Infomercial Production a Hot Topic at Upcoming DRTV Course.
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Working effectively with an infomercial production company requires the ability to collaborate. And this collaborative effort is the foundation of a successful DRTV campaign. "In my experience, the best possible results come from a true partnership between the marketer and the...

Course on Infomercial Management Returns to Miami With Focus on Customer Acquisition.
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- From February 18-20 at the Marriott South Beach Hotel in Miami Beach, the Direct Response Academy will present DRTV Management Boot Camp - Special Focus: Customer Acquisition, a course on managing infomercials with continuity programs. Industry veteran Greg Sarnow will lead the course....

The successories president: the posterized secret of Obama's success?
ON THAT HISTORIC evening in November, as Barack Obama definitively made passe the notion that we cannot, the president-elect's acceptance speech signified a triumph not just for his campaign but for motivational wall decor. Like a Successories catalog made flesh, Obama invoked burning beacons, long roads, steep climbs, and...

Prime Companies Reaches Agreement to Spin Off Subsidiary; Shareholders Gain 15 Percent Stake in New Telecommunications Company.
ANTHEM, Ariz., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Prime Companies, Inc. (Pink Sheets: PCIR) today announced it has entered into a Definitive Agreement that will allow it to spin off its wholly owned subsidiary, Prepaid Tel.com, Inc., which discontinued operations in 2007, to a San Diego firm which, once it has...

Prime Companies Revenue Stream Begins; Dentists in Every City and Town Available on Company's New Web Site.
ANTHEM, Ariz., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Prime Companies, Inc. (Pink Sheets: PCIR) today announced two major accomplishments: -- The Company has begun receiving income from dentists paying to subscribe to its new http://www.mychoicedentist.com/ web site. -- The web site is now accessible to find dentists in any...

BRIEFS.
COLUMN: BRIEFS SEC adviser Robert Pozen to speak at St. John's High SHREWSBURY - Robert Pozen, chairman of MFS Investment Management, will speak on "Ethical Implications of the Current Financial Crisis" for the sixth annual Abdella Center for Ethics Lecture at 7 p.m....

Resource Nation Continues Rapid Growth With New Chairman and Partners.
Former Fortune 500 CEO joins leading online marketing company's board; Resource Nation forms strategic partnerships with Entrepreneur.com and LadiesWhoLaunch.com SAN DIEGO, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Resource Nation, an online company connecting businesses to local and national pre-screened vendors in over 100 categories such as credit card processing,...

FTC amends rules regarding prerecorded sales calls.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has amended its telemarketing sales rule, barring telemarketing calls that deliver prerecorded messages unless a consumer previously has agreed to accept such calls from the seller. The amendment will not affect consumers' ability to continue to receive calls that deliver purely "informational"...

FTC Takes Action Against Prerecorded Sales Calls.
Do you hate prerecorded sales calls? If so, you are not alone. Indeed, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been inundated with complaints about such calls. As a result, the FTC has just announced an amendment to the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) that expressly bars telemarketing calls that deliver...

Put Down That Phone! Canada's National Do Not Call List Comes Into Effect.
Written by Les Chaiet and Sean Clarke, Student-at-law The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has announced that a single, national do not call list (the National DNCL) comes into force on September 30, 2008.This has important ramifications for businesses that engage in telemarketing and those who...