I am looking for additional firms that offer third party perks-at-work
services to other corporations.  That is to say, companies that, for a
fee (either from client corporation offering perks to employees or
from companies offering perks to employees or both), offer employees
special discounts, special services, group rates, etc., from various
companies.

Firms that we also know about include:

Perkscard (www.perkscard.com)
NextJump (www.nextjump.com)
Sparkfly (www.sparkfly.com)
Motivano (www.motivano.com)
Wild at Work(www.wildatwork.com)
Passport Unlimited (www.passportunlimited.com)
Perks.com (www.incentiveprograms.com--yeah, that URL makes sense!)
Employee Mall (www.employeemall.com)
Benefit Express Card (http://www.thebenexcard.com/default.aspx?mode=about_us)
WorkStream (http://www.workstreaminc.com/products_services/rewards/index.asp)
BeyondWork (http://www.beyondwork.com/v0_co_eds.htm)

To clarify, a qualifying company must offer employees perks, not
rewards, by which I mean "privileges, gains or profits INCIDENTAL to
regular salary or wages; especially ones expected or promised."

I will pay $25 for the first company found and a tip of $25 for each
subsequent company found, so long as they meet the qualifications
described above and offer these services to American employees.  (I'll
post a separate question if someone other than the initial answerer
comments that they have an additional company that fits the bill.)

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 03 Nov 2005 19:10 PST

Hello Logicalboyla,

Would this service meet your needs?

Next Jump Corporate Perks Program 
http://www.nextjump.com/corporate_services.html

Thanks, Bobbie7

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 03 Nov 2005 19:20 PST

Does this service suit your purpose?

SHOP4ZERO's Corporate Perk Program
http://www.mplsredcross.shop4zero.org/corporateperk/default.asp


Bobbie7

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Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 04 Nov 2005 01:58 PST

Hello logicalboyla-ga,

Here are some additional employee discount vendors that might meet
your requirements. Please look them over and post a question to my
attention if any of them meet your needs. Thanks.

~ czh ~

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SUMMARY LIST -- ALPHABETICAL ORDER
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CorporateRewards 
Ecount's 5 STAR Rewards?
Employee Discount Club
Entertainment Publications 
GiftCertificates.com
Oxford Benefit Management
Retail Brand Alliance
Working Advantage

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CorporateRewards 
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http://www.corporaterewards.com/corpcontent/aboutus.cfm?cfid=5865854&cftoken=200511040311279975
CorporateRewards.com is the leading provider of online incentive,
reward, and loyalty programs for companies both large and small. Our
online applications and patented Universal Gift Certificate technology
allows our clients to enjoy an entirely new level of program branding,
participant satisfaction, and ROI.


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Ecount's 5 STAR Rewards?
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http://corp.ecount.com/prod/ei.html
Ecount's 5 STAR Rewards?

5 STAR is designed to maximize the performance of your employee
rewards and recognition programs by efficiently and cost-effectively
delivering cash incentive payments onto stored value cards. You can
use our virtual or plastic Visa® products, or deliver your rewards in
the form of a spa, sports, or other lifestyle "experience" cards.

5 Star Uses
 -- Employee rewards 
 -- Recognition programs 
 -- Safety programs 
 -- Metrics achievement 


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Employee Discount Club 
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http://www.employeediscos.com/
Employee Discount Club provides employees with the benefits of
convenient discounts on popular amusement park and attraction tickets.
 Your company will be given access to an exclusive web site,
customized for your organization, allowing big discounts not offered
to the public.


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Entertainment Publications 
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http://www.entertainment.com/save/aboutus/products
Entertainment Publications 
Entertainment® book (a.k.a - "The BIG Coupon Book")
Entertainment offers customized discount programs that corporations
can utilize to reward and incentivize both employees and customers.
Hundreds of well-known companies have turned to Entertainment when
they want to utilize discounts as part of their sales, marketing or
product initiatives.


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GiftCertificates.com?
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http://www.giftcertificates.com/business/about_us.cfm?sessionid=89925037884200837225&hid=0&b2bhomepage=yes
GiftCertificates.com? was established in 1997. We serve nearly 20,000
corporate customers and more than 2 million consumers. We offer gift
certificates to hundreds of merchants including the most popular
stores, airlines, hotels, theaters, restaurants, online services, and
more. Our dedicated staff assists our corporate partners with
successful incentive, promotion, and reward programs. We also boast
the best turnaround time in the industry for both email and physical
delivery.


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Oxford Benefit ManagementSM (OBM)
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https://www.oxhp.com/obm/employer/obm_plans/existing_plans/about_us.html
Oxford Benefit ManagementSM (OBM) is a dynamic employee benefit
distribution company that provides access to third-party vendor
specialty products to Oxford Health Plans' 1.5 million Members, and
small to mid-sized employer groups outside of Oxford's traditional
customer base. OBM is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxford Health
Plans, Inc.

