CLICKACTION LAUNCHES UPDATED CLICKACTION EMA TO MEET THE COMPLEX NEEDS OF TODAY'S MARKETERS
ClickAction Email Marketing Automation Provides Marketers With Built-In Dynamic Content and Message Deployment Automation
PALO ALTO, Calif. (February 20, 2002) - ClickAction,
Inc. (Nasdaq: CLAC), a leading provider of email marketing automation solutions, announced today that they have released its ClickAction Email Marketing Automation (EMA) 6.1.1 service. ClickAction EMA provides marketers with an integrated solution to develop, deliver and track highly personalized and relevant retention and acquisition campaigns.
New capabilities include dynamic content messaging, a specialized feature that allows companies to deliver personalized content based on the recipients profile data. Dynamic messages are automatically created by the EMA application for each recipient by evaluating business rules that match subscriber profile characteristics to specific pieces of content. For multi-channel retail companies, this feature allows them to design a single message, which when delivered, will contain product information personalized specifically for the recipient.
ClickAction EMA now includes the ability to pre-schedule the deployment of an email message based on customer behavior or data stored in a customer profile. Using ClickAction EMA, marketers can automate the process of sending timely messages and sequencing email messages based on the behavior of their customers. This capability relieves the need to constantly monitor customer behavior while helping to efficiently communicate to customers with relevant and time appropriate content.
"Our new ClickAction EMA 6.1.1 capabilities provide tremendous benefit to our clients and strengthens our position as a leading email marketing solutions provider," said Mark Elpers, senior vice president of marketing for ClickAction. "ClickAction EMA, coupled with the collaborative support of our ClickAction Client Service Team, optimizes and simplifies the entire online customer lifecycle, from acquisition to retention to customer analysis."
ClickAction EMA users will also have the ability to control the flow and delivery of their messages. These deployment options allow our clients to select the exact number of messages they want deployed from a message segment or define messages to evenly spread deployment over several days. This is a significant feature for publishers as well as media and entertainment properties that have sophisticated list management requirements such as the need to meter outbound messages over multiple days to control advertising inventory.
"As a ClickAction client, ITworld.com was able to provide input into the ClickAction EMA 6.1.1 release and help develop features that ITworld desired, including email frequency management capabilities," said Ann Roskey, vice president of marketing at ITworld.com. "ClickAction EMA has allowed ITworld.com to effectively manage our email marketing campaigns, develop a solid, one-to-one relationship with our customers and consistently improve our overall ROI."
About ClickAction
ClickAction, Inc. is a leading provider of email marketing automation products and services. ClickAction Email Marketing Automation (EMA) helps marketers design, deploy and manage personalized email campaigns that maximize the lifetime value of each customer. ClickAction EMA saves time, generates revenues and reduces costs by providing a highly scalable outbound and inbound messaging, one-to-one publication, powerful rule-based segmentation, real-time tracking and detailed reporting, all integrated in a Web-based solution. 100% Java-based, ClickAction EMA is built for easy deployment and integration with industry-leading third party applications. ClickAction EMA products and services range from fully hosted ASP applications to licensable, enterprise-class software. ClickAction products have a proven track record of success in a variety of industries including retail, catalog, brand and publishing. In addition to ClickAction EMA, the company offers interactive, campaign, acquisition and rich media services. ClickAction is a member of TRUSTe, an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet. For more information on ClickAction
products and services, visit
www.clickaction.comor call 1-800-473-3141.
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