The Search Monitor (“TSM”), an online monitoring service that tracks competitive advertising activity on paid and organic search, blogs, forums, news, and web sites, announces its release of a new affiliate tracking software that identifies affiliate marketers who are sponsoring paid search results pages.

This powerful new tool is the first and only way for internet marketers to gain insight into the scope, strength, and breadth of their competitor’s affiliate programs. The Search Monitor is able to identify affiliates who deploy direct linking tactics and affiliates who manage and operate individual web sites.

Uses for this new tool include:

Measurement of the reach and strength of competitors’ affiliate programs on paid search.
Policing affiliates for compliance with affiliate program terms of use.
Identification of competitor’s affiliates for potential recruitment opportunities.
“Affiliate programs are a smart way to gain maximum exposure on paid search,” says Troy Lerner of The Booyah Agency. “By using affiliate programs as a tactic in our arsenal, our clients can own more page real estate on SERPs. We like the new reports from The Search Monitor because it gives us incredible insight as to where our affiliate efforts are strong and where we need to focus more time. Our clients love it because it enables them to build strength in numbers, while at the same time protecting their brands from misuse by affiliate marketers.”

“We are excited to bring this information about the affiliate channel to internet advertisers and their agencies,” says Lori Weiman, CEO of The Search Monitor. “We are a strong supporter of affiliate marketing as a powerful way to optimize online advertising in a controlled and deliberate way”

The Search Monitor offers important information that can only be gained by careful 24×7 automated monitoring, and surfaces the information in 3 easy to use reporting sections:

Competitor Monitor gives insights into competitive bidding strategies, competitor market share and visibility, ranking on sponsored search, ad copy strategies, and promotions like free shipping, trials, or sales.
Trademark Monitor eases the tasks associated with reputation management by auto-detecting advertisers sponsoring branded keywords, use of trademarks and slogans in ad copy and display urls, and negative, positive, and neutral brand buzz on blogs, news, and web sites.
Affiliate Monitor simplifies oversight of affiliate programs by auto-identification of affiliates using sponsored search to detect violations of rank requirements, keyword restrictions, ad copy requirements or restrictions, and landing page copy requirements or restrictions.
Search engine marketing has become a critical component for advertisers. According to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), North American advertisers spent $12.2 billion on SEM in 2007 and that figure is estimated to more than double to reach $25.2 billion by 2011. The Search Monitor was developed to provide the tools necessary to optimize the sizable investments being made in this medium and to protect brands from competitive threats.

About The Search Monitor
The Search Monitor is comprised of a team of SEM enthusiasts who uncovered a need in the market for external automated monitoring of competitive activities on paid and organic search, shopping engines, web sites, blogs, social media, and press coverage. Automated monitoring is important for reputation management as it greatly reduces the number of hours and effort required to manage affiliates and competitors infringing on brands and misrepresenting products across the web. Further, automated monitoring reveals competitive marketing strategies that enable advertisers to benchmark their own performance, optimize ad budgets, detect successful ad copy combinations, and receive advance awareness of special offers like free shipping and sales dominating their verticals. The Search Monitor is offered as a web based subscription service. To learn more please visit www.thesearchmonitor.com.

About The Booyah Agency
Based in Colorado, The Booyah Agency is a full-service Online Marketing & Advertising team packaged in a boutique firm. Armed with a funny name, these former big-agency veterans drive strategy and deliver results more quickly and affordably than the big guys. We’re experts in fundamentals and best practices with a passion for discovering the newest techniques that keep our clients ahead. Clients include Mapquest, Vitamin Shoppe, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Gaiam, Tower Records and Little Tikes.

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Post to Twitter and Search Realtime Web Directly From Firefox Address Bar

The partnership with OneRiot is a natural fit because OneRiot search delivers exactly what Twitter users are looking for – the hottest and most shared news, videos and blogs on the web today. 

Boulder, CO and San Francisco, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 20, 2009 — OneRiot, the realtime web search engine, today announced that it will be the exclusive search provider for TwitterBar, one of Firefox’s most popular and recommended add-ons. TwitterBar is one of many services to recently join the new OneRiot Realtime Search Partner Program which offers developers access to the company’s API.

