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GCA Equity Partners, LLC Opens New Office in Campbell, CA

o Provides additional space to support business growth o Open house ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by Campbell Mayor

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PRLog (Press Release) - Apr 04, 2012 -
GCA Equity Partners, LLC announced that it has officially opened its new office at Lincoln Court in Campbell, CA.  The company marked the occasion with an open house on March 29th, attended by nearly 100 well-wishers and dignitaries.

Campbell Mayor Michael Kotowski hosted a special ribbon-cutting ceremony at the event.  GCA recently moved from Santa Clara and has leased approximately 1,000 square feet of Class A office space to support its growing real estate financing and investment businesses.

“We’re very pleased to open our new headquarters in Campbell,” said Thomas Braegelmann, CEO of GCA Equity Partners.  “We have an excellent location and the all the space necessary to accommodate our expanding support team.”

Campbell mayor Michael Kotowski added, “The City of Campbell has always been a great place to do business, and we’re thrilled to have GCA Equity Partners open a new office here.”

The company’s projects range from financing real estate purchase and remodeling projects to managing a real estate investment fund.  Capital for the real estate projects comes from private investors as well as from its GCA California Real Estate Fund.   For more information on GCA Equity Partners, visit its website at http://www.gcaequitypartners.com

GCA Equity Partners, LLC is an investment management company focused on asset-based real estate investment opportunities.  The company has its main office in Campbell, CA – but invests in projects globally.  For more information, visit http://www.gcaequitypartners.com

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GCA Equity Partners, LLC is an investment management company focused on asset-based real estate investment opportunities. The company has its main office in Campbell, CA – but invests in projects globally.

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Business, Marketing and Social Media Forum Launched for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses

WireWalkersVA recently launched a new forum on their site to create a business hub for entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes.

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PRLog (Press Release) - Mar 20, 2012 -
Businesses of all sizes should know that a new forum has been launched to serve as a place for entrepreneurs and business people (aspiring or otherwise) to communicate, engage, network, interact, partner with and share opportunities with each other.

WireWalkersVA, a SEO and web site development company, has recently launched a forum to allow businesses and entrepreneurs to interact and engage with each other.  Business-minded people, experts and aspiring entrepreneurs can register for free and start connecting with other entrepreneurs.  They can ask questions, give advice to other forum members, learn from other business experts or just browse the informative content that WireWalkersVA offers.

Peter Lee, CEO of WireWalkersVA, said, “Due to the demand from our business friends and colleagues, we decided to create a hub for businesses so there’s a place for business owners and other experts to help and learn from each other.  We also wanted to take advantage of this forum to provide valuable information, marketing resources and partnership opportunities to our visitors and members.”

The said forum is currently composed of four groups:

WireWalkerVA Site Related Forums – This group contains three forums where you can see what’s new with WireWalkersVA, the forum guidelines, and some great content discussion.

Business Marketing and Partnership Forums – This group is where businesses can market, partner and promote with each other.  It has five forums which include “Business Card Exchange”, “Social Media Sharing”, “10% Discount Business Club”, “Link Trading”, and “Guest Blog Trading”.

Special Interest Forums – This is where businesses can share and learn about their special area of interest like blogging, business strategy, marketing strategy, social media, search engine optimization (SEO), and more.  The group is composed of ten forums.  Some of the topics that you can see on this group started by active members include “What about Pinterest?”, “Art Marketing, anyone?”, “Is mobile marketing worth it?”, “Facebook Timeline…  Small business friendly or not?”, and much more.

Hot Topics – This group discusses trending topics.  The hot topic right now is about Jeremy Lin.

“We recently added the ‘Hot Topics’ group as we believe that it’s important for entrepreneurs to not just talk ‘business’ all the time.  It’s essential that we show a bit of our personality discussing other things.  Of course, they can always relate the topics to business, marketing, branding or something relevant but if they want to talk purely about something else then we allow that, too.”

