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NECA’s ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR Magazine Website Grows Traffic by 20%

jherson — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:40:35 +0000

New Website Design and Drupal Platform Deployment Grows NECA’s ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR Magazine Website Traffic by 20% in First Month

Bates Creative and Unleashed Technologies partner to deliver intuitive, highly performing website that drives engagement and revenue for ECmag.com

COLUMBIA, Maryland – March 27, 2013 – As a result of their partnership with Unleashed Technologies and Bates Creative, the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) has increased traffic to its ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR magazine website (www.ecmag.com) – the most highly trafficked site in its industry – by more than 20%. The new website design and Drupal platform deployment not only increased engagement, it also improved ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR magazine’s ability to adapt to industry and technology changes.

“Things that can be done instantaneously now couldn’t be done before – we had no flexibility – it limited our ability to make the site dynamic. To stay competitive, we had to make some changes. We needed something more current with a wider scope of opportunity, both on the content side and the advertising side,” commented John Maisel, publisher of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR.

Features of this new website include:

A fresh and intuitive design that furthers the branding and mirrors the elegance of NECA’s award-winning magazine
Granular content control, including article placement, photo galleries and content correlation
A robust advertising platform with the ability to serve third-party advertisements with multiple ad position and display frequency options, as well as full reports on impressions
Automated importing of print formatted content via XML, saving hours of manual work
Improved user engagement through an easy-to-use interface, social enablement, rating and commenting capabilities

With this new site, ECmag.com staff now has the control and flexibility required to implement the changes it needs to grow. “We’re striving to offer our customers – both readers and advertisers – a broad menu of interactive communication tools. Our new site has enabled us to do that more effectively and efficiently. Whether it’s an advertiser trying to reach a market or the market trying to get information, having this added dimension is invaluable,” said John Maisel.

The new website was a combined effort between the ECmag.com team, Bates Creative and Unleashed Technologies. Throughout this partnership, Unleashed Technologies and Bates Creative worked closely with the ECmag.com staff to understand their business needs and how to best serve their customer base through the web. “This is one of the best partnership experiences that we have ever had. Unleashed Technologies and Bates Creative go above and beyond. They are easy to work with and when we call and ask for something, they work on it promptly. This responsiveness affects our revenue in more than one way: by getting products out faster, improving our readership numbers, and increasing team efficiency,” stated John Maisel.

“The partnership between ECmag.com, Bates Creative and Unleashed Technologies has produced some incredible results,” commented Michael Spinosa, CEO of Unleashed Technologies. “We were able to leverage the power and flexibility of the Drupal platform to deliver highly interactive content and give ECmag.com’s staff the control and agility they need to drive innovation in their industry.”

“Working with John Maisel, publisher at NECA, for over five years has truly been a pleasure. The website redesign has been a part of John’s plan to successfully expand, redesign, and re-position the brand to become the dominant force in a $130 billion industry.” Debbie Bates-Schrott, president of Bates Creative.

For more information on this website, please visit: http://www.unleashed-technologies.com/our-work/ecmagcom-gains-control-drive-engagement-and-revenue and http://www.batescreativegroup.com/align/neca-redesigns-magazine-website-ecmag-com

About Unleashed Technologies

Unleashed Technologies, Maryland’s leader in web and hosting solutions, offers what no one else can: unparalleled web design, development and integration capabilities backed by a proprietary enterprise hosting environment. Unleashed Technologies solves difficult web technology problems through building, planning and providing continuing support for websites and web applications. With Unleashed Technologies web solutions, our clients unleash their web potential through a state-of-the-art web experience that is simple to maintain and manage, increasing engagement for visitors and drastically reducing resources needed to reach their goals. For more information, visit www.unleashed-technologies.com

About Bates Creative

Bates Creative is a strategic marketing agency specializing in design and branding located in the Washington DC Metro. Bates Creative services Fortune 500 companies as well as corporate, government, association and non-profit clients. Founded in 2003, Bates Creative is a WBENC certified woman-owned business. For more information, visit www.batescreative.com; follow us on Twitter @batescreates and on Facebook.com/BatesCreativeGroup.

Ryan Barbera Honored with SmartCEO Executive Management Award

jherson — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:12:03 +0000

The SmartCEO Executive Management Awards highlight chief executives who have gone above and beyond to support their organizations' initiatives. President of Unleashed Technologies, Ryan Barbera, was honored as one of Baltimore's elite executives at this event, which was held on March 7, 2013.

As president of Unleashed Technologies, Barbera is responsible for building and bringing success to several teams, including sales, data center and finance. As a leader, he empowers the Unleashed Technologies team by encouraging autonomy and cultivating a culture of accountability and continued growth. Ryan's contributions to Unleashed Technologies have resulted in an increase in revenue and stronger financial practices to help the company run more smoothly and help its executives make more caluclated decisions. As a result, Unleashed Technologies' annualized revenue has grown 70 percent overall.