TwitterBar, a straightforward service that allows users to send Twitter updates directly from the Firefox address bar, opted for search powered by OneRiot to enhance the user experience by adding realtime web search capabilities. This integration enables TwitterBar users to explore the realtime web for any topic and immediately share their findings on Twitter without navigating away from their current web page. Download TwitterBar for free from the Firefox Add-On Gallery here: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4664

“I am impressed with OneRiot’s fresh search results and wanted to give users a way to find the top content from the social web to tweet about from TwitterBar,” said Christopher Finke, author of TwitterBar. “The partnership with OneRiot is a natural fit because OneRiot search delivers exactly what Twitter users are looking for – the hottest and most shared news, videos and blogs on the web today.”

About OneRiot API and Realtime Search Partner Program:

The OneRiot API is for developers of browser add-ons, desktop applications, social websites and other services looking to enhance their user experience with realtime web search powered by OneRiot. The OneRiot API is free and available by request. For more information about the API or the OneRiot Realtime Search Partner Program, please contact Jayson Ayers at jayers (at) oneriot (dot) com.

About OneRiot:

Launched in November 2008, OneRiot is a realtime search engine. Users search with OneRiot to find the news, videos and blogs that are people are buzzing about right now on the social web. Uniquely, OneRiot delivers search results as they emerge, ordered to reflect current social relevance. OneRiot is a privately held company headquartered in Boulder, Colo. with offices in San Francisco. For more info, please follow OneRiot at www.oneriot.com / twitter.com/OneRiot / blog.oneriot.com

Contact:
Courtney Walsh
Director of PR, OneRiot
303.938.3054

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Munich, 2008 — amiando, the leading tool for online event organization in Europe, today announced plans to implement Facebook Connect to boost the power of amiando ViralTickets, its recently released social promotion system for events.

“Events are the most important social happening. Therefore we will use Facebook Connect to let event organizers and their guests enjoy, recommend and promote events within the social context of their real identity and friendships on Facebook®. ”, said Felix Haas, CEO of amiando.

The key feature of amiando’s implementation of Facebook Connect will focus on boosting the power of amiando ViralTickets, the recently released social promotion system for events. ViralTickets enables event organizers to leverage the internet’s viral effects for their event marketing. Using word-of-mouth marketing they can sell significantly more tickets with less marketing effort.

Facebook users will be able to easily recommend their favorite events to friends and colleagues. Using ViralTickets, they can offer an exclusive discount to their contacts and will also be rewarded with a referral bonus themselves. This makes recommending and promoting events fun, easy and highly rewarding for all sides – guests, friends and event organizers. Facebook gives everyone the power to share with the people they care about making the world more open and transparent. When Facebook users log in to amiando with Facebook Connect, they are able to publish their actions back on Facebook, which enables them to share more information with their friends than ever before.

About amiando amiando is the leading tool for online event organization in Europe and makes professional event organization easy. It offers online-based tools for invitation management, ticketing and community building for every kind of event. All tools are easy-to-use and have a convenient pay-as-you-go pricing.

amiando’s award-winning tools are being used throughout Europe, US and Asia for organizing more than 50,000 events. Thousands of organizers worldwide are choosing amiando to manage their events online. amiando, a Red Herring 100 Europe 2008 Winner, is backed by renowned venture capital company Wellington Partners.  http://www.amiando.com 

amiando – the simplest way of organizing events.

With more than 50,000 events per year amiando is the leading tool for online event organization in Europe. Invitation management, online promotion, participant registration with integrated invoicing and entrance control – with amiando organizers are able to manage all processes comfortably and independently at any time. Additional services for networking as well as an individual event micro site round of the offer of amiando.  Product  Within minutes event organizers are creating a free website for their event. With the integrated ticket shop the participants are able to comfortably register online for the event. amiando is taking over the handling of payments, invoicing and shipment of the individually designed tickets. In July 2008 amiando was introducing ViralTicketing, a world premiere in the field of online event organization: ViralTicketing is the first event promotion system that is combining the powerful principle of word-of-mouth advertising and recommendation management in the internet for every event organizer.

The easy system is usable for every organizer without extra charge: after ticket purchase the participants receive a code which they can distribute to friends and colleagues. This incentive is the main attraction: for every canvassed customer the agent is getting a bonus and the newly recruited customer is receiving a discount.

Organizers are able to manage all processes comfortably and independently at any time, however a toll free telephone number is provided in the language of your country. By now amiando is available in four different languages (English, Spanish, German, French) and supporting organizers worldwide with the planning of their events.

