Star Tribune and TapClicks Expand Digital Marketing Partnership to Drive Leads and Track Engagement With Auto Dealers in the Midwest

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San Jose, CA (PRWEB) March 18, 2014

TapClicks, the digital presence company, today unveiled a robust new lead generation program and analytics suite to recruit car buyers to participating automotive dealerships. The digital-merchandising platform captures and analyzes leads to pinpoint lead sources, track lead generation quality and support sales pipelines.

“Auto dealers work with the Star Tribune today to reach its audience of 7 million unique monthly visitors in the upper Midwest,” said Jeff Herr, chief operating officer at TapClicks. “We will now more than double their reach across the region to connect with active car shoppers and drive them to our dealership clients.”

In 2012, the Star Tribune team partnered with TapClicks to market residential real estate for its local brokers while driving $250,000 to the media company’s bottom line, according to Jason Erdahl, executive director of digital at the Star Tribune. “Our first collaboration was a huge success right out of the gate. We know the partnership around the automotive vertical will bring even greater benefits to our clients and to our operation,” Erdahl said.

TapClassifieds, the new online merchandising program, has been under development for more than a year in the San Francisco Bay Area, working in concert with local partners at the San Jose Mercury News. The TapClassifieds program is now driving and analyzing tens of thousands of leads for more than 5,000 cars and trucks across more than 40 dealerships in the region.

The TapClassifieds merchandising program engages active car shoppers across many popular online marketplaces and drives these shoppers to specific product landing pages for each vehicle. The landing pages are loaded with vehicle details from among dozens of popular inventory-management platforms including Dealer Specialties, Reynolds & Reynolds, Liquid Motors, vAuto and Dealer Fusion. The TapClassifieds platform also has its own inventory-management system for smaller dealerships.

TapClassifieds captures leads from shoppers who seek more detailed information via email, phone, text messages and through credit applications. These leads are captured and analyzed, then pushed into any of more than two dozen CRM platforms used by the auto dealers including DealerSocket, VIN Solutions, UDC Inc. and ELeads.

Babak Hedayati, chief executive officer of TapClicks, said the company is actively integrating digital analytics and dashboards into an array of online marketplaces, from homes to autos to retailers and service providers.

“The magic is in the analytics. Plug our platform into your program and we’ll show you what’s working now,” he said, adding that “driving leads has become far more intelligent and it comes down to visibility and analysis of success.”

TapClicks is a market leader in developing digital presence for businesses, products and services. The company has similar targeted programs to drive visibility for real-estate listings, retail products and for service businesses.

TapClicks also recently launched additional features to its TapClicks Analytics product as part of the latest release. The new release brings forward powerful alerts when a marketing campaign changes in performance. As well, the platform now connects directly with dozens of third-party platforms including Google Analytics, OAS 24/7 ad-server, Twitter and FourSquare.

Founded in 2009, Tapclicks operates out of offices in Silicon Valley, Canada, India and Mexico. For more information, please visit http://www.tapclicks.com. Or contact Jeff Herr or Babak Hedayati at +1.408.725.2942 or by email at info(at)tapclicks(dot)com.

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AgentsofAmerica.Org Announces Strategic Partnership with the National Association of Professional Agents

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Las Vegas, Nevada (PRWEB) March 04, 2014

AgentsofAmerica.ORG® (AOA) is excited and pleased to announce it has formed a strategic partnership with the National Association of Professional Agents (NAPA), the leader in Errors and Omissions (E&O) insurance to independent insurance agents nationwide.

NAPA offers a portfolio of insurance products and professional services including errors & omissions, life, health and other ancillary offerings to over 125,000 independent insurance agents from all 50 states and U.S. territories. Many of the most prominent companies in the industry use NAPA as their voluntary benefit provider, selecting the products appropriate for their distribution force. NAPA has the ability to customize company-sponsored E&O programs.

