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Building a pipeline of prospects is one of your top goals with internet marketing. Pete Sabine shows Realtors, Lenders and Property Managers how they can build a followingand their businessesusing email and direct mail marketing.

Lafayette, CA (PRWEB) March 09, 2012

If you find yourself confused by the internet marketing options, this seminar is perfect for you, said Pete Sabine, the workshops host and Concord and Walnut Creek real estate investment consultant. We not only introduce you to effective email marketing strategies and its most beneficial features, we will teach you how to build the proper foundation for success.

The workshop is organized into two segments which include:

Relationship Marketing with Email

The ideal customer can be nurtured using email marketing. This segment teaches participants how to connect with them by explaining how to build the proper foundation for success. The key is email database list management.

Become a trusted email sender in the eyes of your prospects and clients

Build your list! How to find and keep email list subscribers

Get your sent emails opened and read

Turn your readers into more frequent referral sources for buyers and sellers

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MILFORD -- While local police investigate a real estate scam that nearly cost a West Haven man more than $3,000, federal officials say the Milford case represents a new twist on an old flimflam.

"We've seen this for a number of years, where someone will claim to represent an apartment or house for rent and tries to get a deposit wired to them,'' said Amy Hebert, a spokeswoman for the Federal Trade Commission. "But we haven't seen it where someone local offers to meet the prospective renter at the property.''

That's what Joseph Tomasso said made the attempted con last week seem so legit. "I was going to go down and meet him when I got the strange email and people began warning me off,'' the former EMT said. Tomasso, who is awaiting a liver transplant, was nearly scammed out of $3,300 on Tuesday when he attempted to rent a Walnut Beach house through an ad on Craigslist.

The ad included interior photos and a list of amenities that turned out to be cribbed from a legitimate listing by Ditchkus Realty agent Cathy Vincelette. The "owner'' claimed to be on a mission trip in Africa but was going to arrange for someone to meet Tomasso. If the meeting happened, officials said, Tomasso would have been pressured to wire money in exchange for the keys, officials said.

"That's why this almost worked,'' the West Haven man said. "It all sounds legit. If you call to check you find out that the house is for rent. And the guy says, `You've seen pictures of the inside. You know what it looks like. But a lot of people are interested.'''

The email, purportedly from "Amy Matthews'' in West Africa, did not sound as if it was written by someone whose first language is English. The Milford house is not owned by an Amy Matthews, according to city land records.

Officer Jeff Nielsen said that Milford police are familiar with the scam, but that until this week it hadn't happened here. Tomasso and Vincelette filed a complaint, and police are investigating.

Hebert said her department investigates Internet scams and assists local police, who have the primary enforcement responsibility. "We maintain a database of incidents from all over the country that they can tap into, and we do a lot of public education. We have a consumer alert about hijacked real estate listings and how people can protect themselves.''

Vincelette and Tomasso are working together to find his family a house near the beach where he can recuperate from the transplant surgery scheduled for later this year. "In a way there's a silver lining in this,'' Tomasso said. "I'm on a fixed income due to illness, and if I lost that money it would have really devastated us. But a lot of people have heard about this now and are helping us.''

fjuliano@ctpost.com; 203-520-6986; http://twitter.com/FrankJuliano

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RealtyStore Pro becomes more valuable for real estate agents. In addition to its promotional and lead generation tools, RealtyStore Pro now allows agents to upload their listings on the industry leading RealtyStore.com website, reaching millions of late-stage home buyers.

Santa Barbara, CA (PRWEB) March 09, 2012

The Post Your Listings feature brings more value to the RealtyStore Pro service, which provides agents and brokers with a highly targeted, integrated promotional platform for generating home buyer leads at the lowest cost in the industry.

RealtyStore is consistently proving to be the low-cost leader in the industry with the most comprehensive product available to help agents promote their services, said Tim Chin, CEO and co-founder of RealtyStore. Agents who have relied on the RealtyStore Pro service to generate new homebuyer leads can now draw more attention to their own listings from RealtyStores audience of millions of motivated, late-stage home buyers.

The new Post Your Listings feature allows agents and brokers to upload their listings with ease. With 3 simple steps, agents and brokers can upload up to one hundred complete property listings with twenty images for each listing. This new feature brings more value to the already robust lead generation product.

Post Your Listings is available now at no additional cost to RealtyStore Pro members. To learn more about RealtyStore Pro or become a preferred agent, visit http://www.realtystore.com/rep.

About RealtyStore

RealtyStore (http://www.realtystore.com), a division of Nations Info Corporation, is the leading provider of foreclosure listings and discount property data nationwide. RealtyStore's mission is to empower its customers with the tools, education and analysis required to identify and potentially maximize profits with undervalued real estate. Collected from hundreds of public and private sources, RealtyStore's proprietary database includes over 1 million listings including pre-foreclosures, foreclosures, short sales, tax defaults and rent to own or owner financed listings. As the foreclosure listings industry leader, RealtyStore.com is the most visited foreclosure website and is the only specialized foreclosures website to rank in the Hitwise Top 20 Internet Usage Report for the Real Estate Category.

