Archives for December 2013

Featured Sponsor: Intelligent Business Concepts, Inc.

As panel for the world’s largest Insurance companies and Law firms, IBC is recognized as a leader for “Breach Notification Services”. IBC’s “Turn Key Solution” was developed to help support the Insured and or referred Law firm client with a complete compliant solution, which covers Notification, Client support service/Call center and Identity Monitoring.

IBC’s commitment to their clients is quite fundamental:  “DO IT RIGHT the FIRST TIME”.

Many of IBC’s employees and business partners are Veterans. They have taken their military background and applied it to the business world of “Breach Response”…. “NO BS… Get the job done, PERIOD”.

IBC supports the veteran’s business community and is a charter member of the Veteran’s Business Network. For more information, go to www.intellbc.com or contact Francis Buono at or 631-377-3024.

Let’s get a little personal…with Francis Buono


1. How does helping our veterans and environment make you feel?


As a Vietnam Combat Veteran and a Service Disabled Veteran Business Owner it makes me feel great!

2. What about the Adopt-a-Solar-Panel Program did you find the most interesting?


The fact that besides providing my company with some great PR you are assisting in Veteran employment, growing veteran owned businesses, providing VFW halls and American Legion Posts with a free solar set up and promoting green energy is amazing….but to do so for this price is astounding!

3. Please tell us a little about yourself and your background.


I am a Service Disabled Vietnam combat veteran with considerable experience in the printing industry, mainly focusing on the financial services group. I support veteran initiatives and am a Charter Member of the Veterans Business Network. I also like to play golf and am a connoisseur of fine wines.

4. Please tell us about your company and how you got started


We grew our printing business with the financial services industry and as they began to experience the phenomenon of data breaches they asked us to assist them in the compliance phase.

5. How did you get the background and skills necessary to run this type of business?


On the job training and then by filing a niche by providing what our customers wanted and needed.

6. Are there any charity or community efforts you would like to mention?


Feed the Children and St. Jude’s

7. Are you or your business a member of any business related organizations?


The Veterans Business Network

8. Why do your customers select you over your competitors?

IBC’s commitment to our clients is quite fundamental. “DO IT RIGHT the FIRST TIME”. Many of IBC’s employees and business partners are Veterans. We have taken our military background and applied it to the business world of “Breach Response”…. “NO BS… Get the job done, PERIOD”.

Intelligent Business Concepts, Inc. salutes Veterans and the Earth; helps nonprofit save 141k

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Intelligent Business Concepts, Inc. (IBC) of Holbrook, NY, a leader in Data Breach Notifications Services has recently become a proud sponsor of a portion of a solar panel system that will be installed at a Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall (VFW).

Their participation in SolarCure’s “Adopt-a-Solar Panel” Program as a sponsor provides multiple benefits to our environment and veterans while promoting them as a green and veteran friendly brand.

  • Prevents over 17,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide from being released
    into our environment
  • Saves the VFW Hall over $141,000 in energy costs over the warranted lifetime of the solar panel system
  • Provides jobs and careers for U.S. Veterans
  • May increase the equity value of the VFW building
  • Green and veteran friendly branding that reaches over 1,500 media outlets
  • Can help increase traffic to a sponsor’s website and place of business
  • Plus more…contact SolarCure to learn more

Frank Buono, President of IBC, is a Vietnam combat veteran and Service Disabled Veteran Business Owner. He was amazed to learn about the “Adopt-a Solar Panel” program offered by SolarCure and is excited to participate in this endeavor to provide a free solar panel installation for the VFW hall in Colonia, NJ.

Frank Buono stated:

“When I came back from Vietnam we did not receive a very nice welcome.  Due to that experience, I am always looking for ways to assist our new veterans.  SolarCure™ is one of those ways. They provide my company with great public relations and brand promotion; while at the same time supporting veterans. They employ veterans, help grow veteran businesses, and provide VFW halls and American Legion Posts with solar panels free of charge. This provides free electricity for the life of the system.  The panels are made in America and the panel companies and installers are veteran owned and/or have veteran employees.  Great PR, supporting veterans, promoting Green Energy…an absolute win any way you look at it.”

