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Deerfield Beach, Florida. – netVillage.com, Inc., today announced an Alliance Program open to web design firms and their customers who are developing revenue generating, special-interest virtual communities or portals. Under the arrangement, design firms will be able to offer their customers netVillage’s complete suite of outsourced e-commerce, e-community, and hosting services. In addition, netVillage, an e-community Application Service Provider (ASP), will refer design work for its hosted web communities to partners in the program. The program is designed to empower web design firms to offer customers more than simple page design, but help them help their customers create truly vibrant online web communities. Customers benefit from increased "stickiness" created by a community enabled site - getting people to come back more and to stay longer.

Web design firms are under increasing pressure to add "community" features to their customer’s web sites. In talking to 25 online merchants and 25 brand marketers, Forrester Research Inc. found that 60 percent have or plan to offer community building features such as chat, message boards and members-only areas within the year. By adding interactive community features, a web site can grab surfer’s attention, keep them on the site, and encourage them to return. The ability for interactive sites to keep users on their sites longer (three times the average according to Businessweek) extends the opportunity to interest users in the site’s e-commerce programs. In addition, by engaging customers with a netVillage interactive community site, businesses can build stronger customer relationships, increase brand loyalty, tap market knowledge, and capitalize on opportunities for highly targeted advertising and sponsorships.

"Web design firms who want to add community features to their customer’s web sites are often forced to cobble together software applications from multiple vendors, resulting in a hodgepodge mix of services, and a disruptive, inconsistent community experience," indicates Nate Hammond, president of netVillage.com. "By providing design firms a seamless integration of all interactive services under 1 roof, they can create powerful community-enabled solutions for their customers in far less time than it would take to develop or integrate solutions from multiple vendors on their own."

NetVillage complements its community and collaboration tools with back-end hosting and site management services. This, combined with the front-end design work performed by design firms, offers web businesses a complete solution to taking their online vision from concept to completion.

About netVillage, Inc.

netVillage.com, Inc. is the leading provider of Internet community solutions for creating, hosting, and managing community-enabled Web sites. The company provides a complete set of tightly-integrated community and e-commerce tools that provides businesses wishing to create revenue generating, special-interest virtual communities with a one-stop e-community solution. NetVillage.com brings a unique approach to community-enabling Web sites by providing an unmatched selection of plug-and-play community services all transparently integrated within an e-commerce framework. For further information call 1-888-922-8455, or visit www.netvillage.com.

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