eZanga’s summer internship program is now running at full speed, with 14 undergraduates representing 12 universities from across the country getting an opportunity to prepare for a real-life working environment while earning college credits.

Our program is providing students enrolled in business, marketing and communications programs with the opportunity to build marketing plans that will promote and grow our recently launched social network site, HopOnThis.com. Each student is supplied with a budget that will give them an opportunity to create and carry out unique marketing strategies on both local and nationwide levels.

At the conclusion of the 15-week program, we will award the top performing summer intern with a $500 American Express gift card! Good luck to all of our summer interns!

Any students interested in participating in the fall program should hop on eZanga’s job opportunities page for more information.

eZanga is in the news once again!

The June 14 edition of the News Journal included a look at eZanga’s continued growth in online advertising during a down economic period.

“With just 20-odd employees and a quiet local presence, the Middletown-based online advertising company’s revenue is multiplying at a faster pace than most any company in the Philadelphia region, and Fortune magazine has ranked it as the 15th fastest-growing advertising and marketing firm in the country.”

eZanga CEO Rich Kahn was interviewed for the article, which chronicles how far the company has come since its inception in 2003 and how its many services should help continue its expansion for years to come.

If you missed the article, you can view it along with some accompanying photos at DelawareOnline.com.

eZanga.com recently returned home from a successful trade show trip to AdTech San Francisco. AdTech was held at the Moscone Center West on April 21-23rd. Hopefully you had a chance to stop by and say Hi!

We also gave away a Nintendo®Wii™ for our business card raffle. Congratulations are in order for John from TinBu! Lucky for him he was walking by just as we drew his name.

Like always, it was a great networking event where we were able to establish new contacts, while having a fun time doing so! You can see all of our pictures from the trade show HERE!

eZanga CEO, Rich Kahn had an exclusive interview with OBSNews reporter, Patrick McGilvray, at this past SMX trade show in Santa Clara, California.  Rich discussed eZanga’s fully managed ad campaigns which allow our advertisers to focus on their customers rather than the details of online advertising.  Rich also touched on our Metasearch engine that has the ability to aggregate search results from nine unique content sources and then display those results without overlap or duplication. Of course, our recently launched social network, HopOnThis, was also mentioned because we love giving away cash and prizes! To see the complete interview check out the video below: 

Our very first HopOnThis raffle winner was announced last week!

eZanga would like to send our congratulations to Dawn from New Jersey, for winning our first raffle drawing for a MacBook Air.  Stay tuned and continuously check in to hear about up coming raffle prizes.  Remember, staying active on HopOnThis will give you a greater chance to win cool prizes!

We have BIG NEWS for the beginning of 2009!

eZanga will be airing our first national television commercial this Monday, January 12! The commercial can be viewed on several major networks including: BBC America, CNBC, Discovery HD, Fox Business, Fox News, and MSNBC. We are extremely excited about our new venture into broadcast television!

Stay tuned for updates and make sure to be on the look out for our eZanga television commercial! If you don’t watch enough TV to catch our commercial, you can preview it here:

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

You can also find us on MarketWatch and CNBC.

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

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: