Cardservice International and SalesMountain Partner to Bring Cardservice International's 185,000 Merchants onto the Internet.Business Editors & Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Writers LOS LOS Length of stay, see there ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2000 SalesMountain, the world's leading wireless and wireline networks for sales and promotions advertising, and Cardservice International Inc., the nation's leading provider of integrated merchant accounts and payment technology, today announced a joint sales and marketing program that will provide Cardservice International's 185,000 existing merchants -- as well as the 10,000 who join each month -- access to the SalesMountain networks. SalesMountain's sales-posting services will be offered to merchants that seek unique and cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. advertising for their sales and specials. SalesMountain disseminates sales and specials information through a growing number of Web sites and wireless hand-held hand-held also hand·held adj. Compact enough to be used or operated while being held in the hand or hands: a hand-held video camera. Adj. 1. devices, including personal digital assistants (PDAs), cell phones and alphanumeric alphanumeric (ăl'fən  mĕr`ĭk) or alphameric (ăl'fəmĕr`ĭk), the set of letters and numbers. pagers. Cardservice merchants will be contacted primarily by Cardservice International's 250 agent offices and 2,500 sales representatives. In addition, merchants will be notified of the SalesMountain services through promotional mailings and telesales telesales Noun the selling of a commodity or service by telephone telesales npl → televentas fpl telesales npl → channels that will answer merchants' questions and enable them to sign up for the service. Via extensive wireless and wireline networks, SalesMountain provides more than 3.9 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. monthly (Source: PC Data, July 2000) with retailers' individual product sales, discounts, coupons, rebates, free offers and other value-added advertising opportunities more effectively than any other advertising medium and for a fraction of the cost. Commenting on the sales efforts and rollout, John Burtzloff, Cardservice International's senior vice president of sales stated, "SalesMountain's leadership in wireless and wireline advertising distribution provides a unique and cost-effective way for advertisers to communicate with consumers on a national, local and mobile basis." "We are very pleased that Cardservice International merchants will have the opportunity to advertise their Sales and specials to millions of SalesMountain shoppers," added Lee Weinberg, SalesMountain's managing director of business development and sales. "Getting Cardservice International's sales force and other resources mobilized behind SalesMountain's Sales and specials advertising services will help us get our message to advertisers in a big way," Weinberg concluded. SalesMountain can help all advertisers, including national, regional and local brick-and-mortar retail stores and service providers in shoppers' local neighborhoods and online stores. A recent study showed that 78% of those who visit a business's location after seeing an ad on SalesMountain actually bought the product they had searched for; in addition, 87% of shoppers actually purchased regularly priced items instead of and in addition to the sale item. These results substantiate To establish the existence or truth of a particular fact through the use of competent evidence; to verify. For example, an Eyewitness might be called by a party to a lawsuit to substantiate that party's testimony. the marketing ability of SalesMountain's wireless and wireline advertising distribution networks. About SalesMountain SalesMountain is the world's leading wireless and wireline distributor of sales advertising and promotional content. Via the world's most visited sales-site and its wireless and wireline networks, SalesMountain delivers in the U.S. alone over 60,000 active sales from more than 16,500 offline and online retailers and service providers in more than 800 departments covering over 16,000 brands available in more than 200,000 store locations. The company is privately held and has headquarters 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. , and has offices in the U.K. and Germany in addition to its North American operations North American operation Surgical oncology Radical surgery of a 'frozen pelvis', consisting of radical en bloc resection of the uterus and urinary bladder. See 'Frozen pelvis.'. Cf 'All-American' and 'South American' operations. . For more information, visit SalesMountain's Web site at http://www.SalesMountain.com/about.htm or contact SalesMountain by email at info@SalesMountain.com. About Cardservice International Cardservice International Inc., is a global leader in providing real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. secure credit card transactions to merchants. Cardservice offers merchants a cost-effective service tailored to their businesses, enabling them to provide credit card processing over the Internet as well as to the traditional marketplace. More than 185,000 merchants have contracted with Cardservice International. Of those, 55,000 are actively using Cardservice as their Internet solution. For more information about Cardservice International, go to www.cardservice.com. |
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