Historically, NAPA E&O programs have some of the lowest loss ratios in the industry. This is due in large part to the diligence of NAPA’s loss control department that monitors sponsored E&O programs and offers ongoing loss control suggestions. NAPA has attracted key marketing people like Ted Baran and Scott Reid who have long-standing business relationships in the insurance industry. Ted Baran joined NAPA in 2006 and has led the NAPA team in new business development, as well as creating new products and services for NAPA’s sponsored programs. Scott Reid manages the West Coast office for NAPA and continues to provide new business opportunities for NAPA.

“AOA thru its ‘Marketing Resource’ platform has created alliances with some of the insurance industry leading service providers. Our primary objective is to help insurance agents manage and grow their business, provide ongoing value to their clients, create more revenue opportunities and help them build and expand their current client base,” explained Angelo Gioia, Executive Director of AgentsofAmerica.ORG.

Companies or agencies interested in obtaining additional information should contact Angelo Gioia at angelo(at)agentsofamerica(dot)org or Lou Marinaccio at lmarinaccio(at)napa-benefits(dot)org, call 800-593-7657 or visit http://www.napa-benefits.org.

About AgentsofAmerica.ORG
AgentsofAmerica.ORG is an Insurance Association dedicated to the personal and professional growth of its Insurance Agents & Brokers members and their agencies, and a indispensable resource for news, products, services, continuing education, and industry information throughout America. The organization’s mission is to deliver the best people, products, information and services to agents all designed to help them manage and grow their business and provide ongoing value to their clients. In addition, it has become the number one resource for connecting insurance agents with industry professionals, support and guidance on Professional Liability Risk Management, Errors & Omissions Risk Management, Loss Prevention & Loss Control, Insurance Agency revenue building products and opportunities. Our motto is, “Bringing the BEST Together.” Visit AgentsofAme http://www.agentsofamerica.org for more information.

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Construction Connection Announces Partnership With Education Website Lynda.com

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Austin, TX (PRWEB) March 04, 2014

Construction Connection, the online network of construction industry professionals and construction hiring resource, announced a partnership with Lynda.com to help construction professionals further their education. Lynda.com is an education website where individuals can take classes online to learn about various subjects and software like MS Excel, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Building Information Modeling (BIM). For Construction Connection members, this is an immense resource for adding skills to their portfolio.

“We are thrilled to offer access to classes on Lynda.com to the Construction Connection community,” says Kent Leighton, veteran of the construction industry and Co-Founder of the site. “Competition for construction jobs is high, and by offering this resource to our members we are helping them gain a competitive edge by providing them skills that are required in today’s marketplace. In conjunction with our other new tools, we are working to improve construction hiring for everyone from project managers to electricians and construction cost estimators to contractors.”

In addition to the new partnership with Lynda.com, Construction Connection recently rolled out new features further aimed at improving construction hiring, including the Everything DiSC Workplace Profile, certified background checks and employment verification, and Prove It! by IMB tests. Each of these resources is expected to help the construction community and improve transparency between individuals and construction companies.

DiSC Profiles give insight into individuals’ communication and working styles to help construction project managers build more cohesive teams. The background checks and employment verification resources save hiring managers time and assure that they are interviewing quality candidates for their available construction jobs.

Tests from Prove It! by IBM allow individuals to demonstrate their proficiency at using specific software like Quickbooks and Microsoft Office to construction company owners. With the new partnership with Lynda.com, now individuals who are not already skilled in certain software can watch video tutorials and learn new skills. Construction Connection also features an educational blog discussing various subjects related to the construction industry, as well as Safety Toolbox Talks, access to industry leaders, and much more.

For more information on these new features and construction resources, visit ConstructionConnection.com.

About Construction Connection:
ConstructionConnection.com was created out of a need for a more effective and streamlined way for construction industry professionals to get matched with the right industry jobs and with the right industry opportunities. The founders of Construction Connection, both industry professionals themselves, listened to both company and individuals’ dissatisfaction with the traditional job boards, the paid resume blasts, the overpriced resume services and overall lack of sympathy toward the individual candidate. They also listened to the dissatisfaction from companies who post jobs only to get many irrelevant results or have to purchase high priced ads to showcase their company. Construction Connection is a patent-pending, one-of-a- kind profile creating / match-making system. The system delivers effective results. Construction Connection saves time, money and aggravation by matching people to people, people to companies, companies to people, and company to company.

