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MobileLime Wins Global Electronic Marketing (GEM) Award for Its Mobile Rewards Platform.


Awarded Best System and Program Vendor at the 15 (th) Annual GEMCON GEMCON Global Electronic Marketing Conference  Conference

BOSTON -- MobileLime([R]), the first company to turn the mobile phone into a marketing, loyalty and payment device, today announced that it won the Global Electronic Marketing (GEM) award for Best System and Program Vendor at the 15th annual Global Electronic Marketing Conference (GEMCON) in Park City, Utah Park City is a city located in Summit County, Utah, United States. It is one of two major resort towns in Utah, the other being Moab. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back and a part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. .

"The GEM Awards recognize excellence in electronic marketing," said Mike Gorshe of Accenture, the Chicago-based global consultancy that has sponsored the GEM Awards since 1996.

MobileLime was recognized for using mobile phone technology for marketing, loyalty and payment purposes. MobileLime's Mobile Rewards platform enables merchants to offer customers exclusive member benefits, information-based alerts and instant savings on items store-wide through their customers' mobile phones.

"We were very pleased to select MobileLime as a winner for its innovative Mobile Rewards platform," said Carlene Thissen, GEMCON founder. "The unique nature of the technology rewards both consumers and retailers and is at the forefront of the industry. MobileLime enables merchants to build real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example.  relationships with customers and impact their buying behavior at the point-of-sale by leveraging the interactive power of the cell phone."

MobileLime makes a merchant's existing loyalty program work harder while improving the shopping experience for the consumer. It eliminates the need for physical loyalty cards by using a shopper's cell phone number as a unique identifier With reference to a given (possibly implicit) set of objects, a unique identifier is any identifier which is guaranteed to be unique among all identifiers used for those objects and for a specific purpose. . The cashier CASHIER. An officer of a moneyed institution, who is entitled by virtue of his office to take care of the cash or money of such institution.
     2. The cashier of a bank is usually entrusted with all the funds of the bank, its notes, bills, and other choses in
 simply enters the customer's cell phone number at checkout and the shopper receives instant savings towards purchases.

"We are proud to receive this recognition from such a well respected global association," said Robert Wesley, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , MobileLime. "The GEM Award is yet another indicator that our unique relationship-based mobile promotions, rewards and payment platform, tied to the point of sale, results in increased sales for merchants and greater value for consumers."

Winners were announced at the GEM Awards ceremony held October 10, 2006 at GEMCON in Park City, Utah.

About MobileLime ( [R] )

MobileLime is the first company to turn the mobile phone into a marketing, loyalty and payment device, enabling merchants to build sales and loyalty in ways never before possible.

With MobileLime, consumers can use their mobile phones to personalize per·son·al·ize  
tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es
1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner.

2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify.
 their shopping experiences with valuable information and offers, take advantage of loyalty programs without carrying cards, and use their mobile phones as a quick and secure way to pay for purchases. MobileLime enables merchants to create true one-to-one relationships with their patrons - reaching them through multiple channels with timely and targeted promotions when patrons are most receptive receptive /re·cep·tive/ (re-cep´tiv) capable of receiving or of responding to a stimulus. . Merchants can take advantage of cost-effective cost-effective,
n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate.
, high-impact, interactive cardless loyalty programs, and let patrons pay with their mobile phones, speeding checkout and cutting costs by offering flexible payment options.

Recently awarded 1st place winner of the Wireless Emerging Technologies Award at CTIA (1) See CompTIA.

(2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry.
 WIRELESS 2006, the 2005 Global Retail Technology Award for Best In-Store Innovation, and the Innovation Award from the Global Mobile Marketing Association, MobileLime, a service of Vayusa, Inc., is privately held and based in the Boston area. To learn more, please visit www.mobilelime.com.
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