GramercyOne Launches App Empowering Service Businesses To Sell Holiday Gift Certificates Directly On Facebook

New York, NY (PRWEB) November 21, 2011

View/embed App demo video at: http://vimeo.com/32450662

Service businesses can maximize lucrative gift certificate sales over the holiday season while capitalizing on the booming Facebook commerce market thanks to a new App unveiled today by GramercyOne. The new App enables businesses to sell gift certificates directly from their Facebook pages for the first time, creating instant gift certificates which consumers can print, email and send viral across the worlds largest social media network.

GramercyOne, which secured a $ 14.5m funding round in October led by Revolution Ventures, specializes in creating cloud-based business management and marketing tools that enable businesses to tap into the power of digital commerce. Its Booker Platform is used by more than 2,700 businesses around the globe from multi-national enterprises like Hilton Worldwide to single-location spas, salons, fitness centers and local service businesses. The platform processes more than 700,000 transactions per month, averaging in excess of $ 1.3 million per day in transaction volume.

According to GramercyOne, holiday gift certificates account for over one-third of total sales across businesses that use the Booker Platform during the holiday season, totaling $ 8.3 million in 2010. Last year, 36% of all December gift certificate sales across the platform occurred last-minute, during the four days leading up to Christmas. The company predicts that more than $ 20 million in gift certificate and card sales will be transacted across the Booker Platform this holiday season.

Gift certificates are crucial to the success of holiday sales for business of all sizes, said GramercyOnes COO, Daniel Lizio-Katzen. At a time of year when business owners are busier than ever, our gifting tools make it easy for them to leverage their online, mobile, and now even Facebook presence to maximize sales.

GramercyOne has been at the forefront of creating tools that enable businesses to tap in to the power of social commerce, a market which is predicted to total over $ 1 billion in the U.S. during 2011 (Booz & Co.) In July, the company introduced a fully integrated scheduling application for Facebook and, with the launch of its latest app, is now the only cloud based business management and marketing platform to enable its merchants to sell gift certificates directly from their Facebook page. The significance of gifting in social commerce was highlighted last week by the introduction of the PayPal Facebook app.

To learn more about the Booker Platform go to http://www.gramercyone.com. Booker Platform customers can install the App by going to https://apps.facebook.com/bookergc/.

To view/embed a demo video of the App, visit http://vimeo.com/32450662.

About GramercyOne Technology Corporation

GramercyOne is a leading provider of cloud-based business management and marketing solutions to service businesses around the world. GramercyOnes platform provides the technical functionality businesses need to compete in todays marketplace, including real-time mobile and online booking, digital marketing and integrated social media, CRM, hosted point-of-sale, mobile payment processing, and robust inventory management. The system is translated in to eight languages, operates in 56 countries and is processing more than 700,000 transactions per month, averaging in excess of $ 1.3M per day in transaction volume.

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Landscape Designer Breaks Digital Ground with App and Online Design Service

Saxtons River, VT (PRWEB) June 02, 2011

Today Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio (JMMDS) announced it is going digital by offering two online tools that make the landscape design process approachable and attainable for everyone. The first, the Home Outside Design (HOD) iPhone app, enables homeowners to place the pieces of their front and back yard landscapes; the other, a new online design service called Home Outside Design, gives cost-conscious clients with small properties design help from the experienced and creative professionals at JMMDS.

Both tools are based on Messervys book Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love (The Taunton Press), which has been changing the way Americans think about home landscapes since its release in 2009. This award-winning book is geared towards helping every homeowner jump-start a process for extending the presence of home out into the landscape by transforming a lackluster property into a beautiful and personal home outside.

More people are realizing that home begins when you set foot on your property, not just when you enter your front door, said Messervy. By teaching homeowners and professionals about landscape design in my books, blog, app and design services, Im empowering them to create the spaces they love and go outdoors to enjoy them.

New Home Outside Design iPhone App Makes Landscape Design Fun and Easy; $ 2.99 at the iTunes App Store

Messervys Home Outside Design (HOD) app, created in collaboration with software design studio All Dreams Digital, is different from all other garden apps. It enables homeowners to select from more than 280 beautifully hand-drawn landscape elements and move them around on a virtual property. Users can mock up their own site, including locating their house and existing landscape features, and then add in a new shed, patio, deck, paths, planting beds, and landscape features such as pools, stones, and play structures.

