Accelerize New Media, Inc.
OTC-BB: ACLZ
12121 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 322
Los Angeles, CA 90025
http://www.accelerize.com
Company Overview
Accelerize New Media, Inc. provides comprehensive online media solutions for clients to reach specific target audiences on the internet. We deliver lead generation and customer acquisition services via our network of financial, news, and business networking portals, and through real simple syndication, or RSS feeds, blogs, targeted e-mail, banners, search engine optimization, and co-registration opportunities.
The company is divided into two principal segments:
- Lead Generation - Accelerize has developed a multi-million dollar platform designed to deliver qualified leads to financial service providers through a network of affiliates and 50+ company-owned web sites.
- Financial Portals - Accelerize's financial portals attract hundreds of thousands of visitors each month through a network of over 1,900 financial domains, including SECFilings.com and TheOTCInvestor.com.
| Price: | $0.55 (0.00) |
| Volume: | 0 |
| Daily Range: | $N/A - $N/A |
Company Highlights
- Accelerize recently launched its new lead generation platform that has generated and sold more than $2.3 million in leads while still in beta stages.
- The performance-based advertising market, in which Accelerize operates, grew twice as fast as the online advertising market between 2007 and 2008.
- Accelerize owns more than 1,900 financial domain names, including premium names like SECFilings.com.
- Over 250,000 members have signed up across Accelerize's financial network, with more than 10,000 new registrations per month on average.
- Accelerize recently retained Strategic Growth International to help attract investors from around the world.
Recent News
Accelerize Launches New LeadGed Platform
Accelerize New Media Inc. Enters Into Multi-Billion Dollar U.S. Performance-Based Advertising Market by Launching State-of-the-Art Proprietary Lead Generation Platform That Generated and Sold More Than $2.3 Million Worth of Successful Leads While in Beta. Read More
Management Overview
Chief Executive Officer Brian Ross
Brian Ross served as Senior Vice President of Business Development for iMALL, Inc. in 1994 and became Director of Investor Relations in June 1997. iMALL, Inc. was acquired by Excite@Home in October 1999 for $565 million. Mr. Ross served as a Business Development Manager in Excite@Home’s E-Business Services Group. After the sale of iMALL, Mr. Ross became a founding investor of GreatDomains Inc. which was sold to Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) for approximately $100 million. From March 2000, he was Director of Business Development for Prime Ventures Inc., a leading Venture Partner firm focusing on early stage companies in Southern California. In July, 2004 Mr. Ross became a founding investor in E-force Media, a diversified online marketing company where he acted as interim Director of Business Development. Mr. Ross attended University of California at Santa Barbara.
Head of Financial Portals Daniel Minton
Daniel Minton started in the world of new media in the late 1990s as lead programmer for Watershed Consulting. In 2002 Watershed Consulting was hired by The Coleman Company to develop an Outdoor Recreation Community on the Internet. He was instrumental in architecting, developing and launching the National Recreation Database which was published as the Coleman Outernet. From 2004 until he joined our company, Mr. Minton served as Vice President of Seed Advertising where he was responsible for all lead generation initiatives, sales, and interactive marketing. Mr. Minton attended Washington State University, where he studied English and Philosophy. Mr. Minton’s responsibilities at Accelerize New Media include managing and overseeing the ongoing development and growth of the Accelerize Financial Network.
VP of Sales and Marketing Jeff McCollum
Jeff McCollum brings over a decade of Internet sales and marketing experience. From 1995-1998 at Netscape Communications he sold enterprise software to Fortune 500 companies. From 1999-2001, he was Director of Business Development at NBCi where he identified, negotiated and closed numerous deals and managed relationships with NBC broadcasting and studio operations. At ICM/Breakpoint, a transactional business development company with access to media, information, entertainment and technology-related entities, he closed strategic deals on behalf of clients. Mr. McCollum was co-founder of Ecological Technologies where he was Vice President of Business Development and Sales. Most recently he was Vice President of Sales for eForce Media from 2004-2007. At eForce he was responsible for creating a market, understanding the technology, and generating demand for sales leads within several industries. Mr. McCollum developed business rules and practices that have become standards within Lead Generation. He has served as Head of Lead Generation at Accelerize since March 2007. Mr. McCollum attended University of Southern California.