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Making Angie's List, a Valentine's Day App and More Time for A Movie Theater

This week's Laguna Niguel Biz briefs runs the gamut from a carpet cleaning business getting a special award to a Valentine's Day phone application.

This first week of February has a variety of local business in the spotlight that the city should be proud.

Top Kudos

Haines & Cross Carpet Cleaning was awarded the prestigious 2011 Angie’s List Super Service Award, a honor bestowed annually on only 5 percent of all the businesses rated on the nation’s leading provider of consumer reviews on local service and health providers.

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“From our free pre-cleaning inspection to our money back guarantee, we pride ourselves on our dedication to 100 percent customer satisfaction,”  said Eric Bollmann, owner of Haines and Cross.

“Only a fraction of the businesses rated on Angie’s List can claim the sterling service record of being a Super Service Award winner because we set a high bar,” said Angie’s List Founder Angie Hicks. “The fact that Haines & Cross can claim Super Service Award status speaks volumes about its dedication to consumers.

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Ratings are updated daily on Angie’s List, but members can find the 2011 Super Service Award logo next to business names in search results on AngiesList.com.

specializes in the cleaning, repair and restoration of Oriental and contemporary area rugs.  It also provides in-home cleaning services for carpet, upholstery and tile and grout. 

Regency Theatres Posed for Makeover

, at 25471 Rancho Niguel Road, has been granted another extension for a renovation project by the Laguna Niguel Planning Commission. This is the third extension granted for the project,  which was approved in 2007. The project plan calls for converting two of the existing theaters at the Regency Theaters into restaurant space. There will also be a few cosmetic and architectural upgrades to try to make the center more pedestrian-friendly at the theater entrances. No start date for construction has been confirmed yet.

Valentine's Day App

In anticipation of Valentine's Day 2012, Iconosys, Inc., a local Smart phone App developer has released Kiss My Valentine in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Chinese, making it easier to pay tribute to all those people in our lives that deserve our love.

The app promises to make the reward of appreciation a present that is within reach for all who desire it.

"Like Christmas, Valentine's Day is more about giving than receiving. I look forward each year to making the loved ones in my life feel extra-special on this precious day. I now can send text kisses and text hugs to family that normally I may have not taken the time to reach out to in the past," said Wayne Irving, CEO for Iconosys, Inc.

Kiss My Valentine features: 

  • Kiss My Valentine stores and provides tracking with reminders of process (and progress) in showing appreciation for loved ones, with gifts such as candy, cards, and flowers, among others. The App user gets a daily reminder that notifies them of the quantities/descriptions of physical items they need to shop for their special someone.
  • Digital kisses, hugs, and wishes are settable from the App, to be delivered to those in the App user's contact book on Feb. 14.         
  • Send a customized digital sweetheart message, anytime, leading up to Valentine's Day and after on any day of the year.
  • Because Kiss My Valentine is a year-round app, install it for this year and it will update and reset for the following year, keeping your Valentine's list safely stored until 2013.
  • Kiss My Valentine is free of charge for Valentine's Day (if you download before Valentine's Day, it will not expire), or can be purchased thereafter for $1.99 for full lifetime coverage.

The app is available for download from Adshark's AppStore AppHysteria (apphysteria.com), and from the Android Marketplace in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Itailian, and Chinese.

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