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Permission-Based E-Mail Marketing Service Helps Corel's Small Business Customers Build Stronger and More Profitable Customer Relationships

Ottawa, Canada - May 31, 2005

Corel Corporation today announced an agreement with Constant Contact (www.constantcontact.com), a leading provider of Web-based permission e-mail marketing services for small businesses and associations, that will provide Corel's millions customers with direct access to Constant Contact's permission-driven Do-It-Yourself E-mail Marketing® services. Now, Corel's substantial base of small business customers can quickly and easily create professional email newsletters and announcements that get immediate and measurable results.

"Our goal is to provide a complete selection of the very best tools and services to meet the needs of our small business customers," said Corel CEO Amish Mehta. "Our small business customers are looking for cost-effective, easy-to-implement marketing tools that will help them grow their businesses quickly. With Constant Contact, they can deploy highly-effective, targeted e-mail campaigns that can boost their sales, brand awareness and customer loyalty immediately."

Targeted e-mail campaigns have emerged as the most effective marketing tool for emerging businesses. According to DoubleClick's Fourth Annual Consumer email study, almost half of all people who have signed up for e-mail communications make purchases as a result of receiving the merchant's solicitation. With Constant Contact, Corel customers will be able to easily and affordably build and manage e-mail lists, create e-mail newsletters, announcements and promotions as well as track e-mail campaign results.

"We are thrilled to be working with Corel - one of the top ten packaged software brands in the world," said Gail Goodman, CEO of Constant Contact. "Corel's large base of small business customers will benefit immensely from using e-mail communications to increase sales opportunities and solidify relationships with existing customers."

About Corel Corporation
Corel Corporation provides innovative software solutions that help millions of value-conscious businesses and customers in over 75 countries improve their productivity. The Company is renowned for its powerful software portfolio that combines innovative photo-editing and graphics creation, vector-illustration and technical-graphics applications with office and personal productivity solutions. Corel's flagship products include the CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite, the WordPerfect® Office Suite, the Corel Painter Natural Media® paining and illustration software and the Paint Shop Family of digital photography and image-editing software.

Corel was acquired by San Francisco-based Vector Capital in August 2003, and since that time, has re-established growth for its flagship product lines and achieved multiple, consecutive quarters of profitability. Founded in 1985, Corel is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. For more information, please go to www.corel.com.

About Constant Contact
With over 25,000 customers and a recent winner of SmallBusinessComputing.com's "Excellence in Technology Award," 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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