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GM&R Leadership Group is your one-stop financial services

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

GM&R Leadership Group is your one-stop financial services company that prides itself in superior customer service, and will work tirelessly to help you improve your financial lifestyle.

“GM&R Leadership Group focuses on our vision to improve people’s lives. Our mission is to create wealth for families. The GM&R Leadership Group system is to provide an honest, simple, proven money system. The mission in mind is to put the consumer first by providing the right financial tools, products, and services diversified and unique in the industry, and to be in the leading edge in the network marketing business opportunity.

GM&R Leadership Group’s main goals are to offer Middle America the business opportunity to make some serious money on a part-time basis, and help people save money and build their financial fortresses of wealth and control their financial destinies.”

Do you have over $10,000 in credit card debt, car loans, student loans, and personal loans? If so, our Debt-Free Solutions program can help you get out of debt in less than 36 months and save you thousands of dollars in interest charges without negatively affecting your credit.
No need for debt consolidation, no need for debt settlement, no need for debt counseling, and no need for bankruptcy!

If you can no longer afford your debt payments, our DEBT NEGOTIATION PROGRAM may be a better solution for you.

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The Vacation Travel Club Green Team

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

In the words of Kermit “It’s not easy being green” but the new Green Committee at Vacation Travel Club hopes to make it EASY for you to become a VTC “Green Giant”.

Running an office can have a negative or positive effect on our planet by everyday choices we make. The pressures of day to day business operations often result in a lack of time and resources needed to implement positive environmental initiatives, despite the desire of your organization to do so.

The Green Team has been formed to offer such resources and encouragement to all of our members so you can see how simple it is to create a greener working environment and reduce our carbon footprint.

We are in the process of planning fun events, awards, resource literature and organizing work shops for future conferences. We need you to get on board and help your company become a “Green Giant” and lead the way for others.

Vacation Travel Club is a leader in the Vacation & Travel Industry. Scot Ender of Vacation Travel Club says: “Going green is something that I am personally passionate about”….”We hope others will join us and see that going green is easy.

Vacation Travel Club, one of the leaders in discount vacation packages online, offers travel memberships that provide up to 65% savings on selected vacation services and travel products. To learn about the travel packages and membership details that Vacation Travel Club has to offer, visit http://www.VacationTravelClub.org

Vacation Travel Club Joins the Green Movement

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Vacation Travel Club Joins the Green Movement

Vacation Travel Club, one of the leaders in providing year-round discount travel packages online, is now revamping its office to help the green movement reach its goal.

The Green Movement includes any individual or business that takes a stand in preventing harmful effects on the environment by making changes in lifestyle, behavior and habits. Vacation Travel Club is proud to be a part of this movement.

Compared to individuals, businesses waste more energy and produce more waste every day. Vacation Travel Club has taken several steps to save energy and avoid waste. Recently, the Vacation Travel Club has gone paperless whenever possible. If printing documents is really necessary, Vacation Travel Club makes certain that both sides of the paper are used to save 50% of the paper wasted in the past.

Vacation Travel Club is also planning to switch to low-watt energy efficient light bulbs and remove regular light bulbs within all of their offices. Vacation Travel Club is making simple habitual changes to cut back on electricity use through simple energy-saving techniques like shutting down the computer when not in use, reducing or turning the thermostat off when no one is around and using less water in the office. Vacation Travel Club has also began using energy-saving products.

Following the footsteps of thousands of companies around the world, Vacation Travel Club will also be teaming up with Carbonfund.org in fighting global warming. Vacation Travel Club is aware that the fight for climate change starts with education and Carbonfund.org can provide the knowledge and climate solutions needed toward a “zero-Carbon” world. A partnership with carbonfund.org offers businesses like Vacation Travel Club a way to calculate, reduce and offset carbon footprint for a clean energy future.

Vacation Travel Club is honored to establish green changes within the company and hope that by joining the Green Movement, they could encourage other businesses in the Vacation Industry to go this path as well.