Members of the Unleashed Technologies team were on hand to celebrate this win with Ryan at the event. Here is a great picture of our team celebrating Ryan's achievement taken by event photographer, Rachel Smith Photography.

Data Center Expansion in RagingWire's Ashburn, VA Facility

jherson — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:13:51 +0000

Unleashed Technologies Announces Expansion of Dedicated Server, Cloud, and Colocation Services with New Data Center in RagingWire’s Ashburn, Virginia Facility

Investment supports Unleashed Technologies’ dedication to providing superior hosting solutions from Tier III environments for its clients and partners nationwide

ASHBURN, Virginia and COLUMBIA, Maryland – March 12, 2013 – Unleashed Technologies, LLC, providers of superior hosting and web solutions nationwide, announces the opening of its greatly expanded data center presence in RagingWire’s industry-leading Ashburn, Virginia campus, known as “The Bolt.” With this expansion, Unleashed Technologies enhances its offerings in dedicated hosting, virtual servers, colocation and cloud computing at wholesale prices supported by RagingWire’s patented 2N+2 critical infrastructure and 100% availability.

“RagingWire designs, builds, and operates innovative, highly advanced data centers backed by superior connectivity, power and cooling systems that will enable Unleashed Technologies to deliver flexible, highly secure solutions for our partners and clients,” said Ryan Barbera, president of Unleashed Technologies. “Our expansion into RagingWire’s Ashburn data center greatly enhances the offerings our growing list of partners can provide and improves our capacity to deliver enterprise-class hosting solutions to our clients nationwide.”

RagingWire’s Ashburn data center is a technologically advanced, energy efficient facility that boasts:

14.4 MW critical IT load capacity
150,000 square feet and five data center vaults
SSAE 16, Type 2 compliance
PCI DSS 2.0 compliance
FISMA moderate
Patented power architecture with 100% uptime SLA for power and cooling

Located in the heart of “Data Center Alley,” The Bolt offers many telecommunication provider options, blended bandwidth using three Tier 1 carriers, and high capacity 10G point to point network connectivity to RagingWire’s 500,000 square foot data center campus in Sacramento, California. This robust connectivity provides Unleashed Technologies’ partners and clients with a carrier-neutral environment and superior uptime.

“Unleashed Technologies is committed to providing enterprise-class infrastructure hosting, virtual private server and dedicated server solutions with the ultimate standard in availability, support, and security,” commented George Macricostas, RagingWire’s president and CEO. “RagingWire is proud to support them in delivering on this commitment.”

About Unleashed Technologies

Unleashed Technologies has the experience and environment to handle all of your hosting needs. Whether you need performance hosting for your website, virtual hosting to reduce your overhead, or a secure facility in which to co-locate your servers, we've got you covered. Unlike others in the hosting industry, we take a comprehensive and full care approach to hosting, with a customized and cost-effective solution for every need. All hosting with Unleashed Technologies is based in a Tier III data center, with guaranteed 99.999% uptime. For more information, visit www.unleashed-technologies.com/hosting

About RagingWire Data Centers

RagingWire designs, builds, and operates mission critical data centers that deliver high-density power and 100% availability. The company has 650,000 square feet of critical data center infrastructure in Northern California and Ashburn, Virginia and the highest customer loyalty scores in the industry. Their patented power delivery systems and EPA ENERGY STAR rated facilities lead the data center market in reliability and efficiency. With flexible colocation solutions for retail and wholesale buyers, a carrier neutral philosophy, and unmatched customer service, RagingWire meets the needs of top enterprise, Internet, and government organizations. More information is available at www.ragingwire.com.

Unleashed Technologies Platinum Sponsor of the Blue Drop Awards for 2013

mspinosa — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:52:55 +0000

Unleashed Technologies is proud to announce the sponsorship of the second annual Blue Drop Awards. In its inaugural year, Unleashed Technologies won three Blue Drop Awards, including the Website of the Year, Best Non-Profit Website, and Best Business Website. Based on our commitment to the Drupal community and the advancement of the most scalable open source content/social platform available today, Unleashed Technologies is one of two platinum level sponsors for this year's event.

We'll be at DrupalCon Portland where the awards will be announced this year and hope to see some amazing submissions from the Drupal community. Be sure to nominate some of the best web sites you can find built on Drupal and have them take a role in bringing greater awareness to Drupal. The areas of award-winning competencies have been expanded this year to 25 categories, so be sure to spread the word.

Here is the full listing of last year's winners. We look forward to seeing you at DrupalCon Portland.

