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(PR NEWSWIRE) 7th Street.com Signs Agreement with GeoCities Affiliate Prog 7th Street.com Signs Agreement with GeoCities Affiliate Program for Tutorials.com Brand 7th Street.com One of 16 Top-Brand Merchants to Participate in 'Pages That Pay' WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- 7th Street.com (Nasdaq: SEVL) today announced an agreement with GeoCities (Nasdaq: GCTY), the world's largest and one of the fastest-growing communities of personal Web sites, to be one of the 16 top-brand name merchants initially participating in the new Pages that Pay affiliate program launch. The program will allow Geocities Homesteaders to feature Tutorials.com on their individual Web pages and sell the company's products to their targeted visitors. As part of this agreement, Geocities visitors will have direct access to 7th Street.com's unique online multimedia technology, enabling them to learn anytime, from the comfort of their homes, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional learning methods. Tutorials.com offers over 150 courses ranging from Windows 98, Office 97, PhotoShop and Lotus Notes 4.5 to Programming in HTML and Visual Basic and a number of personal improvement courses like Leadership Skills and Learning how to Interview. Each course contains practice sessions, help screens and proficiency exams with feedback on the questions answered right or wrong. After the completion of each course, users can print a completion certificate indicating that they have successfully met all of the requirements of the course. "This agreement will provide 7th Street.com with broader consumer reach and the opportunity to access and leverage Geocities' nearly 19 million visitors per month," said Stephen Gott, President and CEO of 7th Street.com. "Pages That Pay will allow us to cost-effectively acquire customers while furthering our goal to be the leading provider of online enhanced learning and communication solutions." 7th Street.com is committed to providing its customers with the most advanced learning and high impact communication products available over the Internet and Intranets. The 7th Street.com suite of products is based on the convergence of two highly advanced Internet streaming technologies, which allow interactive multimedia and animation to be accessed instantly over the Internet and Intranets. Tutorials.com is the leading provider of immediately accessible multimedia consumer training courses and tutorials. 7th Street.com provides corporations with access to the same high quality tutorials, through the Learning University, which includes additional features such as reporting and administration. For further information contact us at7thstreet.com . Forward-Looking Statements: This news release contains forward-looking statements, which involve risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, no assurance can be given that the actual events and results will not be materially different than the anticipated results described in the forward-looking statement. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements made by the Company. These factors include the Company's success in integrating the business and operations of both constituent companies; the activities of new or existing competitors, the ability to attract and retain employees and strategic partners, the ability to leverage intangible assets in its technology, the ability to complete new projects at planned costs and on planned schedules and adoption of the Internet as a medium of commerce, communications and education. Investors are also directed to consider other risks and uncertainties discussed in documents filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements, which may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. SOURCE 7th Street.com -0- 03/08/99 /CONTACT: Nicole Adler, Marketing Manager of 7th Street.com, 914-682- 4300; Andrea Kaimowitz, Katherine Mittelbusher, or Press: Frank Domondon of Morgen-Walke Associates, 212-850-5600, for 7th Street.com/ /Web site: 7thstreet.com (SEVL GCTY) CO: 7th Street.com; GeoCitites ST: New York IN: CPR MLM SU: *** end of story ***