About Intelligent Business Concepts, Inc.

As panel for the world’s largest Insurance companies and Law firms, IBC is recognized as a leader for “Breach Notification Services”. IBC’s “Turn Key Solution” was developed to help support the Insured and or referred Law firm client with a complete compliant solution, which covers Notification, Client support service/Call center and Identity Monitoring.

IBC’s commitment to their clients is quite fundamental:  “DO IT RIGHT the FIRST TIME”.

Many of IBC’s employees and business partners are Veterans. They have taken their military background and applied it to the business world of “Breach Response”…. “NO BS… Get the job done, PERIOD”.

IBC supports the veteran’s business community and is a charter member of the Veteran’s Business Network. For more information, go to www.intellbc.com or contact Francis Buono at or 631-377-3024.

About SolarCure

SolarCure specializes in helping clients combine powerful messaging and promotion with legitimate, sustainable, renewable green energy practices. For more information on career opportunities or how your company can grow its business while helping veteran based nonprofits, U.S. veterans, and the environment, please visit www.solarcure.us or email your questions to

Featured Sponsor: Custom Petals

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Custom Petals, based in Iselin, New Jersey, is merging the flower and greeting card
industries to help you “Express Yourself” by combining heartfelt human emotions, with the
beauty of fresh roses & silk roses, by embossing personalized messages, photos, logos or images directly
to the petals.

Are you looking for a unique way to celebrate your wedding – look no further than Custom Petals.

With the help of our staff, you will be able to celebrate any occasion
with personalized and customized flowers.

Use these roses in your wedding bouquet, as a special gift to each other or as a Parents’ Gift, to say “Thank you” as a favor,
or incorporate into your Centerpieces.

The flowers are also perfect for all Holidays; Graduations & Proms; Weddings; Corporate
Meetings; Parties & Caterings; Funerals; Charity/ Gala Events, and much more.

Already recognized by organizations such as the Jersey Shore Wedding Association and the Wedding Wire Network, Patel is building a business that not only offers a great product and service but is also making a significant effort to support local business communities, the environment and our Veterans. An active member of the Woodbridge Metro Chamber of Commerce (WMCC), Custom Petals was featured at the 49th Annual Chairman’s Awards Dinner organized by WMCC where it had the faces of the event honorees embossed on roses.

Custom Petals was recently honored when a selection of its embossed roses were presented to Senator Corey Booker (D-NJ), who visited the WMCC office recently on Small Business Saturday.  The company was also featured at the Staten Island Economic Development Corporation’s (SIEDC) 16th Annual Awards Presentation sponsored by North Field Bank and at the Elegant Bridal Show at the Place on the Lake in East Brunswick.  Patel is also advancing his charitable interests as he teamed up with the local Relay for Life team in Woodbridge to raise awareness for cancer treatment.

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Custom Petals – “Expressing Yourself” through Support of the Environment and our Veterans

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For Hetal Petal, “Expressing Yourself” is both his business mantra and a way for building and securing business relationships.  As an official licensee of Speaking Roses, Patel’s business, Custom Petals, based in Iselin, New Jersey, is merging the flower and greeting card industriesto help you “Express Yourself” by combining heartfelt human emotions, with the beauty of fresh roses & silk roses, by embossing personalized messages, photos, logos or images directly to the petals.  With the help of Patel and his staff, you will be able to celebrate any occasion with personalized and customized flowers. The flowers are perfect for all Holidays; Graduations & Proms; Weddings; Corporate Meetings; Parties & Caterings; Funerals; Charity/ Gala Events, and much more.

