ProfitPoint and iContact Partner to Offer Services to Small and Mid-sized Businesses
Clifton Heights, PA and Durham, NC - November 4, 2009 iContact, a leading provider of email marketing services
to small and mid-sized businesses and ProfitPoint, a leading provider of gift and loyalty card services, announced
their partnership today that will allow ProfitPoint to offer iContact services to their customers. ProfitPoint will also use iContact internally for their email marketing needs.
“We are excited to partner with iContact to provide affordable, highly reliable email marketing services to our customers,” said ProfitPoint Director of Marketing, Aimee DuCasse. “Our partnership with iContact enables ProfitPoint to provide a full suite of marketing services to support our Gift and Loyalty Card Programs. More importantly, it gives our customers the ability to cost-effectively market to their customers while maximizing sales of gift cards and enrollment in loyalty programs.”
“Teaming up with ProfitPoint is another example of how iContact provides key services to the small and medium-sized business community,” commented Kevin Fitzgerald, Vice President of Sales at iContact. “We are pleased we can provide ProfitPoint’s customer base with our services while working with a like-minded entrepreneurial company.”
ProfitPoint and iContact both ranked in the top 100 on the 2008 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies.
About ProfitPoint, Inc.
ProfitPoint, Inc. is a leading provider of gift and loyalty card services to the small to medium sized merchant community. Recognized by Inc. Magazine’s list of 500/5000 fastest growing private companies for two consecutive years, ProfitPoint ranked No. 59 in the US in 2008 and No. 23 in Pennsylvania in 2009. With its corporate headquarters near Philadelphia, PA, and customer care center in Franklin, TN, ProfitPoint supports its gift and loyalty cards with real-time electronic transaction processing, customizable reports, point-of-purchase marketing tools and direct marketing services. ProfitPoint specializes in the design and production of custom gift and loyalty cards, software capability and merchant education to meet each client’s needs. Now serving more than 25,000 merchant locations nationwide, ProfitPoint produces over fifteen million cards per year and does more than 20 million stored value transactions on its proprietary gift and loyalty card platform. www.rewardforloyalty.com.
About iContact
With more than 58,000 customers, iContact provides email marketing for SMBs and non-profits. iContact allows for easy creation of email newsletters, surveys, and autoresponders. Market leaders like Bank of America, Ford, Intuit, Vonage, Symantec, International Paper, LG Electronics, ReMax, United Colors of Benetton, and Centex Homes, use iContact to build stronger relationships with their customers and prospects at a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing methods. iContact, designed for the SMB market and iContact Enterprise, designed for mid-sized to large organizations, are both available at www.iContact.com.
For media inquiries, contact Aimee DuCasse, Director of Marketing, aducasse@profitpointinc.com or 484-462-4240 or Chuck Hester, Communications Director, iContact, chuck@icontact.com or 919-459-1451.
