November 1, 2006
Neotrope® re-launches BETA of online magazine and news portal, California Newswire™, continuing the 2006 roll-out of the revamped Neotrope News Network. The site also features news content from the Send2Press wire service. The site uses the new Neotrope CMS-WP content management system, and has both WAP compatibility and built-in per-page translation and social network (e.g., Digg, Del.ico.us, and Technorati tags) support.

October 12, 2006
Neotrope® president and founder Christopher Simmons is interviewed for the Spring 2007 "Business Start-ups" section in Entrepreneur magazine, on the topic of usefulness of search engine placement of news release content. Neotrope was the first news service organization in the world to fully optimize content for search engines in 1996 (as Mindset Communications), the first to produce all news in multiple e-formats like PDF and RSS, and one of the first to provide free headline feeds by topic for webmasters. This is the third time the magazine has interviewed Mr. Simmons on the topics of PR, news release services, and online publicity.

October 2, 2006
Send2Press customer Susan Davis of Ask Ariel Your Pet Nutritionist is interviewed by Entrepreneur magazine for a story on how businesses are getting more publicity online. In the interview, that will appear in brief form in the magazine, Susan raves that "I use Send2Press and my news comes up in top rankings for Google search. I (am) VERY happy with Send2Press services and I will continue to use them. Not only do I get new customers but quality people who want to read research first and then come to my site."

October 1, 2006
Neotrope® re-launches BETA of online magazine and news portal, Music Industry Newswire™, continuing the 2006 roll-out of the revamped Neotrope News Network. The site also features news content from the Send2Press wire service. The site uses the new Neotrope CMS-WP content management system, and has both WAP compatibility and built-in per-page translation and social network (e.g., Digg, Del.ico.us, and Technorati tags) support.

August 1, 2006
Neotrope® re-launches online magazine and news portal, eNewsChannels™, continuing the Summer 2006 roll-out of the revamped Neotrope News Network. The site also features news content from the Send2Press wire service. The site uses the new Neotrope CMS-WP content management system, and has both WAP compatibility and built-in per-page translation and social network (e.g., Digg, Del.ico.us, and Technorati tags) support.

July 27, 2006
Send2Press Newswire to Sponsor NARIP Music Marketing and PR Seminar. Neotrope/Send2Press will sponsor a record industry workshop presented by the National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP), entitled "Getting Ink & Working the 'Net: Secrets, Tips & Tricks of Publicity & PR." The event instructor is Scott G 'The G-Man,' a successful recording artist and marketing guru, and will take place Tuesday, August 15th, 2006 at the Beverly Garland Theater in Studio City, California. As the creative head of G-Man Marketing in Los Angeles, Scott G consults on advertising, marketing, positioning and branding for companies from Albertsons to Zenith. NARIP promotes education, career advancement and good will among record executives. The sponsorship is only the first step in a new strategic partnership between NARIP and Neotrope, to be announced later.
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June 15, 2006
Send2Press begins the "Beta" re-launch of its VNR (video news release) service with selected clients, to demonstrate the production and distribution capabilities that only a 24-year old entertainment and marketing company can provide. As part of the revamped service offering, Send2Press will be both producing and disseminating client VNRs online and to the media for the first time since 2002. The service will allow any size company to showcase their news in a visual and dynamic Web-compatible presentation. Each 90-120 second VNR is presented in a "cable news channel" format, with a professional on-air talent reading the content, with support for embedded images, audio and video. The video news releases are featured in the Send2Press News Network, which includes websites like Send2Press.com, averaging 25 million hits per month, and related sites like AdvertisingIndustryNewswire.com, eNewsChannels.com, CaliforniaNewswire.com and nearly 100 sites pending re-launch. Additionally, Send2Press video and other content will be distributed by Voxant, Inc.'s Viral Syndication Network(TM), as appropriate.
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June 7, 2006
Neotrope® signs partnership with Voxant, Inc. to have Voxant pull Send2Press® news information, images, and the relaunched Send2Press Video News Releases (VNRs) into their TheNewsRoom™ and News Cube™ systems. Additionally, certain sites in the Neotrope News Network, such as eNewsChannels.com, will feature Voxant video news content on the home page. Voxant's TheNewsRoom™ provides access to compelling, trusted news content through an easy-to-use syndication interface. With Voxant's new viral distribution™ capabilities, news organizations, syndicators and advertisers are now able to distribute news and ads down the long tail of the Web to any Internet-enabled device.

