Far from the days when most anyone could make a buck trading online, a survey of leading full-service and discount online brokerage firms by Deloitte ...
View articleA survey by Valentine Radford found that online retailers are topping traditional stores in service, but their marketing efforts and practice of provi...
View articleBlame the soft economy or the arrival of summer, but whatever your reason du jour online shopping in the United States took a hit in June, decreasing ...
View articleTotal CRM software application revenues will increase from $9.4 billion worldwide by the end of 2001, to approximately $30.6 billion in 2005, accordin...
View articleEric's feeling a little frustrated about the state of wireless when it comes to advertising. The "best" idea he's heard on using the space for marketi...
View articleA marketer has to have the discipline to know when to quit; to keep going after the point of failure isn't heroic, it's a selfish attempt to avoid adm...
View articleA survey of Internet users by Gallup found that e-mail remains the No. 1 activity for people online, with more than half saying saying e-mail is their...
View articleiTV will be a pervasive reality in a couple of years. But many issues need immediate and serious contemplation. Hopefully, lessons have been learned f...
View articleAfter months of talking about it, AltaVista finally unveiled a paid inclusion program recently. Submitted pages will be listed within AltaVista's Web ...
View articleAfter talking the talk, it was time for Debbie to walk the walk and launch a newsletter. And when it’s your dollar you’re spending, every bump in the ...
View articleEmail is an excellent tool, but you can damage your company’s reputation and customer relationships with the click of a button. Jackie cautions do-it-...
View articleHow can you take care of your brand's health? Well, the answers are obvious -- and certainly easier said than done. But the fact is that the brand bui...
View articleU.S. consumer online music spending will grow from $1.0 billion in 2001 to $6.2 billion in 2006, a 43 percent annual growth rate over the next five ye...
View articleResearch from TowerGroup projects steady, but not spectacular, growth for online mortgage lending over the next four years, and predicts that "e-advic...
View articleNearly three-quarters of Internet executives surveyed received an increase in total cash (base and bonus) compensation over the previous year, primari...
View articleThe total time spent using the Napster file-sharing application plummeted 65 percent from February to June 2001, according to Jupiter Media Metrix. Bu...
View articleChances are, your company Web site is a few years old. Its look and feel, like a car's, is likely already out of style. And since the price is right, ...
View articleThe U.S. economic situation is having a growing impact on other regions, just ask PC vendors. Worldwide PC shipments in the second quarter of 2001 tot...
View articleHave you maximized your links across the major portals? Do you know all the options available to you there? You have other things to do than keep up w...
View articleFor a long time, Bryan has been concentrating on the topic of converting Web site traffic. But do the principles he’s been espousing apply to other me...
View articleDuring the long Baby Boom era, women had been completely figured out, niched, and marketed to. Now it's time to move on to the impossible-to-predict i...
View articleThe mainstream media makes it sound as if all Internet- based ventures are coming apart. The reality is that we are witnessing widely divergent outcom...
View articleThis week, we say good-bye to long-time contributor Joel Gehman (thanks for your many years, Joel, and good luck), and we welcome Declan Dunn as a new...
View articleThe moral of the story is that reviewing the basics doesn't hurt anyone. If you have it all figured out, this article is not for you. But if you're re...
View articleWe are now in the middle of a transition, and everything that has to do with content is changing. It's a period in which the focus will be on the valu...
View articleTo the consternation of marketers everywhere, consumers are demanding that we satisfy them. Something very scary is afoot. Customers actually seem to ...
View articleLast time, Heidi asked for readers’ opinions about an email marketing message -- and about 70 or so of you responded. Now she shares a few of the resp...
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