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View articleThe demand for Internet caching will continue to soar over the next five years, as total investments since the market's inception near $675 million, a...
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View articleClickZ Forum members pounced on permission marketing; the use of opt-in e-mail to build and sustain relationships. These folks could really write the ...
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View articleThe No. 1 reason among onlineusers who have yet to make an e-commercepurchase: lack of trust. In a new survey, a staggering69.4 percent of reluctant e...
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View articleSome people shouldn't be allowed to use email. Maybe they can fire off messages to family and friends. But we need to take away distribution lists and...
View articleYou just sent 50,000 emails to your in-house opt in list asking them to click on a link. Over the next 48 hours, 2,500 people will click. And, you'll ...
View articleIt costs less to keep satisfied customers than to get new ones. Good customer service isn't easy to pull off, but it deserves more than lip service. I...
View articleAs more businesses go online, and more residential customers turn to broadband, ISPs will have to spend big bucks on equipment. A report by Datamonito...
View articlePotential new revenue is one of the main reasons for businesses to go online. But transferring your brand to the web doesn't guarantee higher earnings...
View articleNearly one out of every three Internet users are making online purchases, and they are sticking to familiar, inexpensive items, according to a study b...
View articleSean thinks it's time for traditional ad agencies to get nervous. It's not what you can see - it's the stealth bomber called "interactive" slipping un...
View articleAmazon.com is the exception, not the rule. A study by ActivMedia found that 80 percent of online retailers have an offline presence, and they use offl...
View articleWe pump out a lot of information about product features and benefits on the web, but how much - or how little - do we use emotional appeals to help cu...
View articleThe number of US households using PC banking applications is expected to more than triple in the next five years, from 7 million at the end of 1998 to...
View articleClickZ Forum members got a primer on e-commerce marketing strategy based on parallels between today's e-commerce environment and the early days of the...
View articleOnline revenues among the direct marketing industry will outpace the rest of the Web, growing by 150 percent from 1999 to 2000, according to a collabo...
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