Amazon.com Product Description

Marketing Builder features tools to plan, create, and measure your marketing projects and programs. It dramatically simplifies the process of creating a marketing program and also includes tools for everyday marketing tasks: advertising and direct-mail analysis, press releases, and more. For small or medium-sized businesses, Marketing Builder is perfect for planning projects and programs, creating marketing materials, and measuring the results and effectiveness of those programs. Use Marketing Builder to turn individual projects into an organized program that builds brand awareness, positions products, and analyzes marketing options. ... Read more

Reviews (5)

Avoid Jian-- they are lying lowlifes
a) "Burke Franklin" or so he claims-- is the CEO of Jian Software, and has stuffed the ballot boxes in all the Jian product reviews to improve his Amazon standing-- this is the least of his chronic lies--his products do not deliver anything close to what is promised, are cantankerous as hell to use, and the company does not abide by their own money back guarantee. I am in the process of suing them to recover costs that they promised would be rescinded.
b) Once they have your info, they will spam you unmercifully.

Terrible customer service and technical support
Unnervingly bad customer service and technical support make this product more than just a waste of money. This product will cost you time and effort. I suggest Palo Alto software's Market Plan Pro and Ad Plan Pro as an alternative.

Please, don't suffer what I had to at the hands of these amateurs!

This is a VERY STRONG product!
I doubt that the first reviewer wasn't on the staff of a competitor. This is a very good program and is very user-friendly. The menus are well laid out and the interface is smooth. The marketing ideas recommended are time-proven and effective. There are no fadish or gimmicky marketing tools here. Just practical and well presented information. Good job JIAN!

Not very strong
I found Marketing Builder to be a product that was not very reliable or helpful in building my marketing plans. I usually wasted more time with the software then writing. I'd recommend using a different marketing plan software.

Marketing Builder Interactive Rview
I haven't used this product yet but my friend told me that it got his marketing off to a great start. he was just an entry-level marketer and now he has clients from around the state trying to get his product. Hopefully this software will do the same for mine. ... Read more

Features

• Standardize your project and resource information through a single repository that can be accessed through any Web interface
• Use extensible technologies to develop and deploy secure practices for better project management
• Powerful Web-based collaboration tools help team members and managers share analysis and reporting tools and stay up-to-date
• Scalable administration tools lets you control access to critical information more easily than ever
• Open architecture for smoother information exchange with other databases and applications

Features

• Using a set of Smart Wizards, users can easily create new letterhead, business cards, posters, flyers and more
• Multiple clip art images and fonts make your publications fit your personal style
• Powerful word processing tools allow for multi-page text flow, spellchecking, word wrap, justification, tabs, indents and more
• Customizable templates help you get started creating the great-looking documents and brochures you need to keep your business growing!

Features

• Create and print professional business cards in minutes
• Thousands of background designs
• Dozens of pre-designed text layouts
• Vertical and horizontal designs; insert logos, photos, and clip art
• Includes 2.5 million photos and images; works with Avery

Reviews (1)

QUIMICO
ESPERO UN GRAN PROGRAMA QUE FACILITE EL TRABAJO DE DISEÑO ... Read more

Features

• Layouts, clip art and fonts are all included -- start working as soon as you install
• Select from multiple layouts, images, backdrops and patterns for truly distinctive fonts and headlines
• Import artwork and designs from other programs and store them in a searchable database
• Create an eye-catching business card in 3 easy steps -Chose a Business Card Type, enter your info and print it up
• Includes thousands of fonts for Mac and PC

Features

• Quickstart Power Tools make it easy to add top-quality design elements to your projects
• Multiple drawing tools for hand-drawing, sizing graphics and importing your own graphics
• Includes over 10,000 clip art, and over 1,000 fonts for the PC or Mac
• QuickStart Layout Templates help you produce in 3 easy steps -Choose a Document Type, pick a Layout template, then Format and Print!

