May 7, 1999

National Business Directory Increases Local Presence in the Midwest FT. LAUDERDALE, FL (May 7, 1999) -- 4smallbusiness.com the Internet business directory and community of web sites announces today its expansion into Cleveland Ohio. Adding 4000 Cleveland Area business web sites to it's rapidly growing database makes 4smallbusiness.com the largest resource of web sites in the Cleveland area.

The National business web site directory and community is the brainchild of Cathy Schneider Bass, a former Cleveland resident. Now living in South Florida, Bass created a web site directory and community where businesses can be easily found and interact with each other. With a background of 18 years in advertising and marketing, Bass and her partners found a need to simplify the search for businesses on the web particularly on a local level.

"The Internet is so cluttered with all types of web pages that the businesses that actually want to create new revenues and relationships are not getting the exposure needed," states Bass. The businesses associated with 4smallbusiness.com are promoted to each other, through the Internet and on a local level. All "Members" of this business community are urged to do business with each other.

4smallbusiness.com is to be advertised locally in print, radio, direct mail, e-mail and through personal consulting and sales headed by Anni Diamond, a former classmate and childhood friend of Bass.

Additional marketing efforts include a co-branding venture with Infoseek's Express product, a meta-search tool, 4smallbusiness.com will be included as the only business directory web site to search for web sites of a business nature.

Internet Marketing Solutions of Florida, the parent company of 4smallbusiness.com will use their affiliation with Infoseek's Express to send Internet User's a free to use program that will make searching the Internet fast, fun and easy.

4smallbusiness.com, offers a free listing to all web sites of a business nature. The business directory and community of web sites spans approximately sixty categories. The directory is searched by company name, category, city, state, web address, email and even zip code. 4smallbusiness.com allows its web site owners to pay for a premium position in the search results for their category. Unlike other directories that use editorial selection methods to list the order of web sites in a search, 4smallbusiness.com allows its clients to guarantee their position in the top fifteen (15) by category by city. There is a nominal yearly-fee and is based on first-come first-served.