The app also highlights green features such as clotheslines, vegetable gardens, solar panels, a green roof, and a compost bin. Homeowners can even e-mail their designs to friends or to the Home Outside Design (HOD) app Web site, where they might appear in an online slideshow of inspiring Home Outside Design creations. Besides being an excellent design tool, the Home Outside Design (HOD) app is fun, offering everyone an opportunity for creative play.

New Online Design Service Brings Landscape Design Home

Not everyone feels comfortable designing their own backyard, so Messervy and her team created the trademarked Home Outside Design service to help. Specially tailored to meet the needs of small-scale residential properties, Home Outside Design allows homeownersno matter where they liveto access the award-winning design services of JMMDS in an interactive and cost-effective way.

How Home Outside Design Works: You measure. We design. You enjoy.

To begin the Home Outside Design process, JMMDS sends homeowners a Home Outside Design kit, complete with a Home Outside DVD, measuring tape, pencils and a workbook that walks them through the steps for measuring their property. The workbook includes questionnaires that help homeowners determine their designer personality and aesthetic preferences and uncover their significant landscape and nature experiences.

The result: two design plans drawn as birds eye views that map the flow and major landscape features of the property, including planting beds, walkways, seating areas, and special features. Once a preferred design is chosen, the homeowners can continue partnering with JMMDS to create the finished landscape, work with a local landscape designer or contractor to develop the property, or execute the design on their own.

Home Outside Design plans start at $ 500 for a front or backyard design of 5,000 square feet. To begin the Home Outside Design process, visit http://www.jmmds.com/create/home-outside-design. Information on full-service designs for residential or institutional properties is also available at http://www.jmmds.com.

About Julie Moir Messervy

With three decades of experience, numerous high-profile lectures and six books, including the award-winning Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love (The Taunton Press, 2009), Messervy has emerged as a leader of a movement in which landscape design is as much a personal journey as it is about leaving a unique imprint upon the earth. Her latest book, The Toronto Music Garden: Inspired by Bach, was released in November 2009. Messervy is the principal of Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio (JMMDS) in Saxtons River, Vermont. More at http://www.jmmds.com and http://www.jmmds.com/inspire/blog.

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Photoswarm.com Launches Innovative Online Service for Photographers of All Stripes

London, England (PRWEB) June 02, 2011

Photoswarm.com, a pioneering online service for photographers, has today announced the launch of their unique web service. Photoswarm is committed to helping photographers showcase their works within the online environment, whether they are professionals, semi-pros or amateur photographers.

Visitors to Photoswarms site will find themselves presented with perhaps the best place in which to house their photography work. Photoswarm gives users the ability to create stunning, professional quality photography portfolios within mere minutes. Traditional online portfolio creation can require hours of work and an in-depth knowledge of web programming code. However, Photoswarm takes the confusion and time consumption out of the equation. According to Aidan Kane, Lead Developer, Our photo portfolio sites are so easy to use a 5-year-old could create one.

Of course, Photoswarm is also obsessive about providing the best possible customer service to their users. According to Will Jennings, Operations, Customer support is absolutely essential to what we do. Were proactive rather than reactive, and actively look to help our users build the best online photography portfolios around. The firm is so committed to providing outstanding service and support that every email receives a personal response.

Visitors will find that Photoswarm offers three tiers of service. New users can take an unlimited test drive with the free package, and host up to 50 photos with no advertisements. The Light package offers unlimited photos and traffic, but also includes a Contact Page and an About Page, as well as access to Google Analytics.

However, the true gem within their offerings is their Pro package. For less than $ 10 per month, users receive all the benefits of the other two packages, as well as their own domain name, email address and the ability to sell photos from their own photography portfolio. All packages on offer come with no advertising to distract the visitors eye and detract from the photo gallery experience.

Regardless of a photographers skill level or reason for sharing their photographs, Photoswarm offers an effortless way to share, sell and add a professional touch without hassle or fuss.

To find out more about what Photoswarm offers or to sign up for an online photography portfolio, visit the company at http://www.photoswarm.com.

About Photoswarm: Photoswarm was founded by two friends (Aidan Kane & Will Jennings) who direct, run and develop the company. Will is fanatical about Photoswarm's customer support and takes care of design, marketing and the general running of the business. Aidan, a web development professional, takes care of all aspects of back end technology, code and web infrastructure in order to make Photoswarm's sites run as fast as possible.

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