Digitas Execs: "We're Insulated" From Industry Turmoil
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Digitas Execs: "We're Insulated" From Industry Turmoil

25y Christopher Saunders

Digitas Execs: "We're Insulated" From Industry Tur...

Revenues slip slightly at the Boston interactive agency, but management says it's weathering the storm better than competitors. Read More...

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Advertising: A Cry for Usability
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Advertising: A Cry for Usability

25y Kim Brooks

Advertising: A Cry for Usability

Advertising is frequently interruption-based, posing a serious usability flaw. Advertisers must consider that usability is essential to campaign succe...

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Customers: One Click Away From Goodbye
Analytics

Customers: One Click Away From Goodbye

25y Bryan Eisenberg

Customers: One Click Away From Goodbye

If your site is not a part of the selling solution, you have a big problem. You certainly won't be making it into the history books. In fact, you'll b...

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Dan Bricklin to the Rescue
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Dan Bricklin to the Rescue

25y Dana Blankenhorn

Dan Bricklin to the Rescue

Who's Dan Bricklin, and how will he find Blogger's true potential? According to Dana, if there's a Clue to be gained in this business, Dan's the man w...

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Customer Life Cycle: The Buying Continuum
Analytics

Customer Life Cycle: The Buying Continuum

25y Janet Ryan

Customer Life Cycle: The Buying Continuum

Claim someone's attention. Bring that person into your sphere of influence. Turn that person into a paying customer. Keep that person as a customer. C...

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Rich Media Campaigns: Missing the Mark
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Rich Media Campaigns: Missing the Mark

25y Tig Tillinghast

Rich Media Campaigns: Missing the Mark

Proponents of rich media believe its better production values and greater interactivity result in a higher level of effectiveness. Most studies bear t...

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What's the Best Way to Can Spam?
Email

What's the Best Way to Can Spam?

25y Alex Sirota

What's the Best Way to Can Spam?

Divert it, filter it, quarantine it, duck it. Still spam gets through. How to can it? Maybe it's time to charge for it. Read More...

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As Big Ad Firms Power Up Exchange, Two Start-Ups Fizzle
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As Big Ad Firms Power Up Exchange, Two Start-Ups Fizzle

25y Pamela Parker

As Big Ad Firms Power Up Exchange, Two Start-Ups F...

Two start-ups' losses could be to the advantage of the "big three" advertising companies. Read More...

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Coke Takes Integration Further With New Effort
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Coke Takes Integration Further With New Effort

25y Beth Cox

Coke Takes Integration Further With New Effort

The "Life Tastes Good" promotion is said to be the most fully integratedadvertising approach Coca-Cola has ever undertaken. Read More...

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French Lessons
Marketing

French Lessons

25y Newell Wright

French Lessons

What can France teach online marketers about good customer service? Beaucoup. Because database marketing means some customers are more valuable than o...

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U.S. PC Market Feels Slowdown in Q1 2001
Audience

U.S. PC Market Feels Slowdown in Q1 2001

25y Michael Pastore

U.S. PC Market Feels Slowdown in Q1 2001

Preliminary numbers from Gartner Dataquest found more than just negative growth in the U.S. personal computer market for the first quarter of 2001, th...

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Fraud: Affiliates Fight Back
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Fraud: Affiliates Fight Back

25y Shawn Collins

Fraud: Affiliates Fight Back

Now that you know how to identify the faces of affiliate fraud, what are you doing to checkmate these cheaters? Take a little more of Shawn's sage adv...

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Yahoo, Game Over
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Yahoo, Game Over

25y Dana Blankenhorn

Yahoo, Game Over

Yahoo!'s role was always simple -- to lead and ride the boom. But now that the boom's over, Dana says the handwriting is on the wall. Read More...

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An E-Lesson From Hans Christian Andersen
Marketing

An E-Lesson From Hans Christian Andersen

25y Martin Lindstrom

An E-Lesson From Hans Christian Andersen

Many a dot-com story is a fairy tale gone awry. Why? Because not many sites have what it takes to be as sticky as one of Hans Christian Andersen's sto...

