NORWALK, CT, May 27, 2009 -- Webloyalty.com (www.webloyalty.com), a leading provider of incremental revenue for online businesses, today announced that Fandango, the nation's leading moviegoer destination, selected Webloyalty’s CheckoutFree platform as its solution of choice to help increase purchase conversion rates. CheckoutFree is the platform developed by Lift Media, a company acquired by Webloyalty in June 2008.
Designed for e-commerce companies, CheckoutFree can also help minimize site and shopping cart abandonment and provide an alternative method of paying for goods and services.
“Fandango keeps its customers at the center of everything we do,” said Fandango CEO Chuck Davis. “The CheckoutFree platform provides us with an innovative way to help our customers with alternative, value-added methods of paying for movie tickets – just in time for the summer blockbusters.”
In a survey of U.S. consumers who recently made a considered purchase, Forrester Research calculates the percentage of consumers who started their research online, researched the product online only and then went on to make a purchase to be 23 percent (“How Consumers Actually Shop for Retail Products Across Channels,” May 2008).
Webloyalty’s CheckoutFree platform helps minimize site and shopping cart abandonment by enabling consumers to make purchases for free, or at significant discounts, if they agree to try or purchase just one of the hundreds of products and services offered by Webloyalty’s advertisers. In addition to capturing abandoned sales and elevating purchase conversion rates for online merchants, the solution also benefits consumers with buy-one-ticket-get-one-free purchase options and advertisers with help in securing new, high-value customers.
“Webloyalty is glad to expand the scope and depth of our relationship with Fandango to include our CheckoutFree platform,” said Rick Fernandes, CEO and co-founder, Webloyalty.com. “Through CheckoutFree, Webloyalty is providing a solution that helps e-commerce companies generate incremental revenue while providing consumers with a creative solution for making purchases.”
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About Webloyalty
Webloyalty.com (www.webloyalty.com) provides more than 150 e-commerce sites with solutions for generating incremental revenue by driving traffic, minimizing site and shopping cart abandonment, offering alternative payment methods, cross-selling additional merchandise and encouraging repeat business. Headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, Webloyalty has more than 475 employees in 8 different locations across the US and in Europe.
Additional information on Webloyalty is available at www.webloyalty.com (www.webloyalty.com). Details on the company’s community outreach efforts are available at Webloyalty.org (www.webloyalty.org). For customer service inquires, please contact 1-800-732-7031 or customerservice@webloyalty.com.
Press Contact:
Beth Kitchener
Webloyalty
Tel – 203-295-2624
Email – beth.kitchener@webloyalty.com
New York (May 14, 2009) - In a shock bucking of the conference and tradeshow trend, the eTail organizers reported that registrations from retailers are up 20% year on year.
“We are seeing registrations coming in solidly every week, matching results from 2006, and far exceeding 2007 and 2008 numbers.” said Jarrett Spagnoli, Executive Director of eTail Summer. “When we survey attendees during the registration process, 93% respond that the content provided at eTail is the key driver in influencing registration. In fact, delegates say that in this environment, the practical takeaways that speakers at eTail give are critical to justify attendance. Benchmarking data is extremely difficult to obtain, and the networking at eTail helps retailers get more ideas for both revenue generation as well as cost effective lead generation strategies. Just one idea gleaned at the conference could be the difference between profit and loss during Holiday 2009.”
The eTail conference has been running since 1999. The conference has helped retailers survive the dotcom bust, prosper during the subsequent uptick, and is now helping them remain profitable during the recession. It is the one “must attend” event in the multi channel retailer’s calendar.
eTail Baltimore will showcase 71+ “Retailer” thought leaders from Fortune 500 companies like Home Depot, Dell and Sears. Notably, Michael Cooper, VP Specialty Channels from Home Depot will show you how to create a multi-channel strategy that unites your channels and supports the customer experience; and Sean MacDonald, Director, Global Online Communities for Dell examines how to utilize social networking tools to build a richer engagement and create a fully-vested relationship with the customer.
The east coast eTail event will be held in Baltimore in 2009. For more information on the program and speakers, please contact Jarrett Spagnoli, Conference Director at jspagnoli@wbresearch.com
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CHICAGO and ALLENTOWN, Pa. (May 13, 2009) - INetU Managed Hosting (www.inetu.net) and Trustwave (www.trustwave.com) have partnered to deliver a security program for merchants seeking compliance with the PCI DSS, HIPAA, and other standards in a managed hosting environment. Together, INetU’s industry-leading managed hosting services and Trustwave’s managed security solutions put merchants who engage both companies in an excellent position to validate compliance with the PCI DSS and other regulatory standards.
The new security program provides:
INetU’s Managed Hosting Services: INetU takes a uniquely consultative approach to helping clients with compliance needs. While working with the customer, INetU’s security experts design a managed hosting solution that addresses their compliance needs. Experts help choose the right firewalls, network devices, and server hardening practices that put their hosted servers in compliance with best security practices. INetU is validated PCI DSS compliant and is SAS 70 Type II certified.
