Victoria's Secret Won't Be Safe After Webcast
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Victoria's Secret Won't Be Safe After Webcast

27y Beth Cox

Victoria's Secret Won't Be Safe After Webcast

Is it soft porn or hard-core marketing? Decide for yourself at 7 p.m. ESTtoday when Victoria's Secret offers up a live Internet video broadcast of ali...

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Corporate E-Giving
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Corporate E-Giving

27y Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila

Corporate E-Giving

This year, it may be worth it for online companies to think about how they're going to give back. Many large bricks-and-mortar companies already give ...

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i-traffic Selects AdKnowledge as Preferred Web Ad Server
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i-traffic Selects AdKnowledge as Preferred Web Ad Server

27y Beth Cox

i-traffic Selects AdKnowledge as Preferred Web Ad ...

AdKnowledge said thatNew York-based interactive direct marketing agency i-traffic signed a contract makingAdKnowledge its preferred ad serving technol...

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Click-Through As The Wrong Metric
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Click-Through As The Wrong Metric

27y Tim Meadows

Click-Through As The Wrong Metric

Here's the truth: Click-through is nothing more than a convenient, easy-to-get-a-handle-on measure of an ad's ability to create an impulse response. C...

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What Do You Pay Your Sales Staff?
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What Do You Pay Your Sales Staff?

27y Janet Ryan

What Do You Pay Your Sales Staff?

It's time to roll out the 1999 incentive plans to sales staffs. And if the calls Janet has been getting are any indication, there is a lot of concern ...

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Online Bill Presentment Up for Grabs
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Online Bill Presentment Up for Grabs

28y Michael Pastore

Online Bill Presentment Up for Grabs

More than 15 million US households are expected to receive their bills online by 2002, according to research conducted by Jupiter Communications. Who ...

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KnowX.com Signs Ad Deal With InfoSpace.com
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KnowX.com Signs Ad Deal With InfoSpace.com

28y Team ClickZ

KnowX.com Signs Ad Deal With InfoSpace.com

Atlanta-based public record site KnowX.com signed an advertising and promotion agreement with InfoSpace.com to provide the latter's users with the abi...

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AltaVista Plans $60 Million Campaign
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AltaVista Plans $60 Million Campaign

28y Team ClickZ

AltaVista Plans $60 Million Campaign

AltaVista, the Internet search engine that will be spun off by Compaq ComputerCorp., reportedly plans to launch an aggressive $60 million brand develo...

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Search Engine Portals Tick Me Off
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Search Engine Portals Tick Me Off

28y Tom Hespos

Search Engine Portals Tick Me Off

Tom Hespos has a big rant this week. "Here I am, trying to purchase targeted inventory on behalf of my clients, and my friendly neighborhood sales rep...

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Better Than Clearance Sales E-Tailing's Future Lies in Auctions
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Better Than Clearance Sales E-Tailing's Future Lies in Auctions

28y Michael Pastore

Better Than Clearance Sales E-Tailing's Future Lie...

According to research done by Jupiter Communications, the future of e-commerce lies in the auction model. Jupiter predicts that online business-to-con...

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When Design Is NOT Design
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When Design Is NOT Design

28y B.L. Ochman

When Design Is NOT Design

Somehow, in the rush to make the web into its own distinct medium, many terms have been confused. And in this space where a spade isn't always called ...

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Airline Sites Need Work
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Airline Sites Need Work

28y Michael Pastore

Airline Sites Need Work

A survey of visitors to the Web sites of several major airlines has found that they have some work to do in the eyes of their customers. Read More...

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Physicians Increase Interest in Internet
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Physicians Increase Interest in Internet

28y Michael Pastore

Physicians Increase Interest in Internet

An ongoing survey by Healtheon Corp. has found a 300 percent increase in regular Internet usage by physicians over the past two years. Read More...

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All Clicks Are Not Created Equal
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All Clicks Are Not Created Equal

28y Jaffer Ali

All Clicks Are Not Created Equal

Most advertisers measure the click-through rates of their banner campaigns...but how meaningful a metric is that, really? Jaffer Ali says it's not a v...

