Develop Your Own In-House Creative Team
Marketing

Develop Your Own In-House Creative Team

25y Andy Bourland

Develop Your Own In-House Creative Team

Want to ensure the long-term viability of your e-zine? Here's how to avoid becoming a commodity by standing out from the rest and offering more, not l...

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E*Trade Aims at Target Shoppers
Media

E*Trade Aims at Target Shoppers

25y Christopher Saunders

E*Trade Aims at Target Shoppers

The two firms reprise their joint marketing efforts with a deal to add branded banking and securities centers to SuperTarget stores. Read More...

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Low CPM Rates Sow Discontent Among Publishers, Ad Networks
Media

Low CPM Rates Sow Discontent Among Publishers, Ad Networks

25y Christopher Saunders

Low CPM Rates Sow Discontent Among Publishers, Ad ...

Companies like Winstar Interactive and Phase2Media are finding clients among the dissatisfied publishers of bigger ad networks. Read More...

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marchFIRST Lays Off Another 550 Workers
Media

marchFIRST Lays Off Another 550 Workers

25y Beth Cox

marchFIRST Lays Off Another 550 Workers

Round One was 1,000 jobs. Round Two was 800. Round Three canned another 550 jobs. Will the Internet consultant have a Round Four? Read More...

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IAR Bits and Bytes
Media

IAR Bits and Bytes

25y Team ClickZ

IAR Bits and Bytes

Pay-for-performance player ValueClick names new advertisers, and Mighty Seven scores a new CIO. Read More...

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Increase in E-Mail Marketing Could Mean Opportunity for Providers
Ad Industry Metrics

Increase in E-Mail Marketing Could Mean Opportunity for Providers

25y Michael Pastore

Increase in E-Mail Marketing Could Mean Opportunit...

With eMarketer estimating the spending on e-mail marketing at $4.6 billion by 2003, Jupiter sees a golden opportunity for mail providers such as ISPs ...

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Digital Wallet Usage Lagging
Audience

Digital Wallet Usage Lagging

25y Michael Pastore

Digital Wallet Usage Lagging

Internet users should be, at least passively, familiar with digital wallets. What with big players like Yahoo! and AOL touting branded versions within...

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Online Advertising Steps Aside for Digital Marketing
Ad Industry Metrics

Online Advertising Steps Aside for Digital Marketing

25y Michael Pastore

Online Advertising Steps Aside for Digital Marketi...

As companies begin to see Internet advertising and promotions as part of the bigger marketing picture, traditional US companies will spend $63 billion...

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A Grass-Roots Email Campaign to Fight Urban Blight
Email

A Grass-Roots Email Campaign to Fight Urban Blight

25y Heidi Anderson

A Grass-Roots Email Campaign to Fight Urban Blight

You don't need a big budget to market effectively with email. Take Brownfields.com. This one-man operation launched a creative campaign with a strong ...

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Bully for the Super Bowl?
Media

Bully for the Super Bowl?

25y Adam Posman

Bully for the Super Bowl?

The year doesn't quite feel over till the Super Bowl takes place. Fans yelling encouragement! Players celebrating touchdowns! Dot-coms blowing money o...

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Global Digital Divide Still Very Much in Existence
Audience

Global Digital Divide Still Very Much in Existence

25y Michael Pastore

Global Digital Divide Still Very Much in Existence

Although the US has seen the Internet reach gender parity and extend to lower demographics, the worldwide picture remains quite different, according t...

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CRM to Lead Market for Analytical Applications
Marketing

CRM to Lead Market for Analytical Applications

25y Michael Pastore

CRM to Lead Market for Analytical Applications

The worldwide demand for analytical applications is being led by CRM initiatives, a market that will record revenues upwards of $2 billion by 2004, ac...

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Online Ads End Year on a High Note
Ad Industry Metrics

Online Ads End Year on a High Note

25y Michael Pastore

Online Ads End Year on a High Note

December of 2000 was the best month to date for Internet advertising in terms of the number of impressions, according to AdRelevance. Meanwhile, marke...

