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Dr. Dean Dornic is one of the Carolinas’ most experienced and qualified refractive surgeons, having performed thousands of successful LASIK surgery procedures at his Cary practice and at area clinics and hospitals! He is a board-certified, fellowship-trained, vision correction specialist dedicated to the highest standards in ophthalmic surgery.

Dr. Dean Dornic is the first Raleigh / Durham-area ophthalmologist to perform IntraLase®, a revolutionary advance in LASIK that utilizes a laser rather than a metal blade to make the LASIK flap. He is also the first area ophthalmologist to provide Intacs®, LTK, and the Verisyse™ implantable contact lens. His extensive experience in a variety of vision correction procedures means that he can offer the procedure most likely to satisfy your visual needs.

Dr. Dean Dornic is an active member of the medical staff at Rex Health Care Center, WakeMed Cary Hospital and Johnston Memorial Hospital.

After completing his ophthalmology training at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio, he underwent additional fellowship training in refractive surgery at the prestigious Sinskey Eye Institute in Santa Monica, California.

Dr. Dean Dornic brought his expertise in refractive surgery to North Carolina in 1998, and has been practicing here ever since. In addition to having a thriving LASIK eye surgery practice in Cary, Dr. Dean Dornic is a recognized authority in vision correction procedures, having lectured at international meetings and publishing a book and various papers on ophthalmological topics.

Dr. Dean Dornic has trained other ophthalmologists in LASIK surgery, and his Cary practice has played host to numerous physicians who have requested refractive surgery from him for themselves. He has also successfully performed LASIK on family members and many of his own staff and their loved ones who are now enjoying life with greater freedom from glasses and contacts.

Dr. Dean Dornic is board-certified and is a member of the International Society of Refractive Surgeons, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmologists. He is the recipient of several awards and honors and has been named one of “America’s Top Ophthalmologists” and “Top 100 Refractive Surgeons.”

In addition to standard LASIK surgery at his Cary practice, Dr. Dean Dornic performs wave front-guided LASIK, LASEK, PRK, LTK, Intacs®, CK®, AK, refractive lens exchange and implantable contact lenses. He would be pleased to meet with you and personalize a treatment that is right for your vision needs

Jerry LeBlanc was an Investment advisor for nine years and sold his company, Sentinel Investments, to Blake Carpenter so that he could pursue starting a REIT.

A Real Estate Investment Trust or REIT is a tax designation for a corporation investing in real estate that reduces or eliminates corporate income taxes. In return, REITs are required to distribute 90% of their income, which may be taxable, into the hands of the investors. The REIT structure was designed to provide a similar structure for investment in real estate as mutual funds provide for investment in stocks.

Like other corporations, REITs can be publicly or privately held. Public REITs may be listed on public stock exchanges like shares of common stock in other firms.

REITs can be classified as equity, mortgage or hybrid.

The key statistics to look at in a REIT are its net asset value (NAV), adjusted funds from operations (AFFO) and cash available for distribution (CAD). REITs face challenges from both a slowing economy and the global financial crisis, depressing share values by 40 to 70 percent in some cases.

Jerry LeBlanc

Tayo Falade has installed a new blog to keep friends and family up to date on his life and to share interesting information he finds online. Tayo Falade is using wordpress to manage his blog and will update his new blog soon. Wordpress is the easiest blog platform to use and it can be customized 100%. Check out Tayo Falade’s new blog.

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Geno Brunton founded The Brunton Corporation in 1994 and serves as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Geno Brunton serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Brunton Vineyards Holdings, Inc. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vianet Technology Group Ltd. and Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of CastPro.com Inc. Prior to CastPro.com, Mr. Brunton served as General Manager of Ross Drugs and also as the Senior Producer and Writer … of L.A. based Business World News. Mr. Brunton serves as Director of Brunton Vineyards Inc. and Thaon Communications Inc. He served as Director of L.A. based Business World News.

As a long time professional working within the field of higher education, Jill Landesberg-Boyle’s career has been full of opportunities, wonderful friendships made over the years, and the joy of working with hundreds of students who have touched my life. As a leader in higher education administration, I strive to make each day one in which I touch the life of a student in a positive way.

It is often said that experiential learning activities can provide transformative life experiences, which can shape career goals, improve educational outcomes, and facilitate student development. For Dr. Jill Landesberg-Boyle, this is not just a cliche. She found her career through the co-curricular experiences she had as an undergraduate resident assistant at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Although unaware at the time, she had taken her first steps into a job that would turn out to be a life-long passion and profession.

Dr. Boyle studied multicultural organizational development and applied group studies in graduate school. She instructed numerous courses in student development and diversity. As founding advisor and coordinator, she developed a co-curricular experience and credit-bearing course to comprise a new venture, the University of Massachusetts Residential Honors Program. her work provided the groundwork that enabled the program to flourish.

