CornerBarPR Member Benefits

Our Special Brew

So you like our bar and what we brew. Feel free to come and go as you please. Yeah, remain an anonymous PR indulger (there's a special group for these people, you know). Or belly up to CornerBarPRSM for the long haul and become a member.

What does registration do for you? Members get their own special mug on the shelf, free valet parking, the key to our reserved Bar Rooms and private stock, and occasional other perks and benefits that the hoi polloi don't even learn about. You don't even have to leave when we close our front doors.

Our "Members Only" areas include:

Contacts On Tap^TM
Dish out a lousy $275 bucks annually and we'll hook you up with fresh, hot media contacts throughout the nation.
The Bar Rag^TM E-Zine
Cough up your email and receive a jolt of wisdom every hump day.
Your Own Bar Tab
Hey, who wouldn't want free booze and baubles? But you've got to give us your name before we give you the goods. Click here to see the loot you can earn.
Centralized Profile
Your own, private safe, for storing and fiddling around with your Member Profile and all your subscriptions. See if you can overwhelm our computer by signing up for multiple years of Contacts On Tap. Do the whole mess from right here.

We will be in touch with you from time to time, confirming payments, new subscriptions, and changes, notifying you of Policy changes, giving the status of your Bar Tab, that sort of thing. We never, ever provide personally identifying information to third parties, but you can't opt out of all contact from us. Just thought we'd better make that clear here, as well as in Our Policies.

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Contacts On Tap^TM
Have you tried another on-line media directory? Drove you nuts, didn't it? Expensive, complex beyond belief, slow, never has the information you need in the way you need it, almost impossible to use unless you're a techno-geek or have the skills of a nuclear physicist, the patience of a lump of lead, and don't need the information until someone else can figure out how to get it for you. And customer "service"? Don't even ask!

Let us tell ya about Contacts On Tap, the slickest, quickest, least expensive national on-line directory of media contacts that you could imagine.

Quick Pitch, four steps:
and Bam! There's your data: Reporter's name, phone number, fax number, email address, title, beat. A look-up of six beats in New York City returned 34 listings from six newspapers in under two seconds. Hit "Printer Version" and you're can print, right from your browser.

Search by local markets, national markets, medium, reporter's beat: Reporter>business beat>national> 124 listings in less than three seconds.

Plus, for those of us who write down a phone number but no name, or know the reporter's name but can't remember her station, or have other partial information that we want to flesh out quickly, there's the Simple Search: Fill in what you know, let the powerful database engine do the rest.

So-called competitive media directories cost from $1895 to $11,000 a year. At $275, we aren't trying to make our entire year's profit from one customer. We'd rather you tell your friends and come back year after year.

Hell, Contacts On Tap even LOOKS good. None of those other services can say that, for damn sure!

Contacts On Tap: The most affordable on-line media directory - bar none!
The Bar Rag^TM E-Zine
Oh, man! I don't need any more email! I sure as hell don't need any more stuff to read!

Us, too.

That's why The Bar Rag, the weekly e-highlight from CornerBarPR, is damn near the greatest thing since sliced bread. It just takes 30 seconds.

30 seconds!

Hump day. Monday's fires have been reduced to a slow smolder, and now you actually can get some work done. The week's downhill from here on!

Morning email.

Maybe you have time to read all the new stuff posted overnight on CornerBarPR right now; maybe you don't. But in 30 seconds, you can glance over your emailed copy of The Bar Rag. (If you have a background in newspaper journalism, you'll get the joke.)

30 seconds. No damn five-minute email treatises from us!

We'll tell you the highlights of the newly posted info on CornerBarPR. A quick read. A well-written, snappy brief. Information you need, presented with just a bit of attitude. Well, quite a bit of attitude. Click the link to an article or commentary that interests you, and Bang! You're there.
- the tip you need for that client meeting tomorrow
- the advice of a respected industry expert
- an awful example - or a terrific one - that you can use in a staff meeting
- a new idea or innovative approach
- a relaxed laugh
- simple inspiration to get you through an otherwise dreary day
- a knockout array of tools and resources to help you solve problems, answer questions, and look like an expert
- and, oh yes, an incredible national on-line directory of media contacts
The Bar Rag: Everything you need to know to do your job - all in one place! Wet off the e-press each Wednesday morning. Here's a Sneak Preview.

Your Own Bar Tab
Bloodshot Eyes Reward Program

So you've registered with CornerBarPR. What's it get you?

You mean, other than a personal relationship with the coolest site on the Internet?

Free stuff, okay? Rewards. Loot. Booty. Swag.

If you have nothing better to do with your time, and you give up valuable sleep searching our site for mistakes or changes that we oughta make, and you actually find some, let us know. If you're right, we'll punch your Bar Tab.

If You Do Something for US...

If you perform some heroic act that gives us a chance to attract more patrons or make more money, we'll really punch your Bar Tab!

