MBO Partners and Zintro to Expand Business Development Opportunities for Independent Professionals

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Picaboo Yearbooks Launches Groundbreaking Home Business Opportunity for Real Estate Professionals - YAHOO!

The Picaboo Yearbooks Dealership Opportunity is an Ideal Home Business for Real Estate Professionals who Aren’t Achieving their Full Income Potential in the Struggling Real Estate Marketplace

Menlo Park, California (PRWEB) June 12, 2012

Picaboo Yearbooks, a Silicon Valley-based technology firm that has enabled over 1 million people to create their very own customized and professional-quality photo book, has launched a groundbreaking home business opportunity to help Real Estate Professionals boost their income by doing what they already know.

“Real Estate Professionals have a great deal of knowledge,” commented Bryan Payne, President of Picaboo Yearbooks. “They know all about selling, they know the local area, they knew how to build strong client relationships, they know how to negotiate win-win deals, and they know how to work as a self-starter with entrepreneurial vision. As a Picaboo Yearbooks Dealer, they’ll apply all of this knowledge to potentially boost their income into the 6-figures.”

As an approved Picaboo Yearbooks Dealer, Real Estate Professionals will be awarded an exclusive sales territory, in which they’ll help schools, organizations and businesses discover the benefits and advantages of purchasing customized Picaboo Yearbooks. Real Estate Professionals will also enjoy:

Added Payne: “Since the real estate market is facing a lot of demand challenges, there’s never been a better time for Real Estate Professionals with a passion for sales and sales management to get on board, and lead the revolution in the multi-billion dollar yearbook industry.”

Real Estate Professionals who are interested in doing what they already know so they can potentially boost their income into the 6-figures, and lead the revolution in the multi-billion dollar yearbook industry, can learn more here.

For media inquiries, contact Bryan Payne at bryan(at)picabooyearbooks(dot)com.

About Picaboo Yearbooks

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Picaboo is one of North America’s leading photo book providers with over 1 million active and satisfied customers. The company is privately held, and its funding partners include several leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms.    

Picaboo leverages a core competence in designing, developing and deploying easy-to-use book creation web apps that are elegant and intuitive. Through its seasoned expertise and entrepreneurial spirit, the company is perfectly positioned to disrupt, revolutionize and revitalize the multi-billion dollar yearbook industry via its groundbreaking, technology-led Picaboo Yearbooks solutions.

The name "Picaboo" is a play on the phrase peek-a-boo, which is a common expression that brings smiles to people's faces. Picaboo's use of the term reflects the company's culture, target market and mission.

Bryan Payne, President
Picaboo Yearbooks
415-800-4491
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REO Properties: Responsibilities, Education, and Opportunities for Real Estate Professionals

By Marc Gould  Print Article

With real estate owned (REO) properties numbering in the millions, agents vying for new business opportunities will find an abounding REO market. With the right insurances in place, brokers will be able to both support their agents’ REO business while amassing new and successful real estate transactions throughout the year. With every new real estate niche, however, education is paramount to prosperity.

To address this need for advanced REO training, The Real Estate Buyer’s Agent Council (REBAC) teamed up with Ed Bugos, ABR®, BPOR, SFR®, a knowledgeable REO business specialist and instructor, to bring real estate professionals a comprehensive course on the expectations of REO business, titled REO Properties: Responsibilities, Education, and Opportunities for Real Estate Professionals.

Bugos offers the following tips to help answer your questions and assist you in creating an REO-specific plan for your brokerage.

What is a common misunderstanding about REO business?

A common misunderstanding is that a general real estate transaction business model can support yearly REO business. The truth is your brokerage could incur thousands of dollars in unexpected expenses come the end of the year without having the back-end transactional framework in place to support REOs.

What value can brokers gain by learning about REOs?

When an agent completes his/her first REO, the broker and brokerage must be prepared to handle any transactional issues that may occur. Plus, the more education brokers and agents receive, the smoother the business will be.

What future do you see in the REO market?

My best educated guess is that after the presidential election year, the REO market will get stronger and longer through 2015 and 2016. It looks to me like the market is readying for another REO flood, but, we’ll have to wait and see.

You’ve taught several REO Properties courses so far. How has the response been?

It’s exceeded my expectations. There is so much excitement from my end to teach and the students’ end to learn. Here is a true testament to this course. A student of mine had already completed an REO, but explained that the entire transaction process was complicated and extremely stressful. As I went through the policies and procedures associated with REO transactions, I kept hearing “Ah-ha!” It was a welcoming confirmation that a piece of important information had, until that moment, been a mystery to her and, subsequently, her broker.

What advice would you offer to brokers?

Be trainers within your company. Understand what your agents are doing or what they are up against and have a plan in place to back their business. If you know your agents are exploring different real estate opportunities, encourage them and become the source of knowledge.

Covering a range of topics, the REO Properties: Responsibilities, Education, and Opportunities for Real Estate Professionals course counts as an elective credit toward earning the Accredited Buyer’s Representative (ABR®) designation.

