IDT & GeoCities Press Release -
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by: Bull_Riden_Texan (28/M/Texas)
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March 9, 1999 08:31 AM
HACKENSACK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9,
1999--
Leading PC-to-phone service joins program to generate
revenue
from GeoCities' 3.5 million members
IDT's IDTC Net2Phone, the market leader in Internet
telephony services, today announced that it has signed an
agreement with GeoCities GCTY , the world's largest and one
of the fastest-growing communities of personal Web sites, to
become a member of its e-commerce affiliate program.
Net2Phone, the exclusive PC-to-phone service marketed
through Pages That Pay , will now gain access to GeoCities'
3.5 million members, who can now act as sales agents for the
Company to earn residual commissions on Net2Phone sales.
GeoCities' members can earn money easily by simply
choosing to offer Net2Phone from their Web sites. When
visitors complete sales from Net2Phone, the member earns a
percentage of the revenue.
"We are pleased to have Net2Phone aboard Pages That Pay
affiliate program," said Thomas R. Evans, President and
CEO of GeoCities. "Our members are always looking for
value-added applications as well as ways to generate money
from their Web sites."
Net2Phone joins leading e-commerce sites such as
barnesandnoble.com, Egghead.com, MSN Expedia, and
Value America in the Pages That Pay program.
"Net2Phone has prided itself on quality partnerships. We are
pleased to be working with GeoCities to further expand the
reach of Net2Phone to all of its Homesteaders," said Mordy
Rothberg, Executive Vice President of Net2Phone. "Pages
That Pay is a win-win program for both merchants like
Net2Phone as well as GeoCities' members, and we look
forward to working closely to ensure revenues from this new
relationship."
IDT is a leading emerging multinational carrier that combines
its position as an international telecommunications operator,
its experience as an Internet service provider and its leading
position in Internet telephony to provide a broad range of
telecommunications services to its wholesale and retail
customers worldwide. The company provides its customers
with integrated and competitively priced international and
domestic long distance, pre-paid calling cards, Internet access
and, through its Net2Phone product offerings, Internet
telephony services including Net2Phone Direct, Net2Fax,
Click2Talk, and easysurf.com. For more information about
IDT's Internet telephony services, please visit
www.net2phone.com.
Based in Marina del Rey, California, with offices in New
York and San Francisco, GeoCities is the world's largest and
one of the fastest-growing communities of personal Web sites
on the Internet. Over 3.5 million GeoCities Homesteaders
have created over 32 million pages of personalized content.
In December 1998, the GeoCities site generated more than
1.6 billion page views per month, according to Nielsen
I/PRO, and in January 1999, the site attracted nearly 19
million unique visitors and is ranked the fifth most trafficked
site on the Internet, according to Media Metrix.
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