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Jan Kaplan, a successful entrepreneur from Florida, has contracted with SearchMarketMe for training and support in opening an internet marketing agency. Having built and sold seven different businesses, he immediately understood the desirability and scalability of the SearchMarketMe internet marketing business opportunity compared to internet marketing franchises. Kaplan becomes SearchMarketMe's 111th Agency Owner.

Seattle, Washington and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (PRWEB) April 03, 2012

Having built and sold seven different businesses, Jan Kaplan knows what to look for in an opportunity - and he found it in SearchMarketMe.

No stranger to success, Kaplan saw the growth occuring in internet marketing, and the massive shift in corporate expenditures away from traditional media and into online channels. As he investigated how he could position himself in the best possible way to be successful in internet marketing, he found SearchMarketMe, and immediately understood the desirability and scalability of the SearchMarketMe internet marketing business opportunity.

"It's a perfect fit," said Kaplan. "I was looking for a way to build an internet marketing business, and SearchMarketMe will help me do exactly that. Franchise models are too limiting. I wanted something I could build and truly make my own, and I can do that with SearchMarketMe."

"Jan certainly wasn't looking to 'buy a job,'" said Boyd Karren, SearchMarketMe's president & CEO. "Having built and sold seven different businesses, he was looking for the right opportunity to build a business in the fast-growing world of internet marketing. SearchMarketMe is the only scalable internet marketing business opportunity in the world, and Jan will be able to build and grow his internet marketing agency as he has his previous seven companies."

Kaplan began his training last week, beginning with the Accelerated Business Start-up Training Event, in which he received enhanced training in applying SearchMarketMe's unique business model, "The Money U," identifying and dominating industry niches, and the PREMIER selling system. Kaplan also benefitted from a special Network-wide training event which took place April 2, called "Contentpalooza," a series of five live webinars on content marketing.

"This is great," added Kaplan. "The training, the support, the Agency Owner Network, and the scalability of the opportunity all combine to make SearchMarketMe the clear choice for me."

ABOUT SEARCHMARKETME LLC

SearchMarketMe, LLC is a Seattle, Washington-based training and support organization that assists entrepreneurs in opening and operating independently-owned and independently-branded internet marketing agencies around the world. It developed the Money U business model for small marketing agencies and is the only scalable internet marketing business opportunity in the world. SearchMarketMe's 111 Agency Owners are located in North America, India, the Middle East and Africa. For more information about the Agency Owner program, visit SearchMarketMe's website and request the New Opportunity Overview.

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Apps drive Central Florida businesses, schools - Orlando Sentinel

Mark Hawks has sold Apple products for the past 20 years, but the popularity of mobile applications has his career heading in a different direction.

"My clients kept telling me they needed iPhone apps to make their businesses better, so I started taking classes in app development at Seminole State College," said Hawks, 53, of Port Orange, who already has sold his first app to a Kentucky chiropractor.

His second one, he said, "will be a guide to better living, showing good food choices, exercises and also a direct line to my [Lake Mary] chiropractor."

A boom in apps — tiny programs for smartphones and other mobile devices that do everything from creating games to crunching financial spreadsheets — is creating new opportunities for Central Florida businesses and schools.

Already established builders are welcoming novice developers into Central Florida's flourishing tech industry, advising them that there's more to building an app than just the colorful icon that appears on a device's screen.

At the same time, the University of Central Florida, Valencia College, Full Sail University and other schools are offering more app-development courses.

"Businesses are eager to move their customers from the Web to their mobile devices, and apps facilitate the transition," said Dick Grant, professor of information technology at Seminole State College.

A report from Elance, a California-based online work platform, shows U.S. demand for workers equipped to create apps for Apple devices soared by 457 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 in comparison with same time last year. The demand for developers with Android skills jumped 224 percent, the report shows.

"There is a lot of hand-holding and educating the client in the process of creating an app," said Rainer Flor, creative director at Orlando-based Echo Interaction Group. "The client usually has no idea what they are getting into. It's our job to guide them through the process and tell them what their app will eventually accomplish."

Flor said app building really begins with conversations with a client about what they want the app to accomplish.

