About Our Sponsors:
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ATG provides the e-commerce platform and e-commerce optimization services that the world's most customer-conscious companies use to power their e- commerce web sites, attract prospects, convert them to buyers and ensure their satisfaction so they become loyal, repeat, profitable customers. Our e-commerce suite is ranked the #1 current offering and #1 in strategy by the industry's most influential analyst firms, and powers more of the top 300 internet retailers than any other vendor. Our eStara brand provides e-commerce optimization solutions to enhance conversions and customer support, and delivers the world's most widely used click to call service. ATG's solutions are used by over 900 major brands, including Amazon, AT&T, Best Buy, Bulgari, Coca Cola, Continental Airlines, CVS, Dell, Diane von Furstenberg, DirecTV, eLuxury, El Corte Ingles, Expedia, France Telecom, Harvard Business School Publishing, Hewlett-Packard, Hilton, HSBC, Intuit, Jenny Craig, Louis Vuitton, Macy's, Mercedes Benz, Meredith, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, New York & Company, Nokia, NutriSystem, OfficeMax, PayPal, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Sears, Sony, Symantec, Target, T-Mobile, Tommy Hilfiger, Urban Outfitters, Verizon, Viacom, Vodafone and Walgreens. |
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BD-BrandProtect, the leader in online threat protection, empowers organizations to gain control over how they are represented online. The company's services help organizations detect, uncover and take down online threats to their brands, such as phishing, fraud, copyright infringement, web traffic diversion and more. By combining advanced technology and around the clock human analysis, BD-BrandProtect filters, reports and takes action on the threats that present the most risk to a brand. The company has relationships with more than 2,000 Internet Service Providers globally that account for more than 85 percent of the traffic flowing across the Internet. Founded in 2001, BD-BrandProtect is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in the United States, Singapore and London. For more information: www.bdbrandprotect.com |
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Quick, easy, secure Bill Me Later is trusted by millions of consumers and used by hundred of leading retailers to improve their customer purchase experience, acquire new customers, increase sales and average order value, while lowering interchange costs. Using its real-time credit decisioning platform and its suite of multichannel payment alternatives, Bill Me Later, Inc. is expert at helping merchants to deploy and market payments as a way to improve customer experience and increase customer sales and loyalty. |
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Concierge.com is the only Web site that helps readers make the first, most importantdecision relating to any trip: Where should I go? Through a combination of constantly updated guides to the world’s top destinations and interactive tools allowing users to find the perfect place to match their tastes, Concierge.com is an invaluable resource for anyone planning a vacation. |
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createthe group, is the leading interactive agency supporting the finest fashion and luxury brands online, headquartered in New York with an office in Milan. createthe group's clients include Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Burberry, Marc Jacobs, Gucci, David Yurman, Tom Ford, Krug, Donna Karen, Frette, St Regis and Stella McCartney. They have recently started working with several other major brands in the US and Italy including Calvin Klein,Fendi, Prada, Armani, and the New York Times T Magazine. createthe group provides strategic, creative and technology services, and Web 2.0 software solutions including ecommerce platform and web content management solutions. |
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Critical Mass is an interactive marketing agency that helps the world’s leading companies use digital channels to express their brands, delight customers and drive results. Ranked an interactive leader by Forrester Research for 3 consecutive years, our clients include Dell, Mercedes-Benz USA, Procter & Gamble, Rolex, Global Hyatt, and many others. Founded in 1995, Critical Mass has offices in Calgary, Toronto, Chicago, New York, Las Vegas, Austin, Geneva and London. |
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Demandware provides the only fully customizable, enterprise-class, on-demand ecommerce platform, optimized for high-growth brands that want to accelerate their online revenue. The Demandware eCommerce Platform offers the merchandising control, flexibility, functionality and interoperability of a full ecommerce application suite, with the benefits of an on-demand delivery model, including hands-free upgrades and world-class data centers. No other ecommerce solution approaches the breadth, depth and quality of Demandware’s best-in-class merchandising, including catalog management, price books, promotions, and ecommerce search. Demandware’s customers include Bare Escentuals, HP, House of Fraser, Playmobil, Sally Beauty Supply and Timberland. |
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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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FitForCommerce helps online businesses formulate their ecommerce strategy, benchmark website capabilities against best practice, define functional and technical requirements, design workflows and custom features, and then facilitates the RFP and vendor selection process. As experts in the strategy and tactics of implementing new or replacement ecommerce technologies, our team act as coaches and provide the expertise, extra legwork or diligence needed to ensure a thorough process and ‘best-fit’ decision. FitForCommerce’s unique eCommerce Diligence™ process and toolkit enables rigorous evaluation and knowledge-based decision-making. Outputs include site evaluations, detailed requirements and workflow diagrams, distributable RFP, long list and short list of providers, best-fit recommendations. Additionally, FitForCommerce can provider provide implementation coaching services, facilitating the process or performing legwork necessary to manage a successful project. |
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Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com. |
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As the only strategic marketing firm focused exclusively on the high-net-worth segment, HNW creates interactive marketing solutions for leading luxury brands and financial service firms.
