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Initial Pricing About to End for SuperSized Contacts On Tap™ Media Directory

Originally Posted Wednesday, 07 August 2002 at 12:00 AM
Updated Wednesday, 22 October 2014 at 03:02 PM

It's time to take a gander at Contacts On Tap™, the innovative, low-cost, on-line directory of U.S. media contacts from CornerBarPR.com^SM. You'd better act quickly; prices are about to go up.

We started small, but we've SuperSized our killer product: Contacts On Tap now has 45,000 reporters, editors, anchors, producers, and assignment editors, in every market with a TV station, radio station, newspaper, magazine, schoolhouse, stoplight, or outhouse.

No, this isn't one of those the-product's-on-sale-every-month-so-you'll-actually-never-have-to-pay-retail ploys. When CornerBarPR.com was new and Contacts On Tap was small, we priced our on-line directory at $200 a year.

But today, Contacts On Tap is nine times bigger and a hundred times better, and we're about to raise the price. Here's the deal: If you subscribe now, you'll get the lower price and we'll grandfather your account with a lower renewal rate than everyone else will pay, as long as you subscribe continuously. We'll give you the same deal if you sign up for a Free Trial subscription and then send us your 200 smackers (actually, your credit card number) before the trial ends.

This offer absolutely, positively expires Aug. 15.

You think $200 is too expensive? Well, the so-called competition charges $1900 to $11,000 -- that's right, $11,000 -- for products that also will give you contacts in Istanbul, Stockholm, and Canberra, if that's important to you.

But do you really think they list more reporters at The Wichita Eagle (24) or The Indianapolis Star (141) or The (Portland) Oregonian (164)?

Our entire set of media contacts is updated the first week of every month. If you send us a correction, we'll verify it and post it right away and we'll punch your Bar Tab, so you can win cool loot.

Thousands of contacts for thousands fewer dollars, plus a 15-day Free Trial. You snooze, you lose.

About The Author

Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR

Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR, is well-positioned as CornerBarPR's Chief Curmudgeon; he's our version of Andy Rooney -- loves words, particularly loves to complain about idiocy.

In his spare time, Rich runs the inventively named Barger Consulting, where he conducts strategic communications planning and research, and gives people advice whether they want it or not.

Through the years, Rich has tricked unsuspecting folks into giving him positions as managing editor of the public relations division of a 180-person agency, and as a wire service editor, an economic analyst, a federal investigator, and, bless his little muddy boots, a farmer. Really. He fancies himself a pretty fair country editor and at one time was famous among about half a dozen people as "The Voice of IABC."

At various points in what passes for a career, he's done time as a member of IABC, PRSA, and NSPRA, as well as the Gifted Association of Missouri, the University of Missouri Alumni Association, the Council of Better Business Bureaus (as a Senior Arbitrator), and a handful of church choirs.

Known as "Boom-Boom Barger" in Marching Mizzou, Rich refuses to answer the phone during University of Missouri football or basketball games, plays a hard-edged game of bridge, and is married to a woman he doesn't like to talk about much, because she's smarter and much nicer than he is.

Barger's motto: "Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once."