The Search Monitor (“TSM”), an online monitoring service that tracks competitive advertising activity on paid and organic search, blogs, forums, news, and web sites, announces its release of a new affiliate tracking software that identifies affiliate marketers who are sponsoring paid search results pages.

This powerful new tool is the first and only way for internet marketers to gain insight into the scope, strength, and breadth of their competitor’s affiliate programs. The Search Monitor is able to identify affiliates who deploy direct linking tactics and affiliates who manage and operate individual web sites.

Uses for this new tool include:

Measurement of the reach and strength of competitors’ affiliate programs on paid search.
Policing affiliates for compliance with affiliate program terms of use.
Identification of competitor’s affiliates for potential recruitment opportunities.
“Affiliate programs are a smart way to gain maximum exposure on paid search,” says Troy Lerner of The Booyah Agency. “By using affiliate programs as a tactic in our arsenal, our clients can own more page real estate on SERPs. We like the new reports from The Search Monitor because it gives us incredible insight as to where our affiliate efforts are strong and where we need to focus more time. Our clients love it because it enables them to build strength in numbers, while at the same time protecting their brands from misuse by affiliate marketers.”

“We are excited to bring this information about the affiliate channel to internet advertisers and their agencies,” says Lori Weiman, CEO of The Search Monitor. “We are a strong supporter of affiliate marketing as a powerful way to optimize online advertising in a controlled and deliberate way”

The Search Monitor offers important information that can only be gained by careful 24×7 automated monitoring, and surfaces the information in 3 easy to use reporting sections:

Competitor Monitor gives insights into competitive bidding strategies, competitor market share and visibility, ranking on sponsored search, ad copy strategies, and promotions like free shipping, trials, or sales.
Trademark Monitor eases the tasks associated with reputation management by auto-detecting advertisers sponsoring branded keywords, use of trademarks and slogans in ad copy and display urls, and negative, positive, and neutral brand buzz on blogs, news, and web sites.
Affiliate Monitor simplifies oversight of affiliate programs by auto-identification of affiliates using sponsored search to detect violations of rank requirements, keyword restrictions, ad copy requirements or restrictions, and landing page copy requirements or restrictions.
Search engine marketing has become a critical component for advertisers. According to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), North American advertisers spent $12.2 billion on SEM in 2007 and that figure is estimated to more than double to reach $25.2 billion by 2011. The Search Monitor was developed to provide the tools necessary to optimize the sizable investments being made in this medium and to protect brands from competitive threats.

About The Search Monitor
The Search Monitor is comprised of a team of SEM enthusiasts who uncovered a need in the market for external automated monitoring of competitive activities on paid and organic search, shopping engines, web sites, blogs, social media, and press coverage. Automated monitoring is important for reputation management as it greatly reduces the number of hours and effort required to manage affiliates and competitors infringing on brands and misrepresenting products across the web. Further, automated monitoring reveals competitive marketing strategies that enable advertisers to benchmark their own performance, optimize ad budgets, detect successful ad copy combinations, and receive advance awareness of special offers like free shipping and sales dominating their verticals. The Search Monitor is offered as a web based subscription service. To learn more please visit www.thesearchmonitor.com.

About The Booyah Agency
Based in Colorado, The Booyah Agency is a full-service Online Marketing & Advertising team packaged in a boutique firm. Armed with a funny name, these former big-agency veterans drive strategy and deliver results more quickly and affordably than the big guys. We’re experts in fundamentals and best practices with a passion for discovering the newest techniques that keep our clients ahead. Clients include Mapquest, Vitamin Shoppe, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Gaiam, Tower Records and Little Tikes.

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Munich, 2008 — amiando, the leading tool for online event organization in Europe, today announced plans to implement Facebook Connect to boost the power of amiando ViralTickets, its recently released social promotion system for events.

“Events are the most important social happening. Therefore we will use Facebook Connect to let event organizers and their guests enjoy, recommend and promote events within the social context of their real identity and friendships on Facebook®. ”, said Felix Haas, CEO of amiando.

The key feature of amiando’s implementation of Facebook Connect will focus on boosting the power of amiando ViralTickets, the recently released social promotion system for events. ViralTickets enables event organizers to leverage the internet’s viral effects for their event marketing. Using word-of-mouth marketing they can sell significantly more tickets with less marketing effort.

