House of Cards Partners with Constant Contact to Provide Clients with Award-Winning Email Marketing Tools and Services

Expanded offerings enable marketing consultant, Carol Cordova of House of Cards to provide clients with effective and affordable tools for building customer loyalty and expanding business opportunities.

Lorain, OH (PRWEB) March 20, 2006 -- House of Cards today announced a partnership with Constant Contact (http://www.constantcontact.com), the leading permission Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing® service for small and medium businesses (smbs) and associations. The partnership will enable House of Cards to provide clients with an easy-to-use and professional email marketing tool for creating and sending eye-catching html newsletters, promotions and more.

House of Cards provides marketing consultative products and services to small businesses interested in maintaining close contact with their clients and prospects. Email marketing is an important part of its clients’ sales and marketing plans, and by working with Constant Contact, House of Cards is able to provide email marketing consulting, strategy, branding, creative design, content development and results analysis. Maintaining customer contact by telephone or with traditional mail is costly and time consuming. In contrast, email marketing is immediate, easy, measurable and costs fractions of a penny per email.

“Our customers are continually looking for cost-effective ways to market themselves and their businesses, and partnering with Constant Contact helps us deliver that capability as a valuable addition to our core service offerings,” said Carol Cordova, owner of House of Cards. “Constant Contact’s ease-of-use, affordability, and professional look made it an easy choice for partnership.

“Helping small and medium businesses succeed is our goal and we are pleased to provide House of Cards with the industry leading email marketing service that helps them meet the needs of their clients,” said Alec Stern, Vice President Strategic Market Development executive for Constant Contact.

House of Cards uses Constant Contact as a cost-effective platform to provide a complete email marketing solution customized to meet its clients’ specific needs. As a Constant Contact Reseller, House of Cards has been able to expand its business and consulting services and tap into additional sources of revenue.

As a Reseller, House of Cards receives a co-branded landing site at http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?pn=houseofcards, revenue share, online reporting, a free Constant Contact account, access to a Partner Extranet for promotional tools, marketing content and materials to educate its client base on the benefits of email marketing.

About House of Cards

House of Cards provides marketing consultative products and services to entrepreneurs, independent professionals and small non-profits looking to position their brand to be a household name, so they can achieve success faster and with less stress and frustration.

About Constant Contact

With over 30,000 customers and a recent winner of SmallBusinessComputing.com's "Excellence in Technology Award," Constant Contact® is the leading permission Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing® service for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and associations. 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. 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 1,000 Resellers and more than 100 marquee channel partners including American Express OPEN, Website Pros, Register.com, FTD, AOL, Interland, IBM, Intuit, Network Solutions and Overture. 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. Constant Contact is funded by Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Longworth Venture Partners and Hudson Ventures.

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