"Everything St. Maarten / St. Martin" News Releases
Updated December 6, 2007

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Jeff Berger   

JMB Communications

P. O. Box 1812

Plymouth, MA 02362-1812

December 6, 2007

(508) 747-8281

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"Everythingstmaarten.com" To Give Away

Ten Weeks of St. Maarten Vacations Dec. 12

            (Plymouth, Massachusetts) --- The Town Manager and Assistant Town Manager of Plymouth, Massachusetts, will draw the winners of ten St. Maarten vacations next Wednesday as the Plymouth-based website "Everythingstmaarten.com" concludes its celebration of reaching two million site visits by going after a Guinness World Record.

            Plymouth Town Manager Mark Sylvia and Assistant Town Manager Melissa Arrighi will draw the winners at 9:10 a. m. Eastern time Dec. 12 at radio station WATD (95.9 fm), an event which will be broadcast live on the station and on its website and simulcast in St. Maarten on "Island 92" 91.9 fm. The drawing will be streamed worldwide on the stations' websites, www.959watd.com and www.island92.com. 

            The everythingstmaarten.com website has quietly accumulated more than two million site visits, most of them in the last two or three years. The site -- which started as a writing sample on a Plymouth, Massachusetts PR company's website 12 years ago -- provides news and travel advice about the popular half-Dutch, half-French Caribbean island.

            "This St. Maarten website started as an accident," admits its reluctant founder, Jeff Berger, owner of JMB Communications, the company that posted the original writing sample in 1995. "When search engines kicked in, they found my writing sample, and business-owner friends on St. Maarten starting calling us. I had no idea why until I did a search for St. Maarten and found my writing sample."

            Today the site has more than 120 pages and publishes two free weekly newsletters -- one offering general news of interest to tourists, the other oriented toward timeshare owners. Known both as everythingstmaarten.com and everythingstmartin.com, to reflect both the Dutch and French-Side spellings, Berger's St. Maarten website offers details about island restaurants, resorts, villas, beaches, tours, and shopping.

            Berger says the top winner will be able to choose four one-week stays from a list of 10 destinations -- among them two hotels, Divi Little Bay Beach Resort and Summit Resort Hotel, one naturist resort -- Club Orient on Orient Beach, French St. Martin, a luxury catamaran from Tradewinds Cruise Club, and six villas on both sides of the island.  The top prize also includes jewelry gift certificates, day sails, and many gourmet dinners.

            Six other winners will each win one-week vacations.

            A complete list of prizes is at http://www.jmbcommunications.com/sxm/nine.html . Entries are being accepted until December 11.

News Release

From: JMB Communications
www.everythingstmaarten.com
Post Office Box 1812
Plymouth, MA 02362-1812
(508)-830-3456

Thursday, March 16, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Everything St. Maarten Website To Give Away Nine Weeks of St. Maarten Vacations, Other Prizes In "Thanks Two Million"

(Plymouth, Massachusetts) --- A popular St. Maarten website is poised to give away nine weeks of St. Maarten vacations when it reaches two million site visits this year.

Everythingstmaarten.com website owner Jeff Berger said today that the website will give away nine one-week vacations -- four of them going to one top winner along with many other prizes to celebrate the site topping two million visitors this year.

Anyone can win, Berger says, and no purchase is necessary. A complete prize list and rules are posted online at www.everythingstmaarten.com.

"The site was started accidentally," proclaims Jeff Berger of Plymouth, Massachusetts, who started the St. Maarten / St. Martin sites in 1996. Berger posted a brief story about St. Maarten on his business website in 1996 as a writing sample.

"When the search engines kicked in, off it went. We initially had perhaps two dozen hits a week, but now we're getting about ten thousand a week. The site has a significant impact on the St. Maarten and St. Martin businesses it mentions."

In late 2006, the site gave away a two-week vacation at The Summit Resort on St. Maarten and at the Holland House Beach Hotel to celebrate it reaching 1.5-million visitors. This time, the prize list is far longer. "We decided approaching two million visits this soon after hitting 1.5-million last fall was worthy of a really huge celebration." All prizes are donated in return for mentions on the websites.

Berger's website contains detailed island information and is updated daily. Berger also publishes a free weekly newsletter about the island, published every Monday, as well as a newsletter about the island’s many timesharing resorts. His site also now includes dozens of discount coupons for island attractions, restaurants, jewelry stores, boat trips, etc.

JMB Communications, which operates everythingstmaarten.com, provides marketing counsel and related strategic public relations and marketing services to many high-profile companies worldwide including International Business Machines Corporation, Samsonite Corporation, Texas Instruments, Compaq Computer, and others.

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