Marketing Information

Maxager, the original provider of velocity-driven enterprise profit optimization solutions, today announced new chemical industry customers: Degussa (www.degussa.com) and Millennium (www.millenniumchem.com). Rather than viewing profitability with the traditional "margin only" approach, Maxager combines production speed data with margin to generate a profit-per-minute metric. Being time-based, this metric is directly linked to annual earnings and return on assets (ROA) and its use typically offers chemicals and other manufacturers the opportunity to increase in profits worth 3-5% of revenue.

A targeted business intelligence application focused on profit optimization for complex manufacturers, Maxager's software-based service is quick and easy to implement and provides powerful historical analysis, what-if modeling, and variance analysis. Unlike systems which require the creation of reports by expert u...

Leisure Direct, Inc. (OTCBB: LDTI) announced today that it has appointed Robert Dapper as its President. Mr. Dapper is the founder of Royal Spa Manufacturing, based in Indianapolis. He started Royal Spas as an engineering student at Purdue University, incorporated in 1983, and has grown it to one of the most successful spa manufacturing and distribution companies in the industry. Robert Dapper stated, "Leisure Direct has a compelling strategy and I look forward to driving pending deals to closure in the near term, and folding in Royal Spas' expertise to enhance the Business Plan."

Under Mr. Dapper's leadership, Leisure Direct will implement the first stage of its Business Plan of acquiring or opening 50-60 locations in the Eastern half of the United States over the next 3-5 years. It is the intent of Leisure Direct to acquire or open 10-15 locations by year...

Extending traditional network managed services to include servicing the desktop, SilverBack Technologies today announced a new desktop monitoring package with lowered desktop pricing and additional third-party Help Desk support for managed service providers (MSPs) and reseller/solution providers. With an annual license, the price for SilverBack Desktop Monitoring is $1.33 per desktop per month, making it among the lowest-cost desktop solutions available in the MSP/reseller industry today.

With this desktop package, SilverBack addresses key desktop services that MSPs can perform for their customers remotely, such as monitoring and alerting, asset reporting, VPN-less remote access, patch updating, and general PC maintenance with technical resolution.

"The beauty of SilverBack's lowered desktop services package is that it allows us to give our customers a more complete, bumper-to-bumper service offering," said Russ Bryant, vice president of Managed Services for Datotel of St. Loui...

Franklin Mining, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: FMNJ) has released revenue projections for two projects in Bolivia.

Franklin Mining Bolivia, S.A.'s Sales and Marketing Division management team will immediately begin purchasing and warehousing tin, zinc and silver from existing inventories and current production of local producers for re-sale to local and national distributors and manufacturers. With sales set to begin in June, monthly revenues are projected to quickly reach $300,000, resulting in 2007's total revenues nearing $2.0 Million.

Delivery of gold and silver recovered from the Pulacayo Tailings is set to begin in July 2007. At current market values and using the conservative recovery rates previously announced, Pulacayo's revenues are anticipated to have reached $20,163,710 by December 2008 ($13.2 Million for gold and $6.9 Million for silver).

Working ...

eCopy Inc., a leading provider of solutions that integrate paper documents into business software applications, today announced BERTL Inc. has awarded its prestigious "Best MFP Workflow Software Solution" Award for 2007 to eCopy ShareScan® document imaging software. This selection marks the fourth consecutive year eCopy has won a BERTL Best Award for achieving best practices in document scanning with multifunction peripherals (MFPs).

According to David Sweetnam, vice president of research and content at BERTL, "eCopy ShareScan document imaging software continues to set the pace in helping companies convert paper-based information into secure digital documents that drive e-business processes. The software enables the people closest to work processes to add paper-based information to electronic workflows without the need for centralized docu...