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Letter from the President

February 1st, 2003

John Hathaway-Bates
President & Executive Director

The absolutely amazing spread of our web site hits from so many countries across the world continues to amaze me (350,000+ last month).  (January 2003 World Hits).  For that, I can only thank our members, friends and supporters yet again. Forwarding our site to your friends, my friends, has worked.  Please continue!

We are now actually getting an average of more than 11,000 hits a day!!! 

The new registration system seems to have been very well received, and it will obviously reduce the number of emails we have to send out, (and thereby the Spam effect they sometimes seem to assume to even my best friends).  This way instead of a flood of emails hitting your in-box every week just to ensure that we miss no-one, you will now receive just one email a week from us (The Business Forum Report) - plus those individual invitations that only relate to your region, once you have registered with us for it.  (database registration) 

This past month several of our members have also helped us go deeper into many more organizations with our invitations and general reports.  It is so very simple a concept I wish I had been the one to think of it.  

To make it easy for anyone who wants to help us spread our Information Sourcing program in the same way, I have taken the liberty of plagiarizing what I think is the best from several emails I have received and have created a "Text Example" that you can use, (which you should edit and adapt to meet your own needs of course), then all you would need to do is cut and paste it into the message box of an email and send it to me at John@bizforum.org - copying it to all the people that you think might be able to benefit from what we do that are on your email list.

Last month I sent out a request entitled Class, Good Manners & Strange Traditions - so that I can start preparing next year's Holiday Missive.  (It has already been decided to change the title to "Different" Traditions rather than "Strange" ones).  The results are beginning to come in (examples), but there are still many friends, countries, cultures and localities I have yet to hear from - so start sending those emails my sophisticated friends and I will post them - I really am beginning to enjoy the responses for my next poor attempt at helping make the world a more enjoyable place to live in.

My very best wishes,

Hope to see you at lunch soon,

President & Executive Director

You can email me at  john@bizforum.org 

You can telephone me at        310-550-1984 

or Fax me at                                    310-550-6121

Previous Letters from the President

April 2001
May 2001
June 2001
July  2001
August 2001
September 2001
October 2001
November 2001

     December 2001   
The Etiquette of Formal & Business Dining

January 2002
February 2002
April 2002
May 2002
June 2002
July 2002
August 2002
September 2002
October 2002
November 2002

December 2002

 A tongue-in-cheek treatise on the many benefits that a country gains simply by being founded by the descendants of populations who were most often raped, pillaged and looted by the Vikings.

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January 2003

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