SuperbHosting.net Joins RatePoint Partner Program

2008-01-07T10:49:00-05:00

Needham, MA and Vancouver, BC - (GAWKWIRE) - RatePoint, the leader in providing businesses with the only comprehensive online reputation management and customer feedback platform available, and SuperbHosting.Net, a subsidiary of Superb Internet Corporation, today announced a new partnership that will give SuperbHosting.Net customers access to the RatePoint platform and consumer approval program. As a result, RatePoint has extended its reach to SuperbHosting.Net’s customer base of over 12,000.

“We are extremely excited to be a member of the RatePoint partner program, and to have the opportunity to offer a truly unique and high-demand value-add service to our current and potential web hosting customers,” (Curtis) R. Curtis, VP, Sales & Marketing, SuperbHosting.Net. “RatePoint’s easy-to-implement customer feedback platform will help us improve customer retention and loyalty, better communicate with our customers, and increase sales and conversion rates.”

RatePoint allows businesses to manage their online reputation by easily capturing and publishing consumer reviews and feedback directly from their web sites. RatePoint verifies actual consumer ratings for authenticity, and businesses then have an opportunity to respond to feedback.

RatePoint memberships include:

The RatePoint site seal, a dynamic website seal that businesses can use to collect and publish reviews, and a recognized and trusted symbol of a quality business.

A customized listing in the RatePoint online business directory that is searchable by millions of consumers. Directory listings can provide better search engine optimization (SEO) and increased traffic for businesses.

Access to the RatePoint Business Center, an online interface that allows businesses to easily manage and respond to feedback and reviews. The Business Center also provides a host of other feedback management and marketing tools for businesses.

SuperbHosting.Net joins the RatePoint partner and reseller community of more than 100 companies. The RatePoint partner program gives website hosting companies, ISPs and other technology providers a way to not only grow their businesses and revenue, but to also provide added value to their customers.

For more information, visit www.ratepoint.com

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Boxbe Introduces Social Utility

2008-01-07T05:17:00-05:00

Boxbe Introduces Social Utility for Yahoo! Mail, Outlook and Gmail, Email nods to social networking with 'Email by invitation'

SAN FRANCISCO,CA - (GAWKWIRE) - Boxbe, a company that lets consumers regain control of their incoming email, today announced a social utility for email. Boxbe's free service gives the millions of users of Yahoo! Mail, Microsoft Outlook and Gmail the ability to protect and ensure the delivery of messages from friends, family, co-workers and even entire domains, such as: amazon.com, americanexpress.com or yourfamilyname.com. With the release of Boxbe's new service, users of Yahoo! Mail, Outlook and Gmail can now create an 'email guest list', which ensures that they receive messages only from those people who matter to them.

"Going beyond Email 2.0 Boxbe's guest list makes email more like instant messaging or social networking: People who want to reach you must first get your permission," said Thede Loder, co-founder and president of Boxbe. "Boxbe allows you to treat your friends' email with the respect it deserves, and reject any message that tries to invade your inbox without an invitation from you."

In the same way that social networks require users to accept friends to share profiles and exchange messages, the Boxbe guest list allows users to control which messages can get through and which need permission.

This process stops spammers and brings order back to email. Unverified messages are not arbitrarily blocked or deleted; they are simply held in a waiting list where they can be viewed or forwarded at anytime. Consumers can also choose which businesses can reach them by name or by category; they can specify with total privacy which marketers can reach them and what products they are interested in.

According to a research report released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, more than half of email users (55 percent) say they have lost trust in email because of spam.

"Email is such an essential tool we use in all areas of our lives, personal and professional, yet it has not kept pace with the way that people communicate these days," continued Loder. "We are committed to working with companies like Yahoo, Microsoft and Google to restore people's faith in email by screening out unwanted messages and letting in those that matter."

Boxbe is able to offer this innovative service in part due to the "opening-up" of some of the industry's leading e-mail services. For example, in March 2007, Yahoo! announced the opening of its Yahoo! Mail Web Services, a multi-tiered set of open Web services that allow developers to build software and services around the world's No. 1* Web mail platform.

"I invested in Boxbe because they have created an innovative service that makes email usable again. Consumers have always had to deal with inboxes that are clogged with irrelevant information. With Boxbe, now they can focus only on those emails which really matter, from those people who really matter to them," said Esther Dyson, Boxbe investor and board member.

Boxbe is backed by leading investors: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the original investor in: Hotmail (acquired by Microsoft), Skype (acquired by eBay), Baidu, and Overture (acquired by Yahoo!), among many others; and Esther Dyson, an influential commentator on the impact of emerging technologies and markets, and an investor in Flickr (acquired by Yahoo!), Medstory (acquired by Microsoft), Brightmail (acquired by Symantec) and Postini (acquired by Google).

For more information, visit www.boxbe.com

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