November 28-30, 2007
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PREMIER AGENCY SPONSOR

For nearly 40 years, TMP Directional Marketing has been optimizing how local buyers and sellers connect, in ways that provide tangible, immediate impact and long-term payoff. We position our clients to be found where people are actively searching, shopping and buying, in print directories, online directories and through search engines.

The only agency of our kind — completely focused on the local search spectrum — we bring together integrated Yellow Pages advertising with specialized Interactive marketing services.

TMPDM is the largest online search & Yellow Pages marketing agency, with over $500 million in billings. Headquartered in New York, with 700 employees and 22 offices worldwide, TMPDM serves hundreds of clients, including over 100 of the Fortune 500 companies.

For more information, please visit us at interactive.tmpdm.com. Or you may contact TMPDM Interactive Sales via phone at 800 323-8157, ext. 5366.

SPONSORS

At Acxiom we make information intelligent. When consumers need to find a business, Acxiom has the data to put the two together – every time. With millions of U.S. and Canadian consumer and business listings, Acxiom has the right number for virtually every application. Our listings are from the freshest data sources available in the market. Every week, we add new listings and remove disconnect numbers. And with our enhanced business product listings, consumers can find the businesses – and the products – they want to find. Learn more at www.acxiom.com or 888-3ACXIOM.

AgendiZe Call-to-Action Suite enhances any online marketing, advertising and e-commerce effort by empowering users to take action. AgendiZe offers a complete suite of Click-to-Call, Click-to-Chat, Click-to-Save, and Click-to-Share solutions that integrates with more than 70 popular chat, mobile messaging, address book, calendar, social bookmarking, email and enterprise communications services on a wide variety of personal communications devices.

AgendiZe Local Action Suite, makes local ads and content actionable with dynamic Call Tracking, Coupons, Ratings and Comments functionality, as well as MySelection2.0, a publisher-branded personal webspace for users to save, share and enhance listing information, local events and personal contacts.

Amdocs combines innovative software products and services with deep business knowledge to deliver true integrated customer management to the world's leading directory publishers and communication services providers. Our best-in-class products seamlessly link all business processes, resulting in stronger customer relationships, and our expertise in managed services results in cost savings and process efficiencies. We also combine deep knowledge of the European directory publishing market and best-in-class solutions. The Amdocs Integrated Advertiser Management Solution framework leverages the industry-leading Amdocs integrated customer management platform, which has been developed for managing customers and enabling service providers to develop long-term, profitable relationships.

Apptus Technologies – Our business is all about information. We help our customers manage, search, share and distribute their data in some of the world’s most intensive information systems. We share our customer’s challenges, embrace their business and guard their values. With our proven search technology we are committed to reduce time, cost and effort in order to increase our customers’ sales and profits. We are committed to be the best vendor of products and services within the area of specialized data management in the world.

Call Genie is a developer of voice technology applications, specializing in building comprehensive interactive speech recognition solutions for the directory services industry. Call Genie offers customized, location-based, enhanced voice directory solutions that allow consumers to locate, obtain information and connect with business and service providers. Call Genie takes leading technologies from both the Internet and telephony worlds and integrates them to deliver a unique voice-web solution. Call Genie partners with the print and digital directory services business. Call Genie has harnessed not only the technologies, but the broad based business strategies and plans to create a new service offering that leverages existing directory services assets.  Call Genie is in the business of revitalizing and bringing a new perspective to the directory services industry by creating new profitable lines of business.

CallSource provides call-tracking technologies and advisory services that enable companies to increase their marketing effectiveness, capture additional sales opportunities and improve customer service. CallSource can help you: track valuable phone leads and capture information about every caller;  measure customer response and ROI for each advertisement or campaign; respond effectively to your calls and improve sales technique; and attract new business and convert more callers to customers.

CallSource introduced call tracking technology to the business world more than a decade ago, and we continue to build on our track record as a technology leader and trusted industry advisor.

eStara is a leading provider of proactive conversion solutions, including click to call and call tracking, for enhancing online sales. The world's leading media companies -- including Autobytel, Consumer Source, Cox Newspapers,  Superpages.com, Yahoo Europe and ZiffDavis -- leverage eStara's services to track advertising effectiveness across channels and prove performance to advertisers.

eStara’s Click Suite for Local Search offers an integrated platform for enhancing online ad listings and extending utility to consumers that includes click to call, call tracking, form to phone, and save & send capabilities. 

eStara is a wholly owned subsidiary of ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc., NASDAQ: ARTG). For more information, visit www.estara.com.

