Internet Search Firm, Ravenwood Marketing, Wins 2005 Horizon Award from Commission Junction

(PRLEAP.COM) BOULDER, Colo., October 4, 2005 — Ravenwood Marketing, Inc., a leading performance-based search engine marketing firm, announced today that it has been selected as a 2005 Horizon Award winner by ValueClick, Inc.'s Commission Junction division. Ravenwood was recognized for achievement in the Greatness category of the Horizon Awards, which honors exceptional year-over-year performance.

Selected from Commission Junction's global performance marketing network, this year's Horizon Award winners were recognized for achievement in four different categories: People, Greatness, Innovation and Global Vision. Representing some of the most innovative and effective performance marketing companies in the industry, other 2005 award recipients include RealNetworks(R), LowerMyBills.com and eBay.

In 2004, the three-person Ravenwood reached nearly $4.4 million in sales and is still experiencing significant revenue growth. The company, profitable since its inception in 2002, previously announced that it was named number one on ‘fastest-growing company’ lists for both Boulder and Denver, Colorado.

“We are very happy to receive this honor in the competitive and rapidly-growing affiliate marketing field,” said Paul Fearing, chief technology office and co-founder of Ravenwood Marketing. “We are true believers in the merits of performance marketing and this award further validates our high-volume paid search approach to the business.”

By running keyword-based search campaigns on an “arbitrage” basis, Ravenwood is able to supply a steady flow of new customers to its ecommerce clients. The company does not charge clients upfront and gets paid only on success -- after it lands a sale or qualified lead on the client’s website. 


About Ravenwood Marketing, Inc.

Ravenwood Marketing specializes in performance-based Internet customer acquisition programs that help companies sell products and generate sales leads over the web. Clients pay only when they receive a confirmed online sale or qualified sales lead. Ravenwood has developed extensive search engine marketing expertise with pay-per-click (PPC) engines like Google AdWords and Overture, as well as in other search engine optimization (SEO) methods such as paid inclusion. The company has done wide-ranging keyword research in building thousands of search campaigns across over one thousand various market segments and it manages exceptionally large keyword portfolios for clients.

With a proprietary, industrial-strength toolset, Ravenwood is able to meet the needs of large companies with very complex search marketing challenges. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ravenwoodmarketing.com.

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