RMI Corp. Receives Microsoft Top Performer Award

Microsoft honored RMI Corporation last week with a Top Performer Partner Excellence Award for highest new customer additions.

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PRLog (Press Release) - Mar. 28, 2013 - AVON, Conn. -- Microsoft honored RMI Corporation last week with a Top Performer Partner Excellence Award for highest new customer additions.  This honor signifies that RMI, as a business management solution provider, was chosen by more businesses than any other Dynamics NAV Partner during the 2013 fiscal year. RMI’s ADVANTAGE software is a Microsoft Dynamics NAV based business management solution designed specifically for the equipment rental, sales, and services industries.

“We are proud to recognize RMI Corporation as one of our US Microsoft Dynamics SMB ERP Top Performance Award Winners in the Top Performer FY13 NAV Adds category” said Kristi Hofer, Microsoft Dynamics US Channel Manager, Microsoft Corp. “Partners such as RMI are critical to our success and to providing value to our customers. We congratulate all of this year’s SMB ERP award winners on their achievements and look forward to following their continued success in the future.”

“RMI is very proud of its longstanding relationship with Microsoft and the honors they have bestowed upon us.” Said Paul R. Chapdelaine CPA, President, RMI. ”This particular honor is especially exciting as it represents the first major recognition we can attribute to the decision to commit ourselves 100% to delivering ADVANTAGE in the Cloud. At the time fellow partners thought the decision risky, but seeing the extreme potential of cloud, in 2010 we discontinued offering On-Premise versions of ADVANTAGE, and never looked back”

Despite early “cloud related naysaying”, RMI has offered ADVANTAGE as a cloud solution since 2007 and discontinued all other delivery methods in 2010. It’s clear that businesses are ready to reap the benefits and cost savings delivered by the Cloud as evidenced by the fact that RMI’s sales topped those of all fellow Microsoft Dynamics NAV partners ─ many of whom offer their solutions in an On-Premise model.  To top it all off, RMI sold more software to the equipment rental, sales, and services markets, than fellow partners sold to their much larger broader markets.

This award is a great honor and the RMI team looks forward to many more years developing, delivering and supporting cloud based business management software for businesses that rent, sell, or service equipment. For more information on RMI Corporation and the ADVANTAGE solution visitwww.rmiusa.com/software

About RMI Corporation

Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Avon, CT; RMI Corporation is the leader in enterprise Rental, Sales and Service Solutions for mid-market companies.  RMI is fully dedicated to the equipment rental, sales and service industries and offers an industry standard solution including software, implementation, training, consultation and support to help their clients maximize efficiencies and reach their full business potential.  RMI currently has thousands of users working with their ADVANTAGE Solution, representing various segments of the industry.

RMI has been a Microsoft Dynamics NAV Partner since 1996. This award represents the 13th award Microsoft has awarded RMI  since the partnership began. Other awards include:

·         • Microsoft Partner of the Year - 2004 & 2007

·         • Gold Certified Partner

·         • 9 time President’s Club  Member

·         • Certified for Dynamics NAV

For more information on the ADVANTAGE Solution and RMI Corporation, please visit their website atwww.rmiusa.com.

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Investors Need Only To Look To Cyprus When Deciding Whether To Invest In Gold And Silver

On a year-over-year basis, gold has fallen more than 2 standard deviations. Following these intense lows, gold has historically rallied. Experts and analysts agree that today is a great time to buy gold and buy silver and hold it long term. Read...

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PRLog (Press Release) - Mar. 30, 2013 - NEW YORK -- International investors had to muster the courage to help keep calm as news of Cyprus' proposed partial theft of all bank deposits took Wall Street by surprise, closed the country's banks and drove the gold prices greater. The thoughtless concept was intended to capture a portion of the $31 billion in bank assets held by Russians. According to the Financial Times, Cyprus has created a "well-earned reputation for being a haven for dirty cash from Russia." Learn more >>  http://www.gold-and-silver-market.com 

Even though Cyprus' government came to its senses and blocked the proposed seizure, the harm has been done. To many individuals about the globe, raising earnings taxes might be one thing, but altering the guidelines to steal hard-earned savings from all citizens rattles their confidence. What Adrian Ash of Bullion Vault says is "most amazing" about this scenario is the fact that "small savers are no longer sacred."