Facebook users will be able to easily recommend their favorite events to friends and colleagues. Using ViralTickets, they can offer an exclusive discount to their contacts and will also be rewarded with a referral bonus themselves. This makes recommending and promoting events fun, easy and highly rewarding for all sides – guests, friends and event organizers. Facebook gives everyone the power to share with the people they care about making the world more open and transparent. When Facebook users log in to amiando with Facebook Connect, they are able to publish their actions back on Facebook, which enables them to share more information with their friends than ever before.

About amiando amiando is the leading tool for online event organization in Europe and makes professional event organization easy. It offers online-based tools for invitation management, ticketing and community building for every kind of event. All tools are easy-to-use and have a convenient pay-as-you-go pricing.

amiando’s award-winning tools are being used throughout Europe, US and Asia for organizing more than 50,000 events. Thousands of organizers worldwide are choosing amiando to manage their events online. amiando, a Red Herring 100 Europe 2008 Winner, is backed by renowned venture capital company Wellington Partners.  http://www.amiando.com 

amiando – the simplest way of organizing events.

With more than 50,000 events per year amiando is the leading tool for online event organization in Europe. Invitation management, online promotion, participant registration with integrated invoicing and entrance control – with amiando organizers are able to manage all processes comfortably and independently at any time. Additional services for networking as well as an individual event micro site round of the offer of amiando.  Product  Within minutes event organizers are creating a free website for their event. With the integrated ticket shop the participants are able to comfortably register online for the event. amiando is taking over the handling of payments, invoicing and shipment of the individually designed tickets. In July 2008 amiando was introducing ViralTicketing, a world premiere in the field of online event organization: ViralTicketing is the first event promotion system that is combining the powerful principle of word-of-mouth advertising and recommendation management in the internet for every event organizer.

The easy system is usable for every organizer without extra charge: after ticket purchase the participants receive a code which they can distribute to friends and colleagues. This incentive is the main attraction: for every canvassed customer the agent is getting a bonus and the newly recruited customer is receiving a discount.

Organizers are able to manage all processes comfortably and independently at any time, however a toll free telephone number is provided in the language of your country. By now amiando is available in four different languages (English, Spanish, German, French) and supporting organizers worldwide with the planning of their events.

Moreover, for a simple entrance management amiando is providing a free software called EasyEntry with which organizers are able to check the validity of the tickets with a standard webcam.

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The Search Monitor, an online monitoring service that tracks competitive advertising activity on paid search, blogs, forums, news, and web sites, announces its release of geo-targeted monitoring. TSM now monitors 17 countries, 6 languages, and most major regions, states, and cities in each market.

Pittsburgh, PA September 9, 2008 – The Search Monitor (www.thesearchmonitor.com) (“TSM”), an online monitoring service that tracks competitive advertising activity on paid search, blogs, forums, news, and web sites, announces its release of geo-targeted monitoring. TSM now monitors 17 countries, 6 languages, and most major regions, states, and cities in each market.

Geo-targeted monitoring enables companies to watch their competition and affiliates, and to manage their reputation and brand use locally. With this launch, interactive agencies, marketers, affiliate managers, and compliance teams are able to monitor paid search, blogs, forums, news, and web sites around the world from a local point of view in countries including: USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Argentina, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Mexico, Spain, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and many others. Monitoring can be conducted in English or in the language native to each country.

By gaining visibility into global search markets, companies will be able to overcome a key challenge in analyzing activity in their extended markets. Prior to the geo-targeting capabilities of TSM, an agency with clients worldwide could not effectively monitor locally targeted ads because its visibility was limited to its home base. TSM’s new capabilities provide the insights needed at the local level to protect brands and optimize search campaigns on locally.

The Search Monitor offers important information that can only be gained by careful 24×7 automated monitoring, and surfaces the information in 3 easy to use reporting sections:

1.    Competitor Monitor gives insights into competitive bidding strategies, competitor market share and visibility, ranking on sponsored search, ad copy strategies, and promotions like free shipping, trials, or sales.

2.    Trademark Monitor eases the tasks associated with reputation management by auto-detecting advertisers sponsoring branded keywords, use of trademarks and slogans in ad copy and display urls, and negative, positive, and neutral brand buzz on blogs, news, and web sites.

