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Association
Partners | Conference Sponsors | Media
Sponsors
Association Partners
SEMPO
is a non-profit professional association working to increase
awareness and promote the value of Search Engine Marketing worldwide.
SEMPO was formed by companies and consultants that believe in
SEM as a viable, effective method for generating demand and
sales on the web. SEMPO exists to fill the gaps in awareness
and understanding of SEM, including educating marketing managers
worldwide about what SEM is and how properly implemented SEM
programs can provide some of the highest returns on investment
possible in the marketing world today.
Conference Sponsors
Acxiom Corporation (Nasdaq:ACXM) integrates data, services
and technology to create and deliver Customer and Information
management solutions for many of the largest, most respected
companies in the world. The core components of Acxiom's innovative
solutions are Customer Data Integration (CDI) technology, data,
database services, IT outsourcing, consulting and analytics,
and privacy leadership. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered
in Little Rock, Arkansas, with locations throughout the United
States, and in the United Kingdom, France, Australia and Japan.
For more information, visit www.acxiom.com.
AgendiZe provides a suite of innovative social networking tools for online publishers that improve conversion and user experience, creating more value for advertisers. With AgendiZe Click to Call, Save for Later, and Share with Others, consumers can call advertisers directly, or they can store or share web content to over a dozen different devices and technologies, including: instant messaging, email, mobile phones, address books, word/PDF and online social bookmarkings.
Founded in 2002, AgendiZe currently has deployed more than 26 million communication buttons worldwide. Key customers include YellowPages Group (Canada), KellySearch (USA, UK), Infoserve (UK), 118218 LeNuméro (France), Svaret (Sweden) and QDQ Media (Spain). The company has offices in the U.S. and Europe and is a member of the Yellow Pages Association (YPA), Association of Directory Publishers (ADP), Newspaper Association of America (NAA) and EADP.

Amacai
is
the only data provider built on telco-verified data with a singular
focus on producing the most complete and accurate marketing
data available. Amacai offers enhanced Yellow Page directory
information to data-driven organizations that provide business
information to subscribers as a service benefit. Amacai goes
beyond capturing base data and delivers information including
trademarks, services and specialties, and brands carried, that
can be used to assist in search and display of Internet Yellow
Page businesses. With more business details at hand, you can
offer your customers richer options to narrow their search parameters
and pinpoint the most suitable business for their needs.
Aptas
draws its history from the businesses of AccelX and Nextron,
combining more than 10 years experience deploying SME product
solutions to directory publishers, portals, ISPs, and other
communication service providers throughout the world. AccelX,
a subsidiary of WEBB Interactive, provided products for innovative
online marketplaces, focusing on buyer-seller interaction. Nextron,
a Safeguard Scientifics partner company, has been a leader in
large-scale roll out of SME products, with more than 70,000
SMEs served. The experience from both of these companies has
led to our current vision and focus on providing enhanced directory
services for small business advertisers and the services to
help our customers tackle critical market issues.
Los Angeles-based
CallSource
delivers a call measurement system that currently tracks over
60,000 incoming phone numbers by advertising source. Clients
include many top traditional media and online advertisers. The
company delivers detailed reporting and analysis to our clients
on advertising and telephone sales efficiency. CallSource was
founded in 1996 and has 45 employees.

DCCI
is the industry-standard for telephone-based call measurement
services (CMS) serving Yellow Pages publishers, Certified Marketing
Representatives and major advertisers across North America.
DCCI’s advanced, nationwide telecommunications network
gives print and internet advertisers the power to track and
analyze customer response to advertised local and toll-free
telephone numbers. For over 15 years, DCCI’s detailed
call tracking and reporting solutions have been an integral
component in proving the true ROI delivered by Yellow Pages,
the internet and other media advertising. DCCI is committed
to the research and development of technologies and services
that prove advertising performance. In 2003, DCCI was recognized
as one of Canada’s Top 50 Best Managed Companies in and
requalified for this distinction in 2004. DCCI received an Award
of Excellence from the Yellow Pages Association in 2003.

eStara
Push to Talksm, the most powerful
online customer contact solution on the market is driving new
revenue opportunities for online directories. Push to Talk voice-enables
directory searches and store locator results giving online visitors
the power to push a button and speak with a company representative
right from an online listing. eStara Push to Talk delivers real-world
results for customers including Continental Airlines, J. Crew,
Club Med, FirstUSA and Sprint. Experience the quality of eStara
web voice at www.estara.com.
Fast
Search & Transfer™ (FAST™) creates the
real-time search and filter technology solutions that are behind
the scenes at some of the world's best known companies with the
most demanding search problems. FAST's
flexible and scalable integrated technology platform spans both
Internet and enterprise customers, and elevates search to unprecedented
levels. FAST closes the gap between information and action, connecting
people to the relevant information they seek regardless of medium,
in turn driving revenue and reducing total cost of ownership by
effectively leveraging IT infrastructure for our clients and world-class
partners.

