Nearly 60 percent of consumers would make fewerpurchases if they had to pay a sales tax on all Internet purchases, according to a survey by BizRate.co...
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View articleIn the rush to maximize sales during the holiday season, a lot of e-commerce companies appear to be sending out promotional emails much more frequentl...
View articleIf you are conducting business online, the question is no longer whether or not you should have an affiliate program. The question now is how to set u...
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View articleWe often think of the Internet as a one-to-one direct marketing vehicle. However, many companies, especially B2B companies, overlook the power of usin...
View articleOnline retailer Amazon.com increased its buyers by 50 percent over October, according to the latest rankings released by PC Data Online. Read More...
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View articleAmazon was one of the first dotcoms in the world to recognize the value of affiliate programs, starting a flurry over similar programs. The key proble...
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View articleUse of the Internet by clinical and support staff in US hospitals has increased dramatically in the past year, according to a study by VHA Inc. Read M...
View articleOnline holiday shoppers will spend less than 10 percent of their budgets online in 1999, according to Jupiter Communications, but AOL says shoppers ar...
View articleOne truly amazing aspect of the web is the ability to create a web "site" that is actually composed of content served by several servers belonging to ...
View articleSuccessful online businesses know that success means providing the most value to customers. The Internet has given people the power to compare and cho...
View articleJupiter Communications sees 13 million free ISP subscribers in the US by 2003, but a model that will become closer to free e-mail than replacing the s...
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View articleLooking into the online future is a dangerous thing to do. But sometimes Nick feels the need to stick his neck out and open his big mouth. Here's his ...
View articleE-mail is not the end game. Everyone's talking about e-mail as marketing's latest killer app. E-mail marketing conferences are sold out these days. An...
View articleWith the holiday shopping season upon us, online and offlineretailers seem engaged in a sort of celebrity death match. At the more rational end (ratio...
View articleAmazon launched the first affiliate program on the Internet. Since then, the novel idea of affiliate marketing has emerged as one of the most economic...
View articleJust like in the offline world, the Thanksgiving holiday signaled the time to shop is here. Toy sites are doing well, according to Nielsen//NetRatings...
View articleLet's guess, you keep hearing the same buzz words over and over again: Opt-in email, permission marketing, targeted audience, affiliate networks. If y...
View articleToday, 40 percent of the web development budget goes toward marketing, thanks to a growing opportunity for web sites to drown in over two billion page...
View articleIt makes sense that the increase in e-commerce would lead to an increase in online credit card transactions, but do you know which credit cards are be...
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