May 1, 2006
Neotrope re-launches online magazine and news portal, Advertising Industry Newswire™, with original articles and editorial content by Christopher Simmons and Scott G ("The G Man"). The site also features all "ad industry" related news from the Send2Press wire service. The site uses the new Neotrope CMS-WP content management system, and has both WAP compatibility and built-in per-page translation and social network (e.g., Digg, Del.ico.us, and Technorati) support.

March 1, 2006
Send2Press® president Christopher Simmons is quoted on page 73 of the March 2006 issue of Entrepreneur magazine. This is the second time Mr. Simmons has been interviewed for the magazine on the subject of public relations and press release services for small business.

December 31, 2005
Send2Press® begins the re-launch of its news network, which comprises over 100 Websites such as CaliforniaNewswire.com, FloridaNewswire.com, GeorgiaNewswire.com, LosAngelesNewswire.com, etc. The "Send2Press News Network" will be fully enabled by mid-Spring 2006. Over 30 of the initial place-holder sites were switched back on January 1st, 2006 to begin the pre-spidering process in search engines. Due to the failure of our "old" Web servers in 2003 and 2004, the network sites have been visible only as "mirrors" of the Send2Press.com site over the past two years. All of the network sites now live on their own dedicated "super server" with 1500GB base monthly bandwidth and fully redundant components for maximum reliablity.

November 20, 2005
Christopher Simmons, President of Neotrope/Send2Press is interviewed by Entrepreneur magazine about the "best time to send a press release," for the March 2006 (cover date) issue. He was last interviewed for the Nov. 2003 issue by Gwen Moran, editor of the "Marketing Buzz" column, but much of his interview was cut due to space considerations in the printed edition. For this latest interview, his comments have made it to the published article.

November 7, 2005
Neotrope, the parent company of Send2Press is chosen as Agency of Record (AOR) for SamuraiBaby.com, to help promote the new book, "Way of the Baby: A Book of Five Grins" by Brian Hutchins, and act as media liason.
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November 3, 2005
Send2Press president and founder Christopher Simmons is interviewed by Ron Pramschufer for the Publishing Basics Radio podcast on the topics of press releases, and how self-published authors can use press release services to help promote their book(s).
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October 15, 2005
Neotrope/Send2Press President Christopher Laird Simmons signs a book deal with Indy-Tech Publishing (www.indy-tech.com) to write a business book, "The Savvy Guide to Podcasting." This book will be a highly valuable visual guide for those seeking to understand not only how to create a Podcast, but also how to market a program, as well as build and measure an audience. The book will publish in the Summer of 2006.

October 12, 2005
Neotrope/Send2Press Chosen to Provide Internet Marketing Solutions for Satin Sheet-A-Gram(R), a Business Specializing in Satin Sheet Gift Sets. As part of this program, Neotrope will provide its proven DotComMojo(TM) and DotSorcerer(TM) search submission and deep-linking(TM) technology, first introduced in 1996, as well as Send2Press(R) Newswire services.
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September 30, 2005
Neotrope/Send2Press Chosen to Provide Internet Marketing Solutions for Vacuum Cleaner Company All Makes Vacuums. As part of this program, Neotrope will provide its proven DotComMojo(TM) and DotSorcerer(TM) search submission and deep-linking(TM) technology, first introduced in 1996.
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August 24, 2005
The first episode in a new entertainment talk show podcast was released this week by Send2Press Newswire (www.Send2Press.com) and hosted by PRSA and ASCAP member Christopher Simmons. The first show features interviews with Scott G "The G-Man" who is a professional voiceover talent heard on dozens of top-brand radio commercials and a popular music recording artist, as well as a chat with the folks at GoldenPalace.com who recently painted 100 cows in Florida with the blessing of PETA.
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August 23, 2005
The leading authority on Press Release Optimization, Christopher Laird Simmons, Announces Enhanced Services for Send2Press — Neotrope(R) announced today an enhanced version of its ContextXpert(TM) solution for optimization and placement of press release content into search engines and databases, which will power the relaunch of Send2Press Newswire (www.Send2Press.com) in September. This technology is based on Neotrope's ContextEngine(R) system, developed and launched by marketing technologist Christopher Simmons in January of 1996 when AltaVista was the "big dog" in the indexing of online news content. Over the past decade the system has matured along with search portals and other news indexes.
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June 6, 2005
The winners for the Public Relations Society of America's (PRSA) 2004 Excellence in Technology Journalism Awards were announced today. Christina Prier Steffy, associate editor of BioProcess International and Chris Taylor, San Francisco bureau chief of Time, took top honors. Neotrope/Send2Press President and PRSA Member Christopher Simmons was on the judging panel for the awards.
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May 10, 2005
Neotrope/Send2Press president Christopher Simmons is interviewed by Emmy® Award Winning Broadcaster Errol Smith for Web-based "radio" program on how book authors can use press releases to promote themselves. This unscripted live phone interview will appear on the Publishing Basics Website and elsewhere as part of the Readers Radio Network. (Updated: Mr. Smith subsequently "loses" the interview and it never appears onlne, unfortunately.)

