SOURCE: thinkingVOICE

Mark Cuban Leads Industry Veterans Backing thinkingVOICE in Series A Funding to Roll Out Pay-Per-Lead VoIP Technology

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 27 /Xpress Press/ -- thinkingVOICE, a leading VoIP innovator of lead generation and communications technology, today announced it has received an investment from leading industry veterans, including Mark Cuban, to launch its powerful new Pay-Per-Lead service that drives qualified leads by phone to advertisers and merchants from online shoppers interested in their products and services.

This investment, which closes the Company's Series A funding, will be used to roll out the Pay-Per-Lead Network -- a breakthrough service designed to create, access, and monetize a new category of search and online advertising. Pay-Per-Lead is operating in Beta today -- allowing any merchant to create an offer and receive phone leads -- either through a network of sites or directly from search results. During Beta, thinkingVOICE offers the first 10 Phone Leads for free. Merchants/advertisers benefit from a new source of leads, and publisher sites, compensated for each call generated from their website, benefit from a new revenue source.

According to DC Cullinane, CEO of thinkingVOICE, "This investment allows us to bring an entirely new lead generation technology to Internet search and online advertising. Merchants, advertisers and publishers will recognize the value proposition immediately as each click results in a qualified phone call to the merchant or advertiser and an incremental revenue stream to the hosting or publisher site."

"There are currently over 12 million businesses in the U.S. which do not have a web presence. ThinkingVOICE enables them to have an immediate online presence and exciting new lead source connected directly to the phone. Adding phone conversions to web conversions creates a compelling new dimension to Internet search and online advertising," adds Jaime Crouthamel, founder and CEO of Performics.

To sign up for Pay-Per-Lead and receive the first 10 leads at no charge under the Beta program, visit: http://www.thinkingvoice.com/ppl.

About Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban is currently the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and co-founder and president of HDNet, an all high-definition television network, which launched in September 2001. Prior to his purchase of the Mavericks, Cuban co- founded Broadcast.com and sold it to Yahoo! in July of 1999. Before Broadcast.com, Cuban co-founded MicroSolutions, a leading National Systems Integrator, in 1983, and later sold it to CompuServe. Cuban is also an active investor in leading and cutting-edge technologies.

About Jaime Crouthamel

Jaime Crouthamel is the founder and CEO of Performics, acquired in 2004 by Doubleclick.

About thinkingVOICE

Founded in 2001, thinkingVOICE provides an innovative marketing and advertising platform by connecting prospects and marketers by phone across a network of sites, including search engines, classified ads, ecommerce sites, and marketplace listings. thinkingVOICE has created a highly scalable, easy- to-use, and rapidly deployable VoIP communications platform, which is used by over 2,500 merchants and marketers today. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., thinkingVOICE has 15 employees. For more information, visit http://www.thinkingvoice.com .

CONTACT: DC Cullinane, thinkingVOICE, +1-650-333-4688, or dc@thinkingvoice.com

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