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About
WriteExpress Corporation
History
"Robert
Stevens and Dr. Melvin Luthy founded WriteExpress Corporation in
December of 1994. Their partnership began in 1989 when they created a
Rhyming Dictionary in cooperation with WordPerfect Corporation.
Luthy, a professor of linguistics and former chair of the Brigham
Young University linguistics department, built the phonetic database
and Stevens programmed the software. Later, Luthy and Stevens worked
on their second project--to take the WordPerfect Rhyming Dictionary
and transform it into the Novell GroupWise Telephone Access Server
(TAS) Text-To-Speech Exceptions Dictionary."
"The
sheer volume of writing that these projects demanded brought to
light a common problem that would-be writers face daily--writers'
block. How does a nonwriter write something well? No tool existed to
help amateur writers sound like experts. Word processing, beyond
providing a thesaurus, had never addressed the problem of a blank
screen. From that point, Luthy and Stevens began brainstorming how
they could boost writers' confidence."
"By
1995, they had settled on an idea to create the ultimate writing
tool. They hired more than thirty editors to write the database. Some
of the editors were part-time faculty in the BYU English department.
Others were free-lance editors or English MA graduates from Brigham
Young University."
"Ron
Millet, the father of full-text searching and indexing and principal
author of Novell's patented QuickFinder search engine, willingly
integrated his brainchild."
"Brian
Wistisen, a former writing tools tester at WordPerfect, spearheaded
the testing effort."
"Scott
Faulring, a software usability expert, provided weekly design and
usability feedback. The developers experimented with many ideas,
testing, adjusting, and testing again until Faulring's team felt that
anyone could use the software."
"Luthy
and Stevens released the software in March 1997, after twenty-seven
months of development, and named their product WriteExpress
Interactive Business Letters--designed to be the ultimate writing
tool to help amateurs write like professionals."
"WriteExpress
software continues to win industry awards, including the prestigious
"ZD Net 5-Star Editors' Pick Award"-- and is a favorite
tool among both English and non-English writers. Version 2.1, renamed
WriteExpress Easy Letters, was released March 1998. Version 2000,
which is easier to use and adds support for Word 2000 and Novell
GroupWise, was released in November 1999. Version 2001 was released
November 2000. Version 2002 was released February 2002. It adds
support for Word 2002. The Mac Classic version of Rhymer was released
December 2001. The Mac Carbon Rhymer was released March 2003."
"Our
experience with the Easy Letters writing program taught us that some
of our users could benefit from even more sales and marketing letters
than we had included in the original Easy Letters program. Our
development team has now created 900 additional sales and marketing
letters to go with the full content of the original award-wining Easy
Letters program, which contains over 2100 letters on 500 topics, with
sample sentences and phrases. We call the entire new compilation of
3,000+ letters 3,001 Business & Sales Letters. You get the full
benefit of the original Easy Letters program, plus 900 more sales and
marketing letters."  WriteExpress has been creating award-winning software for the last 8 years.
OUR
COMPANY
"Our
founder and President started out as a programmer for
WordPerfect. He built a wonderful tool there that now is the
basis for our top selling product, 3,001 Business & Sales Letters
(I am going to just call it 3,001 from here on out.) After
leaving WordPerfect, he created one of the best-selling software
writing tools of all-time, called Easy Letters, online at
WriteExpress.com. Over the years, traffic has kept on
increasing. Now we get more than 20,000 unique visitors to our
site each weekday!"
OUR
PRODUCTS
"Easy
Letters and 3,001 are available by direct download or on CD.
Both programs install directly into your word processor. You
don't even need to start a new program when you need to find the
perfect letter, sentence, phrases, or step-by-step tips! By the
way, they both include over 11,000 prewritten sentences and over
39,000 professionally written phrases. While Easy Letters and
3,001 are the cornerstone to our business, we have added many
products to the mix in the last few years. We added several
eBooks of the most popular writing categories. We couldn't turn
all the categories into eBooks because we have over 81 major
categories that cover 500 important writing topics! We also
have gotten the rights to sell over 20 extra products that help both
individuals and business people write better! We will discuss
some of those products in our future monthly issues."
OUR
CURRENT SPECIALS
"We
have played around with shipping prices, and have found that our
products sell best when we provide FREE SHIPPING! So until
further notice, this practice will continue."
"We
have tried to feature several of our powerful and popular products
on our website, and are in the middle of a successful BUY 1, GET 1
FREE Promotion. Here's how it works. The customer gets
3,001 Free when they buy any of these 3 items:"
"1--New
Novelist--This is an excellent and award-winning software tool to
help you write a novel. Over 20,000 copies sold to people in
over 30 countries! It sells for $49.99."
Free Product with Purchase!
"2--StyleWriter--This
is a fun tool to help people write better and more efficiently.
It is extensive and powerful, and sells for $149.99."
Free Product with Purchase!
"3--Office
Ready Professional--This software tool includes an assortment of
over 500 Microsoft Office Templates--for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
PC Home Magazine calls it--The ULTIMATE add-on for Microsoft
Office." It sells for $79.95
Free Product with Purchase!
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