3.    Affiliate Monitor simplifies oversight of affiliate programs by auto-identification of affiliates using sponsored search to detect violations of rank requirements, keyword restrictions, ad copy requirements or restrictions, and landing page copy requirements or restrictions.

Search engine marketing has become a critical component for advertisers. According to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), North American advertisers spent $12.2 billion on SEM in 2007 and that figure is estimated to more than double to reach $25.2 billion by 2011. The Search Monitor was developed to provide the tools necessary to optimize the sizable investments being made in this medium and to protect brands from competitive threats.

“Monitoring both globally and locally is critical in benchmarking competitor advertising strategies and for watching affiliate activities online,” says Shaun Martinec, a TSM founder. “Many affiliates will carefully craft their campaigns at the local level in order to take advantage of better priced keywords or to avoid merchant detection when they are not in compliance with affiliate program terms. We find that major brand marketers are often outbid by competitors and affiliates on top terms at the local level.”

About The Search Monitor

The Search Monitor is comprised of a team of SEM enthusiasts who uncovered a need in the market for external automated monitoring of competitive activities on paid search, web sites, blogs, social media, and press coverage. Automated monitoring greatly reduces the number of hours and effort required to manage affiliates and competitors infringing on brands and misrepresenting products across the web. Further, automated monitoring reveals competitive marketing strategies that enable advertisers to benchmark their own performance, optimize ad budgets, detect successful ad copy combinations, and receive advance awareness of special offers like free shipping and sales dominating their verticals. The Search Monitor is offered as a web based subscription service. To learn more please visit www.thesearchmonitor.com .

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iGiki, an established leader in iPhone applications, announces the launch of iGiki Apps, an all-new service offering a collection of tools transforming the way the world creates iPhone applications. Empowering non-technical people to plan, develop, and market iPhone applications on the Apple App Store while reducing costs and eliminating errors.

New York, NY — iGiki announces the launch of iGiki Apps, an all-new service offering a collection of tools transforming the way the world creates iPhone applications. iGiki Apps empowers non-technical people to plan, develop, and market iPhone applications on the Apple App Store while reducing costs and eliminating errors. At launch iGiki Apps will offer 3 core products; the Apps Maps System, an iPhone Professionals Marketplace, and an iPhone Knowledge database. More information is available on http://igikiapps.com.

The primary product offering is Apps Maps, a creative environment to envision iPhone applications and create concepts. Non-technical people can quickly and simply create concepts, share them with others, and have professionals bring the concepts to life. Technical people can use Apps Maps to their advantage as well, by planning out applications before designing and coding. Simple to understand knowledge on iPhone applications is built right into Apps Maps.

Apps Maps includes hundreds of iPhone user interface and programming elements to allow in-depth concepts of iPhone applications (http://igikiapps.com) to be created. In addition elements can be uploaded from a user’s computer or from a website allowing for endless possibilities.

Apps Maps includes dozens of iPhone Native App templates, which are for applications distributed through the Apple App Store and iPhone Web App templates, which are for applications made available on a website.

Application concepts can be edited in Apps Maps. Concepts can also be posted to someone’s personal and secure Apps Maps Gallery on the web for sharing and working with colleagues, developers, or others. Concepts can be exported to an interactive PDF for storing or emailing, or used on the iGiki Apps iPhone Marketplace.

The iPhone Marketplace is the only online professional services marketplace devoted to iPhone application development. Concepts can be created in Apps Maps (http://igikiapps.com) and shown to dedicated iPhone professionals around the world to receive accurate quotes and work with them. Finding a qualified professional is quick and easy since their portfolio of iPhone work can be quickly and visually evaluated via iGiki App’s Visual View technology.

iPhone applications represent a tremendous opportunity. Succeeding in this fast moving market requires understanding about planning an app, developing it, and marketing it. iGiki Apps provides a database of knowledge in a non-technical fashion to help people succeed.

iGiki Apps comes from iGiki, a leader in iPhone applications. A little more than a year ago, iGiki drew the attention of the iPhone community when it announced the first third party iPhone applications. iGiki realized non-technical people were interested in offering iPhone applications but lacked the ability to effectively do so; with this in mind, it set out to make available a comprehensive set of tools to allow them to make an iPhone application regardless of technical ability, budget, or experience.

