Outsourcing Your Affiliate Program
Marketing

Outsourcing Your Affiliate Program

26y Shawn Collins

Outsourcing Your Affiliate Program

As we all know, a skilled and experienced affiliate manager is nearlyas rare as a Honus Wagner T-206 baseball card. If you're planning to implement an...

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In B2B, Email Content Is Key
Media

In B2B, Email Content Is Key

26y Dana Blankenhorn

In B2B, Email Content Is Key

As you probably know by now, internet.com bought ClickZ this week. Good thing internet.com CEO Alan Meckler was the first speaker at the ClickZ B2B Em...

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Executing Your Submission Campaign the Old-Fashioned Way
Media

Executing Your Submission Campaign the Old-Fashioned Way

26y Richard Hoy

Executing Your Submission Campaign the Old-Fashion...

Most people think that a submission campaign is just about registering your main URL. If you do that, you are shortchanging yourself. A submission cam...

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IAR Bits and Bytes for Friday
Media

IAR Bits and Bytes for Friday

26y Christopher Saunders

IAR Bits and Bytes for Friday

Covad's new campaign; ePrize and Contest.com team; Fox rolls out "Dark Angel" Superstitials Read More...

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New Business: The Threat and Promise
Media

New Business: The Threat and Promise

26y Tig Tillinghast

New Business: The Threat and Promise

Although this is a "101" column, Tig feels the topic of new business needs to be addressed. While going out and pitching new clients isn't necessarily...

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Dont Get Caught in the Two Deadliest Sales Traps
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Dont Get Caught in the Two Deadliest Sales Traps

26y Anne Miller

Dont Get Caught in the Two Deadliest Sales Traps

Meaningful sales training often takes a backseat to product and technology training in the Internet world. Woody Allen once said that showing up is ha...

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Breaking Through Web Site Clutter
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Breaking Through Web Site Clutter

26y Tom Hespos

Breaking Through Web Site Clutter

Take a look at some of the web pages on which you advertise. Not only do you have to compete for attention with all of the content offerings on that p...

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Eat Dust, Dot-Coms
Marketing

Eat Dust, Dot-Coms

26y Martin Lindstrom

Eat Dust, Dot-Coms

Last week Martin discussed how the great superbrands have become anachronisms in the face of dot-com brands' meteoric rise and how the brand pioneers ...

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Building Customer Profiles
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Building Customer Profiles

26y Trude Diamond

Building Customer Profiles

In marketing as in training, before you lead customers anywhere, you have to start from where they are. The question is how to get from profile to pro...

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MP3.com Announces Partnership with Adergy
Media

MP3.com Announces Partnership with Adergy

26y Christopher Saunders

MP3.com Announces Partnership with Adergy

The pact will put the embattled online music site's messaging in grocery and retail stores. Read More...

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Netcentives Licenses Platform for Latin American Loyalty Network
Media

Netcentives Licenses Platform for Latin American Loyalty Network

26y Christopher Saunders

Netcentives Licenses Platform for Latin American L...

The company licenses its platform as the Latin American promotional marketing space begins to heat up. Read More...

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No News Is Bad News for the Wireless Ad Industry
Marketing

No News Is Bad News for the Wireless Ad Industry

26y Sean Carton

No News Is Bad News for the Wireless Ad Industry

Sean decided he wanted to write a column about wireless email/wireless advertising, but in his quest to get information from companies that had run su...

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High Customer Expectations to Lift CRM Market
Audience

High Customer Expectations to Lift CRM Market

26y Michael Pastore

High Customer Expectations to Lift CRM Market

Worldwide revenues in the CRM services markets will increase to $125.2 billion in 2004, according to IDC, which also found businesses are beginning to...

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What Constitutes Real News?
Marketing

What Constitutes Real News?

26y Neil Cohen

What Constitutes Real News?

What constitutes real news? How is the media supposed to discern between what is important and different versus the run-of-the-mill space filler? Neil...

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Why Do They Buy?
Marketing

Why Do They Buy?

