Exact Wave is honored to be among Utah’s leaders in the fast-paced business world. Exact Wave attributes its success to its key ingredients: Great People, Great Product, Great Company.

All of the selected companies are featured in Utah Business magazine’s September issue and were announced and honored in numerical order at an event on August 27th. in Salt Lake City, Utah.

http://www.utahbusiness.com/parser.php?nav=article&article_id=7386

By the way, We ranked #33.  Not bad.

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Basically, it is a CEO popularity list in Utah.  At first I was not to keen on the idea, but I attended the luncheon and enjoyed meeting manyof the nominees.

I seem to get so tied up in my businesses that I rarely take time to socialize within the Utah tech community.  The V100 gives me that opportunity. 

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What is PAVE? 

An address list must be sorted by a variety of criteria, depending on the type of mail being sent (e.g., letters or flats), the mail class (First-Class, Standard, Periodicals) and on the location of each address. As one example, the Postal Service uses what is called a Sectional Center Facility (SCF) that serves as a sorting center for groups of ZIP codes. Manual sorting of mail can be complicated, because mail going to ZIP codes serviced by different SCFs must be sorted into separate, unique mail trays. ZIP codes numerically “next to one another” may actually be sent to different USPS sorting centers and should be sorted into separate trays. For instance, you might have a mailpiece with the ZIP code 94299 and one with the ZIP code 94301. If you sorted your address list into ZIP code order, you would put these mailpieces next to each other in the same sorting container. However, these ZIP codes are serviced by different SCFs. The mailpiece going to the 94299 address is sent to the 942 SCF, located in Sacramento, CA. The mailpiece going to the 94301 address is sorted at the 943 SCF, located in San Francisco, CA – seventy miles away. Thus, presort regulations require that those mailpieces be sorted into different containers before being submitted to the USPS.

Because of the complex and labor-intensive nature of manual presorting, many companies offer software that presorts your address list for you, making the mailing more cost-effective. Different software performs different presorts, so it is important that you research to ensure that the software you are purchasing sorts for the type of mailings that you do.

Before you begin a presort mailing, make sure:

• The software sorts for the type of mailing you want to do – First-Class or Standard Mail, postcards, flats, letters, Carrier Route, etc. Each presort class is unique in sort order, price and documentation.
• The software prints the USPS-required forms. There are many different versions of the presort form – which form you need to submit depends on the presort being performed. In general, the software should print the 3600x and 3602x forms. These forms give the USPS a breakdown of the cost for the mailing, as well as mailer information (permit number, mailing address, phone number, etc.). In addition, Form 3553 is required to verify the CASS certification of any automation mailing.
• The software prints the Tray and/or Sack labels (also called Container labels). These tags use a standard Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode and determine the destination of each mail tray or sack. Your post office can provide you with the trays and sacks you will need.

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Gruvie also is a social community platform that is jam packed with photos, friends, groups, videos, chat, games and much more.

What I like most about Gruvie is that you can get your own URL, (mine is james.surfsforlife.com) to promote yourself and your favorite links.  I uploaded links to my favorite websites and when my friends visit me, they can easily navigate to my facebook page or my Yahoo page or my Blog. Gruvie also allows you to make any page your home page.

Check out Gruvie and let me know what URL you choose!

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Side Note:  Exact Wave is really growing very rapidly and we couldn’t be more excited.  The release of Qualifiedaddress.com has made Exact Wave the first address data management and enhancement solutions company with a complete SaaS offering.

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This is a really cool service that can save you tons of money on your mailings.

You can find out more about these services at QualifiedAddress.com.

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The software, known as Address Entry Pro, can be implemented using either XML or JavaScript. Given an address, city, and state, it will return a ZIP Code, +4 Code, and county. The software will also standardize the address to the standards published by the USPS in Publication 28.

Address Entry Pro allows businesses to validate addresses by accessing the address verification technology that powers Qualified Address Certified Scrubbing. Certified Scrubbing was evaluated by the U.S. Postal Service and awarded CASS Certification in August 2007.

Point-of-entry validation is a useful solution for businesses looking to improve the quality of their address data, speed up data entry, and append county information to an address automatically. It is especially popular with businesses that are validating and correcting shipping addresses or calculating sales tax rates in their website shopping carts.

New customers have two weeks free access to the address verification software and can validate up to 500 addresses. Following this free period, subscription rates are as low as $19.95 per month.

Businesses are invited to take advantage of this offering by visiting

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Come to think of it, things are so difficult today, I could probably charge alot more money for my services. 

Her’s a nice little article about PayPerPost, a company trying to cheat the google system.  You can’t fool Google, eventually they catch up to you.

Some bloggers participating in PayPerPost’s program have found their site PageRanks lowered to virtual obsolescence by Google in the past week.

The news came from a report via TechCrunch, which was recently called out by CEO Ted Murphy of IZEA, PayPerPost’s parent company.

Murphy asserted PayPerPost suffers because it is “a very attractive alternative” to Adsense. He added that sites like TechCrunch should also be punished for posts that, for example, thank and link sponsors.

