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By: 2Livelong
Reply To: None Monday, 12 Apr 1999 at 10:19 AM EDT
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TMANglobal.com Announces New Charter Membership Program
ORLANDO, Fla., April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- TMANglobal.com (OTC Bulletin
Board: CHOP) announced today that it has completed the design of its new Charter Membership program. This new initiative, scheduled to begin June 1st, is designed to offer visitors an opportunity to become members of TMANglobal.com, giving them access to certain private membership areas of the website as well as a host of other value-added benefits.
According to Tony Interdonato, CEO of TMANglobal.com, "We want to build a new web community, similar to GeoCities or I-Village, that offers our members something different than they can find anywhere else. We believe that we can attract more than
one million members within the first three years of operation."
Visitors who sign up to become members of TMAN will receive all of the following: a private membership key -- which can be used to access certain areas off-limits to the general public (including celebrity chat rooms, a video jukebox, and passes to live events), a one-day theme park pass to Universal Studios Florida, a personalized e-mail address, a personal web page, a one year subscription to a magazine of their choice found at Magazine City or a book found at Amazon.com, a custom affinity web browser, a proprietary CD music card, an Always Positive T-shirt, access to Universal Studios Escape vacation packages, an additional 10% discount on SuperMall purchases, and an audio newsletter e-mailed
monthly to members. [???]
Interdonato continues, "We feel that this new program offers a lot of
value to potential members and will be very successful. We have already amassed a database of more than 300,000 names and e-mail address of visitors who have contacted us and/or signed our guestbook interested in membership. We will start signing up members during our pre-launch phase, beginning May 1, and then activate the program in June. Based upon initial indications of interest, I think that the Charter Membership slots will sellout especially quick."
The Charter Membership portion of the program, available only to the
first 50,000 respondants, will have extra V.I.P. benefits attached and be offered for an annual membership fee of only $129.95. After this initial membership recruitment period is over, the standard fee will go to $199.95 annually. Currently there are more than 14,000,000 martial artists in the U.S. with 200 million more worldwide. Initial annual projections of 2% penetration into this niche marketplace represents 280,000 members. This estimate does not include those visitors interested in extreme sports or health/fitness, which would boost that number significantly. If target projections are reached for martial artists only, membership revenues are projected to be in excess of $25,000,000 for fiscal 1999.
About TMANglobal.com
TMANglobal.com (OTC Bulletin Board: CHOP) is a two-year old Internet-based company that operates one of the world's largest websites devoted exclusively to the martial arts and health/fitness industries.
TMANglobal.com is located at Universal Studios Florida, with interests in the sports, entertainment and financial auditing industries. For more information contact: Mark Kabbash, CEO of VistaQuest, Inc. at 212-551-7866, or Tony Interdonato, CEO of TMANglobal.com, at 407-370-4460.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, TMANglobal.com's limited operating history, anticipated losses, unpredictability of future revenues, potential fluctuations in quarterly operating results, competition, risks associated with system development and operations, management of potential growth, and risks of new business areas, international expansion, business combinations, and strategic alliances.
SOURCE TMANglobal.com
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