26y Cliff Allen

Why Do They Buy?

Most of the time, customers buy products for all the reasons that marketers expect them to. However, there are always a few customers who buy products...

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It Just Ain't Write: Finding Good Web Copywriters
Media

It Just Ain't Write: Finding Good Web Copywriters

26y Susan Solomon

It Just Ain't Write: Finding Good Web Copywriters

So, you want to hire a web copywriter. Why not throw in web programmer/graphic designer/corporate communications director/marketing wiz as other bulle...

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The Once and Future King: Pay-for-Performance
Media

The Once and Future King: Pay-for-Performance

26y Jim Meskauskas

The Once and Future King: Pay-for-Performance

A few weeks ago, Jim attended the Jupiter Online Advertising Forum. All the topics covered in the name of online advertising were discussed, except on...

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Canadian Retail Slowpokes but Headed to Net
Audience

Canadian Retail Slowpokes but Headed to Net

26y Paul Nicholls

Canadian Retail Slowpokes but Headed to Net

Canadian retailers are slow when it comes tointegrating the Internet into their businesses and adopting an e-commerce strategy, according to a new stu...

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Smaller ISPs Threatening Dominance of Big Boys
Audience

Smaller ISPs Threatening Dominance of Big Boys

26y Michael Pastore

Smaller ISPs Threatening Dominance of Big Boys

A study by J.D. Power and Associates looked at consumer satisfaction with ISPs and found that regional providers are using broadband to their advantag...

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Tripping Over Permission
Marketing

Tripping Over Permission

26y Nick Usborne

Tripping Over Permission

Several points within a web site can be considered "high-risk customer interaction points." These are points at which you want your visitors to do som...

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Internet.com Acquires ClickZ Network
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Internet.com Acquires ClickZ Network

26y Pamela Parker

Internet.com Acquires ClickZ Network

The internet industy portal makes its biggest acquisition yet. Read More...

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So You Want to Be an Email Marketer?
Email

So You Want to Be an Email Marketer?

26y Kim MacPherson

So You Want to Be an Email Marketer?

The word is out. Email marketing is hot and getting hotter. Everyone wants to get into the act. Traditional direct marketers, print and broadcast ad a...

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Online Opportunity Waiting for Video Game Market
Audience

Online Opportunity Waiting for Video Game Market

26y Michael Pastore

Online Opportunity Waiting for Video Game Market

As many as 65 percent of consumers with Web access may purchase an electronic gaming product online during the next six months, according to a report ...

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Online Advertisers Targeting Parents to Reach Kids
Ad Industry Metrics

Online Advertisers Targeting Parents to Reach Kids

26y Michael Pastore

Online Advertisers Targeting Parents to Reach Kids

Targeting kids has always been a challenge to marketers. According to AdRelevance, online advertisers are shifting their focus toward families, and aw...

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Using Community to Build Advertising Effectiveness
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Using Community to Build Advertising Effectiveness

26y Janet Ryan and Nancy Whiteman

Using Community to Build Advertising Effectiveness

When used to build a sense of connection and trust, community features can foster factors that are key to building web traffic: virulence and stickine...

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Topo Toys: Mapping Out Your Next Getaway
Marketing

Topo Toys: Mapping Out Your Next Getaway

26y Zachary Rodgers

Topo Toys: Mapping Out Your Next Getaway

Weve all heard the hiking disaster stories by now. The guy in the northeast who lost his way and called a rescue helicopter via his cell phone. The tw...

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The Six Primary Flavors of Online Marketplaces
Marketing

The Six Primary Flavors of Online Marketplaces

26y Stephen Diorio

The Six Primary Flavors of Online Marketplaces

As online marketplaces proliferate, we see a bewildering array of subvarieties and hybrid exchange models. These variants can be distilled into six pr...

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L90 Broadens Ad Campaign
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L90 Broadens Ad Campaign

26y Christopher Saunders

L90 Broadens Ad Campaign

The ad server expands its advertising campaign with a variation on its current "blue rubber duck" theme. Read More...

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