) November 11, 2008 -- L2, Inc., The Campaign Technology People, today announced that the newest version of Fuse™ has given the company a strong market momentum and tripled its customer base. Fuse is the industry's first fully integrated, software as a service (SaaS) solution for multi-channel, and cross media marketing and has been received well for its cost-saving power and price point -- giving excellent power and value to media and print customers. The new Fuse SaaS has captured wide interest and led to a 300 percent growth in the L2 customer base in 2008.

) January 27, 2009 -- L2, Inc., The Campaign Technology People, today announced the launch of a personalized demo site (http://www.1to1campaigns.com) for the Digital Printing Council's Web2Print Test Drive Center (http://www.w2ptestdrive.com). The Digital Printing Council is a special interest group of Printing Industries of America.

) June 21, 2009 -- With more and more consumers turning toward online media to read reviews and research products, magazines and print media are fast becoming a thing of the past. In order to reach consumers, companies now must move into the digital age, or they will be left behind. Blogs and word-of-mouth marketing is the new way to effectively market products and ideas to consumers and it's important to realize the power that influential bloggers have, especially blogs written by moms.

) September 21, 2009 -- FUSE are Linzi Stoppard and Ben Lee, the princess and prince of the rock violin world.

FUSE - Rock Electric Violinists Linzi Stoppard & Ben Lee

With their original sound and approach FUSE are the most innovative string act around today. Pioneering a new method for a traditionally classical instrument while inspiring a new breed of electric violinists. FUSE are setting the bar.

) December 6, 2008 -- The world's first Web-to-TV talent show, "Make A Star," officially debuts Saturday, December 6th at 10:30 a.m. ET/PT on FUSE.

"Make A Star marks the beginning of a new era in entertainment, where the Internet and television are no longer separate, but linked," said Dr. Iman Foroutan, Chairman and CEO of Equal Chance Productions and Contest Factory, which created and developed the show. Dr. Foroutan and Contest Factory also own the patent to the online contest process. "This new show marks a major advancement in interactive entertainment and points to a new direction for the industry, when user-generated content will become an ever increasing part of television."

The new Sidekick 2008 from T-Mobile and distributed to the Deaf community by Fuse Communications www.fusewireless.com is loaded with functionality that that is creating a buzz with Deaf consumers.

Heat Seal is a technology, method and process of uniting plastic packaging material in certain forms to form an airtight seal by applying heat to fuse the edges of the material together.

) November 7, 2008 -- Toronto-based Single Entry Point today announced that it's beginning its long-awaited search for qualified channel partners and resellers across North America and Europe.

"Through our fine-tuned Channel Partner program, we're offering the top digital marketing agencies, web design firms, software development companies and consulting organizations a rare opportunity to bring unrivaled expertise onto their team," stated Mike Lascut, founder of Single Entry Point.

Channel partners of Single Entry Point will immediately be able to bring their clients enterprise-level expertise in search engine marketing, email marketing and web analytics at extremely competitive rates without the need to hire new staff.

) October 27, 2008 -- It's American Idol meets YouTube - this fall, the first-ever Web-to-TV music talent show, called "Make A Star," will give amateur singers as well as unsigned and recently signed artists the chance to win international prominence and a $10,000 cash prize.

The show's producers are now calling on all singers and bands interested in competing to sign up now on the show's Web site (www.makeastar.com) in order to receive updates about the show and instructions on how to upload their videos. Video submissions begin in the first week of November.

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Carlsbad, Calif. -- Sept. 8, 2008 -- MaintenanceNet, Inc., the leading provider of extended warranty and maintenance contract management services, is empowering manufacturers and their channel partners to increase revenues through best-practice partner relationship management (PRM) processes built into its Service360 service contract management platform. To further enhance supply chain PRM initiatives, MaintenanceNet today announced that research results are now available for a MaintenanceNet-supported Aberdeen Group study titled, "Channel Sales: The Renaissance in Partner Management." Designed to uncover proven PRM approaches employed by best-in-class companies, the study results are available at no charge for a limited time from the following link:

) February 17, 2009 -- Street Attack's latest campaign for the first-ever Best Buy @15 Challenge cracked the code on empowering youth, while providing a voice for socially minded teens through a digital and mobile platform. Ashoka's Youth Venture, a global network of young social entrepreneurs, and Best Buy Co., Inc selected 30 finalists from business plans submitted by active Youth Venture Teams across the country. Street Attack created a digital and grassroots marketing strategy to build buzz and encourage youth to log their votes.

) March 26, 2009 -- Old marketing meets new marketing. OneIMS, a full-service marketing company located in Chicago, offers clients a revolutionary way to get more out of direct mail campaigns by utilizing Variable Data Printing (VDP) and Personalized URLs (PURLs). Research shows that most people depend on the internet and are more likely to respond to a direct mail campaign if the internet is involved. Their solution, 4PURL, is an innovative way that links the power of direct mail with the ease and convenience of the internet.

eEye Digital Security (www.eeye.com), an expert in integrated security and threat-management solutions, today announced it has been recognized by Everything Channel as one of North America’s top information-technology (IT) vendors for its channel partner program.

eEye Digital Security (www.eeye.com), an expert in integrated security and threat-management solutions, today announced it has been recognized by Everything Channel as one of North America’s top information-technology (IT) vendors for its channel partner program.

