Posts Tagged ‘Days’

Dallas Drupal Days is a Two-Day Camp Teaching Web Design to Individuals of All Levels

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) June 29, 2011

If you are a small business owner, a digital strategist, a webmaster, or a person looking to spruce up your resume with a skill set in high demand, Dallas Drupal Days is for you. Come hear executives from Southwest Airlines and Sally Beauty Supply explain how Drupal has and continues to transform their business.

What is Drupal and why should you care? Drupal is the premier programming platform of the modern age. The system has no licensing cost and its code is open and available for anyone to use. Furthermore, the software is user-friendly, allowing non-techies to compose and navigate websites successfully. Companies utilizing Drupal for their websites include The White House, The Economist, NBC Universal, Lifetime Networks, IBM, Martha Stewart Omnimedia, The New York Stock Exchange, Sony Music and Zagat.

Dallas Drupal Days is a two-day, community-centered event for learning, teaching and sharing Drupal. It is compromised of a Business Summit featuring actual case studies on Friday and a traditional developers camp on Saturday. Each day will feature a keynote speaker followed by an expansive offering of classes. The sharpest minds in the Drupal web design world will be attending and presenting on topics varying from website development and online business strategy to search engine optimization.

Breakfast and lunch are included in the nominal registration fee. Join us both days for $ 70, or just the Saturday Drupal Camp for $ 35. To register or for more information, please visit: http://dallasdrupal.org/register or call us at 214-887-8586.

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BestDietTips.com Hires a Diet Blogger to Spend 28 Days on Six Different Diet Plans

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012


Newport Beach, CA (PRWEB) December 31, 2011

Weight loss information website BestDietTips.com is sending a 41 year-old, Los Angeles woman on a series of potentially life changing journeys–28 days on six different diet plans: Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig,Nutrisystem, South Beach Diet, Atkins Diet and I Love This Diet (iLoveThisDiet.com).

The dieter named Heidi, keeps an open diary on Best Diet Tips. Her journal details her experiences as a plus-sized woman in Los Angeles, looking to lose weight on various diet programs, while navigating career, social, and romantic challenges. She writes openly about her thoughts on the different diet meal plans, and describes the advantages and disadvantages that each diet presents.

Best Diet Tips writer, Valerie Kirk comments, Heidi is a real person with a great sense of humor. Shes struggled with being the fat girl with the pretty face her whole life. She is amazingly candid in writing about her personal life, which takes a lot of courage.

Readers can encounter Heidi in all of her splendor at BestDietTips.com. The sometimes cheerful, sometimes anxious, but always honest dieter shares her opinions on different weight loss programs, gives reviews of low calorie foods, and provides weight loss tips, in between keeping readers up to date on her personal life. She also explores the emotional ups and downs of her tumultuous weight loss struggle.

In an attempt to rid herself of weight thats plagued her since childhood, Heidi first dives into 28 days on Weight Watchers, which she approaches with excitement and anticipation. Heidi shares her real-life experiences while on the diet, starting with the introductory meeting where she steps up to join a line of healthy backsides waiting to be checked in and weighed like anxious livestock. Valerie adds, Heidi is two parts resource and one part comical.

Heidis diet experience does not end with Weight Watchers, she tries out the protein-rich South Beach Diet and wastes no time sharing her uneasiness about the amount of cooking required by this diet. She has to get past her initial belief that its a diet for beautiful rich people in tiny bikinis who spend their lives alternating between cooking and tanning. She spends 28 days on the South Beach diet, a period during which she must deal with a wealth of emotional family health issues, the break-up of a romantic relationship (which Heidi fears could throw her eating into a frenzy), eliminating caffeine and discontent with her job.

Her tenacity and perseverance in sticking with the diets despite some day-to-day lapses is what many dieters need to see, says Valerie. Its true that she doesnt always have self-control or the best self-esteem, but she provides an honesty that dieters wouldnt get otherwise.