“As of the moment, the forum has five active administrators and 124 members.  But we expect more members soon.”, added Peter.

The business world, especially the online business world, has become very competitive at its best.  As WireWalkersVA is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, they believe that creating a place, such as a forum, where every business-minded people can ‘hang out’ and share their expertise with everyone will definitely be helpful and essential to every entrepreneur.

About WireWalkersVA

WireWalkersVA is a SEO and web site development company based in New York, NY and was started by its CEO, Peter Lee and a dedicated team of business, marketing and social media advisors.   On Memorial Day (May 25th, 2009), they created what has become the World’s Largest LinkedIn Group – ‘Job Openings, Job Leads and Job Connections!’.   The Group is currently the largest of 1,236,817 Groups on LinkedIn and has over 731,055+ Members.   Their website http://wirewalkersva.com/provides business, marketing and social media resources in the form of free ebooks, podcasts, videos, blogs and business forum (http://wirewalkersva.com/forum/).

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Our website provides business, marketing and social media resources in the form of free ebooks, podcasts, videos, blogs and business forum.

WireWalkersVA is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs execute their big ideas.

Your Big Idea. Your Team.

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New Service Helps Real Estate Agents Increase Profits Capture Local Home Rental Market

RentalHomeDomains.com is offering vanity Real Estate web addresses for rent or purchase. One of a kind website names help Real Estate brokers managers and agents brand themselves as the source for rental homes in their local community.

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PRLog (Press Release) - Mar 13, 2012 - Real Estate Brokers, office managers, and sales and listing agents seeking new ways to increase sales and profits have just caught a break.

A new service offered by RentalHomeDomains.com allows real estate professionals of all levels the opportunity to rent or own a coveted web url that they can use in three ways according to Scott Alliy an Internet marketing expert and creator of the new vanity Real Estate address rental program.

Real Estate pros who rent or buy a vanity Real Estate url from RentalHomeDomains.com can use it to redirect traffic to their current website, to develop a new business website upon,and can even generate new revenue streams by subletting space to area real estate businesses and or by selling sponsorships and ad space to local businesses.

The fact  that the Real Estate industry has suffered since the crash of 2008 is no secret says Scott and there is also no secret that home mortgage funding and credit is tight he adds.  Both these negative factors combine to create an environment where home rental is expected to soar and that presents a real ground floor opportunity for savvy Real Estate pros who act quickly to stake their claim says Scott.

Renting or purchasing a solid rental home url like those being offered at RentalHomeDomains.com is the quickest and best way to brand yourself as the source for Rental Homes in your community says Scott who is a veteran Internet marketing expert with several successful Internet businesses to his credit.

Owning a memorable and easy to remember GEO specific Rental Home domain name provides owners a unique opportunity to receive mounds of free word of mouth advertising saving you and your business loads of advertising dollars that can be used for other business or personal needs says Scott.

The company offers two ways for Real Estate pros to take advantage of this exciting opportunity to gain a highly attractive web address that can be easily shared  by prospects and customers using various social media outlets.

Real Estate pros that want to gain a competitive edge on their competition and in fact capture the local home rental market can rent a powerful attractive business producing and money saving web address by visiting http://www.RentalHomeDomains.com or contacting the company to directly at            (800) 712-5568       x108 to check availability and for more details.

Real Estate pros who are ready to make a stronger comitment towards becoming the source for Rental Homes in their community and local market  area can purchase one or more vanity web addresses from domain name reseller KetMo.com.

Either method you choose Scott encourages interested Real Estate pros to act quickly since as noted on the website http://www.RentalHomeDomains.com the web address
RentalHome[City].com domain names for 41 out of the top 50 most active home rental cities are already reserved.

Scott reminds interested vanity Real Estate url renters or purchasers that  the names being offered are on-of-a-kind and that once they are taken that business has immediately branded themselves as the source for Rental Homes in that community.