Upon earning her doctorate, she accepted a post at the University of Judaism, now the American Jewish University where she distinguished herself and was promoted after one year to dean of students. She then headed to Southeastern Louisiana University (SLU). where, as dean of students, Dr. Landesberg-Boyle oversaw a multi-million dollar division. She initiated new diversity efforts including programming on race relations, resident assistant cultural awareness training for and multicultural campus coalition sessions. Dr. Jill Landesberg-Boyle was the first white woman at SLU to be asked to be a faculty advisor by a historically black sorority, Zeta Phi Beta. While at Southeastern, she rewrote the institution’s Student Code of Conduct, was actively involved in alcohol education initiatives and assisted in the audit of federal regulatory compliance.

In 2005, Dr. Jill Landesberg-Boyle was named vice president at the Pennsylvania College of Technology (PCT). Part of the Pennsylvania State University system, PCT specializes in offering workforce and vocational programs in applied technology and confers certificates, associate and baccalaureate degrees. She significantly increased financial aid for students, oversaw the reconstruction of the fitness center, advanced community partnerships, and led a comprehensive assessment of institutional student learning outcomes.

In May of 2007, she was selected as the fourth president, and first female president, of Florida Keys Community College. The college had been placed on academic warning status in its last re-affirmation visit and enrollment was down to approximately 600 FTE, leaving many to question whether it could be sustained even with the most Herculean efforts. Not to be deterred, as one of her early critical actions, President Landesberg-Boyle began a recruitment strategy that turned the school into the fastest growing in the community college system. Some of her key initiatives included an award winning website, attracting millions of dollars to the small college, and outreach to federal sources. Support from new donors, competitive grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) agencies, and a significant congressional appropriation.

Many national and local partnerships were solicited, beginning with a key partnership with Raytheon Corporation featured in Florida Trend Magazine. She was very active in environmental concerns on campus, including participating in events, ensuring environmental building standards, initiating solar workforce development classes, and choosing a master plan featuring sustainable, native landscaping. She led the elevation of the marine science program which now attracts students from around the country.

A highlight of her work at FKCC was her legislative work with the Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen on a $2.24 million federal appropriation to create a center for homeland port security with the Department of Defense.

Dr. Landesberg-Boyle improved faculty salaries an average of 20% in just two short years, provided health care support for partners of gay and lesbian employees, subsidized health care premiums for families for the first time in the college’s history, and provided holiday bonuses - all at a time when most colleges in the state were laying off.

1-800LoanMart is a direct financer title loan company, and not a bank. We are not bogged down with the regulatory constraints that make most bankers hesitate to advance small or large amounts of money. This form of financing will enable car owners to achieve their financial objectives by supplying them with the money they need to help them get by. We are able to give most people who own cars loans because our financing methods are secured by the value of the car, and not by our customer’s credit. We are licensed by the State and members of the Better Business Bureau.

We will do our best to…

• Loan the maximum amount of money based on the value of your car and your car title ownership.
• Provide fast funding by continually seeking ways to automate the title loan process.
• Build the trust of our customers by being upfront and honest in all transactions and interactions.
• Create a comfortable business environment for our customers.

We realize that our most valuable asset is our reputation. This is why we always treat our customer’s right by always returning their title to their car upon repayment of their loans.

1-800LoanMart
15821 Ventura Blvd. Suite 185
Encino, CA 91436

Dr. Anna Szmitko and the Forest Green Dental Care Team would like to welcome you to our friendly and modern dental practice. Our team of professionals pride themselves in providing you with high quality dentistry in a comfortable, relaxed and friendly environment. Our philosophy is focused on our commitment to our patient’s optimal oral and dental health. Our goal is to help you achieve a beautiful and healthy smile. We look forward to providing you and your family with high quality and pain free dentistry in a prompt, friendly and informative manner.

Photon infotech is A Next Generation Internet Consulting Firm Accelerating Innovation.

Photon specializes in cutting edge business solutions that utilize Social Media , next generation mobile, Web 2.0, SOA, Open Source and many other emerging technologies.

With more than 600 customers and thousands of IT projects in Social Media , Next generation mobile, Web 2.0, SOA, and Open Source , Photon InfoTech enables large Enterprises and Venture backed SME companies alike to leverage our one-of-a kind workforce of elite IT experts to create revenue generating business solutions.

Srinivas Balasubramanian is the CEO and Mukund Balasubramanian is the CTO.

Social Media Framework

Photon’s Social Media Framework - SMF is geared towards providing a robust platform to build next generation applications across multiple channels with customizable Web 2.0 based features to Connect, Collaborate, Contribute, Communicate, Commerce around Content on the Web and Mobile.

This framework is not just about providing features to enable Social Media but utilizes Photon’s rich experience in helping corporations as well as enterprises, successfully deliver mission critical social media based applications. It will guide you to deliver a world class Social Media enabled experience and give a whole new dimension to your Web and Mobile presence.

Key Benefits

Expand Market Reach
Enrich User Experience
Enhance Conversion Rate
Sustain Customer Loyalty
Save Cost
Syndication
Who can Benefit

Corporations: Can use it to establish an organization-wide collaborative environment and facilitate users to seamlessly traverse the department silos. It would also allow coordinated flow of information and help the corporate executives quickly access information using our consolidated Information Dashboard of Mashups.

