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Intrawest Doubles ROAS with Omniture SearchCenterdetails

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Intrawest wanted to increase return on advertising spend (ROAS) across its 12 Web sites and find a more effective method to attract visitors looking to book reservations online. Intrawest doubled ROAS by using SearchCenter to monitor which branded and non-branded keywords were converting.

Backcountry.com Improves ROAS and Revenuedetails

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To measure the effects of its search campaigns accurately, the company needed to know not only how visitors were finding the site, but what they were doing once they arrived, both before and after they purchase Backcountry.com products. With Omniture, Backcountry has increased revenue from their SEM activities by over 25 percent, which has allowed Gross’ team to boost its SEM budget.

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Retail

MotoSport Measures Impact of Social Engagementdetails

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MotoSport integrated Bazaarvoice and Omniture SiteCatalyst through Omniture Genesis to compare buyer-to-browser conversion rates for products with reviews to those without reviews. The integration allowed MotoSport to measure the impact of social engagement on the site and determine how that engagement can enhance buyer confidence. It also allowed MotoSport to expand use of Omniture SiteCatalyst with detailed buyer and content contributor information.

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Retail

Minnesota StarTribune Boosts Site Traffic and Visitor Stay Timedetails

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The StarTribune needed a robust content management system with automated visibility into content performance. As a daily news site, the StarTribune adds large amounts of pages daily and needed an automated tracking code insertion to allow for easy content changes. The company also recognized the need to measure traffic and visitor stay time. As part of the implementation, StarTribune integrated Omniture SiteCatalyst with the Clickability Platform through Omniture Genesis, allowing the newspaper to easily measure the length of visitor stay and determine visitor engagement for news content.

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Media

Reader's Digest Optimizes Online Offers with Omniture Test&Target;details

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Reader’s Digest deployed Omniture’s Suite of Online Business Optimization Applications to measure consumer preferences and track the success of multiple campaigns. Utilizing the A/B testing capabilities of Omniture Test&Target; allowed Reader’s Digest to simultaneously test several magazine subscription offers, each varying in price—then measure conversion for each promotion.

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Media

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Dex Increases Customer Loyalty, Decreases Cost of Acquisition with Omnituredetails

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Dex Media, a leader in local search focusing on connecting businesses and consumers through its DexKnows.com Web site, needed to create a more streamlined and effective user experience in order to generate more—and better quality—leads for its advertisers. By segmenting customer behavior with Omniture, Dex increased internal searches 700percent.

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Media/Publishing

CreditCards.com Moves from HBX Web Analytics to Omniture SiteCatalyst for Increased Reporting Functionalitydetails

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CreditCards.com had been using HBX Web analytics for over a year. As the company grew in size and complexity so did its expectations and demands for Web analytics. After transitioning to Omniture SiteCatalyst, the company gained increased functionality and improved site performance.

Industry
Financial Services

Dale and Thomas Popcorn Boosts Online Retail Orders & Revenuedetails

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Dale and Thomas Popcorn wanted to improve sales through all of its channels, particularly online. The company also wanted the ability to accurately track and compare campaigns and sales systematically across all online channels.

Industry
Retail, Internet

Sprint Measures Impact of Social Mediadetails

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One of Sprint’s key social media initiatives is BuzzAboutWireless.com, the leading online community for wireless users, powered by Lithium. The site lets users help each other in using wireless products and services, and because of its high degree of interactivity the site generates rich customer data that complements what Sprint captures on its corporate and e-commerce Web pages. After launching Buzz About Wireless, Sprint quickly recognized the need to integrate data from its social media initiaties into its Web analytics

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High Tech

Overstock Drives Greater Conversion through Omniture and Mercado Integrationdetails

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Overstock.com is using integrated solutions from Omniture, Mercado and Bazaarvoice through Omniture Genesis to employ a strategy called “searchandising”—the utilizing of on-site search terms, user-generated product reviews and analytics to optimize product merchandising and relevance.

Industry
Retail

Cable Shopping Network Automates Remarketing Through Omniture and ExactTargetdetails

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Cable Shopping Network Automates Remarketing Through Omniture and ExactTarget. Fast-growth company with a big brand offers high-end collectibles to a highly targeted market through multiple channels.

Industry
Retail

The Scientific Business of Thomson Reuters Speeds Implementation and Reduces Costs Through Omniture and Coradiantdetails

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The Scientific Business of Thomson Reuters delivers advanced information to a diverse group of sophisticated scientists, researchers and business executives through online channels. The company wanted a comprehensive understanding of how subscribers interacted with online products and services. To see how they solved the problem, download the complete case study.

