Tampa Marketing Company Acquired Local Newspaper - Davis Islands Community News

    /24-7PressRelease/ - TAMPA, FL, March 29, 2007 - Community Publications announced today the sale of the Davis Islands Community News to Tampa Marketing Company. Davis Islands residents have been receiving their news on local issues and events in this local newspaper for seven years.

"Davis Islands is a perfectly located Tampa community that is frequently forgotten due to its 'destination' geography," said Bill Sharpe, president of Tampa Marketing Company. "With Tampa's downtown airport, Tampa General Hospital, the Davis Islands Yacht Club and great restaurants and businesses, Davis Islands has a lot to offer its residents and surrounding communities."

The Davis Islands Community News was founded in 2001 and was taken over by the current editor and publisher, Lee Medart, in 2003. While the April issue with Medart as editor has been distributed, Bill Sharpe and Tampa Marketing Company's first edition will be issued in May 2007.

"With Lee Medart's planned retirement, many Davis Islands residents have feared that their local identity might be sacrificed," said Sharpe. "With the great community identity and discussions that she [Medart] has helped to create, we look forward to following her efforts through the continued publication of the Davis Islands Community News."

Sharpe added that many Davis Islands businesses are frequently forgotten by the mainland residents and the Tampa Marketing Company hopes to help increase awareness of them.

The Tampa Marketing Company is best recognized as an internet and web-based marketing company with the sites they own or provide advertising sales for including TampaForums.com, TampaRacing.com, TampaGold.com, SOHOTampa.com and SticksofFire.com.

In addition, many of the Web sites have been recognized locally including SOHOTampa.com and SticksofFire.com as Creative Loafing's "Best of the Bay for 2006." Also, TampaGold.com recently provided web casts of candidates' forums in several Tampa City Council races and the top five Tampa Marketing Company Web sites achieved more than 108 million page views with more than 1.2 million unique visitors in 2006.

"I have known Bill for over two years and he has done tremendous things to build a greater awareness of the SOHO (South Howard Avenue) area. He has been a member of our Chamber of Commerce, knows Davis Islands and will help to continue the Davis Islands Community News responsiveness to our local neighborhood issues," said Medart.

The Davis Islands Community News is a monthly publication that is mailed to all of the residents of Davis Islands. The total current distribution is approximately 3,000 and Tampa Marketing Company's plans call for a significant increase of distribution to more surrounding neighborhood areas.

About Tampa Marketing Company
Tampa Marketing Company is an internet publishing and marketing company in Tampa, Florida. Our current sites are TAMPAGOLD.COM, SOHOTAMPA.COM, USFGOLD.COM, TAMPAFORUMS.com, STICKSOFIRE.com, TAMPARACING.com and FLORIDAMILLION.COM.

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