PHILADELPHIA, July 22 /PRNewswire/ — Sagefrog Marketing Group, LLC, a full service marketing, interactive and public relations company, announced today that they have been awarded Google AdWords Certified Partner status.

Google Partner Certification

The new Google Partner Certification standards require companies to have Google Qualified Individuals plus a minimum advertising spend under agency management. Sagefrog is among the first marketing agencies in the greater Philadelphia area to be granted to this distinction.

Additionally, Sagefrog has no minimum client ad spend requirements making their Search Engine Marketing services more accessible to more companies in the greater Philadelphia and New Jersey area.

Sagefrog has also been granted access to special Google agency-only research, training and marketing resources.

“We are so excited to have these capabilities to optimize our clients’ online and integrated marketing programs,” said Mark Schmukler, Managing Partner, Sagefrog Marketing Group. http://www.sagefrog.com

Expanded Online Marketing Team

The Sagefrog Online Marketing Team has been expanded. All online marketing staff are required to be Google Qualified Individuals including best practices for maximizing account performance using Google Analytics, Website Optimizer, the AdWords Report Center, and other analysis techniques.

The Online Marketing Team is responsible for the integration and performance of client website optimization, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Social Media Marketing (SMM), Web Analytics, Email Marketing, Content Management, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). To learn more, visit http://www.sagefrog.com/services/online-marketing.

Enhanced Account Management

Sagefrog Marketing has also recently hired Jennifer Aguilar, Account Director. Aguilar will direct all client accounts and manage key accounts. She brings more than 15 years of corporate and agency account management and project management experience to Sagefrog Marketing. Aguilar graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Bucknell University.

About Sagefrog Marketing

Sagefrog Marketing Group, LLC is a full service marketing, interactive and public relations company located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Sagefrog Marketing specializes in health, technology, and business marketing for companies in the greater Philadelphia and New Jersey area. Established in 2001, Sagefrog has earned its success through a combination of strategy, creativity, process, domain expertise and results. http://www.sagefrog.com

Media Contact:

Stacy Roberts
Sagefrog Marketing Group, LLC
stacyr@sagefrog.com
215-230-9024

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On Thursday, June 24, Robert Redford will elaborate on the role of creativity in business during “Cultivating A Creative Workforce,” a breakfast conversation presented by the Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia and professional services company Towers Watson. The June 24 breakfast begins at 9 am at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, 480 S. Broad Street. Robert L. Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts, will join Redford.

Register Now! http://abccreativity.eventbrite.com/

(Bethlehem, PA – May 26^th, 2010) – Active Data Exchange, a leading provider of enterprise event calendar software, announced its recent partnership with DotNetNuke Corp.

“Our commitment to the .NET platform made a partnership with DotNetNuke Corp. a no-brainer,” stated Susan Yee, CEO of Active Data Exchange. “We service over 300 clients of all different sizes, and wanted to offer a robust web content management system built in .NET to complement our Active Data Calendar web calendar solution.”

“We welcome Active Data Exchange into the DotNetNuke Corp. Partner Program as we continue to rapidly expand our base of partners, customers and integrators of the DotNetNuke platform. Active Data Exchange provides the experience we look for in a qualified DotNetNuke Corp. partner,” said Terry Erisman, VP of Marketing Ops for DotNetNuke Corp.

About DotNetNuke Corp.

DotNetNuke Corp. is the steward of the DotNetNuke open source project, the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for building web sites and web applications on Microsoft .NET. Organizations use DotNetNuke to quickly develop and deploy interactive and dynamic web sites, intranets, extranets and web applications. The DotNetNuke platform is available in a free Community and subscription-based Professional, Elite and Elite Premier Editions. DotNetNuke Corp. also operates Snowcovered.com where users purchase third party software add-ons. Founded in 2006 and funded by Sierra Ventures, August Capital and UV Partners, DotNetNuke Corp. is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif. For additional information, visit www.dotnetnuke.com. 

About Active Data Exchange

Active Data Exchange provides web software and web services to over 300 organizations across North America with the primary focus on enterprise event calendaring with its Active Data Calendar solution.  Used by communities, government agencies, colleges, K-12 school districts, finance and information technology departments, corporations and media companies, Active Data Calendar provides the ability to aggregate and distribute event, key dates and deadline information across multiple websites, departments and organizations.  

