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Monday, January 14, 2019

Survey & Ballot Systems Partners with Electro Savings Credit Union on Cooperative Blog Series

Survey & Ballot Systems (SBS), a leading provider of election services and secure online voting systems, today announced the launch of the Cooperative Series, a collection of guest blog posts written by Jim Struble, President and CEO of Electro Savings Credit Union (ESCU). Click here.

"We're thrilled to partner with ESCU, a truly innovative credit union on this project. The excitement Jim and his team have for their members is tremendous and really captures the spirit of being a member centric credit union," said Tony Hoff, SBS' Marketing Manager.

The Cooperative Series will feature how credit unions can enhance relationships with their member-owners, empower their employees, further community relations and inspire forward thinking goal setting.

To read part one of the series on how to put a premium on employee engagement visit:

https://www.surveyandballotsystems.com/blog/credit-unions/cooperative-movements-employee-engagement

About SBS:

SBS has been setting the standard in election management since 1990. We connect associations, organizations, cooperatives, clubs and credit unions with their members through online, paper and hybrid elections, surveys and evaluations. For more information, please visit http://www.surveyandballotsystems.com

About ESCU:

Established in 1941 by the employees of Union Electric Company (now Ameren), Electro Savings Credit Union is a full-service, not-for-profit cooperative financial institution. In addition to its Maryland Heights, Wildwood, Manchester and South County offices, Electro Savings members may access their accounts online, in a mobile app, and at CO-OP ATMs and Shared Branches. Membership in Electro Savings Credit Union is available to individuals who live or work in St. Louis City and County, St. Charles, Franklin and Jefferson counties in Missouri, and Jersey, Madison, St. Clair and Monroe counties in Illinois. Electro Savings also offers business services, business loans, and a no-cost employee benefits program to local businesses. To learn more, visit http://www.electrosavings.com.

Contact:

Sean M. Donohue
sdonohue(at)surveyandballotsystems(dot)com
7653 Anagram Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
952-974-2300

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This New Year, Giroud Tree and Lawn Encourages Homeowners to Resolve to Take the Weight Off of Their Trees!

Trees can be overweight too! Giroud Tree and Lawn explains why there are several reasons homeowners should have trees pruned, and winter is a great time to clean things up on the property!

Health and Safety Tree Pruning

Heavy weight deadwood branches can lead to serious damage, especially during windy or icy storms. The crown of the tree should be pruned to reduce wind resistance. Now is a great time to identify and remove diseased limbs. An ISA Certified Arborist can establish a healthy growth pattern by promoting a dominant leader and selectively removing crossed branches.

Prevent Easy Access for Unwanted Critters

Overgrown branches can act as bridges for squirrels and other creatures right onto rooves and into attics! Trimming branches back from the home will help avoid uninvited guests and the damage they can cause to a house.

Improve the View... And the Lawn!

Improve landscape views by elevating and shaping trees around pools, patios, drives, walkways and gardens. Pruning trees now will allow more daylight to reach under story plants and help kick start lush lawn growth in the spring!

Giroud Tree and Lawn encourages homeowners to resolve to help trees lose the excess weight this winter! Homeowners should have all trees evaluated by an ISA Certified Arborist to assess the condition of the trees. An Arborist may prescribe a weight loss program of professional pruning to help trees look their best and keep the property safe.

Read latest news here.:

https://jessicapressreleases.blogspot.com/2018/05/owlet-raises-24-million-in-series-b.html

About Giroud Tree and Lawn
Giroud Tree and Lawn specializes in tree service, lawn care and mosquito and tick control programs that make customers love doing business with the company since 1974. Serving Bucks, Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties, the company offers professional tree and lawn evaluation, tree pruning, tree removal, insect and disease control, fertilizing, stump removal, traditional and 100% organic lawn programs and mosquito and tick control. Giroud Arborists are certified by the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) and have the knowledge and experience required to properly diagnose, treat and maintain trees and lawn health. The company is Accredited by the Tree Care Industry Association and Better Business Bureau. Giroud has also been awarded the Angie's List Super Service Award® every year since 2005. The "Giroud Treework for Charity" program donates free tree care services to parks, historical sites and other non-profit organizations located in the Company's service area. For more information, visit the company website at http://www.giroudtree.com or call 215-682-7704.

Latest ez1095 ACA Software From Halfpricesoft.com Offers In-House Filing For Quicker Processing

Regardless of size, all employers that provide self-insured health coverage to employees must file an annual return, reporting certain information for each employee covered. Halfpricesoft.com announces the easier, in-house processing of ACA forms with ez1095 ACA software. The 1095C, 1094C, 1095B and 1094B forms for the upcoming tax season have been implemented and approved by the SSA to print on plain white paper for those wanting to print instead of efiling.

