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BzzAgent Launches First Hispanic BzzChannel GoodBzz Campaign; Pro Bono Project to Raise Awareness Throughout the U.S. Hispanic Community for Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting.


BOSTON -- BzzAgent, Inc., the industry's fastest growing word-of-mouth marketing and media firm, today announced it has launched a campaign to raise awareness for the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA ALPFA Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting ). The ALPFA campaign marks BzzAgent's first GoodBzz(TM) campaign to utilize its Hispanic Hispanic Multiculture A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race Social medicine Any of 17 major Latino subcultures, concentrated in California, Texas, Chicago, Miam, NY, and elsewhere  BzzChannel.

The goal of the campaign is to generate awareness about ALPFA to increase the organization's membership. ALPFA currently has 6,000 members and aims to increase membership numbers to 10,000 through this word-of-mouth program. Beginning March 29 and continuing through June 30, Latinos who sign up at www.hispanic.bzzagent.com to become BzzAgents are eligible to participate in the ALPFA BzzBlast and receive a complimentary, six-month ALPFA membership.

"ALPFA has grown by word-of-mouth - one member bringing another into the group," said Manuel Espinoza, ALPFA 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. . "BzzAgent will enable us to accelerate this process to reach our goal of building our membership across ALPFA's 28 local chapters."

BzzAgent's bilingual bi·lin·gual  
adj.
1.
a. Using or able to use two languages, especially with equal or nearly equal fluency.

b.
 Hispanic BzzChannel, announced in summer 2005, provides volunteer consumers with the opportunity to generate "bzz" about specially selected products and services while enabling clients to build brand evangelism Evangelism
Gantry, Elmer

fire and brimstone, fraudulent revivalist. [Am. Lit.: Elmer Gantry]

John

disciple closest to Jesus. [N.T.: John]

Luke

early Christian; the “beloved physician.” [N.T.
 within the domestic Latino community. BzzAgent is currently recruiting Latino BzzAgents to participate in the ALPFA GoodBzz program as well as upcoming Hispanic BzzChannel campaigns.

"Since we created the Hispanic BzzChannel, we have looked for opportunities to give back to the Latino community that has supported us so quickly," said Vanesa Kolodziej-Guerra, BzzAgent's Hispanic BzzChannel director. "As an ALPFA member myself, I have been impressed im·press 1  
tr.v. im·pressed, im·press·ing, im·press·es
1. To affect strongly, often favorably:
 with ALPFA's mission and values and I look forward having BzzAgent to assist in growing the organization."

As part of the GoodBzz pro bono Short for pro bono publico [Latin, For the public good]. The designation given to the free legal work done by an attorney for indigent clients and religious, charitable, and other nonprofit entities.  program, BzzAgent is donating a full-scale, 12-week word-of-mouth marketing campaign. Other GoodBzz campaigns have served organizations including the March of Dimes
For the Canadian charitable organization, see Ontario March of Dimes and March of Dimes Canada.
March of Dimes is the name of a United States health charity, whose mission is to improve the health of babies.
, National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS NOLS National Outdoor Leadership School ) and WGBH's "Rx for Child Survival" series. BzzAgent plans to roll out additional GoodBzz campaigns throughout 2006.

About ALPFA

The Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA) is the leading professional association dedicated to enhancing opportunities for Latinos in the accounting, finance and related professions. With almost 6,000 members and 28 local chapters, ALPFA has been serving the professional Hispanic population for over 30 years.

About BzzAgent, Inc.

BzzAgent Inc. is a word-of-mouth marketing and media firm that helps companies to organize and manage honest, real-world conversations among everyday consumers. BzzAgent's innovative process, platform and programs enable the acceleration and measurement of word-of-mouth as a marketing medium. Using such systems, BzzAgent's clients can generate awareness and shape perception about their products and services either via BzzAgent's community of 140,000 trained, volunteer brand evangelists or by way of their own client-branded word-of-mouth networks that are customized, hosted and built by BzzAgent.

BzzAgent, GoodBzz, Hispanic BzzChannel are trademarks of BzzAgent, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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