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Round Lake Beach, IL, September 06, 2013 –(PR.com)– Snaggle Foot Round Lake Pet Sitters Dog Walkers has been selected for the 2013 Best of Round Lake Award in the Pet Sitter category by the Round Lake Award Program.

Each year, the Round Lake Award Program identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Round Lake area a great place to live, work and play.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2013 Round Lake Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Round Lake Award Program and data provided by third parties.

About Round Lake Award Program
The Round Lake Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Round Lake area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.

The Round Lake Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community’s contributions to the U.S. economy.

New York, NY, September 06, 2013 –(PR.com)– TRCo Marketing is making marketing and customer acquisition for salons and spas accessible to all through affiliation with the world’s leading brands. No more discounts or coupons; unfortunately people have accepted that “specials” and “group deals” are the new norm as they saturate the marketplace to a point that is hurting the industry and its bottom line.

TRCo Marketing has found a way to partner with salons to change that trend. This tried marketing technique, successfully applied in Europe for decades, is now available in the US and making its debut in the beauty industry.

Marketing your Salon / Spa business without cost is now possible. TRCo Marketing offers free membership to an exclusive beauty partner network that gives you:

– Free exposure and marketing communication
– Access to new clients in your area
– Customer acquisition and trial
– Use of excess inventory
– Booking slower and off-peak times
– Association to the world’s biggest brands
– Free PR and social media coverage

TRCo works for the world’s leading brands that are actively looking to partner with salons. These brands offer a beauty treatment as a reward for purchasing their products, which in turn sends new clients to salon partners. In exchange for being introduced to these clients, the Salon / Spa simply offers 1 introductory treatment allowing the opportunity for new business and sale of products and additional services. Everything else stays business as usual; it’s that easy.

This model has proven to be a huge success worldwide. Salon / Spa partners are now meeting clients who have been rewarded on behalf of brands, not the frequent deal hunters who buy beauty services at a discount and will likely not return.

“I wanted to thank TRCo for inviting Cactus Salon to participate in your rewards program. We have seen an enormous amount of new clients in all 20 locations over the last year and are looking forward to more in the future. I have been co-branding and cross-promoted with many different companies for years and feel that the TRCo program you offer is one of the best. Your customer service and support has been outstanding, the clients you send to us are a perfect fit for our brand and most importantly, it’s a pleasure to work with you. Have a wonderful holiday season! Thanks again for everything!”
— Karen, Cactus (Salons) Group Holdings

“Our experience with TRCo Marketing is, without any doubt, a very big door for our business, especially to Kla’s Spa Piedra, where we offer romantic beauty treatments for couples. TRCo and their clients have given us the possibility to extend our busy months, because we usually close in February, and now we’re still open, and we estimate to continue our service until March or April. Our Barcelona’s center offer represents for us 15% of the whole turnover, a number to take in account. Also we need to mention the number of campaigns where we’re continuously included, so we don’t have to take care of announcing ourselves; we only have to provide our services the best we can, as always. Thanks to Lucas and his team for calling us that November morning!”
— Sergio, Spa Piedra

Becoming an affiliate of the next program is free and only takes about 5 minutes: just click here to join by entering your salon / spa details and restrictions.

TRCo, which stands for The Reward Company, is a global promotions agency representing and managing marketing campaigns for the world’s leading brands. They influence purchase decisions of over 25 million US consumers every year with incentives that are offered by their partners. The most recently completed successful campaigns included such high visible brands like Toshiba, L’Oreal, Samsung, and Colgate-Palmolive.

“We are drawing a line between rational decisions such as discounts that engage consumers for just a moment and emotional highs that by nature last a lifetime,” stated Mike Scalera, CEO of TRCo Marketing, North America. “It really makes sense when you think about it. Rational decisions are made in your head while emotional decisions come from the heart. We are working to foster that emotional, heartfelt connection between people and brands.”

About TRCo Marketing
TRCo Marketing has become one of the world’s largest and most experienced lifestyle marketing agencies in the promotional marketing sector, with over 50 years of experience (since 1954) and worldwide intelligence from 17 international offices, including 4 in the U.S. We consistently pioneer innovative marketing campaigns for hundreds of brands around the world every year. In 2014, we’ll be expanding offices into India, Canada, Mexico, and Russia. TRCo delivers marketing solutions to its global client base across every industry segment.

