Questex Media Group LLC is a global, diversified business-to-business integrated media and information provider, headquartered in Newton, MA. Questex serves multiple industries including technology, telecommunications, beauty, spa, travel, hospitality, leisure, home entertainment, landscape design, building services and natural resources through a range of well-established, market-leading publications, events, interactive media, research, information and integrated marketing services. The company's media properties include over 100 print and digital media publications, 45 conferences, tradeshows and events, as well as a range of research, data and information products. The company's businesses are managed through operating companies including Questex Media Group; InfoTrends, Inc., Imaging Networks and; McLean Events International, Ltd, a world-leading producer of appointment-based events. The company's combined operations include more than 400 employees in offices throughout North America, South America, Asia and Europe.

From Mozart to McCartney, Debussy to Disney, Hal Leonard Corporation knows music. Hal Leonard Corporation company publishes sheet music, songbooks, and musical method books for instruments and voice. It also offers accompaniment CDs and related items. Hal Leonard's products are sold in more than 65 countries through a network of distributors. Domestically, the company markets its product to more than 7,500 music stores in the US and Canada. Hal Leonard started in 1947 as a music store. Hal Leonard Corporation company was founded by Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother Everett "Leonard" Edstrom, and their friend Roger Busdicker. In 1985, Hal Leonard was purchased from the original founders by an internal management team led by CEO Keith Mardak.

Haynes Publishing Group P.L.C. company was founded in 1960 by chairman John Haynes. You might not know your intake manifold from your spark plug, but Haynes does. Haynes Publishing Group is best known for its car and motorcycle maintenance manuals (familiarly called "Haynes Manuals") targeting the do-it-yourselfer. For each Haynes Manual, authors strip down and rebuild the subject vehicle to assure the manual's accuracy and ease of use. The company also offers books and DVDs spanning other fields such as commercial vehicles, motorcycles, railroads, and aviation. Haynes Publishing has editorial operations in the US and the UK; its manuals have been published in a total of 15 languages, including French, Japanese, and Swedish.

truTV is television's destination for real-life stories told from an exciting and dramatic first-person perspective and features high-stakes, action-packed originals that give viewers access to places and situations they can't normally experience. Among truTV's primetime fan favorites are the original series Black Gold, The Smoking Gun Presents: World's Dumbest..., The Principal's Office, Speeders, Disorder in the Court, Forensic Files, Operation Repo, Most Shocking and Most Daring. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news, entertainment, animation and young adult media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.

G Cassidy & Associates (formerly known as The Cassidy Companies) represents clients' interests in the halls of government, helping shape policy through its lobbying efforts. The firm provides public and government relations services to corporations, universities, hospitals, and other entities that have included Boston University, Ocean Spary Cranberries, Bose, and Fairview Health Services. G Cassidy & Associates offers practice areas such as federal marketing, international affairs, and public policy. Cassidy & Associates is owned by public relations firm Weber Shandwick Worldwide, part of advertising conglomerate Interpublic Group.

Upromise doesn't promise to pay for your kid's education -- but it might help. By joining Upromise, customers receive rebates on purchases from thousands of retailers, restaurants, grocery stores, and companies -- ranging from Exxon Mobil (1 cent per gallon) to Bed Bath & Beyond (1% on purchases) -- that are credited to a college savings account. Upromise manages about $19 billion in 529 college savings plans (tax-advantaged investment programs for future higher education expenses). Upromise is owned by education financier SLM Corporation (known as Sallie Mae).

Ametza LLC company is a hay seed dealer providing farm supply services to approximately 50 retail and commercial customers. It grows, ships, and sells products including alfalfa, Bermuda, Klein, Timothy, and Sudan hay grown in California and Baja, Mexico. Ametza, which is seeking vertical integration, partners with hay, wheat, and seed production companies ProAgro, Dessert Seed, and Titan Alliance, as well as lamb distributor MountainStatesRosen.

ACTON was founded as a membership catalog operation in 1968. ACTON provides direct marketing services to customers worldwide. ACTON International company, which does business primarily as Acton Marketing, has traditionally specialized in marketing checking account services for North American banks, but it also draws clients from the insurance, publishing, and mail order industries. Offerings include list management and digital marketing using e-mail, banner advertising, and search engine optimization. Outside the US, the company maintains facilities in Brazil, Germany, and Japan; it also operates elsewhere in the Asia/Pacific region through affiliates.

The feisty firm dedicates entire sections of its Web site to how and why Adworks provides better service than big agencies, including a "translator" to help potential clients decode "deceptive" industry jargon. Adworks has worked to shed its image as a regional agency, landing a few national clients through the years. The firm's clients have included The Library of Congress, The Washington Post, Virginia Hospital Center, and L.L. Bean. The independent agency was founded by Creative Director Mark Greenspun in 1979.

MindBlazer is based in Charlotte, North Carolina. We've been in business since 1999. Early in our history we worked with Yahoo Broadcast, creating content for their webcasts. We also served several Fortune 1000 clients. MindBlazer was right there helping online video and interactive new media take their first baby steps.Over the years we improved and refined our process. Today, MindBlazer provides sales, marketing and corporate communications solutions. We also provide the technology that makes those solutions possible. We do it by leveraging video, interactive content and new media with our education-based approach.The Golden Rule of Education-Based Marketing is similar to the plain old Golden Rule: treat people the way you would like to be treated. With customers, teach them what they want to know, not what you want to sell. Do that, and you'll have a sale that comes from trust. And that customer will keep coming back.

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