Avana Signs Strategic Marketing Partnership with DotPlanet.com.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000 Grace Development, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :GCDV), doing business as Avana Communications, the Atlanta-based integrated communications provider (ICP (1) (Internet Cache Protocol) A protocol used by one proxy server to query another for a cached Web page without having to go to the Internet to retrieve it. See CARP and proxy server. ), today announced a major sales agency agreement with Internet services provider (ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. ) DotPlanet.com and Zillionaire zil·lion·aire n. Informal One having an immense, incalculable amount of wealth. [zillion + (million)aire.] .com, its associated direct marketer of Internet products and services. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the agreement, Atlanta-based DotPlanet.com will offer Avana's long distance services -- including 1+ long distance, 800 toll free, and calling card services The software support for PC Cards. PC Card applications talk to Card Services. See PC Card. -- through its ISP base and through Zillionaire.com. DotPlanet.com intends to use its ISP user base, portal members and Zillionaire.com's growing network of I-Associates nationwide to market Avana's long distance services. Zillionaire.com has registered online more than 30,000 I-Associates over the past six months. Negotiations are continuing for both DotPlanet.com and Zillionaire.com to offer additional Avana products and services such as WebWizard, Avana's website creation and hosting technology. "We're pleased to have chosen Avana Communications as our long distance provider of record for our rapidly growing number of ISP customers and Zillionaire.com's I-Associates," said Jon Berger, president of DotPlanet.com. "Avana fits our criteria as an established, proven company able to provide the service and high level of satisfaction that our company, I-Associates and ISP customers require," he added. "With this agreement, Avana is able to make its long distance services available for resale by tens of thousands of highly motivated Zillionaire.com I-Associates as well as the fast-growing ISP customer base of DotPlanet.com," said Ben Holcomb, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Avana. "We look forward to a long and expansive relationship with these two rapidly expanding organizations," said Holcomb. About DotPlanet.com and Zillionaire.com DotPlanet.com, located in Atlanta, GA, is the premier sales and marketing organization dedicated to helping middle America Middle America 1 A region of southern North America comprising Mexico, Central America, and sometimes the West Indies. Middle American adj. & n. discover and maximize the functionality of the Internet. DotPlanet.com reaches middle America by utilizing personal consultants who are typically friends or neighbors. They provide individualized in·di·vid·u·al·ize tr.v. in·di·vid·u·al·ized, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·ing, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·es 1. To give individuality to. 2. To consider or treat individually; particularize. 3. support and customer intimacy, overcoming barriers to the new technology. These personal relationships are developed through DotPlanet.com's unique and exclusive alliance with Zillionaire.com, a direct marketer of Internet and other high technology products and services. The Zillionaire.com advantage is its rapidly expanding network of more than 30,000 personal consultants. In addition, each Zillionaire.com consultant is an independent agent, resulting in a powerfully motivated field force, offering superior marketing and distribution channels for business partners. For more information about DotPlanet.com, contact Laurie Williams Laurie Rohan Williams (born December 12 1968, in Jamaica - died September 8, 2002 in Portmore, Kingston, Jamaica) was a West Indian cricketer. Williams was just 33 years old when he died, a car he was driving crashed into an oncoming bus. , DotPlanet.com Marketing Communications at 678/966-7674 or 678/230-8188. About Avana Communications Atlanta-based Grace Development, Inc. (OTCBB: GCDV), doing business as Avana Communications (www.avanacorp.com), is an integrated communications provider (ICP) offering a single-source solution for services traditionally offered by CLECs, IXCs, ISPs, ASPs and other data and communications providers. In addition, WebWizard by Avana is an Internet web page creation and hosting technology available at www.webwizinc.com. This news release may contain forward-looking statements concerning the business and products of the company. Actual results may differ materially depending on a number of risk factors. The company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release. |
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