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  • Demandbase Launches Automated Solution to Turn Web Traffic into Sales Leads.

    Demandbase, a leading provider of B2B customer acquisition solutions, announced the general availability of Demandbase ProfessionalO, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that enables sales and marketing professionals to better identify, reach, and convert new business. With Demandbase Professional, users will be able to utilize a new breed of B2B Web analytics to improve marketing and sales performance and turn anonymous web traffic into new sales leads. Demandbase Professional can help improve the number of B2B leads generated from a website by up to 300 percent through analytics, filtering and routing functionality that turns an anonymous website visitor into a qualified sales prospect. Demandbase Professional customers are able to identify the highest potential businesses that visit their Web sites, summarize visitor interests, and immediately access the most accurate and responsive contacts for sales or marketing follow up. The service is made possible through technology that matches web traffic to unique business offices, and then dynamically identifies the most appropriate people for follow-up from a database of more than five million business contacts. Demandbase Professional also features a new breed of B2B web analytics that allow marketing professionals to identify the business traffic within their target market and segment their traffic by company size, industry, or market sector. These detailed analytics provide marketers with powerful information to better measure marketing effectiveness by specific campaign, web page, or source.

    oBusinesses today invest heavily in driving traffic to their websites, spending a large portion of their budgets on paid search initiatives but only getting value from the less than 5 percent of visitors that convert,o said Chris Golec, CEO of Demandbase. oDemandbase Professional provides all of the tools necessary to capture the other 95+ percent of website visitors and creates an entirely new source of rich, readily convertible leads for B2B marketing and sales.o

    More than 25 customers, across multiple industries, have already subscribed to a pre-release of Demandbase Professional including Accolo, Esria, Jigsaw, Shore Consulting and University of North Carolina.

    oDemandbase gives us a way to identify and monetize the traffic we are generating from our search marketing campaigns, SEO, email, blogs, and other online marketing programs,o said Ian Shannon, Marketing Manager from Accolo, a provider of enterprise-class recruiting solutions for small and mid-size companies. oThe real difficulty in our online marketing efforts is separating our websiteEs business traffic from individuals looking for their next great job opportunity. The new service has made an immediate and measurable impact on our marketing efforts by giving us better visibility into our business traffic and providing us with a means to turn website visitors into new customers.o

    Demandbase Professional is fully integrated with the Demandbase CentralO lead generation platform, providing access to millions of validated business contacts, and the Demandbase StreamO desktop web traffic monitoring service, which provides real-time visibility into businesses visiting a website. All business contacts have been cleansed, validated, and organized according to the userEs unique preferences. Data comes from many of the worldEs largest sources including D&B, Jigsaw, Hoovers, LexisNexis, and AccuData.

    Key functionality of Demandbase Professional includes: Daily Lead Report u The Daily Lead Report shows all businesses within the customerEs target market that visited the website on the previous day. A summary of the previous dayEs activity, including a list of the best business contacts for sales and marketing follow up with, complete with contact details, is automatically delivered as a CSV file via email daily that can easily be imported into CRM or Marketing Automation systems or routed to the appropriate team for follow-up. WebLeadsO u The most relevant business contacts, or WebLeads, are presented within the Demandbase Professional application for follow-up. Business contacts include full name, title, company, industry, address, phone, and in most cases, email address. For each business, WebLeads includes the date, number of visits and pages viewed for each visit. B2B Web Analytics u Demandbase Professional provides a new breed of B2B web analytics to improve marketing and sales performance. Detailed trend reports on web traffic are displayed in an easy-to-read graphical format, revealing trends around percentage of traffic from business demographics such as specific industries or company sizes. Trends may be viewed by day, week or month. Profile Matching and Filtering u Create custom profiles defined by industry, geography and company size, then run reports detailing those visitors who match the profile, as well as the percentage of your traffic that meets the profile criteria both daily and over time. Trend Analysis u Track trends by industry, geography, company size, and target vs. non-target visitors. Trend analysis helps you measure the effectiveness of your sales and marketing campaigns, adapt to fluctuations in demand and build historical views of web traffic. Lead Routing u Easily build custom routing rules that specify which leads are routed to various individuals or groups for follow-up. For example, all West Coast leads may be automatically routed to a western territory sales representative, or auto industry leads may be routed to an industry marketing manager.

    All Demandbase products are delivered on demand, and require no hardware or software deployment so customers can get up and running in just minutes. Demandbase Professional is offered as a subscription service; pricing starts at just a few hundred dollars per month and increases based on the volume of website traffic and the number of leads generated. Companies can sign-up for a 30 day Free Trial at www.demandbase.com/freetrial . About Demandbase Demandbase is a leading provider of B2B customer acquisition solutions that enable sales and marketing professionals to better identify, reach, and convert new business. Delivered on demand through software as a service, Demandbase solutions combine the ability to identify website visitors from target businesses with an integrated database of high-quality, validated business contacts and a new breed of B2B web analytics to improve marketing and sales performance. In use at more than 1,000 companies, Demandbase helps generate more sales opportunities and drive new business. Founded in 2006, Demandbase is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and funded by Adobe Systems (NASDAQ:ADBE), Altos Ventures and Sigma Partners. For more information, please visit www.demandbase.com.

