Robert P. LoCascio
Analyst · Shyam Patil with Wedbush Securities
Thanks, Dan, and thanks everyone for joining us today. During the third quarter, we continued to execute on our overall strategic plan, empowering our sales team in getting the LiveEngage message out to the market. We saw a strong trajectory in bookings growth and number of deals signed, while exceeding both our revenue and income projections for the quarter. Third quarter revenues were $41.4 million, 15% higher than last year's $36.1 million. We posted our largest bookings quarter ever during Q3 at $10.2 million, which is a 44% increase over Q2 of last year and a 26% increase over last year's third quarter. We continue to grow the depth and quality of relations with our existing base, signing several major expansions during the quarter. About 30% of overall bookings came from new customer additions and we added a record 55 new logos to our customer base. With the rollout of our LiveEngage platform, a growing number of our customers are leveraging the broader capabilities of our solutions and driving greater business value to our multichannel engagement strategy. A great example during the quarter was our expanded relationship with O2, which is one of the UK's largest telcos. O2 is redefining its customer service offering, shifting more to a digital engagement strategy to better meet the demands of its 23 million customers. They're leveraging the broad set of features on the LiveEngage platform, including live chat, targeted content, rich media and mobile engagement, to connect with an increasing number of visitors in the digital space. They're currently hosting about 700,000 interactions per month on our platform, and that's about an interaction every 4 seconds, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. What's even more encouraging is the penetration we're seeing into both net new accounts in new verticals with the LiveEngage value proposition. During the quarter, we closed the deal with News UK, which is a part of News Corp. The initial launch was on their Times digital property, which is a compelling event for News UK, as they want to be the first in their industry to offer web and mobile chat to sell online subscriptions. The scope of the relation quickly increased with the launch of their new Sun+ digital entertainment platform. Deployment of our solutions in the media space is compelling for us as well, as we explore and present diverse use cases of our platform to clients and prospects across different new verticals. Regionally, we started creating a series of regional events around the country called Aspire to Lead. In one of these events in New York City a few weeks ago, and this event was aimed at senior level executives that are responsible for driving change within their organization, transforming customer engagement in sales, marketing and customer service. The event included executives from key accounts and prospects looking to connect with their peers and share best practices in digital engagement. We had some exciting presentations of best practices from Snapfish, Intuit, Disney, Sky and Bankwest of Australia, a strong group of thought leaders among our customer base. Snapfish is a customer who presented how they're using data that we capture off the platform to drive voice of the customer and value into the overall business. With more than 90 million online customers in 12 countries, it's essential they understand how to engage them meaningfully in a digital channel. Their millions of customers produce an enormous amount of valuable data, and Snapfish deployed LP Insights to aggregate and analyze all this data and better understand the pain points in their customers' journey. The results have been impressive. LP Insights has enabled the company to improve sales per chat hour by 48%, average order values up by 10%, and the agent productivity by 14%. We also continue to gather valuable feedback in early use cases from our small businesses as well, who are starting to use the platform in many different ways beyond chat. We've seen content-based engagement double with new SMB clients that are on-boarding with LiveEngage now. In addition, we're driving more user-friendly marketing to our SMB customers with webinars, with a series called 60 Seconds to Success, which educate customers on practical use cases such as shopping cart abandonment. We're using these online webinars, really, as a way to also drive reduction implementation cycles, and obviously, more usage of the overall platform. Another customer, Sunweb, it's an online travel company in Europe, has been driving great success after using our -- the content portion of the LiveEngage platform. So they're using the targeting capabilities around content. Like most e-commerce websites, they sort of reached their peak in buying advertising at a rate that would be cost effective. So now we've helped them really design a way to create targeted campaigns to address the needs of increasing conversion rates on the site. We targeted about 65% of their traffic with these personalized targeted offers. And in less than 2 months, their online sales grew by 14%, conversion rates with engaged visitors grew 34%, which resulted in an overall conversion rate increase of 22%. In our Pay for Performance business, 2 of our legacy Pay for Performance customers