Businessman Naftali Feig Moves to Israel
Founding Partner of R & N Property Investments, Naftali Feig, recently decided to leave his home in Cleveland and relocate, along with his family, to Israel. Naftali Feig is searching for full time employment in the new land.
Former Cleveland resident and businessman, Naftali Feig, recently packed his home belongings and moved to Israel in search of new challenges.
“I wanted to provide my family with a good life, Israel has always felt like home,” said Naftali Feig. “Something about Israel drew me back.”
Naftali Feig, a native Israeli resident, moved to the United States with his family when he was seven years old. While living in the United States, Naftali Feig attended various American schools and education establishments.
In 2000, he graduated from Touro College with a Bachelor of Science in Finance. While a student at Touro College, Naftali Feig specialized in international financial markets, international bond trading, security analysis and options trading. Naftali Feig’s specialties include project management, accounting, strategy, planning, finance, real estate, and cost cutting. Most recently, prior to his move to Israel, Naftali Feig graduated from Cleveland State University with a Masters of Business Administration.
Naftali Feig has about 12 years of business experience under his belt. Over the years Naftali Feig has worked for various organizations including Integrated DNA Technologies, Progressive Fashion Warehouse, Progressive Foods and most recently R & N Property Investments.
Naftali Feig was Controller / Operations Manager of R & N Property Investments, a real estate investment firm that purchases bank-owned homes and sells or rents them after renovation and home improvement work. The firm is located in Cleveland, Ohio and is currently being operated by Naftali Feig’s business partner.
“I’m confident that my experience and education in the United States will be an asset as I continue my career in Israel, ” Naftali Feig said.
More About Naftali Feig
A native Israeli resident, Naftali Feig holds 12 years of business and finance experience under his belt. Naftali Feig attended undergraduate and graduate school in the United States. Naftali graduated from Touro College with a Bachelor of Science in finance, recently he graduated from Cleveland State University with a Masters of Business Administration. Naftali Feig is a results driven business professional who is highly skilled at increasing revenue for organizations. Naftali Feig’s specialties include project management, accounting, strategy, planning, finance, real estate, and cost cutting.
Joe Pasternack
Joe Pasternack has joined the Wildcat men’s basketball program of the University of Arizona, as their assistant coach, on May 19, 2011.
In the beginning of his career, Joe Pasternack spent eight seasons as an administrator and coach at the University of California. During the four years prior to his new job at the University of Arizona, Pasternack was head coach of University of New Orleans’ men’s basketball team.
He was the UNO’s team’s third coach in three years, and proved to be worthy of the position when leading the team to 19 wins during the 2007-2008 season, the most wins that team has known since 1997. On top of that, Pasternack also helped the team to defeat a nationally-ranked team for the first time since 1993.
In addition to many successes, Joe Pasternack also had to face many challenges during his UNO coaching career, as the team downgraded from Division I to Division III, which caused many of its good players to leave the team. Pasternack never lost hope, though, and quickly found creative ways to find and recruit new players.
Pasternack is well-prepared for his new assistant coaching job, after the previous 12 years of coaching and administrative experience which he has gained.
Smartphones have large impact on US searching and shopping behavior
Today we continue our exploration of regional findings from the new 2012 Our Mobile Planet research and examine smartphone behavior in the United States.
Smartphones have taken America by storm. In less than a year, smartphone penetration in the US has jumped more than 10%. 44% of Americans now own a smartphone and the new 2012 Our Mobile Planet smartphone research shows that they’ve become increasingly indispensable to our daily lives. Smartphones continue to transform core consumer behavior, from how we connect with others, keep entertained, search, shop and look for local information. This has implications for marketers who now have more opportunity to reach the constantly connected consumer. You can see many of the key findings on US mobile consumer behavior in the infographic below.
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Highlights from the US Our Mobile Planet Smartphone Research
Many of the global mobile consumer behavior findings we shared yesterday are common for US smartphone owners. You can explore these findings using the chart builder tool on thinkwithgoogle.com/mobileplanet or get the topline insights by downloading the country level report. Today we explore findings from the US smartphone research and their implications for businesses via slides from the downloadable US country report.
Smartphones Provide Answers at Your Fingertips – Anytime, Anywhere
Smartphones are little portable computers in our pockets, allowing us to find information on-the-go or at home, whenever and wherever we want. Whether we’re trying to settle a trivia bet with a friend, find the nearest gas station or get the latest news, we’re increasingly using our smartphones to get the information we need.
