Monday, December 12, 2011

First let me apologize to Erica and Valerie for the tardiness of this post. Back in August of 2011 I ran a little contest among the affiliate marketing experts that work at NetX. Our folks were asked to use their influence within the affiliate community in order to drive participation in our AffiliateBenchmarks research study. We tracked the results using unique links for each person and awarded the winners with cheesy cool trophies and free lunch for a month.
Erica Myones (right of photo) won the Most Connected Overall award for driving the most participants to our research project. This was not a surprising outcome since Erica is well connected as a result of her many years in the industry.
Valerie Russo (left of photo) won the Most Connected By Weight award (photo below). Val, an obviously fit person, won this award because she drove the most participants based on her tenure in affiliate marketing. This category was created to give everyone on the team an equal chance of winning.
Congrats to Erica and Val…NetX’s Most Connected Affiliate Experts!

Client love is a badge of honor here at Netx. Whenever our clients express a deep happiness with our services we call that “client love” and it is celebrated by every member of our Netx team. After all, we are in business to make our clients happy and exceed their expectations. We dont ask for praise or recognition, but we love it when our clients give it anyway.
Client love comes in many forms; a nice email, kind words on the phone, being mentioned in an article, and yes even a pat on the back sometimes. We were treated to some great client love recently when we found out that Netx was honored as a “Rising Star” by eTail. We are listed half way down the page as a rising star for our PPC Search Marketing services. This was indeed a very pleasant surprise as you could imagine.
Alyssa O’Mara, Web Operations Manager (and all around awesome person) for Dymo/Mimio (a Newell Rubbermaid company), took it upon herself to get us recognized for our PPC Search Management expertise. After being contacted by eTail I reached out to Alyssa to express our thanks. I told her I was planning a blog announcement and asked her for some background on why she thought we were a PPC Search “Rising Star” and here is what she said.
I have worked with several search agencies over the years and none have been so knowledgeable and easy to work with as Netx. They take the time to listen to what we do and what are our goals. Using their extensive expertise, they then give me solid solutions to help me achieve the ROI I’m looking for. They are constantly thinking up new strategies and sharing ideas with me on how we can continually grow, or even trim our campaigns, to make the best use of the SERPs (and my budget). It’s nice to work with a vendor that without hand-holding, shows results time after time.
Wow! Not much I can say, other than “Thank You Alyssa” for your kind words and for recognizing the great work of our PPC Search Marketing team.
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Today Inc. Magazine released its annual list of the 5000 fastest growing private companies in the United States. We are very proud that NETexponent made the list for the second year in a row. In 2009 we applied for the first time and achieved a rank of 1,216 out of 5,000. Our team has continued to work very hard sincethen and we jumped up to a rank of 707 out of 5,000 in the 2010 list.
The rankings are based on company growth rates for a trailing 3 year period. NETexponent grew an impressive 431% from 2006 – 2009 and that is what earned us the honor of being ranked #707 on the 2010 list. This tremendous growth rate is something that we can celebrate with our clients because most of our revenue is performance based. Our ability to earn more agency revenue is directly related to our ability to drive more sales for our clients.
We share this honor with our amazing clients, wonderful partners, and dedicated staff. Thank you all for helping us to earn this award.
In 2010 we have continued our growth trend by increasing our clients’ revenue year-over-year and adding great new clients like Dick’s Sporting Goods. We are looking forward to the 2011 Inc. 5000 report…lets see how far we can jump up in the rankings next year!
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