May 1, 2005
Neotrope/Send2Press has signed on as the premier sponsor of the five city "Moving from Podcasting to Nanocasting" conference, co-produced by Guerrilla Marketing International, Jackstreet Media, and the newly formed International Nanocasting Alliance (INA). As a premier sponsor of the conference tour, Neotrope/Send2Press will provide tier one newswire services in the US and Canada, keyword marketing, and brand awareness support. The conference series will start in Sept. 2005 and run through Jan. 26, 2006, and take place in Las Vegas, Vancouver, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Orlando. (Updated: The show is later cancelled and Send2Press receives no compensation for the money we spent on the sponsorship and the representative, Mr. Smith, refuses to pay for services rendered - we then sever all ties with any of his organizations or associates. Send2Press has no relationship with the INA and no longer supports them in any regard.)

March 7, 2005
Neotrope Chosen to Provide Internet Marketing Solutions for New York Computer Technology Firm S & R Network Consulting, a leading New York computer network and database integration firm. As part of this program, Neotrope will provide its proven DotComMojo(TM) and DotSorcerer(TM) search submission and deep-linking technology, first introduced in 1996.
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January 28, 2005
Neotrope/Send2Press is donating $22K in free public reltions and newswire services to worthy non-profit and charitable organizations to celebrate its 22nd anniversary.
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January 27, 2005
Neotrope/Send2Press donates services to help sponsor the 12th Annual Inspired Art Auction, organized by Inspiration Corporation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and United Way member agency that works to help the homeless in the Chicago area. This year's event will feature more than 100 pieces of juried artwork donated by leading Chicago-area artists. Inspiration Corporation employs a concept of therapeutic community, where the community of people in common effort is the healing agent for the individual. This unique milieu is what makes Inspiration a safe, supportive and motivational environment unlike any other in Chicago.
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January 1, 2005
To celebrate its 22nd anniversary (Jan. 1983 - Jan. 2005), Neotrope/Send2Press will donate $22K in services to worthwhile nonprofit organizations in 2005. Neotrope previously provided a similar nonprofit program in 2000 (read release from Aug. 2000). The first worthwhile organization selected to receive free services in 2005, is the Native Voices Foundation (NVF), a Colorado non-profit 501C3. Native Voices Foundation is a partnership between U.S. Tribal leaders and Olympians "to create joyful unity through sports to help heal Mother Earth for all our children." It was chosen to spearhead the President's Healthier U.S. Initiative in the Great Outdoors on behalf of the "underserved, heroic Native American population" (President Bush). NVF is co-chaired by olympic skier, Suzy Chaffee. Other worthwhile nonprofit organizations will be able to apply for this program in late January through an application on the Send2Press.com home page.

December 14, 2004
Neotrope president Christopher Simmons is interviewed by Monster.com for article, "Oops, I Did it Again! Top Typos and How to Catch Them Before it's too Late." The majority of the tips in the article were suggested by Mr. Simmons, based on his 25 years experience in proof-reading and copy-editing.