Features

• Find fonts by file name
• View fonts in 5 different categories
• Choose from headline, modern, script and more

Features

• Choose from thousands of background designs to make your card instantly memorable -- over 10,000 pieces of clip-art included
• Over 50,000 possible combinations of logo and graphics
• Vertical and horizontal designs available, or insert your own logo or photo
• Draw from dozens of professionally designed text layouts
• Prints to any laser or inkjet printer

Amazon.com Review

Looking to start a small business? Or do you already own one and want to educate yourself on navigating the legal waters surrounding your establishment or corporation? There's a maze of information and processes involved with small businesses and sometimes it seems that there's no way to view it all in laymen's terms. However, with some time and effort, Quicken Lawyer 2002 Business Deluxe can help you to learn about business plans, tax forms, promissory notes, security agreements, confidentiality agreements, and much more. Quicken Lawyer 2002 Business Deluxe will even help you with marketing, domain names, and hiring practices.

Quicken Lawyer 2002 Business Deluxe is primarily an electronic reference library with books on starting, running, and maintaining small businesses. These books are published by Nolo Press, a company whose primary goal is to assist anyone and everyone in understanding what they need to know about the legal arena. Quicken Lawyer 2002 Business Deluxe also contains many of the commonly used forms for small business owners.

The books contained in the program are:

• Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business, Sixth Edition by Fred Steingold
• Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business, Second Edition by Fred Steingold
• The Employer's Legal Handbook, Fourth Edition by Fred Steingold
• Tax Savvy for Small Business, Fifth Edition by Frederick W. Daily, Attorney
• How to Write a Business Plan, Fifth Edition by Mike McKeever
• Marketing Without Advertising, Third Edition by Michael Phillips & Salli Rasberry
• Domain Names: How to Choose & Protect a Great Name for Your Web Site, Second Edition by Stephen Elias and Patricia Gima

Quicken Lawyer 2002 Business Deluxe is an upgrade from Nolo's Small Business Pro 4.0 and is not compatible with Quicken Business Lawyer or Quicken Family Lawyer. While a computer program cannot be a substitute for a law degree, Quicken Lawyer 2002 Business Deluxe could be a powerful tool for a small business owner who is looking for a broader understanding of the necessities and complexities of start-up, growth, and success. --Kendra Hayden ... Read more

Reviews (5)

It contains information, but is it software?
While sold as software, this is a hastily assembled conglomerate of information and some poor (in both content and formating) examples of documents. They have not even bothered to put any dialogs to help the user insert automatically trivial information (names, locations, dates,...) into the documents.

You may want to instead buy a copy of "How to Form Your Own Texas Corporation". The documents appear more complete, better laid out and you get a *book* to hold in your hands!

A good reference guide for typical legal problems.
Nolo offers great guides for specific legal issues related to personal and business use. This guide is a decent tool for users to call upon for typical small business issues. I must warn though, that not all legal questions and problems can be solved using self-help guides. Be realistic in your expectations of the software and it should serve you well.

Not as advertised, simply a watered-down online book
I was, unfortunately, very disappointed in the offerings of this product. I was under the impression that it would have a number of ready-made business forms I could customize for use in my business (contracts, amendments to the corporate charter, etc). That was not the case. This product is more of an online-book with very generic and watered-down information than anything else. If you were thinking of purchasing this product for their "forms," don't.

Lawyer In A Box!
This has been a savior. They should call it, "everything legal you need". I have used the forms for my own buisness (start-up) as well as utilized it at my job. I work for a fortune 500 company, and have been told by our legal department that I have saved them so much time, they rarely if at all have had to make any modifications to the subject matter. All-in-all, it's great if your just starting out, own a small business, or work for a multi-billion dollar corporation, and can't wait for your legal department to come throught on a deadline. Best purchase I've made in some time.