Students interested in signing up for the new course can visit training4RE.com to find a course in their area or log onto rebac.net to learn more.

A wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), The Real Estate Buyer’s Agent Council (REBAC) is the world’s largest association of real estate professionals focusing specifically on representing the real estate buyer. With more than 30,000 active members, REBAC awards the Accredited Buyer’s Representative (ABR®) designation to REALTORS® who work directly with buyer-clients. To learn more visit REBAC.net.

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Big Data Equals Big Business Opportunity Say Global IT and Business Professionals - msnbc.com

INFORMATICA WORLD, LAS VEGAS, Nevada, May 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- By a greater than two-to-one margin, organizations today view big data primarily as a business opportunity rather than an IT challenge and are moving quickly to do something about it, according to a recent global survey of almost 600 IT and business professionals conducted by Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world's number one independent provider of data integration software.

Designed to assess the state of big data projects and understand big data strategies, the survey reveals an aggressive move on the part of organizations to master big data for business advantage, with the majority of enterprises, nearly 70 percent, now considering (44 percent), planning (22 percent), testing (13 percent) or running (20 percent) big data projects.

The complete survey report entitled, Balancing Opportunity and Risk in Big Data, is available for download.

The Multiple Facets of Big Data

The new survey reveals the diversity of big data and its breadth of opportunities and challenges. When asked which aspects of big data are relevant to their organization, most respondents cite the management of growing transaction volumes (74 percent), indicating there are still significant challenges even in the more traditional enterprise data realm. But also of relevance are new technologies such as Hadoop and NoSQL (46 percent) for efficiently processing big data. Meanwhile, the management of big interaction data - including social media data (35 percent), mobile device data (31 percent) and machine-generated data (22 percent) - is very much rising in relevance due to the insights, efficiencies and customer engagement these new data types can help drive.

Many Eyes on Many Prizes

What do organizations intend to get from their big data efforts? A wide variety of benefits, according to survey respondents. Improving efficiency in business operations by doing more things with more data is the number one business driver (71 percent). This is followed by increasing business agility (51 percent).

But also important is introducing new products and services (50 percent) and attracting and retaining customers (49 percent), as well as enhancing analytics (47 percent), and lowering IT costs through technologies such as Hadoop (38 percent).

Big Data Challenges

Lack of maturity in big data tools is the top challenge (52 percent) that respondents face in big data projects, including a lack of support for reuse and metadata in current Hadoop environments. Lack of support for real-time streaming data is another key challenge (39 percent), followed by concerns over poor data quality (38 percent), data security and privacy (38 percent) and the limited availability of skilled developers to manage big data (35 percent). Other top concerns are overly difficult development for Hadoop (34 percent), and lack of data governance capabilities (32 percent).

"The reality is, big data represents both opportunities and challenges, but those key challenges identified by our survey respondents are set to diminish with the advances introduced in the newest version of the Informatica Platform, Informatica 9.5," said Girish Pancha, chief products officer, Informatica. "Engineered expressly to help organizations maximize their return on big data, Informatica 9.5 will accelerate the 'mainstreaming' of new technologies such as Hadoop, enable existing skill sets to be leveraged for big data projects, and enable organizations to realize the promise of big data while maximizing the data's value and reducing its costs."

Tweet this:New @InformaticaCorp #bigdata surveyhttp://bit.ly/Lh2aTI: 70% of Organizations Considering, Planning or Running Big Data Projects

About Informatica

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the world's number one independent provider of data integration software. Organizations around the world rely on Informatica for maximizing return on data to drive their top business imperatives. Worldwide, nearly 5,000 enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets residing on-premise, in the Cloud and across social networks. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com . Connect with Informatica at http://www.facebook.com/InformaticaCorporation , http://www.linkedin.com/company/informatica and http://twitter.com/InformaticaCorp .

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Note: Informatica, Informatica Platform, Informatica 9.5 and PowerCenter are trademarks or registered trademarks of Informatica Corporation in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.

CONTACT: Deborah Wiltshire Informatica Corporation +1 650 385 5360 mobile/+1 650 862 8186 dwiltshire@informatica.com Shira Frantzich Informatica Corporation +1 650 385 5674 sfrantzich@informatica.com

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Big Data Equals Big Business Opportunity Say Global IT and Business Professionals - Yahoo Finance

INFORMATICA WORLD, LAS VEGAS, Nevada, May 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- By a greater than two-to-one margin, organizations today view big data primarily as a business opportunity rather than an IT challenge and are moving quickly to do something about it, according to a recent global survey of almost 600 IT and business professionals conducted by Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA - News), the world's number one independent provider of data integration software.

Designed to assess the state of big data projects and understand big data strategies, the survey reveals an aggressive move on the part of organizations to master big data for business advantage, with the majority of enterprises, nearly 70 percent, now considering (44 percent), planning (22 percent), testing (13 percent) or running (20 percent) big data projects.

The complete survey report entitled, Balancing Opportunity and Risk in Big Data, is available for download.