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 CONTACT:          SUSAN YEE

Phone:                   (610)997-8100

Email:                    syee@activedatax.com

This is a great charity event that everyone is urged to attend and contribute to. The money goes to a good cause,

Having Surgeons as Sushi chefs most likely has the most skilled hands on the planet making the best sushi the world has ever seen!

1,549,640 kilowatt hours annually were saved by STTC using Philadelphia based Aelux for their company lighting needs. Aelux specializes in power efficient lighting using advanced technology.

This matters to many people, especially in Pennsylvania where businesses and consumers were greeted with a 30% rate increase on their electric power bill.

Many of Aelux’s clients have been able to hedge against the rate increases by having them consult for them on lighting needs and then addressing it with government and power industry sponsored tax benefit that reduces the total cost of installing lighting that saves money and the carbon footprint.

It’s a win for everyone, and it’s expected to become more and more of an issue as environmental and cost concerns weigh on people’s minds.

STTC can now state that they took actions to help the environment, and at the same time they took positive action on their bottom line by using Aelux.

This is a growing trend, and one that has a positive net social and cost impact for all concerned.

Easton, PA. (January 27, 2010) – Clothes for Seniors from American Health Care Apparel – a specialized provider and one of the leaders in the adaptive clothing industry -is proud to announce their new ecommerce website, http://www.clothesforseniors.com, focusing on providing quality adaptive and traditional clothing and footwear for aging adults.

“Our new website is an opportunity to not only showcase our products, but also educate families about the existence, and benefit, of adaptive clothing and footwear for those requiring assistance in dressing,” said Howard Gordon, President and CEO of Clothes for Seniors. Along with a wide variety of traditional clothing and footwear, the website features products designed specifically for people with diabetes, dementia or
Alzheimer’s disease.

The new website is a result of increased online sales since the launch of their first ecommerce website in 2003. They retained the streamlined navigation of the previous website, but added some new elements such as a company blog to: communicate new product announcements, provide the opportunity for customers to submit questions and comments, and to respond to customer inquiries.

The website allows nursing homes and care givers a way to order their adaptive clothing directly online rather than going to a physical store or waiting for a catalog. The time saving website allows you to spend more time with your loved ones and less time waiting for physical catalogs.

About Clothes for Seniors from American Health Care Apparel

Clothes for Seniors, established in 1985, is a family-owned adaptive and traditional clothing and footwear company located in Easton, Pennsylvania. They specialize in providing quality products to aging adults living either at home with a caregiver or in a long term care facility. They serve the clothing and footwear needs through: telephone, mail and fax orders from their mail order catalog, online at www.clothesforseniors.com, or traveling events. They travel to long term care facilities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington DC, and Maryland and set up the Traveling Clothing Store so that the residents of these facilities can enjoy a day of shopping without having to leave the facility.

For additional information about Clothes for Seniors, please visit

http://www.clothesforseniors.com

Contact:
Howard Gordon, President
610-250-0584

At least Montag’s husband and fellow ‘Hills’ star Spencer Pratt is supportive. Pratt tells PEOPLE, “Nobody truly understands how she feels except her. I may not be okay with things, but it’s not my call.”

The starlet and singer had a brow lift, breast augmentation, liposuction, ear-pinning and a chin reduction.

“Anytime I hinted that it might be a little much or if I just asked if she was sure, I even felt like I was crossing lines,” Pratt says. “I’m not in charge of what she does with any part of her body. I’m her husband – not her owner.”

Pratt admits that seeing his wife through a lengthy recovery process was painful. “Right after … it was the worst experience of my life,” Pratt says. “Nobody that loves a loved one should see that.”

Montag appreciates her husband’s support, while acknowledging that her self-image might not align with her husband’s vision. “It’s my body and I need to feel comfortable as a woman, as a person, and my inner beauty is always there and that’s what’s most important,” she says. “His support has really been a lot and made such a difference. I couldn’t ask for more.”

Wonder if this test will work…. This was authorised by AOL.

