A successful production is the result of expert coordination and pin-pointed timing. With Alden Event Productions as an alliance partner, we are able to maintain complete control of the production process. Alden is in constant communication with production specialists with over 20 years of experience. Alden creative specialists produce their individual segments with precise discipline. Budgets and deadlines are meticulously followed.

Whether it’s a sweepstakes, a game or a contest, delivered online, on air, in print or over the phone, it takes careful attention to detail – legal, logistical and practical – to ensure a promotion achieves maximized success. That’s the substance Promotion Mechanics brings to Leverage. PMI provides the practical, legal and logistical expertise to manage promotion from development, security procedures through fulfillment. Since 1981, PMI has created more than 3,000 promotions, written rules for more than 2,000 sweepstakes and games, judged hundreds of contests, and developed thousands of creative concepts.

David A. Shugarts is a veteran of the publishing world, combining talents in writing and editing as well as technical skills. As the ‘tech’ person in practically every organization he worked in, Dave acquired an early knowledge of small computers (1976) and has been working in an evolving mixture of DOS/Windows, Apple and Unix/Linux ever since. He pioneered the use of Macintoshes in typesetting and has personally typeset more than 100 books. He founded Azimuth Communications Inc. in 1990 and has also served as IT manager for several companies. He recently helped to pioneer live television broadcasting over the Internet, serving as manager of a $50 million satellite teleport and streaming media operations center.

Cierant and Leverage partner to provide a range of marketing and sales effectiveness tools and services to clients. eCommUNIQUÉ™ is a robust system that offers web and email-based surveys and polls (with detailed statistics and reporting), trackable HTML-based email distributions, and web-based editing and local printing of Quark-based documents. Cierant also provides SalesMaster, a product configurator, quote builder, and proposal generator that helps sales people and channel partners close more business. Cierant's tools are easily incorporated into multifaceted marketing and sales campaigns.