Peter Ranck RealtyStore.com 1(805) 277-4914 Email Information

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But the question I asked myself when I read the article was, "why didn't Yahoo become a technology leader?" 1Read More 24 Comment(s) First impressions: Windows 8 consumer preview Linked by Thom Holwerda on 03/02/12 16:16 UTC Wednesday was the big day for Microsoft - the largest overhaul of its operating system since Windows 95 (heck, I'd argue the overhaul is far larger than Windows 95) went into consumer preview. I've been running it on my Asus ZenBook since its release, and in all honesty, it's not as arduous as I expected. I'm not planning on doing a full review, but I do want to mention a number of things - both positive and negative - that stood out to me. 5Read More 111 Comment(s) Microsoft up to its old tricks with Windows 8 versions Linked by David Adams on 03/02/12 15:55 UTC, submitted by sawboss By all early reports, Windows 8 is going to be a good operating system. Microsoft's hegemony may be crumbling in a mobile computing onslaught, but its core empire remains undimmed. However, whereas Windows 7 had three versions, Windows 8 will apparently be ballooning to 9 versions. 0Read More 79 Comment(s) Raspberry Pi launch turns into frenzy Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/29/12 9:47 UTC This morning, I experienced the nerd equivalent of a Black Friday $50 iPad sale. At 07:00 CET, the first batch of the much-anticipated Raspberry Pi went on sale, and while Raspberry Pi itself was very properly prepared, the two large international retailers actually selling the device weren't - despite warnings from Raspberry Pi about the enormous amount of traffic that would come their way, the two sites crumbled to dust within seconds. There's good news too - the cheaper model A has seen its RAM doubled at no additional cost. 9Read More 104 Comment(s) How to Integrate SATA and IDE Drives Linked by Howard Fosdick on 02/29/12 0:56 UTC Current computers use SATA disk drives. Pentium IV's and earlier computers used the IDE drive standards. 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GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., March 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR - News), a global information technology consulting, services and outsourcing company, today announced that it has closed the previously announced sale of its Federal division and related assets to CRGT Inc., a leading provider of full life-cycle IT services and expert in emerging technology solutions for the Federal government. As previously announced, the closing price was $40 million.

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"This sale was an important strategic step in creating value for our shareholders, and allows us to focus on the core components of our growth," said CIBER President and CEO David Peterschmidt.

Claude Pumilia, Executive Vice President and CFO, commented, "We expect net cash proceeds of $34 million, subject to adjustments for working capital items post-closing. We are committed to using at least $9 million of the proceeds to further pay down debt under our existing credit facility."

About CIBER, Inc.

CIBER, Inc. is a global information technology consulting, services and outsourcing company applying practical innovation through services and solutions that deliver tangible results for both commercial and government clients. Services include application development and management, ERP implementation, change management, project management, systems integration, infrastructure management and end-user computing, as well as strategic business and technology consulting. Founded in 1974 and headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado, CIBER has more than 7,400 employees and subcontractors and operates in 18 countries, serving clients in North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. Annual revenue in 2011 was $1 billion. CIBER trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CBR - News), and is included in the Russell 2000 Index and the S&P Small Cap 600 Index. For more information, visitwww.ciber.com.

About CRGT Inc.

CRGT is a full life-cycle services provider and leading expert in emerging technology solutions for the Federal government. Working as a close partner with government agencies spanning national defense, domestic security and civilian services, CRGT has earned a proud track record of success with integration and operations for large-scale, high-volume solutions that connect these vital agencies to their diverse constituencies. CRGT is best known for programs such as Army Knowledge Online (AKO), an enterprise-scale, cloud-based, knowledge management solution serving over 2.3 million users globally. More broadly, CRGT is known for its work across numerous innovative technology domains, including enterprise mobile computing, cloud services, visually and spatially oriented analytics solution and cyber security in support clients such as the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Army, the Veterans Administration, United States Postal Service, Montgomery County, MD and more. Spun out from CherryRoad Technologies in 2008, CRGT is a uniquely positioned, nimble organization that offers customers the flexibility and agility they have valued for over 25 years combined with the strength that comes from being part of the Veritas Capital group. For additional information on CRGT, please visit http://www.crgt.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 relating to our operations, results of operations and other matters that are based on our current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections. Words, such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "expect," "estimate," "intend," "may," "opportunity," "plan," "potential," "project," "should," and "will" and similar expressions, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. For example, we make certain forward-looking statements regarding our current expectations for revenue, cash flow, debt balances and profitability for certain of our business units or the Company for 2012 and the future. These statements reflect a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements. These risks include, without limitation, risks that: (1)economic and political conditions, including regulatory or legislative action, adversely affect us or our clients' businesses and levels of business activity; (2) the refinancing of our credit facility is not completed as expected, in which case we face covenant issues; (3)we cannot expand and develop our services and solutions in response to changes in technology and client demand; (4)we cannot compete as effectively as we expect in the highly competitive consulting, systems integration and technology and outsourcing markets; (5)our work in the government contracting environment exposes us to additional risks; (6)our clients may terminate their contracts with us or they may be unable or unwilling to pay us for our services, which may impact our accounting assumptions; (7)our outsourcing services subject us to operational and financial risk; (8)we cannot maintain favorable pricing and utilization rates; (9)our business is restricted by our current level of indebtedness and we could breach our financial covenants, and/or be unable to amend, extend or replace our current debt facility under favorable terms; (10)we cannot anticipate the cost and complexity of performing our work or we are not able to control our costs especially on fixed price contracts; (11) our global operations are subject to complex risks, some of which are beyond our control, including, but not limited to, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates; (12) we cannot balance our resources with client demand or hire sufficient employees with the required skills and background; (13) we may incur liability from our subcontractors' or other third parties' failure to deliver their project contributions on time or at all; (14) we cannot manage the organizational challenges associated with our size or our business strategy; (15) our share price could fluctuate due to numerous factors, including variability in revenues, operating results and profitability; and/or (16) other factors discussed from time to time in the Company's news releases and public statements, as well as the risks, uncertainties and other factors discussed under the "Risk Factors" heading in the Company's Form10-Q and most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Most of these factors are beyond CIBER's ability to predict or control. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance and speak only as of the date they are made, and CIBER undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements.

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