) February 17, 2009 -- Aprimo, a leading provider of software for Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) and ExactTarget, a leading provider of on-demand email and one-to-one marketing solutions, announced that they have partnered to integrate ExactTarget's email messaging services into Aprimo’s Multi-Channel Campaign Management applications.

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) June 16, 2009 -- New Media Gateway, the industry's leading sales and marketing technology provider, today announced that its platform for managing multi-channel content is now tightly integrated with EmailReach, a comprehensive solution for delivering email over sixty-nine different platforms.

) October 1, 2008 -- Aprimo, Inc., a global provider of software for Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM), today announced that The Motley Fool, Inc. has implemented Aprimo's Enterprise Campaign Management to reduce the cost to acquire and grow its subscriber relationships.

) January 22, 2009 -- The partnership is focused on both the end user and value added reseller alike. "The challenge throughout the industry has been the ability to scale a legacy file conversion at an affordable price"- says Jeff Frankel, Vice President of Business Development for docSTAR. "Many of our resellers just don't have the capabilities to securely and efficiently tackle a large project. Prior to our partnership with ImageDoc USA our people would have to defer the project to others, now they can offer a complete and comprehensive solution at a truly competitive level."

) September 16, 2008 -- In today's economy, technology companies increasingly are relying on channel partners to sell their products. However vendors are plagued with a lack of channel alignment. A new whitepaper released by Maritz, a global leader in sales and marketing services, advises vendor companies on how to develop effective channel partner management solutions, create partner allies and drive unprecedented growth.

Level III Services, Inc., (Level III) a San Jose-based marketing solutions provider, is proud to announce the launch of Level III Media, expanding the scope of services available to clients. Steven Hua has been appointed to oversee the development of Level III Media. Joining Hua in developing the division into a full-service media entity are the designers of Quest Creative Group, acquired by Level III in July of 2008.
Offering a full service solution for marketing support is what lead us to our acquisition of Quest and the expansion of Level III Media. Today we can offer our customers reduced costs and quicker turn-aroundits a win-win. says William George, Jr., C.E.O of Level III Services, Inc..

) May 8, 2009 -- Companies wishing to conduct PURL campaigns have been burdened by long term contracts, minimums, high setup and license fees, software and design limitations, and heavy training requirements. Businesses can now execute the most versatile PURL campaigns on the market using the new VDP Web® Online service without these limitations.

) February 9, 2009 -- Outsell (http://www.outsell.com), one of the fastest-growing automotive digital marketing firms in America, announced a number of milestones, including new strategic partnerships that will lead to major expansion in Outsell's Automotive eMarketing network in 2009. The most visible of these successes are:

) October 28, 2009 -- CGS, the global leading provider of virtual event solutions (www.virtualevents365.com), has launched a unique partner program to deliver complete solutions to the growing number of companies using virtual events as cost effective campaigns and community events. Specifically designed for advertising agencies, marketing agencies, publishers and event organizers, the program offers a reliable and open platform for customized virtual events.

Analyze-It Technologies, with its state-of-the-art business intelligence software Analyze-This, is now venturing into handling database process management, where in we would be able to provide end-to-end solution to our clients right from handling and managing their databases, database planning, database cleansing, data de-duping, data re-engineering, data massaging and cleansing and providing beautiful reports in both grid and graphical formats.
Analyze-This is a powerful, fast and easy-to-use analysis and visualization application designed for analysts and marketers. Analyze-This harnesses customer and transactional data from any touch-point or channel across your organization to create, build and maintain your customer insight and customer intelligence.

) October 19, 2009 -- Offering national advertisers a better way to leverage the telephone-based responses from their television, Internet and print campaigns, Telmetrics, the leading provider of advertising call measurement solutions, and TARGUSinfo, the leading provider of On-Demand InsightSM about prospects and customers, today announced that they have expanded their existing partnership to offer national advertisers a combined call routing and call measurement solution.

) October 1, 2008 -- AireSpring, one of the fastest growing telecom carriers in the industry with over 3 billion calls processed annually, has been cited by Phone + Magazine as having one of the top 50 channel partner programs in the industry. AireSpring is one of only a short list of network providers to be so honored. The award, in its second year, will be announced publicly in the October 2008 Phone + Channel Program Guide.

When specifying what agents should look for in a channel program, Phone + Magazine said indirect sales partners need to evaluate essential criteria, including product viability, financial stability and ease of operation.

) March 30, 2009 -- Repair4Printer (http://repair4printer.org), the new webdirectory dedicated to do-it-yourself printer repair and modding how-to, is the Internet's most comprehensive and extensive collection of repair and renovation guides. The helpful directory offers a host of free tips, tricks, and pointers for almost any printer model from ancient dot matrix printers to ink printers, thermo printers and laser printers.