2002 Lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
I own a copy of Quicken Lawyer 2002 Business Deluxe as well as Quicken Family Lawyer, and I was impressed with both!
Running a small business requires more and more legal forms and contracts every day.
Trouble is that your average attorney knows this, and charges accordingly.
Having compared some of the legal documents generated by my attorney and the same documents generated with these two software packages, I could swear (under oath) that my attorney must be using the same software!
Of course, there are some subtle differences, however, I found it to be considerably less expensive to have my attorney read and make modifications to the documents that I provide, than to have him generate them.
This software may not entirely replace your attorney, but it will come darn close.
I only give it four stars because it's not perfect and like anything else out there, it can be improved upon. ... Read more

Features

• Choose from over 200 professional templates that fit a variety of career categories
• Headline Type Manager turns simple fonts into beautiful pieces of artwork for your business card
• Add any of the 2500 included black and white clip art to instantly personalize your cards
• Publish your cards to the Web instantly with InstaNet Web Publishing
• Attach your business cards to an email and send them out for easier distribution!

Features

• Easily produce professional-style DVDs
• Capture video directly from camcorder to DVD or CD
• Archive and share movies, photos, business presentations, and more
• Edit +RW and -RW DVDs again and again
• Create CD labels and case covers

Reviews (13)

Nice, but could be Much Nicer
First of all, this program is worth its price. It's straightforward, stable, and creates very nice DVDs -- once you get used to it.

Major gripe: It cannot accurately calculate file sizes. It may show that a certain DVD program will fit on a DVD after file conversion when it actually won't: it ends up creating files which are too big, ultimately giving you a notice saying "will not fit onto disk" after hours of transcoding.

Minor gripe: It will not let you set the default font type, size, and color for project menus, meaning that if you have 6 clips (titles) with 6 chapters each, you have to manually set the font and its properties individually 36 times, not including the top menu.

Don't let Movie Factory do your video encoding. What I do, and recommend, is using another program to edit and prepare each clip, including the encoding to DVD-ready MPEG. (I use Ulead Video Studio 7, and it does a great job.) Then import the MPEG files into Movie Factory and have it make the DVD. That's what works great for me.

It's a combination that's inexpensive and gives impressive results.

Stay Away
Take my word, stay away. This program has bugs.

It can create VCD on a CD-R with a CD-R drive.
You don't need a DVD burner to create movies you can view on your DVD player; A VCD is burned on a CD, you can only burn about an hower of video but you don't need a DVD burner. If you burn several short videos it is easy to create a custom interactive menu. This program doesn't do anything but burn videos, it doesn't burn music CD, it doesn't burn a data CD, it does what it does well and I'm glad I have it.

Don't waste your money
I wish there was an rating option of less than zero. After spending hours trying to make this piece of crap work and upgrading my DVD-RW to a SECOND ULEAD compatable device, I've given up trying to copy VHS tapes to DVD using this. If its not telling me my input device isn't compatable then its telling me it can't calculate the space. I went back to Sonic MYDVD and in about 30 seconds I'm copying VHS tapes. Its obvious the world of computer video software is in its infancy and there's bound to be problems but when you have vendors like ULEAD claiming that their products are all things simple, then the industry will have problems converting more people.

Good author/burning, basic menu/editing, pitiful transcoding
Ulead's Moviefactory 2.0 (MF2) is among the cheapest DVD authoring tools available. The same price group also includes Cyperlink's PowerProducer and Sonic's MyDVD. But MF2 has the best features and is the most reliable among the three. I've been using it to record TV programs and burn them onto DVDs, and the results looked very close to the original broadcast with no audio sync problems. It has worked perfectly with my DVD rewritable drive (Sony DRU500AX) and has not created a single unreadable disc. I've used several brands of discs: Memorex +R 1x and 4x, -RW 1x, and +RW 2.4x, Verbatim -R 4x, Ritek -R 4x, and also generic brands like Meritline -R 2x, Princo -RW 1x, and Leda -R 4x, and they have all been burned successfully. The readability of the burned discs is also what I would expect. The more compatible -R discs were playable on all my DVD players and drives, while the +R, -RW, and +RW discs were playable on only some of them. (The compatibility of recordable DVDs is a known issue in the industry.)

