Category Archives:Online Business Consulting

Jan. 28.

Popcake® Pancake Machine

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POPCAKE® is the world’s first automated pancake making machine designed for the commercial food service industry. By using the Popcake machine, restaurants, diners, coffee shops, food stands, and catering companies can make multiple mouth-watering, 97% fat-free, piping hot pancakes under 60 seconds at a single press of a button.

 

The Popcake pancake machine is fully enclosed and remains cool enough to touch while operating. The counter-top POPCAKE® machine uses proprietary software and electronics to control the automated cooking process and is fully adjustable for pancake diameter, and mix options. This patented machine is robust in design and requires minimal maintenance. Create fast, automatic and delicious pancakes that are perfect for any food service company.

Popcake-Pancake-Machine-Product-ImageThe unique and patented POPCAKE® technology allows operators the flexibility to make a 1-inch (silver dollar), 4-inch (medium) or 6-inch (large) pancake with just the simple press of a button. Best of all, the POPCAKE® machine delivers freshly baked, 97% fat-free, delicious, piping hot pancakes in under a minute. Capable of creating a wide variety of menu options, POPCAKE comes in sweet and savory mix options accompanied by popular toppings from traditional maple syrup to various fruit combinations.

Innovative Commercial Concepts has expanded upon recent successes in Australasia, Europe and Hong Kong – Macau with a NSF certified machine supported the North American launch back in Q3 2009.

Fast Facts

Registered Name:
Innovative Commercial Concepts
Authorized North American Distributor of POPCAKE®

Registered Address:
911 Cranbrook Glen Lane
Snellville, GA 30078

Year Established: December 2008

Website: www.Popcake.com | www.Popcake-NA.com

Patents: First patent granted early 2008

Product Range:

• Automated POPCAKE® machine
• Proprietary POPCAKE® mix: sweet, savoury, gluten-free and buckwheat
• Real fruit content toppings

Notable International
Customers:

• Marriott Hotels
• Langham Hotels
• Novotel Hotels
• Qantas Airline Lounges
• Air New Zealand Lounges
• Hong Kong Disneyland
• Compass Group Hong Kong
• Sodexho Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Club
• Hong Kong Cricket Club

Global Market Presence: Australia, Hong Kong & Macau, Russia, United Kingdom, United States of America

Logo:

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Social Media:

Twitter: @PopcakeNA
 
Facebook: Facebook.com/Popcake.NA
 

Pancake Breakfast Icon Pancake Recipes

Stir up a hearty, satisfying breakfast with a quick batch of homemade pancakes. Here are a few popular recipes that are sure to please.

 

Banana and Peanut Butter Pancakes

Here’s a protein packed recipe to power your day. Try adding cinnamon to the batter for extra flavor or chocolate chips for sweetness. Try health substitutes like whole wheat flour or whole wheat graham flour. These pancakes are sweet enough to enjoy without toppings or try with whipped cream or dunk in syrup.

Ingredients:

1 cup all purpose flour
1 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon brown sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ cup creamy peanut butter
1 ½ cups of milk
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 small banana, peeled and chopped

Directions:

1. Combine, flour, baking powder, brown sugar, and salt in a large bowl. Mix in the peanut butter until the texture resembles cornmeal. Add milk and vanilla; stir just until blended. Stir in the banana pieces.
2. Heat a large skillet over medium heat, and coat with cooking spray. Spoon batter onto the skillet, using approximately two tablespoons to form each pancake about the size of a silver dollar. Cook until pancakes are golden brown on each side. Serve hot.

Nutritional Informationbanana-protein-pancakes

Servings per recipe: 4
Amount per serving: 1
Calories: 283
Cholesterol: 7mg
Total Fat: 10.3g

Brown Sugar Oatmeal Pancakes

The ingredient amounts listed for this recipe yields about 5 pancakes. There are many additions that can be added to the batter to create some delicious variations on a heart healthy, whole grain pancake recipe. Try adding vanilla, yogurt, blueberries, chocolate chips, or cinnamon. Serve with molasses and syrup.

Ingredients:

10 tablespoons quick cooking oats
½ cup whole wheat flour
½ cup all purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 cup buttermilk

Directions:

1. In a small bowl, combine the oats, flours, baking soda salt, and sugar. In another small bowl, beat the egg, oil, and buttermilk. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
2. Pour batter by 1/3 cupful onto a greased hot griddle. Turn when bubbles form on top; cook until the second side is golden brown.

Country Crunch Pancakes

This recipe is guaranteed to be a hit at the breakfast table. Try making it heart healthy and use only whole wheat flour. Any fruit can be added to this recipe so try with mangos, strawberries, raspberries or your favorite. The ingredient amounts listed yield about 7 pancakes. They can be served with butter and syrup or enjoyed just so.

