"After hearing a radio plea during the Gulf War in 1991 to send mail to our military personnel, I began a letter writing campaign involving my businesses and customers.
Two years ago, I decided our troops who were being deployed to the Middle East, could use a morale boost so I founded Valentines For Troops, a mail campaign designed to send as many Valentines as possible overseas to our men and women in the Armed Services. The first year we collected and distributed over 100,000 Valentines.
This past Valentine's Day, I wanted to collect 1,000,000 Valentines, ten times the amount collected our first year. I knew I would need to get national exposure so I researched and selected the PR services of Majon.com to launch my press releases. The previous year, I had used a Majon.com competitor and received a minimal amount of press coverage.
The day after Majon.com launched my release, my cell phone was literally ringing every 15 minutes with newspaper reporters, magazine writers, local and national radio stations and numerous television stations all over the U.S.
I began doing several radio interviews each day in many major markets like New York, Dallas, Chicago and Los Angeles. I received calls and had my story appear in the Washington Times, LA Times, and New York Times and in hundreds of newspapers across the U.S.
I made television appearances on ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, CNN, the Today Show, and others which were carried by many local affiliates.
We collected and distributed over 1,100,000 Valentines to our Troops this year all because of the connections made through the Majon.com news release. For only a few hundred dollars, I received exposure in the media that would have cost millions of dollars. Majon.com has the contacts and those contacts responded to my press release sent by Majon.com.
I know tens of thousands of our troops overseas had smiles on their faces after receiving Valentines from home. While I was inundated with thank you mail from them, the biggest thank you goes to Majon.com for getting the word out.
Early this year, I founded the Armed Forces Children's Education Fund (AFCEF), a 501c 3 non-profit corporation, which will provide college funds to the children of those soldiers who were killed in the war on terrorism. Since we just received the final approval from the IRS, we will soon have Majon.com launch our news release announcing the creation of AFCEF which will hopefully help us to raise money that can be given to the children of the fallen soldiers who made need financial assistance with college funds.
Majon.com gets results. If you don't believe me, just check my website, www.ValentinesForTroops.com, and see the pictures of faces of the soldiers defending our country holding their Valentines. God Bless each and every one of them."
Michael Fleming, Founder
Valentines For Troops
Armed Forces Children Education Fund
valentinesfortroops.com
