breaKInG neWs breaKInG neWs breaKInG neWs breaKInG neWs breaKInG neWs breaKInG neWs breaKInG marKeT amerIca acQUIres shop.com WAY PeOPLe SHOP revOLUtiOniZinG tHe aGaIn IT Is aLL aboUT beInG bIGGer, beTTer, fasTer, easIer WhIch Is acTUaLLY maKInG The bUsIness easIer, fasTer, beTTer bIGGer! From the beginning, I set out to change the way people shop, and in the process, created a better marketing and distribution model that ultimately bridges the gap between cutting-edge technology, outstanding customer service, and Oneto-One Marketing. built a vast and solid network of independent entrepreneurs, which ensures we stay on the pulse of consumer demands and enables us to anticipate trends in the marketplace. But in order to culminate into what I have always known we would become, a bold move had to be made. So with great anticipation of all that is to come, excited to announce we have secured the most powerful partnership in Market history one that will revolutionize the future of business. Shop.com is joining Market America to provide a technology platform that will position us as a leader in e-commerce. This literally speeds up everything we have been doing and planning to do by years. It puts us five years ahead of where we are right now. It is a shortcut to greater success and changing the way people shop. This is all about making it Easier to get there and grow Faster so that the business will be Better and Market America and your UnFranchise income will be Bigger! We believe that this partnership is so formidable that it will send shock waves throughout the shopping and Internet retailing world. Things will happen at lightning speed. When you combine our people power with our ability to capture and retain customers, and then apply One-to-One Marketing to match people to product and product to people to maximize sales with their over 300 media outlets covered market acquisition of shop.com december 2010/january 2011 marketamerica.com technology, merchandising functionality (addictive shopping experience), and ability to drive traffic and attract customers it is not only powerful, but competitively dangerous. Sometimes two companies do not reach their full potential because they lack something or a key component to explode in the marketplace. It can be catalytic and explosively speed things up. It is synergistic where it multiplies the power of each strengths many times. This allows us to do everything I have envisioned and described to you much more quickly and in a much bigger way. We will change the way people shop and impact economies on a national and international level through our collective buying power and our entrepreneurial opportunity that average people can win at. What makes Shop.com so valuable in this relationship is the team behind the company and what our Market America team can do together with Shop.com going forward. Companies do not make people successful; people make companies successful. The infrastructure and supporting staff are keys to this deal and our future prosperity. The IT engineers at Shop. com are pioneers of Internet shopping technology. They are recognized leaders who wrote the book on comparison shopping. They have done everything we were in the process of doing. Combine that with Market entrepreneurial people power, our ability to capture and retain customers, and our capacity to leverage sales with One-to-One Marketing and you have a revolutionary new paradigm called Social Shopping! It already is turning heads in Silicon Valley. As we embrace the new partnership with a common strategy and vision, the synergies are competitively dangerous. Shop.com offers incredible functionality and impressive merchandizing. Plus, they have been one of the most successful comparative shopping sites out there having mastered