    Keywords: Technology, Data Management, Networks, Software, Communications, Marketing, Internet, Advertising, Marketing, Software, Technology, Web Traffic, World Wide Web, Demandbase.

    This article was prepared by Internet Weekly News editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2009, Internet Weekly News via VerticalNews.com.

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  • Sustainable Business Strategies and Solutions Will be Discussed at the Green Enterprise Unconference.

    Forum One Networks, a strategy and research group specializing in communities of practice, announces advisors, sponsors and attendee companies of the Green Enterprise Unconference, which takes place in Mountain View, California on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 (see also Forum One Networks).

    “Our participant list includes senior staff from Google, Yahoo, Accolo, Positive Impact Partner, Planning for Sustainable Communities, and Goodwill Industries” says Bill Johnston, chief community officer of Forum One Networks. “It’s the perfect opportunity for sustainability professionals to network, exchange ideas, and discuss best practices to effect positive change in the enterprise.

    Advisors for the Unconference span multiple sectors, and include, Autodesk, Random House, GreenIT, and Green MBA at Dominican University of California.

    Representatives from Organic Living TV, a national PBS and commercially syndicated television series that reaches over 34 million homes each week, will be filming at the unconference and the event will be featured in the show.

    To register for the Green Enterprise Unconference, or for more information, please go to: http://www.forumonenetworks.com/green .

    The Green Enterprise Unconference is sponsored by SolutionSet and partnered with Sustainable Silicon Valley.

    For information about being considered for the advisory board of the Green Enterprise Unconference, or for information on sponsorship or partnership opportunities, please contact Bill Johnston: bjohnston@forumone.com .

    Keywords: Forum One Networks.

    This article was prepared by Science Letter editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2008, Science Letter via NewsRx.com.

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  • Accolo Certified as a Bay Area Green Business

    October 22, 2008

    “The Bay Area Green Business Program is one of the most forward thinking and prestigious environmental business programs in the nation.”

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  • Accolo Career Network Reaches 1,000,000 Professionals

    September 2, 2008

    Leading Recruitment Process Outsourcer now provides partners access to one of the most robust referral networks available.

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  • Small, Mid-Size Companies Choose Accolo #1 On Demand Recruitment Process Outsourcing RPO Provider.

    Accolo, Inc. (http://www.accolo.com/), an innovator in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) for small and mid-sized companies, has been named #1 Project/On Demand RPO Provider in HRO Today Magazine’s (http://www.hrotoday.com/) annual top-tier survey ranking of major RPO firms. The magazine’s highly regarded recruiting survey results are based on information obtained from 262 HR executives currently utilizing RPO services nationwide. The magazine rated the RPO providers, such as Accolo, on the breadth of their service, the size of the programs they manage and the quality of service provided (see also Accolo, Inc.).

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  • Accolo Ranked #1 On Demand RPO

    August 11, 2008

    Small, Mid-Size Companies Choose Accolo #1 On Demand Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) Provider

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  • HRO Today Magazine Survey Results on Top RPO Firms; The “Bakers Dozen” Top Providers and “Global Leaders” Identified in Buyers Survey of More Than 260 Respondents

    EDISON, NJ, Aug 08, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — HRO Today Magazine today announced the carefully watched results of its annual Bakers Dozen ranking of major recruitment process outsourcing firms. The results were based upon a survey completed by 262 HR executives who are current buyers of RPO services. The RPO providers were rated on the breadth of their service, the size of the programs they manage and the quality of service provided. The market was grouped into 3 lists: the Enterprise Bakers Dozen list, Global Leaders list and a list of leading Project/On Demand Providers.

    According to Elliot Clark, CEO of HRO Today, “We believe this is our best survey to date in terms of specific and market aggregate data collected and offers a real service to our readers as they try to analyze the best providers in the space to meet their needs. We congratulate the top rated firm, The Right Thing, Inc., on its impressive scores across all categories. In addition, Alexander Mann Solutions was at the top of global providers and Accolo which led the Project/On Demand Providers group. These lists represent the top companies in the industry today.”

    The Bakers Dozen List, the flagship product of the survey, was developed from information culled on 45 firms that eventually reduced down to the final 13 that were then ranked according to a pre-determined set of indices.

    In addition to the rankings, aggregate survey data about industry trends was also developed this year and can be found in the July/August issue of HRO Today magazine on www.hrotoday.com and will be presented at the upcoming RPO Summit in December 2008 in Washington, D.C. (www.rposummit.com) presented in concert with the RPOA (Recruitment Process Outsourcing Association), a special interest group of the HROA (www.hroa.org) and the RPO buyers group of RPOA.

