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Beacon Continues Growth

August 2005

After dealing with economic downturn, particularly in the IT arena, Beacon is in the midst of another growth year. Over the last 12 months, Beacon has hired 9 new employees to facilitate the growing workload in every area of the business. “We have hired several new, very sharp application developers that have deep experience with a diverse set of programming languages and databases,” says Mark Dirks, Beacon’s President. “Of course, our extreme growth in search engine marketing and optimization has been fantastic for the business, but it is very demanding and labor intensive. Consequently we have added a new account executive and a new search engine specialist, with plans to hire one more of each within the next 3-6 months.”

John Scaramuzzo, Beacon’s VP, stated “We also have a growing number of local companies contracting with us to provide on-site hardware, network and desktop support. We expanded our technical support staff to accommodate this growth, but to also facilitate a complete upgrade of all of our own desktop computers and installation of many new state-of-the-art servers.” Scaramuzzo also expects to hire additional technical support staff in the next 3-6 months.

Both Dirks and Scaramuzzo agree that they are seeing the results of the organizational and management changes that were made in 2003. “Our success has everything to do with executing a well-defined strategy and working together as team. The credit goes to our hard-working team and the fact that we are all paddling one boat in the same direction,” says Dirks.

About Beacon Technologies

Beacon Technologies excels in providing internet search engine marketing services, primarily through search engine optimization (organic placement) and paid placement strategies. The company provides varying levels of services to companies of all sizes and verticals nationwide. Beacon also delivers high end web graphic design, web software development, content management solutions and dependable hosting services.

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