had their biggest sales months by chat, with one more than tripling their run rate versus Q3 last year. Using the flexibility of the PFP model, we were able to really scale labor at a greater rate, then scale, obviously, the peaks of these businesses and how they launch and grow their online traffic. The 2 proof of concepts that we mentioned the last quarter converted into full contracts and one actually was our first PFP mid-market customer. We're also gaining traction with our PFP offering into new verticals around retail, and actually, lead generation, which is something new for us. As a result, PFP is up 8% quarter-over-quarter with these customers in some of the new things we're doing. Accelerating demand for digital engagement is something we're seeing on a global scale and as we continue to expand our presence outside the U.S. market. In Australia, we added 8 new enterprise deals in Q3, which was our best net new customer quarter yet. We're now working with 5 of the largest big banks in that region. And as online banking grows, there's a big opportunity to really build out greater digital adoption programs with these customers. And as big brand retailers are starting to place greater focus on bridging the gap between their in-store and online experience, retail is also becoming an emerging vertical in Australia. In Japan, we're accelerating our growth in that region, in that country. We continue to build out our infrastructure and headcount to support our expansion plan. We launched our first B2C customer during the quarter, JetStar Airlines, and signed our first banking client. During the first week of December, we'll also be hosting an event in Tokyo with some partners and about 100 potential customers, and so that'll be a big kickoff of our partnership in Japan. Recently, we hosted here in New York, Partner Day. We had about 50 partners attend, from North America, Latin America, Japan, and other regions around the world, focused around our BPO firms, our business process outsourcing companies like the call centers, digital agencies, ISVs and other resellers. And as we continue to scale our business, it is increasingly important for us to build strong relationships with these partners. During the quarter, we doubled our channel bookings, adding 27 net new logos. We got 120 year-to-date. We also started to see Brazil open up, for signing 8 new deals in the region with a partner down there. As we mentioned, we've started to invest in the channel operations at the beginning of the year, and we think it's important, if we're really going to accelerate and take the revenues to another place, to go beyond direct sales, and that's part of the strategic plan that we placed to the investors about 1.5 years ago. We also continue to look at new buyers within organizations. As Gartner estimates in 2017, the CMO will have a lot more power over budgets than even the CIOs. So we're really looking at targeting marketers with the platform and working with our relationships with digital marketing space and digital agencies like Razorfish. It's really important for us. Last quarter, we announced a partnership with Razorfish, and we're out there joint selling with them, we're doing joint marketing activities. So I think this partnership is important to us. It's also something that we're expanding internationally. So we feel that they are really helping us really penetrate more into the marketing side of the organization, which is a new buyer for our company. Of businesses, overall, struggling to create a cohesive customer engagement strategy that optimizes the digital experience, they are increasingly looking for us to help them now, with our LiveEngage platform and the knowledge we have of doing this. Our platform's vision and it's the best-of-breed products out there, and it sits, really, side-by-side with some of the technologies they already have in their call centers today. So really, over the past 2 years, we've made important changes to obviously our people here, the products we're delivering and how we're delivering them, in order to scale this company to a different level. And I'm really pleased about this quarter and the inroads we've made with our existing base, with new customers, and really moving towards delivering on the overall vision of being a digital engagement company and building a platform for that. So with that, before I turn the call over to Dan, I'd also like to mention that this year, we'll mark our 12th hosting of the FeedingNYC event here in New York City. It's a day where LivePerson employees and volunteers and some of you who are on this phone, come out and help us pack Thanksgiving meals, and actually go out and deliver those meals to thousands of families around New York City. We've delivered about 25,000 meals, and that means we've touched 25,000 families and countless others since we started this after 9/11. If you're in the area, I would really encourage you to come down to Chelsea Piers on the 26th of November and really help us get out there and do this. It starts at about 6:00 a.m. in the morning and we go until about 6:00 p.m. at night. To figure out -- to find out some more information, go to feedingnyc.org and you can see how you can help us. So with that, I'd like to turn the call over to Dan, who will give a deeper dive into the numbers. Dan?