For more information please visit http://www.RentalHomeDomains.com

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RentalHomeDomains.com is a division of Allied Internet Solutions Inc a trusted team of Internet marketing and eCommerce business consulting experts since 1995.

KetMo.com is a domain name solutions provider offering domain name sales auction parking broker services ecommerce business consulting and other domain name monetization programs.

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Entertainer & Art Marketing Boot Camp

Spring is here and so it the new Entertainer & Art Marketing Boot Camp happening on Monday, March 26th from 9AM to 4PM at the Zaki Gordon Film Institute, in Sedona, AZ

 

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PRLog (Press Release)Mar 04, 2012 -
Marketing Attraction Specialist Mari-Lyn Harris and professional entertainer Shondra Jepperson have designed a full day of workshops From the speakers to the content, every portion of this Bootcamp is designed to align your creative talents with practical business strategies focusing on the How To’s in marketing yourself.

Harris commented, “We wanted to offer a day that would support those who envision themselves having their occupation as their avocation, and that they thrive not just surviving. You may be doing what you love to do but are you able to make a living at it? This is where marketing skills can really come into play.”

Jepperson continued, “It’s really important for those of us in the creative and performing arts to understand and feel comfortable with marketing ourselves and what we do. Most artists prefer someone else to do this for them which is fine and it’s also empowering to know you have the skills in which to do this for yourself as well.”

The marketing bootcamp will cover all sides all aspects of marketing from preparing media kits, social media, contracting agreements with client, sales strategies including information on basic law regarding copyright, trademarking and how to protect your product(s) when involved in larger business projects.

Part of the BootCamp will included Michael Dergo who is a lawyer from Phoenix who specializes in business law, sports and entertainment law, criminal litigation and civil litigation

Wanting to make this affordable for the artist community, The Entertainer & Artist Marketing Bootcamp price for the full day is $60.00 with advance registration and $85.00 at the door. For more information and registration http://artmarketing.heartatworkonline.org
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Art Marketing Association is about helping artist to make a living from their art. More information can be found on the website.

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BLR Founder Robert Brady Named to ISHN’s Power 101 List of Safety Industry Leaders

Robert L. Brady, Founder of BLR®–Business & Legal Resources has been honored by Industrial Safety and Hygiene News (ISHN) with inclusion to their annual Power 101 list.

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PRLog (Press Release) - Feb 20, 2012 -
Brentwood, TN –Robert L. Brady, Founder of BLR® –Business & Legal Resources has been honored byIndustrial Safety and Hygiene News (ISHN) with inclusion to their annual Power 101 list. ISHN is the premier journal for safety and health professionals.

The magazine wrote: “Robert Brady is an attorney and CEO since 1977 of Business & Legal Resources, a subscription-based safety, enviro and HR interactive community and management services delivering daily, weekly and monthly compliance and professional info across multiple media platforms.”

To be included in the Power 101 list, Brady had to meet several criteria, including the ability to reach a national audience and create a community of professionals through conferences, seminars, and special interest groups, branded media products, websites, web forums, and other channels that enhance the safety profession.

The inclusion also reflects the magazine’s recognition of Bob’s “innovation and creativity — development of EHS-related research, theories, models, performance measures, communications products, and best practices.”

“I am extremely honored to be selected to the ISHN Power 101 list,” Brady said. “It’s the result  of the hard work put in by a lot of smart and dedicated professionals at BLR who produce Safety Daily Advisor (http://safetydailyadvisor.blr.com/) and Environmental Daily Advisor(http://envirodailyadvisor.blr.com/), our free electronic advisory services on the latest compliance management practices.”

About BLR
For over 35 years, BLR® has simplified compliance with state and federal legal requirements, helping U.S. businesses become more successful. BLR® offers authoritative content, training, and practical, easy-to-use tools for the HR& employment law, workplace safety, environmental compliance, compensation & benefits, and politics & legal markets. Through our expert in-house editors and exclusive attorney network, we provide the most comprehensive, reliable state-specific information available — and we do it in all 50 states. Our award-winning information products — including training programs, events, web portals, reports and subscription services — give businesses of all sizes and industries the best tools available at affordable prices.

