BizRate.com Strengthens Executive Management Team and Promotes Beth Sterling to Vice President of Sales.Business Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 2000 BizRate.com (http://www.bizrate.com) today announced the promotion of Beth Sterling to vice president of sales. "Beth has played a significant role in building our sales team and developing programs to elevate our merchant participation and retention rate. I am confident Beth will continue to lead our sales team and pave our path to profitability as the earth's best marketplace on the Internet," said Chuck Davis  This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. Charles E. , president and chief executive officer at BizRate.com. As vice president of sales, Sterling will manage the merchandising sales team, develop new merchant product offerings including sponsorships and special offers, as well as create new offerings built on the success of the BizRate.com merchandising program. Previously, Sterling held the position of director of sales at BizRate.com. In this position, she led the sales recruiting efforts and helped build the sales team from three to more than 20 in one year. Sterling was also instrumental in the recruitment of more than 75 key merchants into the Customer Certified Merchant Program including Buy.com, Encyclopedia Britannica, eStyle, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Universal Studios Store and Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Studio Store. "With the launch of our new Marketplace, it's an exciting time for the company," said Sterling. "BizRate.com continues to be one of the most visited sites on the Internet and offers merchants a cost-effective pay-for-performance and sponsors unique access to ready-to-buy online buyers -- the best demographics on the Web. I am excited to lead our charge in rolling out these great programs." A seasoned new media professional with more than 20 years of sales, direct response and online retail marketing experience, Sterling spent two years with SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Interactive, as director of advertising sales and managed national and regional advertising for the yellow pages directory site, Smartpages.com, prior to BizRate.com. Sterling also spent two years at the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). managing the New Media Sales Department and developed the initial advertising business plan for the newspaper Web site, latimes.com. Prior to the Los Angeles Times, she spent six years at Prodigy, where she acquired and managed numerous clients including JC Penney, Sam Goody Sam Goody is a music and entertainment retailer in the United States and formerly in the United Kingdom. It is owned and operated by Musicland, which itself is owned by former rival Trans World Entertainment which also runs Suncoast Motion Picture Company and, until January 2006, , US Postal Service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval , AT&T and Scudder. About BizRate.com Founded in 1996 and based in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , BizRate.com (www.bizrate.com) is the No. 1 retail mall on the Web (according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Media Metrix, August 2000), connecting millions of buyers to thousands of sellers in a single, organized location. Designed as a shopping hub, the site provides the best efficiencies for both online buyers and sellers. In the BizRate.com C3 Marketplace, shoppers have access to a powerful product search engine, single-click check-out, exclusive deals, "hot" product listings and gift guides to empower consumers to "shop smartly" across 19 popular store categories and thousands of merchants. Through BizRate.com's rating system, compiled exclusively from point-of-sale and fulfillment surveys of participating merchants, shoppers can compare merchants across 10 service dimensions. BizRate.com ratings appear on Consumer Reports Online and in Consumer Reports magazine, as well as on Microsoft Network, AltaVista, GO Network, Go2Net, Snap, Citibank, iChoose, Brodia and CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. . The BizRate.com C3 Marketplace is a featured addition to Fleet Bank Services online site. Media Advisory: Photo available upon request |
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