Already recognized by organizations such as the Jersey Shore Wedding Association and the Wedding Wire Network, Patel is building a business that not only offers a great product and service but is also making a significant effort to support local business communities, the environment and our Veterans. An active member of the Woodbridge Metro Chamber of Commerce (WMCC), Custom Petals was featured at the 49th Annual Chairman’s Awards Dinner organized by WMCC where it had the faces of the event honorees embossed on roses. Custom Petals was recently honored when a selection of its embossed roses were presented to Senator Corey Booker (D-NJ), who visited the WMCC office recently on Small Business Saturday.  The company was also featured at the Staten Island Economic Development Corporation’s (SIEDC) 16th Annual Awards Presentation sponsored by North Field Bank and at the Elegant Bridal Show at the Place on the Lake in East Brunswick.  Patel is also advancing his charitable interests as he teamed up with the local Relay for Life team in Woodbridge to raise awareness for cancer treatment.

Patel is truly embodying the Custom Petals slogan of “Expressing Yourself” by “Adopting a Solar Panel” to be installed at the Colonia, New Jersey Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Post 6061.  The installation, when complete, will provide energy, at no-cost, to the Post.  “The sustainability of the environment and the men and women of the US Armed Services who have and now stand the watch in defense of our national interests is an “expression” we should all stand behind”, stated Patel. Custom Petals is committed to both of these important causes, he added.

For further information on Custom Petals, please visit http://www.custompetals.com or call (732)-397-1830. They can also be found on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter.
About SolarCure

SolarCure, solarcure.us, specializes in helping clients combine powerful messaging and promotion with sustainable and renewable green energy practices. When this combination is achieved, green branding and marketing practices can help to transform a businesses’ public perception and open up new markets of loyal customers.

The end results of our efforts are a cleaner environment, greater economic well-being for Veterans, financial savings for non-profits, and a demonstrable increase in website and store traffic for clients “Adopting a Solar Panel”. If you are reading this story on-line, you are experiencing the news distribution benefits of Solar Powered SEO™ first hand. Should your organization or business require a truly unique marketing method to help you stand out from the rest in the crowd, then join the Adopt-A-Solar Panel™ Program today!

Featured Sponsor: BCB Community Bank

BCB Community Bank is a thriving community bank that prides themselves on hard work, friendly and knowledgeable customer service, with all the conveniences of local banking. Since November of 2000, BCB has been offering a wide range of loans, deposit products, and retail and commercial banking services. As of today, there are six lobby-service branches and one administrative office located in Bayonne, one branch in Hoboken, Jersey City, Monroe Township, South Orange, and Woodbridge. BCB continues to find ways of improving our services for an enjoyable and hassle-free banking experience seven days a week.

Visit one of their many locations or give them a call at 201-823-0700.

Featured Sponsor: COX Printers

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Cox Printers – www.coxprinters.com

Cox Printers has long been branded as green printers. In addition to the solar installation and wind turbines, the commercial printer recycles more than 10,000 pounds of paper each month and planning for their 2014 campaign to plant trees each month based on their paper consumption; uses non-petroleum-based inks; recycles its wooden skids into industrial-grade mulch; has high-efficiency lighting throughout the building; and maintains a roof garden to help with water runoff. The flowers are pollinated by the printer’s own two honey bee hives housed on the roof which yielded 60 pounds of honey for this fall’s harvest.

Cox Printers offers a wide range of services to its customers, all delivered with the same high quality and responsiveness it has provided for more than 100 years. The company provides a truly unique mixture of products and services that enable the customer to save time and money and to avoid the aggravation of dealing with many different vendors.

  • Graphic design and production
  • One to five-color offset presses
  • Digital printing
  • Bindery services
  • Direct mail department
  • Warehousing
  • Pick-n-pack distribution nationwide
  • Online tracking and ordering
  • Posters: 60″ wide by any length. Mounting, laminating & other services
  • High Speed Copying- copies, tabs, manuals, assorted bindings, jobs done perfectly
  • Websites
  • Social media services
  • Marketing campaigns – From need to results!

Founded in 1907, the company serves business of all sizes throughout the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. To learn more about their green endeavors call 908-928-1010 or email .

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SolarCure Announces Military Veterans Hiring Initiative

SolarCure Chief Executive Officer Mike Ferraro and Founder Ray Saluccio announced today a new veterans hiring initiative designed to offer veterans, military spouses and wounded warriors a “Boots to Boardroom Career Lifeline” into the growing Green Energy sector. As part of the SolarCure Veterans Hiring Initiative, the pledge expands a goal in 2014 to offer meaningful careers for an estimated 100 veterans across the nation.

