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CONSTANT CONTACT APPOINTS RICHARD TURCOTT AS CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER

Brings 16-years Marketing and 10 Years of Online Marketing and E-commerce Experience to Leading B2B Email Marketing ASP

Waltham, MA. - February 09, 2005

Constant Contact, the leading permission Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing® service for small and medium businesses and associations announced today that Richard Turcott has joined the company as chief marketing officer. With more than 16-years experience in leadership marketing roles, Turcott will be responsible for all direct and online marketing including branding, communications, partner programs and product management. Turcott will play an especially important role in Constant Contact's efforts to enhance corporate and brand visibility and to aggressively expand the network of partners and distribution relationships that Constant Contact already has in place.

"We are extremely pleased and fortunate to have someone with Turcott's proven track record and expertise on our team," said Gail Goodman, Constant Contact's chief executive officer. "Richard's powerful combination of direct and online marketing, CRM, customer analytics and loyalty program development experience comes at the perfect time as Constant Contact accelerates its marketing efforts to new levels."

Turcott comes to Constant Contact from M|C Communications, the nation's largest independent provider of continuing medical education, where he served as vice president of direct marketing and CRM. Prior to M|C, he held the role of vice president of marketing at Genesys Conferencing, a $225 million global telecommunications company, where he directed marketing efforts during the company's global merger. Prior to Genesys, Turcott served as director of direct marketing at Lycos, at the time one of the most visited sites on the Internet, where he conceived and launched the "Club Lycos" membership rewards program attracting over 40,000 members in less than one year. Also at Lycos, Turcott created their first e-mail marketing and direct marketing programs. Richard has also held leadership marketing roles at Dow Jones, Information Resources & Kraft General Foods.

"This is a wonderful time to join Constant Contact," said Richard Turcott, Constant Contact's chief marketing officer. "With over 25,000 paying customers and the industry's most robust service, we are in the unique position to help small business cost effectively build relationships with their customers that deliver real results. I look forward to working with this accomplished management team as we extend our lead in permission-based email marketing solutions for small businesses and associations."

About Constant Contact
With over 25,000 customers, and rated the most popular email marketing tool in a Web Marketing Today® survey, Constant Contact® is the leading permission Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing® service for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and associations. Constant Contact is a Web-based email marketing solution that enables small organizations to easily create and send professional HTML email newsletters, promotions, announcements and more with no technical expertise required. Designed and priced for SMBs, Constant Contact is affordable, easy-to-use and includes a free 60-day trial at: www.constantcontact.com. The service is marketed through over 800 Resellers and more than 100 Marquee channel partners including American Express OPEN, Website Pros, Register.com, FTD, AOL, Interland, IBM, Intuit, Network Solutions and Overture. Constant Contact is a founding member of the Email Service Provider Coalition (ESPC), a group formed to fight spam while protecting the delivery of legitimate email. Constant Contact is funded by Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Longworth Venture Partners and Hudson Ventures. For more information, please call 781-472-8100.


Please direct all press inquiries to:
Kevin Mullins
Constant Contact
781-472-6206
kmullins@constantcontact.com
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