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About Our Sponsors
Lead Sponsors
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ChannelAdvisor helps retailers maximise their profits across multiple e-commerce channels – including marketplaces like eBay and Amazon; comparison shopping sites like Shopping.com, Shopzilla and Kelkoo; and across all the major search engines.
Designed exclusively for online retailers, our solutions enable businesses, both big and small to create, analyse and streamline e-commerce initiatives so they can sell more products, faster and achieve true, measurable ROI without costly IT investments.” ChannelAdvisor manages more than $4 billion in annualised GMV (gross merchandise value) on behalf of its 5,500 clients worldwide. ChannelAdvisor's customers include Brother, 3M, Schuh and Misco |
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ForeSee Results is the market leader in using online voice-of-customer data to help organizations increase sales, loyalty, recommendations and website value. Using the methodology of the University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), ForeSee Results identifies the improvements to websites and other online initiatives with the greatest ROI. With more than a quarter of a billion completed customer surveys to date, 30+ benchmarks, and nearly 600 online measures across dozens of industries, clients include Best Buy, Target, Sears, Borders, Newegg, Overstock, American Eagle and many more. www.ForeSeeResults.com |
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GlobalCollect is the leading Payment Service Provider of local payment solutions for international businesses with expertise in electronic payment methods for Customer Non-Present (CNP) businesses. GlobalCollect is more than a payment service provider and offers a full service. While most providers limit their payment services to a technical link with payment acquirers, GlobalCollect provides a complete service which includes the contractual and technical connections to local payment processors worldwide, bank account network management, payment matching, reporting and finally the fund remittance. Our online payment platform offers the largest range of local payment methods and currencies in over 200 countries including all major credit and debit cards, direct debits, bank transfers, real-time bank transfers, eWallets, cash at outlets, prepaid methods, checks, and invoices. |
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IBM has the industry experience, business consulting capabilities and technology to help retailers apply innovation and differentiate themselves to meet the needs of the on demand era: deliver a superior multi-channel customer experience, create demand driven merchandising & supply chain and drive operational excellence. For more information on IBM offerings for the Retail Industry, please visit us at ibm.com/retail. Integrate to Innovate. IBM. |
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LinkShare, a leading global provider of affiliate marketing solutions, provides ecommerce businesses with a powerful combination of expert account management services, patented technology, and the reach and distribution of a robust network. LinkShare's cost-efficient pay per action (PPA) affiliate, search and lead generation campaigns acquire new customers, increase revenue and drive results. LinkShare Ltd. clients include prominent companies doing business online, including Boden, Avon Products, Laura Ashley, British Airways, House of Fraser, LEGO, Bloomingdale's, Charles Tyrwhitt, and Figleaves. LinkShare was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Tokyo, San Francisco, Chicago and Tampa. LinkShare is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rakuten, Inc. |
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StrongMail Systems provides businesses with commercial-grade, onpremise solutions for marketing and transactional email. StrongMail integrates its proven email delivery, tracking and campaign management software on high-performance servers optimized for maximum deliverability. StrongMail's in-house solution allows customers to take control of their customer email and easily integrate with backend systems to deliver highly personalized messages in a secure, reliable and cost-effective environment. Only StrongMail enables its customers to centralize all bulk and event-triggered email on a single, complete platform that is built from the ground up to meet the unique needs of marketers and IT. |
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Tealeaf captures every online interaction, every time, giving you unprecedented visibility and insight into customer experience. Understanding "why" not only ensures that more transactions are successfully completed; it also enables your company to be more proactive and intuitive in servicing your customers. Tealeaf gives 30% of the largest online retailers the answers they need to drive measurable improvements and deliver significant competitive advantage. See how at www.tealeaf.com |
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Search & Analytics Day Sponsors
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Advertising.com is the world’s largest, most experienced online advertising solutions provider. We reach more unique visitors than any other network, delivering over 76 billion impressions globally every month. In the UK we see over 90 per cent of all internet users across our network an average of 300 times a month, representing the greatest reach ever recorded by comScore. Advertising.com aggregates inventory from brand name websites to provide mass reach for advertisers and maximum revenue for publishers. We provide quality, highstandard placement and consider our customer’s brands as valuable as our own. |
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DoubleClick is a provider of digital marketing technology and services. Many of the world's top marketers, publishers and agencies utilise DoubleClick's expertise in ad serving, rich media, video, search marketing and mobile advertising to help them make the most of the digital medium. DoubleClick’s Search solutions cover award winning search management technology alongside comprehensive search services. DART Search, our award winning search management technology powers campaigns for leading marketers and agencies helping them drive improved results. Our focus on search management, reporting and bid optimization tools allow marketers to easily improve efficiency and ROI. For more information on search technology or services please visit emea.doubleclick.com or email info_uk@doubleclick.com |
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Efficient Frontier (EF) manage more search spend than any other search marketing firm in the world, £250M + globally for advertisers including Match.com, Motley Fool, Lending Tree, Ask.com, M&S, Mothercare, Expedia, Travel Zoo, Euro Bookings, Ebookers and more. EF was the first company in world to patent and apply portfolio trading algorithms to the management of paid search. By building a mathematical model of search activity, EF accurately identify the relationship between max CPC, effective bid position and resultant revenues in opaque systems such as Google, MSN & Yahoo. EF clients typically see a 20-50% improvement in profitable volume and/or margins. |
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Interwoven, is a global leader in content management solutions which enable organisations to maximise online business performance. Solutions include web content management, marketing asset management, segmentation, targeting and website optimisation solutions.