Moreover, for a simple entrance management amiando is providing a free software called EasyEntry with which organizers are able to check the validity of the tickets with a standard webcam.

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iGiki, an established leader in iPhone applications, announces the launch of iGiki Apps, an all-new service offering a collection of tools transforming the way the world creates iPhone applications. Empowering non-technical people to plan, develop, and market iPhone applications on the Apple App Store while reducing costs and eliminating errors.

New York, NY — iGiki announces the launch of iGiki Apps, an all-new service offering a collection of tools transforming the way the world creates iPhone applications. iGiki Apps empowers non-technical people to plan, develop, and market iPhone applications on the Apple App Store while reducing costs and eliminating errors. At launch iGiki Apps will offer 3 core products; the Apps Maps System, an iPhone Professionals Marketplace, and an iPhone Knowledge database. More information is available on http://igikiapps.com.

The primary product offering is Apps Maps, a creative environment to envision iPhone applications and create concepts. Non-technical people can quickly and simply create concepts, share them with others, and have professionals bring the concepts to life. Technical people can use Apps Maps to their advantage as well, by planning out applications before designing and coding. Simple to understand knowledge on iPhone applications is built right into Apps Maps.

Apps Maps includes hundreds of iPhone user interface and programming elements to allow in-depth concepts of iPhone applications (http://igikiapps.com) to be created. In addition elements can be uploaded from a user’s computer or from a website allowing for endless possibilities.

Apps Maps includes dozens of iPhone Native App templates, which are for applications distributed through the Apple App Store and iPhone Web App templates, which are for applications made available on a website.

Application concepts can be edited in Apps Maps. Concepts can also be posted to someone’s personal and secure Apps Maps Gallery on the web for sharing and working with colleagues, developers, or others. Concepts can be exported to an interactive PDF for storing or emailing, or used on the iGiki Apps iPhone Marketplace.

The iPhone Marketplace is the only online professional services marketplace devoted to iPhone application development. Concepts can be created in Apps Maps (http://igikiapps.com) and shown to dedicated iPhone professionals around the world to receive accurate quotes and work with them. Finding a qualified professional is quick and easy since their portfolio of iPhone work can be quickly and visually evaluated via iGiki App’s Visual View technology.

iPhone applications represent a tremendous opportunity. Succeeding in this fast moving market requires understanding about planning an app, developing it, and marketing it. iGiki Apps provides a database of knowledge in a non-technical fashion to help people succeed.

iGiki Apps comes from iGiki, a leader in iPhone applications. A little more than a year ago, iGiki drew the attention of the iPhone community when it announced the first third party iPhone applications. iGiki realized non-technical people were interested in offering iPhone applications but lacked the ability to effectively do so; with this in mind, it set out to make available a comprehensive set of tools to allow them to make an iPhone application regardless of technical ability, budget, or experience.

“At iGiki Apps, we want to help the people that have innovative ideas for iPhone applications but do not have the resources, knowledge, or budget to bring these ideas to reality,” said E. Rose of iGiki Apps. “We expect that our comprehensive set of tools including Apps Maps will empower and inspire these people to participate in the iPhone market.”

iGiki Apps will be launching in the summer of 2008. Pricing and availability information will be announced shortly, in addition to other yet-to-be revealed features of Apps Maps. For additional information on iGiki Apps and to be notified when it launches please visit http://igikiapps.com.

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theprintspace has extended their groundbreaking ‘DIY’ photographic printing process to the web. theprintspace.com will be the first online service to incorporate an easy to use professional colour management process. The result – enabling accurate soft proofing of images by clients on their own systems using bespoke print profiles, meaning prints that are as accurate as possible – first time! The process is explained in easy-to-follow video tutorials filmed exclusively by theprintspace, making theprintspace.com the first specialist professional photographic printing lab to utilise the web 2.0 spirit of innovation to its full potential.

London, England — theprintspace has extended their groundbreaking ‘DIY’ photographic printing process to the web. theprintspace.com will be the first online service to incorporate an easy to use professional colour management process. The result – enabling accurate soft proofing of images by clients on their own systems using bespoke print profiles, meaning prints that are as accurate as possible – first time! The process is explained in easy-to-follow video tutorials filmed exclusively by theprintspace, making theprintspace.com the first specialist professional photographic printing lab to utilise the web 2.0 spirit of innovation to its full potential.

theprintspace originated as Europe’s first walk-in DIY professional photographic printing lab. Launched in October 2007 and based in Shoreditch, theprintspace occupies two floors of a 4000sq foot area comprising of exhibition space, for-hire retouching and scanning booths, and large format printers. Since its opening, theprintspace has enjoyed acclaim from both industry professionals and clients alike.