For more information contact:
Kimberly Sundell, Director, Customer Experience
617 939 0400; [email protected]
www.trcoworld.com

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Fairfax, VA, August 15, 2013 –(PR.com)– While working in the mall years ago, Kamran Hakimi would remember how he would take his usual five minute break to pray his afternoon prayers. Initially, his daily routine was to find a flattened cardboard box to put under his thin prayer rug for more cushion due to concrete floors and to lessen the pain on his joints while he prayed. He would have to repeat this process every day. To make matters worse, the night janitor would come and scoop the card boards up for recycle. Kamran realized he needed something more practical for everyday use. He searched the internet to try to find the perfect cushioned prayer rug. To his surprise, there weren’t many selections in what he wanted and when Kamran found something similar the cost was way above his budget.

One day while working out at his gym, Kamran realized his solution was in front of him all along; he would be sitting on it during his stretching exercise. It was the comfortable cushioned PVC material made from yoga mats. His family loved the notion and informed him the Sajda Salat Mat was also medically useful for orthopedic purposes. With idea and concept in hand, Kamran worked on many prototypes before finally coming up with the perfect dimensions and starting his company Sajda Salat Mats. Within weeks his first batch of prayer mats were quickly sold out. One of the key highlights of Sajda Salat Mats was the ultimate comfort due to the thick foam material that allowed you to sit on your knees for longer duration’s. In addition, some of the other benefits of the Sajda Salat Mat could be used in all weather conditions since it was waterproof, easy to carry with you anywhere, and didn’t attract too much dust. Customers purchased the Sajda Salat Mats because they found it eco-friendly to wash and wipe down unlike the traditional prayer rugs which took laborious work to wash. With only word of mouth advertising, the launch of Sajda Salat Mats has been a success in the U.S. market. “I believe that one should be able to pray at any time without being restricted to discomfort. The Sajda Mat provides new technology, orthopedic comfort and portability to Muslims around the world. What I have created was from inspiration and I would like to share it with all my Muslim brothers and sisters, so we have no excuse to miss a prayer.”

Many people who have purchased Sajda Salat Mats said it helped bring relief to their joints inside their homes due to hardwood floors, especially their knees and ankles. In addition, Sajda Salat Mats has caught the attention of private investors who wish to launch franchise wholesale distributorships internationally to countries such as the U.A.E, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, and Turkey starting in 2014. Sajda Salat Mats will be debuting at ISNA‘s 50th Annual Convention in DC this Labor Day weekend. To learn more about the Sajda Salat Mat visit their website www.sajdamat.com http://www.sajdamat.com

Las Vegas, NV, August 08, 2013 –(PR.com)– In the past ten years, Lucky Exhibits has been saving exhibitors lots of money on high quality used booths, and exhibits. Their options have been proven such a success with clients, that they have now recently expanded and opened up a show services department, which is far superior to the competition. The head of their show services department has been doing this now for ten years, and is able to expedite the processing of show forms in a very timely manner, while making sure that everything is filled out correctly, and exactly.

The fact that they are located in Las Vegas, near the convention centers, gives them a huge advantage over the competition. In addition, their head of show services personally know many of the people that run the tradeshows, the service desks, and are able to make sure that things happen on time, and don’t slip under the cracks. This is a very important issue, because if show service forms such as electrical, drayage, carpet forms, accessory forms, or booth layout forms are not properly filled out, then that can cause huge delays in having their booth set up, or cause penalties, or late fees. Often times other companies don’t have their booth set up on time, or even at all, simply because their forms were not sent in correctly, or on time.

In order to find out how Lucky Exhibits can save you money, time, or hassle with those show services forms, please contact them at: (800)707-6995, visit their website at: www.luckyexhibits.com, or send them an email to: [email protected] and remember to put show service forms in the subject line.

