BNI One-on-One: Bob Falkowitz
Posted by Salem Global on Sep 11, 2007
Had a great coffee with Bob Falkowitz this morning, a somber morning, but Bob brought some light to the rainy morning. Bob is a great associate to CBS Coverage Group, Inc., not only did they help to insure the SalemGlobal Internet Website Marketing group’s office, the group is able to help with Property and Casualty Insurance matters in New York.
 CBS was founded in 1947. Through a number of mergers and acquisitions, as well as hiring and training talented producers and staff, the agency today manages in excess of $80 million in premium for over 3,000 business and 10,000 family and individual clients with a staff of over 100 professionals. We are considered one of the top fifty independent insurance agencies in the country. The partners at CBS are highly regarded and considered leaders in the insurance industry. They sit on numerous insurance company national advisory boards, on the board of the Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York State, and on the Bronx Manhattan Board of Realtors.
CBS works for you. As an independent insurance agency, we provide all lines of insurance, including business, personal, individual life and health, and employee benefits. We represent almost all national and regional carriers such as AIG, St. Paul Travelers, Chubb, Hartford, Hanover, CNA, One Beacon, Zurich, Utica Mutual, Merchants Mutual, New York Central Mutual, Farmers, Encompass, Atlantic Mutual, Firemans Fund, and many more.
For over 50 years, our passion for quality service and technical expertise has fostered our success. Our objective is to establish a relationship between you, our client, the insurance company and our staff. We are committed to providing our clients with risk analysis, insurance coverage, and loss control services. Our number one product is professional service — service specifically designed to reduce our clients losses and control their insurance costs.
Because we are highly involved as leaders in the industry, we are connected to its heartbeat. We know in advance the emerging trends and issues. As a result, we have extraordinary knowledge about the marketplace and what we need to do to leverage that knowledge. This enables us to give our clients better advice about what to expect and why, to negotiate excellent terms, conditions and rates, and how to design the most comprehensive, appropriate and competitive insurance programs.
Our corporate headquarters is located in Plainview, New York, in our 15,000 square foot building. We have three satellite sales offices — one in Manhattan, one in Westhampton Beach and one in Saratoga.
We continue to gain regional and national recognition for the manner in which we deliver services and resources to our clients. We provide the personal caring and services that clients can expect from a small hands-on agency but with the knowledge, expertise and clout of a national broker. As a result, we have many prominent privately-held and publicly-traded corporate 1000 clients.
BNI One-on-One: Keir Weinberg
Posted by Salem Global on Sep 10, 2007
Great breakfast with Keir Weinberg this morning, who has been in the catering and events business for quite some time now.Â
 Keir heads up the Event producing side of Neuman’s Catering, a premeire catering shop in New York City.
News Article About BigString, The Coolest Email In The World
Posted by Salem Global on Sep 7, 2007
Ask Darin Myman about an email that should never have been sent, and he
likely will tell you about a friend who was caught cheating on his wife when
she examined the contents of his sent email. Of course Darin himself, like
almost everyone who uses email regularly, must have made his own email
mistakes – perhaps a wrong attachment, a wrong email address (autofill is a
convenience, but you really have to pay attention!), unintentional use of ‘
reply all’, or indiscreet contents that might be regretted only nanoseconds
after clicking the ‘send’ button. But even though his mistakes may not have
experienced the same degree of consequences as his red-handed friend’s, they
were enough to inspire Darin to do something about the problem, and that is
how he came up with the idea for BigString.
BigString Corporation (http://www.BigString.com) now offers BigString 3.0, a
web-based email service that gives the user control over sent mail – even
once the mail is delivered to the recipient. BigString.com webmail service is
the only service that offers this. This type of feature is already familiar
to users of certain email services, such as AOL mail. In AOL, however – as in
any other mail system – this can only be done within the AOL network (i.e. if
the recipient is also using an AOL address) and only if the email is not
opened. However, the idea that you could reach out to a different server and
snatch back your errant emails at any time, from any place, is a function
that was not available until now.
The name ‘BigString’ deliberately evokes an image of a long string, attached
to your sent emails, that you can pull on to yank back an email that you
should never have sent. Of course this is a transparent process – composing
and sending an email is just like doing so in, say, Yahoo Mail or Gmail,Â
except that the sender can also choose different security options. Also like
its well-known competitors, BigString 3.0 includes traditional email features,
 such as: Sticky Notes, Automatic Message Highlighting, Calendar, Advanced
Message Sorting and Advanced Spam and Virus Filtering. Under the covers,
though, it’s actually more like sending out the end of the string, while you
keep the email contents, retaining the ability to cut the string and remove
access to any secure material from the outside world.
BigString has clearly given some thought to the various ways that this
technology might be used. One option is to have an email ‘self-destruct’ (
along with your choice of visual effects, such as a little bonfire) after a
certain amount of time, or after having been read a certain number of times.
