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Leverage Software Announces Free Trial Offer for Leading Social Networking Platform CustomerConnect

Build feature-rich communities for customers, partners, employees and fans to increase retention, loyalty and drive revenue

San Francisco, CA – June 11, 2007 – Leverage Software, the leading provider of enterprise social networking and online community solutions, today announced a free trial offer to test-drive the company’s industry-leading community-building platform, CustomerConnect. The new free trial will enable anyone, from start-up blogger to Fortune 500 company, build, host, and manage a private-labeled community for two weeks at no cost. The CustomerConnect free trial service is available at http://www.leveragesoftware.com/freetrial.

CustomerConnect offers community blogs, personal profile pages, people-matching, polling, RSS, file sharing, targeted advertising, tagging, a widget tool-kit, and community analytics resulting in online communities that support the communication, collaboration and information needs of key constituencies including customers, employees, and partners.

"With our free trial offer, companies can now create and test online communities customized to meet the specific information, communication and collaboration requirements of their customers, partners or employees,” stated Mike Walsh, CEO and founder of Leverage Software. "Features like community blogs, private groups, tagging, people-matching and chat offer enterprises new tools with which to develop deeper and more productive relationships with all members of their business’s ecosystem.”

Through the trial offer, companies and individuals can quickly and easily create full featured, branded online communities which deliver a compelling communication and collaboration experience for important internal and external audiences.

“In addition to supporting some of the largest and best known brands, we've seen a growing need for individuals and smaller companies to create custom online communities tailored to meet the demands of their audience. Many businesses with niche audiences and boutique offerings want a hosted service that is easy to administer and customize to meet their specific community needs. We listened to our customers and created the free trial with their feedback in mind,” said Mr. Walsh.

The CustomerConnect trial includes hosting up to 300 community members, access to LeverageLabs to build custom widgets, as well as email and phone support for 15 days.

Pricing and Availability
CustomerConnect for online communities and social networking is available as a monthly subscription starting at $299 per month and includes, phone and email support, hosting up to 300 community members and access to LeverageLabs. For special upgrade pricing to Leverage Software's enterprise-class solution, contact Sales at 415-602-7060.

About CustomerConnect
Leverage Software's CustomerConnect is a hosted service that gives businesses the ability to design and manage private-labeled customer and partner communities. Easy to customize, businesses can enhance their brand, connect with customers and glean valuable community insight by utilizing CustomerConnect's wide ranging feature set such as blogs, chat, file sharing, personal profile pages, discussion forums, file and discussion rating system. Available as a monthly or annual subscription service, CustomerConnect offers businesses a way to engage with their audience by giving their customer's a voice.

About Leverage Software
With innovative enterprise 2.0 and knowledge management solutions, Leverage Software provides companies and organizations with scalable services to host and foster employee, customer, and partner communities where members can meet, build relationships, contribute content, and share ideas while giving companies a way to boost revenue and glean valuable insight to increase customer and employee satisfaction.

Leverage Software can be found powering the online communities and social networks for over 150 companies including Microsoft, Sun, HP, Salesforce.com, Charles Schwab, McKesson, Nielsen Media, InfoWorld, and The New York Times. For more information, visit www.leveragesoftware.com

Media Contact :
Anna Johnson
Leverage Software
anna@leveragesoftware.com
(510) 387-2646

Pam Preston
Breakaway Communications
ppreston@breakawaycom.com
(212) 616-6001

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