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Zinio: A Partner’s One-Stop-Shopping Digital Destination

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From Jennifer Halliday, Zinio’s Director of Partnerships

As the holidays nip at our heels, I spent the entire past weekend flitting around town experiencing a serious bout of “present stress”.  I found myself traversing the sunny streets of Los Angeles in search of the “perfect gift”, using FAR too much gasoline (thankfully the prices have lowered) and dashing between stores such as Williams Sonoma and Lululemon to BCBG and Christophe Salon (“present stress” causes slight graying of the hair).  Breezing out of Talbots for a gift for Mom and in to Best Buy for a gift for my Uncle.  At one point, I squeezed my eyes shut and wished for a one stop shopping destination that gave me everything I wanted in one fell swoop.   These days a consumers time is precious, so finding a place where you can search the aisles for anything you want, try them out, select your favorite items, have them delivered instantly and enjoy them for years to come would be like finding a diamond in the rough.

Enter Zinio.com, the one-stop-shopping destination where your digital reading gift decisions are made easier.  Free your arms of bulking shopping bags and lighten your gift load by searching effortlessly in Zinio.com’s vast repository for any content you desire, enjoy the Zinio INSIDE feature to test drive a favorite magazine, pick 5, 10, 20 or 200 hundred magazines and deliver them instantly anywhere in the world with one click, store your favorite holiday magazine on your laptop so that next year, when you simply must serve that refreshing Peppermint Martini  at your holiday soiree, the recipe is conveniently handy and accessible in your own personal Zinio library. 

As Zinio continues its aggressive partner outreach, we are discovering that partners are interested in one-stop-shopping as well.  At Zinio we present numerous partnership opportunities ranging from integrated feeds similar to our partnership with BN.com http://gifts.barnesandnoble.com/magazines/index.asp and rebranded custom newsstands similar to Hachette’s Woman’s Day model http://www.zinio.com/main?ns=womansday to promotions with consumer brands such as Showtime’s Dexter series http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/special_features.do and Dell  Computer http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/shared/best_of_web/main?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn .  So the next time you are tired of trying to find a parking spot at the Mall, or a store cashier cops an attitude or your gift-laden arms are shaking from the overload, find peace of mind at Zinio, your one-stop-shopping digital reading destination.

Posted on December 16th, 2008 | leave a comment | trackback