Media Snitch Program

In a back room of CornerBarPR you'll find Contacts On Tap, a pretty damn slick national on-line directory of media contacts. We're working our butts off to make sure this puppy is accurate, but phone numbers change, people die, the union takes over the building, and occasionally the agency sends us an incompetent temp. That sort of thing.

So help us keep Contacts On Tap continually updated. If you see errors or additions or corrections or improvements or changes that should be made in any of the Contacts On Tap info (or, in case you missed it above, anywhere else at CornerBarPR), let us know. If you're right, we'll punch your Bar Tab.

We list thousands of media sources. They have phone numbers, fax numbers, mailing addresses, email addresses, beats, names to misspell, and such, and they're always moving or getting promoted or getting fired or being assigned a new beat or thrown in jail or something. While we try to keep up, if you give us a verifiable change before we uncover it, we're jolly well gonna reward you, because it keeps Contacts On Tap the best, most accurate media directory on the planet.

We can't buy your loyalty, but we can reward it. Through our highly secret Media Snitch program, we'll send any worthy mole a designer CornerBarPR logo-etched martini glass for submitting 24 verifiable media changes. Yes, it's hard work, but glass symbolizes busting your ass and you can fill it with as much vodka and vermouth as you can stomach. Collect the whole set.

For less help, we still offer some rewards, but the martini glass is really cool. Once you have one, you'll want more.

Refer a Friend, if You Have One

By far the easiest way to get Bar Tab punches is to get a friend to sign up for a free trial of Contacts On Tap. Five punches per friend. If you have two friends, that's ? uh ? well, you can do the math. Or, maybe not, if you're a PR type.

Of course, they have to tell us it was you who referred them. If they won't do that, they're not a very good friend, are they?

Punching Your Bar Tab

Anyway, if you tell us when we screw up or short-shot you, or if you bring someone new into the "Members Only" sections of CornerBarPR, we'll punch your Bar Tab. Enough punches, and we'll give you some cheesy rewards.

How Do I Earn Bar Tab Punches?

Action	Punches
Tell us a media change we don't know about in Contacts On Tap^TM
Catch an error on our site (that we agree is an error)
Share a tip or article idea we run with
Persuade a friend to subscribe to our e-zine, The Bar Rag^{TM 1}
Get a friend to sign up for a FREE TRIAL of Contacts On Tap¹
Get a friend to sign up for a SUBSCRIPTION to Contacts On Tap¹
Write and submit an article we publish

¹This so-called friend has to let us know that you're the one who referred him, okay?

What Loot Can I Earn?

6 Punches	Bumper sticker: "I Hang Out With People Who Are Cheap and Easy, at CornerBarPR.com"
12 Punches	CornerBarPR^SM shot glass
18 Punches	A book -- your choice: Be Happy Damn It 'Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge' and More Flubs From the Nation's Press
24 Punches	Martini glass etched with our killer logo
400 Punches	Free one-year subscription to Contacts On Tap^TM, our incredible national on-line directory of media contacts
10,000,000 Punches²	New Year's Eve Party for six in a NASA Space Shuttle circling the globe. Ring in the New Year several times the same night! Includes a selection of fine wines - imagine drinking your favorite Bordeaux through a flexible plastic tube! - a six-course dinner - but you won't notice any weight gain - midnight champagne and party favors, dancing 'til dawn (that's about 42 minutes), Bloody Marys at breakfast, your very own New Year's countdown space clock, and a souvenir space shuttle key chain. Hosted by our Proprietor, Brenda "Let's Party" Clevenger, and Bartender Bob.

²Punches verified by hand by Bartender Bob's girlfriend's second-grade class. Transportation to launch site extra. You must check all potential weapons with CornerBarPR's bouncer before entering the Shuttle. CornerBarPR may substitute a cash award of greater or lesser value - likely to be a damn sight lesser - at our option.

So How Do I Cash In?

We'll monitor your Bar Tab and will let you know when you've filled it up and are entitled to some booty. You can look at your Bar Tab and review this information anytime by going to the Members Only section of CornerBarPR and clicking on Review or Cash In Your Bar Tab.

Centralized Profile
Manage your Member Profile, your password, subscriptions, account information, Bar Tab rewards, and other benefits, directly from the top drawer of our heavily guarded file cabinet. Subscribe, unsubscribe, change your name, change your email address, change your password from your mother's maiden name to your wife's birthday, count your Bar Tab loot - all from the convenience of your Lazy-Boy reclining executive computer chair with the five-roller base, the hide of a dead nauga, Cyclo-Massage heat, and carpal tunnel syndrome creeping into your right wrist. If your husband steals your mobile home, you can change your address before he even gets it parked.
Our Policies
Actually, Our Policies aren't limited to our Registered Members. They apply to everyone. But here's an easy way to get to more information than even the most obsessed fanatic could possibly be interested in about CornerBarPR.