TrustKeeper®: Trustwave's on-demand compliance management service, TrustKeeper, detects and alerts you of security flaws at your network perimeter and provides guidance to address these exploits. It also provides the necessary tools to support on-going compliance with several industry and regulatory standards, including external vulnerability scanning.
Trustwave Managed IPS: Trustwave Intrusion Prevention System positions state-of-the-art technology at your network choke points that examine traffic passing through at the application layer. It then continuously scans your network to identify assets, self-tuning to provide defense against only those attacks that threaten specific systems and vulnerabilities on your network. Tustwave's IPS intelligently integrates vulnerability identification and intrusion prevention into a single appliance.
Trustwave Network Security Monitoring: Trustwave's NSM service features a staff of highly trained security engineers that monitor systems 24x7 to provide continuous, expert analysis with minimal false positive reports. Automated analytics and correlation technologies constantly observe security events identified in log stream and monitor trends and patterns for indications of unusual or suspicious activity.
“Our partnership with Trustwave helps us deliver a more complete solution to clients who are handling sensitive data,” says Dev Chanchani, president of INetU. “With the combined expertise of INetU and Trustwave, our clients have the right tools to tackle any compliance concerns.”
“Our managed security services are the ideal solution for any organization looking to implement a more robust data security program to protect key information assets and comply with industry and regulatory standards for the protection of data,” says Robert J. McCullen, chairman and CEO of Trustwave. “This partnership should encourage INetU merchants to move beyond compliance by incorporating security best practices into their organization’s daily security practices.”
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About INetU Managed Hosting
INetU (pronounced I Net You) is a Managed Hosting Provider located in Allentown, PA, USA (www.inetu.net). Dedicated to building long-term relationships with its clients, INetU supports many popular Web applications and provides high availability hosting for Enterprise Web sites in the Online Retail, Healthcare, Financial Services, SaaS, Web Development, Education, Government, Consulting, Non-Profit. INetU has scored above 95% customer satisfaction over the last four consecutive years of testing.
About Trustwave
Trustwave is the leading provider of on-demand and subscription-based information security and payment card industry compliance management solutions to businesses and government entities throughout the world. For organizations faced with today's challenging data security and compliance environment, Trustwave provides a unique approach with comprehensive solutions that include its flagship TrustKeeper® compliance management software and other proprietary security solutions. Trustwave has helped thousands of organizations—ranging from Fortune 500 businesses and large financial institutions to small and medium-sized retailers—manage compliance and secure their network infrastructure, data communications and critical information assets. Trustwave is headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout North America, South America, Europe, Africa, China and Australia. For more information, visit https://www.trustwave.com/
New York (PRWEB) March 26, 2009 – The east coast eTail event is putting its money where its mouth is. At a time when online retail executives need to maximize every aspect of their businesses, eTail Baltimore will leverage its intimate setting to facilitate more brainstorming and networking than ever before.
Last year, the event welcomed 800+ retail executives to Washington DC and 59solution providers, a deliberate reduced service provider ratio against attendees to ensure a non-tradeshow experience for networking and knowledge sharing. This year, eTail Baltimore will take things one step further with an entire stream focused on retailer-to-retailer idea sharing – other industry events simply cannot pull this off because of the logistics of managing such large crowds. Plus, only 10-15% of all speakers on the agenda will be solution providers – ensuring that every session delivers key retailer insights and take-aways.
Over the course of four days, specialty forums and workshops, designed to drive results among niches within the delegation, offer a focused environment for solution-defining discussion and an intimate setting to benchmark against peers.
New to the eTail Baltimore 2009 program, features included:
- Extended CEO & CMO/SVP Workshops - Two separate and focused workshops by invitation only.
- Expanded Card Swap for the entire delegation – This ensures that you meet 30 new executives within the first morning of the event.
- Networking Workshop – For the first time at eTail, a retailer-only idea sharing workshop during the day’s events. In just over an hour, every retailer gets to ask 5 pressing questions to over 15 other retailers – seats will be limited.
- Holiday Workshop – Holiday 2009 will be more pivotal to the success of online retailers than ever before. August is the perfect time to rework your holiday strategy – we make sure you capture every dollar in this critical year.
- Retailer-Led Think Tanks – Back by popular demand, these topic-segmented roundtables offer brainstorming opportunities at the end of each day.
eTail Baltimore will showcase 71+ “Retailer” thought leaders from Fortune 500 companies like Home Depot, Dell and Sears. Notably, Michael Cooper, VP Specialty Channels from Home Depot will show you how to create a multi-channel strategy that unites your channels and supports the customer experience; and Sean MacDonald, Director, Global Online Communities for Dell examines how to utilize social networking tools to build a richer engagement and create a fully-vested relationship with the customer.
The east coast eTail event will be held in Baltimore in 2009. For more information on the program and speakers, please contact Jarrett Spagnoli, Conference Director at jspagnoli@wbresearch.com
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