Interwoven recently acquired Optimost, a Multivariable Optimization solution that helps marketers improve conversion rates through real-time optimisation. Optimost, identifies the most compelling combination of web content and design by exposing different combinations of online content elements to different visitors and then measuring visitors’ actions. Using Interwoven’s web content management solutions, marketing teams can then deploy, and continuously improve, the most effective presentation to subsequent visitors.
Over 4,200 of the world's leading companies, professional services firms, and governments have chosen Interwoven, including adidas, Airbus, Avaya, BT, Cisco, Citi, Channel4, FedEx, Hilton Hotels, HSBC, MasterCard, Microsoft, Samsung, Shell, Tesco and Virgin Mobile. |
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Lyris UK is a leading provider of online marketing software and services in the UK. Many of Lyris' customers such as www.net-a-porter.com and www.figleaves.com come from the retail community and Lyris UK is experienced in providing them with successful e-marketing tools, management and support. Lyris UK will showcase its flagship product, Lyris HQ, at eTail Europe 2008. This truly integrated online marketing tool enables users to manage and analyse effective online marketing campaigns.
Lyris HQ is an integrated software suite providing: email marketing software, web analytics from ClickTracks, pay-per-click (PPC) advertising management and web content management. Lyris HQ tracks and reports on customer behaviour and ROI across search, website, advertising and email marketing technologies. |
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Yesmail is a recognized industry-leading provider of online marketing solutions. Built on a solid core of innovative technology and strategic services, Yesmail boasts a complete portfolio in e-mail marketing tools and solutions, including direct marketing applications, data management, data intelligence, interactive applications and best practices consulting. Yesmail exceeds the expectations of Fortune 500, mid-size companies and small businesses worldwide and powers their strategies with award winning execution. Clients specializing in consumer products, retail, publishing, travel and finance are well served globally with solutions localized in single-byte and double-byte languages. Yesmail was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of InfoUSA. Yesmail corporate headquarters are located in Portland, Oregon, USA and has offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Omaha, Toronto and London. For more information visit www.yesmail.com or call +44 (0) 207.415.7735 |
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Premier Solution Zone Sponsors
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Truition is a global leader in providing eCommerce platform technology and services to online sellers. Through its On Demand eCommerce platform, Truition customers are able to increase online revenues and lower their total cost of eCommerce ownership. Truition is led by an experienced team of technology savvy business leaders, with sales and service professionals in the UK, North America and Germany. “Powered by Truition” sites include Phillips, Comet, buch.de, Sirius Satellite Radio, and Konami. |
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European Online retailers who want return business and increased revenue from their sites, are talking to Webloyalty who can guarantee do just that. Webloyalty offers online retailers a brand new revenue model enabling them to ‘monetise’ their websites by offering valuable online savings, and insurance programmes like: Shoppers Discounts & Rewards to their UK customers. Subscribers to this programme can enjoy up to 40% discount at over 450 e-retail sites, while retailers benefit from incremental revenue as Webloyalty pays them for each of their customers who join the programme. Webloyalty also incentivises customers to return to retailers’ websites, encouraging that all important repeat business. And now, with the expansion of Webloyalty into the French market and the launch of the Remises et Réductions online savings programme, Webloyalty applies it’s know-how to drive revenue for online retail clients across Europe, bringing fantastic cash-back value to programme subscribers. |
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Lanyard Sponsor
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Endeca’s innovative information access software powers the user experience of the world's most successful and demanding websites. More than 500 leading global organisations including Boots, Comet, Dabs.com, The Guardian, The Home Depot, Hyatt, Nike, Tesco and Walmart.com rely on Endeca to boost revenue, reduce costs and increase customer loyalty. |
