Small Business Marketing Consultant and Branding Specialist

Freeport, IL - June 26, 2001 – The Internet's worldwide reach has reached all the way from Hong Kong to Freeport, IL as local area businessman Kevin M. Clark of Clark Marketing Group, Inc. will be a featured speaker in a conference focusing on e-business.

Global Connections Conferences, Ltd. a leading conference and seminar company in Asia is sponsoring a worldwide conference titled, "eBranding Strategy Asia 2001 — Your Corporate Lifetime Journey" on July 9 & 10, 2001." The purpose of the seminar is to reveal to attendee's strategies for building a strong and recognizable brand online as well as how to turn your website into an Internet moneymaker.

Clark will be the featured closing speaker leading a workshop titled, "How To e-Brand Your Online Business" while Clark's new book, "How To e-Brand Your Dot.Com Business" will be given to conference attendees as a registration bonus. Other speakers at the conference include representatives from Sony Corporation of Hong Kong, Lycos — Asia Hong Kong Ltd., ACNielsen.online, and Cathay Pacific Airways Limited.

Irene Chiu Head of Operations at Global Connections commented, "On behalf of Global Connection Conferences, we are honored and excited to have Mr. Clark as our guest speaker at this event."

"I am quite excited and honored myself to be chosen for this very prestigious speaking engagement" Kevin Clark commented. He further added, "There are some very well known Global businesses that will be in attendance and my emphasis will be to outline why Dot.Com companies will continue to fail if they don't focus on profitability. The key ingredient for an online business is much like that of offline businesses, in that they must learn how to differentiate their business and gain a competitive advantage in their marketplace."

More information about Clark or "How to e-Brand Your Dot.Com Business" is available by logging onto http://www.GetProfitable.com or by calling 801-459-9589.  Clark offers visitors to his Web site a free subscription to an informative marketing e-newsletter filled with promotional tips and strategies.

Kevin Clark is available for interviews.