November 15, 2004
Neotrope/Send2Press, a Leading Online Newswire Service for Small to Medium Businesses, Launches New Discount Program for Non-Profit Organizations. Through this new program, nonprofit groups can obtain a 15% discount on all targeted news distribution, press release writing, and online marketing solutions offered through Neotrope/Send2Press.
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November 4, 2004
Neotrope/Send2Press announces Free Book Publicity for Book Authors and Book Publishers. Website relaunch, PublishersNewswire.com Offers Free Services for Writers and Small Publishing Companies. This new site provides a wealth of articles, interviews, and resources for anybody interested in writing, publishing, and distribution of books. (Updated: free publicity offer ended Aug. 2005.)
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October 20, 2004
Lamaute Capital, Inc. selects Neotrope's DotSorcerer™ "deep-linking" search engine marketing solution to help promote their new website in major search engines. Lamaute Capital helps small business owners save for retirement and to withdraw from a 401k, IRA, or other retirement savings with minimal taxes and penalties. Most of their retirement plans allow loans. For example, the solo 401k, (a.k.a., Individual 401k, or Self-Employed 401k), the 403(b), and the one-person defined benefit plans all let individuals borrow against them for start-up business loans or personal loans.

September 2, 2004
Shrimpo LLC Selects Neotrope as Agency of Record for Media Relations and SEO + PR Keyword Marketing. As part of this agreement, Neotrope will provide both media relations and Internet marketing services to promote Shrimpo LLC's information technology (IT) consulting, and human user interface design (HUI) solutions.
» Click here to read press release.

August 5, 2004
Neotrope/Send2Press unveils preview version of re-launched Publishers Newswire™ (www.publishersnewswire.com) which used to be part of the Mindset Netwire sites. The new site is "the news and marketing resource for book publishers and authors." The site, officially re-launching in Sept. will have forums, articles on the book business, monthly "brainstorm" roundtable with industry veterans on topics like "the future of e-books," and interviews with authors including notables like Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many first-time authors. Forums allow authors and publishers to exchange thoughts on how to write a book, get it published and even market to a specific audience. All resources are free, and "book specific" SEO+PR™ services can be ordered from Send2Press via the site.
» Click here to see preview.

August 2, 2004
A revised version of Christopher Simmons' often quoted article on "how to write a press release" was recently updated and published in the August edition of the Publishing Basics Newsletter, described as "A Monthly Newsletter for the Small Press and Independent Self-Publisher." This publication is sent each month to over 25,000 self-publishing subscribers by RJ Communications, who also operates BooksJustBooks.com.
» Click here to read the revised article.

July 29, 2004
Camilions Photo Personalized Children's Books today selected Neotrope's DotSorcerer™ contextual linking solution to help promote their business and ecommerce website. Camilions personalized children's books are designed to be fun keepsakes, to capture a wonderful moment of a child's life and treasure it for years to come. That's why their books combine the latest variable content technology with the beauty of traditional book making. Neotrope has provided effective, proven SEO/SEM solutions since 1996.

July 28, 2004
Empire Relations Group, Inc. today selected Neotrope's DotSorcerer™ deep-linking SEO service, DotComMojo™ search engine submission, and ContextXpert™ search engine marketing consulting services, to help promote their updated website content to major search portals. Empire Relations Group, Inc. Provides Investor Relations programs for OTC:BB Exchange, Small Cap stocks, and investment research. Consulting for venture capital. In depth Gold Star Report and corporate profiles for publicly traded stocks, technology companies & development stage corporations. Neotrope has provided best-in-class affordable SEO/SEM solutions since Jan. of 1996.

July 14, 2004
Send2Press and PR Newswire Extend Partnership to Provide Affordable, Effective Media Monitoring and Corporate Intelligence Services to Small Businesses. Leveraging an existing partnership, Send2Press and PR Newswire will now provide small business owners with cost- effective media monitoring and news clipping services, the two companies announced today.
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July 12, 2004
Neotrope/Send2Press founder and chief visionary Christopher Laird Simmons was interviewed today for a series of articles by William J. Lynott, which will appear in various Australian, Canadian and U.S. print publications, and online. The business article series covers "techniques for keeping customers coming back," and "advertising for new customers." William J. Lynott is a former management consultant and corporate executive who writes on business and financial topics for a variety of consumer and trade publications. His latest book, "Money: How to Make the Most of What You've Got," is available through bookstores and Amazon.com.

