IMPAQT Press Release
IMPAQT Earns Pittsburgh Technology Council's Technology 50 Award
Search Engine Marketing Solution Provider Named Rising Star Finalist
Pittsburgh, PA – October 21, 2003 – IMPAQT, a leading provider of search engine marketing solutions has been named to the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s Technology 50. The Tech 50 honors technology companies in the southwestern Pennsylvania area that demonstrate the strongest growth and advancement in product or sales success, financial strength, corporate citizenship, job growth and retention and innovative product or technology.
IMPAQT was named a finalist in the rising star category, which recognizes entrepreneurial firms whose products or services offer unique or promising technologies and who may be the future economic drivers of the 13-county southwestern Pennsylvania region. In addition, nominated companies must have been incorporated within the past three years. The category leader for the rising stars sector was VigilantMinds. Category finalists also included Acusis, CombineNet Inc., Corporate Solutions LLC, LogicLibrary Inc., Mobile Aspects, Multimodal Technologies, solutions4networks and Vivisimo.
“We are extremely honored to be selected to the Tech 50 alongside an impressive list of companies that have already made a name for themselves in just a short period of time,” said Richard Hagerty, CEO of IMPAQT. “We continue our efforts to become the leading Search Engine Marketing company in the industry and it is an honor to be recognized for our efforts with industry awards such as the Tech 50.”
IMPAQT provides expertise in a vast array of Search Engine Marketing initiatives ranging from research and analysis, to campaign planning and program management. IMPAQT’s comprehensive suite of services addresses the needs of a wide variety of constituents including agency executives, corporate marketers, Web designers, IT professionals and copy writers.
To determine the 50 fastest-growing firms, the Pittsburgh Technology canvassed thousands of public and private technology-oriented companies in the 13-county region of southwestern Pennsylvania. All applicants were subjected to a final audit and scoring by the Pittsburgh office of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
About IMPAQT
IMPAQT is a leader in Search Engine Marketing. Founded in 1999 by Richard Hagerty, the company has been at the forefront of change within the industry, combining database marketing tools and business intelligence methodologies to form an entirely new set of online marketing solutions called Search Analytics™. IMPAQT relies on its research-based methodology, proprietary data gathering technologies, and unique visibility measurement metric – the Search Position Score™ – to assist companies in increasing their presence on the Internet via search engine and online directory rankings, targeted interactive marketing strategies and other Web visibility services. The company partners with top corporations and agencies including Axion Data Systems, Calgon Carbon Corporation, One to One Interactive, SBLI and State Street, along with multiple brands of the pharmaceutical and healthcare giant GlaxoSmithKline.
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