“Facing a 24 percent unemployment rate for veterans who are 24 years old, more than 4x the national overall unemployment rate, returning U.S. service members are under enormous pressure as they transition back to civilian life,” said Mike Ferraro. “Our SolarCure Boots to Boardroom Career Lifeline focuses on providing quality opportunities in the Green Energy sector for talented and motivated veterans seeking to further their careers after serving our nation honorably. SolarCure will set up recruiting processes ‘specifically targeted at veterans.'” Ferraro is also a retired Command Chief Master Sergeant serving nearly 32 years himself.

SolarCure believes that the United States Military is the greatest training institution in the world and produces highly motivated and technically competent leaders who are mission oriented and relationship driven. “Veterans make great employees and with some transitional training, are loyal and dedicated to ensuring corporate business objectives are achieved,” said Ferraro.

Career opportunities in a variety of areas including sales, project management, communications, and corporate positions are available.

About SolarCure

SolarCure specializes in helping clients combine powerful messaging and promotion with legitimate, sustainable, renewable green energy practices. For more information on career opportunities and how your company can grow its business while helping nonprofits, U.S. veterans and the environment, please visit www.solarcure.us or email your questions to .

 

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Mike Ferraro
732-279-5545

Cox Printers Selected for Pilot Solar Panel Program Supporting VFW Posts

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WOODBRIDGE, NJ–( – Dec 11, 2013) – Cox Printers has so much green they are giving it away. The New Jersey printer located in Linden already has a 36-kilowatt solar energy system and two wind turbines on its roof, partially powering a five-color press and pre-press operations. Now Cox has decided to share the wealth of solar energy.

Cox is sponsoring a portion of a solar panel installation that will be installed on a local Veterans of Foreign Wars post to provide clean, renewable energy and financial savings to the post. The Adopt-a-Solar-Panel program combines the causes of green energy, veterans in need of employment — SolarCure employs veterans for promotion and installation — and support for the nonprofit community. Program participants receive the benefit of green branding and publicity from their sponsorship.

Cox Printers has long been branded as green printers. In addition to the solar installation and wind turbines, the commercial printer recycles more than 10,000 pounds of paper each month and planning for their 2014 campaign to plant trees each month based on their paper consumption; uses non-petroleum-based inks; recycles its wooden skids into industrial-grade mulch; has high-efficiency lighting throughout the building; and maintains a roof garden to help with water runoff. The flowers are pollinated by the printer’s own two honey bee hives housed on the roof which yielded 60 pounds of honey for this fall’s harvest.

“All this costs money but we do it for three reasons,” said Mike Kaufman, president and owner of Cox Printers. “First, I’m a father and I feel it’s the right thing to do, to leave the planet better than I found it. And it’s not hard to do.

“Second, as an investment it eventually breaks even — we’re saving $500 to $600 a month off of our electric bill plus the value of the solar SREC’s. Third, there’s the benefit of public relations. If you are a person or a company who claims to care about your environmental report card, when you work with us your printing is done by the greenest printer in New Jersey and beyond.”

For Kaufman, the opportunity to participate in SolarCure’s Adopt-a-Solar-Panel Program is another chance to “walk the walk,” he said. “I can donate to a veteran cause, train a veteran and put a solar panel on a VFW post. Show me the negative.”

Cox Printers’ services include: full-color printing; digital print; variable data; PURLs; direct mail; business stationary; collateral printing; cross media marketing systems; posters; graphic design; and website work. Founded in 1907, the company serves business of all sizes throughout the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. To learn more about their green endeavors call 908-928-1010 or email .

SolarCure specializes in helping clients combine powerful messaging and promotion with legitimate, sustainable, renewable green energy practices. For more information on how your company can grow its business while helping non-profits, U.S. Veterans and the environment, please visit www.solarcure.us or email your questions to .