Bill McRea

HireMeNow.com fundamentally improves upon the way traditional temporary staffing services are delivered, by moving the business model completely online, and taking advantage of the growing acceptance of video resumes. Companies can post jobs for free and select temporary candidates directly, saving time and money. Job candidates can apply to jobs for free, completing their profile and taking skills tests from the convenience of their homes .

Job candidates can feel like they have no control over what the agency is saying about them, and clients don’t have the benefit of making their own choices about the best candidates to interview from the available pool of job candidates

Lantana, FL (PRWEB) September 20, 2007 — HireMeNow.com, LLC (www.HireMeNow.com) announced today the introduction of the first temporary staffing service where companies and job candidates interact directly, via HireMeNow.com’s website. According to the American Staffing Association, in 2006, U.S. staffing companies generated $72.6 billion in revenue, and employed an average of 3.0 million temporary and contract workers per day.

HireMeNow.com believes it fundamentally improves upon the way traditional temporary staffing services are delivered, by moving the business model completely online, and taking advantage of the growing acceptance of video resumes.

According to Borrell Associates, employers spent an estimated $5.9 billion on online employment sites in 2006. However, currently, no online employment site: 1) is focused solely on temporary jobs, 2) offers the traditional offline staffing model where the temp agency handles payroll, taxes and insurance, and 3) is used directly by companies rather than staffing firms.

“By combining these three essential elements — focusing on temporary jobs, being the employer of record, and eliminating traditional staffing firms — we believe HireMeNow.com leverages the efficiency, scalability, and immediacy of the Internet to offer a service that is better, faster, and less expensive than current offline alternatives, and more attractive than current online models,” said Phillip Thune, Chief Executive Officer of HireMeNow.com. “Our service is truly performance-based, with clients avoiding the traditional online job board model of paying to post jobs, whether the job board helps fill the position or not. With HireMeNow.com, our clients pay nothing to post jobs and only pay us for hours worked by a HireMeNow.com employee.”

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At HireMeNow.com’s website, companies can search and select profiles of candidates from their computer, online, instantly, and with no prior training or required software. Profiles include a standard format of candidate data to make searches less cumbersome, and include relevant skills tests, employment history, education, reference checks, and pictures and video resumes of candidates. Clients can match their requirements with available temporary employees, and set up interviews, request skills tests, and make offers for the candidates they like. Clients have the ability to approve time cards online, eliminating paperwork, and they can pay for HireMeNow.com’s services via their credit cards.

Individuals seeking temporary employment typically sign up with a temporary agency and rely on the agency to find suitable jobs for them. “Job candidates can feel like they have no control over what the agency is saying about them, and clients don’t have the benefit of making their own choices about the best candidates to interview from the available pool of job candidates,” said Allen Bornstein, President/Founder of HireMeNow.com. “Our business model eliminates the middleman role of temporary agencies. Job candidates submit their qualifications on our site via an easy-to-navigate procedure, and can submit a video resume, photo, and written resume, as well as take skills tests to benchmark their qualifications for certain categories of jobs. As a result, a job candidate should not feel as if his or her qualifications are filtered through an agency. Job candidates will deal directly with the hiring companies, and will be able to search HireMeNow.com’s current job postings.

“On the Internet, you can book travel, buy stocks, and find a date … directly, without the help of a travel agent, stockbroker, or matchmaker. And it’s faster, easier, and cheaper when you do it yourself,” continued Bornstein. “We believe the world is ready to find temporary jobs and hire temp/contract workers this way, too … directly, without a traditional temp agency.”

HireMeNow.com is the only job site focused on temporary and contract employment listed by the Department of Labor as an alternative for the DOL’s America’s Job Bank, which closed on July 1. HireMeNow.com continues to allow all job candidates to use its site to post their profiles, including video resumes, for free, and to invite any potential employer to HireMeNow.com to view their profiles, also for free. HireMeNow.com allows job candidates to password protect their profiles, and immediately notifies candidates when their profiles are accessed, and by whom.

About HireMeNow.com
HireMeNow.com (www.HireMeNow.com) combines a self-service online temporary staffing firm with a professional and secure place for job candidates to post personal profiles, including video resumes. At HireMeNow.com, companies seeking temporary help connect directly with workers seeking temporary or contract assignments. Unlike typical job boards, HireMeNow.com fulfills the traditional role of an employment agency, keeping the temporary workers on its payroll, and handling all taxes and insurance. Clients do not have to pay to post jobs; they only pay for hours actually worked by the candidates they find on HireMeNow.com.

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LegalCreation.com Officially Made its Debut Last Month

“LegalCreation.com is the new hybrid standard in law firms combining easy to use technology with professional legal advice and knowledge allowing them to provide a full range of legal services for minimal cost,” says Kevin J Pratt: Attorney, cpa, Co-Founder of LegalCreation.com and Georgia State University Professor.

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) September 19, 2007 — LegalCreation.com, a web accessed law office which facilitates providing legal services online at below market rates, officially made its debut last month.

