Released on = March 29, 2006, 5:37 am

Press Release Author = Elliance

Industry = Accounting

Press Release Summary = Black Box Corporation reported a recent surge in online
sales, which is credited to their newly designed web site by Elliance.

Press Release Body = Black Box Corporation reported a recent surge in online sales,
which is credited to their redesigned website.

Elliance\'s overall web strategy for Black Box included revamping the look, content
and navigation of their website, applying eCommerce search engine optimization to
the new site and using email marketing to drive more customers to the site.

\"Our online sales have increased 29 percent since the launch of the web site, and
we\'ve experienced a 30 percent increase in visitor traffic,\" says Julie Lydia,
Director of Marketing and Sales for Black Box. \"Elliance has made our web site more
efficient and, in turn, more user friendly.\"

New website features include a simplified site search, expanded views of product
images, streamlined site navigation, plus a new customer profile section. The
customer profile section, called My Black Box, is a fast and secure way for
customers to check order status, account history, special pricing, and more.

Coupled with the web site renovations, Elliance designed a creative strategy for
Black Box using Elliance\'s email product, ennectMail, to distribute product
promotions to potential customers on Black Box's e-mail list.

Within the first two months of using ennectMail, Black Box Corporation's
click-through rates catapulted to new heights. 28 percent of businesses who received
the promotional email clicked on the link to view the offer. According to
MarketingSherpa, Inc., the average click-through rate for a segmented promotional
campaign is approximately 6.68 percent.

\"Augmenting the sales of a corporation with such an extensive customer base
presented a formidable challenge to Elliance. We were very satisfied that our
services contributed to the increase in online sales, click-through rates, and
overall enhancement of Black Box's corporate image,\" said Roger Slayton, vice
president of Elliance.

About Black Box
Black Box is the world\'s largest technical services company dedicated to designing,
building and maintaining today\'s complicated data and voice infrastructure systems.
Black Box services 152,000 clients in 141 countries with 143 offices throughout the
world. To learn more, visit the Black Box website at http://www.blackbox.com

About Elliance
Elliance is an eMarketing firm specializing in results-driven websites for mid-sized
and enterprise companies. Clients include Maps.com, Mellon/Dryfus, Diebold, Medrad,
Carnegie Mellon University, Waterpik Technologies, Readers Digest and many others.
During its 12 + years of experience, Cisco, Dell, the eMarketing Association and
others have cited Elliance as one of the top innovators in the use of technology for
Internet marketing solutions. Visit http://www.elliance.com for more details.

For complete information on the ennect brand of Internet marketing tools offered by
Elliance, visit http://www.ennect.com.

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