Our Story

2023

Investment in more tech resources for improved deliverability management and campaign monitoring for all customers

Product update and launch of ELG 2.0 focusing on email engagement and improved customer education

Hired a Customer Success Manager that will help educate and support our customers with Email Engagement

2022

Eased COVID-19 mandates while still ensuring the health and safety of all Clickback employees

With cost of groceries and gas increasing, Clickback provided inflation bonuses to all current employees

R&D investment made with beta testing as we continue to improve our ELG solution

2021

Continued to mandate certain measures to ensure employees safety during COVID-19 pandemic

Product improvements were made and updated IP warmup sending feature was provided to customers

2020

Celebrated 20 year anniversary since Clickback’s inception in 2000

Implemented strict measures to ensure employees safety during Coronavirus outbreak

Clickback responds to COVID-19 with advice on why you should double-down on your marketing

Despite pandemic, Clickback continues to hire and expand teams with a new Customer Success Manager and Database Manager

2019

Hired new content writer, expanding our marketing team

Entrepreneurs’ Organization launch event in Niagara attended by Clickback CEO, Kyle Tkachuk

Donated food, clothes and toys to local Community Care organization

In 2019, we built a powerful feature to launch in March 2020. This intelligent piece of technology is called Website Visitor Intelligence (WVI) that allows customers to track the contact from email clickthrough to website visit and then conversion.

2018

Clickback updates Clickback MAIL to be fully GDPR compliant

Announcing Niagara’s First Tech Accelerator – Accel North

MarTech interviewed our CEO, Kyle Tkachuk

Clickback was mentioned in a Toronto Sun Article

Our Growth Marketing Manager talks about AI and Machine Learning in an article for insideBIGDATA

An Open Letter to St. Catharines Mayor Walter Sendzik

St. Catharines Mayor Visits Clickback’s New Offices at 110 James Street

2017

WE’VE MOVED! On September 25th, we moved to our new home, located at 110 James St

Clickback ranked #106 on the 29th annual PROFIT 500 list of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by Canadian Business. Read more.

WE’RE MOVING! Clickback acquires 110 James St. as their new home with plans to turn it into an innovation and tech hub.

2016

Clickback launches new B2B lead generation software offering – Clickback WEB, which gives marketing and sales teams instant access to the contact details of potential decision-makers at companies who have visited your website but didn’t inquire

Clickback becomes one of the first email service providers to be 100% IPv6 compliant to maximize deliverability for our customer’s email campaigns to email servers around the world

Launched two major software updates to Clickback MAIL including a new ‘drag and drop’ editor (Simple Message Builder)

In March Clickback achieved its highest monthly sending volume of all time (over 100M email transactions)

Hired a People & Office Administrator

2015

Expanded our software development team and rebuilt our QA department

Added more email send servers into our load balanced infrastructure to handle month over month demand for our Clickback Lead Gen software

Hired on a VP Marketing to oversee all aspects of marketing and lead growth at Clickback

2014

Expanded the marketing department by hiring an in-house copywriter to maximize marketing department’s resources and expand internal content development

CASL was launched in July 2014, and updates were made to our software in order to remain compliant to all newly enacted Canadian laws

Successfully moved our Clickback servers to the Cloud, improving the speed of our email-sending capability, and giving us the ability to rapidly scale our platform in order to support higher email volumes as our customer base grows

2013

Hired a Digital Marketing Manager to help expand our marketing and communications efforts

Continued growth and expansion of our Data Provider and Agency Partner Programs across North America

Expanded management roles in the technology department, creating a VP Email Deliverability & Technology position to oversee, manage and plan the growth of our IT infrastructure and email deliverability

2012

Successfully raised our first round of private financing for the expansion and growth of Clickback

Signed on VP Finance to oversee our accounting department and corporate finances

Expanded the head office to 5,225 square feet (adding an additional 3,400 square feet)

Nominated and finalist at the Niagara Entrepreneur of the Year awards gala event in Niagara Falls, Canada

Successfully launched a premier Data Provider Partner Program, helping our partner’s customers to perform email lead generation with the contact records purchased from our data provider partners

2011

Clickback becomes the world’s first SaaS company to offer Email Lead Generation software to its customers. Software provides a safe and proven method of securing profitable B2B leads to mid-market and enterprise companies allowing them to send relevant, CAN-SPAM compliant email communications to their non permission-based contacts or purchased data records from reputable data providers

Introduced a new type of email communication software, Clickback Lead Gen Edition

The corporate name NEIsoft Inc. is updated to Clickback Inc.