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Vacation Travel Club provides year-round discount vacation packages and travel membership, allowing travelers to save up to 65% on selected Vacation and Travel services and products. To learn more about Vacation Travel Club, visit http://www.VacationTravelClub.com or http://www.VacationTravelClub.org.

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Ariana Studios Review and Profile

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

The Wedding Plaza and Ariana Studios is family owned & operated. The Artura family has been providing perfect wedding days for couples for over 20 years. Our knowledgeable, professional and pleasant staff is ready to listen to your needs, and wants, and to provide assistance in making your dream become a reality.

Ariana Studios creative, candid and state-of-the-art photographers & videographers are ready to capture your wedding dreams and provide you with lasting, happy memories. The Wedding Plaza has many additional fine services such as: entertainment, wedding attire, invitation, etc., to complete your wedding day.

As you plan for the biggest day of your lives, we hope you will consider the Wedding plaza among your stops. You’ll be glad you did!

Ariana Studios & The Wedding Plaza is proud of their exciting 12,000 square foot wedding building voted by Wedding Digest as “Simply Superior”!. We offer one of the largest gown selections in the area, catering to all budgets. The exciting photography studios, with our grand piano and sprawling staircase ,make us a leader and an innovator in the photographic world. The cutting edge in-house digital editing suite helps to create the wedding video of your dreams. Don’t forget our other services such as; floral design, mens formal wear, invitations and accessories which help to make us one of the only family owned wedding salons in the New York area.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Ariana Studios / Ariana Photography, SIMPLY ELEGANT…. Capture the priceless moments of your special day and make them last forever. Your friends and family, the romance, the magic… Our photography unleashes your wildest instincts. It helps show a side of you that you never knew was there.

LIMOUSINES

Our huge fleet of late model Lincolns come in a wide variety of colors and designs which can comfortably accommodate anywhere from 12-14 passengers. This spectacular collection of limousines includes, Excaliburs, antique cars, Rolls Royces, party buses and horse drawn carriages. Our professional chauffeurs are properly dressed and professionally trained in gentlemen’s art of social protocol.

Our services are offered on Long Island (Nassau County and Western Suffolk County) and in NYC (Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx) New York.

Capital Remodeling Inc. Profile and News

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Capital’s impressive track record with all regulatory agencies such as the M.H.I.C, Virginia Commonwealth, and D.C. Consumer and Regulatory Affairs has made Capital the perfect match for the professional and quality installation of your new home remodeling project.
Capital specializes in new vinyl windows, beautiful kitchen cabinets and countertops, new vinyl siding, exterior coatings, bathrooms, and roofing. You can feel confident that Capital will do the job right the first time and has thousands of referrals in your local area to back up their excellent work.

Capital also provides many financing options to make your investment easy and affordable.

Capital Remodeling Inc. provides a window that can save homeowners $1000’s on not just fighting high energy and fuel costs but also in helping homes retain their value even today’s housing market. How? One of the biggest factors in reducing a home’s value is when household items, like hardwood floorings, carpet, rugs, cabinets, decorations, drapes need to be replaced. UV Rays are the #1 reason these items fade or discolor. Although a lot of window companies push LowE glass as a UV blocker, LowE glass usually only provides an SPF rating of 6 to 8 SPF rating. Just having LowE glass will still lead to significant fading overtime. Capital Remodeling Inc. has windows that have CLIMAGUARD SPF glass which is equivalent to an SPF 50 rating. Capital’s windows block 99.9% of the sun’s damaging UV rays.

Capital Remodeling Inc. has a bathroom division that is providing new bathroom tub and liners that can be installed in one day. Capital Remodeling the bathguys.com division is giving our current and new customers a quick and affordable solution to update their bathroom quickly and without the fuss of tearing out their old bath tub and walls. Choose from various simulated tile colors and flat colors. These liners are custom made to fit exactly over the existing surface, so unlike other competitors, the homeowner does not lose any water volume. Plus these new acrylic tubs are stain resistant and will conserve water temperature for 4x as long as a standard tub. Capital Remodeling Inc. for all your home improvement needs.

