November 29th, 2009 by

Whenever Dede Wilsey begins a philanthropic project she imagines a Monopoly board in her head of possible naming opportunities and donations with the Park Place and Pacific Avenue all in mind. However, the Park Place has been taken over by a hospital wing now. She believes that the reason behind her success has always been positive thinking and her pink post it notes. Dede Wilsey kept this approach in mind when she was serving as the chair of the Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco having the responsibility of raising money to re-construct the de Young Museum in 2005. She worked on this project to make it a success day and night with continuous energy, hard work and dedication for ten years never once backing down or giving up on her hard struggle.

Dede Wilsey put all her efforts in to this project when she started it back in 1995 raising $208 million from more than 7,000 donors completing the largest privately funded project and gift given to the city of San Francisco. She took on the job of designing the museum on her own working with the architects side by side every step of the way.

November 24th, 2009 by

Sam Foti has had a successful career as Vice President of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. He held this prestigious position for five years, from 1983 to 1988. Even rising to this top echelon of the company, he had accumulated vast experience of working at various tiers of the company from 1974 to 1982.

During the tenure of Samuel J. Foti as Vice President, the Metropolitan Life Insurance continued its strides towards expansion and regaining its lost glory vis-à-vis its arch rival, the Prudential Insurance. Metropolitan successfully launched in 1984 its famous ‘whole life plus’ policy that guaranteed up to one-third additional coverage for its clients without levying any extra premium.

 Samuel Foti ’s personal endeavours continued rebuilding Metropolitan as a fast growing company in 1985, when the latter acquired Charter Security Life Insurance Companies. This out-of-the-box expansion measure helped Metropolitan take over the line of Single Premium Deferred Annuities, in addition to making a number of other acquisitions, both in-country and abroad. By the end of the year, Metropolitan had become the number one company amongst the top seven Hispanic markets. The next year heralded its strategy of developing the Asian-American marketing. Thus, under the new leadership, Metropolitan became a thriving insurance enterprise.

November 19th, 2009 by

Budgeting was never my thing, and being a college student, it was hard for me to plan one let along stick to it. My parents were always scolding me for quickly spending whatever they sent me, but that isn’t the case now thanks to Mvelopes’ budget-creating system.

One of the features about this tool is that I can pay my cell phone bills from the computer lab rather than going down to the post office. Plus, I can access my account through my cell when I out on town so that I can keep my spending in check Even Mom and Dad are using this now to tackle the Family Budget in hopes of keeping their books in order as well as avoiding whatever hidden expenditures they used to have.

Being on my own hasn’t been easy, yet now that I have my Personal Budget planned out and available for my use anywhere and anytime, I can trace my expenses and avoid overspending what I have in my bank account. With a quarterly plan for $39.60 activated, I can now rest assured that I can account for every penny I spend.

November 19th, 2009 by

My daughter was always athletic, and it sort of runs in the family. She participated in sports at school, and in Girls High School Basketball, Girls High School Soccer and Girls High School Volleyball. I did not want her to give up her talent, to pursue college education, which was my dream. I searched and searched for an option where she could get an athletic scholarship, and found Steel Athlete!

All I did was, went to some of my daughter’s games, and filmed her. I edited it, made it crisp, and focused. I asked her to give me her academic certificates and built a profile for her. After I was done, I picked up the Recruiter Kit Platinum, and uploaded her film and profile. I asked her to send invitations to all the colleges she liked. Within a month, she started hearing from these coaches and finally received a sport scholarship.

It is a great feeling to know that my daughter is pursuing her studies while keeping up with her extra curricular. I have always believed that sports are an essential part of a person’s learning and growth. I am so thankful to Steel Athlete for making my wish come true.

November 19th, 2009 by

It is amazing how millions of Americans face mild to moderate hear loss and majority of them remain unaware or unwilling to admit to this problem. HearAid provides an expert, yet an affordable solution to this problem through their Hearing Aids.

I am a customer sales service agent and I realized that I have mild hearing loss when I couldn’t hear customers clearly on the phone and many a times I would misunderstand words in a sentence and ask them to repeat the sentence. With Hearing Aids from the company HearAid, I no longer face this problem.

For a tight budget like mine, I was reluctant to look for a solution but with Hearing Aides from HearAid, you don’t need to spend on repeated doctor’s appointments! With this new Hearing Aid I can now hear customers crystal clear and not having to deal with the pressure of concentrating and listening too intently to make out words clearly has drastically improved my performance!

This Hearing Aid is surprisingly much smaller in size than I expected and it hardly shows! Also with HearAid’s value for money deal, you can get these technologically equipped and smart Hearing Aids for just $299 – a revolutionary product that will improve the quality of your work and personal life.

November 13th, 2009 by

I’m a pretty cool boss, but it bothers me that with so many employees on the road we can’t even keep our pricelists synched, let alone collaborate on sales numbers or other data.

I’ve tried high end collaboration tools, but they’re expensive to deploy and often take so much training that it’s just not viable in  our company.  That’s until I tried WebPoint VPN by Vedivi.  I took the free trial and within 30 minutes I’d downloaded and set up the VPN for remote access.

It’s frankly amazing.  I’m not sure how exactly it connects, but it does and it allows secure access to keep all the prying eyes out.  Basically you install the software on one pc in the network and it’ll discover all the other machines and servers in your network.

You log on via the WebPoint website, which then creates a secure connection between your remote PC and the Network.
Best of all, it actually uses your Windows authentication on your remote pc to connect to the network, so you can control access to data and servers!
I took the enterprise free trial and it works really well.  Try it for yourself.