It is with great excitement and pride that I share with you the announcement of my resignation from The Gonzales Weekly, my employer for the last five years, and my full-time dedication to dezins. It is because of all of your support and inspiration that the decision has finally been made to pursue this new venture. I look forward to being available to all of you full-time and appreciate greatly your patience with me over the last few months during this transition period. Onward and upward we go.

PRESENTING THE NEW LOOK Introducing the new logo for Dezins. After the name change took place in the middle of last year, work soon began on redesigning the logo. The idea was to create a new look while maintaining particular aspects of the original design thus creating what you see. To my "dezin consultants" Paul, Mehmet, Scott, Judy, Jim and Frank, thank you for your help in achieving the new look.

DEZINS BRANCHES OUT INTO ADVERTISING MANAGEMENT dezins recently took part in a new venture as it partnered with Layne Gautreaux of Layne's Jewelry in managing his holiday advertising campaign. This is the first time that dezins has participated in advertising management and the results were outstanding:
"It was a pleasure working with you this fall. For the first time ever, I was able to concentrate on the things that I do best, and not have to worry about my ads being done right and placed when and where they needed to be. You did an outstanding job, and I look forward to a long and prosperous relationship." - Layne Gautreaux

GIVING LOUISIANA SEAFOOD Be on the look out for the all new look for the Mike Anderson's Restaurant Gift Certificates. These gift certificates are available at the Gonzales location of Holiday Inn / Mike Anderson's Seafood and are good at all area locations. What a perfect gift - great Louisiana cuisine that presents well.

BE IN THE SPOTLIGHT Coming next month will be the dezinSPOTLIGHT. This is another way to say thank you to those of you who refer others. Your referrals mean alot and are greatly appreciated. Each month those who send referrals will be spotlighted in the dezinSOURCE newsletter with banner ads on the homepage.

PROFESSIONAL LOOKING E-MAIL Tired of regular, boring email? Want something unique? Use Outlook or Outlook Express? Dezins is offering email backgrounds. They give a professional look to your emails. Contact dezins if interested.

INCREASE YOUR WEB TRAFFIC One of the most significant ways to boost your position in search engine placement is to increase the amount of hits from other web sites. For example, having someone visit your site from this web site. That will increase your placement on search engines. Please contact dezins if you are interested in having other dezins' web clients link to your site and vice versa. This is a simple way to increase traffic for all of us.