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Heather and Jose Arjona Find New Ways to Help People with New Business, Caring Transitions of Lubbock

Sunday, May 25th, 2014


Lubbock, TX (PRWEB) May 22, 2014

When Heather Arjona became a pharmacist, it was because she wanted to make a real difference in peoples lives. But as that career became more about cheap prescriptions and sheer speed, she knew it was time for a change.

Thats why Heather and her husband Jose Arjona just launched Caring Transitions of Lubbock, Texas.

Caring Transitions is Americas largest resource specializing in organizing and managing senior relocations, downsizing, liquidation of belongings and estate sales for seniors who are moving to a smaller home, back in with their children, or into assisted living facilities as well as others facing life transitions. In addition to the organizing, packing and move oversight, Caring Transitions can handle on-site or online estate sales, junk removal and cleanout, and preparing homes for market.

Ive always been the kind of person who has a true desire to help people. I used to love being a pharmacist because I got to work with patients and talk to them about ways to help them feel better. But when $ 4 generics came out, we had less and less time to work directly with the customers. We were thinking about starting a new career when we came across an article about Caring Transitions. This is a perfect fit for us, Heather said. The majority of our employees are family and thats what were all about. Its our family helping your family through what can be a very difficult time. We are here to be your advocate.”

Each Caring Transitions franchisee is a Certified Relocation and Transition Specialist, a designation bestowed by an independent organization that evaluates providers of senior relocation services. They are trained, bonded and insured. This new franchise will bring several new jobs to the area as Caring Transitions of Lubbock grows.

Heather is originally from Iowa and she followed in her fathers footsteps and worked as a pharmacist for 23 years, including a pharmacy manager for almost 12 years. During that time, despite working many 12 hour shifts, Heather found time to work with interns and serve as an adjunct professor at Drake University.

Jose hails from Lockney, Texas, and he worked for Cargill Hybrid Seed for 21 years before the company was bought out. In that career, he had the opportunity to work within the community. He participated in the literacy program where he read to children, taught farm safety to little ones and helped build a playground. For the last few years Jose has been working with developing confectionery sunflower seeds with Triumph Seed in Ralls, Texas.

Heather and Jose have been married for six years and the family has four children and two grandchildren.

Weve both been through divorce, so we know the pain of trying to separate the belongings and move on, and weve helped elderly family members move into assisted living when that became needed. Weve also moved ourselves across the nation. These experiences really help us relate to our clients. We know what theyre going through because weve been there too, Heather said.

Founded in 2006, Caring Transitions has been a trusted and highly respected national company leading the way in senior relocation, household liquidations and estate sale management in more than 130 locations across the United States. Caring Transitions is part of the International Franchise Association, the Small Business Associations Franchise Registry, VetFran and Minority Fran.

To learn more about how Caring Transitions can help you and your family, call 806-686-3360, email harjona(at)caringtransitions(dot)net or visit http://www.CaringTransitionsLubbock.com.

About Caring Transitions

Caring Transitions, founded in 2006, is the first national franchising concept specializing in Senior Relocation and Transition Services. With locations throughout North America, Caring Transitions provides clients with expert advice plus a well-executed transition plan beginning with the initial sorting of personal belongings through packing, shipping and selling of items to the final clearing and cleaning of the property. For more information, visit http://www.caringtransitions.com.







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Federal Business Centers Undergoes Software-as-a-Service Migration to Streamline Their Commercial Management Process

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014

Cleveland Ohio (PRWEB) April 01, 2014

Federal Business Centers Raritan Center, a mixed-use business park in New Jersey, has taken advantage of MRI Softwares award-winning property management solutions for over a decade. After reaching a point where they would need to purchase a new server in the next 24 months, Federal Business Centers explored the option of switching to MRIs Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Recognizing the value and cost savings associated with MRI taking on the task of hosting their critical data, applications, and information, the company decided to move forward with the migration.

