The Internet Tastes Good to Us!

(Bel Air, MD) Web Ad.vantage, Inc., an Internet-only marketing, promotions, and public relations agency, founded by former “foodie,” Hollis Thomases, has found success in niche marketing to the food industry. Recent additions to its client roster include Phillips Seafood, seafood product distributors, and Lloyd Industries, manufacturers of commercial pizza equipment. Web Ad.vantage also contributes a monthly column on foodservice to the web site SmallBusinessResources.com.

Web Ad.vantage, founded early on in the Internet marketing era, develops and implements strategic marketing plans for generating and sustaining web site visibility and traffic for its clients. Company president, Hollis Thomases, spent over ten years in food industry sales and marketing, and saw the Internet as an opportunity to parlay her experience into a growing industry.

“The commercial food industry is really beginning to catch up with the speed of the Internet, as evidenced by the growing community of B-to-B food-related sites online,” says Thomases. Figures to back this up include Foodservice.com’s 110,000-plus unique visitors in the month of September, and that Forrester Research forecasts the industry doubling from $3 to $6 billion over the next year (Source: Nov. 1998 Forrester Research Inc.).

Web Ad.vantage’s founder, Hollis Thomases, is a syndicated online columnist, whose articles have appeared in the Washington Times, on Comcast’s InYourTown.com sites, and as part of allbizdepot.com. Articles are also posted on Web Ad.vantage’s web site at the In the News section. Ms. Thomases is available for interviews or editorial contribution upon request. Call 1-877-493-2237 toll-free for more information or to schedule an appointment.

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