June 21, 2004
Send2Press and Vickie Jenkins Performance Power Launch Partnership to Provide Affordable Effective Press Coverage and Media Coaching Services Within Reach of Small Businesses. A new strategic alliance between Send2Press Newswire (www.send2press.com) and Vickie Jenkins Media Coaching was announced today. This service will provide small to medium business (SMB) owners with a single-source solution for affordable PR service packages including news release writing, targeted news distribution, media coaching and media training. This alliance is designed to give companies who want to take the reins of their own media promotion access to a variety of "ready to go" PR kits called eMediaEXTRA™.
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June 8, 2004
Neotrope announced today that its Send2PressT division (www.send2press.com), a leading online newswire service, has relaunched its popular Affiliate Program designed to help business-to-business web portals, search engines, and "blogs" earn revenue through banner and text linking to its affordable PR services. The program was discontinued in March for retooling and to develop higher payout fees to partnering sites with appropriate content.
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June 1, 2004
Moreover.com adds Send2Press news articles to its syndicated headline feeds to content sites worldwide.

March 25, 2004
Send2Press is mentioned in the March 2004 BBBonline Newsletter, as one of the participants helping to promote the Better Business Bureau's identity theft awareness and education program.

March 15, 2004
Send2Press partners with eWatch™ to provide an affordable and innovative media monitoring solution for its targeted news distribution and Internet marketing clients. Through our partnership with eWatch™, a Service of PR Newswire, Send2Press offers a powerful media monitoring tool which scans thousands of electronic news media sources everyday and delivers clips related to a company, industry and/or competitors, automatically, systematically, and immediately. (Updated: The eWatch service offering through Send2Press was discontinued July 2006.)

March 4, 2004
In his capacity as a former contributing editor to CrossMedia™ magazine, and executive editor of Search Engine Intelligence™ magazine; Send2Press founder Christopher Simmons is serving as a judge in the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) 2003 Awards for Excellence in Technology Journalism judging panel.

Feb. 19, 2004
Send2Press.com is chosen as Interland's "website of the month" for Feb. 2004. Send2Press is featured in a 600 word article which includes an interview with Send2Press founder Christopher Simmons. Interland is a major web presence provider hosting over 200,000 companies, and is the owner of the datacenter/NOC where Neotrope/Send2Press' primary "A" web server is co-located.

Feb. 18, 2004
CustomScoop™ adds Send2Press news content to its list of sites it spiders on behalf of its customers for news clippings.

Dec. 15, 2003
Neotrope/Send2Press today announced the formal launch of freeNewsArticles™ (www.freeNewsArticles.com), a new content resource providing hundreds of ready-to-use business news articles in a wide variety of popular topics including entertainment, biotech, and book publishing. After filling out a simple license agreement, editors may freely use the content in print, online, or on-air.   Read press release.

Nov. 15, 2003
Neotrope/Send2Press today donated a Hewlett-Packard Color LaserJet Printer to the Redondo Beach Unified School District, which will be used by students at the Beryl Heights School. Neotrope is proud to help support worthwhile local community groups and children's organizations.

Nov. 7, 2003
Noted author, Beverly West, author of the popular Cinematherapy book series, joins Neotrope/Send2Press as a team member and staff writer. Beverly will bring her wit, expertise and communication skills to our client projects. Beverly West is a best-selling author whose series, Cinematherapy, the Girls Guide to Movies for Every Mood, has spawned six sequels and daily TV show in primetime on WE, Women's Entertainment. Bev also has penned a cookbook, Culinarytherapy, The Girl's Guide to Food for Every Mood, and Cinematherapy for the Soul. She has also written for many national magazines including Self, Redbook and TV Guide.   Read press release.

Oct. 20, 2003
Send2Press featured in the "Marketing Buzz" column, in the Nov. 2003 issue of Entrepreneur magazine. (Unfortunately they cut the interview comments with Send2Press founder Christopher Simmons.)