MRI SaaS ensures cost effective, reliable remote site communications from anywhere with a functioning internet connection. The secure hosting solution provides real-time access to clients crucial data, communications, and applications network via a state-of-the-art Tier III+ data center. The SaaS offering also incorporates detailed back-up and recovery procedures, comprehensive disaster recovery services including a redundant site, and 24/7 operational and technical support. Moreover, as new versions of MRI become available, SaaS users are upgraded to the most recent module with minimal impact to their business, enabling them to take advantage of product enhancements as they become available.

We manage a diverse range of portfolios, and our Software-as-a-Service solution is designed to safely host each clients data and crucial applications regardless of their size or security needs, said Patrick Ghilani, President and Chief Operating Officer at MRI Software. Our award-winning platform has three distinct levels of service, and our team will work closely with Federal Business Centers to ensure they are using the best option for their unique business needs.

Federal Business Centers will also employ MRI Tenant Connect at Raritan Center, an industry-specific customer portal that delivers online self-service capabilities to its customers. The solutions acts as a fully brandable, secure online presence that empowers users to complete key account management functions online, such as the ability to pay rent and fees, view real-time statements and account balances, and submit and view the status of maintenance requests. Best of all, property managers can easily send email communications and newsletters to their entire client network, ensuring tenants are up to date with any news or policy changes.

For more information about MRIs Commercial solutions, visit our website.

About MRI Software

MRI offers property management software solutions to the global real estate management and investment industries. As a leading provider of real estate enterprise software applications and hosted solutions, MRI serves the global multifamily and commercial property industries, helping them improve their bottom line and maximize their returns on their diverse business portfolios. MRI leverages its more than 40 years in business to develop long-term successful relationships with its clients. For more information, visit http://www.mrisoftware.com.

About Federal Business Centers

Federal Business Centers Raritan Center is one of the most widely selected business parks in New Jersey. Its home to hundreds of companies Fortune 500 companies, Global 500 companies, and market leaders from every business sector. As a master-planned, mixed-use business park, Raritan Center encompasses over 2,350 acres of land and almost 15 million square feet of business space, including office space, flex space, and warehouse/distribution space. Business amenities include restaurants, hotels, and banks, along with regional shipping centers for FedEx Express, United Parcel Service, FedEx Ground, and the United States Post Office.







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Release the Power of Social in Your Business With Interact Intranet 7.3

Saturday, February 15th, 2014


(PRWEB) February 01, 2014

Interact Intranet, a leading provider of intranet software, today announced their latest social feature rich release, Interact Intranet 7.3. The release is perfectly timed with the recent revelation by Nielson Norman Group that the worlds best intranets are now fully embracing, encouraging and even rewarding social activity by employees.

Having an intranet with social enterprise tools can bring a number of business benefits, such as improved employee engagement, faster decision making, more effective problem solving, reduced reliance on email and greater overall productivity.

Nigel Danson, CEO & Founder of Interact Intranet says:

It is great to see companies starting to fully embrace and realise the advantages of deploying social features successfully on their intranets. At Interact we believe social tools can bring massive competitive advantages when aligned to how people work; however on their own theyre not enough.

Interact Intranet 7.3 has been development based on what our customers said would further enhance collaboration between employees; helping to reduce group emails and enabling more effective conversations within their digital workspace, to get work done more effectively

The new features and enhancements within Interact Intranet 7.3 make any companys introduction or advancement into social even easier; ensuring collaboration is integrated with the way employees work.

Share and collaborate more effectively with groups of people

Intelligent @Mentioning ensures your intranet is a central place for employees to collaborate and reduces the use of email for group conversations, which can be time consuming and ineffective. Interact Intranet 7.3 now goes a step beyond connecting just individuals and content and now offers the ability to instantly @Mention departments, locations and teams into a conversation; connecting groups with similar interests to spark more purposeful social interactions.

Make collaboration easy with one click to a multilingual intranet

With ever increasing globalisation, a multilingual intranet removes the communication and collaboration barriers, which can be experienced when employees have a wide variety of different first languages. Interact Intranet 7.3 now seamlessly integrates with Google Translate to give employees the ability to comment or create discussions in their preferred language, with instant translation of all intranet content in 60+ languages.

