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UpSellit, Innovator in Virtual Chat Technology, Honored as a Red Herring 100 Award Winner
CAMARILLO, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- UpSellit, an ecommerce and emarketing solution utilizing proprietary virtual-chat technology to engage proactively and personally with customers, has been named as a winner of the Red Herring North America 100 2008 Award for its developments in driving technology innovation.
A winner in the Internet/services category, UpSellit was selected on the basis of technology innovation, quality of management, breadth of partners and customers, and depth of financial backing. The Red Herring 100 list is regarded by technology industry executives, investors and observers as an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the most promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption.
"UpSellit has made great strides in advancing the technology and business value of virtual chat online and this prestigious award recognition further validates our accomplishments," said Glenn Rusell, UpSellit CEO and co-founder. "The advantage is our virtual chat agents, called SMART Agents, can handle thousands of simultaneous live and adaptive conversations with web visitors, while maintaining customer interaction, providing links back to the site and ultimately improving customer satisfaction."
Using a combination of natural language parsing and key word expression, UpSellit's baseline technology has been honed to deliver superior virtual chat technology for post-transactional customer engagement in order to save-a-sale, upsell or cross-sell as well as for rich media advertising. With their product offerings, SMARTsales Agent and SMARTchat Ads, UpSellit provides clients with tools to engage customers in an instant and relevant conversation. Customers communicate with the virtual chat agent for on-demand answers to product-related questions and also receive incentives such as coupons and promotions to increase conversion rates.
UpSellit was identified as one of the top 100 out of more than 800 closely evaluated companies driving development and innovation in private technology companies based in North America. The 100 winning companies were unveiled at Red Herring North America which took place May 12-14, 2008 in San Jose, California. For more information on the event please visit: http://herringevents.com/northamerica08/redherring100.html
About UpSellit (http://www.upsellit.com/)
UpSellit is a performance-based ecommerce and emarketing solution utilizing proprietary virtual-chat technology to engage proactively and personally with customers at predetermined points of action, resulting in increased sales, additional promotional opportunities and improved customer support. Using natural language parsing and approved company messaging, UpSellit's virtual agents takes on the personality of a company's top employee with the ability to interact simultaneously with 10 to 10 million customers. Headquartered in Camarillo, CA, UpSellit was founded in 2005 as a division of USI Technologies. For more information, visit www.upsellit.com.
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