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Successful release of new features and enhancements

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The infoUSA.com Product Team successfully deployed several new features and great product enhancements last night.

A series of articles posted over the next few days will go into greater detail on some of the enhancements and new functionalities.

In the meantime, here’s a recap of the most important parts.

Cross Tab market research reports

image of cross tab report for age and zip code on infousa.com

What is it: a new service, available to signed in visitors that displays demographic / firmagraphic information in an advanced market research report. For example you can see the breakdown of each age range by each ZIP Code, something not allowed on our traditional market research reports.

How to get to it: build a list (or restore a previous count) and click “Checkout”. Look for the “Free Market Research Report” button in the right column of the Choose Your Package page.

A new page called Create a Market Research Report will open. On the right side of the page under the heading Cross Tab Market Research Report, make your selections for rows and column and click Send Report.

Omit geography on a map

image of how to exclude a geography from a map on infousa.com

What is it: this new feature will allow visitors to draw a shape on a map to define their geography, then draw a second shape and omit it from the first one. Just like a donut hole!

How to get to it: click Select from a map on the Geography page when building your list. Follow the instructions on the map to drill down into the area you wish to select from. Use the shape or radius

Advanced email campaign reporting

What it is- deeper reporting statistics will be available with one click. You will be able to unique opens vs. total opens and much more!

How to get to it – sign in to your infoUSA.com account and click Email Campaigns > View under the My Account heading on the top left corner of the page. Click on See Stats on a Sent campaign. Locate the “See all reports” link underneath the Reporting Summary.

Exclude previous email lists

What it is – a way to omit prospects you have previously sent emails. You can also use this feature to conduct A/B testing by sending a different email creative to a subset of your larger list. More on this in a later post.

How to get to it – click the “Exclude Lists” button on the Review Criteria page while building a count for an email campaign. You can choose between excluding a previous campaign or saved email count.

Improved discount display

What it is – a change in how any available discounts are displayed.

How to get to it - sign in to your infoUSA.com account and click My Profile> View under the My Account heading on the top left corner of the page.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 November 2009 21:57 )
 

New enhancements/features going live tonight

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The infoUSA.com Product Team is pleased announce we are finally back in action! We have spent the last couple months working hard on a few new projects and are ready to spring them on the public.


New features:

Cross-tab market research reports - available to logged in visitors, the new report will offered in addition to our traditional market research reports. These new reports will be available for both business and consumer and will allow visitors to conduct more thorough market research.

Omit Geography on a map - this new feature will allow visitors to draw a shape on a map to define their geography, then draw a second shape and omit it from the first one. Just like a donut hole!

Updates:

Advanced email campaign reporting - deeper reporting statistics will be available with one click. You will be able to unique opens vs. total opens and much more!

Omit previous email lists - conduct A/B testing or simply exclude prospects from a previous campaign

Improved discount display - any available discounts can be seen under the My Profile tab in your My Account.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 15 October 2009 20:38 )
 

New email marketing tool among latest enhancements

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infoUSA.com, on June 12, 2009, successfully released several product enhancements including the industry’s first end-to-end acquisition email fulfillment tool.

Other enhancements include:

· Revamped type of business keyword search

· Added a link to Quick Customer Cloner to the Type of Business page

· Modified the Daily New Movers selection process

Let’s take a few minutes to go over each update in detail.

Email Process

Visitors to our site can identify a list of email addresses they want to reach, customize a template (or have an expert build a custom email message), and schedule when they want their email to send, all in just a matter of minutes!

The process is unique in the marketing information industry because most email service providers offer retention email programs, meaning you must have your own “house list” of email addresses to which you will send your message. In our process, you identifying ideal prospects from our databases of accurate, 100% opt-in email addresses.

Product features include:

· A campaign summary page gives a quick overview of the email design, selected criteria, the cost of the campaign, and reporting on the number of email opens and click-throughs.

· Every email campaign is reviewed by one of our email specialists to ensure it is CAN-SPAM Compliance.

· Users can resend previous email campaigns at a 50% discount.

· Quick and easy ways to purchase marketing lists for follow-up marketing.

Click here to learn more about email marketing from infoUSA.com.

To learn how to use the email marketing tool, see our online Product Guide (insert link) or download the pdf (insert link) for step-by-step instructions.

Business Keyword Search

Visitors who use the keyword search on the Type of Business page will notice a change in how results are displayed.

The “Search Results” section has been fine-tuned to display a more accurate and concise list of matching categories, followed by a section of related matches called “You may also be interested in”.

Additionally, a link titled “Show related result” will display any other matches that we find in our databases.

Quick Customer Cloner link on Type of Business page

Perhaps the most important criterion in building a marketing list of businesses is the type or industry that you target. Unfortunately it can be difficult to choose from the plethora of methods (e.g. Keyword, SIC Code, NAICS Code).

For those visitors that can’t pick, we have included a link to our Quick Customer Cloner, a tool that produces a list of prospects based on demographic or firmagraphic information about your best customer.

Daily New Movers Enhancements

Additionally, we have made two modifications to the process of selecting Daily New Movers.

· Reduced the number of selection criteria – provides are more streamlined process

· Added a question about marketing type to the Daily New Movers start page – brings language about SAN and DNC waivers to the front of the process to reduce confusion

Click here http://leads.infousa.com/NewLeads/DailyNewMovers/Geography.aspx?bas_session=new&bas_vendor=190000 to begin a list of Daily New Movers.

Last Updated ( Friday, 16 October 2009 14:13 )