Prior to joining Vizion Interactive, Ms. Patterson served as Vice President, Financial Operations Officer for IFC Holdings, Inc. where she was responsible for all financial and regulatory reporting for the parent as well as its subsidiary companies. She has a B.S. in Business Administration and M.A.C.C. Degree in Accounting with a specialization in taxation. Kim has served on the Board of Director’s for the Outdoor Arts Foundation, Inc. (a 501(c)(3) corporation) as Treasurer and the Board of Director’s for the Clearwater Marine Aquarium as President of Auxiliary. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Mark Jackson, President and CEO of Vizion Interactive, said, “Kim is a tremendous asset to our team. She has the experience in process improvement and with corporate finance that will allow us to operate as efficiently as possible, and be responsible with the way in which we manage our finances”. “This is important not just for Vizion Interactive’s benefit, but it’s very important that we are responsible in this way for our client’s and prospective client’s benefit. By operating efficiently, we have a competitive advantage in that we are able to provide more services for less money, while still keeping senior talent actively engaged in our client’s projects”.

About Vizion Interactive:

Vizion Interactive, Inc. is a Dallas-based search engine optimization, search engine marketing, website design, Interactive marketing, web development, and social media marketing agency dedicated to empowering clients to make informed decisions that deliver measurable results.

“I’m very excited to have the opportunity to work with Bill”, says Mark Jackson, Vizion Interactive’s President and CEO. “Bill and I have known each other for five years, and I’ve always known Bill to be a very smart guy who operates with the utmost of integrity. It’s for that reason he’s a perfect addition to our team. We are in the business of generating results for our clients, and Bill is very much a results-focused individual.”

Hartzer is a frequent speaker and discussion panel participant at numerous search engine marketing conferences and events such as the Search Engine Strategies and WebmasterWorld’s PubCon Conferences. He writes frequently for Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Guide, and is regularly published in many online publications. Mr. Hartzer maintains a blog on his website, www.BillHartzer.com and is a member of the Forbes Business and Finance blog network.

Hartzer is also a publisher with the Google AdSense and the Yahoo! Publisher Network. He also is one of the original founders of the Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association. Hartzer brings over twelve years of search engine marketing and social media marketing experience to Vizion Interactive.

About Vizion Interactive:

Vizion Interactive, Inc. is a Dallas-based search engine optimization, search engine marketing, website design, Interactive marketing, web development, and social media marketing agency dedicated to empowering clients to make informed decisions that deliver measurable results.

Mark’s first session will be from 9am to 10:15am on Thursday, July 26th. The title of the session is “Designing for the Senses & Search.” Topics will include visual site design appeal, engaging copy, usability, accessibility, optimized site architecture, and creating site stickiness. Joining mark in the discussion will be Matt Bailey and Todd Sarouhan.

Mark’s second session will begin after lunch on Friday the 27th at 1:15pm. The session is titled: “Rise to the Top: Organic SEO Tricks of the Trade.” Topics will include beyond basic strategies for SEO in general and the travel industry specifically. Joining Mark are Todd Friesen, Marie Dumesnil, and Elisabeth Osmeloski.

Travel is an especially competitive field for online marketing (and every other type, to be sure). This will be an excellent opportunity for airline, vacation, and various travel companies to learn how to better connect with users online.

Rudy is a rich source of business and management experience with four years in Product Marketing / Web Merchandising, 14 years in Account Management / Sales, three years in Operations, and two in Human Resources.

“I’m very glad to announce the addition of Jeff to our growing team,” added Mark Jackson, President/CEO of Vizion Interactive. “He brings the seasoned experience we need to keep our team focused on growth and excellent client management. We’ve really made the most of our team to this point, but Jeff gives us the organizational edge to grow more rapidly without losing touch with our clients’ needs or project deadlines. Bringing Jeff on allows each of us at Vizion Interactive to focus more closely on our strengths. It’s very important for every company to develop and grow by fitting each member’s responsibilities with their natural abilities and interests. I’m very excited about the direction this company is taking.”

For more information, contact Vizion Interactive online at www.vizioninteractive.com.

Dallas, TX (PRWeb) November 9, 2006 – VIZION Interactive, Inc. today announced that the company has entered into a partnership with Usability Sciences of Irving, Texas. The partnership involves a redesign/development and search engine optimization of the Usability Sciences website. As partners, Usability Sciences can offer accessibility compliancy design services to its clients and VIZION Interactive can offer enterprise-level usability testing to its clients.