Theprintspace philosophy is to equip the customer with the knowledge and resources necessary to get creative with high-spec professional imaging equipment (www.theprintspace.com/help/Studio.aspx) – which would usually only be accessible by the staff of a pro-lab. Until now, it has been impossible for photographers to have such unbridled control over their images, with a full range of professional print types, from digital C-Type archival prints to Epson Giclees and CYMK proofs. No website has ever made color management so accurate, so professional and yet so accessible and easy to use. In presenting a web interface for its famous creative print process, theprintspace.com acts like a professional standard, fully colour-managed print studio on your desktop.

At theprintspace guidance is available at every stage; from online articles to face-to-face consultations from in-house colour management and print technicians. A key feature of the website is the colour management and profiling tutorials (www.theprintspace.com/Content/colourmanagement.aspx), which are available to stream (www.youtube.com/theprintspace) or download from the website. Offering step-by-step instructions on subjects ranging from monitor calibration to building colour profiles and soft-proofing at home, theprintspace.com will enable users at any level to learn more about colour management.

As well as Epson Giclee (inkjet) prints, theprintspace offer affordable digital C-Type prints (www.theprintspace.com/Content/printtypes.aspx), which are genuine wet lab prints exposed by a real photographic process. theprintspace’s digital C-type professional photographic prints are produced on a Chromira, which is a professional quality, colour-managed, high resolution print device producing exhibition quality archival prints suitable for the professional art market on Fuji Crystal Archive & Kodak Professional paper. The machine prints up to 30” wide, and up to 50 metres long. Alternatively, Epson (inkjet) prints are from the recently released 880 range using Epson’s new Vivid Magenta inkset, exclusive to the range. These ‘Giclee’ prints are printed on professional art papers, such as Hanhemuhle Photorag, Pearl, and Epson Gloss and Semi-gloss. The Epson prints up to 60” wide by 30 meters long.

A straightforward web ordering process allows clients to send disks to the lab or to upload digital files directly via a built-in secure file transfer system. Once received, print turnover is unparalleled. Instead of waiting days for digital prints, files can be transferred, printed, and returned within 72 hours. Theprintspace also offer an in-house mounting service, to exhibition standard on a choice of materials.

The team behind theprintspace.com are no strangers to the demands of the photographic industry, having run retouching and ‘prolab’ printing businesses in London for the past three years. In creating theprintspace, MD Stuart Waplington says, “We wanted to do something different, something that would empower photographers & creatives – really give them tools they need.”

As Dominic Apa, Public Relations Officer explains:

“theprintspace.com is very much a response for what we saw as a need for a democratisation of the top-level of digital printing. With more and more people becoming familiar with Photoshop and an increasing number of photographers even retouching their own work, people simply needed the ability to access the resources which until now had only been avaiable to a very select few. Just as we have made our colour profiles available for download, we have attempted with theprintspace.com to open up our systems to become platforms for user innovation. theprintspace is about enabling our clients to have full creative control over every aspect of their work, from start to finish, while providing guidance and assistance when it is appropriate.”

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Record both audio and high-quality video to compressed mpeg4 format, upload video to Youtube from iPhone.

May 12, 2008 — DreamCatcher today announces the release of iPhone Video Recorder, a powerful iPhone oriented video recorder. iiPhone Video Recorder is a powerful iPhone oriented video recorder produced by DreamCatcher. iPhone Video Recorder records audio and video to the compressed mpeg4 format, so the recording is space saving, an-hour-high-quality recording will be a file as small as 60MB. iPhone Video Recorder boasts a frame rate up to 15fps which guarantees better recording performance. With iPhone Video Recorder, recording is easy and enjoyable, you may play back the video, download it to a computer, upload to Youtube, or send it out by email as you wish.

Because of the CPU overhead, iPhone Video Recorder encodes at the end of a recording session, and the encoding can be paused anytime and then resumed when you are convenient. It is possible to record on-the-fly, the sound is good, yet the frame rate will suffer. Besides, we offer some important settings which are configurable, such as the audio input amplifier and the video size mode settings. You can also customize the image quality, the brightness and the audio bit rate options.

