Want to Reach the World's Best Marketers?

Connections '09 offers companies an unmatched opportunity to reach the world's most sophisticated eMarketers by showcasing their products and services in our exhibit hall.  We're expecting more than 1,500 to join us for Connections '09, making the conference the largest gathering of eMarketers anywhere in the world.  

“Connections is simply a must-attend conference, and we want to use it to educate our own people and inspire our clients”

–Cara Olson, Manager of Targeted E-Marketing
Digital Evolution Group - Silver Sponsor

Sponsorship opportunities sold out quick last year, so be sure to check back frequently to learn how you can be a part of Connections '09.

Sponsorship packages are available.  Please email sponsors@exacttarget.com to receive a package.

 

Platinum Sponsor

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Omniture

Omniture Inc. is a leading provider of online business optimization software, enabling customers to manage and enhance online, offline, and multi-channel business initiatives. Omniture's software, which it hosts and delivers to its customers as an on-demand subscription service and on-premise solution, enables customers to capture, store, and analyze information generated by their websites and other sources and to gain critical business insights into the performance and efficiency of marketing and sales initiatives and other business processes. In addition, Omniture offers a range of professional services that complement its online services, including implementation, best practices, consulting, customer support and user training through Omniture University. Omniture's more than 4,500 customers include eBay, AOL, Wal-Mart, Gannett, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, Oracle, General Motors, Sony, and HP.

   

Gold Sponsor

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Aspen Marketing Services

Founded in 1986 and based in West Chicago, IL, Aspen Marketing Services has grown to become the largest independently owned marketing organization in the U.S. Aspen blends a  unique, single-source marketing model with extensive strategic, creative and production resources. Aspen provides market expertise across several verticals— automotive, telecom, financial services, insurance, CPG and retail promotion. Aspen’s clients include 23 of the Fortune 100 companies and its 2008 revenues exceeded  $330 million.

http://www.aspenms.com

 

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3PAR

3PAR® (NYSE: PAR) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized and dynamically tiered storage arrays built for utility and cloud computing. Our virtualized storage platform was built from the ground up to be agile and efficient, to address the limitations of traditional storage arrays, and to promote utility and cloud computing in the virtual datacenter. As a pioneer of thin provisioning and other storage virtualization technologies, we design our products to reduce power consumption, to help companies meet their green computing initiatives, and to cut storage total cost of ownership. 3PAR customers have used our self-managing, efficient, and adaptable utility storage systems to reduce administration time and provisioning complexity, to improve server and storage utilization, and to ease capacity and power requirements. Our utility storage systems give customers the ability to scale efficiently to support continuous growth and adapt rapidly to meet changing business needs. For more information, visit the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com

 

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Webtrends

Webtrends is an enterprise intelligence company that turns data into understanding. Founders of the web analytics industry in 1993, Webtrends crunches the numbers their customers care about most -- on their web sites, blogs, SEM campaigns, you name it -- to uncover business trends and competitive advantage. Webtrends delivers dedicated and experienced professional services.  With Webtrends, customers can expect quality customer service, integrated solutions, and simple, yet powerful technology.

http://www.webtrends.com

   

Silver Sponsor

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Aprimo

Aprimo is a leading provider of on-demand marketing software solutions that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of marketing organizations. Aprimo software manages online and offline marketing activities, financials, projects and assets, while improving execution of marketing campaigns and events.  Aprimo's on-demand applications can work individually to address a specific marketing issue or combine to provide an integrated suite.  Aprimo’s solutions accelerate the marketing productivity of hundreds of leading companies including Adobe, Bank of America, Cabela’s,  Ernst & Young, Honda, King Pharmaceutical, Pearson Education Ltd, Time Warner Cable-NY, Wal-Mart, and Warner Bros. For more information call +1.317.803.4300 or visit www.aprimo.com

 

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ATG

ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ: ARTG), a trusted, global specialist in e-commerce, has spent the last decade helping the world's premier brands maximize the success of their online businesses.
 
Services include:

  • ATG Commerce Suite - component-based architecture enables Shoppers to have a unique, personalized buying experience
  • ATG Optimization Services - e-commerce optimization solution to help companies maximize revenue & profits by optimizing online customer interaction  

ATG is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with additional locations throughout North America and Europe.

http://www.atg.com

 

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Certona

Certona is the creator of Resonance®, a real-time personalization and revenue optimization platform for multi-channel retailers. Resonance automates the ability to provide real-time, individualized experiences and personalized product recommendations that increase average order value and revenue per visit. With seven patents pending, the “self-optimizing” system is powered by sophisticated neural networks and a portfolio of algorithms to deliver real-time product, content, and promotional offers through multiple channels – email, web, call center, point-of-sale, and mobile.  Used by over 100 leading e-commerce sites across all popular verticals, Resonance has powered billions in purchases. For more information, visit www.certona.com

 

Digital Evolution

Digital Evolution Group

Digital Evolution Group is a full-service e-consultancy dedicated to helping its clients achieve success with intelligent Internet-focused solutions. We fuse design and engineering skill with the ability to translate business objectives into smart online strategies.
 
Digital Evolution Group is an ExactTarget Platinum partner and was named Agency Partner of the Year for 2008-2009.
 
Email Marketing Services include:

  • Integration with your backend systems and data sources
  • Configuration to get you setup and sending quickly
  • Full-Service Execution to reduce your staff’s burden 
  • Email Strategy that maximizes your ROI
  • Personalized Training & Support that you can count on

http://www.digitalev.com

 

Goodmail

Goodmail

Goodmail Systems is the creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard class of email. CertifiedEmail provides a safe and reliable means for consumers to easily identify authentic email messages from legitimate commercial and nonprofit email senders. Each CertifiedEmail is sent with a cryptographically secure token that assures authenticity and is marked in the inbox with a unique blue ribbon envelope icon, enabling consumers to visually distinguish email messages which are real and sent from email senders with whom they have a pre-existing relationship. Available to email senders meeting strict standards for best practices and low complaint rates, it is the only class of e-mail available that assures delivery of all opt-in e-mail messages to the inbox, with links and images automatically rendered intact, and embedded multi-dimensional applications like CertifiedVideo™ for streaming video, yielding measurable improvements in e-mail effectiveness. CertifiedEmail has been adopted by seven of the nation's top 10 email mailbox providers and is in use by 500 commercial, government and non-profit senders. It is supported in North America and Europe by a wide network of email platforms and service providers.

http://www.goodmailsystems.com/ 

 

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MarketingExperiments

MarketingExperiments helps marketers learn and apply research-tested optimization methods to improve ROI. A pioneering research lab dedicated to conducting experiments in marketing and sales processes, MarketingExperiments has developed the world's largest collection of optimization-related tests. These case studies, strategies and results are disseminated via the free MarketingExperiments Journal and blog, and through training courses and workshops. Today, with multiple optimization indices and formulas, MarketingExperiments partners with organizations ranging from Fortune 50 companies  to small businesses to drive breakthrough discoveries and “discover what really works” in optimization.

MarketingExperiments.com
@MktgExperiments 

 

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Neudesic

Neudesic is a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on Microsoft’s technology platform.  Neudesic’s technical and industry expertise empowers enterprises to enhance their technological capacity and respond to business opportunities with a greater level of efficiency.  Neudesic was established in 2001 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.  Neudesic offers its products and services nationwide with offices located throughout the United States, and a global presence based out of Hyderabad, India.  For more information about Neudesic’s products and services, call (800) 805-1805 or visit our website at www.neudesic.com

 

Prospectiv

Prospectiv

Prospectiv is a pioneer in online performance marketing with an expertise in driving email list growth by connecting women with brands. With more than 10 years of trusted experience and proven success in consumer acquisition, Prospectiv helps brands find the right subscribers for their email file.  As a well respected leader in consumer acquisition, Prospectiv creates performance-based campaigns that get Fortune 500 brands from companies like Disney, Pfizer and Proctor & Gamble interacting with their target consumers.  Prospectiv’s proprietary technology promises that every aspect of the campaign is measureable and proven to deliver a great ROI for advertisers.

http://www.prospectiv.com

 

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Restaurants.com

Integrating ExactTarget with Restaurant.com offers digital marketers flexible, automated incentive delivery solutions. Motivate customers and drive their behavior with valuable gift certificates from Restaurant.com. Valid at over 12,000 restaurants nationwide as well as select online retailers, Restaurant.com Gift Certificates provide clients of all sizes, from large corporations to local businesses with a flexible and customizable incentive. Their low cost, high value and many redemption options make Restaurant.com Gift Certificates more valuable than traditional incentive and promotional products.

Features:

  • Drive desired customer behavior from an email, direct mail or website with Restaurant.com Gift Certificates
  • Automate gift certificate distribution. Simply build your marketing program once and let it run.
  • Seamless integration ensures a positive customer experience

 

http://CorporateSales.Restaurant.com 

   

Bronze Sponsors

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Bamboo Cricket

Bamboo Cricket is a customer service solutions company that has developed proprietary technology to provide inbound email management and live customer chat software on a self-service basis or as a completely managed solution.  Headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida, the company also has offices in Toronto, Ontario.  For more information, please visit www.bamboocricket.com

 

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Baynote

Launched in 2006, Baynote delivers on-demand solutions for recommendations and social search. By automatically generating the best content and products, the Baynote Collective Intelligence Platform (CIP) increases online revenue, leads and impressions. Baynote serves over 4 billion recommendations each month to ecommerce, media, and enterprise customers, including Expedia, Intuit, Motorola, NASA, Symantec, TurboTax, The Knot, Urban Outfitters, US Appliance, and VMWare.

http://www.baynote.com

 

