Hacker Flick "Swordfish" Taps Web Promotion, Contest
Media

Hacker Flick "Swordfish" Taps Web Promotion, Contest

25y Christopher Saunders

Hacker Flick "Swordfish" Taps Web Promotion, Conte...

Following its "A.I." campaign, Warner Bros. continues to throw sizable resources behind "stealth" movie promotions on the Web. Read More...

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The Weakest -- and the Strongest -- Link
Email

The Weakest -- and the Strongest -- Link

25y Kim MacPherson

The Weakest -- and the Strongest -- Link

When links in a promotion are tracked individually, almost always a clear-cut winner emerges. That is, one piece of email real estate, above all other...

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Most CRM Projects Remain in Planning Phase
Marketing

Most CRM Projects Remain in Planning Phase

25y Michael Pastore

Most CRM Projects Remain in Planning Phase

CRM has moved from concept to reality, but market maturity is still pretty far away, according to a study by The Data Warehousing Institute that found...

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The Five-Letter Dirty Word
Analytics

The Five-Letter Dirty Word

25y Bryan Eisenberg

The Five-Letter Dirty Word

What word (it refers to something we do every day, whether we realize it or not) immediately conjures up an image of a slick, aggressive, fast-talking...

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Branding, Direct Marketing, and You
Media

Branding, Direct Marketing, and You

25y Dana Blankenhorn

Branding, Direct Marketing, and You

Do we want to be able to compete on Madison Avenue again? Will we be able to compete against print, broadcast, and cable on an equal footing? We will,...

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Update: Exclusivity Still Sucks
Marketing

Update: Exclusivity Still Sucks

25y Joel Gehman

Update: Exclusivity Still Sucks

If you're a merchant, don't sign an exclusive deal. If a service provider is really that good, why would it insist on an exclusivity clause? If it's t...

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Keep Smiling
Media

Keep Smiling

25y Dana Blankenhorn

Keep Smiling

If you think times are tough now, think about the time when one-third, not just 4 or 5 percent, of all workers were unemployed. People wandered the co...

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TargitMail Finds Buyer in E-Tailer
Media

TargitMail Finds Buyer in E-Tailer

25y Christopher Saunders

TargitMail Finds Buyer in E-Tailer

The firm will be bought by a subsidiary of its one-time suitor. Read More...

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Spam of the Times
Email

Spam of the Times

25y Alex Sirota

Spam of the Times

There is definitely something to learn from the prevailing attitudes of the opt-in as well as unsolicited bulk-mail community. Even the best email mar...

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Debacle at inChorus.com Results in New Focus
Media

Debacle at inChorus.com Results in New Focus

25y Christopher Saunders

Debacle at inChorus.com Results in New Focus

As the rich media e-mail marketer continues its management shifts,new CEO Yoakum says the company remains in financial trouble. Read More...

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Software Choices and Switching Costs
Media

Software Choices and Switching Costs

25y Dana Blankenhorn

Software Choices and Switching Costs

Despite its recent price hike, AOL is not likely to have to weather a storm. So is there no hope? Is the U.S. Web doomed to become an AOL lake? Well, ...

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Internet's Religious Applications Getting Noticed
Audience

Internet's Religious Applications Getting Noticed

25y Michael Pastore

Internet's Religious Applications Getting Noticed

Millions of Americans are turning to the Internet to get them in touch with God and others who pursue faith matters, according to a report by Barna Re...

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A Better Mousetrap Is Not Enough
Marketing

A Better Mousetrap Is Not Enough

25y Blake Rohrbacher

A Better Mousetrap Is Not Enough

Often, our ignorance of market demand does little to dampen our conviction that "if we build it, they will come." But do people really want a new mous...

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Oh Say Can You See Convergence?
Marketing

Oh Say Can You See Convergence?

25y Eric Picard

Oh Say Can You See Convergence?

One day, after watching hours of digital cable, Eric gradually saw the light... He'd uncovered some interesting issues at the convergence point of dig...

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Ask Jeeves Snaps Up eTour
Media

Ask Jeeves Snaps Up eTour

25y Christopher Saunders

Ask Jeeves Snaps Up eTour

The Atlanta-based incentivized surfing play finds a buyer. Read More...

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An Apology to Kazakhstan
Media

An Apology to Kazakhstan

25y Susan Solomon

An Apology to Kazakhstan

Susan is floored that she has a readership beyond her mother and husband. In fact, she has readers around the world. Clearly, on the Web, one writes f...

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IAR Bits and Bytes
Media

IAR Bits and Bytes

25y Christopher Saunders

IAR Bits and Bytes

MindArrow makes acquisition; Unicast expands publishers; ValueClick co-registration sets records. Read More...

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Time to Clean Up the Neighborhood
Email

Time to Clean Up the Neighborhood

25y Kim MacPherson

Time to Clean Up the Neighborhood

You're a respectable email marketer, an upstanding citizen of the permission-marketing space. You ask nice, you play nice. But you're surrounded by th...

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IAR Bits and Bytes
Media

IAR Bits and Bytes

25y Christopher Saunders

IAR Bits and Bytes

CBS MarketWatch taps NetCreations; Digitas wins Williams-Sonoma; Sheraton turns to MessageMedia. Read More...

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24/7 Media Dumps Exactis
Media

24/7 Media Dumps Exactis

25y Christopher Saunders

24/7 Media Dumps Exactis

The firm adds e-mail delivery to the list of functions it's conceding to competitors, as 24/7 Media regroups around Connect and its list management bu...

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Brand Marketing in a Wireless World
Media

Brand Marketing in a Wireless World

25y Clay Nelson

Brand Marketing in a Wireless World

Wireless technology has come a long way, but filtering technology hasn't. A brave new wireless world can't be bound by PC paradigms. Read More...

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The Importance of Changing Customer Buying Behavior
Marketing

The Importance of Changing Customer Buying Behavior

25y Stephen Diorio

The Importance of Changing Customer Buying Behavio...

As technology life cycles shorten and the pace of innovation explodes, customers will expect the quality of service to be continually upgraded; they w...

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Important Email Considerations
Media

Important Email Considerations

25y Tig Tillinghast

Important Email Considerations

Sometimes media people are asked to help advertisers develop the proper offer to elicit a response from email marketing. If the client's value proposi...

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Charlwood eMarketing
Email

Charlwood eMarketing

25y Team ClickZ

Charlwood eMarketing

Charlwood eMarketing is an e-mail list broker that provides opt-in B2C and B2B e-mail lists within Canada and the United States. Read More...

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E-Tailing's Critical Success Factors
Marketing

E-Tailing's Critical Success Factors

25y Martin Lindstrom

E-Tailing's Critical Success Factors

There are five e-tailing success factors. They are simple, but critical. Yet they are neglected and mismanaged, which explains why only 5 percent of e...

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Measuring What Matters
Media

Measuring What Matters

25y Tom Hespos

Measuring What Matters

Tom thinks we need to unlearn the way we measure traditional advertising. Then we can take full advantage of Web technologies that measure what matter...

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Web Navigation Design Principles: Part 5
Marketing

Web Navigation Design Principles: Part 5

25y Gerry McGovern

Web Navigation Design Principles: Part 5

No matter how good the navigation design, there will always be people who get confused, especially on large Web sites. Here's how to help your site us...

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In PR, You Get What You Pay For
Marketing

In PR, You Get What You Pay For

25y Brian Solis

In PR, You Get What You Pay For

Why do venture capitalists require that a significant percentage of financing be allocated to implementing a strategic public relations campaign? Beca...

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