To use MF2's built-in capture tool, you need a video capture card. (Mine is an ancient Pinnacle Studio PCTV tuner/capture card with BT878 chipset, with generic WDM drivers for Windows ME). MF2 is able to capture MPEG files with DVD-, VCD- or SVCD-compliance. For DVD-compliant MPEG capturing, you can only choose among the preset bitrates: CBR or VBR, 4000, 6000, or 8000 Mbps. You can choose between MPEG Layer II or LPCM audio, but you can't set the audio bitrate. You can choose between interlaced or non-interlaced capturing. Since most TV broadcasts are interlaced, capturing at interlaced mode is preferred; but be sure to choose the correct field order, or jerky motion will result. You cannot adjust advanced settings such as GOP count, number of I-Frames and P-frames, etc. to improve your capture. There is, however, a "quality" setting to improve picture quality. Set it as high as you can, but without burdening the CPU so much that it would cause dropped frames. On my Intel P4 2.4MHz, while capturing at VBR 8000 Mbps with MPEG Layer II audio 384 Kbs (my preferred settings for high-quality captures), I could set quality up to 12 (max is 15) without dropping frames, with CPU utilization at about 85% during capture. It is a good idea to monitor CPU utilization (with a tool such as CPUIdle) during capture. If it is near or at 100%, dropped frames would be very likely. Also, any activity that would increase CPU utilization, even as minor as moving your mouse, should be avoided in order to achieve no dropped frames. Video capturing is the first and most important step in DVD creation. Without a video source with good quality and DVD compliance, it would be necessary to re-encode, or transcode, the MPEG source, which is a laborious and time-consuming process.

MF2's own transcoding ability, however, is horrendous (and PowerProducer and MyDVD are even worse). Transcoding is done automatically whenever a non-compliant source is detected, or you can force MF2 to transcode. The resulted video is often filled with skipped frames and audio sync problems, indicating MF2's inability to alter video resolution and resample audio bitrate reliably. When I need to transcode, I use an external tool like TMPGEnc, and pass the resulted MPEG file back to MF2 before authoring the DVD. The best way is, of course, to avoid having to transcode altogether by obtaining a high-quality, compliant source material.

Thankfully, MF2 can author and burn DVDs reliably. You can author and burn to disc directly, or you can author to hard disk first and burn it to disc later. You can also create an ISO image of the authored files, and later burn the DVD from the image file. MF2 can also reliably detect the burning speed of a disc.

MF2 lets you add chapter stops and design menus for your DVD, but they are for the most basic purposes only. Menu design is template-based, and there is no "free-form" design. Chapter stops are added after video capture, either manually or automatically at an adjustable time interval (some software can create chapter stops during capture, but not MF2). You are only limited to adding a main menu and a chapter menu on your DVD. You cannot create additional screens for your own special purposes. You can, however, create "slide shows" -- a series of static images. There are a lot of menu templates to choose from, with a variety of background graphics and button placements. You can also import your own background graphics and add background music for your menu screen. You can also omit the menus altogether (which I often do, because the menus created with MF2 surely aren't going to impress anybody).

There are certain advanced functions that MF2 and other products in its price range cannot do, such as adding multiple audio tracks, subtitle tracks, multi-angles, 5.1 audio tracks, AC-3 audio processing, and more sophisticated menu designs. Software with these features usually cost hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars. Software with advanced video editing tools cost even more.

And MF2 is also very basic in video editing. It doesn't let you combine two video clips into one, insert transition effects, nor manipulate the audio. About the only useful thing it lets you do is extract portions of a clip.

A trial version of MF2 is available at Ulead's web site. It is fully functional for 30 days, with a limit of 20 pictures per slide show. The full version has no such limit.

Ulead also released a patch for MF2 on 8/22/03, notably adding PAL capture ability and fixing a few bugs. ... Read more

Features

• Create corporate, educational, training, and professional videos
• Streamlined interface; full-screen teleprompter; 6 new graphical styles
• Multiple camera support; broadcast video to the Internet in real time
• Live full-screen output to a second monitor, projector, TV, or VCR
• Publish video-integrated Web pages; add charts, graphs, and slides