It is outstanding to see the response from Cypriots, as they protested in the streets, with "NO" stamped on their palms, demanding the government take its hands off their cash. It is refreshing to see their pushback to sanity.

How did this tiny island make it in to the European Union (EU) in the first place? The Financial Times gave an insightful background: "Many EU leaders had been deeply reluctant to admit Cyprus in to the union in 2004, with out a peace settlement that reunified the island. But Greece had threatened to veto the whole enlargement of the EU - blocking Poland, the Czech Republic and also the rest - unless Cyprus was admitted. Reluctantly, EU leaders succumbed to this act of blackmail." What do the experts have to say about gold and silver prices? Learn more >> http://www.gold-and-silver-market.com/KITCO-SILVER/

5 years later, we're seeing the fallout of Cyprus due to Greece's monetary woes. Many accuse Greece of cooking the books to get in to the EU, and after that the nation proceeded to blackmail the EU at the expense of other European nations.

Crooks get punished, but what about others who unfairly change the guidelines or break them? Think back to the anger generated by the Ponzi scheme run by Bernie Madoff, who lost $20 billion in money. In addition, $65 billion in paper wealth vanished. He's serving 150 years in prison, his son committed suicide, and he'll forever be recognized as a thief as well as a rat.

In Gold We Trust

Since the international monetary crisis started, there is been a rash of poor financial choices from socialist policymakers scrambling to bring in more income to cover their overspending. Instead of streamline regulations to facilitate trade and flow of funds or reduce back on welfare applications, they'd rather maintain the status quo and increase taxes.

In Greece, difficult cost-cutting austerity measures had been shot down following organized unionized workers that were rioting in the streets. France's socialist president, Francois Hollande, has been attempting unsuccessfully to increase the top income tax rate to 75 % in an try to "squeeze fat cats and hit the mega-rich, making them bear the brunt of "sacrifices' required to repair public finances," according to The Guardian last summer.

In Hungary and Italy, we have noticed the unintended consequences of envy policies following implementing a monetary transaction tax.

These kinds of "envy policies" that could be frowned upon by Moses on Mount Sinai are not only taking place across the Atlantic. Lately, Gene Epstein from Barron's compared the U.S. debt scenario to that of Greece's. He writes that national debt could "easily attain 153 % of economic output by 2035" and unemployment could climb as high as 20 %, however the answer does not lie in "asking the wealthy to pay a bit more." He says,

"Barron's calculates that instantly growing the marginal tax price to 50% around the top 1% of the country's earners would bring in $500 billion over the next ten years. This would barely dent the country's debt load, which would then be $20 trillion, and do little to forestall a monetary crisis."

Experts think poorly thought out government policies hurt the formation of capital and destroy people's trust in paper cash. Leaders might have great intentions, but a few of their actions show disrespect for private property and individualism.

This only reemphasizes gold as an essential asset class. It might be perfect timing for investors to become reacquainted with gold, as the charts show that the yellow metal seems to be oversold. On a year-over-year basis, gold has fallen more than 2 standard deviations, an occasion which has seldom occurred over the previous ten years. As we have indicated before, following these intense lows, gold has historically rallied. Experts and analysts agree that today is a great time to buy gold and buy silver and hold it long term. Learn more >>  http://gold-and-silver-market.com 

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Change Management Tools - Quality Software Tools For Your Organization

Change Management Tools are vital for any organization to enhance the performance of their software project.

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PRLog (Press Release) - Mar. 30, 2013 - When any software is developed it experiences series of changes in the procedure. These changes are implemented by project leader or team member in the various process of development. These changes are required to manage effectively for the sake of quality end product release. Manually managing these changes means not only time consuming but risking the quality of the software also. Thus, no doubt more and more organizations are relying on Change Management Tools for managing the changes efficiently.

As the name suggest these tools effectively manages changes in the concerned software project, keeps track of the changes and help developers, testers to go through the changes as and when required for debugging or improving the quality of the software.

Today varied types of software are developed with customized features and developers are required to handle different types of changes efficiently. Thus management tools also come with different features to serve these requirements of managing such changes. But how does an organization identifies the suitable Change Management Tools?
As already discussed tools managing software changes comes with varied features and thus the first step of selection would be thoroughly studying the requirement of the organization. This will help in shortlisting the features of tools required and that’s what the second step of selection is.

