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QITTLE ™ SOCIAL/MOBILE MEDIA EVENTS TO GIVE OUT SKI WEEKENDS TO LUCKY WINNERS

Weekend Trips to Aspen/Snowmass to be Given Out to Lucky Attendees of New Media Seminars in Colorado

ASPEN, COLO. – December 22nd, 2009 – Join Qittle and other mobile/social media professionals at one of five Front Range, Colo. “Mobile/Social Media At It’s Best – Live The Dream” seminars for a chance to win a weekend in Aspen/Snowmass, Colo.

Learn how to make ones business successful in the digital age. Learn tools and tactics to promote ones business through social networks, blogs, mobile devices, and how to write and pitch a press release in these changing times. Qittle is hosting five new media seminars in Colorado and is randomly selecting five attendees to enjoy a two-night stay for two, with four Aspen/Snowmass Ski passes valued at over $1,000 per giveaway.

The five social/mobile media seminars are taking place in Greeley, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, Denver and Boulder. These are very interactive and engaging seminars. This seminar will begin with a social conversation between some of the top social media experts from surrounding communities, sharing best and worst practices for social media from their experience. There will be a brief networking session, followed by a presentation on PR in a digital age. In this section attendants will learn tools and tactics to create a successful PR/marketing campaign through social networks. The last section will teach attendants how to be at the forefront of mobile marketing and how to begin an effective mobile campaign.

Here is what one attendee of the Glenwood Springs event has to say about these events. “The Qittle conference on social media is chock full of practical, easily applicable tactics to help businesses grow at a time when money is tight and the competition for clients is heated. The presenters were flexible in adjusting their explanations to the knowledge and experience levels of the attendees. I am going to recommend this to all of my clients.” Jerry Pradier, CMT Master Mentor

Qittle has partnered with Aspen/Snowmass hotel partners including Frias Properties, St. Regis, Aspen and the Limelight Lodge in Aspen Colorado. The Aspen Skiing Company is providing lift tickets for the winners.

To learn more about registering for one of these events and for a chance to win a two night stay with four ski passes in Aspen/Snowmass go to http://qittle.eventbrite.com/

Bruce Rosard PhoCusWright, Vice President, Sales  and Marketing

Mr. Rosard is responsible for the sales growth of PhoCusWright’s research, consulting and events line of businesses. Bruce also leads the marketing team and is responsible for managing the PhoCusWright brand both online and offline. He is also responsible for business development, primarily establishing relationships with trade associations, media companies and other synergistic partners that will benefit PhoCusWright’s bottom line.

Bruce’s mission is to introduce travel, tourism and hospitality firms worldwide to PhoCusWright and to work with those firms to increase their ability to achieve their long term objectives.

Prior to PhoCusWright, Bruce was founder, president and CEO of Moguls Mountain Travel (Boulder, CO), a ski tour wholesaler and pioneer in the e-commerce travel market. After establishing the company’s first Web site in 1994, he architected the development of KARS, a proprietary online booking and tour management system. He is also credited with creating long-term strategic alliances with major online travel providers and was a founding and long-time board member of SkiTops (the Ski Tour Operators Association). Bruce is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Connecticut with a BS in marketing.

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QITTLE WINS THIRD PLACE OUT OF HUNDREDS IN ELANCE’S ‘NEW WAY TO WORK’ COMPETITION

New Way to Work Contest Celebrates Self-Employed Professionals and Companies Embracing New Trend of Online Work

ASPEN, COLO. – December 18, 2009 – Elance, the leading site for online work, announced that Qittle tied for third place in the “New Way to Work” Contest. The contest spotlights the growing number of businesses and individuals who are choosing to work online compared to the conventional office environment. Qittle’s video entry on how this mobile marketing firm functions and uses Elance,  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD01nLCEeKE) tied for third place.

“Online workers represent one of the biggest trends in the 21st century labor market,” said Ellen Pack, vice president of marketing at Elance.  “Professionals are shunning cubicles and commutes for more flexible, self-directed opportunities and companies see a great opportunity to increase innovation and output without increasing overhead.”

“More than 60,000 companies are currently hiring and working
with online professionals and teams on Elance and the demand
shows no sign of slowing down, even as traditional job growth
has stagnated or declined in many sectors.” Qittle has found
and successfully used graphic designers, marketing professionals
and web developers on Elance. Qittle has used professionals and
businesses on Elance to develop the Qittle logo, business cards,
brochures, email blasts, the website and more.

“The Elance contest was a lot of fun for the whole team at Qittle.
It's been amazing how much web traffic, video views and new clients
have resulted from taking action on Elance. We are very
appreciative of Elance and the PR firm Borders Grate House,”
said Casey McConnell, CEO of Qittle.

