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TESTIMONIALS:
A case for Clickshare: What partners, analysts say
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"Deciding to convert our free online site to subscription based access was a careful and deliberate process. We did a
lot of research, brainstorming, and hand-wringing. The most important decision, though, was in choosing the right
vendor to manage our subscribers; the users, accounts, and payments. Clickshare worked with us to provide the best
content control solution in terms of simplicity and stability as well as flexibility for the long term. We chose
Clickshare because they have been innovative in developing the market for online content for years, yet they are still
personal in the way they handle their clients. Since our conversion in September 2004, we have brought added value to
our home-delivery customers, realized new revenue streams, and have stopped hearing, "I don't need the paper because I
get it online for free." | | Gerry LeBlanc, the Daily Hampshire
Gazette, Northampton, Mass. (USA), June, 2005. |
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"Clickshare gives me the platform for the future. Any kind of ecommerce thing I want to do I
can do with Clickshare. The access and billing audit trail is extreme and intensive. Accounts don't disappear when we
shut them off, they just become disabled and they are still there . . . in more than two years Clickshare's service has
been so reliable that the one time it went down, our team checked every other vendor before even considering
Clickshare
as the source of the problem. They are incredibly flexible in terms of customization."
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Chris Mead, general manager interactive, Times Publishing Co., Erie, Pa. (USA), June, 2005.
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"Clickshare quickly created a subscription billing and account management system that
brought us a vital new revenue stream. Their support personnel are extremely responsive at
all hours, and they have earned the confidence of our network gurus and development team.
They have gone the extra mile to accomodate our Linux/Apache and Microsoft/IIS systems.
Clickshare remains our best bet for selling content online, for current and future
projects."
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Mark Zeman, IT director,
ChinaOnline, the information
network for China, Oct. 2, 2002
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"Clickshare is the organization we turn to when we need to set
up payment processing over the Internet. We just say, 'Here's a new
account we're working with, install it, make it work for credit-card
payment.' And Clickshare does it. We're on line in a relatively short
process. It's allowed us to put millions of record images online very
easily with hundreds of corporate customers accessing them. Clickshare
has done everything we've asked for."
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Jim Brown, chief operating officer,
American
Cadastre, LLC, Sept. 19, 2002
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"Clickshare provides a medium for privacy-protected purchasing of ... digital products... [I]t simplifies e-commerce for the average Internet shopper."
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PRNewswire, "Tower Publishing Announces E-Bool Deal with Clickshare.com", 2/5/2001
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" 'The arrangement between Tower Publishing and Clickshare exemplifies the digital marketplace of the 21st century. [Tower has published] George Prokop's...book on internet-based commerce and Clickshare has created the transaction platform. Between them a new community of purveyors and consumers of digital goods is being established.' "
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Peter Krasilovsky, VP of Online Commerce, The Kelsey Group
PRNewswire, "Tower Publishing Announces E-Bool Deal with Clickshare.com", 2/5/2001
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"Clickshare... provides the tools needed to select, deliver and charge for data one piece at a time, be it a text file, video clip, or audio take."
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Wetmore, Peter, NewsInc., Vol. 13, No.1, 1/1/2001
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" 'We've been waiting for a way to extend the local service we provied our print readers, without losing control of the customer relationship. Clickshare allows us to become our readers' infomediary in cyberspace as well as on Main Street, protecting their privacy and their credit card numbers.' "
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Ron Peterson, Publisher, Sioux City Journal, 12/5/2000
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"Clickshare supports low-cost, one-click purchases of digital content that are made across a network of participating sites. Consumers get a single bill ... for purchases made at a variety of sites....The failure of the advertising / e-commerce model to adequately support online content ... [will] force online publishers to start selling content....provid[ing] the impetus to carry the Clickshare [concept] forward..."
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Outing, Steve, Editor & Publisher ONLINE, "Stop the Presses!", (10/25/2000)
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/
stop/st102500.htm
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"Wouldn't it be great if [you] could go to a site ... such as MP3.com, buy a copy of a song for 50 cents, and simply charge the cost back to [a monthly billing] account? A new company called Clickshare Service Corp. in Williamstown, Mass., has developed such a system, and the business model has great potential."
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Tapscott, Don, ComputerWorld , "Giving a Lift to Micropayments", 12/18/2000
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/
0,1199,NAV47-68-86-1721_STO55261,00.html
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"As the Napster copyright hurricane continues to swirl, the online content industry is still searching for a way to market and distribute its digital wares. The quandary for the industry is how to make money from its content ... Clickshare offers a technology that allows the charges for on-line content purchases to be aggregated at an 'agent' site, such as a bank or cell phone service provider, with the total charges showing up on the user's monthly bill from the agent company.
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Sanborn, Stephanie, Infoworld Electric, "marketing Digital Content" 07/28/00
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" 'Until now, newspapers haven't had a simple way to offer archives and other value-added information on a per-click or subscription basis among a network of content affiliates and audiences. Now that we have integrated Clickshare's technology into our core accounting and website-building software, they do.' "
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David R. Kraii, President, Advanced Publishiung Technology, Inc. 6/5/2000
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" 'Publishers and other content providers are increasingly concerned about finding additional ways to generate revenue over the Internet. We think the ability of the Clickshare technology to support one-bill, one-ID,one registration access and aggregated transactions will facilitate the proliferation of, and acceptance of, higher value, not-free content.' "
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Charles W. Terry, President and CEO of COMTEX. Business Wire, 4/6/1999
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"With online advertising in free fall, Net businesses are pondering how to raise cash while keeping most content free. Clickshare has created an exchange allowingsites to sell premium content -- i.e., a newspaper can sell access to either their back issues or other databases. Better still, consumers can set up one account and buy tons of content from other sites (videos, software, Napster files -- yes, some people will pay for them), without having to pass around a credit-card number or give up personal data. Clickshare is selling a nifty logistical solution to a problem staring content firms in the face. "
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Boston.Internet.com Staff, "21 for 2001" http://boston.internet.com/views/article
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