St. Cloud, MN (May 1, 2008) - Smart Site, LLC announced today that it has hired a new president and secured an impressive partnership group that will help take the Internet development company nationwide. Bill Sexton, an owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves, is among Smart Site's dream team. The partners also include Rob Weber and Ryan Weber, founders of Freeze.com; Brian Schoenborn and Aaron Crandall, partners at Leonard, Street & Deinard; and Gene Schreder, former owner of UniqueScreen Media. The group will provide financial support and expertise, particularly around strategic positioning. "I could not have asked for a better group of business people," Smart Site Founder and CEO Eric Brown says. "This truly is the dream team that is taking Smart Site to higher heights and positioning the company to have a substantial impact in the region and nationwide." Schreder, 41, also has joined Smart Site as president. Schreder came on board to develop a national sales distribution channel that will propel Smart Site to the national playing field. Schreder brings extensive business ownership and growth expertise to Smart Site. Schreder mostly recently bought and grew Unique Screen Media. Schreder and two employees served five clients in Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin when he bought the company in 1997. In less than a decade, Schreder grew Unique Screen Media into a multi-million dollar enterprise that distributed its product in 38 states and employed more than 100 employees. Schreder sold the company in 2007 to AccessIT. "Gene brings the skills and experience we need to strategically launch Smart Site's innovative product line nationwide," Brown says. As CEO, Brown will focus on product development, and long-term company visioning and planning. Eric Brown introduced a cutting edge content management system to the website development industry in 2003 when he started Smart Site Inc. As CEO, he led the development of the Waite Park-based company's latest solution, LiveEdit™, which allows customers to make their websites more fluid, and update information as it becomes relevant with ultra intuitive web-based tools.

Smart Site, LLC is pleased to announce Eugene Schreder has joined the company as President and Partner. Schreder came on board to take Smart-Site national by building out a national sales distribution channel for the company. One of Schreder's past endeavors include the acquisition of UniqueScreen Media in 1997. When Schreder purchased UniqueScreen Media just two employees and himself served approximately five clients in MN, SD and WI. Schreder grew the company into a multi-million dollar enterprise and when selling the majority of his final shares in 2007 to AccessIT, the company had over 100 employees with national distribution in 38 states. Currently 41 years old, Schreder lives with his wife and three kids on Lake Koronis in Paynesville. Schreder was born in St. Cloud and graduated from Albany High School in 1985.

5 area leaders honored

By Amy Trang, atrang@stcloudtimes.com
http://www.sctimes.com

Published: December 28. 2007 12:30AM

A local business publication is honoring five local leaders who are shaping the St. Cloud-area economy.

ROI Central Minnesota magazine features its 5 Under 40 Award recipients in the latest issue, released today. The magazine honors the individuals for their innovation, influence and involvement in the community.

The 5 under 40 recipients are Sandy Bromenschenkel, former vice president of consumer solutions at Northern PCS; Eric Brown, founder of Smart Site Inc.; Aaron Crandall, attorney and shareholder of Leonard, Street and Deinard in St. Cloud; Gary Posch, co-owner of Sexton-Posch Co.; and Rob Weber, vice president of business development at W3i.

This is the third year that the magazine has given out the 5 Under 40 Awards.

"They are very young, dynamic, engaged people in our community," said Dennis Host, Times' director of market development. "These winners are catalysts for driving innovation in their companies and within the community."

Winners were selected from a wide range of nominees. The selection committee is made up of last year's award recipients and several Times executives.

ROI Central Minnesota magazine was founded in 2005 and is a quarterly publication of Times Media. Times Media is a multimedia company that offers products including the St. Cloud Times, Central Minnesota Shopping News Marketplace and online information sites.

Smart Site, Inc. is pleased to announce it has changed its flagship product "Smart Site Content Management Solution"� to LiveEdit(tm). "The new name better defines the product. Being able to edit your website in realtime gives businesses the ability to communicate to their customers and potential customers in a moments notice."� said CEO Eric Brown. Smart Site will be rolling out the new product brand over the next few months. The roll out coincides with an official major upgrade release of its Content Management Solution.

The hardest part of preparing your business for the web is choosing a domain name that represents your site. It’s not always easy - domain name speculators and the sheer number of websites that have beat you to the web have used up many of the domain names you may consider. But don't lose hope; with some patience and a little research you too can have the perfect domain name!

There are simple rules to creating a domain name: you may only use letters, numbers and hyphens, the name cannot start or end with a hyphen and the name cannot exceed 22 characters, not including the extension (such as ".com").

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Alex Hennen
Smart Site, Inc.

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Thesaurus.com , an online thesaurus
uspto.gov , the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Domain Registrars:
NetworkSolutions.com
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GoDaddy.com