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AGENCY.COM Endorses the Value-Add of WebCriteria's Services to Clients.


PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 20, 1999--

WebCriteria, Inc., the first company to offer technology for measuring and objectively comparing the performance and usability of web sites, and AGENCY.COM, a leading interactive services and consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee
consulting firm

business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a
, today announced that WebCriteria has been endorsed as a `Friend' in P2, the Partner Program of AGENCY.COM.

The relationship includes sales lead A sales lead is the identity of a person or entity potentially interested in purchasing a product or service, and represents the first stage of a sales process. The lead may have a corporation or business associated with the person(s).  referrals, and co-operative projects, cross technology training, and joint support for clients from the two companies. The crux of the relationship is WebCriteria's flagship service, SiteProfile Reports, which compares a web site with its competitors and industry segment on factors most responsible for driving repeat visitors including speed, ease of navigation and freshness.

"WebCriteria is delivering critical competitive intelligence and our relationship will allow us to offer that capability directly to our clients," said Larry Krakauer, chief technology officer at AGENCY.COM. "Recent analyst reports have determined repeat visitors outspend out·spend  
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1. To spend beyond the limits of: outspends his earnings.

2.
 first time customers by 200-300 percent, and WebCriteria's service evaluates a site's ability to generate and retain repeat visitors. That's intelligence our customers can use."

"Since launch this spring, we've enabled more than 50 leading companies to gain a competitive advantage in their e-businesses," said Bruce Carocci, VP of marketing and sales, WebCriteria. "Businesses like CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. , Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation).
Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006.
, Intel, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Barnes & Noble, CDNOW and leading players in the automotive industry The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of motor vehicles. In 2006, more than 69 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide.  have signed on for extended services. With the help of global innovators like AGENCY.COM, we can assist e-commerce sites in transforming their part of the web into a place that's fast, fresh and easy to use."

"AGENCY.COM is very pleased to welcome WebCriteria as a `Friend' in P2," said Peter Kestenbaum, vice president, marketing. "After an in-depth technology and reference review, we are more than confident that our clients will be receiving a top-notch product."

Through this relationship, AGENCY.COM staff will be familiar with the capabilities and nuances of WebCriteria's SiteProfile Reports service and provide sales leads to the company when SiteProfile is deemed a best fit for a particular client's needs. Other terms of the Friend relationship may include cooperative new business proposals and projects.

About AGENCY.COM

AGENCY.COM is a leading global Internet professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products.  firm. The company provides an integrated set of strategy, creative and technology services that take clients from concept to launch of their Internet businesses. Founded in January 1995, AGENCY.COM is headquartered in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 and has U.S. offices in Avon (CO), Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York, Portland (OR), San Francisco, and Woodbridge (NJ) and international offices in Amsterdam, London, Paris and Singapore. AGENCY.COM serves a broad and diversified global client base in a variety of industries, including 3M, British Airways, Compaq and Texaco. For more information, please visit the web site at http://www.agency.com.

About WebCriteria

WebCriteria provides competitive intelligence that compares the performance and usability of web sites. WebCriteria's SiteProfile is the only automated service for measuring, benchmarking and comparing a web browsing experience. The heart of SiteProfile is Max, a browsing behavior agent that simulates the way an average user sees, thinks and moves through a web site to produce objective measurements of a site's speed, ease of use and freshness relative to its competitors and industry segment. Based in Portland, Ore., WebCriteria enables interactive agencies and web site owners to objectively compare a web site to its competition, its industry peers, and the ever-changing performance standards of the web. For more information, visit the web site at http://www.webcriteria.com (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. .
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