Hotel Business Sees Slump During Spring Break

Merrimack, NH (PRWEB) February 22, 2008

As spring break looms and an increased number of travelers decide to rent a timeshare property for the duration of their trip, hotel business continues to see its market dim. Whether the destination is Cancun, Daytona Beach, Las Vegas or anywhere in between, those searching for lodging online are finding a more financially-friendly option at Buyatimeshare.com -- timeshare rental.

"It makes perfect sense from a financial standpoint, especially when you consider that a vast majority of spring breakers are college students on a limited budget," says Wes Kogelman, co-owner of Buyatimeshare.com.

His partner, Jason Hamilton, continues to explain that timeshare resorts are also a good option because of their proximity to local attractions. "The developers know what they're doing. Each property is situated near tourism epicenters of the world, with everything from fine dining and shopping to beaches and nightclubs right outside your door." Most people would be willing to pay more for a great location for their spring break excursion, but Buyatimeshare.com says you don't have to.

Why is renting a vacation property at Buyatimeshare.com so much easier on your wallet? Not only are rental fees lower per week than most hotels, but the pricing is sometimes negotiable. In addition, it is common to see groups of four or more traveling together for the spring break holiday, and splitting the rental fee greatly reduces your individual contribution.

With room for between 4 and sometimes 8 guests, timeshare resort suites are spacious and accommodating. Most are decked out with special features like a television in every room, DVD players, full-scale gourmet-style kitchens, private balconies and split-plan bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms.

"The cost of renting a similarly-equipped hotel room for 7 nights would be an outrageous fortune to most people in general, let alone most students," says Kogelman. "With a timeshare rental, you get all the space you need and the privacy you want, but for a fraction of what you'd expect."

With less of their funds being spent on lodging this year, some students may choose a more exotic locale. "You'd be pleasantly surprised at what you can get for your money when you rent a timeshare, especially in financially-driven spring break locations like Mexico and Hawaii," says Hamilton.

The Royal Caribbean and The Palace Resort, both in Cancun, will likely see a spike in occupancy this year, along with Pueblo Bonito Rose Spa and Resort and The Cabo Villas Beach Resort, both in Cabo San Lucas. Mexico has been a trendy destination for spring break revelers for years, and now even more vacationers will be able to afford a trip south of the border. Another hot spot that will soon be within everyone's reach is Hawaii. Resorts like Marriott's Kauai Beach Club in Kauai and the Royal Hawaiian Adventure Club in Honolulu boast beaches, shops and restaurants steps away, all at relatively frugal prices.

Buyatimeshare.com also showcases vacation properties located in spring break failsafes like Lake Havasu in Arizona, Breckenridge and Vail in Colorado, Daytona, Miami and Orlando in Florida, and Las Vegas, to name a few. "Wherever it is that you want to go, you're guaranteed to find a comfortable, centrally-located, and affordable timeshare for rent at Buyatimeshare.com," states Kogelman.

At prices well below those of local area hotels, you'll find more amenities, a better location, and more private rooms. As the word gets out, occupancy rises, creating welcome competition. Students working with a limited income will soon discover that the trip of their dreams is attainable after all. "This is the way to go as far as anyone's budget is concerned," says Hamilton. "Buyatimeshare.com makes it so easy to search and book spring break listings, you can't afford not to do it."

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Adyen Opens for Business in Latin America

Sao Paulo, Brazil (PRWEB) October 18, 2011

Adyen, the fastest-growing provider of next generation Internet and mobile payment solutions, today announced the opening of a new Latin America office in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Persistent growth in many Latin American markets, coupled with a rising demand for international payment processing makes it an attractive prospect for Adyen, who is now actively seeking additional local and international partners in the region.

Adyens Latin American office will be led by Jean Christian Mies, who joins from Formel D do Brasil, where he was responsible for heading up commercial operations. Adyens expansion into Latin America is a direct result of the companys large customer and partner network, which will support the move. One such customer is Getty Images Latin America, a regional provider of digital content dedicated to creating and distributing a wide variety of material; from royalty-free stock photographs and editorial images to film clips, music and multimedia. In Latin America, Getty Images mission is to provide the widest range of high quality products and services to make its clients jobs easier and more effective. Essential to this streamlined service is an efficient ecommerce platform.

Our website needs to work well and it needs to be simple as our customers usually have very strict deadlines and need images quickly, said Juan Casadoumecq, CFO, Getty Images Latin America. We have worked with Adyen since the beginning of our e-commerce implementation and our clients in the Caribbean, North America, Mexico and Argentina are able to pay and download pictures safely and easily, any time of the day or night, thanks to Adyen.

