SISM analyst reports are distributed via institutional networks and the Internet. SISM Research will post research reports (consisting of an initial report and quarterly updates) on its Web site (www.sism.com). In addition, InvestTrend.com will post SISM research reports on their Web site (www.Investrend.com). Each company on InvesTrend’s Web site will have an Investor Power page.

SISM’s research reports and notes, as well as news headlines of report releases, are available worldwide to more than 300,000 institutions using the Bloomberg Professional system. FirstCall and I/B/E/S, now units of Thompson Financial, include SISM research in their subscription database of equity research information, the most widely used service by institutional investors in the U.S. They also include SISM estimates in their widely used consensus estimates and serve more than 2,000 institutional investors and 450 academic institutions in sixty countries on five continents.

Syndicated Report Distribution – Syndicated report distribution goes through seven channels, which comprise the InvesTrend Research Syndicate, a proprietary entity of InvesTrend Communications, Inc. Through three “primary” channels, reports are routed to key outlets: Knobias, Reuters Research, ResearchConnect, ResearchWave. Thomson Financial, ValuEngine and Zacks.

In total, equity research distributions via this one-of-a-kind syndicate include re-distribution of reports to more than thirty-five financial community portals including AfterHoursTrading, Asia-Shop, DailyStocks, dtniq.com, Earthlink Finance, Google Finance, Hoovers.com, Investext, JosephStevens, ManagineMoney, Ming Finance, MultexInvestor.com, MultexNet.com, PortfolioBuilder, ResearchConnect, SGALists, StockTheOdds, TheLion, Trade10, TrendTrader, WallStreetTape, and Yahoo Finance. The InvesTrend Research Syndicate also includes distributions direct to desktops, as well as numerous other destinations around the world.

Investrend.com Home Page Report Publication Announcements – Home page announcements of a company’s enrollment into coverage, as well as announcements regarding all the publication of all company research, receive top placement at the InvesTrend Web site. These announcements also link directly to the company’s dedicated InvestorPower™ Page as well as to research reports.

Dedicated company InvestorPower™ Page - InvestorPower™ pages at Investrend.com are permanent, dynamically updated company pages, providing shareholders direct access to a company overview, contact information, reports, charts, webcasts and events, as well as ticker-specific links to Edgar, news, press releases, and data from a wide assortment of resource sites.

Research Reports and Publication Announcements Permanently Archived - All newly-published research reports are accessible from four InvesTrend Web site locations, ultimately leading to the primary InvesTrend Equity Research Archive, where all reports are indexed and remain permanently accessible via a permanent link. Investrend.com has consistently ranked as the most frequented independent research Web site in the world. Best-performance months generate about 720,000 hits, and about 42,300 unique visitors.

FinancialWire™ News Wire Coverage (news articles) - Proprietary to InvesTrend, FinancialWire™ is the third-largest financial news wire organization, serving the global financial community by publishing and distributing 70 to 100 internally produced news stories to millions of readers every business day, based on publicly-available information (including standards-based research reports announced via the InvesTrend Research Syndicate). FinancialWire™ provides instantaneous, direct, real-time dissemination, reaching the overwhelming majority of key firms, institutions, professionals, and individuals, via their preferred, chosen conduits of communication including Comtex News (general and financial portals); Factiva (every giant corporate intranet); FinancialContent (general and newspapers); Knobias (90% buy side penetration); Lexis-Nexis (the legal community); M2Presswire (general and specialty); and ninety percent of North American trading stations. FinancialWire™ news stories are distributed and re-distributed to an estimated ninety percent of the global financial community via outlets such as Alphatrade, A.G. Edwards, AMEX, Asia-Stop, AT&T Wireless, Bear Stearns, Bloomberg, Blackberry, Briefing.com, CBS Marketwatch, Citigroup, Dow Jones-Reuters, Financial Times of London, Hoovers.com, I/B/E/S First Call, Investor’s Business Daily (Investors.com), Jeffries , Knight, Merrill Lynch, Ming Finance, Morningstar, Nasdaq, QuoteMedia, Schwab , Silicon Investor, Sina.com, SprintPCS, Standard & Poor’s, Stockhouse, Stockgroup, Thomson Financial, Zacks and others, including numerous investor relations and third party firms.

Distributors and re-distributors also include AfterHoursTrading, Alta Vista, Big Charts, BioSpace, Connecticut Post, CSFB-Pershing, CNET, DailyStocks, Datastar, Dialog, Divine, Excite, Foliofin, FreeRealTime, HeyAnita, InfoSpace, Internet.com, JosephStevens, Lycos/ Quote.com, Managinemoney, Market News, Mindbranch, Multex, Nelson’s, NewsAlert, NewsEdge, OnMoney, PortfolioBuilder, Proquest, Schwab Velocity, Spear Leeds & Kellogg, StockDr.com, Stockgroup, Track Data, The Deal, TheLion, Trend Trader, Voquette, WallStreetCity, WallStreetTape, and others.

FirstAlert™ Daily Electronic Newsletter - The FirstAlert™ daily electronic newsletter, sent via e-mail, incorporates FinancialWire™ news stories, as well as analyst notes generated by calls into companies covered through the InvesTrend Research Syndicate. The First Alert™ newsletter includes hyperlinks to research reports, research report summaries, and company Web sites.

FirstAlert™ has an opt-in subscriber base of 300,000-plus. This subscriber base includes Wall Street analysts, brokers, investment bankers and traders, as well as public company executives, legal professionals, and individual investors. Content includes additional “In-Focus Research” sections, referencing reports distributed by the InvesTrend Research Syndicate. The FirstAlert™ subscriber base has been actively vetted for more than six years.

Press Releases

Report Publication Announcements (press releases) via Business Wire Analyst Wire Service – SISM research summaries and periodic research notes and alerts are distributed to millions of terminals of buy- and sell-side institutions. In this way, they reach analysts, portfolio managers, institutional investors, stock exchanges, regulatory organizations, brokers, and individual investors. Report publication announcements are also systematically made to the financial community via two of InvesTrend’s distribution and visibility channels, which further leads to news coverage through two journalistic channels. Beginning with prominent placement on the InvesTrend Research Web portal, the announcement is then reinforced by a global press release. The global press release is reinforced by a minimum of two FinancialWire™ articles, which are further reinforced by ongoing, special notations in InvesTrend’s FirstAlert™ daily electronic newsletter.

OpportunityBase

All research reports are sent to eight million investors globally, including thousands of investment bankers, broker-dealers, fund managers, and business media interested in receiving information on investment opportunities, as they relate to small- and mid-sized companies:

Europe: 2.6 million; Asia: 2.3 million; North America: 2.6 million; North American Brokers: 61,200; Fund Managers: 28,766; Misc. Industry Professionals: 53,125; Business Reporters: 6,450; General News Outlets: 29,000. (Numbers are approximate).

NOTE: This is a subscription-based community (100% opt-in subscribers).
- Distribution divided approx. ½ buy side and ½ sell side;
- Mirrored presence at OpportunityBase Web site.