Digital River Sponsors E-Commerce Awards
Minneapolis, Minnesota – (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) – April 16, 2007 – Global e-commerce and web hosting outsourcing provider, Digital River, has initiated a call for entries for its 2007 ICE Awards (an acronym for Internet Commerce Excellence).
The awards were designed to recognize Digital River clients’ e-commerce best practices in creative new ways to attract customers, build loyalty and drive revenues and efficiencies through their online stores. Digital River’s ICE Awards will be presented to clients at the company’s Spring Global Network Sales Summits, which are being held in Palm Springs, Calif., and Rome, Italy.
Joel Ronning, CEO of Digital River remarked, ”The ICE Awards are designed to recognize our clients for their efforts in raising the bar of excellence in global online marketing and sales. Our clients continue to launch increasingly sophisticated online programs and marketing campaigns while integrating deeper with alternative online sales channels. These companies are leveraging Digital River’s e-commerce best practices and using creative, analytics-based methods to generate more revenue, open new online sales channels and turn one-time buyers into lifelong customers – and we want to commend their efforts.”
Digital River clients, ranging in size from small businesses to large enterprises, are eligible for the ICE Awards. Clients are automatically eligible for Rookie-of-the-Year and Highest Online Sales Growth. In addition, clients can complete and submit ICE Awards nomination forms for Best Product Launch, Best Performing Third-Party Promotion, Best International E-Commerce Strategy, Best Performance by an Online Retailer and Best Strategic E-Marketing Performance.
Johan Malmberg, Vice President, Product Development and Strategy of Uniblue added, ”As one of the 2006 ICE Awards winners, we were recognized by Digital River and our peers for the great results we generated by selling through multiple online channels. By leveraging some of the programs and channels available through Digital River, including, its direct, retail and affiliate channels, we implemented marketing campaigns on try-before-you-buy versions of our software and experienced conversion rates as high as 26 percent, a tremendous result for our company.”
All entries must be received at Digital River by April 11, 2007. For more information, e-mail iceawards@digitalriver.com.
Digital River, Inc., a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, builds and manages online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services.
Founded in 1994, Digital River, Inc., focuses on e-commerce outsourcing, building and managing online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services. Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in major U.S. cities as well as Cologne, Germany; London, England; Shannon, Ireland; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan.
For more information about nomination forms and qualification rules for the Digital River ICE Awards, please visit: www.digitalriver.com/corporate/ice/.
To learn more about Digital River, please visit: www.digitalriver.com.