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rate you’re paying for your ad is 15% or more below full rate, you will be offered a Loyalty renewal. In other words you will always pay 15% off of the full price for your ad as long you spend at least $1 more than last year. If you want to reduce what you are spending by removing color or reducing size you will receive no discount and pay full rate for your advertising.

If you are paying full rate now for your ad you will be offered a Loyalty (15% off) discount for your ad. Does that mean you will save 15% on your AT&T advertising? Of course not. You have to spend $1 dollar more than last year to get the 15% discount. You accomplish this by buying additional advertising in the same directory.

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Less than twenty years ago concern for the environment and worries about global warming were largely confined to a small group of scientists and people derogatively described by some as ‘eco warriors’.With climate change becoming more real and obvious, the realisation of the need to ‘go green’ is now becoming far more mainstream. All the major political parties have ‘green agendas’ and each jostle to convince the public that they are more environmentally aware than the others.Green issues are therefore, possibly unsurprisingly, also having an impact on the freight forwarding industry. Indeed, as a

My Yellow Page advertising agency has many AT&T advertisers as clients, so we faithfully follow discount options for them. The new discount plan is completely different from anything offered before. Up till now AT&T advertisers could negotiate their own discounts with their SBC (now AT&T)Yellow Page sales rep. This would often mean businesses with the same ad size and features would pay wildly different prices.

The new AT&T discount program is designed to standardize the pricing for all advertisers. The discounts can be as much as 50% or as little as 15% off of an ads full price. Most of my clients are in California and Nevada so the examples I show are from California, but the pricing policies are the same in all AT&T directory areas.

The one thing that is the universal in all of AT&T areas is to receive a discount rate for your ad you have to spend more than you did last year. You have to spend one dollar more for a 15% discount, 10% more for a 35% discount, or 20% more for a 50% discount (Some discount if you end up spending more.)

The amounts of the discounts vary from directory to directory. The more successful AT&T is at selling new advertising and renewing existing advertising in a given directory, the less the discounts. Sonoma County’s AT&T directory discounts are considerably less than San Jose’s, which indicates that San Jose is a tougher area for AT&T to sell advertising in. (AT&T has competition from both Verizon and Valley Yellow Pages in San Jose, but only from Valley Yellow Pages in Sonoma.)

Here is AT&T’s 2006/07 discount program:

Full price: You pay full rate for your ad. In every display ad size there are three different prices: black and yellow with or without spot color, white knockout with spot color, and white knockout process color. The only people paying full price for a display ad are long-time advertisers who have not changed their ad in at least three years, and advertisers who have downsized their ad.

Value Ad Enhanced (VAE): This is the largest discount offered (percentage off of the full price of an ad.) To be eligible for this discount you must increase spending by 20% over last year’s contract. The amount of the discount varies from directory to directory. In Contra Costa Central and San Jose the VAE discount is 50%, Simi Valley 55%, and San Diego 45% off of full rate.

Value Ad Pricing (VAP): To be eligible for this discount you must increase spending by 10% over last year’s contract. This discount is available in all directories but the percent off of full rate varies. In San Jose the VAP discount is 40% off the full rate for your ad size and features. In Sonoma, the VAP discount is 35%, Bakersfield 30%, San Diego 35% and Simi Valley 45% off of full rate.

Value Ad Loyalty (VAL): This becomes the de facto full price for all display ads and in-column ads. All advertisers are offered this discount if they maintain last years contract revenue. The VAL discount is 15% off of full rate. If the rate you’re paying for your ad is 15% or more below full rate, you will be offered a Loyalty renewal. In other words you will always pay 15% off of the full price for your ad as long you spend at least $1 more than last year. If you want to reduce what you are spending by removing color or reducing size you will receive no discount and pay full rate for your advertising.

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California Limited Liability Company Names
Guidelines for selecting a LLC NameSelecting a name for your LLC is one of the first steps in organizing your LLC. The California Secretary of State, will first check to make sure that your selected name is not currently in active use by another California LLC. In the State of California, LLC and Corporation names are distinctly separate. For example, it is possible to have similar names that only differ by the corporate identifer. There can be a name of 'Company Name, LLC' and 'Company Name, Inc.'. Many states would consider the two previous examples as deceptively similar, but not the Cal

p>The one thing that is the universal in all of AT&T areas is to receive a discount rate for your ad you have to spend more than you did last year. You have to spend one dollar more for a 15% discount, 10% more for a 35% discount, or 20% more for a 50% discount (Some discount if you end up spending more.)

Here is AT&T’s 2006/07 discount program:

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3 Effective Tactics Every Business Should Implement
Do you remember your first day as a business owner? You were probably just like the rest of us... pretty darned happy and bit on the proud side. Yeah, back then we thought we could conquer the world. Now we're too busy conquering our own little corner of the world to pay a lot of attention to the rest of the world... unless it's to learn a few tips from successful marketers just like us who have made it big. Tips just like these... that will apply to every market - regardless of the product or service - are a great motivators to try something new. Yeah, you never know when the next idea will be worth a million d

ly from Valley Yellow Pages in Sonoma.)

Here is AT&T’s 2006/07 discount program:

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Display Fabrics & Printing Processes
Printed fabric can be incorporated in a number of ways into signage, trade show displays, lobby displays, museum displays and more. In fabric printing for displays, a decorative pattern or design is applied to constructed fabric by dye sublimation or direct digital printing methods. Here's a quick breakdown of each type of textile printing:In dye sublimation printing, an image is digitally printed in reverse with special dye sublimation toners or inks onto regular media, such as paper. The image is then placed on top of a polyester-based or coated fabric, and subjected to high heat and pr

Contra Costa Central and San Jose the VAE discount is 50%, Simi Valley 55%, and San Diego 45% off of full rate.

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Off-Site Storage: A Cost Effective Solution To Space Utilization Needs
Space utilization is one of the most important decisions a business must make. Document storage and office clutter are the best examples of needs for expansion. Decisions regarding personnel, production, office equipment, inventory, records retention and accessibility impact a company’s profitability. Off-Site storage may be the answer for cost effective space utilization. Consider the facts: Typical commercial office space, in the Omaha/Council Bluffs area, leases for $20-22 per square foot, according to Al Shipps, Lund Company. Off-site storage space leases for $0.30-$1.00 per square foot, according to

Heading Growth (H.G.): Any heading not in AT&T’s top one hundred revenue-producing headings with no ad larger than a DHC (quarter page) receives 50% off of full rate.

The rules to be eligible for any discount offers:

To receive any discount you have to buy an ad in AT&T’s internet YellowPages.com. The minimum cost is $40 a month, but most ads run from $79 to $350 a month. Every discount offer depends upon the advertiser spending more every year in the Yellow Pages and maintaining their internet listing.

One thing to consideration if selecting either the VAE or the VAP discount is what will your advertising eventually cost. There is no guaranteed price that either a VAE or VAP discounted ad will cost next year. I have asked an AT&T sales manager what the increase will be next year and he said he wasn’t sure. Historically AT&T/SBC has increased first year discounts by 12% in following years till full rate (now Loyalty rate) is reached.

The problem for all AT&T advertisers is that there are no price lists available. You are at the mercy of the sales rep to tell you what an ad costs. Do you think a sales person would fib about a price if it would increase their commission?

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