Lat49 (www.lat49.com) is a new mapvertising network that opens a whole new online territory to advertisers who want precise and intuitive geo-targeting.  Lat49 is optimized for online interactive maps, an interactive medium with a big audience and high user engagement metrics.

Known as mapvertising, or on-map advertising, lat49 provides advertisers with a unique opportunity to execute both brand and local advertising initiatives.  Through the lat49 self-serve interface, advertisers buy the exclusive advertising rights to map real estate.  Anytime a user looks at your real estate across the lat49 network, your ad will show.  Land parcels can be bought at multiple zoom levels to suit the goals of the advertising campaign. Owning the map's most zoomed out country view will support branding initiatives while local advertisers may choose to regionally tune their messaging and target the local, neighborhood, or urban level audiences.

Local Matters, Inc. is a specialized technology and media services company. We transform local advertising and Directory Assistance services into a vast, multi-channel information exchange. We do this by enabling media publishers and Directory Assistance providers to convert extensive local business information into digital media accessible across channels. In addition, we offer our set of customer-focused organization, planning, refining and comparing functionality. This functionality complements the large online search engines by providing a bridge between the information-gathering and decision-making stages of the consumer experience. The end result is a highly effective conduit for consumers to get the right information on local businesses wherever and however they need it.

Local.com (NASDAQ: LOCM) is a Top U.S. website attracting approximately 10 million visitors each month seeking information on local businesses, products, services, and jobs. Local.com is also one of the largest local search syndication networks, publishing business information on over 400 regional media sites. Powered by the company’s patented local web indexing and Keyword DNA® technologies, Local.com provides users with targeted, relevant local search results, including special offers from local businesses, user reviews, local businesses’ website links, maps, driving directions and more. Businesses can advertise on Local.com with subscription, pay-per-click, banner and pay-per-call ad products. The site’s mobile service, Local Mobile™ provides local search results via mobile phones and devices. Local.com claims U.S. patent numbers 7,231,405 and 7,200,413. For more information visit: www.local.com.

Localeze is the premier repository of rich Local Merchant Content. Starting with accurate and complete business information we add enhancements like, brands, services, hours, payment methods, specialties and advertising characteristics. Our Enhanced Content comes from a variety of sources including, YellowPages, Internet and Direct Data Feeds.

We put this valued content to work by offering interactive analytical tools, business profile development tools, highly targeted lead generation and content distribution that allows merchants to effectively attract consumers.

Marchex (www.marchex.com) is a local advertising company and leading publisher of local content.  Marchex's innovative advertising platform delivers search- and call-based marketing products and services for local and national advertisers.  Marchex's local content network, one of the largest online, helps consumers make better, more informed local decisions through its network of content-rich Web sites that reach tens of millions of unique visitors each month.

MatchCraft delivers cutting edge Search Engine Marketing (SEM) tools which maximizes Return on Investment (ROI).

MatchCraft is a Search Engine Marketing Engineering company with solutions customized for Online directories, Internet Yellow Pages & Multi-Location Advertisers. Founded in 1998, MatchCraft, has successfully maximized ROI for its SEM clients by managing the campaign set up to post-click performance on leading search engines including Google, Overture, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, AOL and Ask Jeeves.

MediaTraks Global, LLC. was founded by an experienced group of media, web and telecom veterans with more than 100 years of combined industry experience.

Our talented employees, technology and industry experience enable us to anticipate and fulfill the needs of advertisers, media outlets and ad agencies. MediaTraks' mission is to bring together buyers and sellers of LOCAL adverting across the nation and around the world with our Local Media Marketplace. MediaTraks also helps buyers manage their media investments and enables them to accurately measure and report on the effectiveness of advertising.

MediaTraks is headquartered in Miami, FL with offices in New Jersey.

“We wrote the book on local search.”

“Need something?”  For more than 125 years, consumers have trusted the Yellow Pages to deliver comprehensive information on local businesses.  And today whenever, however and wherever they “Need something” local, they use YELLOWPAGES.COM.  To find business information, read ratings, write reviews, get maps and search from their mobile phone, YELLOWPAGES.COM connects millions of consumers with local information every day.

