E*Trade, AT&T Sweepstakes Raises Eyebrows
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E*Trade, AT&T Sweepstakes Raises Eyebrows

26y Christopher Saunders

E*Trade, AT&T Sweepstakes Raises Eyebrows

Legal experts express concern about an online contest's opt-in entry requirements. Read More...

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Email Marketing Gone Bad
Email

Email Marketing Gone Bad

26y Heidi Anderson

Email Marketing Gone Bad

Usually Heidi reports successful email marketing case studies. But today she tells the story of a company that just doesn't get it. Speaking from the ...

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Engage to Go Toe-to-Toe with Competitors in Asia
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Engage to Go Toe-to-Toe with Competitors in Asia

26y Christopher Saunders

Engage to Go Toe-to-Toe with Competitors in Asia

The company plopped down equity to snatch up a rival for the Australasian Internet ad market. Read More...

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The Only Way to Build Brand
Marketing

The Only Way to Build Brand

26y Martin Lindstrom

The Only Way to Build Brand

Internet real estate prices have increased dramatically, resulting in sites squeezing more and more information into less and less space. Martin tells...

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Internet Retailers Look Toward Profitability
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Internet Retailers Look Toward Profitability

26y Michael Pastore

Internet Retailers Look Toward Profitability

A new study suggests online retailers are taking steps to increase overall profitability. Read More...

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Web-Ready Cell Phones Flying Off Shelves
Data insights

Web-Ready Cell Phones Flying Off Shelves

26y Michael Pastore

Web-Ready Cell Phones Flying Off Shelves

There may not be too many mobile Internet users in the US, but people seem to be gearing up for wireless access. The NPD Group has found an increase i...

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BBDO's Interactive Shop Taps DoubleClick
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BBDO's Interactive Shop Taps DoubleClick

26y Christopher Saunders

BBDO's Interactive Shop Taps DoubleClick

The deal with @tmosphere could expand DART to some very big offline brands' sites. Read More...

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eCoupons Strikes B2C, B2B Deals with SuperMarkets Online, BizLand.com
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eCoupons Strikes B2C, B2B Deals with SuperMarkets Online, BizLand.com

26y Christopher Saunders

eCoupons Strikes B2C, B2B Deals with SuperMarkets ...

The promotional marketing company ads two clients, boosting its position in a tight market. Read More...

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Internet Retailers Look Toward Profitability
Audience

Internet Retailers Look Toward Profitability

26y Michael Pastore

Internet Retailers Look Toward Profitability

A survey by Shop.org and The Boston Consulting Group found that online retailers are making moves toward profitability. But will they ever catch multi...

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Bigfoot Interactive, SDC to Offer Joint Services
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Bigfoot Interactive, SDC to Offer Joint Services

26y Christopher Saunders

Bigfoot Interactive, SDC to Offer Joint Services

The e-mail marketer strikes a data deal. Read More...

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Demographics of the Net Getting Older
Audience

Demographics of the Net Getting Older

26y Michael Pastore

Demographics of the Net Getting Older

The number of seniors online will more than triple from 11.1 million in 1999 to 34.1 million in 2004, and they will account for 20 percent of all new ...

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Customers Always Come First
Marketing

Customers Always Come First

26y Randee Fagen

Customers Always Come First

No matter where you work, it's probably safe to assume that you've heard someone utter the phrase, "The customer is always right." Nowhere else is thi...

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Making the Web Accessible to Everyone
Marketing

Making the Web Accessible to Everyone

26y Jeffrey Graham

Making the Web Accessible to Everyone

One of the previous decade's proudest moments was the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, prohibiting discrimination against individuals b...

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Driving Retail With Content
Email

Driving Retail With Content

26y Kim MacPherson

Driving Retail With Content

If you've got an online retail site and publish an email newsletter, the idea is to sell and/or convert, right? Those lucky enough to have staff and d...

