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Flash Drive Direct partners with Sticky Drive

PRESS RELEASE

March 19, 2008

SMARTBLAST PARTNERS WITH YESMAIL – INCREASING RESPONSE RATES ALL AROUND

CHICAGO, IL. – SmartBlast announces its new partnership with YesMail. Yesmail™ (an infoUSA®company, [NASDAQ: IUSA], a recognized industry-leading provider of permission-based online email marketing solutions and Smartblast, the leading provider of email marketing services to the promotional products industry have partnered to help ensure the best possible delivery of e-blasts to SmartBlast customers.
SmartBlast clients have already experienced an improvement in delivery rates, sample requests and orders. “Our overall results have improved by 23% during the past month,” states John Graham of Flash Drive Direct. “Our opens have increased by 37%, our return rate went up to 22% and our ROI increased dramatically. In fact during one of our return sessions our internal mail server crashed due to the sheer volume of mail.”
Michael Johnston, president of Smartblast, states, “By switching our mail provider to Yesmail, the increase in responses that our customers have experienced has been phenomenal.” The mission of SmartBlast has always been to help clients improve their response rates, build customer relationships, grow revenue and increase the relevancy and impact of every message they send. “Yesmail is just another way for us to provide our customers with the best service possible,” explains Johnston.
About SmartBlast
SmartBlast.com, based in Chicago, IL, is the leading provider of email marketing services to the promotional products industry. In addition to email, SmartBlast also provides direct mail solutions, list management services and eCatalog solutions.

About Yesmail
Yesmail is an infoUSA company and is part of the infoUSA services group, which includes sister companies Walter Karl, Millard, Edith Roman and Catalog Vision. infoUSA is a $700 million public company with more than 4 million customers and has been profitable for over 30 years. infoUSA is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ: iusa.
About Flashdrive Direct
Flash Drive Direct is a North American based flash drive design and manufacturing firm. They cater to the promotional products market, corporate and retail markets with their innovation promotional flash drive designs. They have offices in Canada, USA and a manufacturing facility in Shenzen, China.
SmartBlast
314 W. Institute Place
Suite 3W
Chicago, IL 60610
CONTACT: Michael Johnston, President
312-587-8489, mjohnston@smartblast.com
Flash Drive Direct
12500 Horseshoe Way
Vancouver Canada
604-272-8809 jg@flashdrivedirect.com

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