Yola Announces Pro Package and Premium Styles Store for Users Needing Advanced Features

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Oct 29 (MARKET WIRE) --
Yola Inc., one of the nation's largest free website builders, today
announced the introduction of Yola Pro, a package of premium services
geared towards the needs of power users, and its Premium Styles Store,
with 18 new professionally-designed templates that bring an extra edge to
users' sites.

With the introduction of Yola Pro, $49.95 per year, and the Premium
Styles, a $29.95 one-time fee per template, Yola is implementing the next
stage of its freemium business model by providing value-added services
that users can choose to purchase on top of its free services.

"Our plan has always been to monetize with premium services, but for the
first year our focus was on building the best free site builder on the
market and perfecting the infrastructure to support it," said Vinny
Lingham, CEO and founder of Yola. "With a great product you get great
customers and we've built a strong community of Yola users -- over 2.5
million strong and growing rapidly -- who have been vocal about the
advanced features they're craving. Now, it's an ideal time and an ideal
situation; we're able to introduce new offerings that keep us on track
with our profitability goals and offer new features our users' desire."

The Yola Pro package provides the advanced features power users need to
build a professional site with a single purchase. For less than $50 per
year, users receive: 100MB file uploads; Yola footer removal; a Yola
premium style; over $50 in advertising and stock photo credits; and the
ability to create more sites with more storage.

Yola Free users can still take advantage of Yola's robust free offering,
the easy-to-use site building tool with a variety of templates, more than
60,000 widgets, a blogging platform and ad-free hosting.

Yola also announced today the launch of its Small Business Resource
Center, a central, free resource that has all of the tools small
businesses need to build a successful online presence. To celebrate the
kickoff, Yola also announced its Small Business Recovery Plan, a
sweepstakes giving more than $5,000 in goods and services including 10
Pro packages and 25 Premium Styles.

Examples of Stellar Yola Sites

Small Business: http://www.foreverljung.com/
Non Profit: http://www.australianageofdinosaurs.com/
Education: http://www.northwoodroom1.com/
Tourism: http://hexham.info/
Personal: http://www.hannahandalex.com/

Social Media Links:

-- Yola's Blog: http://blog.yola.com
-- Yola's Twitter Feed: http://twitter.com/yola
-- Vinny Lingham's Blog: http://www.vinnylingham.com/

About Yola, Inc.

Yola offers a free website creation tool that empowers small businesses,
non-profits and everyday users to easily create professional quality
websites. Yola's intuitive drag and drop technology enables users to
easily incorporate a variety of content including YouTube videos, Google
Maps, PayPal shopping carts and many more without needing any technical
skills. Privately-held Yola, backed by Reinet Fund, is the recipient of
numerous industry accolades including The Industry Standard 100, a Fast
Company Fast 50 Reader Favorite and BusinessWeek's 50 Best Tech Startups.
The company is headquartered in San Francisco, Calif. For additional
information, please visit www.yola.com or call 415-227-0250.

Media Contacts:
Randy Almond
Yola, Inc.
(415) 227-0250
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Nicole Colwell
Connecting Point Communications
(415) 442-4022
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