We are going to update this app as iPhone firmware upgrades, and it will be made to smoothly run on 3G iPhone. We are also preparing for listing in AppStore. Registered users are entitled to permanent free upgrades.

* “Awesome work on the iPhone Video Recorder. It works really well and its great to see someone put our a smooth video recording app for iPhone.” – jmso

* “Cool! I’m indeed one of those who found it ludicrous that Apple did not include recording features on the iPhone. At $19.95, I think it’s a small price to pay considering I almost NEED this feature (for my own purposes).” – Kat Marion

iPhone Video Recorder works on iPhone firmware 1.1.x, 1.2.x, 2.0. A limited-functional trial version (recording up to 30 seconds) can also be downloaded from this web site http://www.iphonevideorecorder.com.

DreamCatcher Software Co., Ltd., set up in 2007, specializes in developing and marketing iPhone related software.

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eTech Parts, LLC has officially released their new website assisting end users with electronics repairs. eTech Parts supplies thousands of Do-It-Yourself repair kits at fantastic pricing. Product lines include repair parts for iPods, iPhones, Apple Laptop Computers (including MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, MacBook, PowerBook and iBook) with new programs coming online within the next several weeks. Among those are programs for Cell Phone and Blackberry support, PDA parts, and parts for most gaming system consoles including XBOX and popular Sony Consoles.

Olathe, Kansas May 10, 2008 — eTech Parts, LLC (www.eTechParts.com) has officially released their new website assisting end users with electronics repairs. eTech Parts supplies thousands of Do-It-Yourself repair kits at fantastic pricing.

http: www.etechparts.com

Product lines include repair parts for iPods, iPhones, Apple Laptop Computers (including MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, MacBook, PowerBook and iBook) with new programs coming online within the next several weeks. Among those are programs for Cell Phone and Blackberry support, PDA parts, and parts for most gaming system consoles including XBOX and popular Sony Consoles.

“We’ve been in business providing dealers with wholesale pricing and bulk orders. After assessing the market and looking at the competition, we’ve found that there are thousands of end users with the ability to perform repairs in their home on their own electronics.” Said Kyle Baccus, Co-Owner & Director of Operations. “We are helping the customers that are willing to take on a repair themselves while allowing them to get it done as inexpensively as possible. Our new website is a breeze to navigate and finding your repair part with our drill down menus is easy.”

eTech Parts is currently developing downloadable instruction packages for each repair part they sell. This will further assist each customer with the installation and use of the parts purchased.

eTech Parts doesn’t stop there. They also have a full line of Gold Series refurbished iPods available at excellent pricing. They run advanced diagnostics on each hard drive (when applicable) and suspect units are recycled. The iPods have little or no physical signs of use, and each comes with a new set of headphones, charging cable and a 90 day warranty. It’s a great way to join in the iPod craze without paying retail prices. In fact, they give each customer a 30 day return window with no restocking fees. You can’t even get that from Apple, Inc. Customers view their refurbished iPods at: http://www.etechparts.com/category_s/130.htm

In fact, it’s eTech Parts company policy to NEVER charge a restocking fee if an item is returned within their 30 day return period. This applies to their refurbished iPods and every part they sell. This is a great benefit and gives each customer the peace of mind that they are making the right decision.

About eTech Parts

Based on a gold standard for customer service, www.eTechParts.com is your one-stop repair parts shop with support for all makes and models of iPods, iPhones and Macintosh Portable Systems, Cell Phones & Gaming Consoles.

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In the world of Listbuilding, it’s as if Yahoo and Google decided to work together on a search engine: Internet Marketing Master Shawn Casey and his student, Listbuilding Jedi Tellman Knudson, are bringing their “forces” together to create the ultimate Listbuilding course to help new entrepreneurs conquer their fears and build their own ‘robotic moneymaking machines.’

Brattleboro, VT April 20, 2008 — It’s like a scene from Star Wars, the one we all wanted to see: where Luke Skywalker joins up with Obi Wan Kenobi and they put their lightsabers together and team up to side-by-side against Darth Vader to clear the way for the new generation of young Jedi Knights. Shawn Casey, best-selling author of Mining Gold on the Internet, and Tellman Knudson of Overcome Everything, Inc. have teamed up to create what they call the ‘Ultimate Listbuilding course’ — appropriately named after it’s future home on the Internet: Listbuilding.com. It’s purpose, they say, is to help the next generation of entrepreneurs quickly and easily build lucrative businesses online using the most respectable, proven and long-lasting of the internet skills: Listbuilding.