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2 cups all purpose flour
1/3 cup whole wheat flour
1/3 cup quick cooking oats
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 ¼ cups of buttermilk
2 eggs, lightly beaten
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
CRUNCHY TOPPING
½ cup quick cooking oats
¼ cup chopped slivered almonds
¼ cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions:

1. In a mixing bowl, combine flours, oats, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Combine buttermilk, eggs, and oil; stir into dry ingredients just until blended. Fold in blueberries if desired. Combine topping ingredients, sprinkle about 1 teaspoon for each pancake onto a lightly greased hot griddle; pour ¼ cup of batter over the topping. Immediately sprinkle with another teaspoon of topping; turn when bubbles form on top of the pancake. Cook until second side is golden brown.

 

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Oct. 24.

Restaurant Online Ordering System

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Restaurant Online Ordering Software System

Visit: http://restaurantonlinesolutions.com

Learn how to streamline online food orders and payment transactions with this free restaurant online ordering software system created by Restaurant Online Solutions.

This video tutorial will show you how to add menu items to an online menu.

Video: Adding Menu Items


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Oct. 17.

Restaurant Online Ordering System – Free Software

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We’ll provide a weekly post of free software support video tutorials from Restaurant Online Solutions.

 

This Week’s Video…

Learn how to add menu items with the free restaurant online ordering system.

 

Video Tutorial Series

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Aug. 02.

Getting More Dental Patients Using Search Engine Optimization

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Not more than a few days go by without a dentist asking someone in our office, “How are the web pages found from the Dental Practice Dashboard get listed in the top of Google and the other search engines so prospective patients can find them?”

 

In today’s article, I’m going to tell you what we tell them.  More importantly, I’m going to tell you exactly… with no fluff or hype… what’s really required to get a dental practice website to the top of the Google and the other search engines.

 

Search Engine Optimization (otherwise known as SEO) is all the buzz these days.  Everyone’s doing it and everyone is the best and will get you on the first page of Google in 3 days.  You have probably heard this many times already from these marketing and SEO companies targeting dentists.

 

Quite frankly, with the vast amount of garbage information about SEO being circulated it makes me sick.  Dentist are getting ripped off half the time and paying far too much money for something they don’t understand.  This article is long overdue and I can’t take it anymore.

 

So, here’s the truth about what it takes to get a dental practice website listed at the top of Google. It’s a little bit technical at points but, I promise you… if you hang with me until the end… you’ll understand exactly how to get your site to the top of Google (without falling for any of the nonsense or expensive fee’s out there).

 

Let’s start with a basic principle: Web-pages get indexed and listed in Google. Not websites.

 

In other words, you don’t optimize a website for the search engines. You optimize the individual pages.

 

So, what that means for you is that you can get different web-pages on your website listed and indexed in Google for different terms and keywords.

 

Next…

 

Google, and the other search engines, look at two categories of factors to determine how high one of your web-pages should be indexed: On-page Factors and Off-Page Factors.

 

On-Page Factors are all of the things that can be done on a web-page to optimize it for the search engines.

 

On-Page Factors include things like: the title tag of a webpage, the Meta description, the Meta keywords, the H1 tag, the alternate text of images on the page, and the frequency of how often a keyword is used on the page.  And not only that, Google changes what they look at all the time, this is not just a static set of rules, it is ever changing like the internet.

 

These things are directly in our control and can be tweaked and adjusted for each page to ensure every page on your website gets listed for the correct phrases in Google.

 

In the case of the Dental Practice Dashboard, we customize the on-page factors for EACH DOCTOR so their web-pages are found when a prospective patient in their geographic area searches for a dentist (or related information) in their local area. For example, a dentist using the Dental Practice Dashboard based out of Pacific Beach, CA, would have phrases like “dentist in Pacific Beach, CA” in their different on-page factors. This ensures the different web-pages are optimized for the doctor, their name, their specific location, etc.

 

Now, truth be told… On-Page Factors are only half the game. The other half is in the Off-Page Factors.

 

Off-Page Factors include the quantity of in-bound links pointing to your web-pages, the quality of the pages where those links are found, and the exact phrase (anchor text) that is hyper-linked in the link.

 

Let me explain each:

 

An in-bound link is when another web-page out on the Internet has a link on it back to one of your web-pages. The more of these links any web-page on your website has, the more important Google feels it is. But, it doesn’t stop there…

 

An in-bound link from a quality web-page is better than a link from a poor web-page.

 

What determines whether a web-page is quality or poor?

 

Well, it’s simple…

 

The more in-bound links a particular web-page has, the higher it’s quality.

 

A web-page with thousands of in-bound links – other web-pages linking back to it – the higher the quality or authority it has to Google. And, if there’s a link on one of those high-quality, high-authority web-pages that links back to your web-page, it’s much more valuable.

 

For instance, having a link on CNN.com pointing to one of your web-pages is worth a heck of lot more than having a link pointing to one of your web-pages from TheGuyNextDoorWithAWebsite.com.

 

So, the more in-bound links you have, from high-quality web-pages, the better. In this case, the more of these links you have the more important Google will think you are and the higher your web-page will get indexed.

 

But, there’s still one more factor with these links.

