Visa and Facebook get together


	Visa and Facebook get together

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6-25-2008 3:00 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7011c528-854f-4971-bc48-bf879f5871f2/13818B05-BDB9-4E0D-ABF1-8BCE1411D188/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=27542" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=27542" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sfgate.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=27542"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.sfgate.com/img/30C6F180-DC51-4E0B-81B5-19D68C958480" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=27542"><H2>Because life takes Visa... and Facebook</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=27542"><P>Visa is teaming up with Facebook, investing $2 million in advertising and introducing a social networking application for small business owners.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=27542"><P>Visa plans to announce today that it is launching an application on Facebook for small business owners to connect with one another and to use Facebook to find new customers. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=27542"><P>To promote the campaign, Visa is offering a $100 Facebook advertising credit to the first 20,000 small business owners that sign up for the network. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=27542"><P>Palo Alto's Facebook introduced business profile pages on the site last year, with corporations such as Target and Blockbuster signing up and attracting Facebook users as its "fans." The Facebook business profile pages also have drawn 80,000 small businesses, Visa said. "That appears to be the single biggest online community of small businesses," said Alex Craddock, Visa's head of small business marketing, and one of the reasons Visa picked Facebook over other social networking sites.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/13818B05-BDB9-4E0D-ABF1-8BCE1411D188/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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