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) March 18, 2009 -- Datran Media, a leading digital marketing technology company, today announced that a Sony Rewards Loyalty Program email campaign powered by the company has won a Gold Award at this week's 2009 MarketingSherpa Email Excellence Awards. This news coincides with Sony's decision to license Datran Media's top-ranked marketing and monetization email platform, StormPost, and retain Datran Media for enterprise delivery and strategic consulting support for email and other digital initiatives.

) September 23, 2008 -- Alterian (LSE:ALN), the leading international integrated marketing platform provider, today announced the availability of Alterian Acquire, a new enterprise marketing offering tailored to large-scale, prospect-oriented marketers. Designed to allow marketers to replace disparate, costly legacy systems, with a single data infrastructure that combines importing, visualization, campaign execution, data mining and optimization, Alterian Acquire offers marketers increased speed, better flexibility and an overall lower total cost of ownership.

) February 22, 2009 -- "Marketing Service Contracts in a Down Economy" is the focus of a new web seminar that MaintenanceNet™, Inc., the leading provider of extended warranty and maintenance contract management services, will host on Wednesday, March 4 at 10 a.m. Pacific.

The premise behind the free 30-minute web seminar is that current market conditions are driving companies to look beyond traditional sales methods to identify profitable new revenue streams. Service sales represent an area that can be highly lucrative, but is often overlooked.

) November 26, 2008 -- MADS, a technology leader in delivering highly targeted mobile advertising experiences, announced today it has entered into partnership with Vodafone Romania, one of Eastern Europe's premier mobile operators with more than 9.5 million mobile customers. Following Vodafone Hungary and Vodafone New Zealand, Vodafone Romania will deploy MADS mobile advertising platform to integrate fully within Vodafone Live!, SMS push, SMS notification and MMS channels, offering advertisers and brands highly targeted display or text advertising across multiple mobile channels.

) July 24, 2009 -- Intelestream, Inc., the leader in open source CRM consulting and developer of the popular on-demand CRM application intelecrm, today announced the company has been recognized by CRN as a Top 140 Emerging Technology Vendor.

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) May 6, 2009 -- Avangate, full service provider of electronic software distribution and reseller management solutions for software vendors, today announced the launch of version 3.0 of ARMS - its proprietary Reseller Management System. ARMS 3.0 has been optimized to assist software vendors manage their channel activity easier and more efficiently through improved usability and enhanced dashboard.

) September 9, 2009 -- eFolder, Inc, today announced that Jan Spring, VP Channel Development, has been recognized by Everything Channel's CRN Magazine as one of the Top 100 Women in the Channel. The Top 100 Women in the Channel were chosen by the editors of the magazine based on their achievements as executives and the amount of influence they wield over the technology channel. The Top 100 Women in the Channel represent a changing trend in a traditionally all male industry.

) December 1, 2008 -- Listrak, a leading email marketing solution provider based near Lancaster, PA, announced today that it is broadcasting Email Marketing Today, a fun and informative podcast hosted by Listrak's email experts Ross Kramer, CEO, Matt Elliott, Director of Client Services, and Brent Shroyer, Product Manager. Every Thursday afternoon, Ross, Matt, and Brent get together in Listrak's state-of-the-art broadcast studio to discuss the issues that matter most to email marketers - deliverability, reputation, list acquisition and management, design and content best practices, segmentation, and other ways to enhance campaign performance and increase ROI. To subscribe, visit http://www.listrak.com/podcast/.

) October 6, 2008 -- AdBuyer.com (www.AdBuyer.com) announced the release of its free platform to easily create, manage, and optimize online advertising campaigns across search, content and display.

Snapshot of AdBuyer.com's dashboard and AdBuilder tool

) September 20, 2008 -- PHONE+ magazine, a resource for the telecommunications indirect sales channel, announced that TalkSwitch has been selected as a Top 50 Channel Program. The results of this contest will be published in the magazine's 2008 Channel Program Guide special issue, due out Oct. 15.

) June 17, 2009 -- Vizu Corporation today announced the release of version 2.0 of its popular Ad Catalyst system used by online media companies, ad networks, advertising agencies, and major brands to maximize the brand building effectiveness of their online brand advertising.

Move Beyond Click Through Rates

Ad Catalyst users have always had the ability to measure the brand lift their campaigns are generating in real time and to break down that lift by key drivers: creative executions, frequency of exposure, and by distribution channel. Now users can access all of that data in one, easy to digest dashboard along with the ability to track cumulative brand lift of a campaign over time.

) June 23, 2009 -- Marketo (www.marketo.com), the fastest growing provider of marketing automation and revenue-building best practices, today announced that Everything Channel has selected Marketo as a CRN Emerging Technology Vendor. The company's ecosystem of alliance partners includes marketing agencies, systems integrators, resellers, industry experts and technology leaders.