The pace of e-commerce growth in Latin America has resulted in a number of issues associated with online transactions, when certain payment methods were not supported and non-Latin American banks still handled the bulk of payment processing. Adyen has worked to develop a local offering, with direct connections into multiple acquiring banks in the region, including the likes of Cielo and Redecard, to ensure that these issues have been addressed. Connections have also been established with partners in Peru, Argentina and Chile.

The opening of an office in Latin America is a momentous move for Adyen, explained Roelant Prins, CCO of Adyen. The speed with which people have been taking to the Internet in this part of the world and the pace of economic growth have been particularly striking. We have taken our time to develop a winning proposition and are hiring local professionals with a deep understanding of Latin American markets. We are looking forward to working with new customers and building new relationships in the region.

Adyens payment platform utilizes innovative skin technology to enable customers to seamlessly integrate the payment solution into their website or mobile application. Additionally, the technology drives significantly higher conversation rates by processing payments on a single screen with a single click and features comprehensive fraud control and reconciliation functionalities.

For more information, please visit http://www.adyen.com or on Twitter or LinkedIn.

About Adyen

Adyen is the leading provider of global Internet payment and e-commerce solutions for mid, large and enterprise e-commerce merchants. Adyens revolutionary Internet Payment Solution enables merchant to significantly increase online conversion by optimizing the online payment process. This one-stop solution can be implemented within days and connects companies to global customers through a growing offering of payment methods. To learn more, please go to http://www.adyen.com

Alpharetta Accelerator Launches Aug. 9; "Small Business Incubator on Steroids"

Alpharetta, GA (PRWEB) August 03, 2011

With Georgia leading the nation in new business startups, a new kind of small business incubator will launch with ribbon-cutting ceremonies on Tuesday, August 9, 2011 to serve the need for more and better small-business growth and job creation throughout the state.

The Alpharetta Accelerator has been designed by its principals to offer multiple new services to its clients, unlike other small business incubators. The services include a 75-member Board of Advisors; access to the soon-to-be-established $ 10 million Alpharetta Seed Capital Fund; and preferred access to the Atlanta Gathering of Angels, a group of accredited investors that meets twice monthly. The Gathering of Angels group has found capital for more than 375 young companies since it was founded in 1996 by Tarby Bryant, one of the managing partners of the Accelerator.

The Accelerator will be located at 221 Roswell Street in downtown Alpharetta, Georgia, in what the principals call full service, state-of-the-art and best of breed facilities complete with unlimited free parking and neighborhood amenities. It will comprise the entire first floor of the building which is the headquarters of Staffing Technologies Worldwide, a privately-held $ 60 million international technological staffing company owned by Jim McNabb, another managing partner of the Alpharetta Accelerator.

Seasoned investment banker Christine Kieffer will join Bryant and McNabb as a partner in the Alpharetta Seed Capital Fund. Kieffer, also a member of the Alpharetta Accelerator Board of Advisors, currently serves as managing partner of Concept III International, a private equity business catalyst focused on the areas of high technology, commercial real estate, sports marketing and fine arts.

Bryant, McNabb and Kieffer describe their new venture as a small business incubator on steroids.

We are re-inventing the small business incubator. We are a true accelerator, a cross between a small business incubator, a small, personal Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and a firm like Accenture, Capgemini or Bain & Company. We bring seasoned senior talent with industry specific expertise, convenient working space, seed- and early-stage capital to our clients at a better value than they could get elsewhere, said Bryant, a finance executive with 40 years of deal-making, profit and loss and cash flow experience including as CEO of the Atlanta Economic Development Corporation (AEDC).

What makes us truly unique is the our Board of Advisors, access to capital through our unique connections to the Atlanta Gathering of Angels and the coming Alpharetta Seed Capital Fund. We can help up to 15 companies per year launch successful, young, job-creating and profitable businesses, primarily in the Greater Atlanta area, according to McNabb, whose Staffing Technologies serves clients such as AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, The Home Depot, and Accenture through offices in Atlanta, Dallas, Seattle and Singapore.

We plan to be actively involved with each of our Accelerator clients and their respective management teams. Each client will be assigned five members of the Board, depending on their specific industry expertise and client needs. We hope to be the Cirque de Soleil of small business incubators by reinventing the category and unlocking new, uncontested market space as did Southwest Airlines, NetJets, Yellowtail Wines, Lexus, Bloomberg, Starbucks and The Home Depot, said Bryant.

