For Immediate Release

SBN.COM TO PARTNER WITH ALLIANCE COMMUNICATIONS

IRVINE, CA, June 16, 2000 - Leading Online Yellow Pages publisher SBN.com announced today it has signed a partnering agreement with major Internet direct-marketing firm, Alliance Communications Technology (ACT), also of Irvine, Calif.

As part of the revenue-sharing alliance between the two companies, SBN.com will install on the Alliance Communications website a co-branded version of SBN's popular Internet Yellow Pages and other specialty directories.

Revenues will be derived by the two companies from advertising sold into the customized directory at the Alliance Communications website and from ACT customer listings sold into the main Yellow Pages directory at the SBN.com site.

Dennis D'Allesio, SBN.com chairman and CEO, said Alliance Communications Technology - with more than 300,000 business customers -- is a primary Internet-based resource for outsourced direct marketing services, notably telemarketing and database development and management.

SBN.com's Online Yellow Pages, the world's largest, contains 1.5-million pages and more than 50 million business listings worldwide. Published in both English and Spanish, it is found on the web sites of numerous Internet service providers and other Internet resource centers. The SBN.com website is also host to the Online Business-to-Business directory, a National Toll-Free Directory, an International Directory and a unique "Cyber Directory" of the top websites on the Internet.

 

For Further Information Contact:

J. Edward Castillo
Director of Business Development
949-873-1001, Ext. 1362
ecastillo@sbn.com