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Enjoy the Holidays and Peace and Good Fortune to Everyone.........Norms
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Friday December 18, 12:18 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
TeleServices International Group Forms E-Commerce Partnership With Babe Ruth League to Raise Funds
Using Compact Connection MusicCard
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 1998-- TeleServices International Group, Inc.
(OTC BB:TSIG - news), announced today a unique fund-raising and e-commerce partnership with The Babe
Ruth League, Inc. TeleServices' Compact Connection subsidiary will provide the League with the Babe Ruth
MusicCard to sell for fundraising purposes.
The program will enable more than 900,000 youth baseball and softball players to sell the $10 MusicCards,
which enable the cardholders to purchase compact disks through the Compact Connection e-commerce Internet
site at below market prices. TeleServices and the League will share in the revenues generated by the sale of the
Cards. The goal of the program is to sell at least $50,000,000 of Babe Ruth MusicCards and CDs.
Compact Connection, Inc. (CCI), an online music retailer, is a subsidiary of TeleServices, a fully integrated
provider of outsourced teleservices. Compact Connection sells CDs and cassettes online via its website
(http://www.compactconnection.com) at discount prices competitive with other leading online music retailers
such as MusicBoulevard (Nasdaq:NTKI - news), CDNow (Nasdaq:CDNW - news), K-Tel (Nasdaq:KTEL -
news), and amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN - news). Unique to the Internet is Compact Connection's marketing
of its MusicCard™, which provides purchasers the ability to buy CDs at even greater discounted prices.
The Babe Ruth League is the premier amateur baseball and softball program in the world, with more than 6,000
Leagues, 43,000 teams and 900,000 participants ranging in ages from 5 to 18. Annually each league and its
respective teams require funding for equipment, personnel, travel, and uniforms. Compact Connection is proud
to have been designated exclusively as the League's CD fund-raising program for 1999.
Joseph M. Smiegocki, Vice President/Marketing of the Babe Ruth League stated, ''We anticipate great things
from this relationship with Compact Connection. This is a fresh approach for us, and we are very excited about
the fund-raising potential of the Babe Ruth MusicCard.''
Added Robert Gordon, Chairman of TeleServices, ''We are proud to be designated an 'Official Fund Raising
Program' of the Babe Ruth League. This great organization is one of the premier programs in the country for
the development of our nation's young people. This partnership will help them raise the funds they need and
represents an important new market for the Compact Connection MusicCard.''
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 |