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BLR®—Solutions for Employment, Safety, and Environmental Compliance
We help U.S. businesses simplify compliance with state and federal legal requirements, and we help them become more successful. For more information, please visit www.BLR.com.

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News for February 21st, 2012.

Franchise Business Review Names Zoom Room® Best in Category for Pet Services

Fast-Growing Pet Franchise Honored as 2012 Franchisee Satisfaction Award Winner

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PRLog (Press Release) - Feb 20, 2012 -
Los Angeles, CA – February 20, 2012 – The Zoom Room®, the world’s first dog agility training franchise and the only brick-and-mortar dog training franchise in America has been named Best in Category for Pet Services by the Franchise Business Review. The announcement was made this week through the 2012 Franchisee Satisfaction Awards, part of a national project that looks at franchisee satisfaction at some of the country’s most popular franchise brands.

On top of earning the high distinction as Best in Category for Pet Services, the Zoom Room was also ranked #3 on a list of the Top 50 Franchises, in all categories, in the nation with under 50 units. Now in its seventh year, the “FBR50” is the only awards program to look at actual franchisee satisfaction data and rank companies through these specific criteria. Based on a survey of more than 22,000 franchisees representing more than 300 franchise brands, the 2012 award winners represent a variety of franchise concepts and industries.

“There are some outstanding franchisors associated with these awards, and to be included among them is exceptional,” said Mark Van Wye, COO of the Zoom Room. “This validates the system we’ve put in place for every franchise owner across the nation. We’re looking forward to adding even more franchisees in the coming years to join our team.”

The Zoom Room, founded by animal training expert Jaime Van Wye, focuses on the bond between the owner and their dog by offering an array of classes and activities for mainstream consumers in a modern, social atmosphere.

Franchise Business Review annually recognizes franchisors with the highest overall franchisee satisfaction based on its survey of franchisees. The survey includes 33 benchmark questions, relating to the franchisee’s experience and satisfaction as well as market area, business lifestyle, and other demographic characteristics. Franchise Business Review contacts each franchisee individually with an average franchisee participation rate of 70 percent.

“We’re seeing more of a focus from franchisors on unit profitability. This has been a big focus for operators in the past several years, but now it seems franchisors are actually responding. Franchisees are rating support from franchisors better than they were a few years ago,” said Franchise Business Review President Michelle Rowan. “Everybody’s more optimistic going into 2012.”

For more information about the Zoom Room, please visit http://www.ZoomRoomOnline.com.

About The Zoom Room®
The Zoom Room is a dog training center and canine social club specializing in dog agility. Founded in 2007 by expert dog trainer Jaime Van Wye, The Zoom Room offers dozens of classes teaching dog owners how to train their dogs, in addition to hosting events such as dog birthday parties, breed meet-up groups and fundraising events. For more information, visit http://www.ZoomRoomOnline.com.

About Franchise Business Review
Franchise Business Review is a national franchise market research firm that performs independent surveys of franchisee satisfaction and franchise buyer experiences. The firm’s services include commissioned franchise research projects, as well as industry-wide studies of franchisee satisfaction. Franchise Business Review is headquartered in Portsmouth, NH, and can be reached at (603) 433-2270. Please visit http://www.FBR50.com for more information.

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Robert Fineman, CPA, to Serve on Boston Herald’s TaxSmart Panel

Robert Fineman has been selected from a pool of CPA’s across Massachusetts to serve on a panel of four tax experts for the Boston Herald for the next 9 Fridays in a column called “TaxSmart.” The panel will answer tax questions sent in by readers.

