Jambo and Interchange Corporation Partner to Provide Local.com Advertisers with Pay-Per-Call Capabilities
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Announced at Kelsey Conference, Local.com Gains Full-Service Sales
Partner, While Qualified Advertisers are Automatically Included in
Jambo's Pay-Per-Call Network Jambo (www.jambo.com), a leading
provider of solutions that effectively connect people by phone to
businesses represented in Internet search and directory listings,
today announced an agreement with Interchange Corporation
(Nasdaq:INCX), owners and operators of Local.com, a leading local
search engine, to enable pay-per-call capabilities for Local.com
advertisers. Jambo made the announcement at The Kelsey Group's
Drilling Down on Local event, held here through March 28th. The
agreement makes Jambo's patent-pending pay-per-call solutions
available to various categories of Local.com advertisers -- those
businesses that rely on the phone rather than walk-in traffic, like
plumbers, attorneys, etc. -- and adds Local.com to the Jambo
Advertising Network(TM) (JAN). As an aggregated sales channel, JAN
increases the number of phone leads advertisers receive by
combining the reach of multiple lead generators for a comprehensive
approach. Jambo is the only company to offer online and offline
publishers a full-service, embedded sales process that proactively
sells to local merchants on behalf of the publishers -- enabling
them to reach millions of local businesses for the first time. By
becoming an outsourced sales channel, Jambo brings a unique sales
methodology that includes branding Local.com by letting merchants
know where phone leads originated and building credibility by
delivering phone leads that turn into sales. Jambo then sells local
merchants pay-per-call advertising packages that enable performance
marketing for companies that don't have websites or that don't
advertise online. "Our partner network is generating huge call
volumes, that is, consumers using the phone when connecting with
local merchants. And those businesses want, and are satisfied
paying for, those calls," said John Melideo, CEO and founder,
Jambo. "Local.com is fast becoming a powerful player in local
search, taking it beyond directory listings and making it easier
than ever to find relevant, helpful information about local
businesses, products and services. Along with an approach that
makes local search uniquely relevant for consumers, our
pay-per-call technology enables Local.com to give businesses phone
calls in addition to clicks." "Jambo gives us a turnkey
pay-per-call solution, putting Local.com at the forefront of the
newest advancement in online advertising to date," said Peter
Hutto, Vice President of Business Development & Sales for
Interchange. "Jambo's unique 'automatic inclusion' approach to
pay-per-call facilitates the widest possible market acceptance of
this technology, with minimal effort required by our advertisers.
It makes it seamless for advertisers to gain phone leads online and
expands our revenue potential by proactively selling on our behalf
-- so we don't have to." Local.com provides a user-friendly search
format rather than a directory structure. Its information is
updated regularly and incorporates more than 15 million businesses
plus the local web -- information contained on websites that are
geographically local to each search. This combination provides a
much broader range of fresher, relevant local information than
traditional Yellow Pages sites, including links to reviews, maps,
directions, sales circulars, reservation services and much more.
Interchange recently reported that the Local.com site has been
released from beta. For the month of January 2006, Local.com
reached more than 8 million unique monthly visitors and more than
39 million page views, up from 6.9 million unique visitors and 33
million page views in December 2005. About Jambo Los Angeles-based
Jambo (www.jambo.com) is the first pay-per-call provider to offer a
comprehensive solution for the local space -- making it easy for
merchants to acquire new customers, for consumers to find relevant
local businesses and for publishers -- both online and offline --
to increase revenues. With its Pay-Per-Call Collect(TM) capability,
Jambo is the first to enable pay-per-call billing via an
advertiser's standard phone bill. Jambo's suite of patent-pending
solutions also includes embedded sales technology to drive
merchants to publishers and a method for evaluating business
listings to ensure value for consumers. Jambo was founded by a team
of seasoned telecom professionals, entrepreneurs and technologists.
About Interchange Interchange Corporation (Nasdaq:INCX) owns
Local.com (www.local.com), a leading local-search engine that has
grown to over 8 million visitors per month and is powered by the
company's proprietary Keyword DNA(TM) and local-web indexing
technologies. The company serves local and national Internet,
wireless and operator assisted local-search markets in the United
States and Europe. Interchange generates revenue principally from
paid-search advertising. The company recently launched a domain
syndication network in the United States and has also announced
plans to launch Local.com in Europe during 2006. The company is
headquartered in Irvine, Calif., with European headquarters in
Stockholm, Sweden. For more information on Interchange, please
visit: www.interchangeusa.com. Forward-Looking Statements: All
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result of certain factors, including, but not limited to, our
ability to stabilize our national paid search advertising business,
our ability to operate, grow and monetize our local search engine,
Local.com, and incorporate our local-search technologies, market
the Local.com domain as a destination for consumers seeking
local-search results, grow our business by enhancing our
local-search services, improve our filtering technologies expand
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integrate the operations and effectively utilize the technology of
Inspire, a Swedish Internet and wireless local-search technology
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