A Year In Review: Unleashed Technologies Looks Back on 2012

mspinosa — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:49:30 +0000

As we are well into the New Year I find myself looking at 2012 and reflecting. It was a year of growth, learning, and new opportunity that helped strengthen Unleashed Technologies in its core services and to develop some new ones in the process. Unleashed Technologies grew nearly 100% again and we added many terrific people to our team throughout the course of the year. In that expansion, we dedicated ourselves further to our unique way of delivering web and hosting services to our clients. Some successes of 2012 include:

Awards

Drupal Blue Drop Awards - Best Non-Profit Website of the Year
Drupal Blue Drop Awards - Best Website of the Year
Drupal Blue Drop Awards - Best Business Website of the Year

Data Center/Hosting Expansion

Grew our virtual performance hosting offerings.
Brought many great new clients and partners on board.
Laid the groundwork for dramatic expansion - more on that really soon.

Web Advancements

Diversified our offerings into the mobile application market.
Strengthened our Drupal expertise now ranking with the elite developers in the nation.
Opened our e-commerce division, leveraging Magento and Saleswarp along with our existing expertise.
Engaged with leading non-profits to continually mature our enterprise publication, magazine, and asset management capabilities.

In these great successes we also have worked hard to improve the delivery of our services and we are happy to report that we've made some great strides in improving our growth model. Thanks to our clients, partners, and advisors for helping us grow in key areas. In preparation for 2013, we've made the following changes:

Strengthened our project management practices and team.
Dedicated team members to quality assurance led by Leslie Nissenberg.
Refined our data center practices, establishing greater levels of control.
Added experienced e-commerce professionals certified on the Magento platform.

As new launches and improvements are made throughout this year we will dedicate ourselves to keeping our friends, clients, partners, and future clients in the loop on our latest advancements. Unleashed Technologies' mission has always been to be the premier professional services firm in web and hosting. We look forward to continuing that mission.

New Website for The Woodhouse Day Spa

jherson — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:19:10 +0000

Unleashed Technologies Launches New Website for The Woodhouse Day Spa Bringing Usability and Control to Its Franchisees

Website developed by Unleashed Technologies and designed by Bates Creative Group enables The Woodhouse Day Spa and its franchisees to increase engagement and improve ROI

Columbia, MD, October 16, 2012 – Unleashed Technologies, LLC, experts in web and hosting solutions, today announced the launch of a new website for The Woodhouse Day Spa. Unleashed Technologies developed an enterprise platform that easily scales to accommodate The Woodhouse’s explosive growth, as they take the company from 30 to more than 200 franchises.

“This new website is not only beautiful and intuitive for site visitors, it also delivers control and usability for The Woodhouse and its franchisees,” said Jeni Garrett, President & CEO, The Woodhouse Day Spa. “This platform empowers us to more easily manage our web presence across corporate and franchise sites in order to continue to grow our business.”

Unleashed Technologies improved site management and developed key integrations that now enable The Woodhouse and its franchisees to:

Ease content management across all websites for corporate employees and franchisees with tiered levels of access to ensure brand consistency and timely updates
Reduce costs by eliminating manual gift card processes
Increase revenue with online reservation booking, and the ability to target local markets through SEO/SEM
Improve engagement with social media sharing

The Woodhouse Day Spa can now instantly create franchise sites that are consistent in branding and content, yet managed and updated by the franchisee. Building on the high impact design provided by Bates Creative Group, all sites are fully integrated into spa management systems to provide a seamless experience to visitors.

Previously, The Woodhouse had decentralized web presences with a lack of control over content and less integration into corporate spa systems. The Woodhouse had difficulty making global changes, impacting branding. Additionally, gift cards were manually processed at each location requiring extra work for employees. These issues and many more were resolved with the launch of the new website.

“By leveraging the most advanced best practices in Drupal development, we were able to deliver a robust, enterprise platform to The Woodhouse Day Spa that enables centralized and decentralized distribution of content,” commented Michael Spinosa, CEO of Unleashed Technologies. “Behind a very user friendly, intuitive site is a powerful platform that can accommodate the needs of The Woodhouse and its franchisees now and far into the future as it continues to grow.”

To learn more about The Woodhouse Day Spa website, visit: http://www.unleashed-technologies.com/our-work/woodhouse-day-spa-brings-usability-and-control-its-franchisees

About Unleashed Technologies

About Bates Creative Group

Bates Creative Group is an award-winning, woman-owned design and marketing agency located in the Washington DC Metro. Bates Creative believes that great work takes place at a specific nexus of factors, what we call the Ignition Point. These factors include valued client relationships, striking design and measurable results. Bates Creative services Fortune 500 companies as well as corporate, government, association and non-profit clients. For more information, visit www.batescreativegroup.com, follow us on Twitter @batescreates and on Facebook.com/BatesCreativeGroup.

