Constant Contact Wins ''2005 Web Marketing Today Award of Merit''; Dr. Ralph Wilson Grants Constant Contact ''2005 Web Marketing Today Award of Merit for Excellence in E-Mail Marketing Software''.WALTHAM, Mass. -- Constant Contact(R) (www.constantcontact.com), the leading permission Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing(R) service for small and medium businesses and associations, announced today that it has won the 2005 Web Marketing Today Award of Merit for Excellence in E-Mail Marketing Email marketing is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating commercial or fundraising messages to an audience. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing. Software given by Dr. Ralph Wilson, founding editor of Web Marketing Today(R). The award was announced in Wilson's E-Mail Marketing Handbook (Second Edition) (http://www.wilsonweb.com/ebooks/handbook.htm), which provides small and medium businesses information and recommendations on how to effectively use e-mail in marketing. Dr. Wilson chose Constant Contact as one of the premiere ASP (Application Service Provider) hosted e-mailing services. Wilson also noted that ASP services help organizations achieve higher deliverability than software installed on a desktop or server. Dr. Wilson, a pioneer in the field of Internet Marketing See Internet advertising. since beginning Web Marketing Today in 1995, is widely recognized as one of the top international authorities in the area of Web marketing and e-commerce. He has been interviewed by leading periodicals including The Wall Street Journal, ABC News
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. Online, and Investors Business Daily. "Constant Contact is known for its simplicity and user-friendliness for those a bit intimidated by the power of other services," said Wilson. "I am quite impressed by the ease-of-use and range of features Constant Contact provides." "We have strived to make Constant Contact an easy-to-use, affordable, and feature-rich email marketing service for small businesses," said Gail Goodman, Constant Contact's chief executive officer. "We are very pleased to have Dr. Wilson, one of the best-known Internet Marketing publishers and consultants, recognize our achievements with this award." About Constant Contact With over 40,000 customers and a recent winner of SmallBusinessComputing.com's "Excellence in Technology Award," Constant Contact(R) is the leading permission Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing(R) service for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and associations. 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 small organizations to easily 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. Designed and priced for SMBs, Constant Contact is affordable, easy-to-use and includes a free 60-day trial at: www.constantcontact.com. The service is marketed through over 1,500 Business Partners and more than 100 marquee channel partners including American Express OPEN, 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. , Corel, FTD FTD Financial Times Deutschland (German sister newspaper of the Financial Times) FTD Frontotemporal Dementia FTD Fitted FTD Federal Tax Deposit FTD Flight Training Device FTD Fastest Time of the Day , 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) , Interland, Network Solutions, Register.com, Website Pros and Yahoo Search Marketing See Yahoo! Search Marketing. . Constant Contact is a founding member of the Email 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 funded by Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Longworth Venture Partners and Hudson Ventures. For more information, please call 781-472-8100. Roving, Roving Software, Constant Contact, the Constant Contact Logo, Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing, Email Marketing Made Easy, The smart way to reach your customers, Email Marketing 101, Email Marketing Diva, Email Marketing Hints & Tips, and SafeUnsubscribe are trademarks or service marks or registered trademarks or service marks of Roving Software Incorporated d/b/a Constant Contact. All other company and product names may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. |
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