Be Free Forms Strategic Alliance With Trellix; Small Businesses and Consumers Now Can Easily Earn Money Through Affiliate Programs.MARLBOROUGH, Mass. and WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 1999-- Be Free, Inc., the leading provider of online affiliate sales channel technology, services and knowledge, and Trellix(R) Corporation, a developer of award-winning web site building software for regular people, today announced a strategic agreement. The companies will work together to enable small businesses and consumers to build and publish their own high-quality web sites with Trellix Web(TM) and quickly and easily incorporate merchant affiliate links. This makes it feasible for a broad audience of non-technical web site creators to apply to multiple merchant-affiliate programs through Be Free's FastApp(SM), thereby creating a revenue-generating resource for their web sites. Be Free's merchant clients establish online storefronts on affiliates' web sites, strategically marketing specific merchandise that is presented in context. An entirely new sales channel is created for merchants to market their goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. . Affiliates earn commissions for products and services sold through their web sites. Be Free also is the exclusive creator of the beSMART(SM) methodology that provides online merchants with timely market intelligence on affiliates' performance, enabling maximum impact online marketing programs. Trellix Web is a Windows application A program that is written to run under Microsoft's Windows operating system. Such applications typically run under all 32-bit versions of Windows, but earlier applications might also run under the 16-bit versions (Windows 3.x) as well. See Windows. that enables regular people to quickly build, publish and update high-quality web sites themselves, without having to learn arcane HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. or publishing technologies, and without being restricted to a few pages or a few pre-set designs. Trellix Web's specialized features include One-Step Publish(TM) to automate the process of getting a web site from the desktop onto the Web, and intelligent updating to streamline web site maintenance by only updating changed pages and links. "Small businesses and consumers want to have great web sites, but for many it's a mystery how to create a web site that works like ones they've seen," said Don Bulens, president and 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. of Trellix Corporation. "We're trying to help people understand important capabilities such as affiliate links, and then to make it a no-brainer to use them." "This relationship will enable Trellix users to earn money by selling merchant-branded products in context on their web sites," said Tom Gerace Thomas A. Gerace (born December 21, 1970 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is the founder and CEO of the social networking site Gather.com, where members share user-generated content online and earn a portion of the company’s advertising revenue. Gather. , executive vice president and co-founder of Be Free. "Be Free and Trellix are making the Web accessible to everyday consumers and profitable for small business owners." About Trellix Corporation Founded in 1995 by PC software visionary Dan Bricklin Daniel S. Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix Corporation, which is currently owned by Web.com. , Waltham, Massachusetts-based Trellix(R) Corporation helps regular people, including business professionals in small and large businesses, academics and consumers, realize the promise of the Web as a way to enhance communications. Trellix develops and markets Trellix 2 and Trellix Web(TM), desktop productivity applications that enable everyday people to create, maintain and publish professional-quality, linked Web sites and intranet content, without needing to know HTML programming or graphic design. Trellix provides a usability breakthrough that allows non-specialists to create Web content with the ease-of-use and flexibility typical of word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and or presentation graphics software. To obtain more information, visit Trellix on the Internet at http://www.trellix.com or call (781) 788-9400. About Be Free, Inc. Be Free, Inc. is the leading provider of online affiliate sales channel technology, services and knowledge. Be Free is the industry's pioneer of the merchant-branded affiliate sales channel, enabling online retailers to capture revenue by selling products in context on affiliate web sites. With more than 670,000 affiliates in their sales channels, Be Free's clients include the Internet's leading merchants such as barnesandnoble.com (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BKS BKS Barracks BKS Best Kept Secret (gaming) BKS Bildung, Kultur Und Sport (German) BKS Brookside (city) BKS Bergen Kirurgiske Sykehus (Bergen, Norway) ), American Greetings (NYSE:AM), Electronic Newsstand, Reel.com (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 :HLYW) and Network Solutions (NASDAQ:NSOL). Affiliates can enroll in affiliate programs using Be Free's technology with FastApp(SM), located at: http://www.reporting.net/networks/affiliates/bf_fast_app. The company's product offerings include the BFAST BFAST Be Free Affiliate Service Technology (Be Free Inc.) (SM) affiliate sales channel technology and the BFIT BFIT Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology (Boston, Massachusetts) BFIT Before Federal Income Tax BFIT Battle Force Inport Training BFIT Battle Force Interoperability Testing BFIT Battle Force Inport Trainer (SM) targeted advertising delivery system. Founded in 1996, Be Free has offices in Marlborough, MA and Pittsburgh, PA. For more information, please visit our web site at www.befree.com. Trellix is a registered trademark and Trellix Web and One-Step Publish are trademarks of Trellix Corporation. All other companies and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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