"Do they want to engage an audience, enhance their business, solve a problem or be the first to offer something innovative?" he said. "We also have to consider how to build the app for future updates."

Before any programming begins, developers create an outline that details the goals of an app and a storyboard on paper — not unlike those drawn in the movie industry — that gives glimpses of the proposed app.

Tweaks and other modifications are scribbled on paper before a more detailed storyboard containing dozens of images that show each function of the app is presented to the graphic designers and programmers.

When the app is coded and all graphics installed, the developer submits the app to Apple. Technicians at Apple check each line of code to make sure the app meets Apple's strict guidelines. Graphic content is also evaluated before Apple agrees to place the app in its App Store.

The whole process can take six to eight weeks or longer if Apple returns the app for reprogramming. Some developers said publishing apps to Google's Android Market is akin to the "Wild West" because there is no approval process or standards to meet.

It's difficult to gauge the cost of building an app because of their wide range of complexity. Games, for example, require greater graphic-design hours, and that will considerably increase the cost. A report from Internet Retailer, a technology trade publication, shows quality apps can cost $30,000 to $100,000 to design, program and publish.

Jason Madsen, program manager at Full Sail University in Winter Park, said the future of app development in Central Florida is strong because there is "so much movement and excitement."

"We have a strong [app]-development community here that gets together and collaborates," Madsen said. "It's a great opportunity for our talent to get involved with this now to really take advantage of it."

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Jim McCarthy: Luring space business - Florida Today

Many challenges and exciting changes are ramping up for the space industry in Florida as work continues on the future of space exploration.

More than ever, the state needs to be aggressive in creating a robust atmosphere for space business.

Florida has the third largest space industry in the United States and ranks fourth in the nation for space-based employment. The aerospace industry affects almost every county in the state.

Preserving and fostering this high-tech industry requires unified action by industry and local, state and federal government officials.

Florida is open for business and stands to harvest many new innovations created from investments in the aerospace industry that will enhance the state?s economic growth.

Future business and employment opportunities must be generated to ensure we hold and leverage a world-class work force. In addition, the space business brings in cutting-edge research and development of global significance, inspiring Florida?s future scientists and engineers.

On Wednesday, I am partnering with my colleagues in the space industry to speak with state leaders in Tallahassee.

It is critical Florida?s legislators, local elected officials and the business community work together to lead America?s next chapter in space exploration, attract new business by offering incentives to create a vibrant 21st-century aerospace community and position Florida to capture innovative national and international space-related business to stimulate the economy.

Failure for us to act now will mean missed opportunities to grow the state?s high-tech economy. Florida must remain a world-class aerospace business location.

We need to capture and keep the future of space thriving in the state.

Legislative support is critical now to harness the next big step for mankind and keep our leading edge as the number one place for space.

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Jim McCarthy: Luring space business - Florida Today

Many challenges and exciting changes are ramping up for the space industry in Florida as work continues on the future of space exploration.

More than ever, the state needs to be aggressive in creating a robust atmosphere for space business.

Florida has the third largest space industry in the United States and ranks fourth in the nation for space-based employment. The aerospace industry affects almost every county in the state.

Preserving and fostering this high-tech industry requires unified action by industry and local, state and federal government officials.

Florida is open for business and stands to harvest many new innovations created from investments in the aerospace industry that will enhance the state?s economic growth.

Future business and employment opportunities must be generated to ensure we hold and leverage a world-class work force. In addition, the space business brings in cutting-edge research and development of global significance, inspiring Florida?s future scientists and engineers.

On Wednesday, I am partnering with my colleagues in the space industry to speak with state leaders in Tallahassee.

It is critical Florida?s legislators, local elected officials and the business community work together to lead America?s next chapter in space exploration, attract new business by offering incentives to create a vibrant 21st-century aerospace community and position Florida to capture innovative national and international space-related business to stimulate the economy.

Failure for us to act now will mean missed opportunities to grow the state?s high-tech economy. Florida must remain a world-class aerospace business location.

We need to capture and keep the future of space thriving in the state.

Legislative support is critical now to harness the next big step for mankind and keep our leading edge as the number one place for space.

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