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Resource Site Includes Email Fundamentals for Enhancing Customer
Relationships and Expanding Business Opportunities

The U. This online resource is made possible as part of a
cosponsorship between the SBA and Constant Contact.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 . Small Business Administration, established in 1953,
provides financial, technical and management assistance to help
Americans start, run, and grow their businesses.

Bankrate.

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email-marketing -101. Constant Contact is a Web-based email marketing solution
that enables small organizations to easily create and send
professional HTML email newsletters, promotions, announcements and
more with no technical expertise required.

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Small Business Administration (SBA) and Constant Contact,
a Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing(R) service for small and medium
businesses (SMBs) and associations today launched a new email
marketing resource available through the SBA's Online Small Business
Training Network.

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For more information, please call 781-472-8100.S. "Our consumers look to us to provide them with
the tools and information that will ensure that they are making smart
financial choices," Mr.

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S. Designed and priced for
SMBs, Constant Contact is affordable, easy-to-use and includes a free
60-day trial at: www.S. NEW YORK, Bankrate, Inc.

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Designed specifically for small business owners and entrepreneurs ,
this new email marketing resource is now available at
http://sba. The cosponsored section on the
SBA's Web site includes "Email Marketing 101(R)," a free on-demand web
seminar series that provides email marketing education, easy-to-follow
instructions and advice. "The SBA is one of the
most widely known and trusted resources for entrepreneurs seeking to
start and grow a business , so we're excited about the work we've done
together to launch this new seminar series.com. Constant
Contact is a founding member of the Email Service Provider Coalition
(ESPC), a group formed to fight spam while protecting the delivery of
legitimate email. SBA also
plays a major role in the government's disaster relief efforts by
making low-interest recovery loans to both homeowners and businesses. It's an intimidating process," said Daniel P.com, the
Internet's leading consumer banking marketplace. In 2004, Bankrate.com's information is also distributed through more than
100 national and state publications.

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Bankrate's guide speaks to many different audiences by providing a range of
articles geared toward different knowledge bases.

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About Constant Contact

With over 25,000 customers and a recent winner of
SmallBusinessComputing . Small Business Administration to
this activity does not constitute an express or implied endorsement of
any cosponsor's or participant's opinions, products, or services. Ray added.com reviews more than 4,800 financial institutions in more than 580
markets in 50 states.

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America's 25 million small businesses employ more than 50 percent of
the private workforce, generate more than half the nation's gross
domestic product, and are the principal source of new jobs in the U. Bankrate.com
(917) 368-8677

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Last year , SBA offered management and technical
assistance to more than 1.newscom.

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Constant Contact is funded by Morgan Stanley Venture
Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Longworth Venture Partners
and Hudson Ventures. Bankrate's 2005 Guide, which can be found
at http://www. In addition, the guide offers three different
calculators to help visitors estimate their FICO score, determine the price
house they can afford, and calculate their monthly payments.
(Logo: http://www. Examples of key articles
are:

* "10 Mistakes Novice Investors Make"
* "7-Step Plan to Sell Your Home"
* "How to Win the Offer/Counteroffer Game"
* "Know Your Rights in Any Real Estate Purchase"
* "Anti-Flipping Rules Can Hurt Investors"
* "How Are Home Values in Your Neighborhood"

"Buying or selling a home is one of the most important financial decisions
a person will make.

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The service is marketed
through over 800 Resellers and more than 100 marquee channel partners
including American Express OPEN, Website Pros, Register. All
SBA programs or cosponsored programs are extended to the public on a
nondiscriminatory basis.

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com/2005realestate , is comprised of dozens of
articles, step-by-step instructions, and tips and advice from Bankrate 's
award-winning editorial staff.

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The support given by the U. The
comprehensive guide is geared toward helping consumers to achieve their real
estate goals, whether they are a first-time buyer, selling their home or an
experienced real estate investor . Ray, Editor
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SBA and Constant Contact Introduce Online Resource for Small Business Email Marketing

The web seminar series features:

Benefits of email marketing for building customer
relationships and growing business

Fundamentals for building and managing email lists using
proven best practices

Tools and resources for helping small businesses create and
launch effective email campaigns, measure results and
troubleshoot for improvement over time

Real examples of how other small businesses have effectively
put email marketing to work for their organizations

Up-to-the minute archive of Constant Contact's popular Email
Marketing Hints + Tips(R) newsletter, a "how-to" resource on
creating, implementing, and managing effective email marketing
campaigns

"We 're pleased to cosponsor this online resource with Constant
Contact as we seek to better inform entrepreneurs about how to
successfully and cost-effectively use email marketing," said SBA
Administrator Hector V. Barreto."
"We're constantly looking for new ways to get the word out to
independent entrepreneurs and small businesses that email marketing is
one of the most effective and affordable tools for building customer
loyalty and expanding business opportunities," said Gail Goodman,
chief executive officer for Constant Contact. With a portfolio of
direct and guaranteed business loans and disaster loans worth more
than $45 billion, SBA is the nation's largest single financial backer
of small businesses .5 million small business owners. (Nasdaq: RATE)
announced today that it has released its 2005 Real Estate Guide. (Nasdaq: RATE) owns and operates Bankrate.

For more information contact:
Kayleen J. Keneally
kkeneally@bankrate.

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About the SBA

The U.bankrate .com is a destination
site of personal finance channels, including banking, investing, and taxes.

It
is the leading aggregator of more than 300 financial products, including
mortgages, credit cards, new and used auto loans, money market accounts and
CDs, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.

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"We get a lot of questions from small
business owners and entrepreneurs about email marketing and this
training tool will help to improve our already robust customer
tutorial services.constantcontact.com, FTD, AOL,
Interland, IBM, Intuit, Network Solutions and Overture.com provides financial applications and information to a
network of more than 75 partners, including Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), America
Online (NYSE: TWXDJ) and The New York Times
(NYSE: NYT).