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Visual Data
Systems Seminar
Wilmington NC
September 22

About Us

Visual Data Systems is a leader in Internet marketing, technology consulting and World Wide Web design. As a pioneer in Internet business, we've logged more than a decade of achieving customer satisfaction and Internet innovation.

Visual Data Systems offers a wide variety of products and services that can be customized to fit your unique business needs. Let our experienced professionals polish your ideas and dreams to create your distinctive Internet presence.

At Visual Data Systems, there are no barriers. Just Innovations.

News & Events

Catch Visual Data Systems at the upcoming Conferences:

RMS Users Conference Wilmington, NC, September 22-24

Vacation Rental Managers Association (VRMA) National
Orlando, Florida October 11th - 15th

May 2004 • Volume 2, Issue 1

Product Highlights

Owner Self Promotion (OSP)

NEW Launch!!!!! OSP is the newest addition to our OwnerNet family, delivering state-of-the art print/publish tools, to property owners who want to extend their marketing reach. OSP allows owners to easily create owner and guest postcards, business cards, flyers and special announcements through the web. All materials include a high resolution photo of the owner's property (additional photo option now available!), as well as the ability to customize text. Custom templates can be created by Visual Data Systems to add the creative design. Materials are saved to .pdf and are print ready!

Contact your Account Manager for more details.

Opt-In Advantage

Select prospects to send specific targeted email messages or e-newletters, based on marketing preferences stored in the customer email database. Our Opt-In Advantage Software captures important customer details from your online contact form and saves them for use in target, bulk email marketing.

• Modification to one website Contact form to "opt-in" to email list and to specify other marketing criteria, such as "Interested in Golf Specials"
• Send Message to selected email list
• Delete (permanently remove) email address information
• Add new email information and marketing preferences
• Inactivate email information
• Update email information and marketing preferences
• Send a Test Message

Each message sent will automatically include a 'Remove Me' option as part of the text message to meet legal requirements. The 'Remove Me' message will be sent to your local email address and your administrative staff can manually remove the customer from the list. Visual Data Systems will periodically send a log of unavailable, bad email addresses to your company to manually remove these addresses from their email list.

Contact your Account Manager for more details.

Flash Multimedia Development

Interested in delivering beautiful, engaging, real-time digital experiences to your customers? Consider incorporating a macromedia flash presentation into your current website or during the redesign process. We can customize your site with an engaging visual cue that will draw users into key areas of your site. With Macromedia flash, we can integrate video, text, audio, and graphics into your website to create an effective user experience that meshes with your marketing message and goals.

Contact your Account Manager for more details or for a custom price quote.

Premium Promotion Online Reporting

To participants in Visual Data's Premium Promotion Service, we have good news: you will soon be able to view your monthly Premium Promotion reports online! The programmers and designers at Visual Data Systems have been working diligently to create a database and website that incorporates monthly web positions, traffic analysis, and pay-per-click services data all in one place. It will allow you access to this information in a more timely fashion and you will easily be able to compare month-to-month and year-to-year data! Five clients are in beta this month, and we hope to have the service available to the rest of the participants in May.

Contact your Account Manager for more details.

New Log Analysis Software: Visitour

We are also making the transition from WebTrends to a new log analysis software called Visitour. The details from Visitour will allow us to do a much more in-depth analysis for our Premium Promotion customers, monitor additional commerce detail (such as how many people viewed XYZ property and then booked it), and determine the best use of pay-per-click search engine services. According to Owner Larry Nussbaum, "Visitour takes raw data and transforms it into usage analysis, answering the BIG question 'How is my web site being used?' with reports that provide the kinds of answers that Web designers and Web executives require."

Some features:

• Web Marketing reports available include Ads Served, Affiliates, Advertising Campaigns and recording and analysis of Shopping patterns including basket.
• Automatically identifies and separates Hit & Runs (single hits from a portal that are not particularly desirable unless your site is merely one page), Robots/ Spiders and virus attack traffic from Normal visits.
• Visit filters allow for in-depth analysis by pages viewed, referral sources, and portal search terms.

Contact your Account Manager for more details.

We believe these new products will be beneficial all-around by providing easy and timely access to data you can understand about your website, giving us more time to work with you on the marketing of your website based on accurate data.
Contact your Account Manager for more details.

Visual Data Systems, Inc.
10760 Hickory Ridge Road, Suite 312
Columbia, MD 21044

Phone: (410) 964-8665 ext. 215 • Fax: (410) 964-5668
Email: info@vdsys.com • Web: www.vdsys.com

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