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Banner Life Spans Coming Up Short
Ad Industry Metrics

Banner Life Spans Coming Up Short

26y Michael Pastore

Banner Life Spans Coming Up Short

More than 7,000 new banner ads appear online every week, but their life span compares with that of many insects. Rare is the banner that sees two mont...

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Oops, I Can't Be Trusted
Marketing

Oops, I Can't Be Trusted

26y Nick Usborne

Oops, I Can't Be Trusted

Nick takes a look at how trust, or the lack of it, can also have a profound impact on the experience people have at your site. With all the research a...

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Troubled Clothing E-tailer Bluefly Strikes AOL Pact
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Troubled Clothing E-tailer Bluefly Strikes AOL Pact

26y Fred Aun

Troubled Clothing E-tailer Bluefly Strikes AOL Pac...

Cash-strapped online retailer Bluefly places great faith in AOL. Read More...

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Study: Online Advertisers Favor Brief, General-Audience Campaigns
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Study: Online Advertisers Favor Brief, General-Audience Campaigns

26y Christopher Saunders

Study: Online Advertisers Favor Brief, General-Aud...

Short, sweet, and broad is the strategy followed by most online media planners. Read More...

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Breaking Through With Information
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Breaking Through With Information

26y Barry Silverstein

Breaking Through With Information

Name any industry, any line of business, any subject, and you'll find some relatively in-depth information about it on the web for free. One of the ba...

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Intuit's Quicken to Provide Stamps.com Services
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Intuit's Quicken to Provide Stamps.com Services

26y Christopher Saunders

Intuit's Quicken to Provide Stamps.com Services

The online postage service scores another big partnership in its bid to become a household name. Read More...

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Wanted: A Trade Hub for Online Media Buyers
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Wanted: A Trade Hub for Online Media Buyers

26y Tom Hespos

Wanted: A Trade Hub for Online Media Buyers

After almost six years in the business, Tom's developed a pretty good BS detector for sniffing out the media vendors and services that don't work as a...

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L90 brokers marketing agreement between Delphi.com, vTrails
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L90 brokers marketing agreement between Delphi.com, vTrails

26y Christopher Saunders

L90 brokers marketing agreement between Delphi.com...

vTrails' surfing product will be marketed as a group tour serviceonthe site. Read More...

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Leave No Test Unturned
Marketing

Leave No Test Unturned

26y Martin Lindstrom

Leave No Test Unturned

Before a television commercial is aired, it undergoes thorough testing to ensure every second is effective and the advertiser's message is understood ...

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Breaking Out With Broadband
Media

Breaking Out With Broadband

26y Bill McCloskey

Breaking Out With Broadband

Bill had his own personal, rich media epiphany this week. For the first time, he was able to walk into his local Wiz at the local strip mall and purch...

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Register.com, TeleDomains.com Team to Co-Sell Services
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Register.com, TeleDomains.com Team to Co-Sell Services

26y Christopher Saunders

Register.com, TeleDomains.com Team to Co-Sell Serv...

A new co-marketing alliance offers customers on- and offlinebrandingoptions. Read More...

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Getting Listed and Staying Listed
Search

Getting Listed and Staying Listed

26y Paul J. Bruemmer

Getting Listed and Staying Listed

In today's search engine environment, one must perform periodic daily, weekly and monthly maintenance to stay listed in the engines. This can become r...

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Net-mercial Announces Affiliate Marketing Network
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Net-mercial Announces Affiliate Marketing Network

26y Christopher Saunders

Net-mercial Announces Affiliate Marketing Network

Rich media interstitial startup Net-mercial announced its intentionto enter the ad network space. Read More...

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Multimedia May Prove a Distraction to Broadband Users
Data insights

Multimedia May Prove a Distraction to Broadband Users

26y Michael Pastore

Multimedia May Prove a Distraction to Broadband Us...

Many of the Web's largest sites use multimedia content, but a report from Forrester Research found that broadband users will eventually favor sites th...

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