Attributes 323 Percent Revenue Growth to Adaptability and Innovation

Plymouth, Minn., November 14, 2012 — Knowledge Marketing today announced it ranked 251st on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Knowledge Marketing grew 323 percent during this period.

Knowledge Marketing’s chief executive officer, Duane Crandall, credits adaptability and innovation with the company’s 323% revenue growth. He said, “We are honored to be named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ for the second year in a row. We will continue to create greater customer value by adapting our products and services to the changing needs of our clients. Our heavy emphasis as an organization around innovation has played a large part in our success.”

“We are proud to honor the 2012 Technology Fast 500™ companies, and commend them for their outstanding growth,” said Eric Openshaw, vice chairman, Deloitte LLP and U.S. technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) leader. “These ground-breaking companies have outpaced their competition and are reinventing the way we do business today.”

“The companies on the Fast 500 list are among those that have demonstrated remarkable innovation, creativity and business savvy,” said Bill Ribaudo partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP and national TMT leader for audit and enterprise risk services (AERS). “As a result, these companies have continued to successfully forge ahead in a challenging economic environment. We applaud the leadership and employees of Knowledge Marketing for this impressive accomplishment.”

Knowledge Marketing previously ranked 243rd as a Technology Fast 500™ award winner for 2011.

About Deloitte’s 2012 Technology Fast 500™
Technology Fast 500, conducted by Deloitte & Touche LLP, provides a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies – both public and private – in North America. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2007 to 2011.

In order to be eligible for Technology Fast 500 recognition, companies must own proprietary intellectual property or technology that is sold to customers in products that contribute to a majority of the company’s operating revenues. Companies must have base-year operating revenues of at least $50,000 USD or CD, and current-year operating revenues of at least $5 million USD or CD. Additionally, companies must be in business for a minimum of five years, and be headquartered within North America.

About Knowledge Marketing
Knowledge Marketing (KM) connects clients to eMarketing success, delivering a unique blend of on-demand solutions and industry expertise. Enterprise Communication Network (ECN™), KM’s audience management platform, leverages integrated cross-channel marketing tools and helps you build valuable connections with your audiences in one easy-to-manage solution, all from one partner. Consolidating the best digital marketing tools into one modular, scalable platform, ECN enables you to effectively capture and communicate with your audience whether they’re using social media, mobile devices or the Web.
 
PR Contact: Christina Belmont, Knowledge Marketing, christina.belmont@teamkm.com

 
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Web-based Platform Simplifies Targeted Client Outreach and Provides Marketing Services to Create New Revenue Opportunities

MINNEAPOLIS – Oct. 9, 2012 – Knowledge Marketing, a leader in eMarketing solutions and integrated Audience Management Systems, today announced kmIMPACT™ (Integrated Marketing Platform Advertiser Connection Technology). kmIMPACT is a unique web-based solution designed to help publishers transform their print-centric business to meet the digital publishing demands required to profit in today’s marketplace.

Unlike complicated, programmer-managed database tools, kmIMPACT uses an intuitive web-friendly browser developed by Knowledge Marketing that lets publishers access their audience databases to drive incremental revenue, improve collaboration with key clients and launch new marketing services with ease. A publisher’s sales and marketing team, and even select advertisers, can access enhanced views of the consolidated audience to increase advertising revenue and improve campaign performance and growth in billable marketing services.

“Having gigabytes of client data is one thing – actually accessing the information and using it to create new revenue streams is the premise of kmIMPACT,” said Duane Crandall, founder and CEO. “We help publishers embrace the digital world by placing comprehensive audience demographics, contextual and behavioral information in an easy to use, online-accessible source. Users can create new direct sales opportunities like highly targeted email marketing campaigns, with lightning speed. Other marketing services opportunities, including lead generation, research and campaign planning, can also be created to diversify revenue streams.”

Building on the company’s proprietary Enterprise Communication Network™ (ECN) solution, kmIMPACT accesses the audience management and cross-channel marketing strengths of ECN to provide publishers with a private, highly customized web portal that serves up their own unique consensus audience database anytime, anywhere. Sales teams are quickly trained to use the web interface so they can effectively access the database and create meaningful queries to share in real-time with clients and prospects.

Since its launch, kmIMPACT has helped key advertisers, marketers and sales representatives to access select views of the publisher’s consolidated audience; promote collaboration; increase advertising revenue; improve campaign performance; and grow billable marketing services.

kmIMPACT is available immediately. For more information visit: www.knowledgemarketing.com/publutions/kmimpact/

About Knowledge Marketing

Knowledge Marketing (KM) connects clients to eMarketing success, delivering a unique blend of on-demand solutions and industry expertise. Enterprise Communication Network (ECN™), KM’s audience management platform, leverages integrated cross-channel marketing tools and helps you build valuable connections with your audiences in one easy-to-manage solution, all from one partner. Consolidating the best digital marketing tools into one modular, scalable platform, ECN enables you to effectively capture and communicate with your audience whether they’re using social media, mobile devices or the Web.

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MEDIA CONTACT:
Christina Belmont
Knowledge Marketing
Email: christina.belmont@teamkm.com

-Four-time Winner Moves Up from No. 1746 on 2011 Inc. 5000-

MINNEAPOLIS, August 21, 2012 — Inc. magazine today ranked Knowledge Marketing No. 1,363 on its sixth annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent entrepreneurs. Unified Payments tops this year’s list. Knowledge Marketing joins Yelp, yogurt maker Chobani, Giftcards.com, KIND and famed hatmaker Tilly’s, among other prominent brands featured on this year’s list.

“It is always an honor to be recognized by Inc. and we feel privileged to be on their list for a fourth consecutive year,” said Knowledge Marketing CEO Duane Crandall. “The continuation of our fast-paced growth and financial performance is made possible by dedicated employees and world-class customers.”

In a stagnant economic environment, median growth rate of 2012 Inc. 500|5000 companies remains an impressive 97 percent. The companies on this year’s list report having created over 400,000 jobs in the past three years, and aggregate revenue among the honorees reached $299 billion.

Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/5000.

“Now, more than ever, we depend on Inc. 500/5000 companies to spur innovation, provide jobs, and drive the economy forward. Growth companies, not large corporations, are where the action is,” says Inc. Editor Eric Schurenberg.

Methodology
The 2012 Inc. 500|5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2008 to 2011. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2008. They had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2011. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2008 is $100,000; the minimum for 2011 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.’s September issue. They represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, which can be found at www.inc.com/500.

About Inc.
Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures, Inc. is the only major brand dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies, with the aim to deliver real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. Total monthly audience reach for the brand has grown significantly from 2,000,000 in 2010 to over 6,000,000 today. For more information, visit www.inc.com.

About Knowledge Marketing
Knowledge Marketing (KM) connects clients to eMarketing success, delivering a unique blend of on-demand solutions and industry expertise. Enterprise Communication Network (ECN™), KM’s audience management platform, leverages integrated cross-channel marketing tools and helps you build valuable connections with your audiences in one easy-to-manage solution, all from one partner. Consolidating the best digital marketing tools into one modular, scalable platform, ECN enables you to effectively capture and communicate with your audience whether they’re using social media, mobile devices or the Web.

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MEDIA CONTACT:
Christina Belmont
Knowledge Marketing
Email: christina.belmont@teamkm.com