New affiliate program offers industry-leading commission plan for business email and Microsoft Exchange hosting

New York, NY – September 9, 2009 – Intermedia, the world’s largest provider of Microsoft Exchange hosting, announced a relationship with ShareASale.com, a proven online affiliate network. This relationship will provide a powerful channel for new and existing Intermedia affiliates to take advantage of the growing demand for hosted Exchange, messaging, collaboration and web hosting services among small and medium businesses. Intermedia’s ShareASale affiliate marketing program will pay 100% commission on the first month’s sales.

Intermedia hosts over 200,000 corporate-class mailboxes and has already seen 55% growth in their affiliate program this year. With the addition of ShareASale, Intermedia provides a program for service providers, online marketers, web publishers and bloggers who are looking for easy-to-sell, profitable affiliate programs with high conversion rates. “We are glad to welcome Intermedia to the ShareASale performance marketing network,” said Carolyn Tang, director of Client Services for ShareASale.com. “Given their commitment to growing a strong affiliate channel, we’re sure they will experience great ROI on the ShareASale.com platform.”

“We value every partner relationship we have, and we know affiliates will be successful if we give them the best affiliate program options available today. The ShareASale network is very important to us, it provides affiliates with more ways to promote Intermedia’s products and increase the volume of sales they make each month,” stated Christopher Gwynne, Business Development Manager with Intermedia. With this program, current and new Intermedia affiliates will have access to newly developed online banners, text links and other creatives to help drive traffic for Intermedia’s Exchange and Web Hosting solutions. As traffic converts to sales, affiliates will benefit from ShareASale’s award-winning sales tracking software and prompt payment of commissions. Intermedia continues to offer and expand its successful Private Label Partner program allowing MSPs and other technology providers to sell hosted Exchange completely under their own brand, as well as the existing affiliate program targeting consultants, MSPs and VARs with a co-branded commission-based model.

For more information on Intermedia’s new program through the ShareASale affiliate network visit www.intermedia.net/ShareASale.