Understanding the features of selected tools helps to ensure that an organization is spending on right tools. While studying the features, it would be extremely sensible to ensure that tool would remain fruitful in future also serving varied software project needs. Thus, features like creating change request based on existing requirement or as a new feature, associating required change request to present requirement in order to create new requirement versions, allowing developers to provide impact analysis information for each change request for testing team is worth considering.

Budget is the third step that an organization must consider. Here, budget doesn’t mean how much money is allotted for the tools, but how to make best use of the available resources and buy the suitable tools. Here comparing the price of Change Management Tools would surely help in buying the best tools within the budget. The demand for such tools would only increase in future and vendors also are ready to offer them at most competitive price. Thus, organizations have opportunity to make best use of their resources without compromising the quality. Buying tools from reputed vendors ensures technical support as and when required and including customized features.

For more details please visit us at http://www.rommanasoftware.com/change-management-tools.php

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Any Business Can Now Create a Customer Incentive Program to Rival Large Programs

SEiiAN Rewards launches a new cloud-based loyalty program software, mplifyr (‘amplifier’), allowing businesses to create their own customized incentive program to rival large loyalty programs, but at a fraction of the cost.

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PRLog (Press Release) - Mar. 28, 2013 - HOUSTON -- Businesses lacking the time and hefty expense to build a professional loyalty system can use mplifyr to create and manage an advanced program designed to build customer loyalty with features promoting emotional customer engagement and positive customer experiences. mplifyr also contains entertaining gamification features to create engagement amongst users.

Business users can create over 50 different combinations of earning, redemption and fun engagement activities to connect with their customers beyond social media and daily deals. They can incentivize customers to purchase with them, give feedback, refer friends, attend their events and more. The only requirement is an Internet connection.

The loyalty program software introduces a universal point system where users can earn and redeem with any business on mplifyr (online or in-store) and accumulate their points in one central location rather than having them scattered in different programs, giving consumers variety and flexible ways to redeem their points to suit their lifestyle.

Business users can also:

• Engage with customers differently by creating custom activities such as contests and events customers can engage in to build customer relationships.

• Offer customers exclusive privileges such as “front of the line access” or “the best seat in the house” every time they visit to make them feel special.

• Segment VIPs, employees and returning customers to give them greater incentives and value for their redemptions.

• Transact earnings and redemptions in seconds through mplifyr or a free mobile app.

• Use analytics to view how their program is performing, earning and redemption activities customers respond to, their top customers and more.

• Earn and redeem from other businesses to earn rewards for their business.

• Integrate their website or POS system.

Participating businesses can support schools, non-profits and charities. A portion of their purchase to participate on mplifyr is placed into a money pool called the “Pile O’ Cash,” which is given to these organizations at least four times a year.

Cost-effective with no obligation:

Businesses join for free. There are no monthly, set up or subscription fees. Businesses only purchase points to reward their customers after they complete the earning activities in their program and they can pay as they go (similar to topping up mobile phone minutes or credits). Each point is US 2.5 cents and points are purchased in lots. A smaller lot of points can be purchased for $11.00 (inclusive of all taxes).

How individuals use mplifyr:

Individuals join for free and can access all incentive programs built on mplifyr. They can also join (or remove themselves from) programs with one mouse click and loyalty cards are not required because individuals only need to recite their username to receive earnings. Individuals can redeem their earnings for item and cash vouchers, points in participating loyalty programs such as hotels and airlines, cash and ‘mystery’ redemptions.

Businesses interested in learning more about mplifyr and a full list of features can visithttp://www.mplifyr.com/business-info.

About SEiiAN Rewards
SEiiAN Rewards builds loyalty program software to help businesses and organizations emotionally engage with their audiences to create loyalty and attract brand advocates. Their USA office is in Houston, Texas and their Australian office is in Sydney, New South Wales.

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The Business Breakthroughs with Blogging Ventures and Social Media Strategies

Individuals, businesses, and even universities are recognizing the value that social media has nowadays. Its free promotional opportunities and personal reviews provided by the public are instilling more trust in brands. Social media can be as simple as posting random ramblings and hoping for a viral effect, but when it doesn't and hasn't, then what?

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PRLog (Press Release) - Mar. 28, 2013 - Authors Lexie Lane and Becky McNeer have just released their first social media book, "The Blogger's Survival Guide." Compiled with their knowledge, trials and errors, and personal experiences, their ultimate goal is to help ease the pain and eliminate missteps that many bloggers have.

