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The sweet taste of success can be yours when you market with chocolate. Now there’s a Web site with specialty chocolate bars to help you get noticed! Their offerings range from chocolate aspirin (tell your prospects/customers how you can give them “relief”) to a box of chocolate feet that lend themselves beautifully to “I’m trying to get my foot in the door.” What a terrific way to get the attention of a possible premium buyer or key reviewer. Another approach might be to order sweets with their company logos. Of course, the more traditional “thank you” bars are ideal for showing your appreciation to a chain buyer, reviewer, or journalist. You can also set up a credit/debit program for $100, which entitles you to 25 message bars sent out as you dictate. Then you simply tell them the recipient, address, and the occasion (congratulations, thank you, thinking of you, welcome, happy birthday, etc.). And if you want a customized bar, it runs between $150 and $250 to have a mold engraved, so your only limitation is your imagination! www.chocolatelady.com
Find a plethora of functions at www.download.com. From useful desktop utilities to time-wasting games, this c-net.com site features everything necessary to function in today’s Internet society. There are loads of drivers for download, plenty of programs, and even music and audio streams available. The content of the site truly ranges from problem solving to entertaining, with plenty of variety on both ends of the spectrum. There are too many business utilities to list. So if you have a problem, maybe this page will have the freeware for a solution.
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