How effectively can online customers be turned into regular customers at ecommerce sites through the use of incentives? Nick sticks his neck out with ...
View articleNick has the best defense against the advice of experts who don't have the faintest idea what they're talking about. Forget their resumes and qualific...
View articleAccording to research by Cognitiative Inc., one-third of consumers dislike sales-oriented e-mail so much they avoid the vendors that send it. Read Mor...
View articleNick proudly introduces the Iinternet's newest acronym: M.O.S.T. -- 'My Outstanding Service Team.' It's really how direct marketers can provide the hu...
View articleHow do you write email that cuts cleanly through the mumbo jumbo of mass marketing and enhances customer relations... while also boosting sales? Follo...
View articleThe desire for speed and convenience is great news for anyone selling on the web, because those are two things it can deliver quite easily. But the de...
View articleNick really believe in the importance of "being there" on your site. His premise was that if visitors don't get a sense that you're there at the "stor...
View articleWant to be a direct marketer online? Welcome one and all! It's there for the taking. It's a snap. It's a piece of cake! Well, actually... no, it isn't...
View articleThere's a bunch of very aggressive retail sites selling at cost-plus-zero. And the "portailers" have this small advantage known as "reach." Is this th...
View articleWhat is direct marketing online, anyway? It's not about responding with a click, it's about starting a relationship. A relationship that could lead to...
View articleHow do you handle the customers who complain? Nick says you should love them up, because they can be among your most loyal customers if you respond to...
View articleYou can get away with being a tad less than truthful if you're a telemarketer, write direct mail, or hawk your waves on radio or TV. But if you step o...
View articleHow does Barry love email? Let him count the ways that email marketing can fulfill your online objectives. Read More...
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View articleWhen Nick and Marco sit down to create a web site they disagree. Nick sees the site through the eyes of a "newbie." Marco has the perspective of a sea...
View articleWhat's originality worth on the Net? In Nick's mind...a whole lot. Especially if you are one of the biggest portals... which grow blander and less dif...
View articleIt is widely accepted that e-mail is the most popular Internet application. Research done by The Yankee Group found that there are 263 million e-mailb...
View articleMust an offline and online presence be mutually exclusive? Or can they co-exist beautifully, fully integrated and vested in the other's success? Nick ...
View articleYou might say to Nick, "Hey, smarty-pants, if I'm going to back off from the edge, how am I supposed to compete with the big guys?" His recommendation...
View articleEmail marketing is indeed the killer app for the new year. But only if it is done right. Steve Markowitz offers up the key components of effective ema...
View articleIs Nick Usborne the only one among us irritated by the endless discussions about the "death" of banner ads? Banner ads aren't dead...they are simply p...
View articleTwo companies...two radically different approaches to dealing with customer complaints. Which one do you want to do business with? Read More...
View articleLet's talk about the concept of our "email intimacy"...and use it to show how e-mail marketing can screw up your online brand. Needless to say, this w...
View articleNick Usborne loves his emailbox...his discussion lists, his ezines and newsletters, his notes from his family and friends and colleagues.... The conne...
View articleWell, the much-anticipated holiday '98 season is here. The season that has made online merchants eager to realize the growth in online buying over las...
View articleHow good are we at welcoming newcomers to the internet? Yes, we have those "First Time Visitors" buttons on our sites. But we could do a whole lot bet...
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