“LegalCreation.com is the new hybrid standard in law firms combining easy to use technology with professional legal advice and knowledge allowing them to provide a full range of legal services for minimal cost,” says Kevin J Pratt: Attorney, CPA, Co-Founder of LegalCreation.com and Georgia State University Professor.

The fact that 50 percent of Americans choose not to hire a lawyer for some important legal matters suggests a more affordable option is needed…Our goal is to be the legal solutions provider of choice

LegalCreation.com allows you to request online the preparation of a wide range of legal services and documents which are typically filed with courts or government agencies–from Georgia LLC’s and Incorporations to Wills and living Wills, deeds, contracts, leases, and small claims — for about one-tenth the cost of what a traditional law firms would charge. Is this a statement meant to imply that most lawyers gouge their clients in fees? “No, it just means that some legal services, if done more efficiently, can be completed faster, more accurately, and at a fraction of the costs it takes a typical attorney or law firm with less experience. Efficiency is gained by allowing the initial contact with the attorney to occur via the internet.

“The fact that 50 percent of Americans choose not to hire a lawyer for some important legal matters suggests a more affordable option is needed…Our goal is to be the legal solutions provider of choice,” says Ladan Pratt: Co-Founder of LegalCreation.com.

The Clients of LegalCreation.com, a division of Kevin J. Pratt PC,’s have used its services to draw up wills for as little as $95 vs. the $650 and more you might pay a traditional attorney who charged you $220 an hour, or to incorporate their businesses for $195 plus state fees, compared to the estimated $1,369 a typical law firm might charge, again, using a typical attorney’s bill rate of $220-per-hour rate as an estimate. But money isn’t all that matters to LegalCreation.com clients; efficient services also matters. That’s what sold Richard O. he paid $495 for his 1031 Tax deferred exchange that he requested from his living room in 15 minutes. Not bad, considering he stands to defer taxes of over $45,000.00.

LegalCreation.com is an extremely helpful tool that gives all Americans the opportunity to leverage their rights and get what they legally deserve…at least that is the idea,” said Stefano Grossi Director of GrossiWeb an Atlanta web marketing firm, who redesigned the site from scratch three separate times to insure maximum simplicity, security, and accessibility for users.

It takes just a few minutes to complete the questions online. The responses provided will then be reviewed by an experienced attorney. The Georgia attorneys and staff will then draft the required documents and cause the required documents to be filed with the United States, State, or County, or delivered to the Client, as the particular matter requires.

If the attorney work product is to be sent to the client directly, it can be sent via Fed Ex, US mail, or E-mail, as they select. This in fact is the LegalCreation.com competitive edge, highlighted Pratt, referring to the fact that almost all online competitors are not attorneys, and Most attorneys are not yet delivering legal services via the internet.

As for the non-attorney companies which claim to provide legal documents without practicing law, most States have already stated that drafting documents for a fee, and creating Incorporations or a Limited Liability Company (LLC) for another person is practicing law. At Legalcreation.com “we want our users, our clients, to know that we have the authority, training, education, knowledge, license, and experience to provide the requested legal services correctly and efficiently, at a reasonable cost, period!”

“It was like filling out an application for work. It was just really easy. I went through the steps. It took me maybe about 10 minutes to fill it out. I sent it back to the attorneys at Legalcreation.com. It was really simple,” said new Georgia Incorporation business owner, and Legalcreation.com client Steve C., “and the best part was when I had a question they were only a friendly phone call away to help me complete the process.”

One nice thing about the LegalCreation.com service is that you don’t have to pay until you’re finished providing the information and have submitted the request. That means you can get the experience of trying it out for free. You can see how easy it is for free. Really, you point click, answer some questions, and you have an attorney, and entire law firm looking out for your rights and protecting your assets.

While LegalCreation.com is initially focusing on the Georgia legal services market, look for them to expand into more states in 2008. They currently have two offices in Atlanta for those of you who still prefer to do things the old fashioned way at a Bricks and Mortar Law Firms.

LegalCreation.com
Gwinnett County
3461 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Rd.
Suite D
Suwanee, GA 30024
(770)614-4811

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Social Commerce has arrived. Shopit is a free Social eCommerce network which enables users to build their own storefront, customize it, then link it with profiles in multiple social networks without ever leaving the community.

Our network is designed to provide a simple channel to buy, sell and trade anywhere on the internet for free. Our tools bring commerce to the user at no cost and that’s the way it should be.

Los Angeles, CA. (PRWEB) September 18, 2007 — Social Commerce has arrived. Shopit is a free Social eCommerce network which enables users to build their own storefront, customize it, then link it with profiles in multiple social networks without ever leaving the community. Users can manage one commerce profile, and can dynamically make changes and updates to their products and services on hundreds of sites.

Shopit is for every seller. From the artist looking to sell their music and merchandise on blogs and social networks, to the eBay ‘PowerSeller’ who wants to harness the viral marketing power of social media with their Catalog.

The Platform
Shopit provides a simple, fast, secure and reliable transaction platform that enables efficient selling and trading of products and information. Products and services can be directly linked and embedded, from a Shopit store to any site, including popular sites like MySpace, LiveJournal, Xanga, FaceBook, Friendster, blogger and many more.