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Cantaloupe

Cantaloupe.tv offers a comprehensive, A-to-Z solution for marketing with video on the internet. The Cantaloupe video team specializes in producing authentic web video stories, while Cantaloupe’s online video platform, Backlight, extends the reach and value of every video. Backlight goes beyond the website, making it easy to integrate video with email campaigns, blogs, social networking sites, search engines, and even sales teams. With Cantaloupe.tv, organizational marketers are finally able to use video to strengthen relationships, boost conversions, and increase sales.

http://www.cantaloupe.tv

 

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Egenera

Egenera makes every data center a reliable dynamic data center, quickly and easily.  The company’s integrated enterprise data center solutions, powerful PAN Manager® software and professional services are trusted globally to deliver proven value through agility, reliability and availability. Egenera solutions and services guarantee wire-once, always-on, physical and virtual management across the data center with measurable savings. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices worldwide. For more information visit http://www.egenera.com, call 508-858-2600 or send email to info@egenera.com.

 

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MyBuys

MyBuys is the leading provider of personalized product recommendations for online retailers. The company builds deep profiles based on each individual shopper's behavior, then uses a patented portfolio of algorithms and real-time optimization to deliver the most relevant recommendations on the web and in all forms of email. MyBuys' clients are increasing average order value by 45%, improving conversion rates by 90%, and boosting overall online revenue 10-30%. Premier retailers—including Restoration Hardware, Golf Galaxy, Lancôme, Wine Enthusiast, Perfume.com, Hickey Freeman,  and Cost Plus/World Market—rely on MyBuys to deliver dynamic, personalized merchandising to their shoppers. Based in Redwood City, Calif., MyBuys is a privately held company.

http://www.mybuys.com

 

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PC Connection

For more than 26 years, PC Connection has operated on the belief that there’s a lot more to IT than just technology.  Our customer-centric approach focuses on your specific IT goals and challenges.  We work closely with you before, during, and after every purchase to make sure you get exactly what you need, when you need it.  This is why PC Connection is a Fortune 1000 Company and a leading technology provider nationwide, and for ExactTarget.

http://www.pcconnection.com

 

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SensorPro

SensorPro is a market leading on-line market research tool used by many of the world’s largest companies such as Pepsi, Unilever and P&G. These clients use the design once; deploy any where functionality of SensorPro to be able to create surveys that can be rendered on just about any on-line source.
These surveys give you the ability to gain significant insight which you can use to provide more relevant and useful information via segmentation and targeting as a result of the integration between ExactTarget and SensorPro.
For more information, please check out our ExactTarget's Extensions Network information page at http://pages.extensionsnetwork.com/exacttarget-extension?extension=1 

http://www.sensorpro.us

 

 

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Vontoo

Vontoo, Inc is a leading provider of Permission-Based Voice Marketing Solutions for 21st century customer communications. We help you deliver the power and emotion of the human voice to engage your audience and encourage them to respond. Vontoo provides the technology, know-how and FTC compliance expertise to allow marketers to add SMS, Voice Messaging, and Interactive Video to complement and supplement interactions with their customers.

Our web-based solutions :

  • Reduce customers’ overall marketing spend
  • Increase response rates
  • Grow sales and add value to each communication
  • Allow you to track your results

http://www.vontoo.com 

   

Media Sponsors

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1to1 Media

1to1 Media is dedicated to helping organizations realize the greatest value from their customer base. We provide resources that deliver relevant information on the latest thought leadership regarding customer strategy and marketplace trends. Led by 1to1 Magazine, our print, electronic and custom publications explore the best practices and trends from companies using customer initiatives to drive results. 1to1 Media is a division of Peppers & Rogers Group.

http://www.1to1media.com

 

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Definition 6

Definition 6 is an independent full-service interactive marketing and eCommerce agency that delivers proven solutions for challenger brands aggressively seeking business growth. Combining innovative marketing and ebusiness solutions, ranging from eCommerce and website design to rich media and Web 2.0 technology, with a consultative approach, Definition 6 ensures desired client outcomes are met. With solid infrastructure and web application development expertise, the firm helps bridge the gap between marketing and IT. Definition 6 maintains key partnerships with both Microsoft and Google, and generates real business results for clients such as VeriFone, Cox, La Quinta Inn & Suites, Carter’s and Wendy’s/Arby’s Group, Inc. For more information, visit http://www.Definition6.com

 

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Mighty Interactive

Founded in 2000, Mighty Interactive is a Digital Marketing Agency focused on improving our clients' results.  Our team has been providing Internet consulting since the inception of the medium in 1994. We've developed many national award-winning Web sites and online marketing campaigns. Before becoming involved in the Internet marketing revolution, our staff hailed from traditional marketing backgrounds. We're not geeks; we're business people.  Several of our projects have won national awards for Internet marketing excellence. Those trophies look nice and we like to celebrate them. But, they're a hassle to dust, and what we're really about is making our clients money online, not hunting for awards.  We're also a division of Off Madison Ave, a leading and fully integrated advertising, marketing, and public relations firm located in Tempe, Arizona.

http://www.mightyinteractive.com