- 80% never leave home without their phones in hand
- 71% use their smartphones at restaurants and 56% at airports, among many other locations
- 62% have used their smartphone to go online seven out of seven days in the past week
- 57% of smartphone searchers conduct searches everyday on their phones
What’s the implication for businesses of consumers having answers at their fingertips and information at their whim whenever they want? It means your customers have more opportunities to become engaged with your business. You need to be where your customers are, and today that means they are on mobile.
This is important because 66% of smartphone users search as a result of seeing an offline ad. For example, 58% look for more information after seeing an ad on TV. The new smartphone research also tells us that 52% of smartphone owners use the Internet on their phones while watching TV. In fact, 86% are using their smartphones while consuming some other form of media.
It’s important to get your message found by consumers, as 61% of smartphone users only look at the first page of search results and 89% notice mobile ads. Businesses should integrate mobile into cross-media campaign plans and understand that today’s consumers can easily be activated by the multiple screens and media around them.
Smartphones Transform the Shopping Process
Smartphones have significantly changed the way Americans shop and make purchase decisions. 96% of smartphone owners use their mobile devices to research product and service information. 35% intentionally have their smartphones with them to compare prices and find product info while on the go, and 32 % have actually changed their mind about purchasing a product while in a store as a result of smartphone research. Smartphones are thus making us smarter shoppers and are influential at the point of purchase.
Research on smartphones also leads to purchases across channels. 37% end up purchasing online and 32% prefer to purchase in-store after having conducted research on a product or service on their smartphones.
We also see that mobile is an emerging point of purchase as 35% of smartphone Internet users have made a purchase on their smartphone (not including apps purchases). 68% have done this in the past month. What’s more is that these smartphone shoppers are purchasing often with 62% of smartphone shoppers saying they make some kind of purchase on their phones at least once a month.
It’s clear that smartphones have become a critical part of the shopping process and an indispensable shopping tool that influences not only if consumers will make a purchase but also where. With this instant access to information all the time, smartphones are breaking down the walls between digital and physical worlds. Consumers will go where they can find the most convenience, the best price or the greatest customer experience. Businesses need to understand this radical shift in core consumer behavior and implement cross-channel strategies that incorporate mobile. It’s also critically important that businesses have mobile-optimized websites as consumers research and buy on mobile, and a poor mobile site experience could make the difference between winning or losing a customer.
To learn more about US mobile consumer behavior, get the US Our Mobile Planet country report, download the infographic or use the data explorer and chart builder on thinkwithgoogle.com/mobileplanet. Get the data you need to understand the new mobile consumer and to help shape your mobile business strategies.
Posted by Dai Pham, Group Product Marketing Manager, Google Mobile Ads
Feature Spotlight: EVENT TRACKING
As the Internet evolves and new technologies such as HTML5, JQUERY and MooTools are becoming more mainstream, the actual face of the web is changing… and for the better.
Static web pages are becoming a thing of the past, replaced by dynamic and interactive content that streamlines the experience and brings more functionality to our web browsing fingertips. And naturally, user behavior is changing, which means we need better tools to track and understand so we can continue to improve our web presences for maximum return on investment.
VisiStat definitely recognizes the increased need for more and more detail in tracking the interactions of visitors of a web page. So, we have updated our Event/Link Tracking feature to include every piece of available data currently garnered from tracking a full page view. This means you can measure everything, right down to the duration of time between events.
If you’re not yet tracking events on your website and would like to learn more, log into your VisiStat account and navigate to the Account Options tab for simple instructions on how to get started!
If you’re not yet using VisiStat, this would be a great time to set up a free trial and see what your website can tell you!
GoMo: Build a mobile site in minutes, the recap
In case you missed it, last Thursday Google hosted a mobile site builder product demonstration and broadcasted it live with Hangouts on Air on Think With Google’s Google+ page. During the Hangout, we featured two businesses building mobile-friendly sites in minutes. Participants included:
- Dennis Mink, Chief Marketing Office from DudaMobile
- Adrienne Burhoe, Chief Operating Officer from Top Mast Resort in Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- Felicia Viening, General Manager from Savas Restaurant in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Key takeaways
- Understand your mobile user and the content they need, and bring those elements to your mobile-friendly site
- Make it easy for people to contact and find your business
- Remember to paste the auto-redirect code to your desktop site
- Create a mobile-friendly site today with Google’s simple and easy-to-use site creation tool
Check out the recorded video of our Hangout below and visit howtogomo.com/getstarted to build your own mobile site. It only takes minutes and Google will pick up the cost for the first year.
Posted by: Suzanne Mumford, Product Marketing Manager, Google Mobile Ads
New UA Basketball Hire Brings Lesson of Adversity
Ever since he was a high school student Joe Pasternack knew that he will have a basketball career, but not in uniform. “I knew I wasn’t going to play in the NBA for a lack of size, so the next best thing was to learn the game and coach,” he said.
