Bill Chasse Joins Touchpoint, Inc. as New CEO; Personalized Printed Direct Marketing and Customer Communications Services Company Attracts Seasoned Executive to Take Over Helm.

Business Editors

EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2001

Touchpoint, Inc. today announced that Bill Chasse, former senior executive of infoUSA, Inc. (Nasdaq:IUSA), has joined Touchpoint(TM) as Chief Executive Officer, assuming the reins from interim CEO Roger Strauch. Bill brings over 15 years of operational and direct marketing experience to Touchpoint, and will now take the lead in championing the firm's personalized printed direct marketing and customer communications services.

"We are thrilled to have Bill take on the CEO role at Touchpoint," commented Roger Strauch, Chairman of The Roda Group and current board member of Touchpoint. "We could not have found a more qualified, professional leader than Bill. His industry knowledge, passion for the business opportunity and operational experience will serve Touchpoint well." Jinee Tao, co-founder and Chairman of Touchpoint added, "Our services are already adding considerable value to businesses by increasing their communications effectiveness, and better managing and expanding their customer relationships. Bill is the right person to rapidly grow our business."

Throughout his career, Bill has demonstrated a unique ability to strategically focus an organization to drive sales, revenues and profitability. He joins Touchpoint from InfoUSA, Inc., where he spent over 12 years in numerous senior management positions. Most recently Bill was President and CEO of infoUSA.com, the online arm of this leading sales and marketing information company. Previous to his CEO role at infoUSA.com, Bill had been President of infoUSA's Small Business and Consumer Products Group, Executive Vice President of their Consumer Products Division, and Vice President of Online Services. Bill was an integral part of infoUSA's growth and is credited with the development and launch of many of their most innovative and successful products.

"Of all the career opportunities I was considering, I found the CEO position at Touchpoint and the related market opportunity to be the most promising and exciting match for me," said Bill Chasse. "The organization has made considerable progress in product development and early validation of the business model. Touchpoint's unique personalized communications solutions offer a fresh approach for businesses to gain greater returns on their customer relationships."

About Touchpoint, Inc.

Touchpoint (www.touchpoint.com) offers businesses the ability to plan, create, manage, personalize, print and send their direct marketing and customer communications directly from their desktop or database -- as easily as they can send email. The company provides corporate and distribution solutions that enable companies to quickly, easily and affordably create, personalize and send printed communications -- full color, premier quality folded cards, postcards, trifold brochures, flyers, invitations, announcements and other printed materials -- that tangibly strengthen relationships with customers and prospects.

Touchpoint has integrated the latest technologies for on-demand digital printing, production workflow, distribution and mailing, Web-based infrastructure and customer relationship management into their proprietary platform solutions, quickly bringing to market premier-quality, personalized printed communications services that demonstrate the power of one-to-one relationship marketing.

Corporate customers of Touchpoint's solutions include Farmers, Banc of America, OmniSky, VISA, Wells Fargo Bank, Deloitte & Touche, CUNA Mutual, Marriott Incentive Awards and MetLife. Distribution partners include Kodak, MarthaStewart.com, Shutterfly, The New York Times, Snapfish, Staples.com, Ofoto, PhotoPoint and the United States Postal Service.