"ez1095 2018 software is an excellent choice for saving time and money when processing of ACA forms, in-house." said Dr. Ge, the Founder of Halfpricesoft.com. Read latest news here.

ez1095 software offers customers a user-friendly graphic interface and Windows menus to make the software quick and easy to set up, use and understand. Priced from just $195 per installation, ($295 for efile version) Read news here.

Customers that need to file Form 1095C, 1094C, 1095B and 1094B can download and try out this ACA software from halfpricsoft.com before purchasing with no obligation by visiting http://www.halfpricesoft.com/aca-1095/form-1095-software-free-download.asp

The main features include but are not limited to :

ez1095 software is compatible Windows 10, 8.1, 8, and 7. Designed with simplicity in mind, ez1095 software is easy to use and flexible. ez1095 software's graphical interface leads customers step-by-step through setting up company, adding employees, add forms and print forms. Customers can also click form level help links to get more details regarding the software. Read here.

To learn more about ez1095 ACA software, customers can visit http://www.halfpricesoft.com/aca-1095/aca-1095-software.asp

About halfpricesoft.com
Halfpricesoft.com is a leading provider of small business software, including online and desktop payroll software, online employee attendance tracking software, accounting software, in-house business and personal check printing software, W2, software, 1099 software, Accounting software, 1095 form software and ezACH direct deposit software. Software from halfpricesoft.com is trusted by thousands of customers and will help small business owners simplify payroll processing and streamline business management.

The Second Edition of Lürzer’s Grand Slam is Now Open for Entries

Lürzer's Archive, the bible of advertising, is opening the doors for the second edition of Lürzer's Grand slam: the only creative competition that rewards the best ideas with cash. Winners at the Lürzer's Grand Slam will not be given the same old metals, but prize money. Read news here.

The second edition comes with a couple of category changes that will allow submitters more possibilities to enter work in the following categories: FILM, PRINT & OUTDOOR, DIGITAL, DIRECT & ACTIVATION, AUDIO & SOUND, PHOTOGRAPHY, CAMPAIGN.

Real value for great ideas

Lürzer's Grand Slam directs 60 percent of all the entry fees to the winners: Silver winners will receive two times higher prize money than bronze winners, while gold winners will receive three times higher prize money than silver winners. Be alert to read related news.

Plus, all the entrants that submit work to Lürzer's Grand Slam will get a free Lürzer's Archive subscription for one year.

Washington Olivetto (McCann Europe) is president of the jury

Creative Consultant for McCann Europe, Washington Olivetto is not only a worldwide advertising icon, but a popular and influential Brazilian figure.

One of the most awarded advertising men of all times, Olivetto has won more than 50 Lions in the Cannes Advertising Festival, in the Film category only. He was also the only Latin American to win a Grand Clio in 2001, with a TV spot for Época Magazine.

He was also appointed one of the 25 key-advertising men in the world by the British Magazine Media International and was elected twice the Advertising Man of the Century by ALAP (Latin American Advertising Agencies Association) and by the Brazilian advertising news website Monitor Mercantil. In 2009, he entered the Hall of Fame of FIAP (Ibero-American Advertising Festival). Click here.

The public recognition of his work has inspired two songs by Jorge Ben Jor, a famous and very recognised singer in Brazil, "Alô, Alô, W/Brasil" and "Engenho de Dentro". His name was also turned into dish names at sophisticated restaurants. Read all the related news.

Besides the legendary Olivetto, some of the best names in the world of advertising joined Lürzer's Grand Slam jury: JULIANA PARACENCIO (Memac Ogilvy Dubai), STEFAN GESCHKE (Grabarz & Partner), CRAIG MCINTOSH (Cossette, Canada), ADRIAN BOTAN (McCann Worldgroup), TIM HAWKEY (Area 23), RÉMI LASCAULT (La Chose), TOLGA BÜYÜKDOGANAY, JULIA ULMER (Jung von Matt), RAFAEL GIL (Y&R Brazil), GIAN CARLO LANFRANCO (L&C New York-Lima), BEN GOUGH (Above+Beyond), NICHOLAS CAPANEAR (GSW New York), ANTONIO BECHTLE (Bechtle & Milzarajs).

