UpSellit, Innovator in Virtual Chat Technology, Honored as a Red Herring 100 Award...

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.

For UpSellit
Patty Tredway, 415-977-1933
patty@antennagroup.com

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