Mountain Media and ECommerce Merchants Announce Strategic Partnership and Offer Free SmallBusiness Web Hosting Package to its



eCommerce Merchants (www.ecmta.org), a leading educational trade association for small- and medium-sized online merchants, announced today its partnership with Mountain Media (www.mountainmedia.com). Mountain Media'ss proprietary ecommerce platform, Mountain Commerce was named to Practical eCommerce magazine'ss list of notable shopping cart solutions in late 2007. The Mountain Commerce suite enables online merchants to receive top search-engine visibility while providing powerful up-selling and cross-selling features, effective order management and fulfillment, pricing and promotions handling, payment processing and catalog management, all on a secure and reliable platform. Additionally, the company offers a full compliment of commercial Web services such as Search Engine Marketing, Graphic Design and Web Hosting and has been granted CISP certification by VISA as a level 1 PCI DSS compliant provider.

The reciprocally beneficial partnership arrangement will allow eCommerce Merchants members to take advantage of free small-business web hosting for an entire year when they implement a Mountain Media ecommerce website while Mountain Media'ss merchants will receive free membership to the growing ECOMMERCE MERCHANTS organization which provides ecommerce education, best practices guidance, technology 's38; infrastructure advice and sourcing 's38; supplies solutions to merchants around the world who use the internet to sell or promote products and services.

Our mission is to help businesses succeed on the Web by providing them with search engine friendly solutions and services, Says James Curley, Co-founder and CEO of Mountain Media. So we'sre elated about the opportunity to provide our customers with access to the resources and tools that eCommerce Merchants provides to educate them further and help them improve their businesses and their online sales.

This partnership is a definite value to our members; our members that are using Mountain Media'ss suite of services have been extremely pleased with the results they have received as well as the terrific hands on support they get, Says Cresta Pillsbury, Managing Partner of eCommerce Merchants. I couldn'st be happier to have Mountain Media as a partner and to be able to offer their services to our members at a discount.

For more information about Mountain Media products and services, please visit www.mountainmedia.com or call 877-583-0300.

ABOUT MOUNTAIN MEDIA

Mountain Media (www.mountainmedia.com) was founded in 1998 to heed the growing commercial demand for effective website design and development allowing small to mid-tier businesses to proliferate their message and expand into new market segments. Since then, the company has set focus on, and become a premium provider of customizable, search-engine friendly eCommerce products and services. The company offers a full compliment of commercial Web services such as Search Engine Marketing, Graphic Design, Custom Application Development, Payment Gateway Services and Web Hosting.

ABOUT ECOMMERCE MERCHANTS

eCommerce Merchants (www.eCommerce Merchants.org) is a leading trade association of small and medium sized ecommerce businesses. The organization provides best practices guidance, technology 's38; infrastructure advice and sourcing 's38; supplies solutions to online merchants around the world who use the internet to sell or promote products and services. The organization works closely with the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (www.gopesa.org).

For Mountain Media:

Taunia Kipp

Chief Operations Officer

877-583-0300 x214

taunia.kipp(at)mountainmedia.com

For eCommerce Merchants:

Cresta Pillsbury

Managing Partner

eCommerce Merchants

cresta.pillsbury(at)ecmta.org





Mountain Media and ECommerce Merchants Announce Strategic Partnership and Offer Free SmallBusiness Web Hosting Package to its