Mountain Media, a comprehensive ecommerce solution provider focused on Search-Engine Friendly™online retail applications now allows its clients to take advantage of the leading educational trade association for small-to-medium sized businesses


Secaucus, NJ and Saratoga Springs, NY - November 24th, 2008 - eCommerce Merchants (www.ecmta.org), a leading educational trade association for small- and medium-sized online merchants, announced today its partnership with Mountain Media (www.mountainmedia.com). Mountain Media's proprietary ecommerce platform, Mountain Commerce was named to Practical eCommerce magazine's list of notable shopping cart solutions in late 2007. The Mountain Commerce suite enables online merchants to receive top search-engine visibility while providing powerful up-selling and cross-selling features, effective order management and fulfillment, pricing and promotions handling, payment processing and catalog management, all on a secure and reliable platform. Additionally, the company offers a full compliment of commercial Web services such as Search Engine Marketing, Graphic Design and Web Hosting and has been granted CISP certification by VISA© as a level 1 PCI DSS compliant provider.


The reciprocally beneficial partnership arrangement will allow ECMTA members to take advantage of free small-business web hosting for an entire year when they implement a Mountain Media ecommerce website while Mountain Media's merchants will receive free membership to the growing ECMTA organization which provides ecommerce education, best practices guidance, technology & infrastructure advice and sourcing & supplies solutions to merchants around the world who use the internet to sell or promote products and services.


"Our mission is to help businesses succeed on the Web by providing them with search engine friendly solutions and services," says James Curley, Co-founder and CEO of Mountain Media. "So we're elated about the opportunity to provide our customers with access to the resources and tools that ECMTA provides to educate them further and help them improve their businesses and their online sales."


"This partnership is a definite value to our members; our members that are using Mountain Media's suite of services have been extremely pleased with the results they have received as well as the terrific hands on support they get," Says Cresta Pillsbury, Managing Partner of eCommerce Merchants. "I couldn't be happier to have Mountain Media as a partner and to be able to offer their services to our members at a discount."


For more information about Mountain Media products and services, please visit www.mountainmedia.com or call 877-583-0300.


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