Accesspoint Corp. and Internet Communications Announce Launch of Joint E-Commerce Marketing Campaign.ANAHEIM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 1999-- Accesspoint Corp. (OTC BB:ASAP) (www.apc.net) and Internet Communications Inc. (Icom) (www.icom.com) Tuesday announced that Icom has launched a global marketing campaign featuring Accesspoint's Merchant Manager systems as the electronic commerce solution offered to their clients. The alliance will immediately place Accesspoint in front of an additional 25,000 current customers, and Accesspoint will gain increased brand awareness as Icom continues its high visibility one billion (1,000,000,000) banner campaign. Icom, one of the world's leading Web hosting providers, and one of Accesspoint's distribution channel partners, is providing both the Merchant Manger Enterprise and Merchant Manager e-commerce services to their new and existing clients. Icom's state-of-the-art multimedia marketing campaign will reach over 25,000 of their existing clients in the first phase. Integrating a cutting edge e-mail campaign into an aggressive banner ad campaign which targets new users, Icom has a signed committment to run one billion (1,000,000,000) banner ads over the next twelve months. In a bold move, designed to further distance themselves from the competition, Icom will bundle these e-commerce accounts with merchant service accounts. These merchant service accounts provide credit card processing capabilities for the merchants' Web sites, enabling the merchant to capture the impulse buy. "Icom's marketing efforts are going to be very beneficial to both of our companies," said Tom Djokovich, chairman and chief executive officer of Accesspoint. "We're pleased that Icom has chosen to offer our e-commerce solutions. Our reseller programs are a perfect fit for their needs. As this industry moves forward at light speed, experience shows that our distribution channel partners become our development partners as well. Icom has grown almost 30% in the past quarter, and with more than 25,000 clients, they are well positioned to become one of our largest clients. We are looking forward to capturing a significant portion of the e-commerce marketplace together." Accesspoint's Merchant Manager, and Merchant Manager Enterprise systems provide turnkey electronic commerce services to small and midsize businesses. The company's strategy is to provide bundled, feature rich, completely Web-based e-commerce solutions at reasonable prices that allow businesses to take advantage of Internet opportunities and achieve immediate results. Accesspoint's Internet Commerce Expo "Best of Class" award winning e-commerce products are more fully featured than Intel's iCat and Yahoo's ViaWeb e-commerce enabling systems. Icom is one of the 20 largest Web hosting providers on the Net with a Web site that is getting more than 25,000 hits per day. More than 4 million Internet users see Icom advertising banners each month. Icom uses ATMnet/Verio for an OC-3c fiber link connection to the Internet, providing Icom and it's clients with the highest commercially available bandwidth at a transfer rate up to 155Mbps. This news release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward looking statements are reasonable at this time, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Forward-looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties. |
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