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About Doug,

Doug Masi has an extensive background in real estate development and sales. Starting in 1984 with condo pre-construction sales to single family / duplex construction from 1997-2005. Masi holds an active New Jersey associate sales license and an active Arizona Real Estate Broker.

NEW JERSEY: Keller Williams Atlantic Shore http://bit.ly/8ZvuVb

ARIZONA: West USA Realty – Estrella http://az-homefinders.com

Enjoys the collaboration with Realtors around the country.

Doug has enjoyed working along with celebrities like Bret Michaels, Tracii Guns (co-founder of Guns-N-Roses). Video marketing and assistance for sports personal like Mike Alstott (Retired Pro-Football Player with Tampa Bay) and Kurt Warner (Retired Pro-Football Player with Arizona Cardinals. (First Things First Foundation)

Doug also is in partnership with Matthew Caraway to personally assist business owners setup their own custom marketing software. This will allow businesses to really harness the power of online marketing, better known as Automatic Follow up Marketing (AFM). Masi states “We have seen an overall strong demand for complete enterprise systems”, therefore enabling implementation of robust Platform as a Service (PaaS) models, allowing us to build custom applications for business functions covering Customer Relations Management (CRM), Business Process Modeling (BPM), and much more. Through our Tradespace Management™ architecture we combine the benefits of Software as a Service (SaaS), BPM Software, and Portal technology allowing our clients to securely extend SaaS across corporate boundaries. We can also allow customers, vendors, or subsidiary companies to participate directly in their defined business processes to create greater efficiencies and oversight, improving the development cycle timelines which increase profits minimizing IT development overhead. These technologies provide the ability to develop new innovative methods for all levels of business collaboration. View a sample video anytime just click here!

Personal Message – “Over the years I have been asked to assist business owners, sales personal and professionals with marketing solutions from targeted video email, to today’s Social Marketing buzz.  I welcome the opportunity to assist you with your business marketing strategies.   By visiting my Facebook fan page, you can “LIKE” my page, and be able to request a free 15 minute overview, from the website inward.  Companies today should be utilizing all the components the internet has to offer for reaching your  new prospects”.

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What are you looking to gain from the “Cloud” ?   “What if you could have  access to all the below items?  Only turn on what you need, at no extra cost!

• eMarketing Solutions
• CRM Customer Relationship Management
• Human Resource Management and WorkForce Automation
• Document Management
• Inventory Management
• Online Shopping System
• Invoicing and Billing Management
• Custom Application Builder
• Service Management – Credit Card Billing etc.
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Do you find yourself being pulled in several different directions, like a rope stretched to its limits in a game tug-of-war? You’re not alone.  According to the small business administration, over 70% of small businesses suffer from this energy tapping, daily business activity draining nightmare. Many small businesses have less than five employees.  Many are based in the home, with only one or two people working on all aspects of the business.   Running a  successful business is in of itself is more than a full-time commitment:

• Lead generation, pre-qualifying, information gathering, follow up, and finally closing the sale, are tasks from which that many entrepreneurs get side tracked. The most important task of growing any business are so-called “Rain making activities.”
• Follow-up mailings,  invoicing,  record keeping,  document filing,  service calls, questions, phone conversations, notes, progress tracking and much more.

Big businesses incorporate centralized systems with whole teams to focus on activities which generate new business.  It should also be noted that big business is constantly faced with the challenge of changing or upgrading their current systems.  The cost of technology for big business is staggering.  In many cases, millions of dollars have been spent on set-up of these systems.  Then, at some point, the business needs to keep pace and do more costly upgrading, which can require more dollars.   The good news is this article will address a solution for both big and small business enterprise, alike.

If a small business owner wishes to remain competitive, these daily tasks require either more workers (who need to be trained), or business systems that can off load those activities that eat up precious hours each day.