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Sweeping For Cobwebs
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Sweeping For Cobwebs

28y Michael Fischler

Sweeping For Cobwebs

Michael Fischler is redesigning his web site. Sprucing it up to make it more usable and friendly and inviting. And in doing so he's identified some of...

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Lessons Learned From Pro-Wrestling
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Lessons Learned From Pro-Wrestling

28y Andy Bourland

Lessons Learned From Pro-Wrestling

Forget conferences and seminars. The next time you want to take in a lesson on highly effective marketing practices, take a couple of hours and plunk ...

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Centraal Signs Strategic Distribution Alliance With Inktomi
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Centraal Signs Strategic Distribution Alliance With Inktomi

28y Team ClickZ

Centraal Signs Strategic Distribution Alliance Wit...

Palo Alto, CA-based Centraal Corp., creator of the RealNames Web page addressing system,signed a strategic distribution and reseller alliance with Ink...

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38 Million Americans Getting Wired
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38 Million Americans Getting Wired

28y Michael Pastore

38 Million Americans Getting Wired

Internet users in the United States will more closely resemble the average American in the future, according to a recent study. Read More...

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Five Reasons To Plan For Slower Growth
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Five Reasons To Plan For Slower Growth

28y Janet Ryan and Nancy Whiteman

Five Reasons To Plan For Slower Growth

After the net party that was Q4, hold on for a more sobering Q1 in ad spending. Why? Janet Ryan offers five very good reasons. Read More...

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BrainBug Agency Lands Six New Accounts
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BrainBug Agency Lands Six New Accounts

28y Team ClickZ

BrainBug Agency Lands Six New Accounts

Hartford, Conn.-based BrainBug LLC , an advertising andinteractive agency, added two national and four regional accounts to itsclient roster. Read Mor...

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Online Holiday Shopping
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Online Holiday Shopping

28y Michael Pastore

Online Holiday Shopping

The results of the 1998 online holiday shopping survey by World Research. Read More...

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I Am Not Your Enemy
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I Am Not Your Enemy

28y Tom Hespos

I Am Not Your Enemy

Count Tom Hespos among the ClickZ readers who take serious issue with those who think that the concept of rich media is the enemy of a direct response...

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Musings On A Brand's Surface Area
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Musings On A Brand's Surface Area

28y Chris Maher

Musings On A Brand's Surface Area

Whatever branding used to be -- referring as it does to a one-way activity involving terrified cattle and a glowing iron -- it ISN'T now in the world ...

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Email Marketing Done Right
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Email Marketing Done Right

28y Steve Markowitz

Email Marketing Done Right

Email marketing is indeed the killer app for the new year. But only if it is done right. Steve Markowitz offers up the key components of effective ema...

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Why Ad Agencies Could Lose the Interactive Game
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Why Ad Agencies Could Lose the Interactive Game

28y Kathy Sharpe

Why Ad Agencies Could Lose the Interactive Game

Many major advertising agencies have come a long way in delivering interactive solutions to their clients. But moving to the next level will require a...

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IAB and InterWatch: Making Sense of The Numbers
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IAB and InterWatch: Making Sense of The Numbers

28y Keith Pieper

IAB and InterWatch: Making Sense of The Numbers

Whose ad spending numbers do you believe? In one corner is the Internet Advertising Bureau. In the other corner is the monthly InterWatch report (prev...

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Cyber411 Calls on Other Sites to Ban Porno Ad Banners
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Cyber411 Calls on Other Sites to Ban Porno Ad Banners

28y Team ClickZ

Cyber411 Calls on Other Sites to Ban Porno Ad Bann...

Meta-search engine site Cyber411 marked itsfirst anniversary of refusing to run pornographic advertising banners. Read More...

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The 1999 Wish-List
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The 1999 Wish-List

28y Sean Carton

The 1999 Wish-List

Pricing standards, sites that work, the end of the browser war, the breakup of that Redmond powerhouse...these are the things of Sean Carton's dreams....

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