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RENTON, Wash., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, touchMarketing.com (www.touchmarketing.com), a leading Internet-based e-Marketing service and resource provider of Affordable 1-to-1 Marketing(TM), successfully powers the 5 millionth e-catalog delivery for its first beta customer, Multiple Zones (Nasdaq: MZON - news; www.zones.com), a premier solutions-based direct reseller of brand name computer products and services to businesses and consumers, using touchMarketing.com's e-Marketing Management System(TM) (EMS(TM)) and scalable e-Vehicle Delivery Module(TM).

``touchMarketing.com's EMS(TM) has significantly reduced our marketing department's time and money needed to create, select, deliver and analyze our entire e-catalog campaign,'' said Phil Lalji, Chairman and CEO of Multiple Zones. ``Combine the time and distribution savings with the fact we experienced a 20X increase in our response rates, we are extremely pleased with our ROI and the long term cost-effectiveness of the e-Marketing initiatives we have in place,'' said Mr. Lalji.

touchMarketing.com's scalable e-Marketing solution easily allows Multiple Zones' staff to create, select, deliver and analyze an entire e-catalog campaign, quickly and easily from their desktop -- with delivery of up to millions of e-catalogs at a time. Additionally, touchMarketing.com's EMS(TM) allows Multiple Zones to segment their customer database very quickly and easily down to the individual level, thus saving time and money, while serving the Mac Zone and PC Zone customers.

``Multiple Zones is just one of the growing number of progressive companies using e-Marketing to significantly improve their income statement performance by increasing their online sales, while decreasing their marketing costs,'' said Guio Barela, CEO of touchMarketing.com. ``Today marketers are beginning to recognize that e-Marketing is more than a cost-effective marketing tool. It can be used for: asset and inventory management, market intelligence, pinpointed segmentation and continuous customer contact,'' said Mr. Barela.

About touchMarketing.com:

touchMarketing.com (www.touchmarketing.com) is a leading Internet-based e-Marketing service and resource provider of Affordable 1-to-1 Marketing(TM) to: create, select, deliver and analyze personalized e-communications quicker, faster and cheaper than traditional methods. Headquartered in Renton, Washington, touchMarketing.com was founded in 1999 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Multiple Zones International, Inc. (www.zones.com). touchMarketing.com's easy-to-use, e-Marketing Management System(TM) (EMS(TM)) allows companies to manage critical aspects of the marketing process -- from creation to analysis. The EMS(TM) decreases companies' marketing costs, while providing a strategic time-to-market advantage and real-time marketing intelligence.

About Multiple Zones:

Multiple Zones International, Inc. is a premier, solutions-based direct reseller of brand name computer products and services to businesses and consumers. The Company, named one of the ``100 Hottest Companies on the Net'' by Business 2.0 in May, 1999, serves customers through its online store, Zones.com ( http://www.zones.com ), which includes PC ZoneŽ, Mac ZoneŽ and ZonesAuction(TM) ( http://www.zonesauction.com ). A team of skilled, customer-dedicated Account Executives serves the needs of the business, education and government markets through Zones Business Solutions ( http://www.zonesbusiness.com ). The Company recently launched touchMarketing.com, an Internet-based e-Marketing service and resource provider of Affordable 1-to-1 Marketing(TM) ( http://www.touchmarketing.com ). The Company was founded in 1988, and is headquartered in Renton, Washington. Customers can buy on-line at http://www.zones.com or by calling 800-258-2088.

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