"Instead of being all things to all clients, HNW was created to bring targeted solutions to marketers serving an elusive niche segment."
-Stacey Haefele, President
Our focused expertise, coupled with rigorous strategic thinking and unbridled creativity, provide a unique advantage in developing communications that attract, retain and monetize the desirable high-net-worth customer-and empower the intermediaries who work with these individuals. Clients include Sotheby's, Tiffany & Co., Vail Resorts, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley |
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IBM's experience in e-commerce, business consulting, and technology can help retailers apply innovation and differentiate themselves to meet the needs of the on demand era: delivering a superior multichannel customer experience and driving operational excellence. For more information about IBM WebSphere Commerce, please visit: ibm.com/websphere/commerce. |
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Ideeli.com is the first red-rope online shopping community that provides luxury brands with an innovative way to efficiently reach – and more importantly, engage – large numbers of potential customers among the affluent and the aspirational. ideeli’s multi-platform shopping experience combines contemporary technologies and trends – social networking, shopping as entertainment, mobile messaging, multiuser game play, personal shopping – to increase the possibilities for brand awareness and adhesion. ®The shopping community, launched in 2007, works with brand partners by operating limited-time sales for both current and past season merchandise as well as frequent giveaways – turning sale and giveaway merchandise into advertising. ideeli’s foundation is marketing luxury fashion brands, but its model also supports other luxury segments such as prestige beauty, automotive and high-end travel. Ideeli, Inc. is based in New York and the executive team is comprised of seasoned Internet and fashion executives. ideeli is backed by Kodiak Venture Partners and prominent angel investors. |
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MarkMonitor, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, offers comprehensive solutions and services that safeguard brands, reputation and revenue from online risks. With end-to-end solutions that address the growing threats of online fraud, brand abuse and unauthorized channels, MarkMonitor enables a secure Internet for businesses and their customers. The company’s exclusive access to data combined with its real-time prevention, detection and response capabilities provide wide-ranging protection to the ever-changing online risks faced by brands today. |
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Martens & Heads! is a modern executive search organization, designed to fulfill both the domestic and international needs of image-driven brands in the fashion, retail, luxury, and beauty industries. All of their consultants have experience working in either the US, Europe, or both, and have an indepth understanding of their industries. The firm’s mission is to elevate executive search from a service to an alliance, partnering to understand the hidden opportunities and challenges in your business, while providing key individuals from the best and brightest global talent available. They are well positioned to meet all consulting and organizational needs, with offices and representatives based in the most appropriate markets for their expertise, including online and e-commerce markets. Martens & Heads! – Search With Imagination...Globally! |
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Specializing in luxury brand marketing, McMurry offers integrated marketing, advertising, online, public relations, custom media and database management services to a variety of clientele, including The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., Island Global Yachting, and Genworth Financial. McMurry serves global clients from New York to Hong Kong, covering industries from couture to real estate with communication programs targeted to the affluent market. The brand awareness we've created for our luxury clients gives their clientele, passengers, guests and consumers the once-in-a-lifetime adventures, out-of-this-world cuisine and at-your-service pampering they expect. The marketing programs we've created have helped build brand awareness and customer loyalty en route to winning more than 1,100 creative and marketing awards to date. |
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Morpheus Media markets luxury brands like no other interactive agency. With an unparalleled depth of online luxury marketing experience, Morpheus delivers customized marketing strategies and precise execution of advertising campaigns, befitting marks of distinction. Skillfully negotiated, rooted in sound analysis and artfully deployed, our online campaigns consistently surpassed our clients' goals while continuing to protect the integrity of the brands we serve. From the mainstays of paid search, display advertising and SEO to the more nuanced ever-changing world of Social Media, our clients trust us to provide them with the fruits of our insight and wisdom in the manner best suited to achieve their objectives and guard their brands. Our dedication has benefited us with clients such as Neiman Marcus, Giorgio Armani, L'Oreal, H.Stern, The New York Times, Diane vonFurstenberg, Lord & Taylor, and many more. For more information on Morpheus Media, please email us at info@morpheusmedia.com or visit our website, www.morpheusmedia.com. |