Currently in pre-launch, this giant of a Listbuilding resource is scheduled to launch this spring; and if pre-launch activity is any indication, it’s going to be simply huge. At press time, the services and materials they have distributed free of charge — including step-by-step videos on how to create a site, a 24-hour “Squeeze-A-thon” that helped over 200 business owners get their squeeze pages built, and tell-all reports on how Shawn and Tellman started their own multi-million dollar businesses — have received raving reviews.

Both Casey and Knudson have incredible rags-to-riches stories that prove anyone, no matter where they come from in the universe, can make this work. “I started my company on 50 bucks and a ‘Frankenstein’ computer that was built out of other broken machines and resold,” said Knudson. “The CD drive was hanging out of the front because it didn’t work unless I held it in my hand and shook it, and the fan was so loud I couldn’t make a business call in the same room as my computer.” In his desperate search to make a living online, he accidentally found a copy of Casey’s Mining Gold on the Internet. “At the time, I had no idea who wrote it or what it was really worth” says Knudson, “I was clueless, and going further in the hole each day. But I kept at it, hoping something, someday would work.”

Then, he got Shawn Casey on the phone for just twenty-two minutes–and things changed. “Shawn told me a few things–but one of them was I had to send out these nine emails all in a row, and I didn’t want to do it; but he was ‘the master’–so I did,” says Knudson. Because he trusted his teacher, Knudson made $800,000 in profit that year alone–his first year online. Now he owns a multi-million dollar company with twelve employees, but he’s never forgotten who helped him when he was in need.

Casey, who was practicing law in back in 1995, started in a small, cramped apartment in Pittsburgh during the summer–with no air conditioning in 100 degree conditions. “I was living in an efficiency apartment that had no furniture in it, except for a table, two chairs, and a sofa that the landlord had let me scrounge from the furniture left over from previous tenants that he had piled up in the basement,” said Casey. From this humble beginning, Casey rose to become CEO of a company that made the Inc. 500 list for two years running. Yet, feeling suffocated by the corporate rat race, he wanted something more.

Then he discovered the potential power of direct marketing on the Internet. He applied his expert skills from his corporate days to this new business-form, and quickly became a master of building ‘robotic moneymaking machines’ using the internet as raw material. Today, Casey is a multi-multi-millionaire, who often runs his business while vacationing in the Caribbean (which Obi Wan would certainly have made his headquarters instead of the desert if only he’d known about it).
In all seriousness, both Casey and Knudson live a life that most people only dream of. Tellman now lives in a million dollar mansion in the woods of Vermont and works from home as well.

Casey says their inspiration and goal for this joint project is to teach other people to do the same thing they did–in half the time. The course, which will be released sometime in late April, will follow on the heels of the pre-launch materials out for viewing now, including free training videos, reports and case studies (also on video) of their previous students, who have made their own dreams come true following the advice of “the Marketing Master and the List Building Jedi.”

For more information about their upcoming series of trainings, destined to change the face of Internet Marketing, contact Kyle Battis, Affiliate Manager, or get more information at the ListBuilding.com website at eye-candy.ch

A new online resource helps organizations identify and address root causes of low employee performance, morale, and high turnover issues. Expert advice e-newsletters and development products give managers and business owners the skills needed to tackle workplace trust issues and lead their own team building workshops.

San Diego, Calif. April 23, 2008 — A new website launched by organizational trust leader, TrustWorks Group, Inc., offers expert advice on tackling workplace trust issues and easy-to-use tools for leading team building workshops.

According to Cynthia Olmstead, founder and president of TrustWorks Group, the company’s new e-commerce site and free monthly e-newsletter helps business owners and managers identify an often elusive root cause of employee productivity, morale and high turnover issues.

“Trust is the glue that binds an organization and its members together as a cohesive, functioning entity,” says Olmstead. “Workplace trust issues are often the most difficult issues to identify, but the most important, when addressing overall problems associated with employee satisfaction and productivity.”

