Creating a Customer-Centric Online Business
Analytics

Creating a Customer-Centric Online Business

25y Janet Ryan

Creating a Customer-Centric Online Business

Site publishers who believed that they knew, as if by instinct, exactly what the customers wanted were common (those who actually got it right were mu...

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Online Marketing Gaining Steam
Ad Industry Metrics

Online Marketing Gaining Steam

25y Michael Pastore

Online Marketing Gaining Steam

Optimistic IDC findings suggest that most U.S. companies are using online marketing in one form or another -- and more than half are looking to outsou...

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Deconstructing the Wireless Players Market
Media

Deconstructing the Wireless Players Market

25y Nancy Whiteman

Deconstructing the Wireless Players Market

Virtually every wireless company out there claims to be the leader in something. But, to the uninitiated, the subtleties of what distinguishes one wor...

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More Cool Tools for the Affiliate Manager
Marketing

More Cool Tools for the Affiliate Manager

25y Shawn Collins

More Cool Tools for the Affiliate Manager

Shawn shares helful tips on tools and resources for maximizing the effectiveness of affiliate programs. So are you interested in finding super affilia...

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Drawing a Clearer Picture of the Online Customer
Marketing

Drawing a Clearer Picture of the Online Customer

25y Stephen Diorio

Drawing a Clearer Picture of the Online Customer

As online shoppers gain know-how, their behavior, responsiveness, and sensitivity to marketing is evolving and beginning to differ materially accordin...

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Email Shenanigans
Media

Email Shenanigans

25y Tig Tillinghast

Email Shenanigans

There are different ways a list broker can cheat an unsuspecting email marketer. Knowing these ahead of time can help you ask the right questions up f...

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IAR Bits and Bytes
Media

IAR Bits and Bytes

25y Team ClickZ

IAR Bits and Bytes

Aptimus appeals Nasdaq delisting and will explore "strategic options"; MSN wins Web hosting rights to 2002 Winter Olympics; iWon to carry PointRoll ad...

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Marketing Dollars and Diminishing Returns
Media

Marketing Dollars and Diminishing Returns

25y Adam Posman

Marketing Dollars and Diminishing Returns

If you were hungry, you would get the most utility out of the first apple you consumed, slightly less from the second, and so on. Spending money on ad...

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WAA Releases Ad Standards for WAP, SMS and PDAs
Media

WAA Releases Ad Standards for WAP, SMS and PDAs

25y Christopher Saunders

WAA Releases Ad Standards for WAP, SMS and PDAs

The effort will make mobile advertising more attractive and less costly for advertisers. Read More...

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Privacy Debate Swirls Around iTV Advertising
Media

Privacy Debate Swirls Around iTV Advertising

25y Christopher Saunders

Privacy Debate Swirls Around iTV Advertising

As ACTV and OpenTV hammer out the details of their association, one privacy group voices concerns about targeted interactive TV marketing. Read More...

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Ad-Based E-Commerce Tools: Bye-Bye Buy?
Media

Ad-Based E-Commerce Tools: Bye-Bye Buy?

25y Rob Graham

Ad-Based E-Commerce Tools: Bye-Bye Buy?

To understand the reality of selling directly from an ad, one must first consider the situation of the customer who encounters the ad. The offer might...

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It All Began With a Little Cheesecake
Email

It All Began With a Little Cheesecake

25y Kim MacPherson

It All Began With a Little Cheesecake

This is Kim's last Email Marketing article for ClickZ, and we're going to miss her. Of course, she reminisces a bit about the good old days, and who c...

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CRM Investments Coming To The Rescue
Marketing

CRM Investments Coming To The Rescue

25y Michael Pastore

CRM Investments Coming To The Rescue

The number of individuals seeking online customer service will jump from 33 million in 2001 to 67 million in 2005, according to Jupiter Media Metrix, ...

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Discerning Distinctions in Buying Behavior
Analytics

Discerning Distinctions in Buying Behavior

25y Janet Ryan

Discerning Distinctions in Buying Behavior

Anyone who has been marketing online for more than a day or two knows that all clicks are not created equal. So how do we use data analytics to determ...

