EROI Momentum Grows With New Customers, Employees and Industry Accolades

PORTLAND, Ore. (April 10, 2007) -- Strengthening its leadership position, eROI, Inc., a full-service eMarketing company, today announced its unyielding growth and momentum ending Q107 with a 45 percent increase in revenue from Q1’06, adding more employees and winning key industry awards.

eROI added new customers from a variety of industries including Annie’s Foods, National Baseball Hall of Fame, MESA International, Rauxa Direct, Chinook Winds Casino, Ogilvy, Matchpoint Corp, Banfield Pet Hospitals, and Perkins and Company.  “New clients are coming to us for more innovative, results oriented online marketing campaigns,” said Dylan Boyd, Vice President of Sales & Strategy, eROI. “Marketing success in today’s business environment really means strategically blending both online and traditional campaigns. eROI has accomplished this over and over again. Our customers get a large return and we enjoy helping them meet and often exceed their goals.”

eROI is recognized by the industry for its creative and innovative approach – winning the  2007 American Marketing Association MAX Awards for Best Web Campaign. The award was recognition for the work they did with Kettle Foods and Maxwell PR for the ‘2007 People Choice Campaign, Passport to Flavor.’  “This has been an ongoing collective effort for 3 years now and this year we really tried to push it past the norm and deliver a truly engaging, flash-driven campaign site and custom email send-to-a-friend postcards to leverage the viral aspects of the vote,” said Ryan Buchanan, CEO, eROI.

Additionally, Ryan Buchanan was named as the Portland Business Journal’s ’40 Under 40,’ an award that recognizes the city's leading business professionals under 40 years of age. In winning the award, Buchanan joined 39 other Portland-area business leaders from industries such as law, education, banking and finance, architecture, healthcare and communications. Lastly, Buchanan was also named by Oregon Business magazine as one of “the 50 Great Leaders for Oregon - 50 who fix it, move it, build it, change it and get it done right.”

New Employees -

eROI has hired Garrett Gonzales as senior graphic designer, Christopher Masagatani as an account executive and Christine Baker as support and training manager.

Garrett comes to eROI with a rich knowledge of online and offline design and strategy, which helps build on eROI’s growing and diverse creative department. His previous work has exposed him to a breadth of projects in multiple print mediums, advertising, photography, and, of course, the web. In his prior position, he managed the online marketing, as well as creative execution for local natural foods company Kettle Foods, handling concepts, execution, analytics, and implementation. This diverse set of skills has given him the unique perspective of client side marketing and creative process, which allows him to accomplish exceptional design that works.

Christopher grew up on the beaches of Hawaii and moved to Oregon to attend Lewis and Clark College where he graduated with a BA in communications. He comes to eROI with 4 years of agency experience at The S Group and an acute understanding of the brand building process. His proven ability to manage large scale projects will be a valuable asset to eROI’s growing business. 

Christine attended the University of San Diego earning a Business degree and a minor in Spanish. After graduation, she spent time as a Volunteer Teacher through Americorps. She comes to eROI with several years of customer service experience, the most recent being with Active.com, where she was a Customer Support Representative focusing on the Active Europe and Active Trainer sites. Her days at eROI are spent interacting with clients on various support issues, training clients to use the emailROI platform, and staying current on all deliverability activity.

About eROI
eROI, Inc. helps its clients generate and capture qualified leads online through email marketing, e-commerce, search engine marketing, and Web site development. eROI's unique approach transforms clients' Web sites into effective vehicles for capturing leads. The company's email campaign management services include planning, email design and email list management and their award-winning technology platform enables clients to build, send and track HTML emails. Clients include Hewlett-Packard, InFocus, Kettle Foods, Konami, Learning.com, Microsoft, NW Natural, OHSU, PGE, Planar, Papa Murphy’s Pizza, Providence Health Plan, Red Bull, Salomon and SEGA. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.eroi.com.