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As the leading provider of independent investment research, individual investors, financial professionals and institutional clients come to Morningstar.com® to research stocks, funds, ETFs, options and learn about new investment ideas. Investors trust Morningstar for their financial needs. Advertisers can target their message to affluent visitors and members of Morningstar.com® by geography, behavior, domain, ticker and more. Morningstar.com's demographics make us the perfect site for advertising financial information, luxury goods, travel, auto and leisure activities. For more information about Morningstar, or to advertise on Morningstar.com® please call 312.616.7868 or visit our online media kit at: http://www.morningstar.com/AboutUs/MediaKit.html |
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Shoppers who research online but prefer to purchase in-store are quickly becoming the biggest phenomenon on the Internet today. This trend is growing faster than online sales, and will influence over $1 trillion in annual purchasing by 2012. NearbyNow helps retailers and brands address this opportunity with Internet and mobile solutions that allows shoppers to find any product or brand near them at any time, and even put items on hold to pick up. It is a fast and easy way to reach nearby shoppers with “high intent to buy” that existing Web sites cannot convert. |
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PayPal is the safer, easier way to pay and get paid online. The service allows anyone to pay in any way they prefer, including through credit cards, bank accounts, buyer credit or account balances, without sharing financial information. PayPal has quickly become a global leader in online payment solutions with more than 141 million accounts worldwide. Available in 190 markets and 17 currencies around the world, PayPal enables global ecommerce by making payments possible across different locations, currencies, and languages. |
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PFSweb provides no-compromise end-to-end eCommerce solutions for leading online retailers. Specializing in globally recognized premium brands across luxury cosmetics, apparel, jewelry and collectibles, PFSweb supports over 45 clients throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. Visit our booth to learn more about our best-in-class eCommerce technology platform, brand-centric eFulfillment, high- touch customer care and interactive marketing services. |
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Proclivity Systems develops innovative solutions that provide predictive insight into consumer behavior – knowledge that empowers high-performance, targeted marketing and merchandising programs. Proclivity Systems’ central revenue optimization platform, Proclivity, provides clients a new corporate asset: the consumer behavior bank. The bank provides clients with profound knowledge about their customers’ shopping interests, purchasing likelihoods and level of expenditure for any potential offer, helping them to make critical business decisions while also providing the mechanism to immediately target across various channels and maximize potential revenue. The company’s flagship product, Proclivity Mail™, capitalizes on the consumer behavior bank’s intelligence to accurately forecast consumer purchasing behavior around targeted email campaigns. |
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Range Online Media is a leading search and interactive marketing agency that delivers measurable success through comprehensive, online marketing services, including paid search marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), online media placement and emerging media, strategic planning, performance optimization and more. We currently offer strategic leadership and campaign management services to Nike, Accor Hotels North America, Neiman Marcus, The Container Store, Toshiba, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and many other smart clients. We were proud to have been named to the 2007 top 20 search marketing agencies in America by AdAge and to Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 5,000 list of fastest growing private companies in 2006. Range has also received the highest average client satisfaction rating in the paid search industry by Jupiter Research for the last four consecutive years. Rangeis headquartered in Texas and has offices in New York, California, Utah and Canada. Please visit our website at www.RangeOnlineMedia.com. |
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RGM, Razavi Global Media, provides site-specific media representation to a group of premium online publishers, which are leaders in their respective niches. RGM works closely with its advertising clientele to create unique, customized solutions, building brands and driving results. Serving as more than a standard rep firm RGM also provides creative services and strategic guidance, producing custom technologies and platforms to launch brands. With offices in Venice, Santa Monica, San Francisco, and New York, RGM has its finger on the pulse of the dynamic online environment, constantly innovating to create value for it’s partners.
For further information please visit: www.razaviglobal.com |
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Scene7 (www.scene7.com), part of Adobe Systems Incorporated, provides the leading on-demand rich media platform that enables online businesses to enhance customer experience while streamlining dynamic content publishing to any channel. Scene7 solutions - Dynamic Imaging, eCatalogs, Product Configurators, eVideos, Targeted Email & Print and Image Management – are available as software and on-demand. Leading companies worldwide have selected Scene7, including Amazon, Harrods, Otto UK, Macy's, Office Depot, Levi Strauss & Co., La-Z-Boy and QVC. |
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Spire is a private, online lifestyle resource for people with discerning tastes. On Spire, the collective knowledge of experts and enthusiasts come together to provide answers and share tips on everything from traveling to Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast to setting up a charitable trust. Members seek advice and share experiences with each other on a range of lifestyle topics and enjoy exclusive access to an e-library of vetted, brief files with smart information and inspiration on the world’s best hotels, restaurants, spas, services, and more. Spire is headquartered in Boston, MA with editorial offices in New York City and London. |
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Style.com and Men.style.com are the definitive online fashion destinations. Combiningdesign with world-class editorial, Style.com and Men.Style.com offer comprehensive runway coverage, reports on seasonal trends, the latest fashion news, shopping guides, and informed takes on the intersection between style and pop culture. “With Style.com, fashion’s icons can tap an in-house staff that was created specifically to help them make the digital transition,” (Business Week, 9/25/06). |
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Vcommerce is the industry leader in Enterprise eCommerce Solutions for online and multi-channel retailers and direct-to-consumer companies that require a total end-to-end eCommerce solution, order management and fulfillment or storefront marketing and merchandising expertise. Proven with leading online retailers for nearly a decade, Vcommerce solutions allow clients to expand their online retail enterprise rapidly and cost effectively while retaining control over business processes, branding and the total customer experience. Recognized for its online retailing expertise, platform flexibility and scalability and low-risk methodology for enabling eCommerce, Vcommerce is SAS70 Type II and PCI Level I certified. Vcommerce clients include Target.com, Overstock.com, eToys Direct, Ritz Interactive, MTV Networks, Sony and Newegg.com. For more information, please visit www.vcommerce.com or call 480.922.9922. |
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Venda delivers on-demand eCommerce solutions to some of the world’s leading retailers and manufacturers, including DeBeers, Crabtree & Evelyn, Oki- Ni, Urban Outfitters and others. The company’s complete eCommerce platform combines flexibility, reliability and scalability with the operating advantages of an outsourced service. Multi-lingual and multi-currency capable, Venda’s B2B, B2C and B2E solutions provide “best of the web” capabilities to mid-tier and Fortune 1000 companies. With offices in New York, London and Bangkok, the Company is managed by a team of eCommerce veterans with more than 50 years of experience in online businesses. |
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VIPdesk is the award-winning pioneer of home-based virtual contact center solutions for over 60 global brand leaders committed to enhancing their performance in the retail, financial services, automotive, and travel industries. Our best-in-class Brand Ambassador™ and Concierge screening and certification processes ensure that the most highly-educated, experienced representatives serve as a seamless extension of our client’s brand. Our QA tools and processes ensure continually improving results and our PCI-compliant technologies ensure the most secure environment possible for client interactions. VIPdesk’s prestigious clients realize improved customer satisfaction scores, average order size and overall financial performance while realizing an unmatched economic value. |
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