#Tagging makes it easier to uncover conversations & content around a particular topic

#Tagging is a great way for Intranet Managers to create a horizontal architecture structure across their intranet and to improve the categorization and grouping of content and conversations for employees. Interact Intranet 7.3 has now introduced the #Tagging of pages to allow the grouping of similar types of content. For example #presentations would uncover all presentations and conversations around that relevant #Tag in a content area or across the intranet to quickly uncover the information employees need.

Keep social activity business relevant and employee specific

Employees can uncover relevant and more compelling information that improves knowledge sharing and collaboration with Interact Timelines social and intelligent feature enhancements. Media rich content now displays within an employees timeline, such as images from galleries, to make content more interesting, instigating further collaboration with instant liking, sharing and commenting.

Flexible intranet homepages to support employee conversations

Intranet homepages is a key real-estate area and vital to fully engage employees and ensure critical conversations and information arent missed. Interact Intranet 7.3 now offers greater flexibility with homepages, with more layout options, to support a wider range of social widgets, including; galleries, blogs, latest comments and topics that are trending.

To learn more about the latest Interact Intranet release, go to http://www.interact-intranet/interact-7-3.

To try Interact Intranet today, go to http://www.interact-intranet.com/try.

Notes to Editors

Press contact:

Sarah Guest

VP, Marketing

T: +44 (0)161 927 3222

E: sarah.guest(at)interact-intranet(dot)com

Interact Intranet

Interact Intranet is intelligent intranet software created by Interact. The flexible and scalable solution has more than 500,000 users and has revolutionized the way companies communicate, collaborate, share knowledge, and streamline internal processes. It has a unique Intelligence Store which logs information such as browsing routes, search entries, document ratings and hits and uses this information to promote content to users. Interact Intranet promotes a culture of collaboration and idea sharing by using corporate social networking and micro blogs. Non-technical users can quickly and easily update the intranet.

About Interact

Founded in 1996 with headquarters in the UK, Interact operates globally and is one of the fastest growing intranet software companies. Interact has built a strong reputation of delivering successful and collaborative intranet solutions to leading companies such as Superdrug, Arriva, G4S, NHS, Flight Centre and Make a Wish Foundation.

For further information, visit: http://www.interact-intranet.com.







Gettry Marcus Announces the Promotion of Two Senior Staff Members to the Accounting & Auditing and Business Valuation & Litigation Services Groups

Monday, February 3rd, 2014


Woodbury, NY (PRWEB) January 21, 2014

Gettry Marcus CPA, P.C. announced the promotions of Pamela L. Burman to Principal in the firms Accounting and Auditing Group and Gabe Shurek to Director in the firms Business Valuation & Litigation Services Group, effective January 1, 2014.

Pamela Burman, a resident of Crestwood, New York, has over 30 years experience in accounting, tax and financial services. Ms. Burman specializes in providing audit and consulting services for regional and national middle market privately held companies and not-for-profit organizations. She has significant experience performing audits and providing consulting services to companies in various industry sectors with emphasis on construction, manufacturing and real estate entities. In addition to her new role as Principal, Ms. Burman will also be managing the New York City office of Gettry Marcus.

Gabe Shurek, a resident of Massapequa Park, New York began his career with Gettry Marcus as a junior accountant in 2001, then rising through the ranks as a senior accountant, manager and Senior Manager. With over 15 years experience in forensic accounting and fraud detection, Mr. Shurek has been engaged by attorneys to perform services in complex litigation settings. He has managed engagements in various types of federal and state commercial matters, including stakeholder disputes, marital dissolutions and contract disputes. In addition, Mr. Shurek has applied forensic techniques in the area of bankruptcy, where he has represented bankruptcy Trustees, debtors and creditors’ committees in assignments such as solvency & preference analysis and investigations for fraudulent transfers.

Gettry Marcus is delighted to announce the promotions of Pam and Gabe, said Steven L. Marcus, Managing Partner. They are outstanding accountants in their respective practice areas and their exceptional capabilities will serve to further bolster Gettry Marcus strengths into the future, added Marcus.