“At iGiki Apps, we want to help the people that have innovative ideas for iPhone applications but do not have the resources, knowledge, or budget to bring these ideas to reality,” said E. Rose of iGiki Apps. “We expect that our comprehensive set of tools including Apps Maps will empower and inspire these people to participate in the iPhone market.”

iGiki Apps will be launching in the summer of 2008. Pricing and availability information will be announced shortly, in addition to other yet-to-be revealed features of Apps Maps. For additional information on iGiki Apps and to be notified when it launches please visit http://igikiapps.com.

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Neutraubling, 06. Juni 2008 – Das neue Partnerprogramm für den Online-Backup-Service „SteadyBackup“ von NTT Europe Online, einem der führenden Anbieter von Hosting Services in Europa, vergütet sowohl einfache Klicks als auch Verkaufsabschlüsse. Interessierte Website-Betreiber können sich ab sofort für das Partnerprogramm über das Netzwerk Webgains anmelden: www.webgains.de/signup.html?programid=1333 . Es locken Provisionen von bis zu 200 Prozent des ersten Monatsbetrages.

Steadybackup – Online Backup der Extraklasse

SteadyBackup ist ein vollautomatischer Service, der Daten von PCs und Notebooks absolut sicher gegen Verlust schützt. Der SteadyBackup Manager überträgt die Dateien über eine sichere und verschlüsselte Internetverbindung in das NTT Europe Online Hochsicherheits-Rechenzentrum. Von dort aus können diese dann direkt online wieder hergestellt werden – zum Beispiel im Falle einer versehentlichen Löschung auf dem eigenen Rechner.

Clicks und Sales – ein gutes Geschäft für Affiliate Partner

„Online-Backup-Services gehört die Zukunft. Wir beteiligen unsere Affiliates an diesem Wachstumsmarkt durch hohe Provisionen für Klicks und Sales“, so Kai Morasch, SME Channel Marketing Manager bei NTT Europe Online. So löst jeder Besucher, der über die individuell codierten Links geführt wird, automatisch eine Gutschrift von 0,10 EUR auf dem Konto des Affiliates aus. Entscheidet sich der Besucher danach auch für ein SteadyBackup-Paket, verdient der Website-Betreiber zusätzlich 200 Prozent des jeweiligen ersten Monatsbetrags als Provision. Der Affiliate darf mit einer Provision auch dann rechnen, wenn sich der Besucher erst Wochen oder Monate später entscheidet: Erst nach 120 Tagen verfällt der Anspruch.

Anmeldung bei Webgains

Für höchste Professionalität und Sicherheit bei Umsetzung und Abwicklung sorgt NTT Europe Online durch die Partnerschaft mit Webgains, einem der führenden internationalen Affiliate-Netzwerke: Das Webgains-System bietet modernste Funktionalitäten, umfassende Transaktionsdatenverwaltung und ein ausgeklügeltes Reporting. Die Technologie verfolgt und protokolliert auf effiziente Weise kommerzielle Transaktionen zwischen Merchants und Affiliates und gibt beiden die Möglichkeit, ihre Werbekampagnen und Medieninhalte nahtlos und effizient zu managen. Zudem stellt Webgains eine automatische wöchentliche Zahlung der Provisionen an die Affiliates sicher.

Interessenten können sich online detailliert informieren und anmelden unter www.webgains.de/signup.html?programid=1333

Über NTT Europe Online

NTT Europe Online ist eines der größten weltweit agierenden Webhosting-Unternehmen und bietet Geschäftskunden die gesamte Bandbreite an Internet-Services, wie Managed Hosting, Sicherheitsmanagement, Applikationsmanagement sowie weltweite Netzwerkdienstleistungen für die Auslieferung von Media- bzw. Webinhalten (Content Delivery Network Services), an. Mit maßgeschneiderten Lösungen unterstützt NTT Europe Online die geschäftskritischen E-Business-Aktivitäten von Unternehmen jeder Größenordnung – vom Global Player bis hin zu kleinen und mittelständischen Firmen. NTT Europe Online operiert auf Basis einer extrem zuverlässigen, voll skalierbaren, globalen IT-Infrastruktur inklusive eigenem Tier-1 IP-Netzwerk, dem NTT Communications Global IP Network.
NTT Europe Online ist ein hundertprozentiges Tochterunternehmen von NTT Communications, dem internationalen Dienstleister der NTT Group (Nippon Telegraph & Telecom), dem größten Telekommunikationsunternehmen der Welt.