Special Weather Announcement - Hurricane Sandy

jherson — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:15:58 +0000

Severe Weather Announcement

Current Ashburn Data Center Status: All systems are operational - no impact.

Between Sunday, October 28, and Tuesday, October 30, we can expect 4-7” of rain and a long period of sustained winds above 35 mph with peak gusts over 60 mph.

Ashburn Operations personnel have completed all precautionary measures to guard against interruption of Unleashed Technologies services. The generators have been tested, fuel levels verified, and backup fuel vendors have been placed on standby in the event of extended power interruption. Arrangements have been made to have additional staff on-site to maintain operability standards. Full failover plans are in place to ensure all support lines remain open for customers.

Additional status updates will be sent to our clients throughout the storm.

For more information about national weather conditions, visit the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website at: http://www.noaa.gov.

For support throughout the storm please use all standard communication/ticket methods:

Opening a support ticket at http://www.unleashed-technologies.com/customer-login
Calling: 410-864-8980, option 2
Emailing: support@unleashed-technologies.com support@unleashed-technologies.com

Thank you,

Unleashed Technologies Customer Service
(410) 864-8980 x186
customerservice@unleashed-technologies.com

Newly Added Resources for Your Reading Pleasure

jherson — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:11:59 +0000

We are happy to announce that we've expanded our website's Resources section to include Web and Hosting Solution Sheets. All of the documents are currently available to download and will help you learn more about:

Drupal
eCommerce
Our datacenters
Hosting solutions for the enterprise
Hosting for small businesses
What it's like to work with Unleashed Technologies
And much more

Please take a moment to read more about our web solution and hosting solution sheets and let us know what you think. Is there a topic you'd like to have us cover that we haven't? We'd love to hear from you and if you have any questions, please feel free to contact us or leave a comment below.

Unleashed Technologies Sponsors CRTC Mini Golf Mixer

jherson — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:02:14 +0000

Join us tomorrow at the Chesapeake Regional Tech Council's Mini Golf Mixer! We are excited to be the lead tournament sponsor and looking forward to networking with some of the top tech executives in the region. It may rain, but that just means we'll have more time for networking under the pavilion! Food, drink and tech connections will be provided.

We're proud to be members of the CRTC and are extending a special promotion for two free months of Cloud services to its members. For more information on that promotion, please visit: http://www.unleashed-technologies.com/crtc.

Thank you and see you tomorrow night!

Unleashed Technologies Announces Gold-Level Partnership with SalesWarp

jherson — Tue, 01 May 2012 12:43:46 +0000

Unleashed Technologies Empowers Its Clients to Build, Manage and Expand Their eCommerce Sites Through SalesWarp

Columbia, MD May 1, 2012 – Unleashed Technologies, experts in web and hosting solutions, today announced their Gold Partnership with SalesWarp, a unique web-based Storefront Management System specifically designed to help retailers better manage their entire eCommerce operations. This partnership enables Unleashed Technologies’ clients to manage all of their eCommerce operations, including pricing, order processing, shipping, inventory, SEO, and customer communications, from a single platform.

By leveraging SalesWarp, Unleashed Technologies enables its clients to:

Drastically lower costs and required resources by eliminating manual storefront management, including order processing, inventory management, and shipment tracking
Get products to market 30-45 days faster with automated product publishing
Increase sales with higher conversion and up-sell opportunities
Exceed customer expectations by providing superior service

“This partnership will deliver tremendous value to our current and future clients,” said Michael Spinosa, CEO of Unleashed Technologies. “With SalesWarp, you have a single platform through which to automate and manage your critical eCommerce operations, resulting in increased revenue and significant cost and time savings.”

“We are very happy to welcome Unleashed Technologies as a SalesWarp Gold Solution Partner,” stated David Potts, CEO and Founder of SalesWarp. “This will create new revenue opportunities for Unleashed Technologies while helping them add substantial new value for their clients.”

About Unleashed Technologies

About SalesWarp (http://www.SalesWarp.com)

SALESWARP, developed by 6th Street Commerce, is a web-based Storefront Management System specifically designed to help retailers build and manage their online stores more efficiently while increasing sales and reducing costs. Built on an open-source framework, SalesWarp helps maximize resources and drive ROI by connecting and managing existing systems (ERP, inventory, POS, CRM, shopping cart, shipping, financial) retailers are already using. SalesWarp was originally developed in 2009 to provide a better way to manage high order volumes and inventory from multiple warehouses. Today, SalesWarp provides retailers with automated tools to manage inventory, product data, orders, fulfillment, pricing, SEO, shipping and customer data across multiple online stores from one system.