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High Tech

Red Hat Takes Marketing ROI Measurement To The Extremedetails

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The most recognized Linux brand in the world, Red Hat is the premier Linux and open source provider. Though Red Hat is a marketing powerhouse, the company has always been faced with a challenge common to many business-to-business marketing organizations—measuring ROI across all marketing channels, all the way to the closed deal, and versus demand generation goals. Red Hat turned to the Omniture Closed-Loop Marketing Salesforce solution for help and integrated Omniture’s platform with the company’s existing implementation of Salesforce. Now the standard measurement mechanism across all of Red Hat’s marketing functions, Omniture Closed-Loop Marketing for Salesforce has established a real-time system to measure marketing ROI to the lowest levels of detail and created a process that automates multiple campaign sourcing of opportunities to ensure alignment with sales organization. Red Hat now also has the ability to compare marketing results across both online and offline channels to individual and corporate goals.

Industry
High Tech

Dallas Morning News Doubles Online Channel in 4 Monthsdetails

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In early 2007, The Dallas Morning News set out to achieve a lofty goal: double Internet subscriptions in four months with limited discounts and while adhering to a specific cost per order. To help achieve this goal, The Dallas Morning News enlisted the help of Omniture Test&Target.; Initial focus surrounded subscription funnel testing and then turned to search and display ads. The Dallas Morning News used Omniture Test&Target; to initiate funnel optimization with A/B testing, comparing the existing subscription flow design to a new design. Two months of testing resulted in a highly optimized conversion funnel, and the focus then centered on paid search testing using Omniture Test&Target; for monitoring and attribution. The final optimization phase involved display ads delivered and optimized by Omniture Test&Target.; Results from the testing and display ads proved positive as The Dallas Morning News saw a sizable increase in Internet subscriptions, was better able to leverage all acquisition channels and enjoyed real-time insight into which ads were most effective.

Industry
Media

Redcats USA Optimizes Internal Search Strategies with Omnituredetails

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As one of the world’s leading retailers—and innovative marketers—Redcats USA understands the importance of connecting with customer needs. In order to accomplish this objective, the company implemented Omniture SiteCatalyst Web analytics to optimize their internal search strategies. With Omniture, Redcats USA was able to identify revenue associated with specific keywords, identify areas of improvement in their internal search tool, and increase conversion rates month-over-month.<

Industry
Retail

Lastminute.com Achieves a 28% Increase in Look-to-Book Conversion Ratedetails

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Lastminute.com is one of Europe’s premier travel and lifestyle companies, looking to become the number one European e-commerce lifestyle player by delighting customers with great-value inspiration and solutions. Lastminute.com offers both travel products— such as flight, hotel, holiday and car rental services—as well as lifestyle products including dining services, theatre tickets, music events and more. Recently acquired by Travelocity Europe, the company also operates 36 other industry-relevant sites under the lastminute.com umbrella—all of which are using Omniture SiteCatalyst® as their Web analytics solution.

Industry
Travel

BabyCenter: 67% Increase in Conversions Through Search Keyword Testsdetails

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BabyCenter.com—the leading Web site dedicated to providing information and support to new and expectant parents—is committed to optimizing their users experience on their site. After observing the fact that site abandonment hovered at more than 40 percent and the landing page for the most popular search term converted nearly 30 percent less than the general landing page, BabyCenter decided to enlist the help of Omniture. After conducting search keyword tests with Omniture Test&Target;, BabyCenter.com saw a 67 percent increase in conversions and significant decreases in both abandonment and acquisition costs.

Industry
Education

Alienware Achieve 100 Million in Annual Sales Online with Omnituredetails

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With 80 percent of its business conducted online, it is essential for Alienware—a manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook, media center and professional systems—to understand its customer’s online behavior. Previously relying on crude Web log reports, Alienware deployed Omniture SiteCatalyst, Data Warehouse, Discover and Omniture’s integration with DoubleClick’s DARTmail service. Today, Alienware has a gained deeper insight and is optimizing the online channel to drive company growth. The company boasts more than $100 million in online sales with an average transaction near $3,000. Additionally, the company has experienced a 35 percent annual growth in unique site visitors and using SiteCatalyst, saw a 105 percent increase in online holiday sales in 2005. After deploying DARTmail, Alienware also experienced outstanding success with e-mail campaigns including one campaign bringing in more than $160,000 in incremental revenue.