Geosign
is a data provider for the Internet, specializing in local search
data and local search solutions. Geosign has a portfolio of patent
applications for its unique technology and business methods in
the local search arena. Geosign products include FranDat,
a database of all US franchises with attributes such as hours
of operation, credit cards accepted and drive thru presence. Geosign
also provides all the data for www.truelocal.com;
an extremely powerful local search engine.

infoUSA
data powers many of the top directory assistance and location-based
sites. We provide our clients access to our proprietary databases
of 14 million telephone-verified US and Canadian businesses, 220
million consumers, and 575,000 physicians and surgeons. Over 3
million customers use infoUSA data for their directory assistance,
location-based services, vehicle navigation, risk management,
and direct marketing needs.

Ingenio,
Inc. (www.ingenio.com) provides a range of innovative
products and services to the Search and Directories industries
designed to attract, retain and better monetize advertisers. The
company’s flagship product, the Pay Per Call™ Advertising
Platform targets local and non web-oriented businesses with a
performance-based, online advertising system that addresses the
unique needs and business practices of this huge market segment.
Unlike traditional pre-pay and click-based advertising options,
Pay Per Call™ allows merchants to drive targeted phone leads
- rather than clicks - to their businesses for easy and efficient
customer acquisition. Publishers enjoy a turnkey solution with
an advanced set of features and functionality designed to attract
SME and national advertisers. Founded
in 1999 and backed by blue chip investors, Ingenio is a profitable
and privately held San Francisco-based company. Key client relationships
include AOL Yellow Pages, SBC SmartPages.com, FindWhat.com, and
Microsoft.
Interchange
was established and incorporated in March 1999. Originally beginning
with just three employees, the company filed its first provisional
patents for its ePilot search engine in August 1999. Interchange
spent the next several months developing business systems before
the official public release of ePilot in November 1999. Today, ePilot
is a highly rated pay-per-click search engine and Search Distribution
Network. ePilot’s active sales and business development force achieved
strong 2003 monthly revenue growth through the aggressive addition
of advertisers and search distribution partners to our network.
The universal growth of our business has allowed us to further develop
our exchange-based distribution infrastructure to serve more syndicated
partners and cultivate additional revenue streams.

IPIX
AdMission introduces AdMission Directories™ - a hosted
media platform for enhanced display ad creation and viewing. AdMission
Directories provides newspaper, yellow pages and directories publishers
with a turnkey up-sell product that enables local advertisers to better
market their businesses, products and services online, without requiring
a website or graphics expertise. The results are enhanced display
ads rich with key business facts, company logos, product photos, printable
coupons and more, integrated directly within search results, allowing
consumers to make faster, better informed purchasing decisions. AdMission
Directories features IPIX's patented, easy-to-use media management
capabilities that have been used by millions of advertisers to enhance
advertising listings. AdMission Directories can be easily integrated
into any existing directories or local search platform to provide
a comprehensive, self-service enhanced online advertising product.
For
publishers interested in a world-class turnkey local search & advertising
platform already enhanced with AdMission technology, IPIX AdMission
has teamed with Interchange Corporation to provide AdMission Directories
with Local Direct™. This product combines the best of Interchange
Corporation's sophisticated local search technology with IPIX's
enhanced display ad technology to deliver a powerful local platform
that publishers can use as their own, without incurring significant
up-front investment costs. Visit http://www.ipix.com
for more information or email us at admission@ipix.com.

With
over 1,400 customers, MapQuest
Business Solutions is the largest provider of mapping software
to websites and businesses around the world. Our software allows
online directory sites to geocode, map, and provide routes to their
address listings. Our customers may also use our software as a geospatial
search engine, enabling proximity searching for services and/or
products enhancing the way in which consumers interact with
basic directory content. Along with being integrated into a number
of leading directory websites, we are also involved in bringing
mapping functionality into the directory offerings of mobile devices
such as PDAs and cellular phones.

