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A Leading Email Service Provider Since 2000

BlueHornet is the #1 email service provider online retailers trust to deliver highly targeted email campaigns that evolve through the customer lifecycle.

A foundation for this trust is that BlueHornet is a proactive email service provider, a marketing partner that makes it easy for clients to quickly make decisions based on multi-channel data and then act upon that data themselves, without needing to engage their IT team.

For over 10 years, BlueHornet has helped companies better communicate and connect with customers and prospects. Whereas some email service providers offer a “one size fits all” approach, BlueHornet provides an email solution based on the business needs of each client, one designed to uncover the optimal process for creating, delivering, and tracking each email for maximum ROI.

Whether it’s helping companies improve their existing email programs by implementing highly targeted and segmented campaigns, or helping a business launch its very first newsletter, BlueHornet offers both the technology and service to keep you competitive.

Read more about BlueHornet’s company history, executive team, corporate responsibility and community service efforts, and dedicated anti-spam position.

Want to be a part of the world’s fast growing email service provider? Find out about available BlueHornet partnership opportunities and careers.

Company History

BlueHornet began operations in 2000, helping colleges, churches, and non-profit organizations use email to reach out to their constituents in an effective, affordable manner. The cornerstone of our company has always been protecting the integrity of our clients’ brands by upholding the highest ethics when it comes to respectful email sending practices. We build our own email marketing tools and technology, create our own very well-received user interface, and continue to serve most of the same clients we first started working with when the company was founded.

As the email marketing industry grew, emphasis shifted from a “batch and blast” mentality toward increasing relevance through targeting and email segmentation. The proprietary database configuration we built our technology framework upon gave us a real competitive advantage by allowing virtually unlimited email segmentation capabilities. As email marketers learned more about the possibilities BlueHornet’s unique database configuration offered them straight out of the box, we began attracting large retail clients who were eager to tap into our strategic knowledge and put our email marketing tools to work in cutting edge ways. The fact that we have always had a gifted creative team in house, with highly specialized online knowledge, has rounded out our offerings and kept processes streamlined and cost-effective for clients. It’s exactly this blend of technology expertise and industry smarts that has helped us earn our reputation as the company that provides “the knowledge behind the technology.”

In 2004, after evaluating many acquisition offers, we found a great match in Digital River (NASDAQ: DRIV), a global e-commerce leader who shares and helps us maintain our business ethics and culture while committing significant financial and technical infrastructure resources to the continued leadership of our technology.


About Digital River

BlueHornet is part of the Digital River family of companies — a group of e-commerce and e-marketing experts committed to providing companies big and small with everything they need to successfully build, manage and grow profitable online businesses on a worldwide basis. Some of the world’s leading multi-national companies use Digital River’s portfolio of comprehensive e-commerce technology, tools and services to drive online results for the Internet’s biggest brands. Founded in 1994, Digital River (NASDAQ: DRIV) is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with offices located across the United States, Europe and the Asia Pacific. For more information about Digital River and our family of companies, visit www.digitalriver.com.

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Why Choose BlueHornet?

BlueHornet offers several significant competitive advantages when selecting an email service provider to trust with your brand, customer data, and email marketing dollars:

  • Our technology’s availability, reliability, and scalability are unequaled; a rapid release cycle facilitates continual enhancement of features and functionality according to your email marketing needs.
  • Because of the ethical email sending practices that have been a key differentiator as well as a cornerstone of BlueHornet’s success, BlueHornet enjoys a sterling reputation with ISPs and spam-fighting organizations. This translates into unparalleled email deliverability for our clients.
  • Since BlueHornet’s acquisition by international e-commerce leader Digital River in 2004, we’ve been able to offer I.T. advantages that include globally-positioned SOX and ISO compliant data center pods and triple-redundancy security for continuous uptime.
  • We offer 24-hour technical support and around-the-clock live monitoring.
  • Our proprietary database configuration allows for virtually unlimited email segmentation capabilities, to improve your ability to target your messaging.
  • Our professional services were ranked highest in a list of 13 leading ESPs by a leading independent research firm that specializes in Internet and emerging technologies, and we were awarded ClickZ’s Best Email Service Bureau award in 2006.
  • Our email marketing company is built on smart, measured growth and long-term partnerships with clients.