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Welcome to the Microscopy Advantage® website. We hope the material
presented will explain in clear terms what are our business goals
and objectives and how far we have progressed to this date.
The Concept:
Too many would-be users of content found on the internet find local
connections to be either very expensive or very slow or both. This
is more likely to be the case outside of North America but even within
the USA and Canada surprisingly large numbers of would-be viewers and
therefore would-be customers, do not have internet connectivity at
their usual work stations and must use some kind of shared resource
because of firewall considerations.
Law of unintended consequences:
What we did not expect was the value our client companies would find in
being able to give an up-to-date CD version of their website to their sales
people and foreign distributors, which permits the website, in a sense to
"guide" sales presentations. This has been the case irrespective of what is
being sold, be it a column instrument or consumable supplies. We also did
not anticipate the value one would glean from the Microscopy Advantage CD
when working either during a plane flight or even in a hotel room with
otherwise expensive internet charges.
The Product:
The cornerstone of the Microscopy Advantage CD is the
SPI Supplies website. Groups doing market
research tell us that there
is more traffic going to the SPI website, by far, than to any other website
in the microscopy and microanalysis market. The CD, when installed, has a
"Start Page" that lists not only the SPI website but the websites of the most prestigious manufacturing and related organizations
serving this dynamic and expanding market. It is our expectation, particularly in European and
certain Far Eastern markets, but also to some degree in North America, that
the Microscopy Advantage CD will become the premier information resource
that will be used off-line. The inclusion of the very
highly trafficked Microscopy Vendor's Data Base site guarantees that the CD
will never be removed from the CD reader of anyone in microscopy since so
much of what they need to know is right there on the CD!
The current version of the Microscopy Advantage CD is Edition 7. Although we
truly thought that by Edition 7 we would have run out of space, fortunately,
because of newer software compression technologies, we continue to have more
than enough free space to accommodate still a few more participating
websites for Edition 8. When the time does come, we anticipate that
we will be able to make a smooth transition to DVD format without
disruption.
Distribution of previous editions of the Microscopy Advantage
CD have been at the following
microscopy and/or electron microscopy oriented scientific meetings:
17th Australian Conference on Electron Microscopy (ACEM 17), Adlaide;
AXAA 2002 Conference on X-ray and Surface Analysis, Newcastle, NSW, Australia;
EMSI-2002 Electron Microscopy Society of India 2002 Annual Meeting and International Conference, Mumbai;
European Conference on Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometry EDXRS 2002, Berlin, Germany;
Microscience 2002 International Conference and Exhibition
Sponsored by the Royal Microscopical Society London, England
Thai EM Meeting, Bangkok, January 2003
New Zealand EM Meeting, Wellington, February 2003
Dreilundertagung fur Elektronenmikroskopie, Sept. 2003, Dresden, Germany
BCEIA (Beijinjg Conference and Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis) October 2003
18th Australian Conference on Electron Microscopy (ACEM 18), Geelong, February 2004
EMSI-2004 Electron Microscopy Society of India 2004 Annual Meeting, New Delhi
Joint MSA (Microscopy Society of America) and MSC (Microscopy Society of
Canada), Quebec City, August 2004
BCEIA (Beijinjg Conference and Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis) October 2005
We have omitted from this listing the distribution at numerous local and
irregular meetings of various microscopy societies around the world
In addition, one copy of the CD is included as a "box stuffer" with each and
every shipment of microscopy consumable supplies by SPI Supplies.
And a substantial number of copies are also distributed to the customers of the
worldwide network of agents and distributors of SPI Supplies.
Edition 8 to be released around January 1, 2006:
A production run of 15,000 copies is anticipated and distribution will begin roughly January 1, 2006.
We have also made available the information about distribution of past
editions of the Microscopy Advantage CD:
Thank you for visiting the website of Microscopy Advantage. If you would
like to have your website a part of the next
downloading of websites and the next Edition of Microscopy Advantage,
contact Microscopy Advantage at which ever
location is closest to you below. A limited amount of space still remains
for the download scheduled for Edition 8 on or about December 1, 2005.
Unlike the print media, if one has extra advertisers, they just add more
pages, in this case, that can not be done. As the
available space runs out, that is it! So if you would like to have your own
company's website added to the Microscopy
Advantage CD, don't procrastinate, let us know of your interest.
Microscopy Advantage®
SPI Supplies
PO Box 656
West Chester, PA 19381-0656 USA
Ph: 1-(610)-436-5400
FAX: 1-(610)-436-5755
E-mail: info@microscopy-advantage.com
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