Shopit’s Peer Social Commerce platform provides identity management/security features, shipping management, and the moderation of content published by its users.

“We believe Shopit is a great example of the latest evolution in eCommerce – Peer Commerce in Social Settings,” stated Matt Hill, the company’s CEO and Co-Founder. “Our network is designed to provide a simple channel to buy, sell and trade anywhere on the internet for free. Our tools bring commerce to the user at no cost and that’s the way it should be.” No cost means no transaction fees and no listing fees.

“MeCommerce,” as Hill calls it, “will definitely compete with what is otherwise a costly, complicated and time consuming process.”

Shopit’s free service is compatible with over 500 social networks, Blogs and sites. The service also supports communication with LinkedIn and Plaxo, eBay, Craigslist and Yahoo Stores.

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The company plans to launch its music and media download service in the coming weeks. “Selling music, movies and merchandise from the same widget is something every ‘social seller’ should have the power to do,” says Hill.

About Shopit:
Shopit is a free Social Commerce Peer Network that allows users to download from existing online sales channels (eBay, Craigslist, amazon, Yahoo) and then mass syndicate via social networks. Users simply build a store and Shopit provides the tools to promote, sell or trade products and services via a widget. The widget and its listings can be embedded in blogs, sites, emails or instant messages. The Shopit universe can be as big as the user’s online circle of influence and managed via the central Shopit online store where Shopit manages transactions, payments and dynamic updates to the widget. Shopit is venture backed and based in Los Angeles, CA. More information may be found at www.shopit.com.

For PR inquires:
Cameron Casey
310.987.7970
info(at)shopit.com

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Vertex Internet hosts encore presentation of its popular “RSS for Business” webinar.

Lititz, PA (PRWEB) September 17, 2007 — Vertex Internet, a web application development company near Lancaster, PA, announced today that it is hosting an encore presentation of its “RSS for Business” webinar. The webinar, hosted by david Armstrong, ECommerce Specialist for Vertex Internet, was the first in Armstrong’s ECommerce Webinar series and was previously held in August. However, due to many requests, he is hosting another session on Thursday, September 20, at 1:00 EST. Participants may register at RSS for Business.

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armstong says, “RSS is on everyone’s mind. Every company knows that RSS is something they must integrate into their ECommerce strategy in order to remain competitive, yet few people truly understand what RSS is and what effect it can have on their business.”

Conversion Roadmap – Turning Visitors into Customers

“RSS for Business” is an insightful webinar that covers the basics of RSS. Participants will learn what RSS is, how to integrate it into their overall marketing strategy, and how to use it to expand their marketing reach. RSS is powerful technology that is being used by millions of people already as it gives them the control over what content they view. If you are not using this technology, your message is not being seen by a large percentage of your audience.

Upcoming sessions of Vertex Internet’s ECommerce Webinar series include “Conversion Roadmap – Turning Visitors into Customers”, “Implementing Viral Marketing Techniques”, and “How to Decentralize your Content and Products”.

Armstong may be reached directly at 717.627.4528 x 330.

About Vertex Internet:
Vertex Internet is a web applications development and web hosting company that creates, develops, and hosts e-commerce sites that are optimized for search engines and visitor interaction. The company hosts over 1,000 websites and manages 30 web servers. Based in historic downtown Lititz, PA the company was founded in 1996. To learn more, please visit www.vertex.net.

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October encourages entrepreneurs to use self-promotion to get the word out.

Albany, NY (PRWEB) September 16, 2007 — Many small business owners are trying to get noticed. According to one public relations professional, with a little time and hard work, many entrepreneurs and small business owners can use self-promotion and publicity to reach their target market.

“Self-Promotion month gives business owners a little push to inform others about their business in a different way,” says Shannon Cherry, APR, a public relations expert. “Entrepreneurs can work in a wide variety of fields, but they all can use self-promotion to get more customers.”

Since October is National Self-Promotion Month, Cherry thinks it’s the perfect time to begin creating a publicity campaign for any business.

Cherry is the founder and president of cherry communications (www.cherrycommunications.com), and its subsidiary Be Heard Solutions (www.beheardsolutions.com). She uses her expertise to help small business owners become the recognized expert in their field through media relations. A former journalist and TV reporter, Cherry has designed numerous public relations strategies for large and small companies, as well as entrepreneurs.

She offers the following ideas to create buzz through self-promotion:

1)   Public Speaking – “Speaking in front of an audience gives you credibility as an entrepreneur. People will associate a name and face to your business,” says Cherry.

2)   Develop Partnerships – “Introduce yourself to other small business owners who have the same target audience. Offer to promote them if they do the same for you,” she says. This type of partnership helps create long-term alliances.

3)   Write Articles -”Make the articles informative, but keep them short,” Cherry explains. They can be shared as information for potential customers, both online and offline.

Cherry offers additional publicity and self-promotion tactics in her free report, Be The Big Fish. Go to www.beheardsolutions.com/pop.htm to receive a copy.

For more information, contact Shannon Cherry at 518.248.6592 or email info @ cherrycommunications.com.

contact:
Shannon Cherry
518-248-6592
pr @ cherrycommunications.com

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