Durham, NC, August 07, 2013 –(PR.com)– Perfect Balance formerly LFC, Inc. has launched a new website. The website is for business professionals, small business owners, families and individuals, says Jessie Bennington, President/Owner of Perfect Balance, to be user-friendly and helpful. It is a one-stop service provider for personal and professional services. More and more businesses and individuals are looking for personal concierge, professional and organizing services because they have less and less time to do the things they need to do without interfering with their personal time. With Perfect Balance, they are here to do the things that have to be done, the menial tasks you don’t want to do, and taking care of the last minute details leaving more time for family and friends, work projects, or leisure activities.

“I started out with a housecleaning service until the mid 1990’s, then realized a clean home is only a part of helping my clients,” says Jessie. “I wanted to expand my business to include services that enhanced a clients life. Over the years, my services have grown to include concierge, small business services/bookkeeping and professional organizing services. I started out servicing Durham and Chapel Hill area the past 17 years and in the past year have expanded to include the Raleigh area.”

The services offered by Perfect Balance is for the business professional, small business owner, families and individuals looking for concierge, personalized shopping, courier and delivery services, bill pay, small business accounting and support, packing and moving assistance, organizing home and office spaces. To learn how to have Perfect Balance, please visit: www.perfectbalancenc.com

Lausanne, Switzerland, July 29, 2013 –(PR.com)– www.thewhistled.com

The whistled is a tiny, cheap platform that runs advanced algorithms to detect people whistling. Its main use is lighting control, but will also work for all projects that electronic enthusiasts may have.

As seen in the video embedded in the whistled website, it is very simple to set up and will detect all the very different types of whistles.

This project is part of the open hardware and software initiative, therefore Mathieu includes all the sources in his website www.limpkin.fr.

The project is hosted on tindie, a new website designed to promote electronic projects, to sell them to the public.

Future families of whistled are planned, where the whistle detection part will already be included in different appliances.

Mumbai, India, July 27, 2013 –(PR.com)– TriVest Folio has launched a free Do-It-Yourself (DIY) personal investment tool to build a diversified portfolio of Indian Mutual Funds and ETFs. The goal is to empower Indians to start building an investment portfolio without having to rely on expensive portfolio managers and investment advisors.

TriVest Folio aims to lower costs and increase returns by finding the best performing cost conscious Mutual Funds and ETFs based on an investor’s risk appetite. They monitor your portfolio’s performance and provide you with timely rebalancing alerts along with weekly reports to keep you on track with your investment objectives.

According to Co-Founders – Sandip Southekal and Siddharth Choksi, the financial services in India are lacking in innovation and the time is right for newer and better models to develop. They strongly believe that by democratizing mutual fund information, investors can make their own well informed decisions when it comes to building their own investment portfolio while services like TriVest Folio assists them in asset allocation and portfolio monitoring to achieve superior returns.

Their basic plan is a completely free service for registered users.

LOFTwall Founder and Design Leader, Steve Kinder returned from NeoCon, the world’s largest commercial office furniture design tradeshow, where he catalyzed a dynamic conversation about the future of workspace design.

The LOFTwall exhibit space was transformed into a living idea wall, where visitors contributed their point of view via Post-It Notes™ as to where and how they work best and how their space needs change over time.

“Work is no longer confined to one space, as technology has brought mobility and dared us to work different. Some say it’s the death of the cubicle. LOFTwall sees it as the evolution of the office space, with opportunities for design innovations that offer both privacy and connectivity, along with flexibility,” said Steve Kinder, LOFTwall Designer Founder

Observing that flexibility, privacy and movement were key NeoCon buzzwords – that no matter where or how people work, they want to be in control of their environment and they require their workspace to evolve with their needs over time. Leading a more entrepreneurial, nimble company, Kinder is poised to move forward with new design innovations that address a quickly changing need that larger manufacturers are challenged to meet.

The iconic LOFTwall WAVE wall image was the backdrop for NeoCon’s 2013 marketing campaign and theme, “Ideas Revealed”, which provided LOFTwall and Kinder an opportunity to spark a discussion about the changing workscape. Lindsey Martin, Director of Marketing for NeoCon shared that the idea behind this theme “was to show that NeoCon not only debuts the newest and most innovative products on the market each year, but sparks ideas for future products as well. The LOFTwall image helped us convey this concept because it really made you think.”

