Mini Cities Announces New COO – George Shand

April 26, 2011 - PRLog -- Monday, April 25, 2011Tampa Florida – MiniCities.com (http://www.MiniCities.com/) announces that George Shand has joined Mini Cities, Inc. as Chief Operating Officer. “We are so pleased to have George on our team. He brings a tremendous amount of experience to Mini Cities.  We have big growth plans for 2011 including the launch of our revolutionary franchise offering, and George brings the right kind of leadership to the team that will allow Mini Cities to grow nationwide this year.” Said Ana Abraham, Founder and CEO.

“Mini Cities has done a fantastic job building the infrastructure and technology to deliver an amazing suite of online advertising solutions to the local search and small business markets. Mini Cities has honed their business model and capabilities in Tampa  and Atlanta, and I am excited to be a part of their nationwide expansion.” said George Shand.

Before joining Mini Cities, George held the positions of Director of Business Development, VP of Sales, and finally General Manager at Intelligent Results, a Bellevue, WA pioneer in predictive analytics and decision management software which was acquired by First Data Corporation.

Prior to his years at Intelligent Results, George was the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Zevez Corporation, a Portland, OR card payment software technology provider. George holds a card payment technology patent pending for his early work at Zevez Corporation.George’s was fortunate to experience a thirteen-year career in Operations and I/T at Discover Card, where he was able to learn, grow and eventually manage key operational functions during Discover Card’s early growth period and eventual IPO.

Mini Cities offers hyper localized community websites - local search - to areas that surround major cities. Mini Cities sites offer business directories, local coupons, local events and localized reviews. Mini Cities is the first company to offer franchises (http://www.minicities.com/MiniCities/Franchise/) for localized websites.

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Mini Cities (http://www.MiniCities.com) is expanding throughout communities all over the country. Mini Cities does offer franchises – but being a Mini Cities Community Connector franchisee is not like buying other franchises. Mini Cities has created the first real WIN-WIN franchise. With the Mini Cities low cost franchise and our WIN-Win royalty fees – being a Mini Cities franchisee is more like joining an exclusive club. We are very selective about who joins our program. We want to make sure all our Community Connectors share the Mini Cities vision of building great local communities. That independently, we are all strong together. Also, we truly believe that when we all work together, we are all unstoppable. Mini Cities also knows that only by working with talented and committed franchisees can we feel confident that every franchisee will be successful.