Welcome to Timesmedianet.com, your next-gen tool for online PR functions and business news dissemination. 

  Let's introduce ourselves:

• Medianet is a PR brand managed by Optimal Media Solutions Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd (the Times of India group), one of the world's largest media conglomerates with a formidable presence in print, on radio and TV and the internet.

Our new web offering:   

• Having serviced clients mainly through print media as a PR vehicle, we're now here with a website for clients to build up an information bank that is easily accessible and visible to other PR companies, industry peers, business journalists, advertising and marketing professionals and informed consumers.

What's special:   

• We allow our subscribing members to upload soft copies of their Press Releases on a 24/7 basis directly from their offices, homes, cybercafés and other points of internet access. This releases could show immediately, or at a time and date specified by clients.
• The website therefore becomes a centre for comprehensive industry intelligence to see what industry majors are doing. The Press Releases uploaded by our members are UNTOUCHED by our editors, and show INTACT on the web without any changes being made by us. So that's "Business news. From those who make news. UNCENSORED." (Look at the top of the page - we've put it up there for you!)

Exclusive features:

• Submissions from clients will include Press Releases that can be uploaded as frequently as required, besides photos and information on new product launches, audio-video files of advertisements, events. TV commercials etc, CEO speeches, company profiles (updated from time to time), financial reports, job vacancies in member companies and business blogs (open to all).

  How this works:

• We offer subscription-based memberships (with specific validity periods) to our clients. Our marketing representatives in the respective cities get in touch with you to offer you a subscription-based membership. Bona-fide members are given secure log-in IDs and passwords to access their accounts.
• Each account holder gets a specific package comprising all types of submissions in the categories mentioned above (Press Releases, photos, job vacancies etc). He is able to upload his Press Releases directly onto our website. Members' submissions in the other categories reach us for file formatting and show on the web within two working days.
• Once logged in, a member is able to view his account log and status. Each member gets two sets of folders - one set showing his own submissions in each category, datewise, and the other set of folders showing the submissions from other clients (Press Releases, new product launches etc) - all items that he has saved for future use. (It's a kind of electronic file cabinet, with one set of folders containing his own submissions, and the other set of folders containing information saved from other sections of our site). Each member creates his own customised information bank, keeping track of developments, strategies, tie-ups, value-adds etc being offered by peers, competitors and associates.
• We also encourage communication and community-building activities and allow members (with their permission) to display and save each others' contacts.  

  Publicity, publicity & more publicity:

• Our web-based services will get complete support from our print publications like Times of India and Economic Times, our TV news channel (Times Now) and the advertising and event management divisions of the Times of India group. Our editors would always be looking at Timesmedianet.com to see what's newsworthy. Great news made here finds its way from the web to TV screens and print broadsheets.
• Also, we'll organise and promote business events across major metros in India featuring Timesmedianet.com members, giving them greater exposure to captive audiences and acting as a catalyst to enhance business.

  Speak your mind, no holds barred: 

• While newspaper publications have their own limitations and won't let you say certain things your way, you can say it all here. Our open business blog board allows anyone to debate on whatever's making business news. Agree, disagree, come with a zeal to criticise strategies, slam policies, chide monopoly, take up the cudgels for the consumer, say anything that sets the bizworld spinning! Really good blogs might just find their way into the newspaper!

If you have any questions or comments, write to us at medianetweb@timesgroup.com including your name, name of the company and office address, job title, land phone and mobile numbers and email address. We'd look forward to hearing from you.

  Cheers and happy surfing!

  Timesmedianet Online Team