YELLOWPAGES.COM works with businesses to help them create interactive advertising programs that meet their business needs – including search results advertisings, Web sites, search engine solutions and more.

NEWS & MEDIA SPONSORS 

Electronic Retailer Media Group is the premier source of information in one of the fastest growing segments of the direct response industry, the electronic direct response market. Electronic Retailer magazine and our online properties deliver news updates, exclusive, industry research, educational features and in-depth coverage of issues relating to government affairs, legal aspects, concepts and products, production, media-buying as well as all back end services. 

Electronic Retailer magazine is delivered monthly to over 18,000 first-year, qualified subscribers. Our eZine, Electronic Retailer 24/7 and our eNewsletter Electronic Retailer News Direct reaches over 35,000 active online readers. The primary readership consists of "C" level decision makers. Read by CEOs, Presidents, VPs, Executive Directors and a variety of senior management titles from big box retailers, Fortune 500 Companies and cable and television networks. Electronic Retailer Media Group provides solutions, education and awareness in this new and exciting marketing arena.

Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations and HispanicMPR.com, the website and companion podcast, provide you essential information on America’s largest minority. We feature original content including daily articles and weekly podcast interviews with leaders, newsmakers and experts on America’s largest minority. 

Our Resources Section is chock full of useful information including a nationally recognized book and 2006 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, guest articles, and audio recordings of presentations and extended interviews with national Hispanic market experts. Sign up for free email updates and visit our Resources Section for exclusive downloadable audio recordings at www.HispanicMPR.com.

LatinVision Media, Inc. is a New York-based company that operates five portals targeting U.S. Hispanic and Latin American entrepreneurs and executives and professionals in small and medium-sized companies: www.latinvision.com/directory is an interactive business directory of over 2,000,000 decision-makers in the U.S. Hispanic and Latin American business communities; www.latinvision.com/finance is the leading Internet destination for venture capitalists, institutions and private equity firms seeking to identify new projects for investment; www.latinvision/events is the leading business networking event in New York City for U.S. Hispanic and Latin American Entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals; www.latinvision.com/media news division reprints press releases and distributes business news and content of interest to the U.S. Hispanic and Latin American business communities; and www.latinvision.com/magazine is a business magazine for U.S. Hispanic and Latin American Entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals. The magazine is scheduled to launch in March, 2008.

TVover.net is a leading site that aggregates news and information about IPTV, Internet TV, and related topics. In addition we provide a directory of web sites offering video or Internet TV, forums for discussion (IPTV Forums), and an informational site (IPTV Information). For more information please visit http://www.tvover.net or contact us at info@tvover.net.

VoIP Monitor is an online weblog covering news, analysis, information and opinions relating to voice over IP and Internet telephony. Since 2005, VoIP Monitor has been filtering through the latest headlines and press releases to provide the top stories in a high-impact online format. In addition, VoIP Monitor’s content is also available via RSS and a daily newsletter. For more information please visit http://www.voipmonitor.net/ or contact us at info@voipmonitor.net.

VOIP News is a leading news and information source for business buyers in the VoIP and internet telephony markets. The site provides in-depth product reviews, buyer’s guides, product comparisons, news, market analysis, whitepapers, and other information readers need to choose and buy the latest and best VoIP hardware, software and services for their business. The site is produced by some of the most experienced internet telephony editors and analysts in the community and is attracts a unique, high-quality community of VoIP buyers and vendors. In addition to news and product information, VOIP News editors and analysts also produce webinars, newsletters and other targeted content. By acting as an independent third-party adviser, VOIP News has become a trusted source for millions of VoIP buyers.

EXHIBITORS

Booking Angel converts potential customers to real business. It is an easy online booking system that can be used in appointment based businesses. All the business needs is a telephone. Visitors to a website searching for restaurants, doctors, lawyers, day spas or other appointment based businesses can enter their request and it is automatically phoned through to the business. The business accepts, rejects or suggests an alternate time by using the keys on their phone. The customer receives instant confirmation by email or SMS. When combined with our lead generation system and pay per booking business model Booking Angel will help internet yellow pages, newspapers and other local search websites sign up more small business and better monetize the traffic at their sites. To see a demonstration of the system working on MSN’s Australian restaurant directory. Click here.

