The Hockey Stick
Media

The Hockey Stick

26y Dana Blankenhorn

The Hockey Stick

The Internet isn't a product, or even a set of products. It's a medium, like radio or TV. This is a point being missed by investors looking at web bus...

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How to Freshen up Stale Permission
Email

How to Freshen up Stale Permission

26y Nick Usborne

How to Freshen up Stale Permission

How fresh is permission from a year ago? Could be pretty stale. Here’s how to get back to your subscribers every six months with an invitation to fres...

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Self-Service -- With or Without a Smile
Marketing

Self-Service -- With or Without a Smile

26y Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila

Self-Service -- With or Without a Smile

As the holiday buying season approaches, e-tailers are looking to expensive e-CRM solutions as the answer to abandoned shopping carts, a costly, overb...

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Pricing Your Ad Vehicles
Marketing

Pricing Your Ad Vehicles

26y Andy Bourland

Pricing Your Ad Vehicles

How do you know what CPM to charge? Short answer: whatever the market will bear. Andy tells you how to price your ad vehicles, perhaps setting the pri...

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Building a High-Traffic Intranet
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Building a High-Traffic Intranet

26y ClickZ Stats Staff

Building a High-Traffic Intranet

Though intranets are popular with management teams trying to improve corporate communication, most remain unpopular with employees. What gives? Build ...

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Napster Era Ends
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Napster Era Ends

26y Dana Blankenhorn

Napster Era Ends

Napster offered free music without a business model. Now one of its sworn enemies is endorsing a bolted-on business model while hoping others will joi...

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Interactive Agency Lot21 Lays Off 30
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Interactive Agency Lot21 Lays Off 30

26y Ryan Naraine

Interactive Agency Lot21 Lays Off 30

A pioneering interactive agency feels the pinch. Read More...

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The Narrow Approach to Broadband
Data insights

The Narrow Approach to Broadband

26y Michael Pastore

The Narrow Approach to Broadband

More than 28 million US online households are expected to use a high-speed Internet connection by 2005, according to a report by Jupiter Research. But...

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Four Worlds of 3D at Internet World
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Four Worlds of 3D at Internet World

26y Bill McCloskey

Four Worlds of 3D at Internet World

At least four vendors at Internet World displayed various forms of 3D technology. Bill describes the new angle to 3D technology from Cryonetworks, Act...

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Ten Rules for the NEW New Economy
Marketing

Ten Rules for the NEW New Economy

26y Sean Carton

Ten Rules for the NEW New Economy

The new economy revolution is over. It's time to use marketing tactics that focus on the customer, not the medium. Sean offers 10 rules for success in...

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The Benefits of Geotargeting
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The Benefits of Geotargeting

26y Adam Posman

The Benefits of Geotargeting

An ad designed to appeal to Texans probably wouldn't appeal to Thais, even apart from the language barrier. As Internet usage expands worldwide, geota...

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Building Your Online Fan Club
Marketing

Building Your Online Fan Club

26y Marcia Yudkin

Building Your Online Fan Club

Whether you sell diet counseling or electric drills, collecting and nurturing enthusiasts requires little or no money online and pays off handsomely. ...

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A Case for Outsourcing Email Marketing
Email

A Case for Outsourcing Email Marketing

26y Brady Brewer

A Case for Outsourcing Email Marketing

Compares costs and other critical factors for marketing by email. You can manage and execute email campaigns internally, use an application service pr...

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A Spammy Halloween Story
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A Spammy Halloween Story

26y Dana Blankenhorn

A Spammy Halloween Story

Want to get spooked for Halloween? Consider a world in which the plague of spam has wiped out legitimate, responsible email marketers. Read More...

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IAR Bits and Bytes for Monday
Media

IAR Bits and Bytes for Monday

26y Team ClickZ

IAR Bits and Bytes for Monday

Val-Pak, e-centives in couponing deal; AdForce supports EveryWhere with dedicated sales unit; NetZero unveils promotional campaign. Read More...

