QBIZ has news, I'm in this one at $2 from the other day.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2000-- SmithAgency.com today announced that the shop has
signed Coral Springs, Fla.-based ValueLink, as its newest client.
The full service shop will handle creative, media, and public relations for ValueLink.
The agency won the account without review, based on prior project work performed by its Pix'L Creative division. Pix'L
created print ads and collateral for the stored value card company. ''We've been extremely happy with the agency's creative on
a project-by-project basis,'' said Jerry DeWitt, ValueLink's director of corporate card solutions. ''In seeking a full service
agency, our practical needs were twofold; we wanted a single agency with full media and creative capabilities that was local to
our South Florida division, but which could increase productivity through simultaneous communication with any of our offices.
SmithAgency.com's use of the Internet to accomplish that goal helped,'' he concluded.
''This win is another demonstration of the benefits in our model of unbundling agency services,'' said Jim Lobel,
SmithAgency.com's president and CEO. ''We established a relationship by doing project work, and when the time came for
the client to step-up to a full service relationship, we were ready, willing, able, and - most significantly - proven,'' he concluded.
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SmithAgency.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of publicly traded QuikBIZ Internet Group (OTCBB:QBIZ - news), an
Internet-related business-to-business communications company. For further information about QuikBIZ Internet Group, Inc.,
visit the company's Web site at quikbizgroup.com.
ValueLink, a service of First Data Corporation, is an industry leader in stored value card programs, offering a wide range of
transaction processing, card acquisition, card fulfillment and customer service capabilities. Over a million times each month, a
consumer is completing a transaction with a card supported by ValueLink - which serves the country's leading department
store, discount store, specialty, video and gasoline retailers. For more information about ValueLink, visit the company on the
Internet at www.valuelinkcards.com.
Atlanta-based First Data Corporation (NYSE:FDC - news) is a global leader in payment systems, electronic commerce and
information management products and services. First Data and its principal operating units process the information that allows
millions of consumers to pay for goods and services by credit, debit or stored value card at the point of sale or over the
Internet; by check or wire money. For more information about First Data, please visit the company on the Internet at
www.firstdatacorp.com.
The statements in this press release that relate to future plans, events or performance are forward-looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with uncertainties pertaining to customer orders, demand for products
and services and other risks identified in the Company's SEC filings. Actual results, events and performance may differ
materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the
date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to these forward-looking statements that
may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
Contact:
QuikBIZ, Fort Lauderdale
Steve Rice, 954/970-3553
srice@gl-group.com |