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PRLog (Press Release) - Feb 11, 2012 -
Robert S. Fineman, CPA of Robert S. Fineman, PC, an accounting firm based in Norwood, Massachusetts has been selected amongst a pool of CPA’s from across the state to serve on a panel of four tax experts for the Boston Herald. For the next 9 weeks the panel will be answering tax questions sent into the Herald by readers in a column called “TaxSmart.”  The program will run on Fridays and will respond to a variety of tax issues.

Bob Fineman and the other panelists will also be interviewed for a tax related video, which will be located on the Boston Herald website.

Mr. Fineman will also be contributing to the Boston Herald blog and will participate in an online chat with readers who have tax questions.

The February 10th Boston Herald article by Jerry Kronenberg quoted Bob Fineman, and invited readers to send in their tax questions.

Established in 1992 and found online at http://www.finemancpa.com -the accounting firm of Robert S. Fineman, PC is a group of Certified Public Accountants, Bookkeepers, Business and Tax Advisors, that provides creative financial solutions to businesses and individuals.

Bob Fineman’s practice deals with growing businesses and individual taxes.  One area his firm specializes in is helping clients understand how to best take advantage of everything that is available to them within the tax laws. He takes great pride in saving his clients significant tax dollars.

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Robert S. Fineman, PC is a progressive Accounting and CPA firm, based in Norwood, Massachusetts that works closely with business owners to help them understand their business from a financial point of view. Bob has a strong background in all phases of tax planning and tax preparation, accounting and business advisory services. He offers:
* Business consulting and planning
* Preparation of Individual, Corporate, Partnership, Estate, Gift and Non-Profit Tax Returns
* Tax Planning
* Train Financial Personnel, including QuickBooks Training
* Start-up Business Consulting, including choice of Entity
* Preparation of Financial statements

Bob is the founder of The Fineman Absolute Minimum Tax System, which is a non-duplicable system designed to capture all deductions available to taxpayers within the tax laws. This system is designed for clients to pay the absolute minimum in taxes.

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FSB Named One of Nation’s Best Law Firms by U.S. News and Best Lawyers for 2011-2012

For the second straight year of ranking American law firms, U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers® have named FSB FisherBroyles, LLP (“FSB”) as one of the nation’s best law firms.

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PRLog (Press Release) - Feb 09, 2012 -
For the second straight year of ranking American law firms, U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers® have named FSB FisherBroyles, LLP (“FSB”) as one of the nation’s best law firms.  Additionally, two FSB partners, James E. Meadows, of the Atlanta office, and Harvey A. Kurtz, of the Chicago office, were listed by Best Lawyers as Leading Lawyers in their respective practice areas of Information Technology Law and Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law.  FSB’s Information Technology practice was specifically highlighted in the rankings as a Tier 1 Atlanta firm in that market.

The national distinction is especially significant given the firm’s upcoming 10-year anniversary since its founding in April 2002.  “Being recognized as a top tier firm for two years in a row is a notable achievement for any firm, and especially so for a younger firm like FSB,” said FSB co-founder Kevin E. Broyles.  “FSB was founded less than ten years ago and now is recognized as standing shoulder-to-shoulder with hundred-year old firms in key practice areas.”

“We believe that this second year of recognition by U.S. News and Best Lawyers of our firm’s expertise and breadth of experience demonstrates our staying power,” commented FSB’s other co-founder James M. Fisher II.  “We are successfully recruiting additional partners in the top tier of their practice areas across the United States as our unique business model continues to gain traction nationally.”

The U.S. News rankings accompany another milestone recognition for the firm. Recently, Business-to-Business Magazine named FSB’s co-founders Fisher and Broyles as the top Entrepreneurs in Atlanta for 2011. “Our business model coupling big-firm depth and excellence with lean low overhead is on the leading edge of what we believe will be radical change to the market for legal services. It is an industry that is ripe for change, and we are gratified to see that the business community has embraced our platform so extensively,” Broyles said.