 

What you ideally want is to have lots of high-quality links pointing back to your web-page… with the phrase you want your page indexed for as the text that is hyperlinked. In other words, you don’t just want your web address posted on another web-page. You want a specific phrase on these other web-pages to be linked back to your web-page. Using our above Pacific Beach example, we might want the phrase “Dentist in Pacific Beach, CA” hyperlinked. So, when someone clicks on that phrase it brings them to your web-page.

 

What this does – the use of proper anchor text – is it tells Google that for that exact phrase your web-page is extremely important… especially since you have lots of high-quality links using that same phrase… and so it indexes your web-page higher and higher.

 

I can’t stress enough how important using proper anchor text really is. It’s one of the most important elements of getting any web-page listed high in Google.

 

Let Me Prove Just How Important…

 

Go to Google and do a search for the phrase “Click Here”.

 

What you’ll see is that the number one listing on Google is Adobe Acrobat Reader.

 

Why is that?

 

It’s certainly not because Adobe optimized all of their on-page factors with the phrase “click here”.

 

No. It’s because there are thousands, and thousands, and thousands of links out on the internet pointing back to that Adobe Acrobat page with anchor text that says “click here”. That’s the power of in-bound links with targeted anchor text.

 

Bottom Line Is This:

 

Getting, and keeping, a web-page at the top of Google requires optimization of both on-page and off-page factors.

 

Don’t get too involved with all the technical stuff, you are dentist but know that these are the real factors that make SEO work.  Years ago, on-page factors were the most important. Today, off-page factors are more important and in fact, video, with correct SEO is even better (a topic for another day).

Another powerful way to get FREE search engine optimization is by using a dental practice blog.

http://www.moredentalpracticepatients.com/ten-reasons-why-need-dental-practic…

 

Google realized it’s easy for people to manipulate the search engines with on-page factors. It’s not so easy to do that with off-page factors. Hence, the heavier weight and value on off-page factors (in-bound links, anchor text, quality of web-pages linked to).

 

Being found on a local search results for your keywords are extremely important in order for your dental practice to be found, but that is only half the battle anyway because most of the mistakes being made by 9 out of 10 dental practice websites happen on the website itself, which are things you have the power to change.

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Jul. 11.

Restaurant Online Ordering System – The New Modern Addition for Local Restaurants

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The Restaurant Online Ordering System is a Modern Addition to Restaurant Businesses but people are rapidly catching on. Consumers are now excited about their favorite restaurants adding the convenience of an Online Ordering Menu. Restaurant Online Ordering is a versatile benefit because it offers useful, time efficient features for customers and restaurant owners. This new innovative technology is growing rapidly with consumers for many reasons.

This particular Restaurant Online Ordering System encompasses many benefits such as Convenience, Ordering & Price Accuracy, Eliminates Hold Times, No Waiting on the Phone, No Pressure to call or feeling rushed when placing an order, and the system software dramatically improves the customer’s overall experience. The Online Ordering System also gives consumers the ability to browse the Online Menu leisurely, increasing the probability of consumer adding to order. Approximately 70% of Americans have experienced online ordering for restaurants and say they will order online again. Any  local restaurant will attract new customers, who search online for a specific restaurant or category of food in their area, for example, pizza delivery or Chinese food delivery. Fortunately, with this system software your restaurant Menu is available online and customers can order with the click of a button or image.

After implementing the Restaurant Online Ordering System Software, exposure is needed with different marketing strategies. Restaurant Online Solutions offers a voice over feature that customers, who call to oreder, can listen to while they are on hold. The professionally recorded message can include information about the new online ordering capablilities, special promotions, exact location, or events.  Restaurant customers or patrons are the first to promote posistive experiences about new technologies or capabilities by “word of mouth”  through Facebook, Twitter, Open Table, Yelp, Google +1, Instant Message, or via email to friends and family. The Voice Over Feature is Optional & Not Required just Strongly Recommended and we offer this feature for only $150.00 with your Free Restaurant Online Ordering Application. This is a cost effective solution to making people aware of your new Online Ordering System.

Nowadays, when people want to gather information about anything it’s just a click away when searching the web. Being online is the new trend due to the vast number of resources that it provides, people are turning to the internet for fast and easy access to any information. These days consumers expect everything instantaneously and for the information to be available at their fingertips. Even marketing ideas and strategies are evolving, such as, Google Places, Facebook, and Twitter. Considering the growing market for advertising on the internet, which reaches thousands of potential consumers, many that may not have been reached with other conventional marketing methods. Having the ability to display menus, special promotions, and ordering online offers much more variety and convenience to consumers and gives the restaurant owner a competitive edge over his or her competitors.

 

There are numerous reasons why Online Ordering Systems are extremely beneficial. Online systems can streamline the ordering process and promote the website. Online ordering cuts down on the time spent maintaining food inventory and will save time on man-power which can be used to perform more productive day to day operations of the restaurant, therefore maximizing staffs’ time on relevant tasks while they’re on the clock.

 

Demo Video: Restaurant Online Ordering Software

 

 

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