On The Morning Wire: 11-21-07

The following are press releases that caught our attention today, November 21th, 2007. If you have a news announcement you would like to share with the Website Magazine community, please contact Website Magazine editors now.

Circuit City Lets Online Shoppers Get Social This Holiday Season with Technology from Pluck :  Just in time for one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year, Pluck™ Corporation today announced that Circuit City Stores, Inc. is using technology from Pluck to power its new CityCenter Community, a bustling social-shopping destination on CircuitCity.com

Saletastic.com Launches AJAX Coupon Widget : Using the latest AJAX and Web 2.0 technologies, the AJAX Coupon Widget delivers an integrated Cross Browser Rich Client Interface for internet shoppers.

thinkingVOICE Launches Advanced Click to Call Service for Affiliate and Performance Networks : thinkingVOICE announces CallBeacon(TM), enabling advertisers to embed call tracking at their website which is connected to their existing advertising initiatives. Now marketers may determine ROI more clearly and compensate partners which may be driving leads by phone. CallBeacon(TM) is an enhanced version of click to call that may be embedded and branded flexibly at advertisers websites.

New Service Offers an Easy to Use SMS Customer Contact Form - Now Free To Sign Up : TextCall is a Free to sign up text message website contact solution integrated in to a website contact form developed by Jason Pender of DirectAZ LLC. Customers can send their contact request to a cell phone, or text themselves any relevant information from a website.

Search Engine Optimization Course at New York University (NYU SCPS) : Learn Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM/PPC) students will improve personal or company web sites in hands-on sessions. Join these active training labs to learn the best tools to do current search marketing techniques.
9 out of 10 Sage Resellers Believe Communications via SMS Text Message is a Must : Mobile communication is quickly becoming the efficient way to manage relationships with customers. According to the Mobile Data Association 1billion text messages are sent a week! The text messaging experts at Dynmark are committed to developing software that allows organizations to maximize the potential of text messaging for CRM and internal communications. They showcased their new e-txt plug-in for Sage CRM at the Sage Visions 07 show in November and in a survey 91% of Sage resellers felt that text messaging would lead to improved communications.