Archive for September, 2010

Press Release:

WEST CHESTER, PA: Angela Myrtetus doesn’t consider herself a “supermom”, but often feels like a multi-tasking pro who may be able to teach a few CEOs this trait.

She’s a mom to two preschoolers and manages three businesses. She’s the Founder of Independent Projects, Co-Founder of On Tap Network and manages her husband’s voiceover business.

Independent Projects is a brand marketing and business management consulting and outsourcing company. Whether you need promotional materials, help in announcing a new product or service, a new website designed, someone to update and manage your current website, or an assistant to help you manage your administrative tasks, they work with you in developing solutions to enhance your brand and manage your business in organizing the flow of your work-load. With the help of her partner, Leigh Maro from Maro Design, her work gets noticed.

On Tap Network is a great networking organization that Angela co-founded with two other Chester County, PA business owners. This organization was founded early 2009 and continues to grow. They host quarterly networking events in and around West Chester, PA in which hundreds of business owners have attended. They also provide great benefits to people who become members of On Tap. Angela plans the majority of the events. She negotiates with the vendors, writes the marketing material and gets the word out for each event.

JMVoiceOver is her husband, Jason Myrtetus’ business. Marketing a voiceover business is challenging as there is so much competition, but she has landed him big vo gigs locally and nationally. She also wrote the content for his website and manages his facebook page.

She says, “Managing these three fantastic businesses, keeping clients happy and satisfying the needs of my family is challenging. I take one day at a time and hit the gym almost every day to keep my energy up. I run my wonderful children back and forth to preschool every day and try to make healthy and organic meals as much as possible. I do all of this because each one of these tasks is important to me. I don’t do it because I have to, I do it because I want to. Staying positive, upbeat and happy is work, treat that way and you can succeed. When you do things out of love and not “have to’s,” life becomes much more easy to manage. Staying active in your community and giving back is also a huge help to positively managing every aspect of your life. It keeps you going. There are days when I would love to curl up with a good book or watch some bad daytime television and sometimes I do just that.”

To find out more about her business and networking organization visit her websites:
http://ipro4u.com or http://ontapnetwork.com

Media Contact Info:
Angela Myrtetus
267-539-8887
info@ipro4u.com

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1099 changes for 2012

A friend and fellow networker recently updated me on the upcoming 1099 changes.  I think it’s important to get this information out there!  I truly hope that this is changed before 2012, if not we are going to be seeing 1099 forms in our sleep. 

From Eileen Evans, CPA:

“Yesterday I took a seminar on the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

Currently, 1099’s are issued for payments over $600 to unincorporated businesses that provide a service.

Under this Act, it IS expanded to incorporated businesses and purchases of products.

HOWEVER… only businesses issue 1099’s, individuals do not issue them so no you will still not need to issue a 1099 to your daycare.

AND… this is effective for the 2012 tax year (which don’t issue 1099’s until 2013).

AND… both the instructors and myself believe this will be changed before 2012.  

(In fact I’m hoping the whole thing gets repealed otherwise I may hang it up and goint to work for Domino’s Pizza)”

Thanks Eileen for your professional insight to this mess and your fantastic humor!!

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If you have a Facebook business page, then I’m sure you have checked your “page insights” many times.  If you have a website, I’m sure you have Google Analytics set up. 

Well, now you’ll be able to measure your tweets with the new analytics dashboard Twitter will add in the 4th quarter!!    This will be great for businesses that utilize Twitter, especially those who pay third parties to track their analytics.  

Twitter analytics will help marketers justify the marketing budget as in the past it was difficult to prove the results of using twitter.  Now the marketing industry can provide their clients with an accurate report on tweets!  

Independent Projects will be working on a template for an analytics report for each of their Twitter clients once the dashboard is in place.  Our clients will receive this report on a monthly basis.  This is just another added benefit for choosing to outsource your marketing and administration to us!  

Contact Us today to find more about how we can help you succeed in the social media world!

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Google has moved to Google Instant.   What does that mean?  It means that google search results are now INSTANT.  It means when you type something in the search engine, it will show you live results on every social networking site AND it’s updated the moment someone types or discusses that topic that you just typed into the search box!  

What does this  mean for the future of social networking sites?   It means that if you own a business and you don’t have a facebook page, you should think about creating one yesterday!   If you do have one, managing that page needs to be re-thought!   Why to both?   Now that you can see live feed of what people are tweeting, blogging, facing and spacing about, this changes everything about how to market your company.  Facebook is NO LONGER for the teenagers. Facebook pages are growing by the second.  If you aren’t researching what your competitors are doing, then keep on sending postcards in the mail, because you are gonna miss the boat!  I’d love to go into more detail with anyone that has questions about this. 

To find out more about this, I’ve included a few blog posts about this topic below.  If you need marketing assistance with your social networking or you’d like a facebook page professionally designed, contact us today!

Facebook is the New Google!

Google Instant

Independent Projects Social Media Packages

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