Boo Radley's Clue
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Boo Radley's Clue

26y Dana Blankenhorn

Boo Radley's Clue

One aspect of email marketing that needs elucidation is content selection. A good list is only half the battle. It's what goes into the email that cou...

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Capturing Customer Loyalty
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Capturing Customer Loyalty

26y Sean Carton

Capturing Customer Loyalty

In our rush to create killer web sites, we often forget the most important audience of all: the customers. Site creators and marketers often assume cu...

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Stein Rogan Wins FeedRoom Business
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Stein Rogan Wins FeedRoom Business

26y Christopher Saunders

Stein Rogan Wins FeedRoom Business

The broadband company tapped the agency to deliver an integrated branding campaign. Read More...

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The Renaissance of Disintermediation
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The Renaissance of Disintermediation

26y Jim Meskauskas

The Renaissance of Disintermediation

If you remove the middlemen from the transactional equation, companies can sell products cheaper and faster. Apply this term to the advertising indust...

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Harnessing the Power of Interactive Video
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Harnessing the Power of Interactive Video

26y Cliff Allen

Harnessing the Power of Interactive Video

When big-name entertainment web sites announce huge layoffs or fold up entirely, you have to wonder what's wrong with that segment of the business. Is...

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How to Design a More Effective Banner
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How to Design a More Effective Banner

26y Adam Jackson

How to Design a More Effective Banner

There are a number of different ways to design a great banner. Over the years, we've seen that the time-tested "truths" of traditional advertising are...

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When PR Comes Skidding Round the Curve
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When PR Comes Skidding Round the Curve

26y Zhenya Gene Senyak

When PR Comes Skidding Round the Curve

The difference between public relations and publicity was spelled out in all the headlines and on all the news shows this past week. We didn't see the...

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Online News: Users Up, Satisfaction Down
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Online News: Users Up, Satisfaction Down

26y Michael Pastore

Online News: Users Up, Satisfaction Down

The number of people regularly getting their news online has grown at the expense of newspapers and television, according to a study the Pew Research ...

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Expelling the Myths of B2B
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Expelling the Myths of B2B

26y Kim MacPherson

Expelling the Myths of B2B

If your focus is on B2B, then chances are your targeted market already receives tons of promotional email. Time is valuable for these people, and, rea...

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Spinway Adds Costco To Free-Internet Fold
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Spinway Adds Costco To Free-Internet Fold

26y Zachary Rodgers

Spinway Adds Costco To Free-Internet Fold

The No. 8 dialup provider in the nation continues its successful strategyto acquire subscribers by co-marketing with bricks-and-mortar companies. Read...

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IAR Bits and Bytes for Monday
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IAR Bits and Bytes for Monday

26y Christopher Saunders

IAR Bits and Bytes for Monday

Engage, yesmail, IN2 tapped for deals; Mypoints buys back; PC Data goes global Read More...

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All They Want for Christmas is the Site to Load
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All They Want for Christmas is the Site to Load

26y Michael Pastore

All They Want for Christmas is the Site to Load

It's almost time for Internet retailers to put up or shut up. One more holiday season of slow sites, lost orders, and late deliveries should separate ...

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Banner Ad Campaign Lets Surfers "Punch the Multi-millionaire"
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Banner Ad Campaign Lets Surfers "Punch the Multi-millionaire"

26y Christopher Saunders

Banner Ad Campaign Lets Surfers "Punch the Multi-m...

Ill-fated TV groom Rick Rockwell lends his face to a lottery site's new ad campaign. Read More...

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How to Email Just the Right People
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How to Email Just the Right People

26y Dana Blankenhorn

How to Email Just the Right People

Many businesses think that because it's free to send email, more email is better than less email. Jeremy Bachmann of Countrywide Credit Industries Inc...

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People-Centered Enterprises
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People-Centered Enterprises

26y Philip Say

People-Centered Enterprises

Success has always been based on a company's ability to build strong relationships with customers, suppliers, partners, and, most important, employees...

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Outsourcing Your Affiliate Program
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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