Downtown Neighborhood News Receives Constant Contact All-Star Award

Downtown Neighborhood Association of Elgin today announced that it has received a 2009 All-Star Award from Constant Contact®, Inc., a leading provider of email marketing, event marketing, and online survey tools for small organizations. DNA was selected for meeting Constant Contact’s best-practice standards for the use of Email Marketing throughout 2009.

DNA received a 2009 Constant Contact All-Star Award for demonstrating best practices in the effective use of Constant Contact Email Marketing in the following areas:

• Frequency of campaigns
• Open rates
• Bounce rates
• Click through rates

The Downtown Neighborhood News, formerly the Downtown Top 10, is an event-themed e-mail blast that goes out to over 1700 unique e-mails every Wednesday.

“The DNA is very proud of the changes we have implemented in transitioning the ‘Top 10’ into the ‘Downtown Neighborhood News’ to better showcase all the great events and happenings that Downtown Elgin has to offer every week,” said Jason Pawlowski, DNA Promotions Coordinator.

“Our customers work hard to build strong relationships with their customers through email marketing and some, such as Downtown Neighborhood Association of Elgin, truly excel in this effort,” said Gail Goodman, CEO, Constant Contact. “We created our All-Star Awards to highlight those customers who are passionately committed to following our best practices as they work to improve their customer communications. We’re proud of the role we play in helping DNA be successful and we look forward to continuing to assist the company with its marketing efforts.”

About Constant Contact, Inc.
With more than 350,000 customers, Constant Contact, Inc. is a leading provider of email marketing, event marketing, and online surveys for small businesses, nonprofits, and member associations. Founded in 1995, Constant Contact helps small organizations grow stronger customer relationships by delivering professional, low cost, easy-to-use online tools backed with award-winning support, education and personal coaching. Constant Contact is a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CTCT) with offices located in Waltham, Mass.; Loveland, Colo.; and Delray, Fla. To learn more, please visit http://www.constantcontact.com/ or call 781-472-8100.

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