AuctionRover.com Drives Rapid Growth with Addition of Industry Veteran: Former Value America Marketing Director Named Vice President of Marketing.Business and Technology Editors RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2000 AuctionRover.com(TM) - the one-stop, feature rich resource for online auctions - today announced the appointment of Jennifer Johnson as its Vice President of Marketing. "Jen brings to AuctionRover.com a wealth of Internet marketing, sales and business development experience that will help us as we continue growing our customer base and attracting new partners," said Scot Wingo, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and co-founder of AuctionRover.com. A 10-year marketing veteran, Johnson previously served as Director of Online Sales and Marketing for Internet retailer Value America, Inc. There, she focused on customer acquisition, affiliate marketing, promotions and strategic online partnerships. Prior to Value America, Johnson was instrumental in the development of outsourcing programs and sales initiative for CompuCom Systems, Inc., a leading computer reseller. "With its aggressive partnership strategy and successful guerilla marketing tactics, AuctionRover.com has made a tremendous impact on the online auction community in a very short time," Johnson said. "I look forward to working with them as we take the company to the next level." Recently named one of digitalsouth's Top 50 Companies to watch in 2000, AuctionRover.com has been recognized as a business leader throughout the south and an industry leader in online auctions. After launching Fall 1999, AuctionRover.com has become the most comprehensive online auction resource to include bidder and seller services, as well as entertaining, informative and consistently updated content. For online bidders, AuctionRover.com features Rocket Rover(TM) - an advanced, proprietary cross-auction search engine. Rocket Rover provides a comprehensive, categorized and searchable index of more than 35 leading online auction sites - such as Yahoo! (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ), Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ), MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). (NASDAQ: MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), Auctions.com, etc - including the only licensed search of auction giant eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY). Auction enthusiasts can search through more than 850 online auction sites and can find anything from antiques to xylophones in record time. Additionally, they can be notified about new items, monitor items of interest, and participate on several different auction sites simultaneously. AuctionRover.com gives sellers the power to post items across several auction sites using AuctonManager(TM), AuctionRover.com's comprehensive online auction management system. A full-featured utility, AuctionManager(TM) not only enables sellers to quickly and easily list items across multiple auction sites, but also helps them manage the selling process, in addition to hosting images and hit counters. These unique advantages ultimately enhance visibility and manageability. AuctionRover.com also has the industry's only affiliate program, Rover's Affiliates, with more than 1500 partners using AuctionRover.com's search engine to enable online auction searching from their own Web sites. About AuctionRover.com Founded in July 1999, AuctionRover.com is the one-stop resource for all online auctioning needs. This powerful new site allows buyers to search for items across auction sites, sellers to host images and counters, and provides innovative, relevant content that will keep bidders and sellers informed and entertained. AuctionRover.com now powers leading portals such as Go2Net (NASDAQ: GNET GNET Global Network of Environment and Technology GNET General Information Network GNET Gigabit Network ), providing a comprehensive auction search engine. AuctionRover.com is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C., with a West Coast office in San Francisco. The company has received funding from Draper Atlantic - the East Coast affiliate of Silicon Valley's Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $4.5 billion in capital commitments. - and internet.com (NASDAQ: INTM INTM Interrupt Mode ). For more information, visit AuctionRover.com at http://www.auctionrover.com. |
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