ABOUT GETTRY MARCUS

Gettry Marcus CPA, P.C. is a Top 200 firm nationally with offices in Woodbury, Long Island and New York City. We provide accounting, tax, and consulting services to commercial businesses, high net worth individuals and various industries which include Real Estate and Health Care. We have one of the premier and most credentialed Business Valuation and Litigation Groups in the New York Area.

Our experience in diverse industries and a highly talented and experienced professional staff gives us the ability to share valuable insights into our clients businesses, to better understand their goals and problems and to help them attain the vision they have for their company.

Gettry Marcus is “Always Looking Deeper” to build value for our clients.

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Gettry Marcus CPA, P.C., a Leading Tax and Business Valuation Firm, Discusses an IRS Decision to Ease the Use-Or-Lose Rule for Health Flexible Spending Arrangements

Saturday, January 11th, 2014

Woodbury, NY (PRWEB) December 27, 2013

Leading tax, accounting and forensic accounting firm Gettry Marcus CPA, P.C., comments on health flexible spending arrangements (health FSAs). Health FSAs are popular savings vehicles for medical expenses, but their use has been held back by a strict use-or-lose rule. The IRS recently announced a significant change to encourage more employers to offer health FSAs and boost enrollment. At the plan sponsor’s option, employees participating in health FSAs will be able to carry over, instead of forfeiting, up to $ 500 of unused funds remaining at year-end.

Health expenses

Health FSAs are designed to reimburse participants for certain health care expenditures, typically expenses that qualify for the medical and dental expense deduction. Medical supplies, such as eye glasses and bandages, are usually treated as qualified expenses. However, nonprescription medicines (other than insulin) are not considered qualified medical expenses.

Health FSAs are often funded through voluntary salary reduction agreements with the participant’s employer under a cafeteria plan. In that case, they are very taxpayer-friendly because no federal employment or federal income taxes are deducted from the employee’s contribution. The employer may also contribute to a health FSA. However, there are special rules which govern employer contributions.

Typically, participants designate at the beginning of the year the amount they want to contribute to their health FSA and these amounts are deducted from their pay. For 2014, an employee’s salary reduction contributions cannot exceed $ 2,500. The $ 2,500 cap is very important because cafeteria plans that do not limit health FSA contributions to $ 2,500 are not treated as cafeteria plans, and all benefits offered under the plan are included in the participants’ gross income.

Use-or-lose rule

As mentioned, the use-or-lose rule is a drawback to health FSAs. Unused amounts remaining in the health FSA at year-end are forfeited. Employers are not allowed to refund any unused funds in a health FSA. Critics of the use-or-lose rule argue that it has discouraged participation in health FSAs because many employees do not want to risk forfeiting unused funds. Often, participants have to scramble at year-end to use their health FSA dollars.

Grace period option

A few years ago, the IRS modified the use-or-lose rule. The IRS allowed cafeteria plans to adopt a grace period. Participants can use amounts remaining in a health FSA at year-end for up to an additional two months and 15 days. This grace period is optional. Employers are not required to offer the grace period, although many do.

To learn about additional options, visit the Gettry Marcus tax update page.

Gettry Marcus CPA, P.C. is a Top 200 firm nationally with offices in Woodbury, Long Island and New York City. We provide accounting, tax, and consulting services to commercial businesses, high net worth individuals and various industries which include Real Estate and Health Care. We have one of the premier and most credentialed Business Valuation, Litigation and Forensic Accounting Groups in the New York Area. Our experience in diverse industries and a highly talented and experienced professional staff gives us the ability to share valuable insights into our clients businesses, to better understand their goals and problems and to help them attain the vision they have for their company.

Gettry Marcus is “Always Looking Deeper” to build value for our clients. Visit the Gettry Marcus tax page here.

Media inquiries: Contact Fayellen Dietchweiler at 516-364-3390 ext. 225 or at fdietchweiler(at)gettrymarcus(dot)com.

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