Weitere Informationen zu NTT Europe Online sind zu finden unter web-hosting.ntteuropeonline.de.

Über Webgains

Webgains ist eines der führenden internationalen Affiliate-Netzwerke.
Seinen mehr als 750 Merchants und 35.000 Websites in Großbritannien, Deutschland, Frankreich, Dänemark, Schweden und den Niederlanden bietet Webgains State-of-the-Art Funktionalitäten, einfache Handhabung und eine hohe Vertrauenswürdigkeit durch Technik und Support. Namhafte Unternehmen aus den unterschiedlichsten Branchen setzen auf Webgains. Kunden sind unter anderem Quelle, Nuon, Otto, Zooplus und GE Money Bank. Webgains wurde 2000 in Großbritannien von Robert Glasgow und Peter Dunham mit der Vision gegründet, alle Funktionalitäten entsprechend modernster Anforderungen und Methoden des Affiliate-Marketings auf Webgains zu vereinen.

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Revolutionjobs.co.uk is the latest initiative from the market-leading digital marketing title Revolution, providing hundreds of online marketing career opportunities for digital marketers at the click of a button.

London, UK May 23, 2008 — Revolutionjobs.co.uk is the latest initiative from the market-leading digital marketing title Revolution, providing hundreds of online marketing career opportunities for digital marketers at the click of a button. Featured online digital jobs (www.revolutionjobs.co.uk) include digital marketing managers (www.revolutionjobs.co.uk/jobs/?keyword=digital+marketing+manager), e-commerce business development directors, SEO specialists (www.revolutionjobs.co.uk/jobs/seo) and many more.

“Revolution has been the leading title in the digital sector since its launch in 1997. Now people who want to get ahead in their digital careers can use a dedicated job site which builds on that heritage,” said Matthew Gerry, Online Publisher, Haymarket Brand Media.

With Revolutionjobs.co.uk candidates are able to remain constantly updated with the latest online marketing job vacancies with:

•    Jobs by email.

•    Browse for jobs across a variety of industry disciplines and sectors.

•    Instantly submit applications online.

•    Upload and save CV’s and track applications.

Recruiters can manage their vacancies online and take advantage of the featured recruiter sections, which display their logo on the Revolutionjobs homepage giving candidates the opportunity to gain instant access to the recruiter and their vacancies. 24-hour job posting by credit card also allows recruiters to add a new job at anytime.

Visit the website at www.revolutionjobs.co.uk.

*According to ABCe audit – October 2007

Notes to editors

About Revolution

Publishing since 1997, Revolution is the UK’s leading title for digital marketers, with an 88% larger circulation than the nearest competitor.

Published monthly, Revolution reaches 12,024* senior digital marketers with a combined annual budget of over £12.6 billion.

About Haymarket Media Group

Haymarket Media Group is the largest privately owned magazine publisher, and one of the fastest growing media companies, in the UK. The principal business is centred around its consumer, business, professional and customer publications. These are complemented by digital platforms and live events, including extensive exhibitions, conferences and awards. The Group’s global expansion comes from wholly owned subsidiaries, joint ventures and extensive licensing of key magazines to other publishers.

Haymarket website: www.haymarketgroup.co.uk

For further information about Revolution or Haymarket Media, please contact Paula Fox, Publishing Manager on 020 8267 8038.

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ChicagoJobs.com, the premier local job board throughout the Chicagoland area, is pleased to announce the sponsorship of Mayor Daley’s Bike to Work Rally, as part of Bike Chicago 2008.

Chicago, IL May 23, 2008 — ChicagoJobs.com, the premier local job board throughout the Chicagoland area, is pleased to announce the sponsorship of Mayor Daley’s Bike to Work Rally, as part of Bike Chicago 2008.

“ChicagoJobs.com is very proud to be sponsoring Mayor Daley’s Bike to Work Rally,” says Mike Temkin, VP of Marketing at ChicagoJobs.com.

In the spirit of helping the City of Chicago to remain a top bicycle-friendly city and continue to encourage commuters to choose an alternative means of transportation to and from work, ChicagoJobs.com is raffling off a Trek mountain bike at Mayor Daley’s Bike to Work Rally on Friday, June 13th.

“This new addition to the Bike Chicago 2008 program supports a concept which we strongly endorse; the use of Chicago’s bike lanes and bike paths as a viable form of transportation to and from work,” Temkin continued.

