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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- TeleServices
International Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TSIG), a fully
integrated provider of outsourced teleservices, announced today that
its subsidiary, Compact Connection, Inc.(CCI) has entered the global
online retail music market with a unique marketing -- technology
concept that directly links business done on the Internet with powerful
one-on-one personal transactions provided by TSIG. CCI will compete
directly with online retailers Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), CDNow
(Nasdaq: CDNW), N2K's Music Boulevard (Nasdaq: NTKI) and K-Tel
International (Nasdaq: KTEL).
Compact Connection, a direct music retail company, sells CDs and
cassettes online via its website www.compactconnection.com at discount
prices competitive with other leading online music retailers. For those
CCI customers not comfortable with giving credit card or personal
information online (estimated to be over 40% of total Internet users),
there is the immediate option of making a toll free call to
1-800-951-1111 to purchase music from a TSIG Call Center Service agent,
24 hours a day, 7 days a week. CCI's website offers an impressive
library of over 250,000 titles and has the ability to handle 10,000
transactions a day. To support its website program, TSIG has partnered
with Muze, Inc., ENSO Audio Imaging, Inc. and Valley Media, Inc.,
leaders in their respective music fields.
Unique to the Internet is Compact Connection's marketing of its
MusicCard(TM), which provides purchasers the ability to buy CDs and
cassettes at even greater discounted prices. The CCI MusicCard(TM) is
also being aggressively marketed outside its website through CCI
distributors and national sales. The company is establishing unique
marketing programs with corporations and non-profit organizations where
they share in revenues from selling their own customized MusicCard(TM).
Robert Gordon, Chairman and CEO of TSIG, stated, "Internet companies
are too hastily turning to online commerce as their sole business plan
and are leaving behind the personal one-on-one communication that the
telephone offers. Global online music sales are projected to rise to
$1.8 Billion by 2001 from $71 million currently. Likewise, the
teleservices industry grew to an estimated $81 billion in 1996, up from
$34 billion in 1986. The numbers speak for themselves." He further
comments, "TSIG continues to be in the teleservices business. The
launch of our Internet based direct music retail company is just our
first example of how these two technology based industries must grow
hand in hand. We are one of the first to recognize the importance of it
and are technologically prepared to keep pace with demand in the new
millennium, never loosing sight of the need for personal interaction."
TeleServices International Group, Inc. is a provider of fully
integrated global teleservices to companies focused on selling products
and services through toll-free numbers and the Internet. The Company's
wide array of teleservices includes telephone sales/order capturing,
customer service and product support as well as direct-response
advertising. Visit TeleServices web site at
stockprofiles.com, or e-mail info@tsig.com.
SOURCE TeleServices International Group, Inc.
-0- 09/16/98 /CONTACT: Robert Gordon,
Chairman, TeleServices International Group, Inc., 813-897-4000; or Mark
Kabbash, President, VistaQuest, Inc. Financial PR, 212-551-7825/
/Web site: stockprofiles.com /Web site:
compactconnection.com
(TSIG AMZN CDNW KTEL)
CO: TeleServices International Group, Inc.; Compact Connection, Inc.
ST: Florida IN: REA ENT MLM SU: PDT
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