Sharper Impressions Painting Talks Paint

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Sharper Impressions Painting Talks Paint

There is no right or wrong paint color only some pointer and guidelines that can help make the process easier. Here are some tips by Sharper Impressions Painting that may help you pick the best color for you and your family.

Pick your favorite object in the room like a chair, rug or even a painting. The colors in this piece will set the scheme for the rest of the room. Pick colors that match that favorite piece and coordinate those. Pick accents to bring the color scheme together for most people, the “best part” of choosing colors is completing the look with accents and furniture.
Sharper Impressions Painting suggests before selecting a new paint color consider the lighting in the room. Look at paint chips under direct, indirect, and artificial light.

Evaluate the samples against furniture and rugs. After you narrow your choices, get a small jar of each finalist and brush each on a piece of white poster board. After the paint dries, tape the poster board to the wall and evaluate again. Assessing larger color samples ensures that you’re making the right choice for your room.

It is important that you understand color, because it will help you orchestrate the color schemes that you hope to achieve when choosing the right interior paint color. Sharper Impressions Painting has years of experience in paint and paint colors.

Primary Colors are red, yellow and blue. All other colors are a combination of these three colors. Secondary Colors you get when you mix equal parts of the primary colors, such as green, orange and purple.

Tertiary Colors are achieved by combining a primary color with its secondary color that is next to it on the color wheel, such as; blue and green, yellow and green, red and orange and yellow and orange. The same goes for blues and reds.

Sharper Impressions Painting says the color of Wet paint often looks different from dry paint. Don’t worry when you first see the paint applied to the wall. Let the paint dry, and then check it with your other samples (fabric, tiles, carpet) to decide if it looks right. Paint can also look out of place in an empty room. Bring in a few room elements like a chair or pillow to see how it all works together.

Sharper Impressions Painting Profile Site Launched

Friday, July 17th, 2009

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Sharper Impressions Painting Puts Green Initiatives to Work

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Sharper Impressions Painting Puts Green Initiatives to Work

Operating a small painting business like Sharper Impressions Painting - on eco-friendly terms - is something very near and dear to our hearts. We’ve been committed to the philosophy of “reduce, recycle, reuse” for years, but have stepped up our “green” efforts quite a bit in the past year and wanted to share some of our experience with Sharper Impressions Painting clients and colleagues who’d like to do the same.

Here’s good news for small businesses that care about the environment but are afraid that going green will break the bank. We hope our green initiatives will educate and motivate other businesses to do the same.

1. Know Your Carbon Footprint - Sharper Impressions Painting
Understand your impact on the environment. Carbonfund.org offers a free carbon calculator to determine your carbon footprint based upon factors like the number of employees, their workday commutes, the size of your facility, and other physical attributes that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions - everything down to the amount of paper you use.

Then, Carbonfund.org calculates a donation amount to cover the cost of counteractive efforts. The money is invested in third-party certified offset programs like tree-planting, energy efficiency programs and solar and wind energy. Carbonfund.org has registered over 1,000 businesses and 450,000 individuals. The whole process took less than two hours and, for our 3,500 sq. ft. office, office staff and servers, we donated $412 to erase our footprint. It feels great to be in partnership with companies who share our commitment to environmental health.

2. Use Eco-Friendly Products - Sharper Impressions Painting
All of Sharper Impressions Painting paint products have little or no volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Costing only a few dollars more per gallon, low or no VOC paints are safer for the environment. All our paints are low-VOC and made of waterborne latex. That means minimal groundwater contamination when disposed of properly.

3. Pursue Solar Energy Options - Sharper Impressions Painting
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 outlines enhanced tax credits for small businesses with great detail on how to make solar energy pay off for your business. To save electricity and money in their warehouse, Sharper Impressions Painting recently purchased skylights for their office and warehouse. This was a relatively big investment at $8,000 but we’ll see substantial savings on monthly electric bills for a lifetime.”

