Mirabel Technologies is a privately owned, international software company that empowers businesses to grow. Company President, Mark McCormick, founded Mirabel in 2003 with the original vision to help publishers in a challenging media environment. Drawing from his experience launching over a dozen successful magazines, McCormick introduced Mirabel’s first product, The Magazine Manager, the first web-based CRM for publishers, which now serves more than 15,000 media properties worldwide.

Since then, several other products followed suit including Digital Studio, The Newspaper Manager, Flip and Share, and now its newest, most advanced platform, Mirabel’s Marketing Manager. Like all Mirabel products, Mirabel’s Marketing Manager is supported by experienced web developers and software consultants who ensure our clients have a great user experience.

We've partnered with Mirabel to create a full-service classified platform, integrating their classified front end and print production capabilities with our QuickAds platform, which provides for inovative web classified displays and self-service classified web entry.

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Grow your top line with effective on-site consulting and sales training from The Blinder Group. The Blinder Group provides sales support for Creative Circle products, including QuickAds and NativeNewsQ.

Choose from strategic planning, and dynamic, classroom training; or have the Blinder Group ride with your sales reps to close guaranteed new business for your media property! The bottom line is: We will tailor a program that will make you money!

The Blinder Group provides:

~ The "Multimedia Master Class"

Starting with the basics of the Web, to how to craft the best solutions, the Multimedia Master Class will offer proven methods that enable and empower traditional advertising salespeople and managers to offer online products for big dollars.

~ Sales Survival Training

We can train the novice as well as the seasoned salesperson on the skills and systems to help them close more business! Attendees will learn techniques in building better customer rapport, uncovering customer needs, identifying new prospects, closing more effectively, and establishing time management skills.

~ Assisted, "4-Legged" Sales Training/Closing Calls

No one has made more money for media companies than The Blinder Group! This is due to our vast knowledge of proven multimedia strategies, as well as a firm belief that the best method to teach a media salesperson how to sell, is show them how to do it! That is why so many media companies take advantage of our "in the car" sales call training, which guarantees new revenue for you!

~ Strategic Planning Workshops

The Blinder Group will consult and provide insights on multimedia program development, pricing, packaging, competitive challenges and sales infrastructure. We can reveal through "best practices" how other media properties are making money. And, then assist in crafting your offerings.

Plus speaking programs, seminars, webinars and workshops.

The Blinder Group

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Tim, our lead developer and software engineer, began working with Creative Circle in 2006. He quickly became the person we turned to to get stuff done and he is the engineer behind the core of our entire software stack.

Tim is a techie who specializes in print media. Experienced in programming, server administration and hardware, he has been active in the industry since 1999. He has worked as a staffer for and consultant to a number of magazine and newspaper publications.

He is at heart a web guy, however, whose career has evolved alongside the digital landscape. He enjoys following the rapidly expanding technologies that drive our world, and can be counted on to bring the latest innovations to each project.   More

Hello there, and welcome to the CCMS dev blog!

I’m Tim, our product developer here. Not too far back, while organizing this revamped website, I thought it might be fun to start up a discussion about life in the trenches of digital media, so to speak. A techie-to-techie kind of thing, covering things like software, infrastructure, coding, industry trends, and so forth — all as it pertains to our world of online publishing.

Progress in our industry just barrels along at a staggering pace. I’m lucky enough to have “grown up with the web,” so to speak. I cut my teeth in the 90s, writing Perl CGI apps, and supporting Netscape Navigator 3.x

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Darryl is one of our leading software developers and also a top-notch problem solver.

A native Rhode Islander, Darryl has always been pulled between his creative and analytical sides. He attended the University of Rhode Island intending to graduate with a degree in chemical engineering. However, college had other plans for him.

Graduating with a Bachelor of Arts – majoring in studio art with minors in art history and chemical engineering – Darryl began his career in 1995, for then print-based Auto Trader Magazines as a graphic artist. From there he entered the world of newspapers as the Production Manager for The Jamestown Press.

During his time at The Jamestown Press, Darryl began to recognize the importance of websites for the communications industry and began learning to code web pages. He took those skills to the next level at Providence Business News, where he met Bill Ostendorf, Tim Benson and Lynn Rognsvoog who were all consulting for PBN at that time. Creative Circle redesigned PBN. Twice.

After working with the company as a client, Darryl wanted to join the Creative Circle team, which he did in 2017. "It's an incredibly collaborative environment. One in which the team bounces ideas off each other and work well together. But it's also one where our clients help us push to become more innovative. Each day brings a new challenge. Solving their real-world needs and concerns are what make coming to work enjoyable," he said.

Darryl brings more than 20 years of print-production and graphic-design experience to Creative Circle, along with his programming skills and a unique perspective having been on the client side of the table. In return, Creative Circle feeds both his creative and analytical sides. But when not diving into new coding projects, programming languages, applications, designs or redesigns, Darryl can usually be found exercising his chemical engineering skills at his Warwick home, brewing beer or mead.

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