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Automating Marketing Reaction to Customer Action
Email

Automating Marketing Reaction to Customer Action

25y Heidi Anderson

Automating Marketing Reaction to Customer Action

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. It's a basic principle of physics. Here's another fundamental truth: For every email prospe...

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Dial-Up Remains ISPs Bread and Butter
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Dial-Up Remains ISPs Bread and Butter

25y Michael Pastore

Dial-Up Remains ISPs Bread and Butter

It has taken less than 10 years for ISP services to become welcome in more than half of U.S. households, but now there's no where to go but down. Acco...

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Meeting the Needs of Traditional Advertisers
Marketing

Meeting the Needs of Traditional Advertisers

25y Jeffrey Graham

Meeting the Needs of Traditional Advertisers

Now that the online advertising fires have cooled, it's time to huddle together with traditional advertisers and make sure everyone gets a little warm...

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A Peek at the Future of Wireless Video
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A Peek at the Future of Wireless Video

25y Sean Carton

A Peek at the Future of Wireless Video

Let's face it, Sean thought, there's not much really cool stuff out there -- the downturn in the new economy seems to have had a dampening effect on i...

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Seeding the Engines: Part 2
Search

Seeding the Engines: Part 2

25y Paul J. Bruemmer

Seeding the Engines: Part 2

A search engine campaign is an ongoing process that goes beyond achieving a favorable position. But by incorporating Paul's key tasks into your overal...

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What a Difference a Year Makes
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What a Difference a Year Makes

25y Adam Posman

What a Difference a Year Makes

Although it's fashionable to talk about the dot-com failures, let's instead look at what separates the successful dot-coms from the rest. Here are som...

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Using Outsourcers for Your Acquisition Campaign
Email

Using Outsourcers for Your Acquisition Campaign

25y Debbie Weil

Using Outsourcers for Your Acquisition Campaign

Permission email marketing comes in two distinct flavors: acquisition and retention. When you're talking outsourcers, you're talking two distinct sets...

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The Commodification of Online Media
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The Commodification of Online Media

25y Jim Meskauskas

The Commodification of Online Media

What distinguishing factors should media buyers take into consideration when putting together a media buy? Price and service alone? Or do quality cons...

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Wireless Advertising's Early Adopters
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Wireless Advertising's Early Adopters

25y Nancy Whiteman

Wireless Advertising's Early Adopters

Why all the mobile-commerce and wireless-advertising initiatives if wireless is so limited? Because for businesses that rely on time- or location-sens...

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Yahoo! Names Replacement for Koogle
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Yahoo! Names Replacement for Koogle

25y Beth Cox

Yahoo! Names Replacement for Koogle

UPDATE: A former Time Warner exec with media and entertainment experience is pickedto be both chairman and chief executive at the bellwether Internet ...

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The Future of the E-Wireless Revolution
Email

The Future of the E-Wireless Revolution

25y Bruno Gralpois

The Future of the E-Wireless Revolution

Where's the future of e-wireless? Though some would put their money on Asia, Europe could well become the leader of this revolution. Here's why. Read ...

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For Writers, Writing Is Never a Waste of Time
Marketing

For Writers, Writing Is Never a Waste of Time

25y Kathy Henning

For Writers, Writing Is Never a Waste of Time

In its fifth draft, your article is pretty near perfect. Then the company president puts the kibosh on it. You work nonstop on a piece for an hour. Th...

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Global Knowledge Undertakes $40M Campaign
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Global Knowledge Undertakes $40M Campaign

25y Beth Cox

Global Knowledge Undertakes $40M Campaign

The re-branding effort supports a new corporate identity for the IT educationsolutions provider. Read More...

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Excite@Home Wants Out of Media Business
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Excite@Home Wants Out of Media Business

25y Dana Blankenhorn

Excite@Home Wants Out of Media Business

Update: The cable broadband provider said it will focus on its core broadband franchise and will look to sell or restructure any media operations that...

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