Contact:
Strategic Advantage Public Relations
303-298-9630
Doyle Albee (ext. 106, dalbee@strategicadvantage.ws)
Jennifer St. Onge
303-642-4128 (jstonge@veripost.net)
SUPERIOR, Colo. – June 28, 2001 – Veripost, the e-mail change of address
solution, today announced that it has signed a marketing partnership agreement
with NetZero, Inc. (Nasdaq: NZRO), one of the nation’s leading providers of
Internet access services with more than 8.6 million registered users. Veripost
will provide NetZero customers with a free way to maintain relationships from
their previous e-mail addresses.
As a Veripost partner, NetZero will promote the Veripost e-mail change of
address service to new users and feature the Veripost e-mail address finder
functionality on NetZero’s service.
“Veripost’s service offers two clear values to NetZero users – the ability to
stay connected via e-mail with their personal and business contacts, and the
ability to easily locate people with whom they have lost touch,” said Brian
Woods, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, NetZero. “In
addition, since many of our users are coming to us from other ISPs, it is
important for them to have an easy way to let people know that they have a new
e-mail address. By utilizing this free offering from Veripost, their transition
to our service will be even easier.”
Partnerships with ISPs such as NetZero increase awareness and effectiveness of
the Veripost e-mail change of address solution. “We’re thrilled to be offering
our service to NetZero users,” said Eric Kirby, CEO of Veripost. “Partnerships
with leading Internet service providers further our solution’s growth, making it
easier for consumers to register and to keep in touch with relationships they
had at their previous e-mail addresses.”
How Veripost Works
The Veripost system helps reconnect consumers with personal contacts and online
relationships. To provide contacts with updated e-mail information, consumers
need only register their old and new e-mail addresses at www.veripost.net or
through participating companies’ web sites. The registration process is fast,
free and as easy as entering old and new e-mail addresses. Upon verification of
the e-mail address change, the new e-mail address is then accessible by contacts
in search of the new address.
When an inactive e-mail is discovered by businesses or personal contacts,
Veripost will provide a new address upon receiving permission from the e-mail
user. At the time of registration, each consumer chooses a preferred level of
permission that determines how updates are handled.
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About Veripost
Veripost is a comprehensive e-mail change of address solution that provides an
easy way for businesses to keep in touch with customers following an e-mail
address change, thereby increasing customer retention rates and profits. The
foundation of the Veripost solution is the Veripost Network, a group of e-mail
marketing and data solution companies that share their e-mail address updates,
when customers give permission, in exchange for updates provided by other
network members. Based in Superior, Colo., Veripost is backed by SOFTBANK
Venture Capital and leading entrepreneurs. For more information, visit
www.veripost.net.
About NetZero
NetZero, Inc. is a leading provider of free and pay Internet access services,
offering a broad range of interactive marketing, research and measurement
solutions. NetZero offers consumers high-quality Internet access, a choice of
popular e-mail programs and convenient navigation tools that provide "speed
dial" to key sites on the Internet. Through proprietary technologies, NetZero
offers advertisers unique targeting capabilities through numerous online
advertising and sponsorship channels. The company’s CyberTarget division offers
marketers and advertisers mass-scale, online market research and measurement
services. NetZero is a Cisco Powered Network, offering its access services to
approximately 8.6 million registered users in more than 5,000 cities across the
United States and in Canada. For more information, please visit
www.netzero.net. To obtain a CD, please call 1-800-DEFENDER.
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