EZ Show, Inc. has created the first Web 2.0 video ad-builder for advertisers (or ad designers) to mass produce online video ads for use anywhere on the web. The ad-building suite allows users to create, stream and track their ads, changing them on the fly and even allows for upload of already-created video ads for customization. EZ Show’s business model provides for software license of its proprietary solution that can be integrated into an existing portal, directory, or search engine to offer video ad inclusion. The software has been designed to allow advertisers to create ads in a self-service model (licensees still license the software to offer this to their advertising users – perfect for real estate agents) or the software can be hidden from advertisers and used by an internal creative team to produce video ads for their advertisers. Finally, EZ Show does offer a turnkey solution, provisioning video ads for any licensee’s customer that only wants to sell video ad inclusion services.

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, which is the largest and fastest growing in the industry, 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 North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.

OrangeSoda’s primary focus is on helping small and medium-sized companies succeed online by providing them with the most advanced campaign management technology, tracking, reporting, and optimization systems available.

Founded by a group of Search Engine Marketers in 2006, OrangeSoda’s experience and knowledge come, in part, from having built a successful pay-per-click search engine in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. After spending more than a decade studying user search behavior, our understanding of how Internet searchers think and act is unparalleled. Our mission is to use this knowledge to help online advertisers gain new customers in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible.

The center of our technology is built around our proprietary Campaign Management Center (CMC). The CMC is the engine that powers your ability to effectively track your Internet marketing efforts, including a campaign targeting engine, conversion tracking, reporting, and much more. In other words, it lets you know at a glance if your marketing is improving your business, and by exactly how much. In addition to our superior technology, we employ a team of expert search engine marketing and optimization professionals. They are a key factor in many processes that will ensure your success online. We incorporate the most advanced search engine optimization and Internet marketing strategies in helping your business succeed online.

PinPoint Local helps local businesses reach new customers through targeted online local marketing campaigns. We deliver simple and affordable Internet marketing tools for local businesses to drive traffic and generate increased revenue. We have the experience, insight, and innovative tools to help you grow your business online. Our targeted campaigns are focused on getting you results, whether through sales, lead generation or building your brand or company.

Through local search marketing, geo-targeted banner campaigns, Universal Business Profiles and web development solutions, we can help you reach your local customers online. The PinPoint Local team has been providing targeted Internet marketing solutions to businesses for over a decade.

We are committed to making sure that all of our customers succeed in the digital space.

Idearc is a multi-platform media company with the most innovative ways of connecting buyers with sellers, making consumers better shoppers and businesses more successful. We're a spin-off, not a start-up. So, we already reach millions of homes and handle billions of online searches. And, now we're trading on the NYSE, under the symbol IAR. Idearc is a big company with an even bigger future.

Idearc has a platform of products that help consumers find what they want in the ways they want to find it and help businesses attract the customers they want when those customers are ready to buy. As the official publisher of Verizon print directories, Idearc distributes 136 million Verizon Yellow Pages™, Verizon White Pages™ and Verizon Yellow Pages Companion Directories per year in 35 states and the District of Columbia.

We also offer the nation's top Internet Yellow Pages. Superpages.com®, the expert in local search with more than two billion searches for two consecutive years, includes a comprehensive list of businesses in the United States — totaling more than 17 million. Superpages.com enables consumers who are ready to buy to find local and national businesses and compare goods and services of merchants.

Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. town and city.

A Top 20 online news destination (Hitwise, July 2007), the site links news from 50,000 sources to 360,000 lively user-generated forums. Topix also works with the nation's major media companies to grow and engage their online audiences through forums, classifieds, publishing platforms and RSS feeds.

Based in Palo Alto, Calif., Topix LLC is a privately held company with investment from Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) and Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB).

Where2GetIt is a premier provider of location based services for Fortune 1000 channel dependent companies with multiple retail store locations. Where2GetIt’s Web- and Phone-based Locator services empower manufacturers and retailers to connect consumers to where to buy, both online and locally.

The Business Locator service can be equipped with interactive maps, driving directions, and criteria-based searching. By delivering interactive location information directly to consumers, Where2GetIt’s Web-based Locator technology and Mobile Locator technology drive more traffic to retail stores, effectively bridging the consumer-to-product gap. The Locator also provides a complete channel marketing solution, giving companies the strategic tools they need to build and secure long-term relationships with consumers and channel partners.