VIZION Interactive will be redesigning the Usability Sciences website for W3C and Section 508 compliance and providing search engine optimization services to assist the company in promoting its website to the major search engines, including Google, Yahoo, and MSN. In turn, Usability Sciences will become the provider of all enterprise level usability testing for VIZION Interactive’s web design and application development clients.

Mark Jackson, CEO and Founder of Vizion Interactive said, “I think this type of partnership has been a long time coming. While search engine optimization is important to the growth of a company, it’s much easier to double your conversion rates through solid usability testing than it is to double search traffic through search engine optimization efforts. By combining these two things, a client’s web presence will be very healthy and lead to the growth of their business.

“We also consider the fact that a usability company with the reputation of Usability Sciences has selected us to redesign their website as a compliment to our web design capabilities. We will be utilizing our latest search engine friendly content management system, Architect. Architect is built in PHP/MySQL, and will ensure that their website is 100% W3C compliant and abides by Section 508 standards.”

Paula Vanderburg, Marketing Director for Usability Sciences, stated “we’re very excited to be working with the team at VIZION Interactive. Their deep knowledge and understanding of web accessibility and search engine optimization was a logical choice for us and our website. We are also pleased to refer VIZION Interactive to our clients when they have a need for this same expertise.”

Usability Sciences plans to launch their redesigned site in December. Just in time, VIZION Interactive has released Architect, their content management system, which offers an extended set of features. These include the ability to manage content within the site and ensure that all edits resolve in clean html code; to provide permission levels for varying administration touch points; and to manage all aspects of search engine optimization. The content management system has been built specifically to assist in the quick development of large content websites, redesigned sites, and legacy URL issues. Users can also manage website blogs and podcasts all within the same interface.

Mr. Jackson added, “We are very excited about Architect. This unique tool will become the cornerstone of what we stand for, which is providing search engine friendly web design through proper use of technology and ensuring that our client’s websites are completely accessible to the disabled. Building a website for accessibility is first and foremost the right thing to do. Fortunately, it happens that building a website for accessibility also aids in making the website search engine friendly and helping it to rank well in search engine results.”

Dallas, TX (PRWeb) November 8, 2006 – Just in time for the holiday season, VIZION Interactive (www.vizioninteractive.com) announced the launch of Architect, a new content management system (CMS). Architect is a full-feature content management system based upon an open source platform.

“Architect allows our customers to manage their website, their blog and their podcasts from one central interface,” said Mark Jackson, President of VIZION Interactive. Not only do VIZION Interactive’s customers have increased flexibility in web site management, they also get search engine optimized website architecture. Each page can be easily located, spidered, and indexed by Internet search engines. Accessibility to search engines equals accessibility to users.

Trintech.com was the first website to take advantage of the benefits of VIZION Interactive’s CMS. Architect is now offered free of charge to all of VIZION Interactive’s web design clients, and is available to all SEO and Pay Per Click Advertising clients.

Architect builds pages that are 100% W3C compliant and accessible. With VIZION Interactive web design and development, client sites are also Section 508 compliant. The goal, according to Jackson, is to give clients the power to add and maintain their own website content with ease. For example, clients are able to “drag and drop” to move pages around on the site architecture manager. They will be able to click on a page to edit the META info without difficulty. Best of all, anyone making changes to a web page will be able to see a “real view” of the page he/she edits the page, ensuring quality results from the starting gate.

A very important quality is Architect’s ability to create web pages accessible to blind Internet users. Some government web sites are already required by law to be accessible to the blind. VIZION Interactive is a step ahead of the times. “At VIZION Interactive, we want everyone to have access to the amazing tools and information available online,” said Mark Jackson. “It is our pleasure to empower our clients with the ability to reach an important yet previously hard-to-reach Internet user group. Building a website which is accessible to all users is not only the right thing to do, it also happens to make websites much more ‘search engine friendly.’ Everyone wins with greater accessibility.”

WebmasterWorld’s PubCon is an educational conference and industry trade show for web professionals and web site owners. The focal point of the conference is Search Engine Marketing, and includes such topics as web site marketing, corporate IT development, and technology business management. PubCon is perhaps best known for opportunities to network with experts over a drink or a meal.

After years of behind-the-scenes work, Mark Jackson decided that it was time to bring some of his insights into the public forum and PubCon seemed like a logical venue to do so. “VIZION Interactive specializes in not only search engine optimization, but search engine friendly web design, so the fact that Brett has asked me to participate made a lot of sense”, Mark mentioned. “This coincides perfectly with our recent announcement of our search engine friendly content management system launch, so I am very excited that Brett has asked me to serve on this panel”.

