Redwood City, CA - September 15, 1999. Connect Direct, a full-service agency specializing in direct marketing for high-technology companies, has been named one of the "Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in Silicon Valley" for 1998 by the San Jose Business Journal. It is the second year in a row that the Redwood City firm has been so recognized.

Compiled annually and audited by the accounting firm Price Waterhouse Cooper, the list ranks companies based on three years' percentage growth ending in 1998. For that period, Connect Direct recorded a cumulative growth rate of 92 percent.

Separately, Connect Direct also announced three additions to its fast-growing roster of high-tech clients:

Icarian, Inc. in Sunnyvale, California has asked Connect Direct to develop an ongoing program of print and online campaigns in support of the company's Web-based eWorkforce Planning solutions. The campaigns target Human Resource managers and other executives at fast-growing companies and include direct mail, broadcast e-mail, online newsletters and banner ads.

Impresse Corporation, also in Sunnyvale, California, has selected Connect Direct to produce direct mail campaigns designed to promote the company's e-commerce solution: impresse.com, a Web-based service for print buyers and commercial printers.

Searchbutton.com in Mountain View, California has chosen Connect Direct to create a series of customer acquisition programs for its web site search and activity reporting service. The campaigns will target both small businesses owners and Webmasters at large corporations.

Connect Direct was founded in 1990 by company president Howard J. Sewell, formerly a marketing manager at Oracle Corporation. The company says that 1999 revenues have already increased more than 40 percent over the same period in 1998.