Constant Contact Announces 20,000 Paying Customers; Industry Recognition As Most Popular Email Marketing Tool For Small Businesses.Business Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2004 Momentum Continues on Heels of 14 Consecutive Quarters of Growth Constant Contact today announced that it recently passed its 20,000 paying customer mark as more small businesses embrace its online email marketing service to conduct permission-based email marketing campaigns. This development coincides with Constant Contact's recognition as the most popular email marketing tool for small businesses in an independent survey conducted this month by Web Marketing Today. Constant Contact Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing(TM) for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and associations has also reached a significant corporate milestone in customer growth, rising by 177% during the past 18 months. The company is actively hiring for new positions across the organization. Today's milestone announcement follows last week's launch of significant technology enhancements to give customers greater flexibility to create professional email marketing campaigns. "Our customer-centric approach has resulted in momentum on every front - with small businesses, partners, and resellers," said Gail Goodman, 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. , Constant Contact. "We owe our success to our unfailing commitment to small business, our understanding of their needs and the ability to consistently deliver the solutions that meet those needs including ease-of use, affordability, customer education and much more. Small businesses recognize that email marketing is a critical function, and they choose Constant Contact." Email has become one of the most effective ways of marketing online as small business has embraced the medium due to its low cost and high return on investment. Constant Contact specializes in helping small businesses to drive sales and retain customers through easy-to-use, customizable email newsletters, promotions, and other valuable customer communications. In recent customer inquiries, Constant Contact found overwhelming numbers of small businesses that boast increased sales and revenue specifically attributed to the use of the Constant Contact email marketing tool, including: -- Birds Just Wanna wan·na Informal 1. Contraction of want to: You wanna go now? 2. Contraction of want a: You wanna slice of pie? Have Fun bird toy store A toy store, or toy shop, is a retail business specializing in the services of selling toys. No longer held to the limitations of the brick and mortar outlet, the toy store has successfully created a presence within the e-commerce industry. - 60 percent increase in sales. -- Bella Bali Beads store - Sales grew from $245 per month to $6,000 per month. -- Firkins Chrysler-Jeep Mitsubishi car dealership This article is about car dealerships. For the indie pop band, see Dealership (band). A car dealership or vehicle local distribution is a business that sells new cars and/or used cars at the retail level, based on a dealership contract with an automaker or - Online sales went from zero to 20 per month. -- Pmptools.com Consultants - 50 percent increase in sales. -- Ruma's Fruit and Gift Basket A gift basket, or fruit basket is typically a gift that is delivered to the recipient at their home or workplace. There are different varieties of gift baskets, some which have fruit only, some with dry/canned goods only (such as tea, crackers and jam) although the standard World - Online sales return on investment of 915 percent. "We had high expectations when we signed on with Constant Contact and I'm pleased to say that the results have far exceeded our hopes by boosting our sales by 50%," said Brent Knapp, president, www.pmptools.com. "On top of our sales growth, we've also built stronger relationships with our customers, which goes a long way toward helping our retention efforts." Constant Contact also recently announced that it is the first small business provider to achieve certification from IronPort and Truste to provide Bonded Sender certification to its customers. About Constant Contact Constant Contact is the leading permission Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing service for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and associations recently rated the most popular email marketing tool in a Web Marketing Today(R) survey of small businesses. Constant Contact is a Web-based email Web-based email or webmail is a term referring to an e-mail service intended to be primarily accessed via a web browser, as opposed to through an application such as Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, Mozilla's Thunderbird or Apple's Mail. marketing solution that enables smaller organizations to easily and affordably create and send professional 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. email newsletters, promotions, announcements and more with no technical expertise required. The service is marketed through over 800 Resellers and more than 100 Marquee channel partners including AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Interland, 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) , Intuit, Network Solutions and Overture. Constant Contact is a founding member of the Email Service See Internet e-mail service. Provider Coalition (ESPC ESPC Energy Savings Performance Contract ESPC Equality State Policy Center ESPC Edinburgh Solicitors Property Centre (Scotland) ESPC E-Mail Service Provider Coalition ESPC European Space Power Conference ), a group formed to fight spam while protecting the delivery of legitimate email. Constant Contact is a Deloitte & Touche New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. Fast 50 company, funded by Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Longworth Venture Partners and Hudson Ventures. For more information, please call 781-472-8100 or visit us online at http://www.constantcontact.com. 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