HAWKINS VENTURES, LLC
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA

and other brands to a wide range of people and topics, Hawkins Media, LLC and its divisions ADVISOR.com, Advisor Media, Advisor Publications, and Advisor Conferences produce dozens of how-to products and services -- a comprehensive family of advice, information and training resources in the broad areas of business, technology, home and family, lifestyle, money, and more. Driving it all is Hawkins Media's mission: to help its customers solve business, technology and lifestyle problems, grow their businesses, advance their careers, become more successful, and have a great life. Hawkins Media fulfills this mission by providing a rich mix of the best ideas, discoveries, experience, techniques and solutions. In its media products and services, this expertise comes directly from the hard-won insight and wisdom of thousands of contributors. Because Advisor Media is renowned for providing expert advice to solve real problems, customers learn exactly what really works (and what doesn't). Via media and via consulting, Hawkins Media combines independent real world experience, field-tested technology, and proven and productive solutions. The expert advice saves customers time, money, disappointment -- and lights the way to success. Hawkins Media has been providing expert advice and know-how for decades, serving software companies, healthcare providers, restaurants, television and radio stations and studios, retail chains, entertainment venues, technology companies, construction contractors, manufacturing firms, movie studios, restaurants and food packagers, auto dealers and manufacturers, financial firms and accounting practices, law firms, school districts, and more. In 1968 John L. Hawkins established Hawkins Media to provide consulting, programming, production and technical services to broadcast stations in the San Francisco Bay Area, beginning with KMPX-FM and KNBA-AM. Hawkins Media built on John's earlier venture Hawkins Enterprises and services Sound Unlimited and Photography Unlimited. Related activities involved San Francisco stations KKHI-AM-FM, KPEN-FM, KUDO-TV, KKIS-AM, Serros Mobile Television Productions, Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, live concert recordings, celebrity interviews, radio specials, and San Francisco Symphony live broadcasts. 1980s Hawkins Media partners included HawkTek Corporation, Data Based Solutions, Hawkins-Hawkins Co. Inc., and others. Clients included U.S. Audio, Nummi Motors, Fox Software, National Emergency Services, Broderbund Software, TotalTape Publishing, Lucasfilm, Mrs. Field's Cookies, Price-Waterhouse, Pinnacle Television Productions, Borland International, Data Based Solutions, and others. brand name. The magazine spawned software products, books, and online services. Hawkins Media partnered to provide expert advice content and editorial direction. In the nascent online world, Data Based Advisor (DBA) bulletin board debuted in 1984, a decade before the public Internet, followed by DBA on The Source and CompuServe. In 1994 ADVISOR.com premiered on the Internet. brand business technology publications and events, with clients and partners including Apple, Borland, Claris/FileMaker, CA/Computer Associates, Fox Software, IBM, Lotus Development, Microsoft, Novell, Sybase, and others. ADVISOR print publications were distributed world-wide. Hundreds of live conferences and seminars were presented in Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, U.K., and across the U.S.A. John Hawkins has provided his business technology expertise via other media. He was a frequent co-host on CNBC TV's "The Next Wave" hosted by Leonard Nimoy. John has been interviewed and quoted by USA Today, Los Angeles Times, San Diego Home & Garden, and various radio shows. John wrote articles for San Diego Union-Tribune, InfoWorld, and others, and was a writer and editor for IBM's E-Business initiative publications. John was president of Golden Gate Computer Society for four years, and taught business technology at College of Marin. For decades John has been a guest speaker about business technology, in various countries, at business events ranging from trade organization conferences to Rotary International clubs. Jeanne Hawkins created and produced a wide range of business conferences, seminars and trade shows, including many in conjunction with Apple, IBM, Microsoft and Novell. She also managed the production of a variety of print magazines, journals and newsletters. She also managed operations and marketing for a radio station, advertising agencies, computer software development, computer networking firm, and manufacturing company. and other brands to a wide range of people and topics, Hawkins Media, LLC and its divisions ADVISOR.com, Advisor Media, Advisor Publications, and Advisor Conferences produce dozens of how-to products and services -- a comprehensive family of advice, information and training resources in the broad areas of business, technology, home and family, lifestyle, money, and more. Driving it all is Hawkins Media's mission: to help its customers solve business, technology and lifestyle problems, grow their businesses, advance their careers, become more successful, and have a great life. Hawkins Media fulfills this mission by providing a rich mix of the best ideas, discoveries, experience, techniques and solutions. In its media products and services, this expertise comes directly from the hard-won insight and wisdom of thousands of contributors. Because Advisor Media is renowned for providing expert advice to solve real problems, customers learn exactly what really works (and what doesn't). Via media and via consulting, Hawkins Media combines independent real world experience, field-tested technology, and proven and productive solutions. The expert advice saves customers time, money, disappointment -- and lights the way to success. Hawkins Media has been providing expert advice and know-how for decades, serving software companies, healthcare providers, restaurants, television and radio stations and studios, retail chains, entertainment venues, technology companies, construction contractors, manufacturing firms, movie studios, restaurants and food packagers, auto dealers and manufacturers, financial firms and accounting practices, law firms, school districts, and more.