The American Marketing Association (AMA) is the professional association for individuals and organizations who are leading the practice, teaching, and development of marketing worldwide.

Business Marketing Association represents a lifetime of expertise in business-to-business marketing and communications.

The Chicago Association of Direct Marketing (CADM) serves marketers in Chicago and throughout the Midwest who integrate all forms of direct response marketing — including online and offline channels — to generate positive and measurable results.

CIMA is Chicago's only interactive-centric professional organization dedicated to the enhancement and acceleration of business opportunities, professional development and exponential networking for the interactive marketing professionals in Chicago.

The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) is the leading global trade association of organizations that use and support multichannel direct marketing.

Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For 25 years, the company's award-winning technologies and software have redefined business, entertainment and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people virtually anywhere, at anytime. From rich images in print, video and film, to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, the impact of Adobe solutions is evident across industries and felt by anyone who creates, views and interacts with information.

Bronto Software is a leading e-mail marketing service provider. Bronto provides a robust and powerful e-mail marketing platform, coupled with award-winning client services to online retailers and businesses that drive transactions online. With advanced features, exceptional deliverability, detailed analytics and robust reporting, the Bronto application enables marketers to drive results.

Lyris HQ Web Analytics (formerly Clicktracks) is a powerful analytics package at an affordable price. The user interface provides for easily understood and processed analytics data for your website, including PPC campaign optimization, segmentation of visitors and behavior analysis, SEO optimization, contextual analysis, click fraud detection and more.

Daptiv PPM is the industry leading Project Portfolio Management solution. The on-demand collaborative business software allows you to select, staff and manage projects across teams, departments and divisions to collaborate on day-to-day tasks via an intuitive Web interface. Daptive PPM lets your company streamline employee collaboration, reduce the complexity of managing teams, projects and tasks and enjoy unparalleled visibility into mid-office workflow. The end result: more productive teams, more effective projects and higher corporate ROI.

ExactTarget is a provider of on-demand, e-mail marketing software solutions. Their suite of on-demand, one-to-one marketing applications enables clients to send business critical and event-triggered communications to increase sales, optimize marketing investments and strengthen customer relationships.

"I just wanted to let you know that Google may well have saved my life. My sons and I were walking home from having eaten out. A half block from my house, I felt this pressure building in my chest. Immediately, I thought, 'heart attack' and ran through how I'd been feeling that the day (I had been nauseated). My first thought was, 'confirm suspicions,' and immediately, upon arriving home, I went to Google and typed in 'heart attack.' I kept thinking, 'you only have minutes...' I found a site that listed symptoms. Indeed, I was having a heart attack. I was at the Albany fire station within minutes. Five baby aspirin later, and a few squirts of nitro and I was in the ambulance on my way to the hospital. The good news is I have no residual damage. My heart is back to normal. Thank you for providing the Google search engine. I'm sure my recovery was complete because of the speed within which I was able to get help." – ANN.

Google Adwords is a keyword advertising system by which companies bid for the right to have their text ads displayed alongside the search results for certain keywords. Adwords ads are displayed along with search results when someone searches Google using one of your keywords. No matter what the budget – running ads on Google means that you'll be advertising to an audience that's already interested in your business. Choose from a variety of ad formats, including text, image, audio and video ads.

Google Analytics lets you gain rich insights into your website traffic with enterprise features such as Advanced Segmentation, Custom reporting, Motion Charts and more. Learn more about where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site. Strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher-converting websites.

Microsoft is motivated and inspired every day by how customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, to develop breakthrough ideas and to stay connected to what's most important to them. Whether its personal computing; software server products, services or solutions; online services; business services; or entertainment and devices, Microsoft is committed to continual evolution in order to accelerate new technologies as they emerge to better serve our customers.

Every business has unique IT requirements, regardless of company size or type of organization. When considering hosting some element of your IT infrastructure, it is critical that your hosting provider's solution aligns well with the needs of your business and applications.

Sitefinity (from Telerik) is a .NET development platform for construction and management of websites, community portals and intranets that delivers key content management and authoring features for end users, as well as a robust and flexible architecture that empowers developers with an full arsenal of technical capabilities.

Sony DADC is our full-service technology and solution provider for optical media, offering complete solutions for the music, video, games, software and information industries from traditional replication to advanced solutions such as SecuRom, ARccOS, Postscribed ID (PID) and eBridge.

Telerik is the leading vendor of user interface components for Microsoft >NET technologies – ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WinForms and WPF controls and components, as well as .NET Reporting and content management solutions. Through its expertise in interface development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity.

Web CEO is a premier suite of search engine marketing tools that improves SEO workflow – in one software program – that includes a keyword generator, web page optimization analyzer, auto and manual submitter, ranking monitor, top-ranked web page analyzer, HTML editor, FTP client and traffic counter/analyzer.