Pasternack spent four years as a student under coach Bob Knight. At the end of four years, Knight called California coach Braun in order to recommend Pasternack for a job. After only two years as a video coordinator, Braun made Pasternack assistant coach at the early age of 24. “His work ethic is second to none,” Braun said, complimenting Pasternack. “He’s going to outwork you, and he’s very thorough, very detailed in his approach. That not only manifests itself in game preparation and scouting but also in recruiting, because he was tireless.”
When he finished assistant coaching at California, Joe Pasternack became head-coach of ‘The Privateers’ basketball team at the University of New Orleans. That is where he went through a few of a basketball coach’s worst nightmares. Over his four years at UNO, Pasternack watched his team’s budget shrink as a result of a major decrease in enrollment due to Hurricane Katrina. Towards the end of his coaching career he was not able to offer students athletic scholarships, which led many students to leave his team, putting him in a desperation for new players, whoever would agree to join. “We told them, ‘Look, you can come for a year and then transfer out, and it will give you a chance to play college basketball,’” Pasternack explained.
After dealing with such challenges, nothing will ever seem too difficult for Joe Pasternack. Not even the assistant coaching job that he accepted at the elite basketball program of the University of Arizona. University of Arizona’s head-coach Sean Miller was in need to replace his previous assistant coach, Archie Miller. He considered a few candidates for the job, and in the end decided that Joe Pasternack is the best choice. “When you replace someone like Archie, who did so many good things for us, it’s tough to find that well-roundedness. And to me we really found that in Joe,” Miller said.
“I feel very very fortunate that coach Miller gave me this opportunity,” Pasternack said. “I believe being on the Arizona basketball staff is one of the top four or five jobs in America. To be able to learn from him even more and compete for championships, to me, is an incredible opportunity.”
Naftali Feig Celebrates 12 Years in the Business Profession
Founding Partner of R & N Property Investments, Naftali Feig, recently marked his 12th year in the business field. Over the course of the years, Naftali Feig has worked for a number of high-ranking companies. Recently he relocated to Israel and is seeking full time employment.
Naftali Feig has about 12 years of business experience under his belt. The former Cleveland resident has recently relocated to Israel, and is currently seeking employment in project management, finance, management and related fields.
“I’m very focused and motivated. My 12 years of experience have taught me to become resourceful in handling multiple management challenges,” said Naftali Feig.
Naftali Feig, a native Israeli resident, moved to the United States with his family when he was seven years old. While living in the United States, Naftali Feig attended various American schools and education establishments.
In 2000, he graduated from Touro College with a Bachelor of Science in Finance. While a student at Touro College, Naftali Feig specialized in international financial markets, international bond trading, security analysis and options trading. Most recently, prior to his move to Israel, Naftali Feig graduated from Cleveland State University with a Masters of Business Administration.
“Education is very important to me,” said Naftali Feig. “After completing my Bachelors and working for a few years I was motivated to return to school and earn an MBA in order to increase my knowledge of business and management.”
Over the years Naftali Feig has worked for various organizations, including Integrated DNA Technologies, Progressive Fashion Warehouse, Progressive Foods and most recently R & N Property Investments.
Naftali Feig was Controller / Operations Manager of R & N Property Investments, a real estate investment firm that purchases bank-owned homes and sells or rents them after renovation and home improvement work. The firm is located in Cleveland, Ohio and is currently being operated by Naftali Feig’s business partner.
“I am an innovative market manager with a unique ability to combine competitive analysis, current programming and relationship skills into bottom line results,” Naftali Feig said. “I am able to focus on many projects simultaneously, and yet I always give 100 percent.”
Currently Naftali Feig and his family are acclimating in Israel. Both he and his wife decided to move from Cleveland, Ohio to Israel because they felt a connection to the country.
“We wanted to raise our children here, there is something special about Israel,” Naftali Feig said. “I’m confident that my experience and education in the United States will be an asset as I continue my career in Israel.”
More About Naftali Feig
A native Israeli resident, Naftali Feig holds 12 years of business and finance experience under his belt. Naftali Feig attended undergraduate and graduate school in the United States. Naftali graduated from Touro College with a Bachelor of Science in finance, recently he graduated from Cleveland State University with a Masters of Business Administration. Naftali Feig is a results driven business professional who is highly skilled at increasing revenue for organizations.
Instant Checkmate Works to Protect its Customers’ Online Identity
A background data provider, Instant Checkmate, allocates advice to shield its customers’ online identity.
Instant Checkmate works to assist its customers in protecting their online identities by offering several helpful suggestions. Instant Checkmate, which is considered a leading background data provider, explains that more than 10 million Americans fall to identity theft each year. Online Checkmate offers services that protect subscribers’ online identity and combat online identity theft.