The Multiple Facets of Big Data

The new survey reveals the diversity of big data and its breadth of opportunities and challenges. When asked which aspects of big data are relevant to their organization, most respondents cite the management of growing transaction volumes (74 percent), indicating there are still significant challenges even in the more traditional enterprise data realm. But also of relevance are new technologies such as Hadoop and NoSQL (46 percent) for efficiently processing big data. Meanwhile, the management of big interaction data - including social media data (35 percent), mobile device data (31 percent) and machine-generated data (22 percent) - is very much rising in relevance due to the insights, efficiencies and customer engagement these new data types can help drive.

Many Eyes on Many Prizes

What do organizations intend to get from their big data efforts? A wide variety of benefits, according to survey respondents. Improving efficiency in business operations by doing more things with more data is the number one business driver (71 percent). This is followed by increasing business agility (51 percent).

But also important is introducing new products and services (50 percent) and attracting and retaining customers (49 percent), as well as enhancing analytics (47 percent), and lowering IT costs through technologies such as Hadoop (38 percent).

Big Data Challenges

Lack of maturity in big data tools is the top challenge (52 percent) that respondents face in big data projects, including a lack of support for reuse and metadata in current Hadoop environments. Lack of support for real-time streaming data is another key challenge (39 percent), followed by concerns over poor data quality (38 percent), data security and privacy (38 percent) and the limited availability of skilled developers to manage big data (35 percent). Other top concerns are overly difficult development for Hadoop (34 percent), and lack of data governance capabilities (32 percent).

"The reality is, big data represents both opportunities and challenges, but those key challenges identified by our survey respondents are set to diminish with the advances introduced in the newest version of the Informatica Platform, Informatica 9.5," said Girish Pancha, chief products officer, Informatica. "Engineered expressly to help organizations maximize their return on big data, Informatica 9.5 will accelerate the 'mainstreaming' of new technologies such as Hadoop, enable existing skill sets to be leveraged for big data projects, and enable organizations to realize the promise of big data while maximizing the data's value and reducing its costs."

Tweet this: New @InformaticaCorp #bigdata survey http://bit.ly/Lh2aTI: 70% of Organizations Considering, Planning or Running Big Data Projects

About Informatica

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA - News) is the world's number one independent provider of data integrationsoftware. Organizations around the world rely on Informatica for maximizing return on data to drive their top business imperatives. Worldwide, nearly 5,000 enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets residing on-premise, in the Cloud and across social networks. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit INFA - News)">www.informatica.com. Connect with Informatica at http://www.facebook.com/InformaticaCorporation, http://www.linkedin.com/company/informatica and http://twitter.com/InformaticaCorp.

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Note: Informatica, Informatica Platform, Informatica 9.5 and PowerCenter are trademarks or registered trademarks of Informatica Corporation in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.

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Business opportunities for Fox Valley professionals

Updated: April 5, 2012 9:45PM

Batavia

Young professionals: Fox Valley Young Professional Network Presents Tom Walter, CEO of Tasty Catering, will discuss how he has integrated young professionals into his businesses as leaders and as business partners at 6 p.m. April 16 at Interiors for Business, 409 N. River St. Members admitted free, non-members $10. May be paid by cash, check or paypal at www.foxvalleyypn.org. RSVP by April 11 to Julie Kotalik at julie@bataviaenterprises.com.

Fox Valley

International awards recipients: Coldwell Banker Honig-Bell sales agents who received international awards as the result of their 2011 sales production include: Qualifying for the International President’s Elite award were — Jane Winninger and Kelly Michelson from the Yorkville office, and Erin and Jerry Hill from the Aurora/Naperville office. The International President’s Circle award was given to Sandy Ledesma from the Yorkville office and Heide Fralic from the Aurora/Naperville office. International Diamond Society awards were given to Michelle Sather and Cindy Heckelsberg from the Oswego office; Lara Gawrych, Michele and Don McComb and Robin Freiman from Yorkville; Jim Mulvoy, Shirley Guercio, Sherri Nugent and Greg Wroblewski from the Aurora/Naperville office. Qualifiers for the International Sterling Society Award, presented to the top 12 percent of all sales associates in the Coldwell Banker system, are Joanne La Via and Terry Livingston-Banker from the Oswego office; Deb Christensen from Yorkville; Dan Walsh and Meghan Hopkins from the Aurora/Naperville office. Coldwell Banker Honig-Bell has sales offices at 928 N. Bridge St., Yorkville; 22 E. Merchants Drive, Oswego; and 1242 Eola Road, Aurora.

Yorkville

Woman 2 Woman: The Yorkville Area Chamber of Commerce monthly Woman 2 Woman luncheon features facilitator Jeanie Martin from 11:30 to 1 p.m. at Ralph’s Place at Blackberry Oaks Golf Course in Bristol. This month’s program, “Think Tank,” is an interactive program with small table discussions on business topics. Cost is $20/YACC members and $25/nonmembers. Reservations at 630-553-6853 or support@yorkvillechamber.org.

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