Heidis Nutrisystem experience was particularly difficult for her in that she can be something of a foodie at times, and was not a big fan of the shelf-stabilized no refrigeration needed Nutrisystem meals, which she calls army/astronaut food. She gives much more positive reviews of the frozen meals offered in the Nutrisystem Select program.

Readers will also have a chance to join Heidi as she takes on one of Americas favorite diets, Jenny Craig. The diet meal plan, which is reviewed in depth on Best Diet Tips, is best known for its frozen and pre-packaged meals, both of which Heidi is quite enamored with. In between the relative bliss of eating on the Jenny Craig diet plan, Heidis life happens–she starts a new job in addition to parenting classes–both leave her second guessing herself and advising dieters not to start one major life change (a diet) in the midst of another.

In January 2012, Heidi is set to take on the newest diet on the market, I Love This Diet, which uses frozen meals from Lean Cuisine, Healthy Choice, and Weight Watchers Smart Ones.

About Best Diet Tips

BestDietTips.com provides dieters with free tips, tricks, and secrets for weight loss success, as well as candid facts about popular diets. Read in depth reviews of Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, Weight Watchers, South Beach Diet, Atkins Diet, I Love This Diet, Fat Loss for Idiots and others. Popular articles include: Nutrisystem vs. Jenny Craig, Low Calorie Desserts and Snacks, Help! I Cant Stick to My Diet, and How much does Jenny Craig Cost in 2012?

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SavingStar Reaches One Million Users in 230 Days; Company Says Paper Grocery Coupon Industry Is Broken, Sees Multibillion Dollar Opportunity In “Groupon For Groceries”

Sunday, December 18th, 2011


Waltham, MA (PRWEB) December 16, 2011

SavingStar announced that it has acquired over one million users since its launch in April 2011. The company provides exclusive deals on name brand grocery products linked to shoppers loyalty cards from over 100 grocery and drug store chains, enabling consumers to save money without the hassle of clipping or printing paper coupons. SavingStar is the only nationwide fully digital grocery savings service, revolutionizing how shoppers access grocery deals.

In the same way that Groupon created a nationwide platform for consumers to save a significant amount of money with deals from local businesses, SavingStar is creating a platform for them to save at their local grocery store, said David Rochon, CEO of SavingStar. While most people dont buy deals on tanning salons or teeth whitening every week, everyone buys groceries. Our paperless service makes it easy to save money regularly.

Multibillion Dollar Opportunity

Consumers spend over $ 550 billion annually on groceries with thousands of consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) battling for consumer attention. In a tech savvy world, with newspaper distribution on the decline, consumers are increasingly looking to online and mobile services for deals. SavingStar believes that the industry is ripe for change. Over 99% of paper grocery coupons are thrown away without being used, resulting in over 1 million trees being destroyed each month. What other industry throws away 99% of what it makes? said Rochon. SavingStar removes all of the paper and energy waste with offers accessible online and on mobile apps.

SavingStar enables brands to promote their products to SavingStars audience of grocery shoppers for free charging only when a product is actually bought. SavingStar receives UPC level data from retailers in its network, enabling it to match offers activated by consumers with in-store purchases linked to shoppers loyalty cards helping brands close the loop on a promotions effectiveness in generating sales. With 24,000 stores in all 50 states, SavingStars network of retailers is over three times larger than any other service offering paperless grocery savings. Since its launch in April, SavingStar has added over 20 retail banners to its list of participating chains which includes Albertsons, Food Lion, ShopRite, Stop & Shop, Winn-Dixie and more.

How It Works:

SavingStar is free to use. Shoppers register their grocery and drug store loyalty cards on SavingStar.com or on the companys iPhone or Android apps and select offers for products that interest them. SavingStar links the offers to all of their registered cards. When shoppers purchase the items and use their loyalty cards at the store, the value of each offer is automatically deposited as savings into their SavingStar accounts, rather than being given at checkout like a typical coupon. Once users accumulate $ 5 worth of savings in their SavingStar accounts, they can cash out with a direct deposit into their bank or PayPal account, an Amazon gift card, or a donation to the charity American Forests. The company revealed that over 11 million grocery offers have been activated by SavingStar users since its launch.