June 26, 2003
Neotrope/Send2Press President Christopher Simmons is interviewed by Entrepreneur magazine on the subject of innovative and affordable PR solutions for small businesses and entrepeneurs. Send2Press.com will appear in the "business buzz" article in the Nov. 2003 edition of Entrepreneur magazine as an example of available PR solutions for those starting new business ventures to promote their business.

June 22, 2003
Send2Press featured in the syndicated United Press International "On the Net with UPI" column, edited by Alex Cukan. This column is widely syndicated and appeared on numerous sites, including The Washington Times.

June 1, 2003
Neotrope and Send2Press complete first step of pro bono work for The International Peace Star Project (www.thepeacestar.org). Neotrope is providing keyword optimization services via its ContextEngine™ technology, and will provide selected PR services through Send2Press. Additionally, Neotrope architected a basic website design, and will provide web hosting for the site for one year.
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May 21, 2003
Send2Press And CyberAlert Form Alliance That Puts Affordable, Effective, Press Coverage, Media Monitoring, And Marketing Intelligence Services Within Reach Of Small Businesses. Read Press Release.

April 1, 2003
Jerry Laird Simmons, highly valued Neotrope/Send2Press team member, and father of company founder Christopher Simmons, passed away today. He is survived by his wife Nola, sons Christopher and David, and brother Robert. Jerry was instrumental in the launch of the Mindset/Neotrope company, both by inspiration and financial means. In his later years Jerry was a valued participant in the launch, growth, and ultimate success of the Send2Press.com business, as an advisor and writer/editor; working both with Christopher on content issues, and directly with Send2Press clients. He will be greatly missed by friends and family. His memorial website can be viewed at www.JLSimmons.com.

March 28, 2003
Neotrope signs strategic partnership with CyberAlert® www.CyberAlert.com) to add their industry-leading business intelligence and media monitoring capabiltiies to Neotrope's Send2Press® press release service offerings (www.Send2Press.com). CyberAlert is a fully-automated worldwide press clipping, broadcast monitoring and Web clipping service that provides an effective, time-efficient and economical way to find and "clip" what is being said about a company, its products, or people in newspapers, magazines, journals, wire services, TV networks, and local TV stations. Through this strategic partnership, Send2Press will offer enhanced business promotion services that combine news writing, press release distribution, and the CyberAlert media tracking service.

January 10, 2003
Neotrope rejoins the Better Business Bureau (BBB) of the Southland (Southern California). Neotrope was previously a member in 1997 under the name "Mindset" until 2001 during the company name changeover.

January 9, 2003
Neotrope president Christopher Simmons is invited by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) to be a judge for its annual competition for each of its two Awards for Excellence in Technology Journalism. The PRSA Technology Section presents awards annually for the two best examples of technology journalism, one to a technology journalist for writing in a trade, technical or industrial publication, and a second to a technology journalist in a business or general interest publication or media.

October 29, 2002
Send2Press And PR Newswire Announce Partnership That Puts Affordable, Effective, Press Coverage Within Reach Of Individuals And Small Businesses. A new strategic partnership between Send2Press (Send2Press.com) and PR Newswire will provide small business owners with affordable press release services, it was announced today.
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September 16, 2002
Neotrope has been selected by software company KoloSoft Inc. of Rancho Santa Margarita, CA as their agency of record. As part of this agreement, Neotrope will provide both media relations and Internet marketing services to promote the KoloSoft line of Internet monitoring and child-safety applications.

September 3, 2002
Neotrope announces the relaunch of the Send2Press® (www.send2press.com) website, offering affordable press release services such as writing and targeted news distribution services. The site was originally launched in 1997 as MindsetNetwire.com, and became Send2Press in 2000. The third generation of the site launched August 2000. The all-new site design includes expanded service offerings including news distribution combining the Send2Press databases with online news placements through a new partnership with PR Newswire.

August 30, 2002
Neotrope/Send2Press and PR Newswire (PRN) sign strategic partnership agreement that will benefit small businesses in reaching the media with business news. Through this agreement, Neotrope's affordable PR services website, Send2Press.com will be able to add selected PRN services to the proven services offered by Send2Press since 1997. PR Newswire's dedicated news network is capable of distribution to 40,000 organizations worldwide.

