February 2, 2004 Note from the Executive Editor As a CEOExpress Select member, you are a part of the segment of our worldwide community that I value most. I thought that you would be interested in an update --sort of an "annual member report"--of CEOExpress Company LLC as a whole and CEOExpressSelect in particular. CEOExpress has been around since 1996 and we are one of the few companies that have survived the great Internet fallout. Members like you are one of the reasons we have not only survived, but are growing and developing new products, and I want to share with you where we are today and what we'll be doing tomorrow. Our Product Extensions As you may or may not know, CEOExpress Company LLC has three product/service offerings. First is the public CEOExpress.com, which serves us wonderfully in supporting our brand and providing worldwide market access to over 250,000 executives each month. The public CEOExpress is supported by advertising and sponsorship revenues. The second product is CEOExpressSelect, of which you are a valued member. As you are aware, the services of Select are covered by an annual subscription. Select has the potential to form a highly powerful community, and I'm hoping to explore that further with you in the coming year. More details about Select's recent developments and future plans are included below. Our third product, launched in 2003, is CEOExpress Corporate, our private label offering. In a nutshell, CEOExpress Corporate allows a business to quickly and easily build and deploy vertically oriented, branded, information rich, highly customizable desktops/dashboards for their customers. It offers collaboration, cascading permissioning, end-user customization and many more features and capabilities. We have had great success with our private label product and now have customers ranging from large national trade associations and telecommunication companies, to boutique service firms. CEOExpress Corporate is a hosted service with a monthly service fee. This product enables companies to provide a highly sophisticated application to their customers with little effort and no headaches. We are continuing to enhance this product suite and, as a seasoned CEOExpress member, any ideas and suggestions that you might have are welcomed. To take a quick look at this product, click here. What's new for CEOExpressSelect in 2004? I am starting a monthly communication for CEOExpressSelect members, in order to stay connected with you. Topics will range from technology tips and tricks to discussions around issues like the new social networking craze and online marketing. I would love to hear suggestions from you and would also enjoy having guest editors from our Select membership. There is a lot of talent and experience in our ranks and we should begin to leverage that community asset. We are enhancing Select and adding new features all the time. We recently added an industrial strength spam filter to our web mail service and our concierge service gets better every day. We also added a feature called "One Click" that allows you to add links to your personal page from a link on your toolbar. Members have told us that this feature has greatly enhanced their use of Select. Just click on "Customize Your Page" on you homepage for instructions on installing this feature. Last week, we introduced a new tool that our webmaster, Toby McGuire, built for our members. If you haven't tried our new CEOExpress "Multi-Search," you simply must do so immediately. Our beta testers have given it rave reviews. We will soon be building a fully customizable version of this tool and it will be added as a free benefit with your Select membership. This tool has been designed to work on its own as a web page, to be added to your browser toolbar, or (my personal favorite) be inserted into your Outlook mail reader. Since I now have it available with one click within Outlook, I can't imagine being without it. Just try it and you'll see-you will be saying the same thing in a day or two. CEOExpress has not only survived the bad times, we have a great future ahead of us. We are building new products and continuing to improve existing ones. From the development of a new "Business Market Exchange" to enhancements in our Corporate product, I will be asking for your critique over the months ahead. Your support of CEOExpress is one of the reasons that we are still here and the reason that we will continue to thrive. I appreciate your continued support and I am looking forward to having a stronger and more active relationship with you. I hope that 2004 brings good health and great prosperity to you, as well as CEOExpress. As usual, I would love to hear from you. Feel free to send me a note. Best regards, Patricia Pomerleau CEO CEOExpress Company LLC 617 482 1200 Corporate Demo | Multi-Search | Select Features