“Instant Checkmate always looks out for its customers,” said Kristen Bright, Instant Checkmate spokeswoman. “We strive to offer the most helpful tips and tools.”
Officials at Instant Checkmate stress the importance of having an email account, in addition, Instant Checkmate recommends reducing the number of Web site operators to which personal information must be provided. Also Instant Checkmate officials recommend rejecting to allow Website operators to store financial and/or personal information.
Formed in 2009, Instant Checkmate, is anonymous, fast and affordable. Instant Checkmate supplies results from billions of local criminal records and federal state, public records, private databases and sex offender registries. Instant Checkmate customers receive their requested results in a timely manner directly to their own computer screen.
About Instant Checkmate
Instant Checkmate, has been serving as an online background check service since 2009. Instant Checkmate is available to individuals on a subscription basis. Instant Checkmate supplies results from billions of local criminal records, federal state records, public records, private databases and sex offender registries. For more information about Instant Checkmate, visit the company’s Web site.
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For additional information, interview and image requests contact Kristen Bright, PR Manager, Instant Checkmate, 1-866-490-5980.
Alliance Network Offers Real Time Solutions
Online processing consulting firm, Alliance Network recently debuted its latest real time solutions and leading edge global payment services. Alliance Network provides payment consulting services as well as content management systems development.
Online Payment processing consulting firm, Alliance Network has a following of hundreds of clients who have turned to the processing consulting firm for its real time consulting solutions and superior global payment services.
Alliance Network is always on the hunt for the best solutions of the industry. Alliance Network diligently works to receive reviews and feedback from its network of partners and clients on the best products and services for its specialized users’ accounts.
“Alliance Network provides a proprietary payment gateway directly linked to the banks across the globe, we process credit and debit payments taken on Web sites of all sizes worldwide,” said Paul Skinner, Alliance Network spokesman. “We basically are a one-stop shop for all online payment processing components.”
Alliance Network employs leading professionals who ensure the Alliance Network services will help take its customers’ businesses to the next level and beyond.
Alliance Network offers secure and fully protected online transactions. The company utilizes advanced technology that further guarantees its clients’ secure and protected online transactions.
Alliance Network is a subsidiary of Myroxon Holdings Ltd, a European-based company. The company was founded in 2007 to play a bigger role in the online interactive and content management systems business. In addition, Alliance Network provides payment consulting services as well as content management systems development. Alliance Network specializes in serving companies that require reliable online payment processing solutions. In addition, Alliance Network focuses on providing solid solutions for companies that want to leverage their payment processing capabilities.
“Customers can visit our Alliance Network Web site and expect top notch features, security and the highest protection,” Skinner said.
More About Alliance Network
Payment processing consulting firm, Alliance Network, is a subsidiary of European company, Myroxon Holdings Ltd. The company was founded in 2007 and specializes in serving companies that require reliable payment processing solutions. Alliance Network provides payment consulting services as well as content management systems development. Alliance Network provides a proprietary payment gateway directly linked to the banks across the globe, the company processes credit and debit card payments, verifies and processes e-Checks online, and more. Alliance Network is considered an innovative global online processing consulting company.
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For additional information, interview, and image requests contact:
Paul Skinner
PR Manager
Alliance Network
Arizona Wildcats Assistant Coach Joe Pasternack Looking Forward to Helping in Tucson
Previous head coach of University of New Orleans’ men’s basketball team, Joe Pasternack, is excited about moving to Arizona with his family in order to pursue his new job as assistant coach of the University of Arizona’s basketball team.
One reason for the excitement is the fact that his wife is a big Arizona fan. “My wife was here for the 1997 national championship. Those were interesting times on game day when we (New Orleans team) played Arizona to see who she was rooting for.” The second reason is his new team’s head coach, Sean Miller. “I think Sean is just a terrific leader. He’s put together a staff where every single person is working on one common goal every single day. No egos. It’s a team ego, and that’s a credit to coach Miller finding these people. It’s hard to find good people. You have to have players to be successful, but it starts with our staff, and that’s probably the biggest thing I’ve been impressed with,” Pasternack said.
In his UNO’s coaching career Joe Pasternack has had to deal with many challenges, such as the team’s downgrade from Division I to Division III. Having an experience as head coach will definitely help him in his new job. He explained “for me, coming from being a head coach, a seat over, really helps me in the fact that I went from giving suggestions to making decisions, to now back to giving suggestions but being able to see the broad scope. I’m excited from a recruiting standpoint, game prep standpoint and in helping the staff any way I can.”
Pasternack does not plan to be a head coach again any time soon.
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