OTTAWA - May 27, 2009 - Campaigner (www.campaigner.com), a leading email marketing solutions provider, today announced its new StartUp! Services to help small businesses and entrepreneurs launch an ongoing email marketing program that strengthens customer relationships and drives sales. Top features of Campaigner's StartUp! services include a free 30 day trial, email template tailoring to reflect the look of your business, a weekly Getting Started training webinar, 24/7 access to Campaigner's customer support and much more.

Omaha, NE, May 28, 2009 — Yesmail™ (an infoGROUP company, NASDAQ: IUSA), a recognized industry-leading provider of permission-based online email marketing solutions, announced today a strategic alliance with R2integrated, a digital marketing and technology firm located in Baltimore, Maryland. Leveraging R2i’s specialization in interactive, digital marketing and social media application development, this alliance provides a robust suite of solutions for Yesmail and R2i clients to develop and support highly relevant social media applications and integrated digital marketing campaigns.

INDIANAPOLIS  ( May 12, 2009)  – Fabric and specialty sewing retailer Hancock Fabrics announced today that it has nearly doubled its email marketing revenue since November using ExactTarget’s one-to-one marketing platform.

Hancock Fabrics , which operates retail stores in 37 states and online, posted a six-month email marketing revenue increase of 93 percent following its move to  ExactTarget in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Portland, OR., - May 5, 2009 - Webtrends, a global provider of world-class data collection and analysis, today made available a beta version of the first standardized model for determining how effectively organizations measure and utilize the data generated by their online marketing.

The Digital Marketing Maturity Model (DM3) provides a framework and objective criteria for assessing the strategies, skills, tools and best practices that support the successful measurement of all digital marketing activities. Other industry models focus exclusively on web site measurement

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--StartupNation (www.startupnation.com), a leading business advice and networking site for entrepreneurs, and VerticalResponse, Inc. (www.verticalresponse.com), a leading provider of email marketing, surveys and postcards for small business, are unveiling the leading mom-run businesses across the US – with the top ten each receiving 1,000 free emails from VerticalResponse. The national competition, which selected and ranked by popular vote the top 200 moms in business, honors the achievements of mothers running successful businesses they have built from the ground up. Well over 600,000 votes were cast in support of several thousand contestants. Winners include a disabled vet whose disability checks didn’t meet her needs as a single mom, so she learned the ins and outs of Internet Marketing and wrote a book to teach others the same; moms who started businesses to supplement family income in the down economy or in response to family tragedy, which required them to stay at home; and moms who saw their own needs reflected in others, and launched business around breastfeeding accessories, pregnancy cravings, and other realities unique to women. The complete Top 200 Winners list is available on StartupNation’s website at www.startupnation.com/leading-moms-2009.

Redwood City, Calif., May 4, 2009 – StrongMail Systems, Inc., the leading provider of commercial-grade solutions for marketing and transactional email, today announced the formation of the StrongMail Customer Advisory Board. This brand new group was developed as an interactive community where key email stakeholders from StrongMail's rapidly expanding customer base can showcase innovative uses of StrongMail's technology, as well as influence future product direction.

More than 50 email leaders have already joined the newly formed Customer Advisory Board from a diverse group of companies, including Ticketmaster, WebEx and Turner Broadcasting. In addition to regular meetings with StrongMail's product development team, the group will have the opportunity to network with their peers and learn how to leverage email more effectively in new and unique ways.

Redwood City, Calif., May 4, 2009 – StrongMail Systems, Inc., the leading provider of commercial-grade solutions for marketing and transactional email, today announced the formation of the StrongMail Customer Advisory Board. This brand new group was developed as an interactive community where key email stakeholders from StrongMail's rapidly expanding customer base can showcase innovative uses of StrongMail's technology, as well as influence future product direction.

More than 50 email leaders have already joined the newly formed Customer Advisory Board from a diverse group of companies, including Ticketmaster, WebEx and Turner Broadcasting. In addition to regular meetings with StrongMail's product development team, the group will have the opportunity to network with their peers and learn how to leverage email more effectively in new and unique ways.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Companies that track consumer behavior on the Web for targeted advertising without proper consent are near their "last chance" to self-regulate, the head of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Monday.

Privacy advocates say regulations on big phone and Internet companies, such as AT&T Inc and Google Inc, are too lax, giving the firms excessive control over consumers' personal information.