Or, you can specify that the email is non-forwardable, non-printable, or non-
savable. This can help ensure that the embarrassing video you sent to a
friend doesn’t end up posted on YouTube. You can make he email trackable, so
you know if and when it been opened and forwarded. And most intriguing of all,
 you can edit mail after it has been sent, or substitute one attachment for
another. This feature is especially useful for emails that have time-
sensitive price quotes, business offers or dated legal material.
Free video email is another offering on BigString.com’s long list of great
free features. Bigstring.com offers all of its users a free video email forum
where people can send out audio/visual greetings and messages to anyone and
any webmail service throughout the world. This is a fun feature that is also
hard to come by for free.
Secure email is a natural feature for BigString to offer. “Our customers,
both consumer and businesses alike, have told us that they want even greater
email security and control for their sensitive correspondence,” says Darin. ”
With our Three Layer Secure email, we are enabling the sender to have that
additional control and security. Now users can freely communicate via email
with their lawyers, accountants, stockbrokers or anyone they want to send
sensitive, personal or proprietary information without the worry that it will
be seen or forwarded to anyone but the intended recipient. Their confidential
emails will stay confidential.”
BigString, like many webmail services, provides its users with a free email
account and a free email address, including a generous 4 Gb of storage . It
also provides the ability to send free embedded video emails up to 10 minutes
in length, a feature not available with most other free email services. In
addition, there are certain premium services targeted at small business and
more demanding users. For a low monthly fee, BigString offers users the
ability to increase their Video Email capabilities and storage capacity.
Small businesses can set up their own email system (10 email accounts and up)
using the BigString email service, which is POP3 compatible to allow its use
with email clients such as Outlook. Premium customers can also add video
email marketing tools.
Darin’s inspiration to protect himself from indiscretions (like the one that
tripped up his friend with the marital infidelity problem) has yielded a
product that will be useful to anyone who values privacy, security, and
freedom from one more of modern life’s worries.
Breakfast and Client Events – Please Join Us At Breakfast
Posted by Salem Global on Sep 6, 2007
Networking Breakfast and Client Events
SalemGlobal hopes that everyone had an amazing holiday weekend! Did you know that Retailers do 80% of their business in 4th quarter? What does that mean? If you are serious about expanding your online business, you should contact SalemGlobal today! SalemGlobal is about to finalize a new and larger venue for our monthly breakfast networking – those details will be finalized in next weeks newsletter! Regardless of venue, we look forward to seeing you on Thursday September 20th at 8AM for our monthly Breakfast Networking Event.  Please email us today to RSVP and secure your seat to the breakfast (we also want to make sure we have bagels for all!).
Ezines Are Powerful for Content and Links
Posted by Salem Global on Sep 5, 2007
An online magazine, or ezine, is a magazine that is delivered in an electronic form. An online magazine may be online-only, or may be the online version of an otherwise print-published magazine.  These online magazines cater to a niche or special interest subject matter. What makes them so powerful is that there are 1000’s of sites in which almost anyone can be an author. There are usually submission guidelines, but if you are looking to write about a given topic, product or company, most likely, this is a great forum to do so.
In addition, if you publish an ezine this is one of the best business builders available. Find other ezines of similar content and email the publisher asking if they would be interested in doing an ad swap. Tell them a little about your ezine and why you think an ad swap would benefit both of you. Â Ezine publishing is not as hard as it seems.
For more information on how SalemGlobal can help submit you into nearly 700 news and online magazine resources contact us today.
Summer Over? Thing Are Just Heating Up!
Posted by Salem Global on Sep 4, 2007
SalemGlobal Internet Website Marketing welcomes everyone back from a great holiday weekend. It is fashion week here in New York City and in particular outside the SalemGlobal offices in Bryant Park.  We have come back to some interesting news regarding the internet, social networking, Google and what could be a security question for parents.
 Facebook (www.facebook.com) annouced the following:
If you thought that your privacy was threatened by the news feed, you will not be happy to learn that your Facebook profile will now appear in the Public Search Listing results of
 SalemGlobal would love your thoughts and feedback on this matter!Â
Learn From SalemGlobal: Press Releases Are Very Powerful
Posted by Salem Global on Sep 3, 2007
SalemGlobal would like to you to think about the following:
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Does your business or service need more sales?
Did you just launch a web site, new product, win and award or reach a milestone?
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Then you should be writing a press release. The media can provide you with the best way to generate business for your product or service. Sending a press release is one of the most effective ways to generate publicity for your business. It can drive mountains of customers to your web sites and order lines. Just one mention of your business in any of your industry’s major publications can bring thousands of targeted prospects to your site.
- And now you too can submit a press release – right from your desktop. SalemGlobal works with a number of online services that allow us to get your news on leading Internet news sites for a fraction of what traditional PR firms cost, not onl that, it also serves to:
- Push your news to the top of search engines
- Create viral buzz online
- Send your news to top Journalists
- Bring your news to life with images, sounds and video
- Syndicate your content to reach Millions
- Measure your visibility with a comprehensive array of analytics
- If you are interested in learning more about interactive public relations and online press release contact us today!