You might wonder, “How can I hire more workers  if I am barely able to keep up with costs of running the business?”  That is a question we get all the time.   You are your own boss.   It is the greatest feeling when things are humming along, but without the proper planning and a centralized solution to manage chaos, things can quickly get out of hand.  Do you find yourself tapped out, and not able to take on  higher dollar activities?  Why spend your time doing $7 or $8 an hour work, when you can get a system that can do the work of ten people! Eventually, hiring staff is important, but first, you must get your system in place and running.  Then, focus on freeing up the time and money to train someone to maintain it, while you do what you do best.  As you may know workers leave, they get sick, or they copy your business and become an competitor, only to leave you retraining and starting over again.

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I started out my business in the early 80′s as a real estate agent.  My parent company give me support in the beginning, but ultimately it was up to me to venture beyond the standard process and build more business through a specific plan of action.   Not by hiring  more assistants or workers, but through smart management handled by a powerful centralized database system.  Follow-up mailings, calls, tracking notes, reminders, and every other piece of pertinent information was at my finger tips.

(IT) SOLUTIONS TIPS

The most important thing to have is a database which can be accessed anywhere in the world.  Even if your computer is damaged or stolen, you can still carry on with no interruptions.  By having a centralized system which is accessed via the internet (known as the Cloud) your records are backed up, and all upgrades happen automatically.  Cost is substantially less, and the computing power is extremely efficient. A question that might come to mind is:   “What does this centralized system handle and how can several tasks be automated?”  That is the true test.  A good centralized system for example should be able to handle all documents and notes relating to each client.

• One File Box: Contains all the client information along with relevant documents for that client.  The addition of notes and tasks to be created will allow for one place for all staff to see what collaboration has occurred with that client.
• Work Force Communication: Enables communicate via email from the centralized system as a standard.  Make sure that feature is included.  If not, before you know it you will find that you are having to get several different services for each solution needed: an email sender, document management, a CRM database, a project tracking program, a word processor, and the list goes on.

The reason we’re so critical of the numerous small business solutions is because they are “point” solutions.  They were created to fill one, sometimes two or three, challenges small business owners face.  Each one sprang up independently to meet a need or fill a niche, and they service their purpose. Fifteen years ago, when many of these tools were invented, no one needed an email marketing system or e-commerce management tool.  Big business had those centralized solutions that cost a fortune. Even medium-sized companies had solutions; but entrepreneurs were left out of the loop.

Our mission here at VICO Systems is to show owners of businesses of all sizes how to access their centralized systems needs on one platform.  We have a version for small to mid sized businesses, as well as a platform for larger businesses that require more tasks, such as human resource management, project management, time tracking, inventory management, shopping cart, extra-net access for customers and workers and several automated processes. Once you are able to centralize your data, running on the treadmill of day to day activities will seem almost effortless, and you will be tapping into several levels of freedom.

Our Challenge: When we come across a business owner experiencing pain and chaos, it is very sad to see them slowly sinking in their own boat.   The owner is so busy bailing out the water, (or handling the daily fires at work) that he or she doesn’t have time to find the leak, let alone look up to see us reaching out to him/her, with an automatic bilge pump (centralized system).  By simply installing the bilge pump, we can start freeing up his/her time to repair the leak,  and get him/her focused on paddling the boat to the desired destination (more time doing the work that make money).  At that point, we may now work on improving the boat; making it  quicker, more efficient, thus allowing the captain time to enjoy the scenery.

Let us show you how quickly and simply we can setup a process to spawn a document, all filled out and ready to be sent to the customer.   How about tracking each worker and how efficient he or she is doing their daily work duties?  Automatic request for actions, triggered by a new customer signing up on a webform from your website or blog, similar to ours.

Let us show you how we can manage your workload, and grow your business by increasing sales and reducing expenses.  Before you hire that next marketing person at $30,000 to $50,000 a year.  Let us show you how you will be able to get ten times the work done without spending the cost of one new hire.  We can facilitate your company to be on track to manage twice, 3x or 4x the amount to work. Let’s get your boat running a few new races so you can finish at the top of its class!

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by Doug Masi VICO Systems LLC www.VicoSystems.net

Welcome fellow real estate agent. Thank you for taking the time to join our shore update alerts, which includes bank owned, short sales, as well as unique high-end luxury Ocean or Bayfront properties.

