ClickSquared Tackles Tough Cloud Marketing Questions in Compelling Podcast Featuring Independent Research Firm

Boston, MA (PRWEB) August 08, 2011

ClickSquared today announced the availability of a podcast that includes revealing information about cloud (SaaS) marketing solutions. The podcast, featuring Suresh Vittal, vice president, practice leader for customer intelligence at Forrester Research Inc., addresses the distinctions between multi-channel and cross-channel marketing, highlights the key capabilities to seek in a marketing platform and underscores the importance of working with a vendor that can effectively manage an organization?s marketing database.

?The insight and perspective Suresh provides drives home the necessity to closely examine your organization?s needs before choosing a marketing platform,? said Dan Smith, senior vice president of marketing, ClickSquared. ?He cuts through the noise to explain the difference between hosted software and true cloud offerings, helping marketers to understand the pros and cons of each. Marketers come away with a rich understanding of the realities of cloud marketing platforms, and the benefits they can bring.?

The podcast also details the platform capabilities a marketer should look for to satisfy their cross-channel marketing needs. Among other requirements Mr. Vittal stated in the podcast: ??the marketing platform [should] be able to process a whole host of complex business rules to be able to decide which direction to take the conversation and how to process the responses so they?re relevant to the customer at any given time.?

The discussion also includes Vittal?s perspective on data management, an important topic for organizations struggling to manage an ever-increasing amount of data from a growing number of marketing channels. While cloud marketing platforms don?t eliminate the need for rigorous data hygiene practices, marketing in the cloud does mean that many common data management challenges are solved by the vendor?s tools and accompanying data management service offerings.

To download the full podcast, please go to: http://www.clicksquared.com/conversation-forrester-analyst-suresh-vittal.

About ClickSquared:

ClickSquared is a premier provider of email and cross-channel database marketing solutions. With innovative offerings ranging from self-service email to highly automated, real-time customer engagement and loyalty programs, ClickSquared?s innovative cloud marketing platform orchestrates and delivers analytics-driven, relevant and personalized customer communications across email, direct mail, social, survey, mobile and web channels. Backed by a team of marketing, technology and vertical-industry experts that are passionate about client success, ClickSquared enables organizations of all sizes to maximize the return on their marketing investment.

ClickSquared has helped to build some of the world?s best known brands including ARAMARK Parks and Destinations, The Boston Celtics, Capital One Bank, The Dallas Stars, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Greyhound, HomeAway, Hyatt, Lenovo, Leading Hotels of the World and Sovereign Bank Santander. For more information on ClickSquared, visit the company?s web site at http://www.clicksquared.com or via the links below:

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The Hollywood Museum Spotlights the Jos? Iturbi Hollywood Concert: "From Russia with Love" Featuring Classical Piano Competition Winners Oct 30 at The Hollywood Museum

Hollywood, California (PRWEB) October 24, 2011

The Hollywood Museum will transform itself into a concert hall during the afternoon of Sunday, October 30, when world-renowned classical pianists, Dmitri Levkovich and Anastasia Markina, perform a one-time recital titled, ?From Russia with Love.? The Museum is located in Hollywood?s historic Max Factor Bldg at 1660 N. Highland Avenue (at Hollywood Blvd). Both pianists are past winners of the prestigious Jos? Iturbi International Music Competition, which is organized by the Jos? Iturbi Foundation. To purchase tickets https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/206378 or http://www.thehollywoodmuseum.com

Levkovich and Markina will grace the audience with performance pieces by Chopin, Albeniz, Debussy, Millhaud, Rachmaninov, Infante, Strauss, and closing out the night with Gershwin?s Rhapsody in Blue for two pianos. The recital will take place from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and will be followed by a VIP dessert reception, where attendees will have the opportunity to meet the two performers.

Tickets include admission to the Hollywood Museum?s four floors of Hollywood entertainment memorabilia spanning 100 years of Hollywood history, including a special exhibit featuring concert master Jos? Iturbi.

Dmitri Levkovich has performed all over the world and has graces six continents with his piano. He has been the recipient of multiple awards and has appeared in some of the most prestigious concert halls and festivals worldwide, including Carnegie Hall in New York, Marinsky Theater?s Concert Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Beijing?s National Center for the Performing Arts.

