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Their first spinoff IC Places is profitable as of Q4 '05
ORLANDO, FL, Jan 25, 2006 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- IC Places, Inc. (www.icPlaces.com), a subsidiary of Graystone Park Enterprises, Inc., (OTC: GPKE), announced today that is has hit its first profitable quarter ending December 2005. The quarter was fueled by sales of attraction tickets from www.icOrlando.com where the company sold $250,000 in tickets in December alone.
A New Face
The 2006 Maxim Calendar cover girl, Lisa Gleave (www.LisaGleave.net), was recently sign as the new face of IC Places. With her first Photo shoot finished and the video in the can, soon the world will be able to see Lisa on IC Places' 400 city web sites like www.icOrlando.com where she will help visitors navigate the web sites through audio and video prompts. Lisa will also appear in Print, Billboard and Radio advertisements for the IC Places.
New Advertising Technology
Through its newly acquired IT Firm Bridger Web (www.Bridgerweb.com), IC Places has create a proprietary online delivery system that allows an unlimited number of Advertisers access to their ad pages and make adjustments on the fly. Advertises have total control over all the information on their IC Places Advertising page. This includes everything from text to images to the coupons they display. The system is accessed through an online interface that Advertisers log in to.
The World's Biggest Soap Box
With the amazing growth of Web Blogs, IC Places has opened its doors to great writers around the globe. IC Places has developed a proprietary Author's Program. Through the program, IC Places assigns writers a user name and password to access an online Author page. IC Places chooses ahead of time the distribution of the Author's articles. Once in place the Author writes an article in the web interface and hits submit when finished. Automatically, IC Places senior editors receive notice that an article awaits approval. Once a senior editor approves the article it is immediately placed into the pre-selected site and section
Other technology. The Company's IT firm Bridger Web, has also created proprietary systems that deliver real time Weather, Movie Times, and Sports Scores to all IC Places web sites, saving hundreds of thousands annually over available outsourced alternatives.
Phoning Home to an ITC
Communications is the foundation of global growth for the Company's Independent Travel Consultant program (ITC). ITCs work from home and handle incoming calls into the cities they live in, assisting callers planning trips to their cities.
IC Places assembled experts that have created a VOIP phone system that can handle up to 10,000 global lines. The system which is based in the US is pre-fitted to expand many times the current configuration which would include servers around the globe running the singular system.
"The ITC program lets IC Places grow as a global company while being deeply rooted in individual communities," said Steven Samblis Chairman of IC Places, Inc. He went on to say, "Travel was at one time an industry in which people expected local knowledge from their agents. Consumer expectations have dissolved as Giants of the internet moved to mammoth call centers and order takers. We want to bring back the personal touch to this industry. We have the machine in place to do this which will allow us to grow to have ITCs in cities throughout the world. "