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Are You at War With Your Customers?
Marketing

Are You at War With Your Customers?

26y Nick Usborne

Are You at War With Your Customers?

Traditional marketing is adversarial: the marketer against the customer. Marketers pay big bucks to hammer you with "impressions." The more times it h...

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Brand Language: Hows Your International Attendance?
Media

Brand Language: Hows Your International Attendance?

26y Liz Kiley

Brand Language: Hows Your International Attendance...

In our hypermediated, multicultural landscape, it's amazing how many companies have yet to address the world and its many languages in their media and...

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Email Marketing Awards Give Clue to Selling Media
Media

Email Marketing Awards Give Clue to Selling Media

26y Janet Ryan and Nancy Whiteman

Email Marketing Awards Give Clue to Selling Media

Janet and Nancy participated as judges for the Email Marketing Awards sponsored by MessageMedia and ClickZ. Finalists will be announced at a celebrato...

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Broadband Content Leaving PCs for TV and Stereos
Data insights

Broadband Content Leaving PCs for TV and Stereos

26y Michael Pastore

Broadband Content Leaving PCs for TV and Stereos

Content providers who think rich media offerings will only get airtime on the PC are mistaken, according to a report by Forrester Research, which pred...

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One-Third of Web Revenue Headed to B-to-B Firms
Marketing

One-Third of Web Revenue Headed to B-to-B Firms

26y Michael Pastore

One-Third of Web Revenue Headed to B-to-B Firms

Business-to-business sites own almost 40 percent of the English-language domains on the Web, and they are leading the way in revenue growth in 2000, a...

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Tips for Email Campaign Development and Deployment
Email

Tips for Email Campaign Development and Deployment

26y Larry Roth

Tips for Email Campaign Development and Deployment

If you're planning an email marketing campaign with a list broker, there are a variety of activities that will streamline the campaign development and...

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Use Third-Party Lists With Caution
Media

Use Third-Party Lists With Caution

26y Richard Hoy

Use Third-Party Lists With Caution

Richard is a man with a mission. And that mission is to spare other small-business owners some of the hard lessons he's learned over the past five yea...

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The AT&T Empire Is Doomed
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The AT&T Empire Is Doomed

26y Dana Blankenhorn

The AT&T Empire Is Doomed

AT&T is breaking up again. It's ironic that its corporate symbol looks like an idealized Death Star from "Star Wars." The thousands of ISPs and optica...

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ValueClick Rolls Out E-mail Product
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ValueClick Rolls Out E-mail Product

26y Christopher Saunders

ValueClick Rolls Out E-mail Product

The firm continues online ad firms' efforts to boost their direct marketing capabilities. Read More...

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Seeking the Super Affiliate
Marketing

Seeking the Super Affiliate

26y Shawn Collins

Seeking the Super Affiliate

The quality of your affiliates may be more important than the quantity. And the epitome of high-quality affiliates is the super affiliate, a precious ...

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Big Marcom PR Payoff With Whack-a-Flack
Marketing

Big Marcom PR Payoff With Whack-a-Flack

26y Len Stein

Big Marcom PR Payoff With Whack-a-Flack

The recent launch of Whack-a-Flack, a marcom PR play, generated fantastic response for e-tractions. The Whack-a-Flack game invites journalists to thro...

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Wireless Hype Phase 1
Marketing

Wireless Hype Phase 1

26y Martin Lindstrom

Wireless Hype Phase 1

As wireless technology hype builds in the United States, it instills every dot-com company with the conviction that it must include wireless commerce ...

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Picture This: An Email Postcard Campaign
Email

Picture This: An Email Postcard Campaign

26y Heidi Anderson

Picture This: An Email Postcard Campaign

Now here's an email campaign worth writing home about. What started off as a personal vacation turned into an email-documented journey and a way of li...

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