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Read New Science Fiction Magazine Jim Baen’s Universe Before Publication

Advanced Reader Copies, those unproofed bound copies that used to be called galley proofs, sell for hot prices on eBay. Jim Baen, the legendary science fiction and fantasy publisher, has been selling electronic Advanced Reader Copies of his new fiction offerings through his Webscriptions service for over a year.

Using the same idea, members of the Jim Baen’s Universe readers’ club, the Universe Club, will be receiving electronic advanced reader copies (eARCs) of the first issue (June 2006) of the magazine beginning March 1st. The eARC version will be essentially the same as the magazine, but three months early, and with some unproofed stories. Each issue will be preceded by an eARC.

Instrumental Versions of the 'Such Is Love' Jazz Tunes are Now Available

The instrumental versions of the "Such Is Love" jazz songs by Eric Funk and Paul Turner are now available on www.liricotenore.com/lyrics.html. In addition, download the lead sheets for these hot tunes, which are played by the Backburners quartet, with Eric Funk on piano.

Eric Funk was born in Deer Lodge, Montana, in 1949. He studied composition with Tomas Svoboda, Sandor Veress, and with Krzysztof Penderecki. Since 1985, he has lived in Bozeman, Montana, where he was Music Director and Conductor of the Helena Symphony Orchestra and the Helena Symphonic Chorus (1994-2002). In 1994, he co-founded the Gallatin Chamber Orchestra in Bozeman.

Tweens with Style Can Now Design for Free on GirlSense.com

StarNet Interactive, owner and operator of the popular KiddoNet™ (www.kiddonet.com) and GirlSense™ (www.girlsense.com) tween girl websites, has announced the re-launch of GirlSense.com, this time as a free site.

Girlsense.com is where future Donna Karans and Stella McCartneys can create, design, play and communicate safely in a graphically stunning web environment.

Previously a subscription-based site, GirlSense™ has teamed up with its KiddoNet™ predecessor to offer one free ad-based web environment for tween and young teen girls (8-14) under the GirlSense™ brand. The combined sites cater to nearly 1M unique monthly visitors and have over 10 million registered members.

Incentives Spice up Sales Promotions

Businesses looking to increase name recognition, sales and awareness should consider the Ultimate Incentives University to help them spice up their sales promotions and boost their customer base.

A recent study showed that a promotion executed strategically and correctly can not only increase retail traffic, but also build brand equity and drive up sales of products and services.

"Every market is a competitive market these days," said John P. Stockhausen, CEO of GetawayIncentives.com and the founder of the Ultimate Incentives University. " Many times a company's products and price points are similar to their competition's, and they get forced into reducing prices to attract customers. By using http://www.ultimateincentivesuniversity.com [sales incentives, you can differentiate your offer from the pack without having to lower prices and compromise your profits."

Job Wrapping Service for Job Boards - SpiderMount

Job board customers can be relieved from the manual job posting routine by using SpiderMount, the leading automated job wrapping service. This job spider software easily and regularly scrapes selected jobs from corporate career centers, ATS interfaces or other job board listings to provide a value-added service for employers and recruiting firms.

Primary job spider features/benefits:

- Free scraping configuration/mapping - no set up fees.

- Incremental scraping feature only downloads new jobs.

- Synchronize jobs feature matches historical output data with corporate website source to guarantee that only open jobs remain posted.

- Filter jobs by keywords so only relevant jobs are posted.

- Schedule daily or weekly scraping sessions.

- Auto-post via XML or CSV.

Learn more:

Wrapping service and software for your job board - www.jobboardmount.com/software

New MindSolve Customers Get "Above and Beyond Demand" Service

A business directory, the Y, and a foodservice distributor may not appear to have much in common. But now they do. They've just made a strategic commitment to improving employee performance, and can expect better corporate performance as a result. YellowPages.com, the YMCA of Los Angeles, and Performance Food Group (PFG) recently selected MindSolve Technologies, Inc. as their Employee Performance Management software-as-a-service provider.

"Organizations in every industry vertical are becoming more and more aware that high-performing employees are the most critical source of their strategic success," says Dan Boccabella, MindSolve's General Manager. "And employee performance management, along with training and development, is the fastest growing category of strategic human resource functions."

