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Blingo Users ‘’Cash In’’ on Internet Searches
New Search Engine Offers Prepaid Cards

CONSHOHOCKEN, PA (Aug. 4, 2005) People using the new search engine, Blingo, can now win cash, in the form of Ecount’s Prepaid Visa cards. Blingo has selected the Ecount Card as one of the site’s promotional giveaways.

“The Ecount Cards are a perfect fit for the Blingo site. We give our winners a choice between merchandise and a prepaid card, and four out of five people choose the card over the gift,” stated Frank Anderson, CEO of Blingo.com. “We prefer the cards too because it simplifies our fulfillment and leaves our customers with something tangible they can use over and over again. It helps reinforce the word-of-mouth marketing we rely on to grow our site.”

Visitors to the Blingo website search for words or phrases, just like on other popular search engines, but at Blingo each search is also a chance to instantly win prizes. Throughout the day, the Blingo engine picks a winner at random and ships the prize to the lucky searcher. Blingo has given away approximately 7,000 prizes since launching its service in November, 2004.
People can use the Ecount Card anywhere Visa debit cards are accepted.

Source: Ecount (ecount.com)
Blingo (blingo.com)