Archive for November, 2006

Our New Home!

November 10, 2006

It’s an exciting time at NewspaperDirect.  In the past 6 months we’ve added over 100 publications to PressDisplay.com and the list keeps growing.  We’ll be at 500 before you know it!   

What’s also exciting is our new bigger and better digs.  Can’t wait to get the signage up!

But I think maybe we’re having a little trouble with spelling :)

What do I do with these?

Let’s start with “N” – it’s the biggest letter.

 Give me an N!

Almost there boys!

Almost there 

By George…I think they’ve got it!

Our New Home 

 No more stepping over each other to get to the coffee machine.  No more getting “high” from having an office too close to the gluing machine.  We’re growing up and our new home is just grand! 

But moving a company that is open 7/24/365 has its challenges. It’s not like you can just unplug the network and go. Amidst  the chaos, life and work must go on!

Work must go on! 

So why is everybody smiling?

Life in the NOC

Are they envisioning a football match in the halls of our new building? 

Soccer anyone? 

Or do they think they’ll have time to play a little golf when this is all over? 

So where's Tiger?

Whatever it is, smiling seems to be contagious around here and the gang is happy. 

Happy employees make happy customers I always say.

ALl is well

Drop by for a coffee sometime – we’re always open!  Life is good in
Vancouver at NewspaperDirect!

Welcome to the PressDisplay Club!

November 10, 2006

Welcome to the PressDisplay Club!   Never heard of us?  That’s okay…. but shame on us, because we don’t know much about you either. Well, hopefully that’s all going to change now that we’ve seen the light! 

Thanks to Steve Broback, author of “Publish and Prosper: Blogging for Your Business”, president and CEO of Parnassus Ventures and the founder of the Blog Business Summit held in Seattle last month, we have learned that if you don’t keep up with technology changes in communicating with customers, you might as well pack up your company and go. 

So we’re on board the blogging train, looking to gain insight into what people want in an aggregated news site and how we can make PressDisplay.com better for our customers, our publishers and our partners. 

Don’t know what PressDisplay is?  Well, here’s what our formal marketing spiel says…. 

PressDisplay.com is the world leader in providing online digital replicas of over 350 newspapers and magazines from 65 countries in 35 languages.   

A “one stop shop” for the world’s most prestigious publications such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Telegraph and The Los Angeles Times , PressDisplay.com provides consumers, bloggers, libraries, government, corporate clients and mobile users, with the widest range of full content publications on the web. 

Okay, I did the “proper corporate pitch”, so now we can have some fun.  PressDisplay has a ton of really cool features.  If you are news junky, you’ve just got to check it out.  Just go to www.pressdisplay.com and start playing with it.  You can read 2 articles from any issue for free – that’s over 700 articles free every day!   

I hope you’ll give it a try and then come back and tell me what you think.  I’ll be here every day to learn what you like/don’t like/want in the product.  And I’ll keep you up to date and the latest and greatest news from our side.   Thanks for taking the time to visit.  I’ll see you tomorrow!