Administration of a discount program for enabling participants to obtain discounts on goods and services through use of a discount membership card; Administration of a discount program for enabling participants to obtain discounts on the cost of services or receive improved services through use of a membership card; Advertising services, namely, promoting the gift cards of others; Business card design services; Charitable services, namely, coordination of the procurement and distribution of gift-in-kind product donations from manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and government agencies to organizations providing free products to needy people; Charitable services, namely, coordination of the procurement and distribution of holiday gift donations from the general public to orphaned children; Computerized on-line gift ordering service which matches the gift giver's requirements with the gift recipient's wants and needs; Credit card registration; Credit card registration services; Gift and sundries retail store services located in hotels; Gift registry services; Issuing gift certificates which may then be redeemed for goods or services; Merchandising services for inducing the purchasing public to buy the goods of others through a promotional gift redemption program; On-line retail gift shops; On-line retail store services featuring physical and virtual merchandise for use by members of an online community in connection with a designated website featuring fictional characters; Promoting the goods and services of others by means of the issuance of loyalty rewards cards; Promoting the goods and services of others through the distribution of discount cards; Promoting the sale of credit card accounts through the administration of incentive award programs; Promoting the sale of goods and services of others by awarding purchase points for credit card use; Promotional services, namely, promoting the goods of others by means of providing online gift cards; Providing incentive award programs for customers and employees through the distribution of prepaid stored value cards for the purpose of promoting and rewarding loyalty; Providing virtual on-line office support staff services for businesses; Retail gift shops; Retail shops featuring physical and virtual merchandise and virtual currencies for use by members of an online community in connection with a designated website featuring fictional characters; Retail store services featuring virtual goods, namely, physical and virtual merchandise and virtual currencies for use by members of an online community in connection with a designated website featuring fictional characters in online virtual worlds; Sales promotion for others provided through the distribution and the administration of privileged user cards