




Omniture: World Leader in Destination Resorts Doubles Return on Ad Spend Using Omniture SearchCenter
Published in Science and Technology on Wednesday, February 11th 2009 at 6:13 GMT, Last Modified on 2009-02-11 06:14:36 by Market Wire

OREM, UT--(Marketwire - February 11, 2009) - Omniture, Inc. (
"As a global leader in a seasonal travel market, Intrawest needed to be able to quickly gain insight into customer needs and preferences to capitalize on market demand when it is happening," says Rob Morrow, director of Web marketing and analytics for Intrawest. "We also needed a search tool that could scale with us and allow us to see market trends and variance on a campaign level. [ SearchCenter ] enables us to make strategic business decisions quickly based on valuable insight into consumer search data."
In fact, Intrawest is already seeing benefits from the solution. Using [ Omniture SearchCenter ], Intrawest has doubled return on ad spend in 18 months by monitoring which branded and non-branded keywords were converting. [ SiteCatalyst ] enabled Intrawest to segment extensive data by geographical location, product and market and to examine trends and variance at individual resort products.
"Consumers are increasingly utilizing the Web to meet travel needs and international market leaders like Intrawest need to know crucial information about consumer search behavior to fulfill those needs now more than ever," said Matt Belkin, general manager of SearchCenter for Omniture. "Using [ Omniture SearchCenter ] and [ Omniture SiteCatalyst ], Intrawest can effectively manage large volumes of keywords and utilize return on ad spend to optimize their campaigns, leading to increased site traffic and conversion."
For more information on Intrawest's use of Omniture products, a customer success story can be downloaded from [ www.omniture.com/offer/458 ].
About Intrawest
Intrawest is a leader in the development and management of experiential destination resorts. The company has interests in ten resorts at North America's most popular mountain destinations including Whistler Blackcomb, a host venue for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The Intrawest network also includes Canadian Mountain Holidays, the largest heli-skiing operation in the world, Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort in Florida and Club Intrawest -- a private resort club with locations throughout North America. In addition, Intrawest develops, markets and sells real estate at its resorts and at other locations across North America and in Europe. Intrawest is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. For more information, visit [ www.intrawest.com ]
About Omniture
Omniture, Inc. is a leading provider of online business optimization software, enabling customers to manage and enhance online, offline and multi-channel business initiatives. Omniture's software, which it hosts and delivers to its customers as an on-demand subscription service and on premise solution, enables customers to capture, store and analyze information generated by their Web sites and other sources and to gain critical business insights into the performance and efficiency of marketing and sales initiatives and other business processes. In addition, Omniture offers a range of professional services that complement its online services, including implementation, best practices, consulting, customer support and user training through Omniture University™. Omniture's more than 5,100 customers include eBay, AOL, Wal-Mart, Gannett, Microsoft, Neiman Marcus, Oracle, General Motors, Sony and HP. [ www.omniture.com ]
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