“Each FSB partner is a seasoned veteran of one of the nation’s largest law firms or corporate legal departments,” Fisher went on to explain. “We combine that elite level of talent with a lean, low-overhead model that allows us to deliver exceptional value to our clients. These rankings show just how strongly that formula is resonating in the marketplace.”

For additional information about the firm, please contact Bill Lynch, Director of Business Development, at blynch@fsblegal.com.

About FSB. Founded in 2002, FSB FisherBroyles, LLP is a full-service national law firm with 65 partners in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Dallas and Charlotte. FSB is the first national law firm that has integrated the concepts of “cloud computing” and “cloud commuting” to create unparalleled economy and efficiency in the practice of law. Comprised exclusively of partner-level attorneys from the largest law firms and corporations in the world, FSB offers cost-effective legal solutions to global clients such as American Express, Morgan Stanley, BB&T, and Porsche Cars North America, among others. FSB has been repeatedly recognized as one of the Best Law Firms in the country by Best Lawyers and U.S. News & World Report.

About the U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” rankings. An unprecedented amount of data was collected in the project’s second year. The U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in their field, and review of additional information provided by law firms as part of the formal submission process.

Law firm clients were asked to provide feedback on firm practice groups addressing expertise, responsiveness, understanding of a business and its needs, cost-effectiveness, civility, and whether they would refer another client to the firm. Lawyers voted on expertise, responsiveness, integrity, cost-effectiveness, whether they would refer a matter to a firm, and whether they consider a firm a worthy competitor. These reputational survey responses were combined with more than 3.9 million evaluations of 41,284 individual leading lawyers collected by Best Lawyers® in its most recent annual survey of leading lawyers.

All of the quantitative and qualitative data were combined into an overall “Best Law Firms” score for each firm. This data was then compared to other firms within the same metropolitan area and at the national level. Because firms were often separated by small or insignificant differences in overall score, a tiering system was used rather than ranking law firms sequentially. The first tier includes those firms that scored within a certain percentage of the highest-scoring firms.

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Image Solutions Veteran Joins Start-Up Shotfarm to Oversee New Products & Services Division.

John Ferguson to drive new product sales geared towards the company’s fast-growing community of retailers and manufacturers.

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PRLog (Press Release) - Feb 09, 2012 -
Chicago, IL — Shotfarm, home of the first industry centralized Product Content Network, announced today that John Ferguson, former SVP of Sales for Getty Images has joined the start-up as EVP of Sales and Business Development.

Ferguson will spearhead the sales strategy for shotfarm’s new generation of workflow and technology tools for retailers and manufacturers, including Rich Media eCommerce Hosting and Digital Asset Management products. He brings more than 20 years of sales and business development experience to the role, including a strong background in the stock photography industry.

“As shotfarm extends its product suite to include turnkey technology products that cover the full range of product image and content management needs, John’s ability to define and deliver image solutions for customers will be a critical asset,” says shotfarm CEO Mike Lapchick.

In his roles at Getty Images and as CEO of a21 Group’s Superstock.com, Ferguson gained a deep understanding of the intricacies of image management, a fitting foundation for his new position at shotfarm. At Getty, Ferguson led the Americas Sales team and helped integrate many acquisitions to broaden the company’s photography offerings.

Upon joining the shotfarm team, Ferguson said, “Shotfarm’s community has nearly tripled in the last six months and many customers are asking for additional products to complement the streamlined workflow provided by the free Product Content Network. I look forward to delivering on those requests with the lineup of exciting plugins, services and features we have planned for 2012.”

Ferguson has a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing from Michigan State University and holds an MBA in International Business from DePaul University’s Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business. To learn more about shotfarm’s existing and soon-to-be-released products and services, email him at johnf@shotfarm.com.

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Shotfarm, LLC, is a privately held Chicago-based company offering a free Product Content Network for the retail marketing industry. For retailers, shotfarm offers a single place to search for and download product images and information. For manufacturers, shotfarm provides a centralized location from which to distribute product images and information to all retail partners. Visit www.shotfarm.com for more information.

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