User talk:Roaldrich

Attached you will find the original content and the revised content as well as all email communications fromt eh administrator that did not notify me that my page was to be deleted.

== ORIGINAL CONTENT (PLEASE EXCUSE THE FORMATTING NOT BEING EXACT I WANTED TO SHOW THE CONTENT) == About Valpak® Headquartered in Largo, Florida, Valpak® is owned and operated by Cox Target Media, one of the leading direct marketing companies in North America. The familiar blue Valpak® envelope delivers savings to some 45 million households throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Annually, Valpak® distributes approximately 19.7 billion offers inserted in 519 million envelopes. In addition, Valpak.com®, an online site for local savings, has over 20.8 million offer views each month. Cox Target Media is a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Newspapers, owned by Cox Enterprises, Inc., one of the largest media conglomerates in the United States.

Profile • Slogan: There’s something in it for you • Founded 1968 • Founder: Terry Loebel • Headquarters: Largo, FL • Key people: Bill Disbrow, CEO • Products: o Valpak® o Valpak.com® o Solo Values® • Employees The company operates a network of approximately 200 active franchises in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico as well as eleven company owned and operated stores, consisting of nearly 1,200 sales representatives. • Website www.valpak.com

Historical Perspective

• 1968 - Terry Loebel, Valpak® founder, mailed 14 coupons in a local, cooperative envelope to 20,000 households in Clearwater, Fla. • 1972- First Valpak® distributorship established in Orlando, Fla. • 1982 - Valpak® expands into Canada with Valpak® of Canada Limited. • 1991 - Cox Enterprises, Inc. purchased Valpak® Direct Marketing Systems, Inc. forming Cox Target Media, Inc. a division of Cox Newspapers. • 1994 - Began development of Valpak.com®, an online savings portal by registering the URL. • 1995 – the first coupon posted online on Valpak.com® • 1998 - Valpak® celebrates 30 years as a local cooperative direct mailer. • 2005- Construction begins on new $200 million, 470,000 square-foot leading-edge manufacturing facility to support future growth.

== REVISED CONTENT (PLEASE EXCUSE THE FORMATTING NOT BEING EXACT I WANTED TO SHOW THE CONTENT) == Valpak Direct Marketing Systems is based in Largo, FL and is one of the largest cooperative direct marketing companies in North America. It was founded by Terry Loebel in 1968 in Clearwater, FL. Valpak mails over 500 million coupon envelopes each year to homes throughout North America. The company is private, owned by Cox Enterprises in Atlanta, GA.

Valpak is also a leading franchisor, containing approximately 200 franchised offices throughout North America.

In 2005 the company broke ground on a new 470,000 square foot printing facility in St. Petersburg, FL that is scheduled to be fully operational in late 2007.

Each month Valpak features promotional partners on the outside of the envelope. Regular partners include CBS, Disney, and Stamp Out Hunger.

Valpak was named to The Princeton Review’s Best Entry-Level Jobs 2008 Edition.

Profile

• Founded 1968 • Founder: Terry Loebel • Current Owner: Cox Enterprises, Atlanta, Ga. • Key People: Bill Disbrow, CEO • Headquarters: Largo, FL. • Key people: Bill Disbrow, CEO

Website: www.valpak.com

== EMAIL STRING WITH ADMINISTRATOR == oN 4/24/07, From: Erin [1] wrote: You still have not demonstrated that your company is notable, so as yet, the article is not acceptable no matter how it is written. You need to demonstrate that the company has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial works that are independent of your company. This is the central notability criterion and no article will be allowed that doesn't meet this standard.

On 4/24/07, Rochelle Aldrich <rochelle_aldrich@coxtarget.com> wrote:

Good afternoon Erin,

My communications department reviewed all of the materials you 
provided and they are moving forward to revise our copy for a 
wikipedia page.  I would like to open this communication up with you 
as our advisee since the "Wiki page deletion" info page recommends 
mediation with the admin who removed it.  Therefore, in order to 
follow best practices they are planning on revising the first 
paragraph of the preexisting content.  As for the company history and 
timeline, there might be edits but I am not certain since the company 
does have a 40 year history.  Therefore I intend to submit the revised 
copy for review unless you suggest otherwise prior to posting.

Please follow up if you have any additional suggestions, comments, or 
questions.

Thank you,

Rochelle Aldrich

oN 4/24/07, From: Erin [2] wrote: In order to have an article, your company needs to meet our Wikipedia guideline on corporations, which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CORP. However, please me aware that writing articles about your own company is generally frowned upon, as it is seen as a conflict of interest. The article you wrote originally was deleted because it read like ad copy, which is not acceptable on Wikipedia.

On 4/23/07, Roaldrich <rochelle_aldrich@coxtarget.com> wrote: > I am writing in private because I represent Cox Target Media, Inc. I would like to hold an open discussion with you via email to get your assitance in getting our wiki page back up and running. I thoroughly reviewed all of the wiki literature and even distributed all of the materials that I published through our communications department who produce all of our company communications materials. Cox Target Media, Inc. and Valpak Direct Marketing Systems are not promoting retail purposes, sales, specials, etc. > > Please assist me in order for this page to be friendly to the Wikipedia community. > > Rochelle Aldrich > Internet Marketing Specialist > Cox Target Media

> E-mail: rochelle_aldrich@coxtarget.com

Signing comments

Please make sure that you sign any comments that you make on discussion pages, using four tildes. It is an important requirement for numerous reasons, and makes it so much easier for anyone who wishes to contribute to the discussion. I had to check the page history to find you. Adrian M. H. 20:43, 16 May 2007 (UTC)