Cliff delivered a talk about tailoring web sites to use profile data recently. A question from the audience was: "Do personalized pages take longer to...
View articleIn an open letter to ClickZ, Jared Spool challenges a recent ClickZ column which asserts that seeing photographs of happy people enjoying your product...
View articleLast week, Nick took part in a 'Soap Box' event hosted by the Direct Mail Council of the Canadian Marketing Association in Toronto. It was a great eve...
View articleDo you remember being told in school that there are no stupid questions? That every question someone asks is a good question because it helps the unde...
View articleSTORES Magazine , the official publication of the National Retail Federation, has surveyed more than 1,000 households to find the 100 largest retailer...
View articleA free voice has always been sought-after. Just think about the Second World War and the resistance movements' creation of independent radio. Each tim...
View articleMany of Europe's e-commerce leaders are well-established organizations that have seen significant opportunities and are beginning to capitalize on the...
View articleImagine a fellow running a successful web business called www.associateprograms.com from Tuan, a little fishing village (without a shop) in subtropica...
View articleThe amount of money spent on online retail will continue to soar, even though Forrester Research predicts the number of households shopping online wil...
View articleDid you ever stop to think how the Net has transformed our lives by connecting us to everyone else, regardless of time, space, or physical condition? ...
View articlePC Data's latest figures for Web purchasing among US households show an average of 4.5 percent of visitors to the top 40 online retail sites purchased...
View articleUS consumer e-commerce revenues will grow to $18.6 billion by the end of 1999, a 615 percent increase from 1997, according to eMarketer's eRetail Repo...
View articleTime for a pop quiz. Which would you prefer to look at, a photograph of a friend or a table of numbers describing that friend? Most of us would prefer...
View articleATSC 8-VSB, a method for converting digital data for transmission over coaxial cable chosen by the FCC as a standard for digital TV, will become the d...
View articleImagine a sealed box with a cat inside, rigged with a device that will either kill the cat or let it live. You don't know whether the cat's alive or d...
View articleMore mainstream, risk-averse consumers will change the landscape of the online financial services sector, according to research by Jupiter Communicati...
View articleThis article starts by saying one thing. Then appears to say the opposite. And then attempts to make sense of the conflict. Here goes... If you want y...
View articleMajordomo is a community-supported free software program that automates the management of Internet mailing lists Read More...
View articleExtractor Pro 98 sends opt-in e-mail and works as a newsletter server, customer database manager, autoresponder, and contact management solution. Read...
View articleMore than 60 percent of enterprises will adopt Java applications and technology by 2004, with the finance sector leading the way, according to Gartner...
View articleThe Internet and B-to-B outfits continue to be a match made in heaven, according to research by ActivMedia, Goldman, Sachs, and the Direct Marketing A...
View articleFor the next few minutes forget about opt-in policies, response rates or one-to-one marketing. Let Todd tell you about one of the best ideas he's ever...
View articleMost consumer dot-com companies are using traditional media to build their brand. Since most e-tailers don't have Amazon-type marketing budgets or Ama...
View articleAmazon's spectacular rise has shown that behemoths like Barnes & Noble are vulnerable, and that upstart Internet-born-and-bred alternatives are often ...
View articleGartnerGroup's Dataquest has weighed in with its projection for online holiday spending. They predict $12.2 billion, up from $4.5 billion in 1998. Rea...
View articleThe real opportunity isn't in building new web sites these days, it's in re-building existing sites. So when renovating a site, how do you know where ...
View articleConsumers will spend $6 billion online during the months of November and December 1999, according to research by Jupiter Communications. If all goes w...
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