Philadelphia, PA. (January 21, 2010) – Sagefrog Marketing Group is proud to announce their new company website, http://www.sagefrog.com, focusing on health, technology and business marketing. The website serves as a destination for those seeking full service marketing, interactive and public relations services.

“Our new website is an opportunity to showcase our process, recent projects and success stories,” said Mark Schmukler, managing partner at Sagefrog Marketing Group. The website details the company’s marketing services, including their proven 7 Steps to Marketing Success™ process. It also features streamlined navigation, social media links and marketing resources.

The new website represents Sagefrog’s growth since its inception in 2001, and demonstrates their ability to get results for clients. Popular elements of the previous website were retained, including portfolio samples and the answer to the popular question − What is a Sagefrog? http://www.sagefrog.com/about/what-is-a-sagefrog

About Sagefrog Marketing Group

Sagefrog Marketing Group, LLC is a full service marketing, interactive and public relations company located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. We specialize in health, technology and business marketing for companies based in the greater Philadelphia and New Jersey area. Sagefrog’s services include marketing strategy and research, brand identity, marketing materials, websites, online marketing, public relations, advertisements, tradeshow support, direct marketing and email marketing.

For additional information about Sagefrog Marketing Group, please visit http://www.sagefrog.com

Contact:
Ashlee Finan
215-230-9024
ashleef@sagefrog.com
Sagefrog Marketing Group
196 West Ashland Street, Suite 406
Doylestown PA, 18901

Zimmerman went up against Mullen in the finals of the review conducted by Hasan + Co.

“From the moment we started talking with Captain D’s,” says Jordan Zimmerman, agency Founder and CEO, “we saw a potential in this company that mirrored the potential we saw in many other national retail brands we have worked with over the past decade.”

Sandy Clingan Smith, Senior VP of Marketing for Captain D’s, says, “I’ve had the opportunity to work with many different agencies. I was amazed to learn there is an agency out there that has built their entire business around the belief that you must have a balance between both retail and brand in order to be successful. Our new partnership with Zimmerman has given us the confidence we needed to achieve bigger things.”

First work by Zimmerman is slated to appear as a multi-media campaign in the first quarter of the New Year.

“We spend a great deal of our time trying to find what is intrinsically right with a brand,” adds Michael Goldberg, Executive VP and Chief Marketing Officer for Zimmerman. “In this case, Captain D’s made that part of our job easy because it offers something of great need in today’s marketplace: Their concept is right in the sweet spot between the affordable price of fast food, and the product quality and variety of QSR.”

About Captain D’s Seafood Kitchen

Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Captain D’s owns, operates and franchises some 550 restaurants in 25 states, plus military bases around the world. Captain D’s offers its customers great seafood at reasonable prices in a relaxed environment. Captain D’s restaurants serve a widely varied seafood menu that includes freshly prepared entrees, and the company’s signature fried fish which is freshly hand-battered and prepared to order to ensure freshness. The restaurants also offer premium-quality grilled, baked or broiled fish, as well as shrimp, chicken, home-style side dishes, hushpuppies, desserts and freshly brewed, southern style sweet tea, a Captain D’s favorite. Please visit http://www.captainds.com.

About Zimmerman Advertising

Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Zimmerman Advertising, an Omnicom Group(TM) company, is the country’s leading national retail brand builder, and the 14th largest advertising agency in the United States according to Adweek, with more than 1,100 full-time associates and offices throughout the country, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta. For information on the agency, visit http://www.zadv.com. To learn more about Jordan Zimmerman, his business philosophies and opinions, visit his blogspot: www.yousleepwhenyoudie.com .

About Omnicom Group

Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC) is a leading global marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom’s branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.

SOURCE Zimmerman Advertising

New York, NY. November 25, 2009 Decorwonderland.com, the premier discount retailer focused on passing on manufacturer’s discounts to our customers is proud to announce the 2009 Black Friday discount. 15% off the entire site plus free shipping and that starts TODAY, November 25th pre-Thanksgiving, pre-Black Friday. No need for the slow internet connections, stalled websites that will occur all day Friday. Shopping the Decorwonderland.com discounts can happen now.

Check out the Sales page on Decorwonderland.com to see a list of promo codes that you can use. Obviously you can’t use 2 codes together but one might save you more than the other.

