Global Auction Guide Announces Strategic Partnership

Auction Content Now Available To Over 300 Newspaper Web Sites

Portage la Prairie, MB Canada (PRWEB) December 30, 2004 -- The largest traditional auction advertising network on the Internet, the Global Auction Guide Media Group, (http://www.globalauctionguide.com) has announced an agreement in principal to supply 1up Software and their 300 newspaper clients a turnkey, cutting edge auction calendar technology.

"While we are already the largest advertising network available to auctioneers with over 50 Web sites carrying the complete sale bills of hundreds of participating auctioneers, we are always looking for new ways to give auctioneers even more value for their Internet advertising dollar" says Global Auction Guide Media Group President Dwayne Leslie "The ability for these local newspapers to compliment their present Web sites with local and national auction content will bring more visitors to their Web sites on a daily and weekly basis and give auctioneers more local, regional, and national exposure."

"Bringing newspapers revenue tools which are easy to implement and can expand their news site's traffic is a key focus of 1up!," says 1up! Managing Partner David Sutton. Sutton adds, "Our new partnership with Global should help our newspaper customer's expand their reach into their communities in a way which will help the community, the advertisers and the newspapers themselves."

Global Auction Guide Media Group is the leading auction advertising network on the Internet with over 12,000 auctions listed in the past 3 years from over 300 of the most progressive auctioneers on the continent. Auctioneers are able to list an unlimited number of sales, items and photos for a very economical monthly fee. For more details or to sign up for a 90 day free trial, please go to: http://www.globalauctionguide.com

1up! Software provides easy-to-use, powerful Web-based content management and revenue-generating solutions for newspapers. With a reputation for aggressively brining state-of-the art solutions to small publisher, 1up! continually upgrades its products to meet changing customers needs. 1up! serves 300 newspapers nationwide plus numerous community and specialized publication sites. For more information on 1up! visit: http://www.going1up.com

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