4. Plant Trees to Help Air Quality, Reduce Erosion
In addition to third-party certified offset organizations like Carbonfund.org, planting trees on your business property is an affordable - and attractive - way to help the environment and improve the community. We made it fun and assigned each employee their own tree. We feel like we’re in this effort together.

5. Become Paperless liek Sharper Impressions Painting
This is where most companies cringe because Intranet systems have a reputation of being cost-prohibitive for many small businesses. When Sharper Impressions Painting researched the process, they weighed several factors. “We looked at cost, ease of use, implementation time and how the system could grow with us,” recalls Mike Cordi, Sharper’s IT Manager. “Ultimately, we hired an expert Intranet Firm who took every paper file and converted it to a digital file. Each customer used to require an average of 16 sheets of paper…now it’s zero.”

6. Recycle like Sharper Impressions Painting
Specializing in residential and commercial painting, Sharper Impressions Painting has partnered with the Solid Waste Authority (SWACO) for recycling removal services. SWACO provided a free 90-gallon recycling container and free desk-side bins for employees as well. SWACO has done a lot to motivate and help us find creative and effective recycling methods. (To find a similar organization in your area type “small business recycling + your city/region” into the search engine.)

7. Reduce Waste like Sharper Impressions Painting
Ultimately, the concept of reducing waste becomes a way of thinking. Going paperless was our primary way to reduce waste. Then efficiency just became the standard for us. That paradigm shift led to the writing of custom quoting software that measures the exact amount of paint needed for a job. Now, we have very little wasted paint. This technology means savings for the customer and good news for the environment.

8. Insulate Your Facility liek Sharper Impressions Painting has done
Sharper Impressions Painting received a modest tax credit for newly installed insulation which has drastically decreased heating and cooling costs.

9. Use Energy-Efficient Vehicles like Sharper Impressions Painting
Sharper Impressions Painting’s truck fleet includes only V4 or V6 cylinder vehicles. “We used to have a V8,” says Joe Ventresco, Quality Control and Project Manager for Sharper Impressions. “We traded it in two years ago for another V4.” Ventresco has done extensive research on hybrid vehicles and is prepared for the U.S. Senate to pass the “Cash for Clunkers” bill. “We’re excited about the potential $4,500 tax credit AND a vehicle that gets twice the gas mileage while burning half the fuel.”

10. Install Bee Boxes like Sharper Impressions Painting has done
Sensitive to recent reports on the negative effects of Colony Collapse Disorder within the global honey bee population, a team of employees installed and painted bee boxes at the Sharper Impressions Painting home office. The disorder, caused by a combination of disease and shrinking habitats, has scientists concerned over maintaining worldwide pollination rates. Simple bee boxes costing a few hundred dollars attract bees, enabling the critical work of pollinating seeds.
Overall, the investments made by Sharper Impressions Painting have resulted in reduced costs, increased efficiency and - in some cases - modest federal tax credits, proving the ease with which small businesses can positively impact environmental health. The bottom line is that it’s easier than you think. It feels good because it’s the right thing to do.
For more information about Sharper Impressions Painting and their green initiatives, go to www.sharperimpressionspainting.org or call 1-877-665-5566.

Steven Wevodau Financial Expert

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Steven Wevodau Financial Expert

Steven Wevodau possesses extensive expertise in the property and casualty and life and health insurance industries as well as the financial services market. His diverse background includes broad expertise in areas such as finance, operations, marketing, human resources, and legal. He also has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and the integration of acquired companies.

As the former Senior Vice President of PSA Financial Center, Steven led a corporate refinancing initiative that resulted in securing a $9.5 million senior credit facility. In addition, Wevodau formulated and led PSA’s acquisition of RSM McGladrey’s Employee Benefit Division. During his brief tenure, PSA’s revenues increased from $16 million to over $25 million on a run rate basis. He also led PSA’s human resources, business center operations, web-technology, and marketing initiatives.

