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TSIG.com Launches myMusicCard.com, A New Concept in Purchasing Music Online; Represents First of Many myCard Offerings
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 1999-- TeleServices International Group, Inc. (OTC BB:TSIG - news), known as TSIG.com, announced today the launch of myMusicCard.com, a totally new concept in purchasing music online.
myMusicCard.com (www.mymusiccard.com), which goes live today, enables consumers to purchase music CDs and cassettes over the Internet at prices lower than all major retail or existing online sources. Consumers receive discounts by purchasing membership cards from the site, through affinity programs with corporations and retail stores, or as part of fund-raising drives from non-profit organizations.
The site offers more than 250,000 music selections from a complete range of artists, and focuses on serving the music needs of consumers. The site has the most robust searching ability of any music-only site, enabling consumers to search by any combination of artist, title, release date, song name and several other criteria. TSIG.com will personalize the appearance of myMusicCards to meet the specific needs of corporations, retailers and non-profit organizations.
"myMusicCard.com creates win-win situations for all involved and we will expand the concept beyond offering music in the future," said Robert Gordon, Chairman of TSIG.com. "Consumers today can purchase music at our site for the lowest price available, corporations benefit by providing an extra service to their customers, retailers and non-profit organizations gain a powerful fund-raising tool."
TSIG.com has established myMusicCard relationships with Babe Ruth League Baseball, a 900,000 member organization; the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Ice Palace, a National Hockey League franchise; Lifetime Learning Systems, the premier provider of corporate-sponsored educational programs in more than 100,000 schools throughout the United States; the National Music Foundation and The Entertainment Marketing Promotion Organization (TEMPO), which serves as the exclusive marketing agency for AFIM (the Association For Independent Music) and represents the corporate premium and incentive services of PolyGram Records and Philips Electronics (the company that invented the CD).
The myMusicCard.com site has a three-tier architecture employing the latest Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) technology, including Site Server as the content management system to support the presentation layer, IIS 4.0 and customized Active Server Pages to provide the application layer, and SQL Server 7 to support the data layer. The site is supported by an array of Microsoft NT servers.
Headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, TSIG.com is a pioneer in providing comprehensive outsourced e-business solutions. These services enable companies to develop, build and maintain e-commerce web sites, create revenue-generating programs with corporations and non-profit organizations that attract consumers to customers' sites and complements these offerings with Web-based call center and related services that provide customer service and support.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the 1933 Securities Act and Section 21E of the 1934 Securities Exchange Act. Actual results could differ materially, as the result of such factors as (1) competition in the markets for online services, for the products and services sold by the company, and for outsourced teleservices, (2) the ability of the company to execute its plans, (3) the availability of financing at favorable terms, and (4) other factors detailed in the Company's public filings with the SEC. |
