Burlingame, CA – October 27, 2003 – Coremetrics (www.coremetrics.com), the leading provider of Web analytics solutions, today added six retail Web sites to a rapidly growing list of online brands that rely on detailed analysis from Coremetrics to improve online business performance. Earlier this year, Coremetrics was named the sole market leader in a Web analytics report by Forrester Research and continues its market momentum by adding Ashford.com (www.ashford.com); Diamond.com (www.diamond.com); Leaps and Bounds (www.leapsandboundscatalog.com); One Step Ahead (www.onestepahead.com); Select Comfort (www.selectcomfort.com); and WorldofWatches.com (www.worldofwatches.com) as new clients that are leveraging Coremetrics to attract and convert high value visitors, increase customer lifetime value, and create a multi-channel view of customer behavior.
"We chose Coremetrics because of their reputation as experts in the retail industry, and their unequaled customer support," said Rachel Pendon, Internet marketing manager for Chelsea and Scott, the parent company of One Step Ahead and Leaps and Bounds. "It's always hard to find good customer service, but Coremetrics offers a dedicated account executive that is highly involved and spends the time to understand our business objectives. The Internet generates so much valuable data, and Coremetrics helps us determine exactly which analyses are most relevant to improving online business performance."
"Our relationship with Coremetrics serves an important role delivering true ROI information from our online placement," said Carol Ott, Internet marketing manager at Select Comfort. "By integrating all of our e-commerce sales, routed via our web site and call centers, Coremetrics serves as a valuable business partner."
"The primary reason we selected Coremetrics is because of their unique ability to track all online marketing campaigns in a single interface and tie all campaigns directly to ROI," said Jill Weiss, director of online marketing at Odimo Incorporated, owner of Ashford.com, Diamond.com and WorldofWatches.com. "Using analysis from Coremetrics, we are able to quickly and easily make decisions about where to spend online marketing dollars because all the relevant information about campaign performance is at our fingertips."
About Coremetrics Online Analytics 2004
Coremetrics Online Analytics 2004 is the industry's only Web
analytics platform that captures all customer and visitor
clickstream activity to build LIVE profiles that serve as
the foundation for all successful e-business initiatives.
Through a patent-pending browser-based data collection technology,
the Coremetrics Online Analytics 2004 Data Warehouse gathers
and stores behavioral information directly from the visitor's
browser and records interactions in real-time to build LIVE
Profiles. LIVE Profiles are the source of all Coremetrics
Online Analytics 2004 reporting and analysis, and enable online
marketers, IT managers, and e-commerce executives to attract
and convert high value visitors, increase customer lifetime
value, and create a multi-channel view of customer behavior.
Coremetrics Online Analytics 2004 is a managed solution that
is deployed within weeks and requires no new hardware or software
to deliver immediate ROI.
"Coremetrics continues to lead the market in new customers, and the addition of these six leading retail Web sites is a testament to our unique value proposition," said Scott Kauffman, chairman of Coremetrics. "Our powerful, easy-to-use solution continues to be deployed widely within our clients to help them address their most significant online challenges. We have proven our ability to deliver real, measurable results to clients, and we look forward to helping these new clients drive significant profitability improvements online."
About Chelsea & Scott, Ltd.
Chelsea & Scott, Ltd. is the parent company of One Step
Ahead and Leaps and Bounds Catalog, specialty retailers that
provide babies, children and their parents with the very finest
products available. Chelsea & Scott, Ltd. searches the
world over for innovative, hard to find, high-quality products,
and then rigorously tests them for performance and value.
About Odimo Incorporated
Odimo Incorporated, a privately held company based in Fort
Lauderdale, FL, owns and operates a family of online retail
stores dedicated to bringing the widest selection of brand
name watches, fine jewelry, personal luxury accessories and
the highest quality diamonds direct from the source to the
consumer at unbelievable prices. Ashford.com, Diamond.com,
and WorldofWatches.com are among several website storefronts
designed to meet the differing needs of today's online consumers
while utilizing a centralized infrastructure to provide exceptional
value, superior customer service and the widest product selection
available online. We invite you to shop our online stores
at www.Ashford.com, www.Diamond.com, www.WorldofWatches.com
or any of our other online stores. You can also shop by phone
at 1-866-Ashford, 1-888-DIAMOND and 1-800-222-0077.
About Select Comfort
Founded in 1987, Select Comfort Corporation is the nation's
leading bed retailer, holding 26 U.S. issued or pending patents
for its personalized sleep products. The company designs,
manufactures and markets a line of adjustable-firmness mattresses
featuring air-chamber technology, branded the Sleep Number
bed, as well as foundations and sleep accessories. Select
Comfort's products are sold through its 345 retail stores
located nationwide, including leased departments in Bed Bath
& Beyond stores; through selected bedding retailers; through
its national direct marketing operations; and on the Internet
at www.selectcomfort.com.
About Coremetrics
Coremetrics is the leading provider of web analytics solutions.
The company's flagship product, Coremetrics Online Analytics
2004, is the industry's only Web analytics platform that captures
and stores all customer and visitor clickstream activity to
build LIVE (Lifetime Individual Visitor Experience) profiles
that serve as the foundation for all successful e-business
initiatives. With Coremetrics Online Analytics 2004, online
marketers, IT managers, and e-commerce executives are able
to attract and convert high value visitors, increase customer
lifetime value, and create a multi-channel view of customer
behavior. The company services over 175 unique brands online,
including Bank of America, Columbia House, CompUSA, Eddie
Bauer, HPshopping, Motorola, Neiman Marcus, Victoria's Secret,
and Williams-Sonoma. Coremetrics is privately held with funding
from Accel Partners and Highland Capital Partners, and is
headquartered in Burlingame, California with offices in Austin,
Texas and Portland, Oregon. To learn more about Coremetrics,
visit www.coremetrics.com or call 877-721-CORE.
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inception. To learn more, visit www.coremetrics.com/privacy.
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