Graham’s Gift Children’s Foundation, a New York based non-profit child placing agency, aims to make parents be empowered partners in their adoption experience. The new website does just that with a login area that clients can access to view all of their files and documents with the goal of making the entire adoption process run smoothly. Wingman Planning takes pride in working with non-profit organizations and holds a special place in our heart for organizations that help children, so we are honored to have had the opportunity to create the Graham’s Gift Children’s Foundation’s website. Visit www.grahamsgift.org to visit the new site and support Graham’s Gift Children’s Foundation.

Ocean Today, a community newspaper in Ocean Township since 2008, is now online. The brand new website for Ocean Today features e-editions of the publication so that visitors can read the entire publication online. Visitors can also connect to Ocean Today’s Twitter to stay updated on community news and news about the publication. We are proud to announce the launch of Ocean Today’s website and invite you to visit the brand new website at www.oceantoday.net.

Bullseye Media Group utilizes DRTV to create consumer and brand awareness and provides product inventors with a one-stop solution. Specializing in consulting, script writing, marketing, infomercials, program financing, media funding and inventory financing, and joint venture partnerships, the objective of Bullseye Media Group is to be a leader in the  ‘As Seen on TV’ business segment.

Check out the new website at www.bullseyemediainc.com to see videos of projects that Bullseye Media Group is currently working on, submit an idea to Bullseye Media Group, or to find out more.

Brick Township Chamber of Commerce announces Wingman Planning client, Tri County Agency of Brick, Inc., among businesses who are celebrating 30 years of Chamber Membership!

Wingman Planning is proud to be working with an agency that is such an established part of the Brick Township community! As a fellow member of the Brick Township Chamber of Commerce we know the value in being a member of the Chamber and the opportunities to connect with other local businesses! Congrats to Tri- County and the other businesses who have been recognized for their 30 years as a Brick Township Chamber of Commerce member! You can click here to see Brick Township Chamber of Commerce’s recognition of the businesses.

Community Publications is a local New Jersey print media company that is dedicated to providing the best local news to readers. Community Publications mails The Bayshore Community Messenger and The Community Magazine throughout Monmouth County, New Jersey. The publications provide in depth profiles and stories on local school events, small business news, and resident profiles and the new website lets visitors enjoy this information online by downloading current and past eEditions of the magazines. The new website also allows advertisers to directly upload ads and makes it easy for readers of the magazine to contact Community Publications directly. We invite you to view the newly redesigned website for Community Publications at www.mycommunitypublications.com.

Jimmy Wise, Independent Health Coach helps clients to lead a healthy lifestyle. The new website, www.healthcoachwise.com, is an excellent resource for clients with updates on events, links to great resources, and testimonials and information about Jimmy Wise’s healthy lifestyle program. Prospective clients can also enroll on the site. We invite you to visit the new site www.healthcoachwise.com.

Wingman Planning announces the launch of www.pinewoodmhpark.com, a website for our client, Pinewood Mobile Home Park. As a family owned adult community centrally located in Brick, New Jersey, Pinewood Mobile Home Park offer a comfortable, affordable, and enjoyable housing experience for adults aged 55+.

Pinewood Mobile Home Park has pre-owned homes for sale and the new website has pictures of the homes that are currently available. The website is easy to navigate and will help prospective residents to get the process to purchasing a mobile home and becoming a resident of Pinewood Mobile Home Park, started easily and quickly. Visit the new website, www.pinewoodmhpark.com, to find out more.

BRICK, NJ – November 15, 2011 – Brick Township Chamber of Commerce will join DL Foodservice Design in unveiling their new design studio at a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday November 18, 2011. Located at 259 Drum Point Rd. Unit 4 in Brick, NJ and adjacent to DL Foodservice Design’s main office, the design studio will enable customers to review project layouts and plans, and view samples and products. The ribbon cutting will take place at 1:00PM and will be led by the Brick Township Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Michele Eventoff. Brick Township Chamber of Commerce is hosting this event to celebrate the expansion of DL Foodservice Design, a local business that has been designing and equipping commercial kitchens in New Jersey for nearly 20 years. The design studio is furnished with state of the art technology and equipment to efficiently facilitate project meetings and design consultations. As a supporter of the community and member of the Chamber of Commerce, DL Foodservice Design strives to work with New Jersey based goods and supply American-made products.

