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No. 243 Wpromote El Segundo, CA

	Year	2008
	Industry	Advertising & Marketing
	Founded	2001
	Growth	1,076.4%
	2004 Revenue	$530,664
	2007 Revenue	$6.2 million
	Employees	40
	Website	www.wpromote.com

What it does:
Wpromote is a marketing company that uses proprietary software to help clients generate leads, gain customers, and increase sales through online search engines.

Why it's growing:
The market for search engine optimization and advertising is growing, paralleling the growth and acceptance of Google as an advertising program. The company's software product, Essential PPC, allows it to serve medium-sized national businesses like Wine.com that require complex, national campaigns, as well as local small business professionals like private-practice dentists who hope to find a few new customers.

What's noteworthy:
The office foosball table has become an obsession. Employees walk by each other's cubicles and wiggle their hands in the air as if signing, "Are you ready to motorcycle?" The movement is, of course, a silent challenge to a game of foosball.