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Mark Holland, Vice President of Marketing at Corvest, said, "Within the very first day of launch, emails and phone calls started pouring in about how fast the sites are and how easy they are to use. The most-utilized feature so far is the real-time inventory viewer. This has, without a doubt, brought a lot of traffic to the site. We've had to double our bandwidth due to the amount of traffic we've received, which has been double the peak traffic at our old sites." Corvest's new websites have not only received a large amount of traffic, they have also generated a vast number of new distributor registrations. Holland adds, "In the first day of launch alone, hundreds of new distributors registered for an account on our websites. As registered users, distributors have access to a number of exclusive tools and, receiving the greatest amount of buzz, access to free sales leads."

Introducing a forward-thinking approach to promotional marketing, Corvest's websites enable end-users to place their orders with participating promotional products distributors right from the company's new sites. Promotional products distributors must register on the sites for free and verify that they'd like to be included in Corvest's Distributor Finder, which allows end-users to select a distributor by proximity or name.

In addition to providing free sales leads, the sites also provide access to interactive resources such as a daily blog and a Corvest TV section, which utilizes You Tube technology to provide fun and informative product demonstration videos. The sites also provide distributors with the ability to create and customize flyers for emailing or downloading. The flyers can feature products from one or more of Corvest's subsidiaries -- Adva-Lite, Toppers and It's All Greek To Me -- thanks to the consolidation of Corvest's three, previously separate, data warehouses. The streamlined database also gives Corvest the ability to produce multi-line promotions, such as their Crazy Clara's Steals and Deals promotion that has brought even more traffic to the sites. Distributors and end-users are also able to include products from more than one line within the same order.

Corvest has already begun to develop additional features for the sites, which will be made available throughout 2008. Some of the features to be made available in the second quarter of 2008 include order status and order history information, freight estimation, product comparisons and online proofing.

Corvest is a Counselor Top 40 Supplier, holding the number 18 position. It's All Greek To Me won the 2008 Distributor Choice Award for Supplier of the Year: Toys, while Adva-Lite received the award for Supplier of the Year: Flashlights.

About Corvest
Award-winning, multi-million dollar promotional products supplier Corvest SPV, LLC, located in beautiful, sunny central Florida, owns and operates three highly successful operating units - Adva-Lite, Toppers and It's All Greek To Me. Each unit has been in operation for nearly 50 years, and the company as a whole employs over 300 talented associates in the brand new, state-of-the-art, 300-thousand square foot facility. Owned by one of the world's leading private investment firms, Corvest remains a top 20 wholesale supplier for the promotional product industry. For more information, please visit www.corvest.com, www.toppersllc.com, www.advalite.com, or www.iagtm.com.