Bike Chicago offers more than 100 events between May and September throughout Chicago neighborhoods.

For more information and to register to win the Trek mountain bike, please visit www.chicagojobs.com/biketowork.

About the Bike Chicago

Bike Chicago 2008 is presented by the Mayor’s Office of Special Events and Chase in cooperation with ChicagoJobs.com, Goose Island, Blue Cross Blue Shield, SRAM, Bally Total Fitness, NBC 5, 93XRT, Time Out Chicago, Hinckley Springs, Whole Foods, the Chicago Department of Transportation, Chicago Park District, Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, Chicago Police Department and the Messenger Service Association of Illinois.

About ChicagoJobs.com

With the area’s most prominent newspapers as its engine, the ChicagoJobs.com network of affiliate newspapers provides unmatched local coverage, enhanced services, and consolidated information to area employers and prospective employees. The ChicagoJobs.com network includes: The Beacon News, Chicago Reader, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Courier News, The Doings, The Herald News, The Naperville Sun, The News-Sun, Pioneer Press, The Post-Tribune, and The SouthtownStar.

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Record both audio and high-quality video to compressed mpeg4 format, upload video to Youtube from iPhone.

May 12, 2008 — DreamCatcher today announces the release of iPhone Video Recorder, a powerful iPhone oriented video recorder. iiPhone Video Recorder is a powerful iPhone oriented video recorder produced by DreamCatcher. iPhone Video Recorder records audio and video to the compressed mpeg4 format, so the recording is space saving, an-hour-high-quality recording will be a file as small as 60MB. iPhone Video Recorder boasts a frame rate up to 15fps which guarantees better recording performance. With iPhone Video Recorder, recording is easy and enjoyable, you may play back the video, download it to a computer, upload to Youtube, or send it out by email as you wish.

Because of the CPU overhead, iPhone Video Recorder encodes at the end of a recording session, and the encoding can be paused anytime and then resumed when you are convenient. It is possible to record on-the-fly, the sound is good, yet the frame rate will suffer. Besides, we offer some important settings which are configurable, such as the audio input amplifier and the video size mode settings. You can also customize the image quality, the brightness and the audio bit rate options.

We are going to update this app as iPhone firmware upgrades, and it will be made to smoothly run on 3G iPhone. We are also preparing for listing in AppStore. Registered users are entitled to permanent free upgrades.

* “Awesome work on the iPhone Video Recorder. It works really well and its great to see someone put our a smooth video recording app for iPhone.” – jmso

* “Cool! I’m indeed one of those who found it ludicrous that Apple did not include recording features on the iPhone. At $19.95, I think it’s a small price to pay considering I almost NEED this feature (for my own purposes).” – Kat Marion

iPhone Video Recorder works on iPhone firmware 1.1.x, 1.2.x, 2.0. A limited-functional trial version (recording up to 30 seconds) can also be downloaded from this web site http://www.iphonevideorecorder.com.

DreamCatcher Software Co., Ltd., set up in 2007, specializes in developing and marketing iPhone related software.

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In the world of Listbuilding, it’s as if Yahoo and Google decided to work together on a search engine: Internet Marketing Master Shawn Casey and his student, Listbuilding Jedi Tellman Knudson, are bringing their “forces” together to create the ultimate Listbuilding course to help new entrepreneurs conquer their fears and build their own ‘robotic moneymaking machines.’

Brattleboro, VT April 20, 2008 — It’s like a scene from Star Wars, the one we all wanted to see: where Luke Skywalker joins up with Obi Wan Kenobi and they put their lightsabers together and team up to side-by-side against Darth Vader to clear the way for the new generation of young Jedi Knights. Shawn Casey, best-selling author of Mining Gold on the Internet, and Tellman Knudson of Overcome Everything, Inc. have teamed up to create what they call the ‘Ultimate Listbuilding course’ — appropriately named after it’s future home on the Internet: Listbuilding.com. It’s purpose, they say, is to help the next generation of entrepreneurs quickly and easily build lucrative businesses online using the most respectable, proven and long-lasting of the internet skills: Listbuilding.

Currently in pre-launch, this giant of a Listbuilding resource is scheduled to launch this spring; and if pre-launch activity is any indication, it’s going to be simply huge. At press time, the services and materials they have distributed free of charge — including step-by-step videos on how to create a site, a 24-hour “Squeeze-A-thon” that helped over 200 business owners get their squeeze pages built, and tell-all reports on how Shawn and Tellman started their own multi-million dollar businesses — have received raving reviews.

