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SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 1999--
infoUSA.com, (Nasdaq:IUSAA) (Nasdaq:IUSAB) the leading provider of proprietary business and consumer databases and Internet white and yellow page directory services, today announced that four new partners will begin using infoUSA.com's private label white and yellow page directory services.
These new partners are: Computer Success Inc. (www.acnteam.com), Web-Search.com Inc. (www.web-search.com), Uncanny Magic (www.uncannymagic.com) and The Internet Antique Shop (www.tias.com). infoUSA.com began offering private label directory services to corporate web sites and Intranets in April in order to generate increased traffic, more advertising dollars and additional content sales for its small business portal site, www.infousa.com. The infoUSA site now receives in excess of ten million page views per month, and this number is steadily increasing, partially due to traffic from these directory service partners. For example, additional traffic from infoUSA.com partner, address.com, totaled 30,000 hits during its first week alone. infoUSA.com now has over 330,000 registered users, 7,000 of which were added in June.
These sites join the 100 companies that have already signed contracts with infoUSA.com to use the private label directory service. By clicking on the directory assistance icon at these sites users will be seamlessly linked to the infoUSA.com site, where they can purchase online a wide variety of infoUSA products and services. These include unique sales leads products such as customer analyzer(TM), business credit reports, company profiles, mailing lists, business directories and CD ROM's/DVD's. Additional content such as maps, news and weather will also be available as part of the private label service. The private label feature allows infoUSA's partners to continue to display their own logo throughout these transactions, thus maintaining brand identity. Over 350 companies have already requested that infoUSA.com enable their web sites with these private label yellow and white page solutions.
Bill Chasse, infoUSA.com president, said, "The addition of these partners represent an excellent opportunity for infoUSA.com to greatly increase its online advertising revenue and grow its Internet content sales and customer base by capturing a large user population of small businesses, entrepreneurs and sales professionals. Content is king, and infoUSA owns the highest quality, proprietary directory content along with the most sophisticated search options. infoUSA.com's directories enable these private label partners to offer important content, as well as valuable infoUSA products and services."
infoUSA, founded in 1972, is the leading provider of business and consumer information products and database marketing services. The infoUSA databases power the directory services of the top traffic-generating Internet sites including InfoSpace (Nasdaq: INSP), Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and AOL (Nasdaq: AOL). The company has partnership agreements with several Internet companies, including Mapquest.com (Nasdaq: MQST), DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK), Network Solutions (Nasdaq: NSOL), USWeb/CKS (Nasdaq: USWB), Dell (Nasdaq: Dell) and Zip2 (a division of Compaq). Nearly two million customers use the products and services for direct marketing, telemarketing, marketing planning, lead generation, sales planning, customer analysis and credit reference. infoUSA.com headquarters are located at 913 West El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, California, 94087. infoUSA.com can be contacted at (408) 746-3600.
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