Internet Marketing Center Brings Acclaimed Internet Marketing Seminar to 4 North-American Cities; Introduces Free Trial to Exclusive Internet Entrepreneur Club Forum

Veteran Internet marketers Jason Bax and Sumeet Sodhi of The Internet Marketing Center (IMC) invite residents of San Francisco, Toronto, Philadelphia, and Edmonton to join them for a weekend intensive Internet marketing seminar.

All seminar attendees will also receive a 30-day free trial to IMC's exclusive Internet Entrepreneur Club -- including access to the IEC forum where members can get specific, detailed advice about their online businesses (a $97 value).

As part of the info-packed Internet marketing training events, Bax and Sodhi will be sharing the latest tools and strategies that small- and home-based business owners can immediately use to start and grow a profitable online business on a shoestring budget.

New Bollywood Affiliate Program Launched

TheRedHotShop, dubbed as the 'hottest ethnic shop on the net', has launched a Bollywood Affiliate program offering website owners the chance to earn up to 12% commission on internet sales of Bollywood-inspired clothing, accessories, beauty products, books, music and DVDs. TheRedHotShop, the ecommerce arm of Redhotcurry.com -- Britain's leading South Asian Lifestyle portal which attracts over 40,000 unique users each month -- already lists over 2800 products. The company sends goods from stock within 24-48 hours and ships worldwide. The new Bollywood affiliate program, which will be run through Paid on Results, a key affiliate network, will allow TheRedHotShop to reach new audiences and new markets.

Recession-Proof RFID: 6 Steps for Success

Now more than ever, investments in RFID require businesses to identify and deliver quantifiable business results for labor savings, inventory management, and other operational and "network effects." Rush Tracking Systems (www.rushtrackingsystems.com), an industry-leading RFID business process consulting and systems integration company, offers these six best practices for recession-proofing your RFID deployment:

1) Identify and quantify the business value of RFID.

Focus on specific use cases where real-time visibility provides tangible cost savings, such as automatically replenishing components to reduce labor costs, on-hand inventory and costly errors. Keep a broad perspective across the value chain to identify additional value add use cases to leverage the "network benefit" of RFID. The greater the number of touch points for each tagged asset, the stronger the business case for RFID.

Promero Announces Call Center In A Box Solution

Promero, a Certified Partner of the Oracle Partner Network today announced its latest offering of a call center software solution in a box that includes a full range of enhanced call features including ACD, IVR, 100% voice recording, blended agents, multi-media communication and predictive dialing. This solution is configured as a single server solution for 25, 50 and 100 Users models.

Promero's solution is an all inclusive solution that features Oracle's Contact Center Anywhere v8 call center software, operating software, hardware and telecom interface with VOIP or PSTN connections that can work with any existing PBX.

VGI Goes International with The VerteLoc™ Minimally Invasive Spine Stabilization System

VG Innovations, Inc (VGI), announced today that it will soon launch its' revolutionary new minimally invasive spine stabilization system, called VerteLoc™, in Europe.

VerteLoc™ is designed to address minor spinal instabilities by effectively stabilizing the spinal facets, which are multi-directional joints of the spinal column.

"The company has signed a lucrative distribution contract with a formidable European distributor," stated VGI's President and CEO, Dan Grayson. "The sales from Europe will serve to increase our overall 2009 revenue projections by 10 to 15%. We have plans to expand our distribution to cover a broader scope of the global market in 2010," Grayson continued.

The Case for Mobile Marketing for Charities

Mobile marketing is proving just the tool for progressive Charities looking for new strategies to help engage supporters and raise funds.

Like any modern business, charities are exploring innovative new media tactics to target audiences with personalised messages and with virtually the entire UK population owning a mobile handset, it's little wonder that the mobile is proving a popular choice.

Recently there have been a number of high profile campaigns such as Comic Relief and Children in Need, using mobile marketing to raise funds by text donations via a five digit short code (E.g 60777).