LOFTwall greeted hundreds of guests at their booth space, who shared their #workdifferent perspectives on the idea wall. When asked how they work best, notable responses included “Anywhere! Creativity has no walls,” “I work best when I’m not assigned to one space”, “In a LEED building with lots of daylight and non-toxic building materials.” and “Immersed with my team.”

Through blogging, social media and other media opportunities, Kinder and LOFTwall will continue the conversation about the changing workscape, using the #workdifferent hash tag.

Also, check out the full LOFTwall NeoCon photo album of #workdifferent ideas on Facebook and watch their latest video.

About LOFTwall Design Entrepreneur Steve Kinder
LOFTwall’s mission is to change the world one space at a time, creating innovative and straightforward solutions for environments where you work, live and play. LOFTwall manufacturer’s divider screen systems for various environments including commercial, office, higher education, healthcare, residential and retail. LOFTwall’s products are made in the U.S.A. LOFTwall was founded in 2008 by Steve Kinder, a design entrepreneur industrial designer. A Rhode Island School of Design graduate, Kinder has designed consumer products, furniture, event environments and branding systems. For more information, please visit www.LOFTwall.com.

For more information, or to schedule an interview or other media opportunity with Steve Kinder, please call Amy King at 202.288.8335 or email [email protected].

Contact: Amy King
Cell Phone: 202.288.8335
Email: [email protected]

Janet Schultz of Blue-J Eco-Friendly Small Office Cleaning is an up-and-coming woman business owner making waves in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Janet has a long history of entrepreneurialism; however, Blue-J’s inception began in November, 2012 when Janet saw a need in her local community for an environmentally friendly, small office cleaning firm. Although there are cleaning companies in the Greater Charlotte, North Carolina market that list office cleaning in their plethora of services, it is Janet’s firm belief that if something is to be done right, it must be specialized. Born out of this belief, Janet created Blue-J Eco-Friendly Small Office Cleaning, a company catering to small office centers/buildings/offices in an effort to bring a specialized service that is as consistent as it is precise- a boutique service. Blue-J Eco-Friendly Small Office Cleaning can provide and specializes in weekly, bi-weekly or monthly maintenance office cleanings. Additionally, Blue-J offers detailed rental property cleanings, construction site cleanings (both new construction and remodels) and one-time residential (detailed) cleanings.

Not only does Janet pride herself on her unique business model built on her company’s specialized service, but Blue-J has also set itself apart from the competition through the exclusive use of environmentally-friendly cleaning products. Blue-J Eco-Friendly Small Office Cleaning has partnered with a local Cabarrus County, North Carolina company specializing in the manufacturing of environmentally-friendly, biodegradable cleaning goods. This manufacturing company designs a product aimed to reduce the environmental impact so often resulting from the chemical composition of cleaning products. Janet Schultz and her team are proud to be joining in a worldwide effort to preserve natural resources and to encourage other local businesses to join in this cause.

Blue-J Eco-Friendly Small Office Cleaning is also proudly located in Historic Downtown Concord, North Carolina. At 51 Union Street South (Suite 209), Blue-J is right in the middle of many thriving local businesses and has exposure to all of the exciting events the community has to offer. Given this prime location, Janet and her marketing team at Blue-J Eco-Friendly Small Office Cleaning take full advantage of every networking opportunity and are affiliated with the local Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Concord Business Group, among others. Janet Schultz loves her community and is always looking for ways that her business can give back to Concord, North Carolina.

Janet Schultz is also a proud supporter of the Autism Research Institute, a non-profit organization supporting the fight to raise awareness for Autism Spectrum Disorders. Although Janet is extremely passionate about her business and prides herself on being an empowered woman entrepreneur, the true driving force behind her recent successes lie in her devotion to the aforementioned cause and her hope to one day, be a significant philanthropic contributor to the Autism Research Institute. Janet knows that given the recent growth of Blue-J Eco-Friendly Small Office Cleaning, her business will be the vehicle to see her dream to fruition.

To contact Janet Schultz at Blue-J Eco-Friendly Small Office Cleaning for more information about her company’s services and/or for a specialized quote, call 704-589-3148 or email [email protected].