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TAMPA MARKETING COMPANY AND TAMPAFORUMS.COM/TAMPARACING.COM JOIN FORCES
Over 70 Million Page Views Under One Marketing Roof

TAMPA, FL – October 3, 2006 – Today Bill Sharpe, President of Tampa Marketing Company and Aharon Chernin, owner of Web sites TampaForums.com and TampaRacing.com. announced the implementation of a new strategic alliance.

Chernin’s sites and the Tampa Marketing Company’s TampaGold.com, SohoTampa.com and SticksofFire.com will now share marketing and content.

This arrangement brings together Tampa’s best locally-focused independent Web sites and expands the users’ capabilities. Now visitors will be able to find news and information about Tampa Bay and its residents that they cannot find on any other sites.

“The ability of the Tampa Marketing Company to effectively reach the business community makes our marketing alliance an easy decision,” said Chernin. “Our two Web sites fit with their content and direction in a complementary way.”

Tampa Marketing Company will be responsible for all advertising and promotional sales on the two Web sites, and will use the added content on its current sites. It will feature the TampaForums.com and TampaRacing.com on TampaGold.com, SohoTampa.com and SticksofFire.com as “THE” area sources for information about residents and racing respectively.

Combined the two companies Web sites boast over 70 million hits in the past year. TampaRacing.com and TampaForums.com, founded in 2000 and 2005, received 50 million and 18 million hits respectively. TampaGold.com and SohoTampa.com had almost 2 million visitors last year, and the ever-popular blog site SticksofFire.com had about 200,000 visitors.

“Through TampaGold.com, SohoTampa.com and their other Web sites, the Tampa Marketing Company has shown the ability to put together a viable advertising and marketing strategy that can generate additional traffic and has been unmatched by any independent Web site in the Tampa area,” said Sticks of Fire owner, Tommy Duncan.

Two of Tampa Marketing Company’s Web sites were recently recognized by Creative Loafing, former the Weekly Planet, in their 2006 Best of the Bay edition: SticksofFire.com as Best Local Blog and SohoTampa.com as Best Local Cultural Web site.

Tampa Marketing Company is a member of the West Tampa Chamber of Commerce, the Tampa Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau, the North Tampa Chamber of Commerce, the Ybor City Chamber of Commerce and the Davis Island Chamber of Commerce.

For more information, contact Bill Sharpe at 813-770-3902 or bill@tampagold.com; or Tommy Duncan tommyduncn@yahoo.com.

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