Los Angeles, CA (June 24, 2004) - LOC Global (http://locglobal.com), a leading provider of online intranet services, announced today it has integrated shipping and messaging capabilities into its service offering. Available immediately, the new features enable customers to get bulk rate discounts on parcel and freight shipping, web and audio conferencing, and a virtual receptionist. The new offering supports the company's mission to help small-to-midsize businesses, workgroups and project teams within large organizations get the expertise they need, only when they need it.

"Our new offering combines the feature set of Freightquote.com, Microsoft Live Meeting, and other leading Web-based tools for small businesses, all at discount prices," said Damon Schechter, CEO of LOC Global. "Our value proposition is that we hand select the best online intranet services, negotiate the lowest possible prices, and pass the savings onto our members for one flat monthly fee."

With LOC Global's message and shipping capabilities, small businesses — especially ones with virtual offices and multiple work site locations — can:

• Ship Parcels and Freight - Support for courier, less-than-load, truckload, domestic or international air, or ocean transport. Get instant quotes from more than 50 well-known carriers. Compare prices and transit times. Dispatch your freight without picking up the phone.
   

• Conduct Online Meetings - Our Web conferencing software lets you connect all your team members in multiple locations with just a phone line and a web browser. You can train new team members or conduct an all team meeting — much faster and at a fraction of the cost you'd pay for travel, and with no special hardware or software.
   

• Automatically Route Calls - Our virtual PBX technology consolidates all your team members under the umbrella of a single phone number. You will benefit from a feature rich PBX service that will give your team the same automated answering, call routing and conferencing capabilities of an expensive PBX system, without the need to invest in hardware.

Pricing and availability:

LOC Global Gold Membership costs $19.95 per month, and provides customers with up to 50% off partner services, a 110% price-match guarantee, and a 2% annual reward on most purchases. Discounts vary by service. Gold Members typically pay LOC Global's wholesale cost. Please refer to http://www.locglobal.com/about/products/intranet/plans.htm for complete pricing information.

About LOC Global:

LOC Global, headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif., hand selects the best intranet services on the Web, negotiates the lowest possible prices, and passes the savings onto its members. The result is the ideal environment for defining product requirements, managing RFPs, evaluating suppliers, collaboratively managing inventory and shipping, and automating the communication of change orders. Privately held and profitable LOC Global is led by Damon Schechter, best-selling author of Delivering the Goods: The Art of Managing Your Supply Chain. For more information or for a FREE 30-day trial, visit www.locglobal.com, e-mail corpsales@locglobal.com or call 1-310-499-4165.

About Freightquote:

Founded in August of ’98, freightquote.com provides a one-stop source to rate, schedule and track all types of freight, comparing numerous carriers in seconds. freightquote.com has relationships with a broad range of national and regional carriers representing 350,000 tractors and trailers serving the United States, Canada, Mexico and 80 international destinations worldwide. The site was named among the "Best of the Web" in Forbes magazine and listed on Entrepreneur magazine’s Hot 100 two years running. Investors include Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Equity, the private equity business of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. and Menlo Ventures. For more information, visit www.freightquote.com or call 1-888-595-6298.

About Microsoft Live Meeting

Microsoft Live Meeting is the leader in real-time, "carrier class," multimedia platform and application services for web-based communication and collaboration both inside and outside corporate firewalls. Enterprise customers prefer Microsoft Live Meeting web conferencing because of its scalable, reliable and secure browser-based architecture, which is based on technology developed and tested at Xerox PARC. The company offers unparalleled performance for all types of web-based communications, from large-scale meetings with up to thousands of attendees, through small collaborative meetings, presentations, and e-learning sessions. Founded in 1996, Microsoft Live Meeting has already attracted more than 3,100 leading organizations who see web conferencing as a natural evolution in helping their businesses compete more effectively in the global marketplace. Microsoft Live Meeting helps companies host thousands of simultaneous web meetings simply using web browsers and telephones. For more information about Microsoft Live Meeting, visit www.microsoft.com or call 1-888-526-6170 to reach the company's Mountain View, CA headquarters.

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