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Bazaarvoice (www.bazaarvoice.co.uk) offers outsourced technology, hosting services, analytics and expertise to help brands enhance the online shopping experience with social commerce applications that drive sales. Launched by web analytics pioneer and Coremetrics founder Brett Hurt in the US in 2005, Bazaarvoice’s stable of over 160 clients include Hewlett Packard, Dell, Early Learning Centre, Office Depot, Inc. and figleaves.com. Bazaarvoice Ratings and Reviews and Ask & Answer™ products help brands to maximise the impact of user-generated review content through customisation, deep integration, community management, advanced analytics, search engine optimisation and syndication across the Web. Bazaarvoice’s services empower consumers to share honest opinions and influence each other to make more informed and rewarding purchase decisions. In 2006, Bazaarvoice was named Marketing Innovation of the Year in the US ClickZ Marketing Excellence Awards and was included in the “Red Herring 100 North America.” They were named to the “Red Herring 100 Global” in 2007. |
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COGNITION™ is a Brand Marketing + Design agency that helps client's harness the power of perception to influence customer response. Being brand focused, we seamlessly translate a brand’s greatness online to deliver a consistent user experience that heightens interaction and deepens loyalty. Our “strategic creativity” provides a sound, fresh, integrated approach to meeting today’s online marketing challenges. Web 2.0, WAP, SEO, Flash and PHP, are just a few interactive terms that play a part in achieving online success. COGNITION™ translates such jargon into world-class websites and e-marketing campaigns through design and programming that builds both buzz, and better business. |
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Powered by an integrated technology platform and supported by unique infrastructure and processes, eFashionSolutions offers comprehensive global eCommerce services tailored to the specific needs of brands in all fashion categories. Built on proprietary open architecture and best-of-breed technologies, the eFashionSolutions platform is based on fashion retail best practices and is fully integrated to support all services needed to manage and grow eCommerce businesses both nationally and internationally. Services offered include merchandise planning, design, photography and video production, eMarketing, customer service, order management & fulfillment, inventory optimization and business intelligence. eFashionSolutions clients include DKNY, Baby Phat, Ben Sherman, Playboy and Judith Leiber. |
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Optaros’ Ecommerce Practice designs Next Generation online shopping concepts that deliver superior business performance. The Optaros Assembly Methodology enables the rapid conceptualization and deployment of these new concepts. Clients choose to leverage existing systems or replace components in a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach. Optaros serves over 100 clients including Biogen Idec, Endeca, Merck/Serono, New York Times, Smart Bargains, Swisscom and many others. For more about Optaros, go to www.optaros.com. |
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PayPal enables any individual or business with an email address to securely and easily send and receive online payments using a bank account, credit card, debit card or stored balance.
We are a global leader in online payments who have over 140 million registered accounts worldwide (20 million in the UK). PayPal supports payments from 190 markets in 17 global currencies.
According to independent Forrester research, one in three UK online shoppers cite PayPal as their online payment method of choice. PayPal acceptance is proven to drive incremental sales for online retailers.*
PayPal can be integrated alongside existing payment systems or as a sole payment provider. We offer a range of solutions based on the size and needs of your business.
Join over a 100,000 online merchants across Europe, such as Boots, Harrods, Monarch Airlines, New Look and Dabs.com, by adding PayPal to your site. |
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Real TSP specialises in the design, development, management and marketing of online channels for retailers and consumer brands. The company focuses on both B2C and B2B solutions.
Uniquely Real TSP’s fees are tied to sales from their clients’ sites: this provides a strong incentive for Real TSP to continuously grow and develop the commercial success of the online business, whilst for those retailers making their debut into online sales, it ensures a low-risk entry. If a revenue share is not suitable, we offer a number of alternative commercial models.
The company’s services, which can be provided on an individual basis or bundled together to deliver a comprehensive growth strategy, include:
- Set up and maintenance of a sophisticated e-commerce platform
- Conception and delivery of high ROI online marketing and CRM campaigns
- Consultation and auditing to improve online operations
- Secondment of e-commerce managers to run online channels
Real TSP’s clients include Adams Kids, Boots, Jane Shilton, and Mountain Warehouse.
Whether you are looking to implement a transactional site for the first time or seeking ways to improve your online business, Real TSP has a solution. |
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