Jackson’s involvement with interactive marketing began with Lycos/Wired Digital where he managed several integrated marketing programs. He then worked with AOL/Time Warner on cross platform marketing programs. Jackson co-founded an interactive marketing agency and cultivated it into one of the largest search engine optimization firms in the United States. Most recently, Jackson founded VIZION Interactive, a Dallas-based interactive marketing agency based on Jackson’s own principles of honesty, integrity, and transparency.

WebmasterWorld’s Pubcon is scheduled for November 14-17, 2006, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The panel discussion is scheduled for 11:35am on Wednesday, November 15. Panel speakers are likely to share insights on how to get more of one’s website pages indexed by Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, and other search engines.

Dallas, TX (PRWeb) June 6, 2006 — Medical tourism is a red hot trend for people (not necessarily couples) looking to both save some money on medical expenses while traveling or vacationing in another country. Global Surgical Solutions’ (GSS) provides comprehensive elective surgery packages. Services include medical arrangements, transportation, accommodations, meals, translators, private nurses, and visa assistance.

As one of the hottest elective surgery locales, India has been drawing medical tourists for nearly a decade. It offers travelers an affordable place to receive important medical attention (often 40-60% less than having the same procedures done in the U.S. or Europe) and beautiful, timeless settings in which to recover. And now, with VIZION Interactive at the helm of its website optimization campaign, GSS hopes to attract more people in need of costly surgeries to the incredible opportunities overseas.

Mark Jackson, President of VIZION Interactive said, “This is an exciting new field, delivering cost effective surgery options for those who may require surgery, such as hip replacement or knee replacement surgery, which insurance won’t cover – or won’t cover well – or for those seeking elective cosmetic surgery such as breast enhancement (visit www.globalsurgicalsolutions.com for a complete list of available procedures).

We are really looking forward to positioning Global Surgical Solutions at the forefront of medical tourism. We want to help Medhavi Balachandran, President of GSS, to reach people who are already actively searching on the major search engines like Google, Yahoo!, MSN and Ask for elective surgery options.”

Jackson added, “We will also provide GSS with interactive press release copywriting and distribution to help them announce new partnerships or new procedures. These press releases are very effective at reaching prospects directly as well as helping organic search engine optimization efforts by achieving direct links to the http://www.globalsurgicalsolutions.com/ website from other relevant websites.”

“VIZION Interactive provides full-service Interactive marketing services. We provide the right solution at the right time. We understand that the way that we grow our business is to help clients like Global Surgical Solutions to grow their business.”

Irving, Texas (PRWEB) April 15, 2006 – VIZION Interactive, Inc. recently announced a new partnership with Cookies By Design, formerly known as Cookie Bouquet. The national cookie bouquet chain hopes to increase brand awareness and drive direct online sales on a national scale through the expert organic search engine optimization skills offered by VIZION Interactive.

Frank Sobyak, Director of Marketing for Cookies By Design, said, “We have a product that people love to both give and receive. Our cookies are baked fresh daily, can easily be personalized, and make unique and colorful gifts. As such, cookie bouquets stand out better among traditional gifts such as flowers and gift baskets.” “Sending a cookie bouquet is a fun way to show how much you care, to wish someone a happy birthday, or to just say thank you.”, said Sobyak. “We are very excited to have VIZION Interactive contributing valuable search engine optimization to our website. With VIZION’s expert assistance, people wanting to do something fun and unique for holidays such as Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Christmas, or any holiday or occasion for that matter, will now more easily find the wonderful gifts we have to offer.”

VIZION Interactive provides a full suite of interactive marketing services to its clients including organic and paid search engine optimization (SEO), interactive press releases (PR), and media planning/buying. Mark Jackson, President of the Dallas/Fort Worth based SEO company, established VIZION Interactive with the goal of providing each client with superior search engine optimization consulting and solutions to enable those brands to be seen in the increasingly crowded interactive marketing space.

When asked about the new partnership, Mark Jackson answered, “VIZION Interactive is fortunate to have the opportunity to work with Cookies By Design. They are the leader in the cookie gift basket industry and are leaders in corporate gift ideas, and in the unique, personalized gift basket space.”

Jackson admitted, “In my life, I’ve probably sent out more than 50 cookie bouquets through Cookies By Design and am very excited to now work on promoting their services through search engine optimization. Their gift baskets and cookie bouquets are such excellent gifts and bring smiles to so many faces. We are proud to play a part in their continued success.”

For additional information about VIZION Interactive, visit www.vizioninteractive.com.

About Cookies By Design:
Cookies By Design, Inc. is a Dallas-based gift and gift basket company with over 230 locations in 45 states. It’s cookies are baked fresh daily and make unique personalized gifts for any holiday or occasion.