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Doug Masi and Tom Walsh
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KELLER WILLIAMS ATLANTIC SHORE REALTY
200 Tilton Road, Suite 5
Northfield, NJ 08225

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The last fifty years has seen the advent and rise of the Information Age — a period marked by the ability to integrate data management and transactional data processing into many aspects of society. During this time, we have developed the means and tools to transform and move data about in quantities undreamt of during the Industrial Age.  As information technology (IT) has evolved and matured over these years by the efforts of untold numbers of programmers, engineers and scientists around the world, its range of effect has increased from controlling data formats and performing simple branching decisions to complex data analysis, process scheduling, provisioning systems management, sophisticated interface management, network control and more.

In this first decade of the twenty-first century, IT sophistication has reached a tipping point.

I came across an interesting story by Dr. Leon Kappelma,  Dr. Kappelman is the chair for SIMEAWG (Society for Information Management’s Enterprise Architecture Working Group) and as such is doing some very interesting and good work on the issues facing Enterprise Architecture (EA). His article, “Bridging the Chasm”, states the vision of EA as being the bridging of the gap between strategy and implementation.

EA represents a new way of thinking about the enterprise,and a new way of managing the enterprise, and its IT. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke calls it “intangible capital.” Dr. Kappelman.

As Enterprise Architecture is to Dr. Kappelman, so Workforce Automation is to me.

Prior to workforce automation, we have always been up against a natural and lengthy process – that of the requirement to evolve an operative paradigm in order to transfer the knowledge of how the strategists and visionaries saw to do a thing into the heads of the larger workforce that would actually perform the tasks (I’m using “operative paradigm” here to mean a cultural view of how to do a thing (process) as opposed to the broader Khunian paradigm world view).

New methods being taught to the workers must compete with the current operative paradigm – often creating a friction that leads to misinterpretation and turbulence.Communicating the task, instructions, and changes which occur with businesses today, implementing those request and work-flow into software code creates stressful change for business. Cloud Computing’s ideal platform will  reduce resistance and increase efficacy.  And because paradigms are contextual (low in specific detail) in nature, there is still a limit to the organizational benefits a newly evolving operative paradigm will bring about.  This is why, even over many generations of learning, operations are still “messy” and not actively formulative.

Workforce Automation is the implementation of process without the requirement of the worker’s knowledge of the process. EA will be the creation of a Workforce Automation methodology

With the QBOS platform, non-engineers and non-programmers can now contribute to the further evolution, maturity and range of information technology.  Anyone with specialized knowledge can now convert their knowledge into a control system without having to hire programmers and engineers (see an example here). This is not to say that programmers and engineers will no longer be needed.  Their roles will both evolve and continue to be in demand.  But just as IT originally could only be pushed forward by a relatively small group of engineers trained in configuring systems via primitive languages such as Assembler, and then later that group grew to include software developers and analysts as easier-to-understand computer languages came into being, so today is just another step in that .

But there are two differences between the previous evolutionary transitions in IT and the current one.  And these differences will push IT beyond a new tipping point.

The first difference is that, for the first time, the conversion of specialized knowledge to IT control systems can be done without any lengthy or specialized training in IT.  This means that the ability to push the power of IT into more corners of human life and business will be expanded from the relatively small set made up of programmers, engineers and scientists to a much larger and growing superset: Peter F. Drucker’s famed ”knowledge worker“.

The second difference is that, because data processing has effectively merged with common communications over the last sixteen years, decision-branching and instructions in data processing systems can now include human beings since the data processing systems have access to the same communication channels that human beings use to communicate with each other.

The QBOS Tradespace development platform embodies these two significant differences and means that for the first time a knowledge worker can directly implement IT solutions that both embody the knowledge worker’s expertise and automate the associated human workforce.  “The value in workforce automation cannot be understated as it removes the human element from the single greatest cause of failure and turbulence in any organizational structure: the hand-off.  “James Lord – CTO QBOS

As we extend our business processes into the new millennium, the cloud environment will be just that arena to advance from the Information Age into the Knowledge Age.

IF you would like to see for yourself how the URAD Platform as a Service can build an entire Opportunity Management System in under 20 minutes, your invited!

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