OKS
has for over 20 years been a leading provider of innovative high
quality data and information solutions for the world’s leading
information businesses, this includes the provision of Yellow Page
data. OKS
capture all of the information displayed within each directory for
both listings and advertisements. Additional value is provided through
the assigning of advertisement (UDAC) codes/pricing, SIC & Geo
Codes with all addresses standardized.
OKS currently
offers several electronic output formats including XML tagged data;
employing the most accurate method for converting hardcopy and web
content into value added, searchable databases. OKS in-depth content
allows buyers and sellers to find what they are specifically looking
for at local, regional and national levels. OKS offer affordable
in-house telephone verification of any Yellow Page data, its usage
patterns and related services should this be required.Working
with OKS you'll discover a different approach to data; for further
information visit www.oksgroup.com.

Founded
in 1996 and headquartered in San Jose, CA, Telcontar
is a worldwide provider of total location-based solutions for in-vehicle,
Internet and wireless platforms. Using the Telcontar premier spatial
software platform, our patented automated user notification technology
and carefully chosen industry partners, Telcontar can help its customers
provide complete, real-time, highly scalable solutions for navigation,
mobile safety, security and convenience. Our revolutionary, best-of-breed,
map management software and multi-dimensional spatial data access
products give location-based service providers the ability to easily
integrate digital maps and traditional database content drawn from
multiple sources for fast, acurate access to the user. Telcontar
solutions are source, platform, and device-independent, with the
flexibility to be integrated with a variety of in-dash and handheld
devices, as well as with traditional PC computing arrangements.
Our solutions are highly scalable and can be changed in real-time
and deliver information in real-time. Delivery of information to
the user is seamless.

TrafficLeader
specializes in driving quality traffic to your Web site from the
Web's most visited search engines, and optimizing your listings
in those engines to maximize your return on ad spend (ROAS). The
bottom line: Through its trusted relationships with major search
engines, TrafficLeader brings clients targeted search engine clicks
and sales they would otherwise be missing. Incorporated in January
2000, TrafficLeader has evolved from a small, Natural Search Engine
Optimization (SEO) firm into a leading search engine marketing company,
offering Feed Management, SEO, bid management, and feed management
services. Customer service, search engine relationships, proprietary
technologies, and years of experience help our clients to reach
and exceed all of their search engine marketing goals.

When
Yahoo!
was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students, David Filo and Jerry
Yang, it began as a hobby, but has evolved into a global brand that
has changed the way people find, use, share and expand all human
knowledge.
With now over
350 million users worldwide and more than 15 languages in over 20
countries, regions and territories, Yahoo! Inc. is the No. 1 Internet
brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide.
Yahoo! provides online products and services essential to consumers'
lives, and offers a full range of tools and marketing solutions
for businesses to connect with Internet users around the world.
Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

YPsolutions
is a leading provider of Internet technology to the yellow pages
industry. The firm's "Boss" product line featuring PageBoss™, ListBoss™,
CityBoss™, DataBoss™, WebBoss™, CDBoss™ and MobileBoss™, is the
most comprehensive suite of Internet and mobile interactive software
applications serving the yellow pages industry. YPsolutions is focused
on enabling yellow pages publishers to easily and cost effectively
transform their local print directories into revenue-generation
online and mobile products while maintaining their brand identity.
YPsolutions is located at 3445 North Causeway Blvd. #401, Metairie,
Louisiana 70002. For more information please contact Don Jones,
President at (504) 297-1802 or jones@ypsolutions.com
Media Sponsors

Pay
Per Click Analyst is an unbiased review of the top Pay Per
Click Search Engines offering up to date Pay Per
Click News, Fresh
Reviews and Helpful
Articles by Industry Leaders. There are many pay per click search
engines to choose from - It is our goal at PPCA to bring you the
facts by an in-depth look into the pros and cons of each service.
Together we can increase the return on your advertising investment!

MarketingVOX
is the daily online marketing news journal that online buyers trust
to be comprehensive yet succinct. Written by industry practitioners,
the site doesn’t just summarize the news – it gives
it the voice and rich background only buyers could. This expertise,
coupled with a willingness to ask hard questions, made MarketingVOX
the favorite among online buyers. It is intensely followed by thousands
of internet buyers, who tend to open the daily newsletter within
minutes of its arrival each morning. MarketingVOX helps marketers
and media professionals save time and do their jobs more effectively
by keeping them informed of important industry news and best practices.
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