Decorwonderland.com is a great site specifically for frameless mirrors that can be used as a bathroom mirror or a large modern mirror in a living room. It also has a great selection of lighting that is on the traditional side but there a few modern table lamps and floor lamps.

“Decorwonderland.com intends to grow the product breadth available on our website, but our number 1 priority is that the products are priced at discount prices, otherwise we are just not interested”, says Karen Kalina, Director of Marketing at Decorwonderland.com.

Unique mirrors like the Disco Inferno Frameless Bathroom Mirror or the Molten Frameless Bathroom Mirror are a few of the modern mirrors offered at Decorwonderland.com that really are not available anywhere else in store or online. The Black Friday discount starting Wednesday November 25, 2009 can get you a beautiful mirror for significantly less and is sure to wow your Christmas guests.

About Decorwonderland.com
Decorwonderland.com is an online retailer offering home décor at discount prices. The company offers its customers the best prices for unique home accessories and décor by passing on discounts received from suppliers and manufacturers without compromising on quality. For more information about Decorwonderland, visit www.Decorwonderland.com.

LOL! This one is one of the better ads I have seen come from Motorola in a while. The only reason my guess this isn’t on TV is due to the NSFW aspect.

I’ve been to parties like that before… well… not to that extreme.. If anyone s$it on my patio I would be highly upset.

They claimed they sent invoices, however NONE of them arrived making is question the validity of them claiming they were sent.

A year later, believing the insurance company paid the invoices in full we discover a negative mark on our credit report. Believe it or not, the first thing instance of us finding out “we owed money” was via a credit report check. Blue Cross and Blue Shield have stated to us via phone that their is no record of them in their system.

Think about it, no invoice, no insurance records of it, just direct to your credit report. Something that you wouldn’t have found unless you paid money to a credit reporting agency or you waited a full year to check the Annual credit report site. This thing was sitting on our credit report for a year. Remember, this is the first instance of us finding out about the invoice. The credit collection agency sent no invoices as well, as well as no phone calls. The only action we can verify that took place is they placed it on a credit report.

So the second we found out that we owed $225 we paid it (within minutes via phone via credit card). But this is where it becomes even more interesting. After paying the very first invoice (IE: abit the one found on a credit report, if you want to call that an invoice) both PH Anaesthesia Associates and Creditech refuse to remove it from the credit report. Even though clearly they are in the wrong. To make matters even uglier, Creditech has stated they won’t even mark it as paid until the end of December (nearly 2 months from now).

We have already filed an online dispute with Experian which the credit reporting agency has stated it will take months, however until the matter is settled, we are forced to live with an error on our credit report. We are also contemplating a small claims suit against both firms if no positive action is done.

Firms should not be allowed to just plaster inaccurate information on your credit report without verification from the end user.

If you work for either PH Anaesthesia Associates or Creditech feel free to file an online dispute over the contents of this story, we will follow the same procedure you are forcing us though.

The problem is that not every single buyer is aged 20 or 30 something, many of them grow up when the internet wasn’t a common part of their lives, but they are adopting it in droves, especially the social media aspect.

It’s well worth the read, and very cool to see everyone adopting the new tools open to them.

Related Practice Areas: International Business, International Trade
Offices: Washington, D.C.
Contact: Donald R. Dinan, 202.216.8302

(Washington, D.C.) – Last week, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) voted to institute an investigation of 20 dual access locks and products based on a Complaint filed by Roetzel & Andress on September 15, 2009 on behalf of David Tropp and Safe Skies, LLC for patent infringement against foreign luggage lock manufacturers. The investigation under Section 337 of the Tariff Act, is based on the unlawful importation into the U.S., sale for importation, and/or sale after importation of airport security-friendly luggage locks which infringe Mr. Tropp’s patents.

The Complaint seeks to have infringing locks excluded from importation into the United States. The USITC exclusion orders are enforced by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security.

The USITC will make a final determination in the investigation at the earliest practicable time. USITC remedial orders in Section 337 cases are effective when issued and become final 60 days after issuance unless disapproved for policy reasons by the U.S. Trade Representative.