Not All Blogs Result in Revenue

Individuals, businesses, and even universities are recognizing the value that social media has nowadays. Its free promotional opportunities and personal reviews provided by the public are instilling more trust in brands. Social media can be as simple as posting random ramblings and hoping for a viral effect, but when it doesn't and hasn't, then what?

Lane and McNeer understand the struggles that many online promoters have and spent a year creating a guide that will help even the most novice blogger and social networker navigate through the internet with time less wasted.  "Many bloggers believe that all they have to do is start writing and their audience will come crawling in. Unfortunately, it isn't the case at all and sometimes it takes a complete wake-up call and the lack of profits to finally realize you're doing something wrong," says Lane.

From the Creator of Blues Clues and Super Why!

A very trusting, parenting icon and blogger, Angela Santomero, known for her creations of the popular television shows, Super Why!, Blues Clues, and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood happily wrote the book's foreword stating, "Lexie and Becky are giving you the keys to the kingdom by writing this no-nonsense book about the tools of the trade, their tricks and tips, and insights from all of their years in blogging."

There are many books and information that are spread throughout the internet that talks about blogging and the various elements that drive its success. Why is "The Blogger's Survival Guide" different? It has all the steps and every important element in the order that bloggers need to pay attention to them, so that any form of confusion can be eliminated.

"The Blogger's Survival Guide" is now available in paperback and eBook versions on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

About the Authors

Lexie Lane, once computer science major/member of the corporate world, is the creator of voiceBoks.com, a popular and well-respected community among the parent bloggers, who love the promotional aspects of the site. Through their blogging journey, many bloggers have looked up to Lane for advice and guidance for their blog's growth.

Becky McNeer, a real estate agent, wife, and mother of 2, and publisher of 2 lifestyle blogs, shows her readers that the goodness in life can still happen even with a busy schedule.

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Business Video Growth Potentials

Business video in the 21st Century is not only essential but a powerful SEO, advertising, communication, marketing, ROI, online, offline, Internet, web and social media promotional sales strategy.

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PRLog (Press Release) - Mar. 29, 2013 - Business video advertising, marketing and promotion is alive and kicking around the world. For decades most CEO's and businesses have relied on their business card, brochure, banners or website to drive awareness, sales, ROI, CTR's and conversions. Business video is fast becoming the the #1 promotional, communication media tool offline and online as with a video it says more in seconds or minutes than any brochure, article or business card can do.

This is true especially if you are a Start-up Business and one recent article headline says: "Stupid" if your a start-up and not have or making a video. www[dot]businessinsider.com/startup-marketing-videos-2013-3

Also another recent article stated most online users 'speed read' content. And if we are all honest, how many times have you read or watched the content you bookmark, favorite or save to your own PC, Tablet or Smartphone? The reality of living in a modern new media technological world is most people are so busy working, tweeting, posting, browsing, tracking, designing websites, being parents, blogging or other social media tasks they have very little time to read a book or article at length. This is where Video can help boost, showcase, advertise and promote your business, talent, services, product or skills effectively and in less time.

Business Video Growth

Each day 100 MILLION Americans watch online video! And by 2014 online video could account for 50% of online traffic. [Infographic: www [dot]business2community.com/b2b-marketing/5-reasons-to-use-video-in-b2b-marketing-infographic-0433089 ]

No business of any Industry or size can afford to ignore such staggering trends or growth in video or business video. Technology of today has placed photo and video firmly in the hands of every company, institution or person with great editing software choices and how-to websites to drive your video local or international.

Apple is aiming to win back Video Editors after Final Cut Pro Editing Software failed to impress loyal professional users who branded Apple as creating a cheap product. Apple has updated Final Cut Pro seven times since 2011 and ready to demonstrate Final Cut Pro is a force of professional editing. [Source: latimes[dot]com business/la-fi-apple-final-cut-20130328,0,2837576.story ] YouTube has recently announced 1 BILLION viewers watch online YouTube videos. And online video is currently the sixth most popular content marketing tactic - but I see video becoming number one by 2020.

Regardless of how, what, where or when you advertise, promote, sell, or present your business, product, service or brand without a video online or offline, locally or international you are leaving sales, growth and consumers on the table to your competitors. If you do not have a website or video take a look at http://www.infogurushop.com and see how you can get YOUR VIDEO online even without a website for less.

Have a great day.

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