Our staff members are multiplying at an unbelievable rate! On behalf of the entire staff at eZanga, we would like to give a warm welcome to five new members of our team:

Paul Cornish- Business Development Manager

Annalise Fratta- Public Relations Specialist

Lisa Quinn- Public Relations Specialist

Tim Vallancourt- Account Manager

Joseph Vanaman- Account Manager

The question is where are we going to put everyone?

Because eZanga is rapidly growing, we have decided to build an even larger office!  We have contracted a building that is triple the size of our current location.  Our goal is to also triple our staff by Summer 2009.  Plans to make the move are scheduled to take place March 1, 2009.  We are very proud and excited for all of eZanga’s success!

On behalf of the entire eZanga team, we would like to wish you all good tidings and a happy holiday season!

eZanga has much to be proud of this past year including everything from the numerous amounts of trade shows to all the new eZanga employee additions. What a year!

As we head into another prosperous business year, we would also like to extend out gratitude for your consistent support. We wish you a safe, happy, and healthy New Year. eZanga looks forward to another great year in 2009!

NEW YORK – The slowdown in the American economy has spurred many businesses and individuals to look for ways to increase their income and to reduce their expenses.  Popular television shows like “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” and “Deal or No Deal,” have captivated the public’s fascination with earning large amounts of money, albeit at long odds, with little real effort.

Internet-based sweepstakes, cash giveaways, and contests, on the other hand may be less high profile, but they have been popular for many years, and their use is increasing according to internet experts.

Consumers throughout the US and the world have entered offline contests to win free prizes and money since before the 1930s, and the trade-off has usually been that they thereafter been exposed to large amounts of direct mail and other marketing offers. 

One online social network, HopOnThis.com (http://www.HopOnThis.com) is out to change that basic paradigm and simply reward its users with free goodies for doing what comes naturally, namely sharing their photos, blogging, and inviting friends and colleagues to join them in a virtual community.

The new social network is a recently launched outgrowth of ‘meta’ search engine eZanga.com (http://www.eZanga.com) and it expands on the giveaway traditions that eZanga has become famous for.  The company launched the HopOnThis network a little over a month ago, and their user base has steadily increased since then. 

According to the company their main user base is women between 25 and 45.  It is probably no coincidence that some of the most cost-saving focused consumers are this exact demographic who often are tasked with raising their families on limited budgets.

Search engine marketing expert Rich Kahn is the CEO and co-founder of eZanga.com and HopOnThis.com, and he claims that his companies have given away, “Over $100,000 in cash and prizes over the past five years.  We started our social network because the regular users of our search engine wanted to find more ways to get free prizes like Wii systems as well as cash.  They wanted to refer their friends and to be rewarded for it.  We just listened to them.”

SOURCE: OBSNews.com

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eZanga is off to travelling again! 

This week we are in Chicago for the Search Engine Strategies Expo located at the Hilton Hotel.  The event is from December 9th to the 10th, and you can check us out at booth #217.  Make sure you stop by our booth on Wednesday to see what we will be giving away…

MIDDLETOWN, DE – OBSNewswire.com – In an era where millions upon millions of internet users spend hours on social networks like Facebook and MySpace it is refreshing to know that at least one website devoted to social networking is committed to giving back financially to its user base.

Social networking website HopOnThis.com is committed to helping its users connect with each other and earn money in the process. Basically, the more members interact within the social network by making referrals or just by using the parent company’s meta search engine, eZanga, the more stuff they can earn including cash and cool stuff like iPods and other gadgets like Wii systems.

eZanga operates a premier ‘meta’ search engine at www.ezanga.com. Their experience in aggregating best of breed search results from across the web’s multitude of search engines earned them a loyal following of fans and repeat customers.

CEO Richard Kahn of eZanga.com stressed that his company has been giving away cash and prizes to users of his search engine for many years in addition to giving them what they want in terms of search results. “We’re also honored that our regular web searchers were the ones who insisted we incorporate a social network on our site so they could share us with their friends and family. It kinda blew us away.”

Kahn apparently listened to his customers and reports that his initial subscriber base of about 25,000 people to his first generation social network has expanded well beyond 150,000 since the new version debuted after beta testing on November 1, 2008.

Kahn is also known as a search engine marketing expert and his company also offers innovative SEM consulting services. He points to his company’s focus on preventing click fraud via real time monitoring for ads on his own pay per click marketing services next to his search results. eZanga also works as a search engine marketing consultant to help businesses spend money and monitor their ROI on other major search engines pay per click advertising campaigns.

SOURCE: OBSNews

During the Chicago Ad:Tech trade show in August, our CEO, Rich Kahn, was interviewed by acclaimed Webmaster Radio personality, Daron Babin. Rich discussed our Traffic Advisors feature and how eZanga has done everything possible to ensure our customers a clean click stream.

Rich stated in the interview how “the only way to test [Traffic Advisors] was to buy traffic for it, so we used our own money to buy the traffic to make sure it worked.” Our company has spent over two million dollars to protect our customer’s investment.

Rich also explained how eZanga is designed to help any business get started with online advertising, “We get a budget, a site, and a goal and we do the rest to make it as easy as possible so they can focus on their business.” Rich is right, getting an ad campaign started is just that simple!

Click here to listen to Rich’s entire interview with Webmaster Radio

The eZanga team is back in Middletown after a trade show trip to Ad:Tech New York.  The show had an amazing turn out and the entire eZanga staff was there to witness it!

November 4th, the second day of the trade show, was very busy for eZanga!  Our CEO, Rich Kahn, gave a presentation to the attending press about our newly designed search engine. Rich explained how our new eZanga search engine can pull results from more than 100 unique content sources in real time, while sorting and displaying them in a user friendly format in about one second!  He also informed the press how our five year old Cash Giveaway Program has transformed into an Incentive Social Network, HopOnThis.com, with even more raffles and prizes than before!  Our members are now able to stay connected and win cool prizes!

We also did our business card drawing for a Nintendo Wii gaming system.  Fifteen cards were pulled before we found a winner! Remember, in order to win you must be present for the drawing. eZanga would like to congratulate Dan Waxman for being there to claim his Wii!  Here’s a picture of Rich and the Wii winner Dan:

eZanga is on the move again and all set for AdTech New York! We will be exhibiting on November 3rd and 4th at the Hilton in Manhattan.  If you are in the area, make sure you stop by and say hi to the eZanga team!  We will be at booth #810.

The good news seems to never end! Our CEO, Rich Kahn, was picked to present our recently launched social network, HopOnThis.com, to the attending press at AdTech.  He will be introducing HopOnThis on November 4th between the times of 1:30-2:30PM.  eZanga is honored to have the opportunity to discuss our new social network involving our integrated giveaway program.  We know Rich will do a great job!

We are excited to announce that your favorite t-shirts have arrived and have a new design!

As you know, we have a point system in effect with our upgraded Giveaway Program, HopOnThis website.  When you redeem your points earned, you are qualified to purchase items and enter raffles.  We are pleased to inform you that we will continue to send you a free t-shirt when you win a raffle drawing. In addition, you can also redeem your points for one of these coveted t-shirts in our Prize Catalog.

Here’s how you can enter raffle drawings:

Go into “My Hub.”  Find your “User Point Module” and click on the link to “My Points Page.” Next, near the bottom of the page, click on the Raffles link.  Here you can redeem your points earned and enter into the raffles of your choosing.  Your “My Points Page” will show all of the raffles you have entered.  The winner will be notified on the raffle expiration date.

So HopOn and start earning the points to bring you one step closer to winning Cash, Prizes and our New eZanga T-Shirt!!