"I am excited about serving as a partner in the Alpharetta Seed Capital Fund and on the Accelerator's Board of Advisors. This is a great opportunity to be of assistance and guidance to Alpharetta Accelerator clients when they need it most and to give them the benefit of my industry expertise, contacts in the Silicon Valley and my sources of capital worldwide, said Kieffer.

Persons interested in serving on the Accelerators Board of Advisors or participating as clients of the Accelerator should call 678-338-2040 or go to http://www.AlpharettaAccelerator.com for more information.

ABOUT ALPHARETTA ACCELERATOR

Small business incubator located at 221 Roswell Street, Alpharetta, GA. Managing Partners are Tarby Bryant and Jim McNabb. Includes first-class space with unlimited free parking and local amenities as well as access to capital through the Atlanta Gathering of Angels, a 75-member Board of Advisors and their soon-to-be launched $ 10 million Alpharetta Seed Capital Fund. The Fund will invest 75 percent of its money in Alpharetta Accelerator clients and 25 percent in targeted North Atlanta young companies. Positioned as a visionary concept leader in the small business incubator marketspace. See http://www.AlpharettaAccelerator.com (currently under construction).

ABOUT ATLANTA GATHERING OF ANGELS

Formed by Tarby Bryant in 1996, the Atlanta Gathering of Angels brings young companies seeking seed and early stage capital in front of accredited angel investors. The Gathering, which meets twice monthly at The Ravinia Club, has facilitated more than 375 capital fundings from $ 25,000 to $ 12.5 million for companies across all industry sectors. Investments are made by individuals who make their own investment decisions, not with a club or joint approach to investment. See http://www.GatheringOfAngels.com.

ABOUT JIM MCNABB

Jim McNabb, managing partner of the Alpharetta Accelerator, founded the award-winning Staffing Technologies in 1994 in a small Atlanta office. He has grown the business to include additional technology staffing offices in Dallas, Seattle and Singapore representing Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, The Home Depot, and Accenture. McNabb also has launched three new businesses under the $ 60 million Staffing Technologies Worldwide umbrella: Staffing Priorities for temporary clerical staffing, Epoch Medical Staffing and Nine North Consulting for technology projects.

ABOUT TARBY BRYANT

Tarby Bryant, managing partner of the Alpharetta Accelerator, is a 40-year veteran of deal making and finance. He has operated a private angel capital and merchant banking company in New Mexico for 16 years and in Atlanta for 11 years. He formerly served as President and CEO of the non-profit Atlanta Economic Development Corporation and as Chairman and CEO of the National Automobile Association. He currently serves as Chairman and CEO of Sweetwater Capital Corp. and is managing partner of Braemar Group, Ltd., a real estate merchant banking firm. He founded the Gathering of Angels which has facilitated funding for more than 375 small companies since October, 1996.

ABOUT CHRISTINE KIEFFER

Christine Kieffer, partner in the Alpharetta Seed Capital Fund and member of the Board of Advisors of the Alpharetta Accelerator. After graduating from the University of Georgia with a degree in Economics, Kieffer relocated to Silicon Valley where she began her career serving not only the high technology sector but consumer, investment banking and publishing industries, as well. She has led a number of startups from incubation to IPO or successful exits. Kieffer serves as COO and Managing Partner of Concept III International, a private equity business catalyst leveraging public, private and philanthropic capital resources to fund new business development in high technology, entertainment, commercial real estate and sports marketing.

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How to Promote Your Home Business

(PRWEB) April 25, 2006

Paid or unpaid advertising, which is the bet route? Paid advertising is leaps and bounds ahead of unpaid advertising. You may have the best website promoting fabulous products. Without advertising that is all you will have.

It will not gain attention from the customers. Without advertisement, there will be no sales and no revenue. This is the reason why the companies spend millions of dollars over advertisements.

This is what is exciting about the Internet. It levels the playing field so the small business owner can compete with big business. The Homebiz Owner can take advantage of the definite trend for digitalization. This put less constraint on your advertising budget so because, nowadays advertisements that are both inexpensive and expensive are available to your choice and needs.

You can create a domain with an attractive dot.com and file your site to free web directories. This can add great value to the products and services you are offering.

Shared advertisement is very common on the Internet as they appeal to the same target audience. The more advertisers you share with, greater the exposure of your product. This method gives definite benefit as long as you differentiate your product well from the others.

