CHARLOTTE – Interactive marketing agency WebsiteBiz (www.websitebiz.com) was honored as a finalist for the 2009 Charlotte Regional Ethics in Business Award, sponsored by the Charlotte Chapter of the Society of Financial Service Professionals. The award recognizes businesses that demonstrate a commitment to ethical business practices in everyday operations, management philosophies, response to challenges, treatment of employees and to involvement in civic and environmental concerns.

“We are honored to have been named a finalist for the Charlotte Regional Ethics in Business Award,” says Eric Dudley, president of WebsiteBiz. “We strive to exhibit the highest of ethical standards in all that we do as individuals and as a company.”

In its ninth year locally, the Charlotte Regional Ethics In Business Award is sponsored by the Society of Financial Service Professionals, a national organization of more than 17,000 credentialed insurance and financial service professionals who are active in nearly 200 chapters nationwide. Partners include Piedmont Natural Gas, Better Business Bureau, Belk College of Business Administration at University of North Carolina - Charlotte, Queens University of Charlotte, Johnson C. Smith University, and ClickCom.