(COMTEX) B: M & A WEST INC - Venturelist Inc. Launches Affiliate Marketing Program - With Commission Junction
New York, New York, Nov. 08, 2000 (Market News Publishing via COMTEX) --
Venturelist Inc., an M&A West Inc. subsidiary has launched an affiliate
marketing program with Commission Junction.
Venturelist Inc., a company that provides an exchange platform for entrepreneurs
and accredited investors with the aid of its Web site, Venturelist.com, has
joined the Commission Junction affiliate network. In doing this, Commission
Junction affiliates can quickly and easily add a Venturelist link to their site,
giving their users the ability to instantly access Venturelist's database of
entrepreneurs and investors seeking to develop profitable early stage business
relationships.
"By joining the Commission Junction affiliates program, Venturelist will move
toward expanding its marketing profile by reaching hundreds of thousands of
potential customers," says Steve Bauman, president and CEO of Venturelist Inc.
"That will serve both Venturelist and the venture capital community well. We're
excited about this new partnership and look forward to working with Commission
Junction."
Through Commission Junction's services, Venturelist will offer links to its
database to more than 300,000 affiliate content sites in the Commission Junction
network. Commission Junction will also monitor traffic from affiliates to
Venturelist and calculate commissions to Venturelist's affiliates, along with
providing other Venturelist/affiliate relationship management services.
"Venturelist's online offerings are unique and should be of great interest to
the 300,000 content sites in Commission Junction's affiliate marketing network,"
said Lex Sisney, Commission Junction CEO. "We look forward to helping
Venturelist create a world-class affiliate program within the Commission
Junction network."
Venturelist has filed its registration with the SEC to become a publicly traded
company. Currently a subsidiary of M&A West, Venturelist will be spun-off as a
public company in the near future. Holders of M&A West stock as of November 15,
2000, will receive a 1-for-5 distribution of Venturelist stock; for every five
shares of M&A West held, shareholders will receive one share of Venturelist,
Inc.
About Commission Junction Commission Junction, the leading affiliate marketing
solutions provider, has transformed sophisticated affiliate marketing software
into an affordable and easy-to-use Web-based service that provides a turn-key
solution for managing revenue-sharing relationships.
As an application services provider (ASP), Commission Junction provides a
network of more than 1,000 merchants and 250,000 content sites with a
comprehensive suite of affiliate marketing, management, recruitment and
administrative services delivered on-demand via the Internet. Content sites
place products, ads and links directly in and around their content and earn
commissions. Online merchants extend their reach, build their brand, drive sales
and lower customer acquisition costs all on a pay-for-performance basis.
Commission Junction's network includes leading online merchants Excite@Home
(Nasdaq: ATHM), Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, and Capital One (NYSE: COF), and
major content sites Road Runner and Weather.com. With a staff of 150, Commission
Junction is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, with sales offices in
San Francisco, New York, Amsterdam, Oslo, London and Hong Kong. For additional
information, visit www.cj.com or call 800/761-1072.
About Venturelist Inc. Venturelist Inc. is an online information source with a
quarterly print publication for the private equity venture capital community.
The site puts those that need capital in contact with those who are looking to
make investments in private ventures. The concept behind Venturelist is to
provide entrepreneurs and start-up companies looking for seed level investments
from approximately $100,000-$5,000,000 a forum to post the executive summary of
their business plan to accredited investors and institutions. Venturelist is not
a venture capital firm or a broker-dealer and it does not accept commissions on
a successful funding.
Venturelist's services for entrepreneurs include business plan evaluation and
writing as well as business consulting. For investors, Venturelist adds value by
increasing and streamlining their deal flow. Investors can also reduce their
risk by letting Venturelist's seasoned professionals evaluate and review more
deals more efficiently.
About M&A West Inc. M&A West Inc. has several business objectives. The company
is a technology merchant bank that acquires, invests in and develops technology
companies into cohesive units that can be either taken public or sold off within
six to 18 months. M&A West also provides various mergers and acquisitions
related consulting services and helps smaller publicly traded Nasdaq and
Over-the-Counter companies to raise capital they need. Through a network of
related companies, M&A West can also offer both its portfolio companies and
other developing companies a full line of business services to increase the
awareness of their business.
M&A West Inc. sees itself as an alternative to traditional incubators and
financial companies such as CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI) or Internet Capital Group Inc.
(Nasdaq: ICGE), or Safeguard Scientifics Inc. (NYSE: SFE). M&A West Inc. is
currently conducting some of its services in the Internet and traditional
Business-to-Business sector, which has seen good exposure for companies such as
Sapient Inc. (Nasdaq: SAPE), Scient Corporation (Nasdaq: SCNT), Ariba Inc.
(Nasdaq: ARBA), Commerce One Inc. (Nasdaq: CMRC), and webMethods Inc. (Nasdaq:
WEBM).
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