Chief Marketer Staff

• ChannelAdvisor Acquires SearchMarketing

  ChannelAdvisor has acquired SearchMarketing, a provider of search optimization for online merchants

• Bowe Bell + Howell Acquires BCC Software

  Bowe Bell + Howell has acquired BCC Software Inc. for an undisclosed sum

• TicketsNow Names Stein Senior VP

  TicketsNow, an online ticketing agency, has named Mike Stein senior vice president of business development and e-commerce

• Short Cuts

  Icrossing Inc., a search engine marketing firm, has received an investment of $13 million from RRE Ventures, and Generation Partners

• Letters to the Editor

  The July 8 Direct Newsline article about Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter has a glaring error. The petition in question is not an “anti-do not call” issue

• List and Database News

  FTPOnline Registered IT Developer Pros E-Mail This newly available file contains 22,471registered technology buyers sourced from direct mail and controlled circulation circulation publications. Selections: Job title, number of employees, annual sales …

• Listline e-Newsletter 07/12/05

  American List Counsel is the new manager of the CHEF’s catalog 631,000
  name buyers file and insert media programs, including the 500,000
  circulation PIP and 15 million circulation blow-in program.

• Live from NCDM: All Tomorrow’s Consumers

  There’s a “Peanuts” strip in which Linus, attempting to help Charlie Brown deal with his neuroses, tells Brown that an individual’s character develops until age five. “But I’m five!” protests Charlie Brown. “I’m more than five!” “Oh, well,” shrugs Linus, turning back to his security blanket. The oldest of the latest generation identified by Ann A. Fishman aren’t five yet, but their characteristics are being mapped

• ValueClick Names Hirsch Senior VP

  ValueClick Inc. has named Jeff Hirsch senior vice president, business development.

• Netflix Appoints Fry VP of Ad Sales

  Netflix Inc. has named Peggy Fry vice president of advertising sales