USADATA.com Gets "Click of Approval" from inc.com; USADATA.com named as a leading resource for focused marketing information and research by inc.com

Business Wire, March 7, 2000

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2000

USADATA.com (www.usadata.com), the Marketing Information Portal(TM) company, today announced that inc.com has awarded USADATA.com with its "Click of Approval," recognizing USADATA.com for its unique and comprehensive offering of research and data for consumer and business-to-business marketing. USADATA.com will soon be featured as an inc.com Solutions Provider and its services are available to inc.com users directly from the inc.com web page (www.inc.com).

"We are proud to have inc.com recognize USADATA.com as their premier resource for on demand access to top tier market research and intelligence for their users," said Ric Murphy, president, USADATA.com. "Inc.com has a history of bringing new thinking and tools to small business professionals and this relationship is a terrific fit."

USADATA.com allows businesses to conduct an array of marketing activities at one place, from strategic market research to tactical sales prospecting, quickly and at a modest cost. Information is available on a pay-as-you-go as well as a subscription basis, helping businesses answer questions involving:

- Consumer profiles, demographics, and behavior, to learn more about existing
and potential customers;

- Geographic profiles, to evaluate new markets for expansion; ss. Business
information and demographics, to understand the companies within industries and
their projected growth rates;

- Consumer and business mailing lists to prospect for new customers, in
combination with other USADATA.com research or through user-defined list
selects.

Inc.com selected USADATA.com after a rigorous assessment process that determines the appropriateness and value to small businesses and inc.com customers of the products and services they offer. Inc.com also performed a due diligence review of USADATA.com with regard to infrastructure, customer service, and scalability.

"We are happy to award USADATA.com our `Click of Approval' for its marketing solutions. Through this relationship, inc.com offers the small business community marketing data and tools formerly available only to Fortune 500 companies," said inc.com's CEO Bob LaPointe. "It's one more way we are leveling the playing field for small businesses."

About Inc.com

Headquartered in Charlestown, Mass., inc.com Incorporated fills a market need by providing a total service Web destination site for small businesses seeking the broadest variety of high-quality management resources. An outstanding, comprehensive site, inc.com facilitates fast, intuitive access to an unrivalled range of quality solutions, information and advice. Through this process, inc.com leverages and extends the unmatched reputation of Inc. magazine, the brand of choice and integrity among small businesses.

About USADATA.com

USADATA.com - the Marketing Information Portal(TM) company (www.usadata.com)- delivers marketing intelligence, on demand. The company's web site is a business-to-business e-commerce marketplace supplying information for sales, marketing, research and planning professionals. USADATA.com also creates portals for corporate customers tailored to their specific sales and marketing process and information needs.

USADATA.com offers Internet access to marketing intelligence through its web applications and relationships with leading technology, information, and distribution partners including Acxiom Corporation (NASDAQ: ACXM), Arbitron, FaceTime, Hoover's (NASDAQ: HOOV), iAtlas, InfoUSA, IRG, Kalorama Information, Mediamark Research, Inc., Moore Corporation (TSE, NYSE: MCL) MondoSoft, Plunkett Research, Publications Resource Group (PRG), Scarborough Research, 10K Wizard and Veronis, Suhler & Associates.

With a client base of over 1,000 ranging from small, emerging companies to leading global corporations, USADATA.com's customers include Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), the National Football League, ABC Television, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Motorola (NYSE: MOT), Sprint (NYSE:FON), PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Cox Interactive, DoubleClick (NASDAQ:DCLK) and Disney (NYSE: DIS).

To learn more about USADATA.com's products and services, visit the company's main web page at http://www.usadata.com, call 800-599-5030, or email info@usadata.com.

Note to editors: inc.com, inc.com Click of Approval and inc.com Solutions Provider are trademarks of Goldhirsh Group, Inc.