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Michael Preedin

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Poker Tech Reviews
michael@pokertechreviews.com
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Poker Tech Reviews Announces Launch of Beta Website

Overland Park, Kansas, 7/17/08 – Poker Tech Reviews is launching it’s beta website (http://pokertechreviews.com) on the morning of July 17^th, 2008. There will be featured reviews of poker related software, feeds of leading poker bloggers, feeds to up-to-date poker news, and much more.

Tom “LifesAGrind” Jenkins, CEO of Poker Tech Reviews, created this website to fulfill a vision of “”Providing the definitive resource for reviews of all things Poker related. Utilizing reviews provided by the players themselves, Poker Tech Reviews will be grow to provide the most extensive listing of public opinion as it relates to poker software and hardware.”

Poker Tech Reviews is committed to becoming “The Poker Review Authority” by providing detailed reviews of all things poker related that are created and written by the people that know, the poker playing public. The unique 4-ace rating system will allow anyone to review software based on three criteria: User Interface, Usability and Features. In addition, all readers will have the opportunity to review the items that have already been reviewed; as well as, comment on the review and/or the reviewer.

Poker Tech Reviews is currently looking for writers interested in doing reviews, advertisers and investors.

For additional information on Poker Tech Reviews, contact Michael Preedin (michael@pokertechreviews.com) or visit http://pokertechreviews.com.

If you are interested in submitting a review for our consideration to publish, please go to http://pokertechreviews.com/submissions/ .

If you would like to advertise on Poker Tech Reviews, please email sales@pokertechreviews.com.
ABOUT POKER TECH REVIEWS – Poker Tech Reviews is a “low-cost start-up” online company created to help poker players become better poker players.
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In preparation for the upcoming launch of the site I’ve put together a sidebar JavaScript widget that will fit into a 125x125 area.  We would appreciate it if you’d help us spread the word and add this code to your site in the sidebar.  The script will countdown to the launch and provides links to the Poker Tech Reviews website.  You can download the script from here.

Here is what the widget looks like:

The Authority Launches in

25 Days

Again thanks for helping us spread the word.

The time has come for review submissions.  The guidlines are listed in the document below so fire up that word processor and show everyone your writing chops.

Review Standards for Poker Tech Reviews

Expectation

Your expected to have fun.  If their is a program you are passionate about, good or bad, then write it up.  Inject your passion into your writing and the readers will get a better understanding of the product.  Fame and glory can be yours  as your name and a link to your website will be posted with every published review.  If you find that you have a knack for review writing and your reviews are informative and entertaining, then we just may hire you to write for us on a regular basis.

Rating

The ratings standard for all reviews will be based on a 4 point system.  Each point within the system should represent the reviewers feelings for the product as follows:

1. Below Average
2. Average
3. Above Average
4. Excellent

Using the above scoring system the reviewer must supply a rating for each of the following individual features:

• User Interface
• Feature Set
• Usability

The overall rating for the product will be determined via an average of the three assigned scores.  (ie. A program is given the following scores: User Interface=2  Feature Set=4  Usability=1  Then the program receives an overall score of 2)

Structure

Review should open with a paragraph devoted to the programs function.  Following this the review will be broken down into three distinct sections.  Each of the three sections will be devoted to one of the rated features listed above.  The review should close with a summary where the reviewers final thoughts of the overall program are discussed.
You are encouraged to inject your personal writing style and voice into the review.  The structure is provided as a guideline so that the sites visitors will have a familiar structure while browsing the reviews.

Screenshots

Along with the review a gallery of screenshots will be included.  To facilitate this we ask that you provide at least 4-5 screenshots depicting various operating modes of the program.  If you reference a particular screenshot during the review, you should reference the screenshot by file name so it can be properly formatted when published.

Submission

The review should be submitted in plain text format to submissions@pokertechreviews.com. Upon submission the review will go through an editorial process.  To facilitate this process the review should contain proper grammar, punctuation, and paragraph structure.  Whether a review is accepted for publishing or not the reviewer will be contacted.  If the review is considered in need of follow up, the reviewer will be contacted and the editorial notes forwarded.

I took a bit of a break from working on the main site yesterday and put up a new “coming soon” page over at Poker Tech Reviews.   The countdown page was really rather “blah” so I wanted to present a better face to the public.  Check it out and come back to let me know what you think.

As you can see from Tom’s post below, we have a logo.

Tom is working on designing the site, I’m drumming up interest and looking into advertising. OpenX is looks like something I’d like to try, but I’m not sure how it works exactly. I’ll be taking a longer look at it tonight.

Also, I’m going to create a banner logo for others to post in their blogs to help us advertise the launch. We hope all of our blogger friends will pump it occasionally for us.

We are still looking for investors, advertisers, etc. If you are interested, please let us know!

Until then, make mine PTR!

Thanks Tom, for having me aboard.

As I posted on my own blog, we need help in a few areas:

1. a graphic designer to help with Logo/banner design, and overall site design (we need you now)
2. spreading of “The Word”; talking about the site (we hope all bloggers will help with that)
3. advertising and Sales advice/assistance.
4. other investors
5. direct advertisers
6. review writers (who will be paid for each review)

We hope everyone will consider helping.

Tomorrow I will discuss what else I’m working on.