A privately held company, Where2GetIt is focused exclusively on what companies need today, including integrated Web- and phone-based locator technologies for more convenient consumer access to location information. We are in the business of changing the way people shop by helping companies influence the buying process. In the future, Where2GetIt will continue to leverage emerging technologies, including wireless access and customer demographics, to deliver the location-based solutions companies and consumers want.

Zvents is the local search engine for discovering things to do.

With groundbreaking algorithms and premium search technology, Zvents delivers optimized and relevant information to make it fun and easy to search for things to do, places to go, and people to see!  Users can find, contribute, share, and promote local events, movies, restaurants, businesses, and performers. 

Zvents is also focused on providing the best local search and advertising solutions to local publishers and media through a comprehensive database of events and things to do.  Our partners are provided with an endless stream of content and a powerful search engine that helps users discover and share local events.  We are currently building an advertising network for the local event ecosystem.

Zvents is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

ASSOCIATION PARTNERS

The Association of Directory Publishers (ADP) is the international trade association founded in 1898 to promote the establishment and maintenance of the highest standard of quality and service in directory publishing. It provides to its members industry-relevant communications, content-rich meetings and conventions, research, legal and legislative support, and various other programs and services. ADP membership today includes more than 135 directory publishers, and some 90 other associates who supply goods and services to those publishers. ADP members are recognized by consumers and advertisers alike for their innovative products, emphasis on customer service and competitive pricing. Their presence and expanding prominence in the marketplace guarantees both consumers and advertisers access to user-friendly, value-added products that are shaping the medium.

The International Classified Media Association brings together publishers of classified media from all over the world to share experiences, network and exchange ideas to drive their businesses forward to greater profitability and market-share. Our members operate in print, online and via mobile in 34 countries and are some of the most innovative and entrepreneurial publishers around. As well as an annual programme of dedicated conferences, meetings and workshops covering all the latest issues and trends in our sector, we also operate a unique international ad-exchanging system which generates considerable revenues for our members – check us out at www.icmaonline.org.

MetroSIG Founded in 2005 by the WCA, the MetroSIG is a nonprofit Silicon Valley forum for discussion of all aspects of the municipal broadband wireless trends(WiFi/WiMAX/3G/BB). The MetroSIG organizes monthly meetings around key topics related to municipal Wireless eco-systems.

"What is the business model?" and "Who pays for free service?" are popular hot topics. The WCA / MetroSIG explore these questions by bringing the best speakers from companies and research institutes. The format of the meeting encourages an active interchange among all attendees.

SEMPO is a non-profit professional association working to increase awareness and to promote the value of Search Engine Marketing worldwide.

SEMPO's activities are primarily centered on Education and Awareness. To support their educational mission, they offer an extensive library of resources, research and articles, as well as outreach activities such as Webinars and speaking events. To drive Awareness of the value of search marketing, and how to maximize its potential in a marketing mix, SEMPO funds advertising campaigns, outreach activities, events, and press. SEMPO research studies help to quantify the value of Search Marketing and track the industry trends.

Founded in 1993, the WCA is a Silicon Valley-based, nonprofit corporation dedicated to the mutual benefit of Northern California companies and organizations involved in wireless communication technologies.

WCA addresses over 2000 individuals and 350+ companies and organizations. The WCA is run by an all-volunteer Board of Directors.

The Web Analytics Association (WAA) unites and fosters the interests of industry practitioners, vendors, consultants and educators who use, sell, install, implement, consult, teach or train in the field of web analytics.

The Yellow Pages Association (YPA) is the association of publishers, marketers and suppliers responsible for producing Yellow Pages directories in more than 20 countries. Originally founded in 1975 as the National Yellow Pages Service Association (NYPSA), the Yellow Pages Association is instrumental in leading, serving, growing and advocating on behalf of a print and electronic media industry valued at more than $26 billion worldwide ($14 billion U.S.).

Association members include Yellow Pages publishers, who produce leading-edge electronic products and deliver Yellow Pages directories to 100 percent of U.S. homes with telephones -- and who account for more than 90 percent of the Yellow Pages revenue generated in the U.S. and Canada.

Members also include the industry's international, national and local sales force, certified marketing representatives (CMRs) and associate members, including Yellow Pages advertisers, vendors and suppliers.

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