Mercent Joins Google Product Search Partner Program

More than 40 retail brands including 1-800-Flowers, Guess, and REI currently use
Mercent to make products discoverable through Google Product Search

SEATTLE, WA -- (PR NEWSWIRE) -- March 6, 2008 -- Mercent™, a provider of online marketing technology and services for retail merchants, today announced its designation as a Google Product Search Partner.

Google Product Search™ is a free and powerful way for merchants to connect their products to the shoppers searching for them. Mercent's designation as a Google Product Search Partner signifies that Mercent exceeds rigorous quality standards for ensuring that retailers' product information is accurate and complete for consumers using Google Product Search.

"By combining Mercent’s merchandising platform and tools with Google Product Search, we're giving retailers a significant new channel to efficiently drive online sales and brand awareness," says Todd Sherman, VP of Business Development for Mercent.

Mercent’s hosted performance marketing software, Mercent Retail™, helps online retailers ensure their products are visible and competitive on leading marketing channels, including shopping portals, transactional marketplaces, and comparison shopping sites. Mercent gives retailers the ability to manage key aspects of their online merchandising, including automatically optimizing for profitability, inventory, and other business goals, while reducing their internal IT burden. Mercent Retail may be purchased as self-service software or as part of Mercent’s full-service performance marketing solution, Mercent Performance™.

To learn more about Mercent’s shopping feed management and data feed marketing solutions, please call 206 832 3900 or email info@mercent.com.

About Mercent
Mercent provides online marketing technology and services to help retail merchants optimize performance across online marketing channels. Mercent's on-demand platform, Mercent Retail, connects existing retail management systems and The Mercent Shopping Network, a network of more than 50 online shopping destinations including transactional marketplaces such as Amazon.com and eBay Large Merchant Services, comparison shopping engines (CSEs) such as Shopping.com and Shopzilla, paid inclusion programs like Yahoo! Search Submit Pro, and affiliate marketing programs such as LinkShare and Google Affiliate Network. Mercent Retail makes it easy for merchants to increase revenue and gross margins by promoting the right products with the right merchandising offers and placement using optimized product data feeds to these key retail channels.

Mercent customers include 1-800-Flowers, Bass Pro Shops, Brookstone, GUESS?, L'Occitane USA, Redcats Group, REI, and other leading retailers. Mercent is an Amazon.com Certified System Integrator, Buy.com Gold Certified Partner, SHOP.COM Certified Data Feed Provider, certified Google Product Search Partner and Yahoo! Search Submit Pro certified feed provider. Founded by veterans of Amazon.com, Mercent is a venture-funded company based in Seattle, WA. For more information, visit www.mercent.com.

Mercent PR Contact:
Kristine Szarkowitz
press@mercent.com
Tel: 206-832-3900