To help organizations identify and address these issues, TrustWorks Group offers a series of accessible, easy-to-use products designed to give managers the skills needed to lead their own team building workshops, such as:

Myself As A Trust Builder™
Enables participants to identify their trust-building skills, strengths and areas for improvement. Participants take an assessment with 28 questions based on four core elements of trust.

Leader as Trust Builder™
Having strong, effective skills to build trust in the workplace is recognized as a valuable leadership asset. A self-assessment or a more powerful, confidential 360-degree assessment is at the core of this workshop. Designed for any individual in a leadership position – executives, managers, supervisors – this program addresses the economic impact of trust, as well as how to rebuild eroded trust and move forward with positive results.

Great Teams™
In the TrustWorks! Great Teams workshop, a team quickly discovers what it is doing that contributes to or hinders its effectiveness. The guide explains how to lead the team through assessment, diagnosis and planning for improvement.

PACE™ Palette
Find out how people within an organization prefer to work, take in information and interact with others. This insightful exercise is used by organizations to enhance interpersonal relationships and group effectiveness.

TrustWorks Group also offers a free monthly e-newsletter with expert advice on management issues, industry news, case studies, book reviews and more. Founded in 1987 by Cynthia Olmstead, a leader in organizational change and training, San Diego-based TrustWorks Group, Inc. has transformed the way companies and organizations develop workplace trust. The company’s consultants and educational programs empower employees at all levels to address business challenges, improve leadership and strengthen team productivity. For more information, visit TrustWorksGroup.com.

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Integration Adds Multichannel Order Management Features to Popular Shopping Cart Software

Mission Viejo, CA February 20, 2008 — Early Impact, developer of the ProductCart line of shopping cart software, and Stone Edge Technologies, developer of the Order Manager software for centralized order processing, today announced the integration of the two products, which will allow ProductCart users to license the Order Manager to streamline their order management, especially when handling multiple online storefronts and sales channels.

ProductCart e-commerce software is used by thousands of Internet stores to create and manage professional online storefronts. It combines hundreds of sophisticated features with remarkable ease of use and supports dozens of payment gateways, as well as shipping and marketing systems.

The integration between the two systems will allow Stone Edge customers to take advantage of ProductCart’s unique e-commerce features, such as its Build to Order system for selling complex, customizable products and services over the Internet.

The Stone Edge Order Manager provides a single interface for effective order processing in a multichannel environment, where a company’s Web, mail order, and retail businesses are managed in one shared system. The Order Manager is an ideal solution for managing orders and inventory across multiple, ProductCart-powered e-commerce storefronts, while retaining the branding of each individual store.

“Many ProductCart users take orders over the phone, have a retail location, or run multiple online stores with our shopping cart software. They were looking for a robust solution to consolidate order processing in one place.” said Massimo Arrigoni, CEO of Early Impact. “The integration with the Stone Edge Order Manager addresses this need, helping store managers save time and money while becoming more efficient.”

“With just a few clicks, merchants using ProductCart can now import new orders into the Order Manager, where they have easy access to all the features they need to effectively process and fulfill orders,” said Barney Stone, president of Stone Edge Technologies. “And there is real-time inventory synchronization too: if you sell the last unit of a product in your retail store, or re-stock a sold-out product, those inventory adjustments can be reflected immediately in your ProductCart-powered store.”

ProductCart is available starting at $695 per storefront. The Stone Edge Order Manager is available starting at $1500, which includes one shopping cart license, five workstation licenses, and an extended support contract for the first year.

About Early Impact, Inc.
Early Impact develops e-commerce software for small businesses. Its ProductCart line of shopping cart software is used by thousands of Internet stores around the world. Hundreds of Web design companies have chosen it as their e-commerce system of choice for building online storefronts for their customers. Early Impact is a privately owned California corporation, headquartered in Mission Viejo, CA. For more information about the integration between Early Impact’s e-commerce software and the Stone Edge Order Manager, please visit www.earlyimpact.com/productcart/stoneEdge

About Stone Edge Technologies, Inc.
Stone Edge Technologies is a privately owned developer of affordable e-commerce software for small businesses. Barney Stone, a pioneer of database software for desktop computers, founded the company in 1983. Stone Edge began shipping its flagship Order Manager in 2000. Today more than 2,000 Web merchants use the Stone Edge Order Manager to help streamline their businesses. For more information about Stone Edge and its Order Manager software, please visit www.stoneedge.com

Sources: PRWEB/stoneedge.com

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