Holiday III, Internet Shopper, Feature Releases

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• Source: Business Wire
• On 3:01 pm EST, Thursday November 5, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following release focuses on the topic Holiday III, Internet Shopper:

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Convio Offers Last Minute Tips for Charities to Turn Internet Shoppers to Internet Donors Source: Convio

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill.-- New and Improved Gift & Home Décor Website CollectionsEtc.com Makes Holiday Shopping & Gift-Giving Fast, Fun and Frugal Source: Collections Etc. Inc.

SAN FRANCISCO-- The Perfect Gift: GiftLit.com Announces Personalized Book-of-the-Month Gifts for Holiday Gift Giving Source: GiftLit

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- NAMCO BANDAI Games Preserves Holiday Shopping Sanity with Pom-Poms, Kite-Surfing, Kung-Fu, Cooking and More Source: NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc.

COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Resource Interactive Unveils Facebook Ecommerce Experience Source: Resource Interactive

CYPRESS, Calif.-- Value-Packed Holiday Toy Lineup from Bandai America Incorporated Kick-Starts the Season with Power Rangers and Ben 10 Alien Force Source: Bandai America Incorporated

NEW YORK-- Music Choice Ushers in the Holidays with the Best Traditional & Contemporary Music of the Season Source: Music Choice

The following knowledgeable industry leaders and scholars from Business Wire's ExpertSource database are available to discuss topics relating to Holiday III Internet Shopper:

Mr. Michael DeSimone, E4X, Inc.

Mr. DeSimone is an experienced business leader and innovator that can speak to new opportunities in ecommerce, how to utilize internet sales channels to reach new international customers, and employ technology for seamless global commerce. In his current position, Mr. DeSimone oversees the global development and implementation of strategic initiatives that deliver new products and technologies to the company's retail customers. He manages the E4X worldwide network of corporate offices and strategic partners that together deliver the FiftyOne Global eCommerce service. Throughout his career, Mr. DeSimone has driven sales growth and new product deployment at top tier organizations including Visa, JP Morgan Chase, Royal Bank of Scotland, Travelex, Citibank, and Thomas Cook Financial Services.

Research and Publications: Mr. DeSimone has contributed to or been quoted by Internet Retailer, , The Wall Street Journal, The Nielsen Report, American Banker, The New York Times. He is a frequent speaker at industry events including Etail, the Direct Response Forum, the annual NACHA Payments Symposium

PR Contact: Don Goncalves
Title: Assistant Account Executive
Email: dgoncalves@tizinc.com
Telephone: 781-783-9380

Alex Rampell, TrialPay

Alex Rampell is the co-founder and CEO of TrialPay (www.trialpay.com/), a payments and promotions platform that uses efficiencies of the Web to pair online shoppers with ideal offers at every stage of the purchase process. As a former software provider and dealing with some of the world’s largest technology companies, Alex realized the difficulty the software industry faced in getting people to buy products once their trial period was over. Enter TrialPay’s “Get it Free” model (http://www.trialpay.com/solutions/getitfree/) - a customer who isn’t willing to pay for software would certainly need, or want, to buy something else (clothes, music, flowers, etc.). TrialPay connects customers to the right advertisers, where they would make a purchase, the advertiser pays TrialPay for the referral and shoppers get the product for free. After seeing success that would rival Amazon and PayPal’s early years, he expanded the model to include all types of companies, including The Gap, Home Depot, Skype, Challenge Games, FTD, Match.com, Apple, PETCO, Zynga, Blockbuster, McAfee, PlayFish, Skype and Zagat. TrialPay recently launched “Purchase Incentives,” (http://www.trialpay.com/solutions/incentives/) a way for retailers to replace expensive promotions like free shipping and deep discounts with low-cost incentives. With Purchase Incentives like free restaurant gift certificates or movie tickets, customers are more likely to complete their transaction or add more to their shopping cart. TrialPay’s holiday campaigns and proven track record of increasing customer conversion rates have been a huge success for online retailers who are trying to avoid shopping cart abandonment. Prior to TrialPay, Alex founded “Always Online,” a program that allowed frustrated AOL subscribers to acquire and maintain the ISP’s overloaded dial-up lines and FraudEliminator, the first consumer anti-phishing company (later merged with SiteAdvisor and acquired by McAfee). He holds an AB in Applied Math and Computer Science, cum laude, from Harvard University.

PR Contact: Nikki Festa
Title: Account Manager
Email: nikki@famapr.com
Telephone: 617-758-4175

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