Survey: Careful Marketers Can Benefit from Online Promotions
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Survey: Careful Marketers Can Benefit from Online Promotions

26y Michael Pastore

Survey: Careful Marketers Can Benefit from Online ...

Consumers are willing to give up some personal information to participate in a promotion, a new study finds. Read More...

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Doctors Waiting for Clinical Uses of Internet
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Doctors Waiting for Clinical Uses of Internet

26y Michael Pastore

Doctors Waiting for Clinical Uses of Internet

Doctors have no problem using the Internet, they're just waiting for the Internet industry to show them how it will help provide value and better care...

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Tracking and Analysis Tools: An Introduction
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Tracking and Analysis Tools: An Introduction

26y Chris McTiernan

Tracking and Analysis Tools: An Introduction

We know a lot about our customers. Yet it's still hard to predict how they'll act or what they'll want. In the next few articles, Chris will be taking...

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Doing Your Part for the Sales Partnership
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Doing Your Part for the Sales Partnership

26y Janet Ryan and Nancy Whiteman

Doing Your Part for the Sales Partnership

Supporting your third-party sales team -- the folks who work at your contracted rep firm or ad network -- is critical to outstanding revenue returns. ...

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ThingWorld Fires 35, Looks For Buyers
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ThingWorld Fires 35, Looks For Buyers

26y Andrea Learned

ThingWorld Fires 35, Looks For Buyers

The Watertown, Mass., company, which manages online marketing campaigns, struggles to survive, despite early backing from CMGI, Intel and Microsoft. R...

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Holiday Race 2000
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Holiday Race 2000

26y Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila

Holiday Race 2000

Consumers seem to expect more from online businesses during the holidays. Shoppers blow a gasket if a web site slows down during peak traffic. But doe...

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Ad Sales Options for Small-Site Owners
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Ad Sales Options for Small-Site Owners

26y Richard Hoy

Ad Sales Options for Small-Site Owners

You're a small-site owner with ad inventory to sell. But you don't have much money or time. Is using an ad network your only choice? No. Here's a do-i...

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Working With E-Builders
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Working With E-Builders

26y Colin Strasser

Working With E-Builders

It's been a tough couple of months for big web service firms, but following some hiring guidelines can help you avoid being affected by the troubles. ...

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Rival Networks Closes Ad Sales Offices; 12 Laid Off
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Rival Networks Closes Ad Sales Offices; 12 Laid Off

26y Ryan Naraine

Rival Networks Closes Ad Sales Offices; 12 Laid Of...

The sports content publisher moves to outsource its ad sales operation. Read More...

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Electronic Procurement Not Catching on with Fortune 500
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Electronic Procurement Not Catching on with Fortune 500

26y Michael Pastore

Electronic Procurement Not Catching on with Fortun...

Less than one-third of Fortune 500 businesses order strategic goods from online suppliers, according to a study by Hurwitz Group, which also found tha...

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Snowball.com Finds That Sometimes Less ISNT More
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Snowball.com Finds That Sometimes Less ISNT More

26y Heidi Anderson

Snowball.com Finds That Sometimes Less ISNT More

If you publish an email newsletter, you know the conventional wisdom about delivery: Once a week is the maximum an audience can handle. But sometimes ...

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How to Deal With Underdelivery
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How to Deal With Underdelivery

26y Tom Hespos

How to Deal With Underdelivery

Many agency media planners face the problem of underdelivery. Publishers overpromise on volumes, traffic stats aren't valid predictors, and it's not a...

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Internet Appliances Challenging PC Dominance
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Internet Appliances Challenging PC Dominance

26y Michael Pastore

Internet Appliances Challenging PC Dominance

The PC's dominance as the instrument of choice for accessing the Internet and online services is being challenged by alternative online appliances, ac...

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The Revenge of the Brick-and-Mortar Middlemen
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The Revenge of the Brick-and-Mortar Middlemen

26y David Gumpert

The Revenge of the Brick-and-Mortar Middlemen

Even though the Internet businesses promised lower-cost sales than through conventional means, the brick-and- mortars are increasingly discovering tha...

