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Reliant Interactive Media Corporation
2701 North Rocky Point Dr., Suite 200, Tampa FL 33607
"About the time we were considering signing an agreement with Group 2's private
company in early June of this year, our executive management had a meeting with
Scott Roix and Vance Vogel, the principals of The Affinity Group, Inc.
("Affinity Group"). The Affinity Group was based in St. Petersburg, Florida,
only minutes from our Tampa office. Kevin Harrington, Tim Harrington and Mel
Arthur, our management team, met with the principals of the Affinity Group at
their offices to consider doing business with them. The Affinity Group has an
operation that handles outbound and inbound telephone calls for sales and
customer service of various products and services. As part of the inbound call
operations, The Affinity Group has a "Buying Club" that features the sales of
vacation packages. We had been using the services of a similar company in
Arizona, and it was appealing to do business with a local company.
In the course of this meeting we learned that the Affinity Group had entered
into an agreement to be acquired by TSIG, another St. Petersburg company. We
mentioned that we were in serious negotiations for a possible reverse
acquisition. The principals of the Affinity Group related to us that TSIG had
also agreed to acquire GeneralSearch.com, Inc., a search engine/portal, and that
TSIG had secured a commitment for $125,000,000 in financing from a major
investment banking firm. On learning more about what we did and the growth that
we were experiencing, the principals of the Affinity Group encouraged us to meet
with Rob Gordon, the Chairman of the Board of TSIG. These gentlemen from the
Affinity Group spoke with Mr. Gordon about our business and arranged a meeting
for the next day at the offices of TSIG between him and our management team.
In the course of the meeting at TSIG's offices, Mr. Gordon discussed TSIG's
business plan. It was TSIG's vision to make GeneralSearch.com a leading search
engine/portal by bringing to them users at virtually no acquisition costs
through various affinity relationships that they had established. This closely
paralleled our concept of driving customers to our websites at very little cost
through the promotion of our websites in the long-form commercials that we
produced.
GeneralSearch.com was represented to have over 100,000,000 links and to be one
of the most accurate search engines in the industry after several years of
development. In addition to offering free Internet access, free e-mail and free
fax services through a contract with First-up, GeneralSearch.com also filters
out virtually all adult-oriented pornographic content. GeneralSearch.com also
had over 900 alliances (now 1100) with various e-commerce businesses that
provided revenue sharing arrangements.
TSIG's concept was to bring users to GeneralSearch.com through various alliances
that they had developed along with the marketing efforts of the Affinity Group.
TSIG, for example, had been chosen as the technology partner by UCP, a
charitable organization that had one of the largest memberships in the country.
TSIG had developed similar relationships with many school-based organizations.
TSIG's concept was to bring GeneralSearch.com's family oriented search engine
with its various free Internet services to the members of these affinity groups." |