Expanded our marketing team to manage all in-house marketing and outbound marketing campaigns

Expanded our IT infrastructure with a storage area network (SAN) that provides access to consolidated, block-level storage to our virtualized server environment

2010

Expanded our in-house .NET development team to help with the development of new software and features

Redeveloped and rebranded iTRACK software into a full Microsoft .NET application under a new brand called BusinessOnTrack

Created an advanced invoicing and commissions management system for increased efficiency and reporting to our Clickback Agency Network

2009

Introduced a new Clickback MAIL edition called Clickback SCE or Sales Channel Edition for organizations that have multiple sales offices or retail locations

Extended the marketing of the Clickback Agency Program into the United States

Completed an extensive IT and Server infrastructure upgrade including going into a new VMware virtualized server environment for increased efficiency and flexibility

2008

Discontinued development on Clickback CMS and FORMS to focus on Clickback PRO

Clickback PRO version 3.0, a new software navigation system that is easier to use, goes live sporting a fresh look

Rebranded Clickback MAIL into Clickback PRO

Continued growth of the Clickback Agency Partner Program, signing new partners across Canada

2007

Successfully signed on many agency partners across Ontario covering Windsor, Niagara, the Golden Horseshoe, Toronto, and through to Ottawa

Launched a premier Ad Agency Partner Program for our Clickback family of software to agencies across North America. After many months of development, we completed a full software reseller program to target advertising agencies, web design firms and marketing consultants

2006

Released Clickback MAIL revision 2.3.0 – This revision was extensive with over 12 months of planning, development and testing, and included many new features and 200+ upgrades to the software

Released Clickback CMS version 2.2.5 – Repositioned as a webpage management tool for marketers to quickly publish information and update branding to be in parallel with email and traditional marketing initiatives. Also implemented the ability for the marketers to push through to any third party application or software from any of the website pages, making functionality flexible and easy to integrate with Clickback CMS

Rebranded all SaaS web software under the Clickback branding, the Clickback family of software including:

Clickback MAIL (formally called eBlaster)

Clickback CMS (formally siteCMS WEB)

Clickback FORMS (formally siteCMS FORMS)

Signed on a VP Sales in April 2006 to focus on business development and the growth of our sales team

2005

Continued intensive development on eBlaster, iTrack and our other software products

Upper Canada Stone selected our business process management SaaS offering, iTrack, as the best solution to manage their quarry operations throughout Ontario, Canada

2004

Launched marketing campaigns for our web-based application development services across southern Ontario and Canada

Alliance Financing Group Inc. of Concord, Ontario selects iTrack, our business process management service and CRM SaaS offer, as the solution of choice to manage their leasing company

2003

Our software development team focused on the creation of content management software

Alliance Financing Group Inc. using our leasing technology, partners with Ingram Micro Canada launching a new leasing division, Ingram Micro Preferred Leasing

2002

Raised capital for research and development for a suite of web-based services focused on content management

Expanded the development team with a new Software Development Manager

Our client’s web-based lease technology was implemented on leading web portals including Bellzinc.ca, Quicken.ca, CanadaPost.com, InBusiness.com and more

2001

Partnered with UUnet-Worldcom moving all our server and hosting technology into their digital hosting facility

E-marketing and communication offerings are expanded for our clients

Continued sales expansion into the United States and European markets

Launched our first email marketing software platform called eBlaster

2000

Company moved all operations into a commercial suite in downtown St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Won a bid for Alliance Financing Group Inc., a publicly traded Toronto-based leasing company to develop a proprietary private label leasing solution for vendors to offer live lease quotes and secure lease application technology linked from their websites

Continued growth of web development services into the United States and Europe

1999

Awarded two Advertising and Creative Excellence (ACE) awards at an evening gala event in Hamilton, Ontario

Management decided to sell off its computer hardware/networking division to focus only on web development services

1998

Business services are expanded into two divisions: computer networking and web development

The web development operations expand into a second location and office

Awarded the Niagara Entrepreneur of the Year Award at an afternoon awards gala in Niagara Falls, Canada

Maintained one of the seven world’s most visited webcams providing thousands of visitors a live look at Niagara Falls from the top of the Sheraton Fallsview in Niagara Falls, Canada

1997

Web programming services were introduced into our web offerings

Became one of the first web development firms in southern Ontario to offer e-commerce solutions, 360° panoramic photo technology and live webcam technology

Partnered with CIBC-Nobil and was one of the first three web development firms in Canada to offer an e-commerce shopping cart with real-time and secure credit card processing services

1996

Was the first independent retailer in Canada to offer Bell Sympatico that was not a large box store

Opened our doors as an Internet solution centre and store

Focused on helping people and small businesses to get onto the Internet. Services included building and selling Internet-friendly computers, providing PC and Mac upgrades, Internet access, Internet training and website design

KEY FEATURES

INCLUDES

Identify Anonymous Companies that Visit Your Website

Target Companies using Industry Leading Scoring and Filtering

View Detailed Clickpaths

Email Notification of Repeat Visitors (Watch List)

Purchase High-Quality Key Contacts at Identified Companies

Export Data One at a Time or In Bulk

Manage Team Assignment of Data (Prospecting)

Daily Email Summary Reports

Integrate with Salesforce (Coming Soon)

Integrate with Clickback MAIL (Maximize Prospecting)

In House, Email and Live Phone Support

Multiple User Logins

KEY FEATURES

INCLUDES

List Cleaning

Cleans List to Remove Bad Email Addresses

Cleans List to Remove Spam Traps

Cleans List to Remove Honeypots

Verification Check of Email Address on Import

Campaign Optimization

Advanced Spam Checker Tool

Send 100% CAN-SPAM, CASL, and GDPR compliant campaigns

287+ Variables Checked to Monitor Deliverability

Link Validation Check

Personalization Tokens for First Name

Personalization Tokens for Company Name

Personalization Tokens for Phone Number

Personalization Tokens for Email Address

Create Custom Personalization Tokens

Website Visitor Intelligence For Lead Optimization

Campaign Reporting

Tailored Reporting to Analyze Key Data