To enter the competition the submissions must have been aired anytime between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2018.
The Lürzer's Grand Slam is open for entries now: http://www.luerzersgrandslam.com

About Lürzer's Archive:
Lürzer's Archive (http://www.luerzersarchive.com), the celebrated creative resource for advertising professionals worldwide, has been offering a full set of inspirational tools since 1984: Lürzer's Archive magazine, Lürzer's Archive 200 Best Specials, the Lürzer's Archive website and a wide range of apps. It was back in the early 1980s that advertising copywriter and agency owner Walter Lürzer banged his fist down on the table and resolutely shouted out to himself: "If no one's going to do it for me, I'm going to have to do it myself - for everyone!" What he was referring to, back in that dark pre-internet era, was the laborious process of hunting out and compiling advertising campaigns from around the world. In those days, there were not many ways of finding out how products and services were being advertised in, say, America, Asia, or individual European countries. The first issue of Lürzer's Archive magazine was published October 1984 in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and today the title has over 150,000 readers worldwide.

The website of Lürzer's Archive puts the focus firmly on our principle of "curatorship of inspiration." Boasting striking graphics, the chance to view all new agency submissions, and online features designed to both inform and inspire, the website complements the prestigious magazine, which presents the most interesting new print campaigns, TV commercials and, more recently, digital designs from all over the world. Daily features on Audiovisual, Campaigns, Digital and Who's Who in the ad world, plus a weekly blog from Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Michael Weinzettl, complete the package.

Mobile Technologies Inc. (MTI) and One Door, Partner to Streamline Merchandising Compliance Measurement

Mobile Technologies Inc. (MTI), a global leader in consumer electronics retail security and One Door™ Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based visual merchandising software, today announced a partnership to integrate their offerings. By combining MTI's real-time store sensing with One Door's visual merchandising and space planning capabilities, the partnership will give consumer electronics retailers new, real-time, visibility into the state of merchandising in their stores.

As part of this agreement, MTI and One Door will combine data from MTI Connect, an open IoT retail platform that provides real-time store visibility, with data from One Door's Merchandising Cloud, a cloud-based application that delivers space planning and visual merchandising capabilities including in-store execution and compliance management.

For retailers looking to make more frequent changes to their stores and localize their product promotions, communicating and confirming merchandising initiatives is becoming more time-consuming and costlier. "The combination of our real-time store data and Merchandising Cloud's tailored and guided store plan will provide associates with up-to-the-second information on how they can take action to improve their merchandising results, and maximize sales," says Matt Haroldson, VP of Global Marketing at MTI.

"Space planners and visual merchandisers using traditional planograms have limited confidence in the quality of merchandising in stores," said Dan Wittner, COO of One Door. "We look forward to partnering with MTI to incorporate real-time store data into Merchandising Cloud's existing compliance measurement capabilities, further improving corporate visibility into the quality of merchandising."

Hear more insights at the NRF Big Ideas Sessions:
One Door: Reinventing the Merchandising Process with Mobility Presented by Best Buy
Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, 12:30 p.m.
Stage 5, Expo Hall, Level 3

MTI:
Optimizing Employee and Consumer Experiences in Retail IoT Presented by MTI, Tuesday Jan. 15, 2019 10:15 a.m.
Stage 6, Expo Hall, Level 3

Visit both companies at NRF's Big Show, Jan. 13-15, 2019:
MTI - Level 3, Booth #4165
One Door - Booth #2737

About MTI
For over 40 years, MTI has been a leader in consumer electronic display technology, developing hardware, software, and service solutions for retailers globally. MTI Connect™ is the first real-time IoT cloud platform enabling retailers to close the communication gaps between management, front line teams, in-store technology, and the customer experience.

Contact: connect(at)mtigs(dot)com
For more information, visit: https://mtigs.com/smart-retail/
Follow us on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mti_2

About One Door™, Inc.
One Door™, Inc. is a leading provider of cloud-based visual merchandising software, optimizing merchandising at each store for the world's leading brands. One Door is privately held, based in Boston, MA, and led by an experienced team of retail and technology visionaries. One Door™ Merchandising Cloud is the only application that combines product and promotional visual merchandising with store information, providing each store with a unique, unified, and interactive merchandising plan. For more information, visit http://www.onedoor.com.

For more information, visit https://onedoor.com/

From Mini Bars to Golf: New AppZen Report Reveals Insight into Business Spend

AppZen, the world's leading solution for automated expense and invoice audits using artificial intelligence (AI), has released its January 2019 "The State of AI in Business Spend" report, which uncovers trends and insights on enterprise business spend. The report details are based on expense reports from nearly one thousand enterprises across a variety of industries.