TEA for KIDS™ Introduces 'Captain Teao™' as Their Superhero Spokesperson

Captain Teao™ is the first real life character and spokesperson of his kind created to promote TEA for KIDS™ www.teaforkids.com as a healthy alternative beverage for kids. Captain Teao™ is a fictional, fun loving superhero who's on a mission to help kids fight the effects of childhood obesity, heart disease and type II diabetes. While on his mission, Captain Teao™ invented TEA for KIDS™ a great tasting, healthy and refreshing alternative to high calorie and sugar loaded sodas and fruit juices kids are use to drinking. Unlike sodas and fruit juices, TEA for KIDS™ contains no sugar or caffeine and is loaded with antioxidants, vitamins and minerals.

Industry Leader Opens First Dental Practice in Bloomington, IN

To provide access to affordable and quality denture and dental care to an underserved population, Aspen Dental (www.aspendent.com), the nation's fastest-growing network of full-service dental and denture offices, is opening its first practice in Bloomington. The new office is scheduled to open Thursday, November 8 at 330 North Jacob Drive.

Aspen Dental will provide a full range of denture and dental services, including hygiene, oral surgery, fillings, teeth whitening, and crown and bridge. Aspen, a leader in denture services, offers eight models of its leading comfidents® brand, custom-crafted full and partial dentures. To accentuate its denture offerings, the Bloomington office will have its own denture laboratory, which ensures same-day turnaround for new dentures, denture repairs, relines or adjustments.

UP Aerospace, Inc. Offers Round-trip Payload Space Flights Directly to the Public and Private Enterprise

UP Aerospace, Inc. the world’s premier supplier of low-cost, space-access services, establishes another first: Providing the general public and private enterprise with round-trip space flights for virtually any kind of payload.

Payloads can be up to 110 pounds and 7 feet long. Payloads fly on UP Aerospace’s exclusive SpaceLoft™ XL rocket well beyond the earth’s atmosphere and into space. SpaceLoft™ sub-orbital space flights have apogees of 72 to 140 miles.

Typical payload opportunities for companies include:

Five More Top Dogs Advance to Championship Race; PETCO's Search for America's Fastest Chihuahua Continues

Phoenix Over 1,000 Chihuahuas and their cheering pet parents competed Saturday for the chance to be named America's Fastest Chihuahua in the third annual PETCO Unleashed regional qualifying races. Races were held in Boston, Phoenix, Anaheim, Calif., San Francisco and Dallas.

The competitors, accompanied by their human family members, raced in heats of 10 along a 1/18th furlong (35-foot-long) track. The winners were 1f40 awarded a trip to San Diego to race for the coveted title of America's Fastest Chihuahua in front of cheering crowds between innings of a major league baseball game at PETCO Park, home to the San Diego Padres, on Sept. 2, 2007.

InventHelp Client Invents Lifting Device for Modular Structures

InventHelp announces that one of its clients, an inventor from Bloomington, Calif., has designed a portable device that would facilitate lifting mobile or modular structures. The inventor has created a prototype.

The MODU-LIFT would improve safety for workers who install or move such buildings, and would help to ensure that a job is done correctly. The device would make this type of work faster, easier and less labor intensive. Also, the MODU-LIFT would be easy to transport to sites.

A job-related need inspired the development of the MODU-LIFT. "The idea came to me because I was tired of wasting so much valuable time each work day," he said. "Time and again, I'd show up to sites to pick up mt modular units, only to find that the workers still weren't finished lifting them."

Caribou Coffee Chooses IntraLearn SME to Deliver e-Learning Company Needed to Quickly Certify and Survey 4,000+ Store Team Members

IntraLearn Software Corporation, the world’s leading supplier of Microsoft technology-based, turn-key e-Learning software applications, announced today an agreement with Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. (Nasdaq:CBOU), the Second-largest U.S. specialty coffee company. Caribou Coffee selected the IntraLearn SME Learning Management System to quickly certify employees at their 348 coffee houses.

“With Caribou’s explosive growth, it became essential for us to deliver consistent, measurable learning to our 4,000+ team members.” said Caribou CEO Michael Coles. “e-Learning gives us the ability to provide quality training to our store employees while providing us the feedback we need to ensure our high standards are maintained across all our stores.”