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The Media Services Group, Ltd. 1055 Washington Blvd., 5th Floor Stamford, CT 06901 Contact: Lee Pierce, Vice President, Sales P 1-800-234-4674 Email: info@msgl.com Web: www.msgl.com Folio Technology Supplier Showcase Advertising Section The Media Services Group (MSGL) is a leading developer of integrated software solutions for publishing and event management. Founded in 1985 to service the magazine advertising industry, today MSGL has expanded into nearly all facets of the publishing enterprise, including Advertising Management, Exhibition and Conference Management, Circulation Fulﬁllment, Book Publishing, Directory Publishing and Membership Management. MSGL customers represent a broad and diverse cross-section of successful media businesses - including many of the largest and most inﬂuential publishers in the world today. Some examples include Source Interlink, Penton, Time Out, Canon and Morris Communications, in the U.S, Transcontinental Media and Rogers Publications in Canada, and The Economist and Wilmington in the U.K. The Media Services Group’s software development is a collaborative endeavor with their customers, partners and the publishing and media industries – focused on integration and innovation. Their ﬂagship product Élan™ provides a uniﬁed customer database and ﬁnancial accounting framework with integrated modules built to manage the various publishing revenue and service models. Flexible and forward-thinking solutions such as Internet Advertising, Multi-Media billing and Web-based Advertiser Self-Service are recent examples of development aimed at fostering innovation in sales, process workﬂow and customer interaction. This is a company with an aggressive growth agenda—in the past year, they’ve taken on several major new clients, including Wenner Media, Vendome, CFM Publishing Group, BuckMaster, and Victory Media in the U.S., and Caspian Media and The Mark Allen Group in the U.K. They’ve completed development of the next generation Internet Ad Billing system, introduced a new and sophisticated Rights & Royalties module and completely redesigned their CRM solution to address the growing demand for a more sales-friendly, vertically-focused contact management tool. According to MSGL’s CEO, Jeff Shine, “We want to be known as the dominant player in software applications for publishing decision-makers. As such, we have invested heavily in development of our products for the future of the publishing and events industries, and will continue to ﬁnd partners who view the promise of these industries as we do.” With ofﬁces throughout North America, in South America and Europe and some 10,000 publishing professionals worldwide actively using their applications, MSGL is easily one of the most successful software developers in the industry. SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS: • Élan Ad: Manage and sell print, online and electronic advertising, classiﬁeds and multimedia packages • Élan Event: Manage exhibitions, conferences, booth sales, online enrollments, registrations and sponsorships • Élan CRM: Build strong customer relationships with integrated customer service, sales and marketing • Order-to-Print™: Provide integrated online ad order submission and customer self-service, production workﬂow, page imposition and printing • Élan Directory: Create, Manage and sell directories in print and digital formats, including paid and free listings • Élan Circ: Manage subscription fulﬁllment for print and digital publications, controlled circulation, issue and time-based publications • Élan Book: Produce, sell and manage books, music, video, digital content, rights and royalties • Élan Membership: Organize, manage and maintain membership-based associations, committees and clubs • Élan™ (Framework): Provides integrated Customer Database, A/R, Credit & Collections, A/P, Job Costing, G/L and Fixed Assets. 58 FOLIO: July 2008 | foliomag.com http://www.msgl.com http://www.msgl.com http://foliomag.com

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