Previously, Steven Wevodau served as managing partner of WFG Capital Advisors, an insurance industry leading investment banking firm where he led the introduction of WFG into the insurance and financial services market and spearheaded business development, client and transactional services. Under his direction, WFG consistently lead the insurance and financial services industries as one of the top firms in announced transactions for 2004-2006.

Prior to that, Steven Wevodau served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance of the Insurance and Education Services group of The BISYS Group (formerly NYSE: BSG). During his tenure, he was a key participant in the acquisition, operation and integration activities of a $250 million Insurance and Education Services group. His primary duties included acquisition development, negotiation and transaction leadership of more than 200 target companies. He also served as corporate legal and financial due diligence leader and was responsible for all post-acquisition integration planning. He also had charge of operational oversight in addition to strategic development of the operating group.

Steven Wevodau has cultivated the ability to work vertically and horizontally in the insurance market. During his career, he has overseen complex reinsurance programs, managed operations at the carrier level, and has been a key executive of a national insurance distribution leader.
Steven Wevodau has authored numerous articles for industry publications. His expert insight into the insurance brokerage market is sought after by the trade media, and his analysis of industry trends and developments has appeared in numerous national and worldwide publications. Wevodau was the former author of M & A Insights published by The National Underwriter Company.

Harwood Enterprises - Classic Cars

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Harwood Enterprises is a multi-faceted automotive services company. Founded in 1996 by passionate car collectors, Harwood started out as a leisurely pursuit in the present owner’s residential garage on Harwood Lane in East Rochester, NY. Because Harwood’s owners have been classic car collectors themselves for the last thirty years, they have a special understanding and empathy for the classic car buyer; especially the first time buyer.

Harwood Enterprises soon became known as a company that offered high quality classic cars from the 50’s - 70’s. Currently, Harwood enjoys a preeminent reputation as a leading buyer, seller and restorer of all Classic Cars. We have also added late model high-end and exotic cars to our inventory. In 2006, Harwood moved into a 25,000 sq. ft. facility in Victor, NY. Proud of this new facility, Harwood continues to buy, sell and restore high quality, classic cars.

As the collector car market grew, Harwood Enterprises enhanced its capacity to restore classic and collectible cars of all types. We provide a full service restoration program for all makes and models. The typical customer is a discerning individual looking for a high quality restoration that can win at shows but can also be driven on a daily basis. Harwood has restored several cars that have met these criteria. It has also had its share of national show winners. Many of Harwood’s customers have reported local and national victories with cars they have purchased or had restored at Harwood.

Harwood Enterprises is owned and operated by friendly people who love cars. Maintaining an inventory with only the finest classic cars, and the cleanest high-end and exotic cars is the most compelling business objective. A commitment to excellence is the business strategy that will build an enduring business as well as enduring customers. This commitment to excellence extends to every business component as well as every person affiliated with Harwood.

Another core commitment is building trust; not only by word but by action. Each car is represented objectively and accurately… as it truly is. Several clients are first time classic car buyers. This is why the element of trust is so critical to business success. These clients often require a great deal of information and Harwood people are very eager to provide it. Often substantial pictures with extensive detail are involved in the process. A considerable effort to manage expectations through a comprehensive presentation and interaction. Harwood believes this is the best way to promote trust and credibility. Harwood always encourages customers to make an appointment to view these cars in person. The company always tries to find the nicest vehicles to offer for sale and enjoys taking the opportunity to meet customer in person and review the car with them.

Harwood Enterprises LLC mission is to provide the discriminating classic, late model, and exotic car buyer with a variety of exceptionally managed and professionally delivered products which include sales, service, and restoration.

Harwood Enterprises
7385 Willowbrook Road
Victor, NY 14564
www.HarwoodEnterprises.com

Roger Corea