Russian pianist, Anastasia Markina, has won multiple prominent music competitions, including Grand Prize at the Young Texas Artists Music Competition in 2007 and 2nd Prize at the Jos? Iturbi International Music Competition in both 2007 and 2008. She has been training under famed Russian pianist, Vladimir Viardo, for over 10 years and continues to show off her artistry at events such as the Barge Music Series in New York and the Vetta Chamber Music Festival in Vancouver, BC. She released her album, ?Russian Romances ? Joys and Sorrows? in 2010, accompanied by famed cellist, Eugene Osadchy.

?The Jos? Iturbi Foundation showcases the world's greatest classical music talent of tomorrow,? said Donelle Dadigan, Co-Founder of the Jos? Iturbi Foundation. ?Each year the Jos? Iturbi Foundation awards more than $ 250,000.00 and is the largest cash prize classical music competition in the world,? she adds. Dadigan considers the Hollywood Museum, the official museum of Hollywood treasures, the perfect place for the Jose Iturbi Hollywood Concert. ?It is an intimate setting reflecting Hollywood?s Glamour years, the 1930?s and 40?s,? she adds, ?which is when Jos? Iturbi?s music graced the Hollywood movies.?

The next Jose Iturbi Foundation International Music Competition will be held June 9-15,2013 at UCLA Schoenberg Hall in Los Angeles. http://www.joseiturbifoundation.org

Concert Ticket prices: $ 50 per ticket, $ 85 per pair. Students Discounts available with valid Student ID or 21 yrs or younger.

Website for ticket info:

http://www.joseiturbifoundation.org/

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/206378

Tickets can also be purchased at the door

"Jose Iturbi Concert" - PROGRAM at the Hollywood Museum

Manuel Infante - Danses Andalouses, III, Gracia (El Vito) for two pianos

ANASTASIA MARKINA and DMITRI LEVKOVICH -
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Fr?d?ric Chopin - Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60

Isaac Alb?niz - Asturias/Leyenda from Suite Espa?ola, Op. 47, No. 5

Claude Debussy - Claire de lune from Suite bergamasque

Fr?d?ric Chopin - Etude, Op. 25, No. 11 (Winter Wind)

ANASTASIA MARKINA -

INTERMISSION

Darius Milhaud - Brazileira from Scaramouche (Mvt. 3) for two pianos

ANASTASIA MARKINA and DMITRI LEVKOVICH -
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Isaac Alb?niz - Rumores de la Caleta: Malague?a from Recuerdos de Viaje, Op. 71, No. 6

Fr?d?ric Chopin - Scherzo No. 2 in Bb minor, Op. 31

Sergei Rachmaninov - Prelude Op. 32, No. 5 in G minor

Fr?d?ric Chopin - Etude Opus 10, No. 12 (Revolutionary Etude)

J. Strauss-Adolph Schulz-Evler Paraphrase: "On the Blue Danube"

(Abbreviated by Jan Smeterlin)

DMITRI LEVKOVICH -
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George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue for two pianos (transcribed by the composer)

ANASTASIA MARKINA and DMITRI LEVKOVICH -

ABOUT THE JOS? ITURBI FOUNDATION The Jos? Iturbi Foundation showcases the world's greatest classical music talent of tomorrow in conjunction with Iturbi Hollywood Concerts featuring extraordinary compelling and dynamic performances from the world's most gifted and talented pianists in an intimate setting reflecting Hollywood's Glamour years (1930s & 1940s). Each year the Jos? Iturbi Foundation awards more than $ 250,000.00 and is the largest cash prize classical music competition in the world! http://www.joseiturbifoundation.org

ABOUT THE HOLLYWOOD MUSEUM

The Hollywood Museum http://www.thehollywoodmuseum.com, the official museum of Hollywood, has the most extensive collection of Hollywood Memorabilia in the World. The museum features four floors of breathtaking exhibits and is the home of more than 10,000 authentic Showbiz Treasures, one of a kind costumes, props, photographs, scripts and vintage collectibles from favorite movies and TV shows. The museum includes costumes from Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Jean Harlow, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson; Props from ?Gone With The Wind,? ?Twilight: New Moon,? ?Star Trek,? ?Transformers,? ?Revenge of the Fallen,? ?High School Musical 2,? ?Dancing with the Stars,? ?Glee,? and more. The Hollywood Museum is located in the historic Max Factor Building on the corner of Hollywood & Highland, where Max Factor, the legend of movie makeup, worked his magic on motion picture stars since 1935. The Hollywood Museum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

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