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Repositioning the Doorway: Part 2
Search

Repositioning the Doorway: Part 2

25y Sid Herberman

Repositioning the Doorway: Part 2

It's not too late for the SEO industry to turn back from the chaotic path it's on. Standards may not lead us to SEO nirvana, but they would bring some...

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E-Tailers Get Good News and Bad News
Audience

E-Tailers Get Good News and Bad News

25y Michael Pastore

E-Tailers Get Good News and Bad News

The 2000 holiday season was characterized by greater spending, higher levels of satisfaction, but also considerable latent demand and continuing purch...

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Fruit Flies Like a Banana: Writing Unambiguously
Marketing

Fruit Flies Like a Banana: Writing Unambiguously

25y Kathy Henning

Fruit Flies Like a Banana: Writing Unambiguously

Part of Groucho's appeal -- and Henny Youngman's ("Take my wife, please") -- is that he uses ambiguity humorously ("Outside of a dog, a book is man's ...

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Making Sure Words Communicate
Marketing

Making Sure Words Communicate

25y Cliff Allen

Making Sure Words Communicate

If you've ever seen Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" you know that even familiar words can lead to miscommunication. This is funny in a comic r...

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Makin' It Sticky
Marketing

Makin' It Sticky

25y Adam Jackson

Makin' It Sticky

Customer-acquisition costs are high, so advertisers are demanding more from advertising creative. A recent trend is to incorporate customer relationsh...

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In Case of Economic Slowdown, Spend More
Marketing

In Case of Economic Slowdown, Spend More

25y Neil Cohen

In Case of Economic Slowdown, Spend More

So what if the economic skies are not as bright as they once seemed... and so what if one of the first line items to be cut in tough times is the mark...

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AdForce Taps Net-Mercial
Media

AdForce Taps Net-Mercial

25y Christopher Saunders

AdForce Taps Net-Mercial

CMGion's ad server AdForce will offer rich media interstitial ads to clients through the deal. Read More...

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Microsoft's New Campaign, Positioning Targets B2B Customers
Media

Microsoft's New Campaign, Positioning Targets B2B Customers

25y Christopher Saunders

Microsoft's New Campaign, Positioning Targets B2B ...

The Redmond giant aims at Sun, IBM and Oracle with a $200 million ad campaign. Read More...

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E-CRM Deployment Options
Marketing

E-CRM Deployment Options

25y Philip Say

E-CRM Deployment Options

An e-CRM solution -- should your company invest in one? If so, how should it be implemented? Philip lays out the pros and cons of the most popular dep...

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High Speed Access to Pass Dial-Up in 2005
Data insights

High Speed Access to Pass Dial-Up in 2005

25y Michael Pastore

High Speed Access to Pass Dial-Up in 2005

With a growth rate of more than 230 percent, the year 2000 was a watershed period for residential high-speed Internet access in the US, according to r...

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Honeymoon Over for Financial Sites
Marketing

Honeymoon Over for Financial Sites

25y Michael Pastore

Honeymoon Over for Financial Sites

When the markets went bad, Internet financial sites started to pick up the smell. Research by cPulse and Gomez found that investors have taken their f...

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Attack of the Napster Clones
Marketing

Attack of the Napster Clones

25y Team ClickZ

Attack of the Napster Clones

Napster was the media's darling in 2000, thanks to high- profile legal challenges and a staggering number of traded files. Here's today's ever-growing...

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PopMail.com Delisted from NASDAQ
Media

PopMail.com Delisted from NASDAQ

25y Christopher Saunders

PopMail.com Delisted from NASDAQ

Despite a last-minute announcement Friday, the company failed to meet listing requirements. Read More...

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Setting the Right Branding Objectives
Marketing

Setting the Right Branding Objectives

25y Jeffrey Graham

Setting the Right Branding Objectives

When setting branding objectives, the consideration level of the product you are advertising is key. Ask yourself if the consideration level is high o...

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Red Sky Interactive Widens Layoffs
Media

Red Sky Interactive Widens Layoffs

25y Christopher Saunders

Red Sky Interactive Widens Layoffs

Another thinning of ranks occurs at the San Francisco I-shop as it aims for profitability. Read More...

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