Both Casey and Knudson have incredible rags-to-riches stories that prove anyone, no matter where they come from in the universe, can make this work. “I started my company on 50 bucks and a ‘Frankenstein’ computer that was built out of other broken machines and resold,” said Knudson. “The CD drive was hanging out of the front because it didn’t work unless I held it in my hand and shook it, and the fan was so loud I couldn’t make a business call in the same room as my computer.” In his desperate search to make a living online, he accidentally found a copy of Casey’s Mining Gold on the Internet. “At the time, I had no idea who wrote it or what it was really worth” says Knudson, “I was clueless, and going further in the hole each day. But I kept at it, hoping something, someday would work.”

Then, he got Shawn Casey on the phone for just twenty-two minutes–and things changed. “Shawn told me a few things–but one of them was I had to send out these nine emails all in a row, and I didn’t want to do it; but he was ‘the master’–so I did,” says Knudson. Because he trusted his teacher, Knudson made $800,000 in profit that year alone–his first year online. Now he owns a multi-million dollar company with twelve employees, but he’s never forgotten who helped him when he was in need.

Casey, who was practicing law in back in 1995, started in a small, cramped apartment in Pittsburgh during the summer–with no air conditioning in 100 degree conditions. “I was living in an efficiency apartment that had no furniture in it, except for a table, two chairs, and a sofa that the landlord had let me scrounge from the furniture left over from previous tenants that he had piled up in the basement,” said Casey. From this humble beginning, Casey rose to become CEO of a company that made the Inc. 500 list for two years running. Yet, feeling suffocated by the corporate rat race, he wanted something more.

Then he discovered the potential power of direct marketing on the Internet. He applied his expert skills from his corporate days to this new business-form, and quickly became a master of building ‘robotic moneymaking machines’ using the internet as raw material. Today, Casey is a multi-multi-millionaire, who often runs his business while vacationing in the Caribbean (which Obi Wan would certainly have made his headquarters instead of the desert if only he’d known about it).
In all seriousness, both Casey and Knudson live a life that most people only dream of. Tellman now lives in a million dollar mansion in the woods of Vermont and works from home as well.

Casey says their inspiration and goal for this joint project is to teach other people to do the same thing they did–in half the time. The course, which will be released sometime in late April, will follow on the heels of the pre-launch materials out for viewing now, including free training videos, reports and case studies (also on video) of their previous students, who have made their own dreams come true following the advice of “the Marketing Master and the List Building Jedi.”

For more information about their upcoming series of trainings, destined to change the face of Internet Marketing, contact Kyle Battis, Affiliate Manager, or get more information at the ListBuilding.com website at eye-candy.ch

Market Directions, Inc., a brand performance consultancy, recently performed and analyzed a probing market study to establish a baseline of brand awareness and brand value for the Business Marketing Association (BMA).

Kansas City, MO – March 9, 2008, Market Directions, Inc., a brand performance consultancy, recently performed and analyzed a probing market study to establish a baseline of brand awareness and brand value for the Business Marketing Association (BMA). In doing so, the consultancy surveyed the B2B marketing community on numerous issues, including industry trends and future developments.

A theme that came out of the study is blending technology with an appreciation for the fundamentals of marketing and good business sense. The BMA study points to online marketing and ROI accountability as ongoing trends within the industry. Responding market leaders indicated that Web portals, webinars, blogs and other net-based media were the trade tools with the most impact today. Lead evaluation and other analysis tools, as well as Client Relationship Management (CRM) software programs, are other identified trends.

The call is for marketers to use this technology to move beyond tactical demand generation and align marketing activities with the customer buying cycle. Recent advances in software are helping make this happen. However, technology per se should not become the primary focus of the marketing industry. Maintaining an appreciation for the fundamental principles of marketing, and working toward the best interests of the customer, should remain top considerations.

About Market Directions
Market Directions is a Brand Performance consultancy that provides clear direction for brand growth through the voice of the customer. The company helps businesses through new brand acquisition, repositioning, brand extensions — no matter where the brand is in its lifecycle. Market Directions can help define a solution that will translate into business results. For more information visit www.marketdirections.com.

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