Among the findings:

Expense Approval Averages: Policies such as airfare and hotel are straightforward for most companies, but what about the less-obvious items? AppZen's report reveals insight into expense approval averages. 46 percent of companies reimburse for gifts and 39 percent do so for golf. Yet, only 16 percent of businesses reimburse employees for room service and 15 percent for the mini bar. 41 percent of companies provide reimbursement for cell phone expenses, 24 percent do so for car washes, and 19 percent for clothing.

Spend Visibility: Last quarter, the average large enterprise processed 4,374 expense reports. Each report contained an average of 11 expenses. Companies that use AI to make spend audit approval decisions and automate process achieve 100 percent visibility, versus just 2-10 percent for companies that don't.

Non-Compliant or Wasteful Spend Statistics: The most (ahem!) "creative" expenses employees submitted for reimbursement last quarter include strip clubs, dog kennels, jewelry, cigarettes, and gambling losses. AI unveils "brown paper wrapper" vendor names on receipts based on intelligence gained from online sources to learn which organization names fall into categories that may be deemed inappropriate or out-of-policy.

Continue reading.:

https://jessicapressreleases.blogspot.com/2018/05/intouch-insight-launches-liacx-new.html

"A well-defined spend policy clearly conveys a company's expectations for what business activities can be reimbursed," notes AppZen Co-founder and CEO, Anant Kale. "Auditing spend using AI helps ensure compliance to such a policy, while reducing spend and achieving more predictable financial results."

Streamlining Audit Process: According to common benchmarks, companies that aren't using AI to audit spend take about two weeks to reimburse employee expenses. Enterprises that use AI recorded a significant improvement in employee reimbursement time. Half completed the expense report approval process within four hours, while 90 percent did so within three days.

Read this for more information.:

https://jessicapressreleases.blogspot.com/2018/05/1-800-petmeds-announces-return-of.html

Finding Risky Spend is Critical: While only 10 percent of enterprises' total expenses were flagged as high risk in the fourth quarter of 2018, they represented one-third of the total dollar value across all expenses, making them critical to find and review. Companies that don't use AI to audit 100 percent of spend, and instead rely on manual sampling, virtually guarantee that they will not audit all the high-risk items.

AppZen's "The State of AI in Business Spend" report compiled trends, best practices, and recommendations based on aggregated, anonymized data from the AppZen Expense Audit Platform. Conclusions are based on expense report data from nearly one thousand AppZen enterprise customers across a variety of industries from October 1 through December 31, 2018. For more information, please visit the AppZen blog or "The State of AI in Business Spend" infographic on the AppZen website.

About AppZen
AppZen uses AI to automate the auditing process of a company's overall spend. Leveraging patented AI technology, AppZen uses computer vision, deep learning, and natural language processing to automatically read and audit expense reports, receipts, invoices and contracts while cross-checking that information against hundreds of online data sources. This enables Accounts Payable and T&E teams to detect fraud, compliance issues, and pricing violations within minutes of an expense report or invoice submission.

Axsium Group Expands Service Offerings for Digital Workplace Transformation

Axsium Group, the world's leading workforce management consulting firm, announces the expansion of its digital workplace transformation services to its North American retail clients. Building on its successful project with Target Australia, Axsium continues to help retailers implement effective mobile workforce management and digital workplace strategies.

Axsium played a key role in supporting Target, who was recently named the National Retail Association's Innovation Champion of the Year due to the implementation of its new digital workplace initiative. The project involved significant organizational changes with a particular focus on team engagement and retention. Axsium guided Target through the strategy, planning, execution and testing phases of its digital workplace transformation. Now, Target employees can use their smartphone to access on-the-spot training, send and receive communications instantly with managers, executives and each other, swap shifts, and better manage their time and tasks. Read latest news here.

Axsium brings to the market a unique set of services that combine its expertise in workforce management and digital transformation, allowing retailers to take back control of their digital workplace and provide their associates with the tools they need to improve productivity and enhance the customer experience.

"Target had a big vision and we are proud to have played an important role in their achievements," said Axsium Group President Bob Clements. "Employees are more engaged and feel more valued, customers are receiving better service, and the company is maintaining a consistent brand across all locations while achieving productivity and profit targets. We look forward to working with our other customers on similar initiatives."
For more information, visit Axsium during NRF at booth #324.

About Axsium Group

Axsium Group helps organizations around the world improve their performance by maximizing the productivity of their people. We do this by providing innovative and insightful consulting services focused in three areas. First, we help our clients establish a realistic strategy and roadmap to reach their people-related goals. Second, we focus on streamlining and defining new processes to improve the way people work, their productivity and their impact on their organization. And third, we implement and support technology that help all levels of the organization achieve their objectives. http://www.axsiumgroup.com