Leader News Release - WorldCom's largest Master Agent to sell LeaderPhone

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WorldCom's largest Master Agent to deploy LeaderPhone® conference calling services

Spring Valley Marketing Group to market LeaderPhone®
to its 50,000+ customers throughout its agent network

COLUMBUS, OH (Apr. 7, 2003) - LeaderPhone®, a web-based conference calling service that charges just 9.5¢/minute/leg, announced today it has signed an affiliate agreement with Spring Valley Marketing Group, a master agent of WorldCom, Qwest, eMeritus, Sprint and SAVVIS.

A master agent is one that has other agents and resellers operating through the company. All of Spring Valley's services are carrier-direct.

Spring Valley, based near Toledo, will make LeaderPhone® available to its 50,000+ customers throughout its agent network, said Doug Boyce, vice president, finance and sales, for the company. "We've been waiting for a conference calling service that's price competitive," Boyce said, noting LeaderPhone®'s 9.5¢ per minute per leg price is the lowest in the industry. There are no hidden charges, no set-up fees, no cancellation fees, and the price includes all domestic long-distance charges and taxes.

"I was very impressed with the crispness and ease-of-use with LeaderPhone®. It's just a very elegant interface," he added.

"We're pleased to have Spring Valley join our expanding group of resellers and agents who have been waiting for a low-cost, effective conference calling service," said Leader Technologies Chairman and CEO Michael McKibben. "Businesses and organizations are finding they can save thousands of dollars over their current providers by switching to LeaderPhone®."

Among the benefits of LeaderPhone®:

All controls accessed via the Internet at www.leaderphone.com, allowing any authorized employee to set up conferences on the fly;
Contact regular workgroup members with just three clicks;
New "Meet Me" service lets users join host at scheduled times by using shared PIN;
Meet Me services can be initiated from any phone;
Can add, mute, or drop people at any time, and lets them change phones in mid-call;
System can call out to participants simultaneously, eliminating the need to wait for everyone to get online, or can let them call in, adding them at any time;
Can send email reminders with the agenda automatically prior to calls and written summaries of conference call sessions afterwards;
Allows up to 55 participants at once on a conference call;
Controls also accessible from any wireless Palm™ PDA;
Lets coordinator add a personal introductory message before calls - all without operator assistance.

LeaderPhone® employs true 1-second billing rather than the common current practice of rounding up to the nearest next minute, McKibben noted. Businesses, organizations, groups or individuals can try LeaderPhone™ for free for the first 30 minutes. For details, visit, www.leaderphone.com.

LeaderPhone® was developed as part of an overall software suite of web communications services to increase productivity. This software, called Leader2Leader®, allows people to work the way they want to work, rather than forcing them to conform to the latest technology.

About LeaderPhone®

LeaderPhone® Teleconferencing Service is a service of Leader Technologies, a Columbus, OH communications software company. LeaderPhone® enables work teams from both large and small businesses to set up conference calls themselves at much less cost using its patent-pending web-based conference-calling platform. The service overcomes the limitations of legacy conferencing systems while combining many of the features desired by businesses that rely on conference calling. For more information about LeaderPhone®, visit www.leaderphone.com.

Leader Technologies has developed an overall enterprise-class communications platform called Leader2Leader®. The powerful collaboration software will dramatically improve productivity and reduce costs by giving businesses more control over their communications, leadership, strategy, knowledge management and intellectual capital. To learn more, visit www.leader.com.

About Spring Valley Marketing Group

Spring Valley Marketing Group is WorldCom's largest master agent and acts as master agent for Qwest, eMeritus, Sprint and SAVVIS as well. Spring Valley is also the primary agent for Buckeye TeleSystem's local fiber optic telephone service in northwest Ohio. For wireless services, Spring Valley represents Sprint PCS and AT&T Wireless nationwide.

Based near Toledo, Ohio, the company has sales offices and independent representatives across the country. Spring Valley offers a full range of telecommunication services, including: local and long distance telephone service, data, frame relay, pagers, wireless telephone service and Internet, to customers ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Spring Valley

also markets services, long distance and Internet, to business and residential affinity groups and organizations. The company employs experienced customer service and office personnel to support the sales needs of its independent representatives and the service needs of its customers.
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All of Spring Valley Marketing Group's services are carrier-direct; Spring Valley is not a reseller, rebiller or aggregator; customers are billed directly by the carrier.

For more information, contact John Frees at 614-939-1674 or Mike McKibben at 614-890-1986 or Doug Boyce at 419-867-0227.

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