Industry
High Tech

JetBlue Reduces Cost per Conversion 94 Percentdetails

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How can you offer great service with low fares—and make a profit—when so many airlines are struggling to survive?” It’s a fair question, and JetBlue hears that question often. Unlike many of its competitors, JetBlue has thrived since its inception in February 2000, through a dismal period of history for the airline industry overall. JetBlue was profitable within their first year of operation, and their product is thriving at a time when other airlines are cashing in their chips. JetBlue’s formula for success includes new airplanes, careful hiring and a company-wide focus on customer service. The young company has won numerous industry awards including Condé Nast Traveler’s Best Domestic Airline for three years in a row, Entrepreneur’s Best Low Cost Airline and the Associated Press’ Best Airline Service award.

Industry
Travel & Hospitality

AMA Finds Validation in Site Traffic Reportingdetails

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The American Marketing Association is one of the largest professional associations for marketers with over 38,000 members worldwide covering every aspect of marketing. For over six decades they have been an essential resource in providing relevant marketing information that experienced marketers can turn to. Through AMA’s web site, MarketingPower.com, they have expanded that information to include research, case studies and best practices in marketing. The main objective is to help marketing professionals succeed in their jobs and careers. Besides gaining a greater understanding of customer usage, another important factor for MarketingPower was to have an accurate representation of traffic for advertising sales.

Industry
Business Services

LifeMed Media Streamlines Search Marketing with Omniture SearchCenterdetails

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After experiencing significant challenges with its previous analytics and search marketing solutions, LifeMed Media searched for a Web analytics vendor with the ability to accurately and efficiently measure the performance of online initiatives and optimize keyword marketing. LifeMed Media selected Omniture for its integrated, automated online marketing solution after being recommended by an independent, strategic Internet-marketing company, Stinson Partners. After implementing Omniture technology, LifeMed Media has seen a 90 percent reduction in keyword management costs and a 100 percent increase in traffic with no change in search marketing spend. The company has also eliminated 3,000 keywords for more targeted search marketing.

Industry
Media

Notrefamille.com Increases Online Subscriptions by 50 Percent with Omnituredetails

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Notrefamille, an Internet portal dedicated to family identity and genealogy, desired deeper insight into customer behavior and trends on its three main brands’ Web sites. The company’s lack of visibility negatively impacted SEO and domain management, as well as e-commerce. Notrefamille selected Omniture’s SiteCatalyst to analyse customer behavior and visibility--issues which were quickly resolved. With Omniture’s help, Notrefamille saw a 50 percent increase in registrations and increases in the look-to-book conversion rate, number of items purchased per transaction and average time spent per visit. The drop-off rate also decreased by 32 percent.

Industry
Media

Musician's Friend: Affiliate Reinforcement Increases Conversion By 35%details

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Musician’s Friend—the world’s largest direct marketer of music gear—is committed to providing it’s customers with the best possible prices, selection and service. In an effort to maximize the benefits of the company’s partnership with Upromise, Musician’s Friend wanted to test whether reinforcing an affiliate partner on landing pages would lead to increased conversions. Working with Omniture Test&Target;, the company tested a free shipping promotion that linked from the Upromise site. Two ads were created, one with the Upromise company logo and the other without, and an A/B split test was performed where Omniture Test&Target; randomly showed visitors the two layouts and measured the results from each. The layout with the reinforced Upromise logo generated a 35% conversion lift over the original home page with a 97% confidence level. Musician’s Friend was able to determine the most effective reinforcement offer to increase conversions and measure a true ROI value with ease and efficiency.

Industry
Retail

CNET Moves the Relevance Needledetails

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At CNET Networks—one of the world’s largest online publishers and the thought leader on user engagement metrics—providing a compelling experience to CNET visitors is a central focus. CNET sought to improve performance for users who interacted with their image viewer, improve user engagement and deliver more relevant content. Using Omniture Test&Target; to set up a behavior-based segment to change the site experience for photo viewers quickly led to increased user engagement, the ability to see visitor interests in real-time and the ability for CNET to provide relevant content based on a visitor’s selections and behaviors.

Industry
High Tech

Equity Residential Doubles Sales Leads by Integrating Omniture and OpinionLabdetails

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As the largest publicly traded owner, operator and developer of multifamily housing in the United States, tracking online performance is essential for Equity Residential. Because the company’s Web analytics data and attitudinal data solutions were in a silo, the company had difficulty gaining a clear picture of true online performance and suffered from the inability to quickly identify performance issues that were negatively impacting leads. Equity Residential integrated Online Opinion’s qualitative data with Omniture SiteCatalyst’s quantitative data to identify what customers want and need in realtime. This integration gave the company a property-by-property view of site performance and Customer Voice satisfaction ratings in a single interface. Equity Residential was able to identify and understand both where and why Web site users were abandoning their site as their leads doubled in volume.

Industry
Financial Services