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Vinsource Announces Partnership with Adam LaPierre, MW

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Healdsburg, CA (PRWEB) March 04, 2014

Wine-technology provider Vinsource announced today that it will partner with Adam LaPierre, MW who will become its Head of Client Relations. In his new position, Adam will be responsible for driving adoption of the company’s namesake wine-sourcing platform within the California restaurant and retail community. He will also work to develop collaborative partnerships within the greater California wine industry.

Last year Adam earned the Master of Wine (MW) qualification from the Institute of Masters of Wine, becoming one of only 34 individuals in the United States to hold the title. Prior to obtaining his MW, Adam worked at Frederick Wildman and Sons, one of the nation’s preeminent importers of fine wine, where he served as the National Sales Manager, among other roles. At Wildman, Adam was responsible for the management of key accounts, including distributor and supplier relationships.

Vinsource’s Co-founder and CEO, Andrew McMaster stated, “Adam's extensive experience managing sales, marketing and distribution for established brands, his profound knowledge of wine and his excellent reputation in the industry make him the perfect addition to our team. Together, we look forward to reinventing the way that re-sellers buy wine.”

About Vinsource - Vinsource, LLC is a Healdsburg, CA based wine-technology provider. The company operates Vinsource Online, a web-based platform that allows restaurants and retailers to purchase limited-production wines directly from producers. Vinsource provides wine buyers access to a wide range of specialty products not offered through traditional distributors. If you are a California-based winery, restaurant, retailer or broker and are interested in learning more about Vinsource, please visit the website directly at http://www.vinsourceonline.com or contact Andrew McMaster at andrew(at)vinsourceonline(dot)com.

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University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) announces Ephorus partnership

(PRWEB UK) 24 January 2014

London, UK: The University of London Computer Centre (ULCC), the leading IT service provider to the UK education sector, and Ephorus, the Dutch-based provider of plagiarism prevention, today announced a new strategic partnership.

The partnership will enable customers of ULCC's Hosted Moodle Service to seamlessly access the full range of Ephorus plagiarism prevention services, directly from within their virtual learning environment.

'As one of the largest providers of hosted Moodle services to the UK education sector, we are excited about our partnership with Ephorus. It will allow us to offer an alternative plagiarism prevention solution to our 150+ HE & FE customers across the UK. In doing so we are not only offering a broader choice but we can also help for customer feedback to be incorporated into future Ephorus software releases' said Richard Maccabee, Director of ULCC.

Joep Chappin, Ephorus founder said: ‘We are excited to partner with ULCC. Ephorus, just like ULCC, has an educational philosophy, therefore we fit together perfectly. Ephorus believes that educational services must be open, flexible and easily fit with existing systems. By working with ULCC we will benefit from its reach in the UK education market and hope to drive collaborative development of the Ephorus plagiarism prevention software.'

Ephorus plagiarism prevention is easy to use. Integrated in Moodle, Ephorus checks every essay and thesis automatically, comparing student submissions with billions of sources on the Internet and papers, previously submitted at your institution. While improving the quality of education, Ephorus saves you time and reassures you that your students are doing their own work.

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About ULCC
Established in 1968, University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) has evolved into a highly respected and innovative IT service provider within the academic and not-for-profit sector. It now supports Moodle for over 2.4 million registered users across 150 Further and Higher Education institutions in the UK, including Manchester Metropolitan University, King’s College and the University of London International Academy.

About Ephorus
Ephorus was founded in 2003 by two former teachers from the Netherlands. They developed a web based service for plagiarism prevention. Today more than 5,000 schools and universities use Ephorus, making Ephorus the market leader in Europe. Ephorus checks tens of thousands of documents from over 32 different countries every day. Customers include University of Copenhagen, University of Bern, Cambridge Regional College and Loughborough University.

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