OBM creates targeted product distribution agreements with key vendors.
Under these agreements, vendors provide discounted products and
risk-bearing insured products for OBM to offer to insurance brokers
and agents, employer groups, associations, unions and others. OBM acts
as the distribution arm for products by vendors including AIG American
General, CAREINGTON International Corporation, Dental Benefit
Providers (DBP), Cole Managed Vision, Hear USA (formerly HEARx) and
Work & Family Benefits, Inc.


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Retail Brand Alliance
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http://www.benefitnews.com/detail.cfm?id=7177&terms=|discount||programs|
Retail Brand Alliance, a holding company whose subsidiary companies
include Brooks Brothers and Casual Corner Group, launched its
corporate discount card in 2003. Participation in the program has
skyrocketed, says Michael Moseman, director of corporate incentive
services.

Nearly 700 companies nationwide offer the Brooks Brothers or Casual
Corner discount card (or both) to employees, up from 250 companies one
year ago. Some 110,000 cardholders have taken advantage of the
program. The Brooks Brothers card gets them 15% off regularly priced
merchandise at Brooks Brothers, Carolee and Adrienne Vittadini stores,
while the Casual Corner card nets the same benefit at Casual Corner,
Petite Sophisticate and Casual Corner Annex stores.

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:FczhmIWw6lMJ:www.businessinsurance.com/cgi-bin/article.pl%3FarticleId%3D17059+%22Retail+Brand+Alliance%22+OR+RBA%22corporate+discount%22&hl=en
Companies enlighten workers to corporate fashion

RBA, as part of its services, offers a corporate discount program.
Under the program, companies can enroll free of charge to offer
workers a 15% discount on in-store purchases of regularly priced
merchandise across all RBA brands.

"As companies look for more and more creative ways to compensate their
employees, these types of discounts come into play," Mr. Moseman said.

Using an online enrollment system, employees register for a
personalized, corporate membership card that is valid for 24 months
and can be renewed upon expiration.

Currently, more than 1,000 companies participate in the corporate
discount, with about 155,000 employees enrolled. "We average about a
22% to a 26% participation rate" among companies that join, said Mr.
Moseman, who noted that "reactivation rates have been very strong."

http://www.usdaesra.org/october05presents.pdf


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Working Advantage 
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http://www.workingadvantage.com/help/aboutus.cfm?sid=50283220051104030847.485208361
Working Advantage is the premier savings portal for more than 4,000
companies and organizations and their two million employees and
members nationwide. Founded in 1996 as Corporate Movie Club and
originally offering a focused program of movie theatre and movie
rental discounts, we rebranded in 2001 as Working Advantage to better
reflect an expanded variety of entertainment and shopping discounts.
We offer a turnkey solution that allows companies and organizations to
provide their employees/members with discounts on movie tickets and
other perks without any administrative concerns or expense.

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Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 05 Nov 2005 12:41 PST

Hello logicalboyla-ga,

Have you had a chance to take a look at the companies Bobbie7 and I
found? Do you need additional information about any of them. I look
forward to hearing from you.

~ czh ~

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Clarification of Question by logicalboyla-ga on 07 Nov 2005 11:12 PST

bobby7, czh,

Looks like both of you answered the question in part, but I need a bit
more time to review your answers so I can pay/tip appropriately and I
may not have that until Tuesday or Wednesday.  When I can clarify in
detail, I'll do so, along with instructions for ensuring that both of
you get paid for your responses, since it looks like both of you are
due payment.

This isn't to say the question isn't still open for additional answers
by you or others; I'll take as many of these companies validly exist!

Sorry for the delay!

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 10 Nov 2005 04:21 PST

Thank you for letting us know!

--Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by logicalboyla-ga on 10 Nov 2005 13:17 PST

As before, both of you answered the question at least once.  I'll
repost this question.  Whichever of you converts your request for
clarification of this iteration of the question into an answer first
gets their payment here.  The other one of you can go to the second
question at http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=591582.

bobby7:

NextJump definitely qualifies, but they were listed as one of the
companies I already know about so I can't pay you for that one.

Shop4Zero definitely meets my criteria.  You can cite it as an answer
either to this question or to
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=591582, if czh beats
you to the punch.

czh:

Corporate Rewards, Ecount, GiftCertificates.com don't work for
me--they don't offer perks designed for the employee bases as a
whole--they offer employee-specific rewards and/or incentives and/or
gift certificates.  If I'm missing something, please clarify and I'm
happy to take another look.

Oxford Benefit Management appears to be all about health insurance
services--not really what I mean by a "perk".

Entertainment Publications does seem to allow for its program to be
sliced and diced as a perks-at-work program, and that earns credit for
an answer.

Employee Discount Club, Retail Brand Alliance and Working Advantage
do, however, meet my criteria.

As with bobby7, you can cite it as an answer either to this question
or to http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=591582, if
bobby7 beats you to the punch.

Thanks to both of you!

Hello again Logicalboyla,


I'm pleased that SHOP4ZERO's Corporate Perk Program meets your requirements.
(Sorry about the link to Nextjump, I didn´t realize it was on your list)


Here's the link to SHOP4ZERO's Corporate Perk Program
http://www.mplsredcross.shop4zero.org/corporateperk/default.asp

Best regards,
Bobbie7

Thanks for your help!