Hostanote.com Offers Businesses Free E-marketing Tool - Leveraging Online Photos

Edmonton, Canada, January 04, 2006 --(PR.com)-- Blackstone Corporation today announced the release of its new hostanote product under a unique sponsorship model.

Hostanote.com is an online photo sharing site, to which a Sponsoring company can distribute an unlimited number of free memberships. Members upload and share their own photos, each album has a discrete Sponsor acknowledgement.

With the release of hostanote 2.0 Blackstone uses the proven popularity of pictures as a means to deliver branding over the internet. “The challenge” says Ray Murphy, Blackstone’s President, “was to build a system that can be offered through a single web link, is free to both the sponsors and users, is extremely popular and dead simple to use.”

Leveraging the popularity of online photo sharing, digital cameras and email, each album or hostanote is designed to let businesses spread their name by giving the hostanote service for free to customers or prospects. Sharing online photos is not only free to members but to the Sponsor as well.

For any company that deals with the public this marketing approach will have their name spreading quickly, all based on a newly developed business model that simply doesn’t cost.

This is a radical departure even from current banner ads because sponsorship is free, yet has very strong viral growth elements. Popularity and simple usability for the users is key. Sample hostanotes can be seen at www.hostanote.com. The entire service is available today.

Blackstone is a privately held company located in Edmonton Alberta, Canada. Sponsor inquires can be directed through www.blackstone.ca.

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