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Shootout Brewing Between Paid Search Engines
Media

Shootout Brewing Between Paid Search Engines

25y Christopher Saunders

Shootout Brewing Between Paid Search Engines

A new service from pay-for-performance search engine LookSmart is targeting what it says are shortcomings in market leader GoTo.com's offerings. Read ...

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One-Third of Online Americans Surfing at High Speeds
Data insights

One-Third of Online Americans Surfing at High Speeds

25y Michael Pastore

One-Third of Online Americans Surfing at High Spee...

Nearly one-third of American Internet users have broadband access at home, work or school according to a study by Arbitron, and today's college studen...

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Study: Online Branding Measurable, Underappreciated
Media

Study: Online Branding Measurable, Underappreciated

25y Christopher Saunders

Study: Online Branding Measurable, Underappreciate...

According to a new Jupiter study, marketers underestimate the value of online branding campaigns -- a fact that's due to the industry's lack of a good...

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E-Mail Marketing to Take Off
Ad Industry Metrics

E-Mail Marketing to Take Off

25y Christopher Saunders

E-Mail Marketing to Take Off

E-mail marketing has seen explosive growth during the past year -- and doesn't show any signs of abating, according to analysts at Aberdeen Group. Rea...

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Advertising ROI Lies In Branding, Not Clicks Or Traffic
Ad Industry Metrics

Advertising ROI Lies In Branding, Not Clicks Or Traffic

25y Michael Pastore

Advertising ROI Lies In Branding, Not Clicks Or Tr...

The actual return on investment from online advertising is likely 25 to 35 percent higher than most marketers believe, according to Jupiter Media Metr...

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What Is the State of Your Channels?
Marketing

What Is the State of Your Channels?

25y Philip Say

What Is the State of Your Channels?

Business sales have always been driven by channel relationships. So how are companies applying technology to improve these business relationships? And...

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E-Mail Marketing Reference Guide
Email

E-Mail Marketing Reference Guide

25y Team ClickZ

E-Mail Marketing Reference Guide

For a brief moment in Internet time, e-mail marketing meant placing an ad in an e-mail newsletter and waiting for the traffic. Not anymore. Read More...

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Report: Online Marketing Gaining Steam
Media

Report: Online Marketing Gaining Steam

25y Christopher Saunders

Report: Online Marketing Gaining Steam

Optimistic IDC findings suggest that most U.S. companies are using online marketing in one form or another -- and more than half are looking to outsou...

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Vendor Spotlight: My Affiliate Program
Marketing

Vendor Spotlight: My Affiliate Program

25y Joel Gehman

Vendor Spotlight: My Affiliate Program

Joel reviews MyAp by KowaBunga! and gives you the ins and outs of the affiliate tracking software, discusses some options, even explains the solution'...

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Study: E-Mail Marketing to Take Off
Media

Study: E-Mail Marketing to Take Off

25y Christopher Saunders

Study: E-Mail Marketing to Take Off

Aberdeen Group predicts that hosted ASP solutions will continue to boom through 2002, while CRM applications will grow in prominence to threaten the m...

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Revisiting Ads on Internet Portals
Media

Revisiting Ads on Internet Portals

25y Adam Posman

Revisiting Ads on Internet Portals

Perspectives on the portal deal have fluctuated over the past two years, somewhat in line with market trends. So do portal deals still make sense? Dep...

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Empathizing With Witch Doctors
Marketing

Empathizing With Witch Doctors

25y Blake Rohrbacher

Empathizing With Witch Doctors

There is a fine line between ignorance and arrogance. Nowhere is this better typified than in the attitude that you don't need to get into users' head...

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Commission Junction Revamping Policies to Cut Costs
Media

Commission Junction Revamping Policies to Cut Costs

25y Christopher Saunders

Commission Junction Revamping Policies to Cut Cost...

The moves are aimed at hastening profitability by upping fees, weeding out less-profitable advertisers, and abandoning pay-per-click -- but the effort...

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Dynamics Direct Angling for Entertainment Industry Work
Media

Dynamics Direct Angling for Entertainment Industry Work

25y Christopher Saunders

Dynamics Direct Angling for Entertainment Industry...

Through a reseller arrangement with EnterTec Group, the rich media e-mail firm aims to pick up where Radical Communication left off. Read More...

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