find lodging. Vacation rental business owners should consider advertising on as many of the top directories as budget allows. The cost to advertise on the top vacation rental directories is roughly $ 1,000 per year, which represents approximately a 5% advertising budget, based on a yearly vacation rental business income of $ 20,000 (e.g. a typical yearly rental income for an individual vacation property).

So lets get ready for a new chapter in the travel and vacation rental industry, and may the best vacation rentals get booked!

About Rentalo.com

Rentalo.com is a leading online travel lodging website that offers comparison shopping on vacation rentals and hotels. Its inventory of over 200,000 vacation rentals, bed and breakfasts and hotels is accessible through search engines, RSS feeds; affiliate online distribution partners, as well as thousands of journalists and editors through e-mail, press releases and travel publications. Through selected partnerships, Rentalo's inventory is available to an online audience of more than 100 million travelers in the United States and abroad. For more information, go to http://rentalo.com or call 1(877) 710-5914, 1(305) 558-5577.

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Anthony S. Browne Explains Why Internet Advertising is The Global Solution for This Global Crisis

Bridgetown, Barbados (PRWEB) June 23, 2009

"World leaders' global economic recovery plans whether: brilliant ideas, creative products, beneficial services or noble intentions to succeed; ALL require effective, fast, local/global advertising to educate, persuade and stimulate consumers," said Anthony Browne, an authority on Internet advertising and author of the recent e-Book "Why Internet Advertising is The Global Solution for This Global Crisis".

Mr. Anthony Browne, in his new e-book, highlights: "The Internet is the most perfect marketing system ever developed: more measurable, more accountable, less expensive and faster than traditional media. Internet is therefore, crucial to stimulate consumer spending, because it unmatched works best and fastest."

Internet advertising effectiveness fosters small business survival through the current economic downturn. In the e-Book, Browne extensively documents and supports this fact with comments from leading distinguished sources, including world media chief executives, Internet Advertising consultants and online advertising research studies and publications.

As people worldwide grapple with this serious global recession, and search for training and retraining opportunities, Browne's e-book specifically highlights SBI's e-learning website development course. In just 10 weeks, students graduate as an online entrepreneur with an income earning e-business proven to work across industries, across continents and across age groups. This is particularly exciting news for people in the United States, because this e-learning course qualifies under the Economic Recovery Stimulus Packages as training or retraining in a leading growth industry.

SBI's 10 week college-level website development course is taught at over 25 universities and colleges world-wide as part of their continuing education undergraduate or MBA programs. This same course is now available at home, via the Internet. It teaches how to build websites that are found by the search engines.

As a matter of record, 35% of SBI built websites rank in the top 1% of all sites-that is higher than 99% of all sites on the Web- 53% in the top 2% and 62% in the top 3% of sites on the Web.

Browne describes SBI's e-learning "transformative power on quality of life" like a chain reaction. First, a better website educates consumers, produces top rankings, businesses sell more, stimulates the economy, puts more people back to work and makes people feel better about themselves as they are able provide for their family. Second, and best of all, this is across industries, across continents and across businesses size.

According to Browne, "Never before in human history these forces converge all at once: Global Economic Crises of enormous magnitude, Global Information Sharing Technology like the internet, Global Opportunities for Nations to collectively solve these crises and Entrepreneurs individually gain huge financial rewards."

Browne explains, small, developing and third world Entrepreneurs also benefit, because the Internet is the model of globalization.

His own surreal experience shows just how internet advertising is a great leveler. His statuses as retired senior citizen, a downsized person, a new website, a black man, resident in a developing country, Barbados, all could count against him in something else. He proves age, race, location, religious affiliation and circumstances don't matter with Internet Advertising. That is "Why Internet Advertising is The Global Solution for This Global Crisis."

For additional information on this ebook visit:

http://www.internetadvertisingforprofit.com/internet-advertising-ebook.html

For a copy of this release; please contact Mr. Anthony Browne email address: ebook (at) internetadvertisingforprofit (dot) com

CONTACT:

Anthony S. Browne

e-book Author

Telephone: (246) 423-2178

URL: http://www.internetadvertisingforprofit.com/internet-advertising-ebook.html

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Portland Tech Company APCON Helping To Keep World's Internet Traffic Flowing Smoothly

Wilsonville, OR (PRWEB) July 13, 2011

APCON Inc., a seemingly low-profile technology company located in the Portland area is quietly enjoying year end-over-end growth thanks to the ongoing rise in Internet traffic and the increased demand for the companys data filtering and aggregation technology. For many of the worlds most recognized telecom and financial services companies, APCON technology helps ensure that customer service remains uninterrupted and critical data stays secure.

With the amount of Internet traffic projected to continue its explosive growth, APCON expects that its own growth will continue to buck industry trends.

According to Cisco Systems, global data networks will be delivering 80.5 exabytes per month - the data equivalent of every movie thats ever been made being sent every 5 minutes, said Richard Rauch, APCONs president and CEO. With APCON products being used throughout data centers of many Fortune 500 companies, chances are very good that technology developed and manufactured right here in Portland is playing a critical role in ensuring that youre online financial transactions, voice data and other Internet-delivered information are being delivered without a glitch.

APCONs line of IntellaFlex network switches are used to help companies monitor the health and security of the data running through their networks every second. The software side of the companys switching technology makes it possible for users to easily monitor and analyze selected components of the data being sent.

While many consider APCON to be a hardware company, our team of software engineers continue to push the envelope in interface and reporting technology, said Rauch. In reality we are in neither the hardware nor the software business. We are a solutions company.

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Last year, industry analysts determined that 2010 would be the worst year ever for information technology sales, yet APCON predicted its revenues would increase by 50 percent. By year end, that prediction fell by the wayside as APCON saw revenues double in size.

With the increasing rise in network data and new APCON product introductions on the horizon for 2011, the Portland technology company is again predicting another 50 percent increase in annual revenue. APCON recently opened a second facility near Dallas Texas and is looking to hire more than thirty of the best and brightest industry professionals for both its Portland and Dallas locations.

For more information on APCON including career opportunities, visit http://www.apcon.com or follow us on Twitter at @APCON.

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