Contest participants were encouraged to show the world what the “new way to work” means to one’s company through any medium, including video, text, song, photography, and even tweets. There was no restriction on the format, but all submissions had to be publishable to the web.

Qittle used a YouTube video to demonstrate how the world of online work is transforming the way small businesses are growing their companies and leveraging the on-demand work model to build talented teams that will propel Qittle forward in 2010.

Winners were selected by an elite panel of judges that included Tory Johnson, career expert, founder and CEO of Women For Hire and New York Times bestselling author, whose latest book is Fired to Hired; Tim Ferris, bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, technology investor, and productivity expert; John Jantsch, award winning social media publisher and author of Duct Tape Marketing; and Fabio Rosati, CEO of Elance. The winners and all 10 finalists are featured on the Elance blog at http://www.elance.com/blog

About Elance

Elance, the leading site for online work, is a highly efficient solution for companies who hire contractors and service providers online to get work done.

Elance instantly matches employers with a ready and qualified workforce of more than 100,000 rated and tested professionals with technical, marketing and business skills, and provides the tools to manage online and pay for results. With more than $230 million in earnings to date, contractors and service providers around the world use Elance to meet employers and get paid for delivering great results.

The company is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information, visit Elance at http://www.elance.com.

11 days till Live The Dream, win a year in Aspen/Snowmass goes live. Check out Rodney living the dream

Mike O’Neil and Lori Ruff

Mike O’Neil founded the world’s first Social Media and LinkedIn training company, Integrated Alliances. Mike is a true pioneer in the mix of Social Media, LinkedIn, networking and web-based business applications. He was a charter LinkedIn user in early 2004 when it was just getting started. He is recognized by his peers as one of the world’s first and foremost LinkedIn trainers and Social Media speakers.

Lori Ruff is a recognized authority in the arena of Social Media and LinkedIn training. Ruff joined the LinkedIn community in July 2005 when it was just two years old. Lori is now a senior partner, lead Social Media coach, and head of curriculum development at Integrated Alliances. She is a recognized authority in the world of Social Media and LinkedIn training. Her career in training international corporate and conference audiences began in July 1996. In addition to Internet applications, she is a Microsoft Certified Master Instructor and a speaker and facilitator on topics such as customer service, leadership, visioning, personal development, and career transition.

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Lori Gama’s 14 years as a Web Strategist has enabled her to help thousands of people connect with their communities. Lori is a website producer and SEO expert who has a 100% top Google listing record for all of her clients.  She’s also a Social Media Trainer, Consultant and Speaker, who has been singled out in the blogosphere, Twitter and Facebook as one of the top people to turn to for Social Media marketing and for Hispanic Social Media Marketing. She has a large, loyal community of followers, friends and associates in Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, of both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking people. She is regarded as one of the top “Hispanic-fluentials” in Social Networks around the world. Her consultant work with Fortune 500 companies, entreprenuers and non-profits, typically results in a significant increase in website traffic; referrals and new customers. Lori is an in-demand speaker at Social Media conferences across the country, including the recent Washington, D.C.: Latinos In Social Media conference in December, 2009.

Lori was born and raised in the East Bay in northern California. Lori’s bi-cultural upbringing, technology and communications expertise and Social Marketing expertise have positioned her to be a unique Social Media Consultant who uses the latest technology and Social Marketing methods to achieve a high success rate of revenue growth for her clients.

***Chance to Win a 2 Night Stay in Aspen w/ 4 day passes to Aspen/Snowmass Colorado***

Come join the educational and interactive “Social/Mobile Media at
its Best “Live The Dream” seminar and be entered for a chance to win a
two night stay in Aspen/Snowmass. Qittle will be choosing one lucky
attendant at each of the 5 events to enjoy a 2 night stay at one of the following Hotels in Aspen Colorado along with 4 day passes to ski or board on 1 of 4 mountains in Aspen/Snowmass.

Greeley Colorado Jan 7th 2010

Fort Collins Colorado Jan 8th 2010

Colorado Springs Colorado Jan 11th 2010

Denver Colorado Jan 12th 2010

Boulder Colorado Jan 13th 2010

Frias Propertiesof Aspen

St. Regis Aspen

Limelight Lodge

Conor is CEO of BombBomb.com a Video Email Marketing company he founded at the end of 2006.

He has more than 10 years of experience in sales, marketing and entrepreneurship. Conor started his career as an entrepreneur in the multi-family housing industry, where he grew his business to 60 employees. Conor then went into the local media business, growing annual ad revenues from $175K to $1.1M in just 4 years.

In his spare time he’s an owner in a vineyard development venture in Oregon, as well as a winery project in the Walla Walla, Washington, where he picked his first harvest this year. Conor also advises and advocates for development of small businesses and communities in Kenya, Africa.

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