Enterprises/Venture Backed/New Age Startups: Can use it to deliver rich content across channels and allow consumer to share content and express their views in a collaborative environment. It can be extended to monetize content as well as products using the eCommerce and mCommerce features.

Social Media on web :

Enterprise 2.0 : People can collaborate, react more quickly and hence make better decisions. An opportunity to make a more efficient, productive and intelligent workforce.
Microsites : Broadcast your product or service to the target audience with the maximum effciency.

OpenSocial : Gives the opportunity for social applications to expose to a single set of APIs and run on any OpenSocial-enabled applications
Facebook : leverage the large user base on Facebook by building applications on Facebook as well as connecting your existing applications to Facebook.

Twitter : New age micro blogging concept to communicate with your customers, partners and employees. Potential medium to generate alternate revenue streams

ICON Payment Solutions is one of the fastest growing providers of wholesale credit card and debit card based payment processing services in the U.S. Our objective is to offer merchants a level of professionalism and service no other payment processor can equal. We endeavor to offer the most competitive rates in the industry.

As a Wholesaler in the Merchant Services industry, we are able to offer our merchants a variety of guarantees.

Below are a few examples of some of our guarantees:

1. Rates not to increase for up to 4 years except to Visa MC pass through increases

2. Lifetime upgrades and replacement on any and all Processing Equipment purchased or leased through IPS

3. Processing and Lease contract buyout opportunities

Icon Payment Mission Statement:

ICON Payment Solutions goal is to provide our sales force with all of the tools necessary to succeed.
With over 25 years experience in this industry our Principals know how to make this happen. Having built up two very successful ISO’s they have seen and done it all, they have also learned what other ISO’s and processors do well and what they need to do better.
We can create a program capable of saving you money today. Our commitment and goal is to provide unparalleled customer service,
and technical support along with any other help we can offer to our merchants.

With over 30 years experience in the merchant service industry, we know what you need and how to help you the merchant the most effective way possible.

We are excited to be able to take care of your credit card processing needs; let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you.
This company has been built on that knowledge and is what ICON Payment Solutions prides itself on, being able to have the competitive advantage over any other Agent Partnership Program you have seen to date.

In building up ICON Payment Solutions the goal has been to put together a company and a package second to none, starting with our backend services from Underwriting, Customer Service, Account Retention, down to Agent Partner Support.
The company has also gone out and put together an extremely attractive package as far as the types of products and services you will be able to offer to your merchants, you will find a complete list of these items in this packet.

Along with that we have put a great list of products and services together for our Agent Partners in order to make your job a little easier and give you the ability to focus on signing merchant accounts. At the end of the day, our company was built on sales.
Because of that, we know what it takes for you to be successful, and believe us, that is our desire. We want you to be able to focus your efforts forward and on closing, so whatever we can do to make that happen for you we are ready!

ICON Payment Solutions, Inc. is a registered ISO and MSP of HSBC Bank, National Association, Buffalo, NY.

ICON Payment Solutions, Inc. is a registered ISO and MSP of Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, Walnut Creek, CA

Debt lead conversions are extremely inflated when lead providers market their services. You will see advertisements stating closing ratios of 18% for an Internet lead and 25% for a live lead. Well that may happen one day or even one week, but overall conversions are not going to be that high. In reality they do not need to close at that rate to earn a nice ROI. If I am selling overpriced shared leads or expensive exclusive leads then of course I am going to hype up my closing ratios to sell my leads. In the end it is all about your conversions. Your price per lead does not matter if the closing ratios support what you are paying.

Reading too much into pricing could lead you away from a good debt lead provider. A debt lead provider priced too low could be a sign of a debt lead provider selling bad leads or it could be a debt lead provider that generates their leads in house. This makes their price per lead much lower. A debt lead provider with high priced leads is either a reseller or is generating debt leads via marketing channels such as Google PPC. Generating debt leads via Google PPC can run a company anywhere from $20 to $35 just to generate one quality lead.

A better way to look at lead cost or lead buying is to determine a target cost per sale. It varies in the debt settlement industry. You have companies that are happy with a $500 cost per sale and some that demand a $200 cost per sale. Establishing this number can help in determining a good lead source. Cost per sale or close is the total dollars spent on marketing to achieve a sale.

Most research shows that a shared Internet debt lead closes at about 3 to 4 percent. Sounds low but if you are paying $10 for the leads then you are going to hit a $250 to $300 cost per close. Exclusive Internet debt leads close around 10 percent. Depending on what you are paying for exclusive leads it may be more profitable to go with exclusive debt leads. Each of these numbers are just examples. There are going to be cases where a certain lead is closing better for one company compared to another.

Other factors that increase debt lead closing ratios are a good lead management system, a good return policy and a well trained sales team.

Before you start buying debt leads or move to a new debt lead provider try and establish a target cost per close. Share it with the debt lead provider and establish a plan to hit your target. If the closing ratios are not high enough then maybe your debt lead provider can lower the cost per lead to meet your target.

If you want a set cost per close then our Pay per Sale Program is the right solution for you.

For more information on these services visit IDebtLeads.com for Debt Leads.