In 2002, Tropp developed an innovative system for making airline luggage inspection secure while accommodating the needs of the traveler. The system involves a special dual access lock, called the “TSA Lock,” available to airline travelers that can be opened by both the luggage owner and the Transportation Security Administration (“TSA”). This system provides a solution to the problem of clipped locks resulting from the TSA’s policy of cutting locks on luggage, if necessary, for inspection. The TSA Lock, currently used by more than 60 million travelers and recognized by 50,000 TSA officers in 400 U.S. airports, was patented by Tropp in April of 2006 and is covered by two U.S. patents, both entitled “Method of Improving Airline Luggage Inspection.”

The foreign lock manufacturers named in the Complaint, based in five countries with the majority located in China, have unlawfully manufactured, imported and distributed identical dual-entry TSA Locks into U.S. retail and distribution outlets. All infringing companies make TSA locks, baggage or luggage incorporating TSA locks and collaborate with Travel Sentry, also being sued for patent infringement. The impact of these infringements is not only lost domestic sales for Tropp’s patented methods, but also compromised security issues relating to possible tampering of luggage with clipped locks.

For additional information about this case, please contact Donald Dinan at 202.216.8302.

About Roetzel & Andress
Founded in 1876, Roetzel & Andress is a law firm with 11 offices throughout Ohio, Florida and Washington, D.C. The firm has more than 220 attorneys who provide comprehensive, integrated legal counsel in more than 40 different areas of law, and practice both nationally and internationally. For more information, visit www.ralaw.com.

About Safe Skies LLC
Safe Skies LLC (http://www.safeskieslocks.com) sells 100+ different styles of TSA luggage locks accepted and recognized by TSA and by United Kingdom’s Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC). All Safe Skies TSA Locks are protected by US Patents 7,021,537 and 7,036,728 with worldwide patents pending.

The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has voted to institute an investigation of certain dual access locks and products containing same. The products at issue in this investigation are known as “TSA locks” and are designed so that they can be opened with a master key by security personnel at an airport should it be deemed necessary to open the locked baggage for further screening.

The investigation is based on a complaint filed on September 15, 2009, by Safe Skies, LLC, and David Tropp, both of Brooklyn, NY. The complaint alleges violations of section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 in the importation into the United States and sale of certain dual access locks and products containing same that infringe patents asserted by the complainants. The complainants request that the USITC issue an exclusion order and a cease and desist order.

The USITC has identified the following as respondents in this investigation:

C&C Luggage Manufacturing Co., Ltd., of China;
Diplomat of Taiwan;
Hangzhou Gema Suitcases & Bags Co. Ltd. of China;
La Pearl Luggage and Leather Goods Co., Ltd., of China;
Hinomoto Jomae, Ltd., of Japan;
Sinox Company, Ltd., of Taiwan;
Yi Feng Manufacturing Co., Ltd., of China;
Jin Tay Industries Co., Ltd., of Taiwan;
FULLYEAR-Brother Enterprise Co., Ltd., of Taiwan;
Zhuhai SkyGood Tech. Industrial Corp., Ltd., of China;
Ningbo Xianfeng Art & Craft Co., Ltd., of China;
Paloma Enterprises Co., Ltd., of Taiwan;
Tekraft Industrial Co., Ltd., of Taiwan;
Hangzhou Travelsky Co., Ltd., of China;
The Sun Lock Company, Ltd., of Hong Kong;
Alloy Metal Manufactory, Ltd., of Hong Kong;
Cometform, Ltd., of England;
Design Go Ltd. of England;
Franzen International of Germany; and
M-Power Lock Manufactory of Hong Kong.

By instituting this investigation (337-TA-689), the USITC has not yet made any decision on the merits of the case. The USITC’s Chief Administrative Law Judge will assign the case to one of the USITC’s six administrative law judges (ALJ), who will schedule and hold an evidentiary hearing. The ALJ will make an initial determination as to whether there is a violation of section 337; that initial determination is subject to review by the Commission.

The USITC will make a final determination in the investigation at the earliest practicable time. Within 45 days after institution of the investigation, the USITC will set a target date for completing the investigation. USITC remedial orders in section 337 cases are effective when issued and become final 60 days after issuance unless disapproved for policy reasons by the U.S. Trade Representative within that 60-day period.

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