    Bakers Dozen Ranking:
    1  Right Thing Inc.
    2  Spherion
    3  People Scout
    4  Alexander Mann Solutions
    5  Kenexa
    6  Talent2
    7  Manpower Business Solutions
    8  Kelly HR First
    9  Pinstripe
    10 FutureStep
    11 Adecco
    12 Select International
    13 H.L. Yoh
    Global Leaders:
    Alexander Mann
    Kenexa
    Talent2
    Manpower Bus. Solutions
    Kelly HR First
    FutureStep
    Adecco
    Project/On Demand Leaders
    Accolo
    BeeLine
    Talent Fusion
    TWC, COMSYS
    The Workplace Group
    CDI - PRO/Talent
    Aon Consulting
    

    About HRO Today Magazine

    HRO Today magazine is read by more than 70,000 HR executives and leaders and covers the latest industry trends in HR outsourcing, services, shared services and operations. HRO Today magazine is the publication of choice for the most senior executives facing the strategic decisions about operational excellence. HRO Today and www.hrotoday.com offer the best content choices for the HR leader seeking online information in the form of newsletters, webinar series and online video content. HRO Today is a product of Crossing Media, LLC. With offices in the US and Europe, Crossing Media LLC is the leader in content, community and conference-based media in the fast-growing HR outsourcing (HRO), Finance and Accounting Outsourcing (FAO) and Corporate Responsibility Officer (CRO) markets. Magazines include HRO Today, CRO, FAO Today and HRO Europe. Web properties include HROToday.com, TheCRO.com, FAOToday.com, HROEurope.com, SharedXpertise.com. Conferences include CRO Conferences, HRO World Europe and the FAO Summit. With over 120,000 print and 1,500,000 online readers, 2,000 conference attendees and 1,000 members, Crossing Media continues to lead its markets by providing information to the buyers and influencers in the industries leading the responsible globalization of the world economy. More information at www.CrossingMedia.com.

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  • Accolo Launches New Website and Expands Markets

    Accolo.com Now Packed with enhanced features and resources for executives, HR professionals and job seekers

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  • Accolo Launches New Website and Expands Markets

    June 25, 2008

    Accolo.com Now Packed with enhanced features and resources for executives, HR professionals and job seekers

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  • Career Web sites resist economic woes.(ANALYSIS)

    THOUGH FACING a tighter job market in some sectors, career recruitment companies say they have yet to feel the pinch and, as a result, have not planned any major changes in their direct marketing efforts.

    “Our business is so diverse that we balance out when the economy fluctuates,” says Darren McDougal, partner of marketing communications at Kaye/ Bassman International Corp.

    Right now, Kaye/Bassman is doing much better than it did last year, McDougal says. The company actively recruits in six industries including consumer goods and services, financial services, industrial, professional services, healthcare and life sciences and military. McDougal also attributes Kaye/Bassman’s “[getting] out” of residential construction recruiting a year and a half ago as helping it weather the storm.

    Residential construction and financial activities related to home sales and mortgage lending are two sectors of the economy that have been hit the hardest by the recent woes, according to the ADP National Employment Report. The report says jobs in the non-farming private employment sector declined by 23,000 from January to February 2008.

    Online advertisements for job vacancies in the US decreased slightly by 0.6% from March 2007 to March 2008, according to the Conference Board, a nonprofit business membership and research organization. This was the first year-over-year decline the Conference Board has seen since it began tracking online advertisements in 2005, the organization said.

    “The recession has definitely reduced the amount of hiring that employers are doing,” says Steven Rothbert, president and founder of CollegeRecruiter.com, an Internet job board that works with employers who are trying to hire students for internships and recent college graduates for entry-level jobs.

    “So we’re not doing quite as much business on the direct marketing side as we did a year ago,” he continues. “However, it’s only marginally down–it’s definitely not dramatically down.”

    There are still a lot of baby boomers approaching retirement and there are not nearly enough Gen X-ers to replace them, Rothbert continues. “Gen Y recruiting right now is what I would call ‘recession resistant,’” he says.

    [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

    Matt Cooper, VP of strategy and operations for recruitment process outsourcing firm Accolo, agrees that different sectors are feeling different effects. For example, hiring at software and technology companies, as well as in media, marketing and advertising has decreased.

    “A couple of Accolo’s clients have slown down hiring expectations for the year,” Cooper adds. “There’s definitely some caution in the market right now.”

    However, the engineering and manufacturing sector is “more recession proof,” and the sustainable energy industry is “going through the roof” in terms of hires, he says.

    Despite the challenges in the US economy, Accolo has not changed its direct marketing tactics, which include utilizing its membership network to target and e-mail potential hires or people who could recommend qualified candidates, Cooper says.

    Accolo also allows its membership base to post its job descriptions on social networking sites like Facebook or del.icio. us, giving the job posting “a life of its own,” he says.

    Kaye/Bassman has migrated away from traditional print direct marketing efforts in the past few years and has switched almost exclusively to electronic communication, McDougal says. In particular, the company has been using video messaging in its e-mails. Each e-mail includes a call to action, encouraging the recipient to click on and open up an electronic brochure or to schedule a conference call.

    The videos can also be posted to other job boards like Monster.corn and CareerBuilder.com, he says. But the overall goal is to get people on the phone.

    “Our electronic efforts are a door opener, but it really comes down to the relationships and the conversation,” McDougal says.

     


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