Using banners with good designs can prove effective. Well-designed banners can attract more attention from the customers and provide credibility to the product because here the customers cannot virtually see and feel the product. Advertisement through ezines and blogs can also attraction the attention of the customers to a great extent.

Whichever method you follow, it is essential to see that the advertisements are clear and impressive. It should state all the qualities of the product in a clear and crisp manner to attract the attention of the customers.

The absolute best marketing system on the net bar none is Veretekk. You are given a free Silver Memebership for life with your own portals that you give away. This gives the lead you get from this a high value free gift. The lead become your own unique lead that is double opt inn. You will never have to buy leads again in your life. Here is the link for a free membership http://www.cashking.veretekk.com/

Advertising your home business with Google Adwords

The object to successful advertising is to find method of conveying your information, to as many people as possible, while keeping the cost on the advertising low to begin with. This is the easiest way to generate traffic, and retain your profits. Google Adwords is a great method of getting both of these objectives done and making your site successful. It is very important to try and maintain a low click through cost when trying to target the appropriate customers.

It is no secret that pay per click can really make you business swell with traffic and customers, by placing the highest bid on a keyword, or keywords you can get great page ranking when someone types your keyword into their browser for a search. If you have heard of Google Adwords you will know that it is not really a pay per click search engine, but a very powerful Google tool that can be used as an advertising template. It is said that the largest Internet based network for marketing is indeed Google. It is a global industry and is a very good way to get exposure on the Internet. If you are ever interested in the Google Adwords you can find it on just about every page that Google showcases, their ad can be found in a little rectangle by the organic search results that are free.

The basis premise of the Google Adwords realm is quite simple, the member makes their own advertisement, and then has to bid on a keyword, this key word will then trigger the next step of the process. The next step is where the appearance of the ad can be showcased, to the viewers online. A members site consists of approximately 25 words or characters, this will include spaces so be mindful, it will also allow for a description segment of up to 70 words or characters, again spaces included in the total so you must watch what you are using as description. The great thing about this feature is your site will be posted within just a few minutes of you submitting it to Google. It could even become one of the sites that are sponsored, where they will sit on the right hand column of the search engine pages.

Googles Adwords runs a little differently than the standard pay per click programs, it is not entirely based on the bid you place on the keyword. It has other factors pencilled into the equation, such as the click through rate x the cost per click. This in turn dictates what your page ranking will be in the end of the ratio. You will need a steady flow of traffic to your site prior to this method to be effective, so it is best to get a good game plan in motion.

There are many fashions of payment these days that can accommodate just about everyone. Allowing for multiple payment options will boost sales and traffic to your product is to. Anyone who limits the acceptable payment methods to a mere few can easily be losing business and in turn losing money.

The method of paying by credit card is by far the biggest payment method going right now, with over 90% of all sales coming this way. It is clear and by far the most used method of payment, and a company would be ill advised to eliminate that fashion of payment from their options. It is not a difficult chore to set up your site to accept credit card payments; actually it is much easier than you think. There is a new contender in the payment option ring today; this payment method is the Pay Pal account.

This handy account has a completely revamped system that has eliminated all the quirks and bugs of its previous version, and is now very simple to use. This great tool is very safe for the transfer of funds to you, so there is minimal worry by the client. It also has a very good tracking system in place to protect you as well as the clients themselves.

Again this is not the only contender in the ring, as the debit card seems to gain momentum. It is said that this will be the vehicle of fund transfer for the future; clearly it is here to stay. It would not be advisable for any business owner to exclude these payment methods off their list. Toll free number and order forms still find their way into this option list of payment, as they have been reliable in the past and easy to keep track of. This is what is known as an offline transaction.

When it comes down to it, the idea of business is not to merely get by it is to succeed. If you limit yourself you are opening the door for the competition to succeed and in turn shut you down. After all, a sale is still and always will be a sale.

Hombizoppsonline.ws is an online Work from Home directory created by Shaun McClelland to meet the needs of the financially broken work force. To view all the different opportunities available to establish a second income visit http://2-b.us/?i=28285/homebiz

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First Mac OS 'Hybrid Web App' for Business to be Previewed at Macworld '08

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) January 14, 2008

Ntractive LLC announced today it will begin previewing a new type of business computer application here at the Macworld Conference and Expo, January 14-18 (Booth #W-4524). The firm's first product, Elements SBM (small business manager) for the Mac OS, is a unique "Hybrid Application" combining flexibility with unprecedented ease of use.

"Until now, this hybrid approach has only been available in the consumer world - Apple iTunes