July 3, 2002
Neotrope's Send2Press news articles based on client press releases are added to the list of online news sources covered by NewsBooster.com, a "news clipping service" that provides news extracts to subscribers. Last year our news articles were also added to the list of online news sources covered by similar clipping services, CyberAlert, and WebClipping.com.

April 22, 2002
Neotrope/Send2Press president Christopher Simmons is interviewed by Richard Romano for an industry report on PDF (and the impact of the Acrobat/PDF technology on the printing industry). The "Special Report on PDF" will be published by TrendWatch Graphic Arts, a division of Reed Business Information (formerly Cahners). TrendWatch specializes in providing accurate market trends and market sizing information for the graphics markets. TrendWatch is recognized worldwide as the "go to" brand for reliable market trends and analysis.

February 10, 2002
Neotrope/Send2Press president Christopher Simmons is interviewed for article to appear in Home Business magazine on the topic of the benefits and pitfalls of a "virtual office" and decentralized staff over a traditional brick-and-mortar space with full-time employees.

August 16, 2001
Neotrope selected by international digital rights management (DRM) solution provider, ArtistScope Inc., to provide public relations and marketing of their brand in North America. ArtistScope was the first company to offer solutions for encrypting and protecting visual content on the Internet.

June 21, 2001
Mindset/Neotrope president Christopher Simmons is interviewed by Michele Bohbot of the San Francisco Society of Illustrators for an article on technologies related to protecting content online.

June 19, 2001
Mindset/Send2Press president Christopher Simmons invited to speak at annual meeting of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, to be held Oct. 2001 in Arlington Virginia, on the topic of technologies related to protecting content online.

March 1, 2001
Mindset/Send2Press signs agreement with MasterCard to participate in their MasterCard Exclusives program for the period April 26 through December 31, 2001. As part of this agreement MasterCard will promote Send2Press services on their small business "exclusives" Website and via e-mail promotions to small business MasterCard holders. Send2Press will provide a 20% discount on all services to MasterCard holders who use a special link to our site during the promotion term.

February 1, 2001
Mindset/Send2Press donates marketing expertise to the Junior League of Long Beach, an organization dedicated to helping children and women, as part of our ongoing committment to helping worthwhile groups.

August 16, 2000
ePublicEye (www.epubliceye.com) the largest aggregator of customer satisfaction data on small and medium sized e-businesses, today announced it has partnered with Mindset Netwire (www.mindsetnetwire.com), to provide a new B2B offering that will help its 15,000 e-business members learn the right way and wrong way to work successfully with the press. By helping small businesses get media relations right, the alliance aims to reduce news spam and preserve the symbiotic relationship between businesses and the press. (Updated: Send2Press severed all ties with ePublicEye Jan. 1, 2006.)

August 13, 2000
Mindset/Send2Press president Christopher Simmons interviewed by Jackstreet.com's "Jackstreet Live" Web radio show about the effectiveness of online-based press release distribution services, and public relations.

August 3, 2000
ePublicEye.com (www.epubliceye.com) the largest aggregator of customer satisfaction data on small and medium sized e-businesses, today announced it has selected Mindset Netwire (www.mindsetnetwire.com) to provide public relations and e-marketing for a broad range of enhanced B2B and B2C service offerings.

August 2, 2000
California-based advertising, marketing, and public relations company Mindset today announced that they will donate over $25,000 in PR services to worthy non-profit and charitable causes. Qualifying organizations may now apply for an opportunity to receive both online marketing and traditional public relations services such as press release writing and distribution, all at no cost.
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July 31, 2000
Mindset/Send2Press relaunches its Mindset Netwire Website offering Send2Press press release distribution services and merges with DotComMojo.com offering search engine submission services and webmaster reference library.
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June 1, 2000
Mindset/Send2Press and FindWhat.com partner to offer special promotion to Mindset Netwire customers, providing 5,000 free qualified visitors/clicks when signing up for new FindWhat.com "pay for performance" advertising account through co-branded site.

August, 1999
Mindset/Send2Press president Christopher Simmons interviewed by PC World magazine for the Sept. 1999 edition on the topic of Web hosting and "easy Web site building."

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