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Managing by Metrics
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Managing by Metrics

26y Matthew G. Nelson

Managing by Metrics

To successfully manage an Internet product, you must constantly monitor its vital signs (a.k.a. metrics). A few straightforward tips can ease integrat...

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Leading Techies to the Training They Want
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Leading Techies to the Training They Want

26y Trude Diamond

Leading Techies to the Training They Want

With the recent shakeout, more techies are looking for jobs. And some know that gaining technical certification can help. Build loyalty (and revenue) ...

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.Com: The World's Most Expensive Address
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.Com: The World's Most Expensive Address

26y Martin Lindstrom

.Com: The World's Most Expensive Address

We've got seven new family members to supplement ".com" domain names. So the problem's solved, right? Think again. These new address structures are li...

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Holiday 2000 E-Marketing Insights
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Holiday 2000 E-Marketing Insights

26y Paul Santello

Holiday 2000 E-Marketing Insights

Forrester predicts $10.7 billion in holiday 2000 online sales in the United States; $19.5 billion worldwide. Here are some insights based on a study b...

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Sears, AOL Aim to Boost Signups, Card Use With Promotions
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Sears, AOL Aim to Boost Signups, Card Use With Promotions

26y Christopher Saunders

Sears, AOL Aim to Boost Signups, Card Use With Pro...

Making good on an earlier strategic agreement, the pair aims to promote AOL membershipgift-giving during the holidays with a sweepstakes and incentive...

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Online Marketers Forgetting Offline Rules
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Online Marketers Forgetting Offline Rules

26y Michael Pastore

Online Marketers Forgetting Offline Rules

In the race to capture Internet consumers and their dollars, companies are overlooking the simplest marketing remedies and the most profitable consume...

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marchFIRST Cuts Earnings Forecasts, Will Focus on Marketing, Consulting Business
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marchFIRST Cuts Earnings Forecasts, Will Focus on Marketing, Consulting Bus...

26y Christopher Saunders

marchFIRST Cuts Earnings Forecasts, Will Focus on ...

The company said it will revamp its service offerings after admitting that it will likely post a sizable loss in fourth quarter and 2001. Read More...

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The Problem of Domain Name Hoarding
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The Problem of Domain Name Hoarding

26y Dana Blankenhorn

The Problem of Domain Name Hoarding

If you've got a great new Internet business idea, you could very well end up paying a fee -- perhaps a huge one -- to some hoarder sitting on the name...

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Top Mistakes Made in the Name of Branding
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Top Mistakes Made in the Name of Branding

26y Peter Kaufman

Top Mistakes Made in the Name of Branding

Here's what you don't want to do in your ads. Branding is a wonderful concept, but if you're branding a product with no point of differentiation, you'...

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Free Samples, Via Your Television Set Top Box
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Free Samples, Via Your Television Set Top Box

26y Ryan Naraine

Free Samples, Via Your Television Set Top Box

Interactive TV and product sampling get together. Read More...

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Links: Cheaper and Better Than Banners
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Links: Cheaper and Better Than Banners

26y Marcia Yudkin

Links: Cheaper and Better Than Banners

Though the quest for links is tedious and slow, once you've chosen an appealing topic, filled your piece with meaty content, and kept self-promotion t...

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The Economics of Online Media Pricing
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The Economics of Online Media Pricing

26y Adam Posman

The Economics of Online Media Pricing

In the offline world, audience demographics drive media-buying decisions. But online, pricing usually trumps other considerations. What gives? Simple:...

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Online Marketers Forgetting Offline Rules
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Online Marketers Forgetting Offline Rules

26y Michael Pastore

Online Marketers Forgetting Offline Rules

With B2C e-commerce sites fading faster than a '70s clothing fad, Andersen Consulting and Online Insight conducted a study to examine how best to mark...

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The Homogenization of Web Search
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The Homogenization of Web Search

26y Paul J. Bruemmer

The Homogenization of Web Search

GoTo.com and its partners have homogenized the Internet search experience with paid-for links above the fold. But when people search Yahoo!, LookSmart...

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