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New Award for the Mantle
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Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
John Crisler, DO Receives 2010 Best of Lansing Award
U.S. Commerce Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement
NEW YORK, NY, June 9, 2010 -- John Crisler, DO has been selected for the 2010 Best of Lansing Award in the Physicians & Surgeons category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).
The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2010 USCA Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USCA and data provided by third parties.
About U.S. Commerce Association (USCA)
U.S. Commerce Association (USCA) is a New York City based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The purpose of USCA is to promote local business through public relations, marketing and advertising.
The USCA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America.
SOURCE: U.S. Commerce Association
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From the Better Business Bureau
All That Glitters . . . Awards to Bi-State Businesses May Not Be What They Seem - BBB News Center
Local Business Association.
From everything we can find, this is just one more ploy to profit off the universal desire for recognition and approval. We are advising people to steer clear, unless they want to pay $180 for what looks to be a meaningless office decoration.
Pat Joshu, executive director of St. Louis’ Immigrant & Refugee Program, said she was immediately suspicious when her organization received a press release from the U. S. Commerce Association notifying it of an award. Not only had Joshu never heard of the association, she discovered that if she ever wanted to display the “hand-polished crystal” award in her office, she would have to pay the $179.99 cost herself.
On its Web site, the U. S. Commerce Association says the award program was “created to honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of businesses and organizations in and around St. Louis.”
Other than the material on its Web site, there seems to be little publicly available about the U. S. Commerce Association. The site says its offices are in Washington, D. C., and a representative of the BBB that covers the area said that office has begun receiving inquiries about the association in the past several days. A recently updated BBB report says that the association’s Web site is a match to the Web site of an association with a similar name – U. S. Local Business Association. Both groups identify Ashley Carter as chair of the associations’ selection committees. And both groups report virtually identical award programs, the BBB says. The Washington, D. C. – area BBB office gives U. S. Local Business Association an “F” grade and warns that persons contacted about awards must be sure the recognition is not, “in fact, an attempt to obtain access to a company’s information or to elicit funds by an entity that may not be what it represents itself as being.”
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