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NEW NATIONWIDE SURVEY SHOWS MORE THAN 54% OF “MAIN STREET” BUSINESS OWNERS WILL VOTE MCCAIN/PALIN TO 36% FOR OBAMA/BIDEN

Small Business Owners Choose McCain, Even Though 52% Say the Current Administration Has Not Represented Local Business Owners Well
Los Altos, CA October 7, 2008 – MerchantCircle, the largest social network of local business owners in the nation, today releases results from a nationwide survey of members. In crucial swing states, 52% of 820 small business [...]

MERCHANTCIRCLE AND SPOTZER PARTNER TO PROVIDE EVERY U.S. BUSINESS A FREE PROMOTIONAL VIDEO

600,000 MerchantCircle Members Get High Quality Videos Without Cost or Complexity
Los Altos, CA September 16, 2008 – MerchantCircle, the largest online network of local business owners in the nation, and Spotzer Media Group, a pioneer of ready-to-air advertising solutions, today announce a partnership that gives MerchantCircle’s 600,000 local business owners easy access to the most [...]

MERCHANTCIRCLE LAUNCHES THE WEB’S EASIEST-TO-USE INSTANT WEBSITE SERVICE

Offering Designed to Help Local Merchants Acquire Customers Online in Tough Economic Times
Los Altos, CA August 6, 2008 – MerchantCircle, the largest online network of local business owners in the nation with 550,000 members, today announces its “Instant Website” service, the web’s easiest-to-use website and custom domain name offering. Local business owners will be able [...]

Yahoo! Partners with MerchantCircle to HELP local businesses GET more customers

Partnership Comes on the Heels of MerchantCircle Surpassing 500,000 Members with More than 5,000 Paying Customers
Los Altos, CA July 2, 2008 – MerchantCircle, the largest online network of local business owners in the nation, today announces a partnership with Yahoo! that allows MerchantCircle members exclusive access to Yahoo! Local online marketing services. As a Yahoo! [...]

MerchantCircle GAINS TRACTION AT THE EXPENSE OF YELLOW PAGES

Local business network surpasses 500,000 members with more than 5,000
paying local customers
Los Altos, CA June 19, 2008 – MerchantCircle, the largest online network of local business owners in the nation, today announced that it has surpassed 500,000 members, with more than 5,000 paying customers. In these difficult economic times, local business owners are rethinking how [...]

NATION’S LARGEST ONLINE SMALL BUSINESS NETWORK LAUNCHES NEW “MERCHANTCIRCLE VERIFIED” PROGRAM TO BOOST TRUST IN LOCAL SEARCH

Three-Pronged Verification Process a First in Local Search
Los Altos, CA April 3, 2008 – MerchantCircle, the largest online network of local business owners in the nation with more than 385,000 members, today announces its “MerchantCircle Verified” program, a web service designed to increase consumer trust in local search results. The program is specifically designed to [...]

CITYSEARCH ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH MERCHANTCIRCLE, WEB’S FASTEST GROWING LOCAL BUSINESS NETWORK

· Deal Gives Citysearch Access to Web’s Largest Social Network of Local Merchants
· MerchantCircle to leverage Citysearch Content and Pay-for-Performance Business Model
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – (November 28th, 2007) – Citysearch, a leading online local guide and operating business of [...]

MerchantCircle Announces $10MM in Funding from Previous and New Investors

Momentum Growing for Largest, Fastest-growing Network of Local Business Owners
Company to Pursue New Market Opportunities that Benefit Local Merchants
MerchantCircle, the largest and fastest growing online network of local business owners in the nation, today announced it has received $10MM in Series B funding and other financing. Previous investors Rustic Canyon Partners, Scale Venture [...]

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