1.   All this serious talk about a three-minute promotional tool?

2.   A few record companies and recording artists like Eric Clapton and Dionne Warwick have embraced the technology as a promotional tool.

3.   But now, some see them as a promotional tool.

4.   Decades ago, the first inflight magazines were mere promotional tools for the airlines.

5.   For that reason, many NPOs have turned to the World Wide Web as a powerful and cost-effective promotional tool.

6.   For Warner Brothers Online, which operates its own successful Web site, Acmecity serves to leverage its properties as a merchandising platform and promotional tool.

7.   In Grand Rapids itself, where civic leaders have seized on the exhibition as a promotional tool, the enthusiasm is far less circumspect.

8.   Moore said one advantage of using AOL as a promotional tool would be instant response from AOL members.

9.   Now it can be a promotional tool.

10.   Often, the programs are promotional tools, given away with the sale of Internet access.