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Springboard for Mission Contacts
Opportunities to Increase Your Online Esposure and
Make the Global Registry of Contacts a Tool for Business Networking

If your concern is to make it easier for members of the .network target user group to get in touch with you while, at the same time, to support a mission directly related to what your business is all about, we (who we are) hope you will consider using your free registration with the GRC as a springboard. The items described below explain how to do that. Please contact us if you have any questions or use the following application to sping on an opportunity now.

Item 1:

Email contact data for your free listing in the GRC database. Your record is created without cost or obligation in the database. You may update your information at anytime for free. The GRC, including three search items published online, is maintained for free and used as a resource for participants in the .network mission.

Item 2:

Your name published online from the GRC database linked to a webpage of your choice where your contact data is freely accessable to all users of The Network. Cost: $12.00 per year*—Users request links to contact data temporarily for free.

Item 3:

The name of a place listed online from the GRC database linked to a location profile. Cost: $12.00 per year*—Links published in two other .network websites also

Item 4:

The name of a enterprise or other organization listed online from the GRC database linked to a webpage where contacts and contact information is available. Cost: $12.00 per year*—Links published in two other .network websites also

Item 5:

Lease a webpage from The Network for personal use. Typically, a personal webpage is designed to work like a business card and information that goes along with it when networing and introducing oneself as well as services for the first time. See the guide The Network publishes: Eight Essentials for Successful Networking. Also, note that items 2, 3 and 4 above, including listings in all three websites of The Network are provided for no additional cost. A thumbnail business card is provided (example) or other linked graphic element of similar size that can be downloaded from online is published on a webpage at no additional cost. In the event that a mission contact having a personal webpage begins a job search, the page described may to converted to a résumé with the lease fee waived for up to 12 additional months or until the person working with a new business card. Webpage lease cost: $60.00 per year*—no additional page publication fees.

Item 6:

Certain pages in The Network are available for sponsorships (one sponsor per page on a first-come, first-serve basis). Also, sponsors are welcomed to initiate the organization and publication of new pages that provide resources and places of interest to participates in the .network mission. Essentially a sponsor leases the webpage. Check the information above about leasing a webpage. A sponsor's base cost for leasing a page is the same base price of $60.00 per year.* If you are interested in a sponship of an an existing page, contact us and provide the URL address string. If you are interested in leasing a webpage new and haveing us organize it to your specifications, contact us and explain what you have in mind. Either way, you make an offer above the $60.00 base and we'll make a deal. First step: Apply for a record in the GRC. go back

change orders:

Responses to requests to update information in the GRC database are addressed and changes made as a free service. There are no additional fees added to the costs listed for opportunity items 1 through 6 listed above for initial publication of links, graphics or text. After initial publication and approval by those who place an order, subsequent requests for changes are handled for a fee of $10.00 per order.

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	What it will cost you::
FREE	Register your name and all of the contact information on your business card
FREE	Register a brief description of your services and servie area
FREE	Register all webaddresses where your contact information is freely available
FREE	3 items published online from the GRC database to facilitate searches
	Want more?
	See the answers to questions often asked about the GRC
	See Springboard for Mission Contacts

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CLICK HERE to see the GRC page the following two examples of contacts is from. When you visit the page you will see links, but not all location or contact listings have them. Also, it's likely that you find some links broken. You can request that a link be added or repaired. The service of answering your request will be provided for free. CLICK HERE to make a request.

Use the following guide to request a link or link repair:

The name of a place under the location column is available to be linked to its profile. See the following definitions: (1) location, (2) location profile, (3) location identity, and (4) locatin data supplier. Request a link or repair for a location listing—CLICK HERE Note: If you are a location data supplier for place listed, CLICK HERE

The name of an enterprise, employer, or organization listed under the contact column can be linked to a website where contact data is available along with information about services and service area. In some cases a brief description of services may accompany a listing. For example, the words real estate may follow the name of firm with a name that doesn't indicate that's its business. Request a link or repair for a contact listing—CLICK HERE Note: If you are an employee of a listed enterprise or organization, or representative of a listed location, CLICK HERE

The free service of creating or repairing links is a part of our search promise (who we are)

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Caveat: We respectfully request that individuals not request links for themselves that The Network offers to freely establish online as indicated above. Individuals, however, are welcomed to alert us (who we are) to broken links or listing problems and we will fix them in the database. Use the GRC registration instructions to send us an alert—CLICK HERE

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GRC Search Guide:

GRC is an acronym for Global Registry of Contacts—a proprietary data base used to support the .network mission (source of quote). It is an open access resource in a share network. Contact records are added to the database and updated without cost or obligation to anyone but ourselves (who we are); also, limited information is published initially online to facilitate simple, effecient searches. Want to get an idea of what you initially find when you search and learn about requesting links and more information from the GRC? CLICK HERE.

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How to get MORE INFORMATION

Address information (contact data) is continuously changing in a directory such as the GRC with thousands of listings; therefore, our proceedure is to publish three essential items online to support free-access searches. Access to contact data is available for free also; therefore, our procedure continues with an offer to publish information for getting in touch with those who are listed in the GRC without cost or obligation when asked to do so (caveat). When we (who we are) respond and publish as requested for free the information or link stays in place until someone discovers and reports that it has become outdated.

If you find a location, contact, or enterprise listed in the GRC that is of interst but there is no link or information for you to move on to make contact, send an email. Likewise, send an email if you search the GRC and do not find what you want; i.e., you reach a dead end.

Send an Email:

1. Begin the subject line wtih the initials GRC followed by a colon. After the colon, type the identity of your location or one that you would like to see listed in The Network, for example, GRC: US, Atlanta, GA. If you want to provide your name, CLICK HERE.

2-A. In the memo section of your email, copy and paste the URL for the page where you found what you searched for but no conact data or you otherwise reached a dead end. Tellbut no link or usable information for moving on to make contact. If you search and find nothing related to what you want in the GRC, type a brief explanation. In either case we will provide the free service of acting on your request—(who we are).

2-B. In the memo section of your email, type an brief explanation of what you searched for but did not find or any problem you encounted that you want fixed. You are not required here or in the paragraph above to sign of with personal information to take advantage of this free service. Our response comes under the search promise of The Nework.