PayPerPost connects advertisers that are willing to pay for blog mentions to bloggers willing to make company mentions for money.

The company has oft suffered critique for polluting the blogosphere with inorganic content since its launch.

A lower PageRank means affected sites will no longer appear anywhere near the top of relevant search results. Indeed, many harmed bloggers have been relegated to the hinterlands of last results, where no searcher goes.

Last month Google began penalizing sites that appeared to be selling links or which linked heavily within their own networks as part of efforts to make search results more relevant to the end user.

MarketingVox.com

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Qualified Address Certified Scrubbing is the industry’s first CASS Certified software-as-a-service (SaaS) mailing product.  The SaaS model provides users with benefits such as faster list processing speeds and lower software and hardware maintenance costs while maintaining the necessary functionality of the software. In the coming months, Qualified Address plans to release additional products and services using the same model to compliment its address matching software.

The CASS Certification program was developed by the USPS to verify the accuracy and quality of third-party address matching software. Annual recertification is required in order to comply with new USPS requirements. Starting in August 2007, the Post Office now requires that CASS software include LACSLink and DPV processing. LACSLink processing allows Qualified Address to provide corrected information for addresses that have been renamed or renumbered. DPV identifies whether or not the USPS recognizes an address as a valid delivery address and flags invalid addresses. Together, these services will help mailers significantly reduce mail that is “Undeliverable as Addressed.”   

“Many mailers have been reluctantly awaiting the new CASS requirements because of worries that the addition of DPV and LACSLink will results in slower processing speeds and higher costs,” said Exact Wave President and CEO James Endicott. “The new software from Qualified Address tackles both of these issues and still allows mailers to remain eligible for automation and presort postage discounts.”  Certified Scrubbing will verify, correct, and add five-digit ZIP Codes to batches of addresses. It also standardizes the street addresses, cities, and states to the USPS guidelines, adds ZIP+4 codes and carrier routes to addresses, and provides customers with the PS 3553 CASS Summary Report. Depending on the list size, customers can have their list updated and returned within a few minutes. Qualified Address Certified Scrubbing is available immediately at http://www.qualifiedaddress.com/. About Qualified Address: Qualified Address, an Exact Wave company, specializes in address verification software and mailing list services. The software and services developed by Qualified Address enable customers to effectively manage communication with their contacts without costly investments in IT infrastructure. Services are flexible and developed so that they can be completely integrated into existing systems. Qualified Address prides itself in being an industry leader for software as a service (SaaS) mailing list solutions. More information on Qualified Address is available at http://www.qualifiedaddress.com/. About Exact Wave: 

Exact Wave provides innovative online addressing software and postal data to customers throughout the world. More than 80% of Fortune 500 companies are current clients of Exact Wave or have purchased Exact Wave products since the company’s inception in August 2002. Exact Wave (formerly Veevix) was ranked as one of the “Top 25 Under 5” by the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum in 2004, 2005, and 2006. More information on Exact Wave is available at http://www.exactwave.com/. Media Contact: Jon Miles  Business Development Manager  (888) 628-2601 ext 708   

 

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Orem, Utah (July 16, 2007)

Exact Wave, a leading provider of on-demand data management solutions, today announced the results of a recent customer satisfaction survey. The survey, conducted with customers who have purchased from Qualified Address in the last six months, shows that customers are overwhelmingly satisfied with the services they received. All customers were invited to participate in taking the online survey between July 11th and July 13th.

Of those customers who responded, an overwhelming majority indicate they are “very satisfied” with their purchase from Qualified Address. Customers also indicate that they are very likely to recommend Qualified Address’s products and services to others.

 

Ease of use, cost effectiveness, and speed are the most common reasons customers give for why they liked the services. With Qualified Address Scrubbing, the company’s flagship product, customers can have lists of thousands of addresses in a mailing list standardized and validated in less than five minutes. Customers also praise the accuracy of the address matching software and the excellent customer support.

James Endicott, President and CEO of Exact Wave, is pleased with the findings. “The entire team has worked diligently to develop a high-quality solution that is fast, accurate, and easy to use. I’m happy to see that these efforts were recognized by our customers. I was also glad to see that the few concerns raised by our customers had already been addressed and corrected.”

Qualified Address was launched by Exact Wave as the core of its Direct Marketing and Data Services division. In March 2006, it released its first product, Qualified Address Scrubbing, an online software service that standardizes and validated address data. The company will release additional data tools and software, including a much anticipated Address Verification API, in coming months. For more information, please visit http://www.qualifiedaddress.com.

About Qualified Address

Qualified Address, an Exact Wave company, is a leading provider of online address data management and enhancement solutions. The mailing list software and services developed by Qualified Address enable customers to effectively manage communication with their contacts without costly investments in IT infrastructure. Qualified Addresses services are flexible and developed so that they can be completely integrated into existing systems. Qualified Address prides itself in being an industry leader for software as a service (SaaS) mailing list solutions. More information on Qualified Address is available at www.qualifiedaddress.com and www.exactwave.com.

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