About DL Foodservice Design Inc.
DL Foodservice Design specializes in consulting services to hotel and restaurant operators in areas of the foodservice industry spanning from concept development and workflow analysis, to kitchen, restaurant, and facility design. Garnering nearly 20 years of experience in the foodservice industry, DL Foodservice Design has become renowned as one of New Jersey’s premier foodservice design firms, a top kitchen equipment contractor, and a full service restaurant equipment supplier.

About Brick Township Chamber of Commerce
The Brick Township Chamber of Commerce, this year celebrating its 55th anniversary, represents diverse Ocean County businesses of varying sizes. With a centralized office in the Civic Plaza on Chambers Bridge Road in Brick, New Jersey, the Brick Chamber of Commerce hosts specials events, supports and creates opportunities for members, and is an active participant in community involvement.

Media Contact:
Christina Campisi
732.539.5980
info@wingmanplanning.com

DL Foodservice Design Contact:
Dean Langella
732.475.2742
info@DLFoodserviceDesign.com
www.DLFoodserviceDesign.com

Brick Chamber of Commerce Contact:
Michele Eventoff
732.477.4949
info@brickchamber.com
www.brickchamber.com

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Wingman Planning announces the launch of a website for Unique Automotive, a trusted New Jersey ASE Certified mechanic located in Lakehurst, NJ. Unique Automotive has been providing auto repair and maintenance services to the Lakehurst, New Jersey area for two decades and has become a community expert when it comes to identifying and fixing hard to find electrical problems in vehicles. The new website, www.uniqueautorepairs.com, will give visitors a closer look at the one stop car care that Unique Automotive offers. Unique Automotive values customer satisfaction and with the help of Wingman Planning has developed a website that customers will be able to utilize to easily contact Unique Automotive.

iPads saving Massapequa firm thousands

For more than 10 years Island Associates of Massapequa has been taming unruly lawns and yards by adding irrigation and sculpting shrubbery. Recently, the company decided to tame its own unruly paperwork by going digital.

Douglas Connell started Island Associates in 1999 after graduating from high school in Dix Hills. Early on, he had two or three employees working on about 10 jobs a year.

Now he’s got 21 employees and is on track to top $1 million in revenue on about 125 projects in 2011: building pools, patios and pergolas; installing outdoor kitchens and fireplaces; designing landscapes for exterior living.

A run-up of jobs came with a run-up of paperwork: Changes in a day’s plans meant wasteful trips back to the office; repeated copies made key forms unreadable; and digging up old documents to make sure customers had paid turned into a time drain.

Connell’s staff once laid 4,000 square feet of pavers in a backyard when the homeowner wasn’t around to say the blocks were the wrong color. The team had to rip up and start over. The $25,000 mistake was caused by an over-copied and therefore misread document.

Connell was working with Tom Mirabella, of small-business consulting firm Wingman Planning, to cut down on inefficiencies when the two tried an approach to the paper problem: Mirabella and his Wantagh-based team created software late last year that lets Island Associates upload contracts, project specs and photos to a secure website where employees can see all the information.

The availability and affordability of devices like iPads and smartphones are driving a surge in small businesses going digital, says Kevin Garton, chief marketing officer for Philadelphia-based The Neat Company, which manufactures hardware and software that helps companies go paperless. The biggest challenge, he said, is owners saying, “Oh, I didn’t know I could do that!”

For Island Associates, a big time-waster came when a project manager got called unexpectedly from one job site to another: He’d have to go back to headquarters to pick up documents. Plus, when an old customer called and a salesperson wanted to pull out his file, it could take up to an hour to locate them.
With Island Associates’ new software, the documents are scanned as soon as they’re signed. The entire project — software, scanning and iPads for project managers and salespeople — cost close to $10,000.

As an added bonus, the new system has created a database for marketing. If a salesperson is meeting with a prospective client, he can call up details of a similar project on the spot. Promotional mailings are easier to target, too.

Employees who were wary of the new system at first, Connell says, are now on board. And he doesn’t have to worry about errors from misread documents.
“One out of 10 jobs there was a mistake,” Connell says. Going digital has “saved me tens of thousands of dollars.”

TIPS FOR GOING PAPERLESS:

Invest in a good scanner for high-quality versions of printed documents. Prioritize; you don’t need to scan everything at once.

You can buy software off the shelf to manage your documents, or you can hire someone to build a system just for you. Another option: a free service like Google Documents.

Make backuups early and often. Store your backup drives off-site.

When you’re ready to dispose of paper files, shred them to avoid sharing sensitive information.

Source Newsday