CEO Elliot Sloane founded the boutique firm after leaving Edelman in 1998. Sloane & Companyprovides public relations services to companies including Primedia, AT&T, and Harrah's Entertainment. Sloane & Company serves public and private companies as well as financial institutions and trade associations. The firm specializes in financial public relations, corporate communications, crisis counseling, investor relations, and marketing communications. Sloane & Company also provides tranasction support, helping clients effectively communicate with stakeholders through acquisitions, restructurings, and bankruptcies.

Diamond Marketing Solutions Group, Inc., a direct marketing company, through its subsidiaries, provides direct marketing and distribution solutions for consumer and business-to-business direct marketers. The company also provides strategic planning, database marketing, e-marketing, and list management solutions; and direct mail lettershop, product and literature fulfillment, data-driven personalization, and print-on-demand communications solutions. It offers inserting, laser printing, merge/purge, postal sortation, data management, and direct mail package production services to financial services, insurance, gaming, publishing, and catalog marketing industries in Omaha, Nebraska. The company also offers list brokering, data processing and hygiene, postal qualification, Web based fulfillment, and email services to healthcare, not for profit, pharmaceuticals, retail, entertainment, and educational industries.

Maddock Douglas was founded by CEO G. Michael Maddock in 1991. The firm specializes in creative development and marketing to help both start-ups and large companies conceive and commercialize new products and services. It offers market and trend analysis, modeling and prototype testing, and branding and packaging services to customers in the automotive, consumer products, financial services, publishing, retail, and telecommunications industries. Clients have included such big wigs as Allstate, ESPN, Johnson & Johnson, and McDonald's.

Groupon company helps businesses attract customers by offering them a unique way to save on things to eat, see, and do in more than 150 cities across the Americas and Europe. In each participating city, Groupon advertises a daily deal, typically a half-off coupon for anything from a local restaurant or retail store to a hotel or spa; if enough consumers buy the coupon online by midnight, the deal is on and the featured business achieves a nice chunk of sales. Groupon reaches more than 7 million subscribers and uses its website (searchable by locale) and opt-in e-mails to help businesses market their goods or services.

Founded in 1994, Direct Partners is a unit of Omnicom Group's Diversified Agency Services division. Direct Partners provides digital marketing, direct mail and response marketing services to such clients as Virgin Group, EarthLink, and E*TRADE. It develops marketing campaigns using print, television, Internet, mobile, and interactive media in addition to mailings and it offers data collection and analytical services to measure each campaign's effectiveness. The firm operates through offices in San Francisco and Marina del Rey, California.

Symphony Publishing acquired the assets of Earnshaw Publications in 2005. Symphony Publishing looks for harmony between the print world and the online one. The company publishes B2B magazines, Web sites, and directories in the music product, music education, children's fashion, and footwear markets. Print titles include Musical Merchandise Review, School Band and Orchestra, JAZZed, Choral Director, Footwear Plus, and Earnshaw's Review. Sites include MiBlueBook.com and MiDealerMap.com, a used instrument price guide and dealer locator, respectively. Its directories include Student's Guide to College Music Programs, School Band and Orchestra (career guide), and Musical Merchandise Review.

CUSO Financial Services (CFS) provides credit unions with online securities trading, retirement planning, wealth management, insurance, and other investment services from more than 300 providers that the credit unions can in turn offer to their members. Founded in 1996 by Valorie Seyfert and Amy Beattie (company president and COO, respectively), CFS serves about 100 credit unions throughout the US; more than 40 of them are limited partners that hold ownership stakes in CUSO Financial Services.

DRG had its beginnings early last century when Christian Muselman founded Economy Printing Concern in his hometown of Berne in 1925. In the late 1950s, his two sons, Carl and Art, bought the business from their father and continued to expand printing operations. DRG's publishing/direct marketing history began in New England in 1947 with the founding of magazine publisher House of White Birches by brothers Ed and Mike Kutlowski of Seabrook, N.H.

Bloomsbury is led by co-founder and CEO Nigel Newton. Non-UK operations include Bloomsbury USA and Berlin Verlag (Germany). Chronicles of the boy wizard Harry Potter have lent a magical quality to Bloomsbury Publishing's bottom line. J.K. Rowling's mega-successful book series has brought this small publisher to worldwide fame, but Bloomsbury also has other best-selling authors on its list, including Joanna Trollope, John Irving, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Ondaatje. Bloomsbury also publishes non-fiction titles, including "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain, the famous-persons reference title "Who's Who", and the "Whitaker's Almanack", primarily through its A&C Black subsidiary.

Founded in 1999, SOS provides strategic consulting, manpower and technology solutions directly to companies that utilize equity-based compensation and to companies that support the stock administration function. SOS is recognized as the leading independent consultancy in our industry ecosphere. Through its three divisions, People/Staffing Solutions, Consulting/Projects Solutions and SOS Outsourcing and Total Administration Solutions, SOS provides high-level strategic consulting services, skilled manpower and customized software solutions to its clients. Clients are both direct issuers of equity-based compensation and third-party service providers supporting the stock administration function.SOS's consulting services encompass the design, implementation, management and administration of equity compensation plans. In addition, the Company provides IT programs and support to facilitate handling of equity compensation plan data. Consulting services range from high-level plan design and compliance guidance to transaction processing and recordkeeping. Technology services include the design and support of large data transfers, customized system interfaces and web-based customer and employee portals. SOS's Outsourcing and Total Administration Solutions bring the first complete end to end outsourcing solution to the market.

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.