How SavingStar Is Different From Other Grocery Coupon Services:

Besides its industry leading digital network, SavingStar is the only service that links offers users select to all of their registered loyalty cards at the same time, enabling them to choose where to shop and save. Its also the only service that links offers to loyalty cards from drug store chains like CVS and Rite Aid.

SavingStar is the only service to deliver nationally available grocery offers on iPhone and Android apps. Shoppers can select deals on-the-go or even while browsing the aisles. Finally, SavingStar is the only service that allows shoppers to choose their preferred form of savings from cash, to gift cards, to charitable donations.

Since its launch, SavingStar has featured offers from over 100 brands such as Tropicana, Huggies, Kelloggs, Campbells, Stonyfield Farm, Kashi, Smart Balance, Welchs, M&Ms, and more.

SavingStar’s fast growth demonstrates that people are looking for ways to save money on their groceries using a service that is simple and convenient, said Rochon. Many people dont have the time or desire to clip or print paper coupons. SavingStars service makes it easy to save.

About SavingStar

SavingStar is the first and only national, fully digital, grocery savings service, available for free at SavingStar.com and on iPhone? and Android? mobile apps. The company enables consumers to choose where they shop and how they save. Redeemable at over 24,000 stores, SavingStars offers are linked to shoppers grocery and drug store loyalty cards and provide a more convenient and eco-friendly way to save on groceries than paper coupons. SavingStar automatically adds the value of each offer redeemed into users SavingStar accounts, enabling them to pick their payout from cash back to gift cards to charity donations. SavingStar also powers white-labeled grocery savings services, including Upromise and Cartera Commerce. SavingStar is backed by Flybridge Capital Partners, First Round Capital, and other investors. The company is based in Waltham, MA.

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Black Friday 2011 Sales Started 23 Days Ahead of Actual Black Friday According to Black Friday Countdown

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011


Lewes, DE (PRWEB) November 03, 2011

The Black Friday Countdown Clock showed 23 Days left until the actual Black Friday 2011, November 25, when major retailers including Amazon launched their early Black Friday Sales events online. In 2010, Amazon and others launched the early Black Friday sales already on the last weekend in October. This year the “Black Friday Sales Season” is focused entirely on the month of November.

“Over the last years we have seen a trend of an ever expanding Black Friday. This year retailers trimming the Black Friday Sales Season by one weekend,” says Luigi Lugmayr, Founder and CEO of I4U LLC.

Black Friday deal hunters are already pouring over the deals highlighted on Black Friday Countdown, a blog launched by I4U LLC earlier this year. Black Friday Countdown is home of the Black Friday Countdown Clock that put shoppers on notice about how many days are left until the climax of the Black Friday Sales Season.

The blog format allows Black Friday Countdown to cover up-to-the-minute Black Friday news, rumors, predictions, deals and of course Black Friday Ads.

Shoppers are already most interested in the Black Friday 2011 Ads and enjoy the Black Friday Ads predictions offered by Black Friday Countdown until the highly anticipated ads break cover. Some of the Black Friday 2011 Ads have actually already leaked ahead of schedule and are available online.

“We are covering Black Friday for our technology affine readers on I4U News since several years. This year we are very happy to be able to offer full Black Friday coverage on Black Friday Countdown that goes way beyond electronics and video game deals,” adds Luigi Lugmayr.

For the latest on the Black Friday 2011 Sales Season visit http://www.blackfridaycountdown.net

Black Friday Countdown (http://www.blackfridaycountdown.net) is featuring Black Friday deals, predictions, rumors and ads all year long. The Black Friday Countdown blog gets shoppers ready for the crucial Black Friday sales season. Black Friday 2011 is on November 25, 2011. But actually the day after Thanksgiving just marks the climax of the Black Friday shopping season.

Black Friday Countdown is part of the I4U Network with the flagship technology news site I4U News (http://www.i4u.com).

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