Chalk Media Corp. Provides Corporate Update
WASHINGTON, DC – September 22, 2008
– Chalk Media Corp. (TSXV: CKM), developer of mobile communications
software Mobile chalkboard™, today issued the following update from its
President & CEO Stewart Walchli.
Given the contrast between
the recent promising results of our business and the volatility in the
market, we felt that it would be useful to provide an update on our
business.
Summary:
- Strategy of focusing on large enterprise clients verticals in specific verticals is delivering results
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Chalk has best two months of sales of Mobile chalkboard™ in the
company's history as measured by booked contract value, seats of
software sold and number of deals
- Sales progress made in the defense & aerospace, telecommunications and media industries
- Approximately 50 organizations in various stages of formally evaluating Mobile chalkboard™
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Mobile chalkboard™ version 5.1 to be announced later this week with
significant advancements that are expected to have positive impact on
sales
Business Development:
Despite
the difficult economic environment, July and August 2008 represented
the best two months of sales of Mobile chalkboard™ in Chalk's history.
Several of the blue chip companies interested in our software completed
their evaluation of it and made a decision to move forward with a
purchase.
A very large international advertising agency based in
London and New York finished their evaluation and moved on to purchase.
This was tremendously exciting for us given that it is part of a Global
500 company and we now have a referenceable blue chip client in the
advertising industry.
This licensing agreement validates our
recurring revenue and pricing model. Additionally, it reinforces our
assertion that there is strong demand for our software in our target
industries. During the past two months, we have received strong
interest in our software from large organizations in the defense &
aerospace, telecommunications and media industries. We will be
announcing new licensing agreements with additional companies.
Several
new Fortune / Global 500 companies began evaluating our software in the
past two months. We now have approximately 50 organizations evaluating
our software. We continue to push hard with our sales team to execute
on new licensing agreements.
Technology:
We
will be announcing the launch of Mobile chalkboard™ version 5.1 later
this week. Version 5.1 has several new important features that will
help us win several high profile deals in the short term.
We
have now filed fourteen patents around our technology and believe that
we have the best in class technology, as validated by our client wins.
Content Libraries:
In
August we announced an agreement with MindLeaders, a leader in off the
shelf online training content, whereby their Business Skills Library
has been converted into the Mobile chalkboard™ format. MindLeaders and
Chalk clients can now license this library of mobile content for use on
Mobile chalkboard™. All content sold in this format will require the
purchase of our software. We are expecting this to be a very effective
strategy.
We have also had strong client interest in our
proprietary BlackBerry Productivity library. We developed this library
to help clients reduce their support costs of BlackBerry devices. We
expect several clients will deploy our Productivity Library in the
coming months.
We are currently finalizing similar agreements
with several other content providers as well as working on additional
libraries from MindLeaders.
Board of Directors:
In
July we announced the appointment of Divesh Sisodraker to our Board of
Directors. Mr. Sisodraker has extensive software company operating
experience, having been the President & CEO of Pivotal Software as
well as the CFO of Taleo, a talent management software company based in
San Francisco. We are evaluating the appointment of additional outside
directors.
We will continue to keep you updated as our business progresses. Thank you for your continued support.
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About Chalk Media Corp.
Chalk's
mobile content deployment system, Mobile chalkboard™, allows multimedia
content to be created, securely pushed and tracked on BlackBerry®
smartphones. Our software and content help organizations communicate
with their employees, business partners and customers. Additional
information is available at www.chalk.com.
Forward Looking Statement
This
press release contains 'forward-looking statements' within the meaning
of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Generally,
forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-
looking terminology such as 'plans', 'expects' or 'does not expect',
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events or results 'may' ,'could', 'would', 'might' or 'will be taken',
'occur' or 'be achieved'. Forward-looking statements are subject to
known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause
the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of
Chalk to be materially different from those expressed or implied by
such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to: risks
related to the speculative nature of the software industry, which is
affected by numerous factors beyond Chalk's control; the existence of
present and possible future government regulation; the significant and
increasing competition that exists in the software industry; and risks
associated with early stage companies such as Chalk, including
uncertainty of revenues, markets and profitability and the need to
raise additional funding.
Although Chalk has attempted to
identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there
may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated,
estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements
will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could
differ materially from those anticipated in such statements.
Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking
statements. Chalk does not undertake to update any forward-looking
statements that are incorporated by reference herein, except in
accordance with applicable securities laws. Further information on
Chalk Media Corp. is available at www.sedar.com.
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For more information, please contact:
Chalk Media Corp.
Kris Sutherland
Executive Vice President
Tel: 604.453.4424
kris@chalk.com