Permission to Yap Cuts Both Ways
Marketing

Permission to Yap Cuts Both Ways

26y Nick Usborne

Permission to Yap Cuts Both Ways

It makes sense to facilitate and encourage customer feedback. Nick's not talking about chat or toll-free call centers, he's talking about stuff to mak...

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Jupiter: Global Online Ad Spending to Reach $28 Billion
Media

Jupiter: Global Online Ad Spending to Reach $28 Billion

26y Pamela Parker

Jupiter: Global Online Ad Spending to Reach $28 Bi...

The Internet prognosticators at Jupiter release a glowing reportabout the future of online advertising. But there are caveats. Read More...

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Search Engines
Marketing

Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Search Engines

26y Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila

Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Search Engines

A few readers took issue with Greg and Emily's tepid enthusiasm for search engine optimization in their last article. So they want to further clarify ...

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Looking for Leverage
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Looking for Leverage

26y Dana Blankenhorn

Looking for Leverage

In politics, having a "controlling legal authority" doesn't guarantee things will go the way you want. You also need leverage. Dana explains the vario...

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Enhancing Your Revenues in a Tight Market
Marketing

Enhancing Your Revenues in a Tight Market

26y Andy Bourland

Enhancing Your Revenues in a Tight Market

Andy talks about an issue near and dear to his heart: pricing. You may be in a competitive area where the CPMs are dropping and wacko competitors with...

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Designing and Packaging Products for E-Business
Marketing

Designing and Packaging Products for E-Business

26y Rick Bruner

Designing and Packaging Products for E-Business

Most marketing managers are failing to rethink their product strategies to reflect the impact of e-business. Yet those who don't adapt their products ...

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Optimize the Creative: Youll Like It
Media

Optimize the Creative: Youll Like It

26y Tom Hespos

Optimize the Creative: Youll Like It

Media people are used to testing one piece of creative against another to determine the creative factors that contribute to response, then changing me...

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SmarterKids.com: List Rental Done Right
Email

SmarterKids.com: List Rental Done Right

26y Heidi Anderson

SmarterKids.com: List Rental Done Right

It can be dicey to rent someone else's mailing list. But here's a case where SmarterKids.com rents appropriate lists regularly from PostMasterDirect w...

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The Feminine Net
Marketing

The Feminine Net

26y Martin Lindstrom

The Feminine Net

It's time to quit all the rational talk, the clichid graphics, and the "techie" look on today's web sites. The feminine side is starting to dominate t...

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Digital Divide More Economic than Ethnic
Audience

Digital Divide More Economic than Ethnic

26y Michael Pastore

Digital Divide More Economic than Ethnic

The biggest gap in Internet adoption rates in the US exists between rich and poor, not between ethnic groups, according to research by Jupiter Communi...

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End Domain Name Hoarding
Media

End Domain Name Hoarding

26y Dana Blankenhorn

End Domain Name Hoarding

When the price of something in high-demand is fixed at an artificially low price, hoarding is the natural result. The difference between the set price...

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The Value of Word of Mouth
Ad Industry Metrics

The Value of Word of Mouth

26y Michael Pastore

The Value of Word of Mouth

Word of mouth is largely responsible for the online success of Hotmail, Matt Drudge, and even the early days of Amazon.com, but how can you ensure wor...

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Understanding Advertiser Behavior
Marketing

Understanding Advertiser Behavior

26y Richard Hopple

Understanding Advertiser Behavior

The key to unlocking this new medium lies in understanding advertiser behavior; what they actually believe, not what we in the digital media business ...

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Planning the Rich Media Buy
Media

Planning the Rich Media Buy

26y Karim Sanjabi

Planning the Rich Media Buy

With any campaign, the creative strategy behind the ad is only half the story. Ad placement is the other half, which is often overlooked when dealing ...

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Got Traffic?
Search

Got Traffic?

26y Paul J. Bruemmer

Got Traffic?

Does your marketing plan need search engine traffic? Yes, if you need to generate quantity and quality, if you want a web site promotional method that...

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TMP Worldwide Reorganizes
Media

TMP Worldwide Reorganizes

26y Dana Blankenhorn

TMP Worldwide Reorganizes

The recruiter is reorganizing its overseas operations. Read More

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Ten Things I Hate About the Web Business
Marketing

Ten Things I Hate About the Web Business

26y Sean Carton

Ten Things I Hate About the Web Business

Sean's been doing research for a client. He's getting a lot of good info, but he's also had to endure a lot of industry jargon. Yikes! Everywhere you ...

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Out-of-the-Box Placements
Media

Out-of-the-Box Placements

26y Jim Meskauskas

Out-of-the-Box Placements

The bulk of online media inventory is boring! Media plan after media plan, buy after buy, on site after site, the same drab inventory is up for sale. ...

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International Net Usage Follows US Lead
Audience

International Net Usage Follows US Lead

26y Michael Pastore

International Net Usage Follows US Lead

If you look at the top sites and surfing patterns for countries such as Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, you see an Internet culture quite similar ...

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Engage Nabs Marketing Solution Specialist
Media

Engage Nabs Marketing Solution Specialist

26y Enid Burns

Engage Nabs Marketing Solution Specialist

Engage will acquire MediaBridge Technologies Inc. for $268 million in stock. Read More...

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Monster.com Nabs HR Solution Provider
Media

Monster.com Nabs HR Solution Provider

26y Michael Pastore

Monster.com Nabs HR Solution Provider

Monster.com will acquire e-recruiting Application Service Provider Simpatix Inc. Read More...

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Traffic Analysis Solutions for Small Business: Part 1
Media

Traffic Analysis Solutions for Small Business: Part 1

26y Richard Hoy

Traffic Analysis Solutions for Small Business: Par...

Traffic analysis metrics used to be pretty simple. We looked at things like how many times a page was viewed, or how many unique hosts (individual com...

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Start-up Gets $11.7 Million
Media

Start-up Gets $11.7 Million

26y Erin Joyce

Start-up Gets $11.7 Million

E-mail marketing isn't the only direct response Internet playgetting attention from investors. Read More...

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Optimize THIS
Marketing

Optimize THIS

26y Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila

Optimize THIS

Clients always ask "How do I make sure I get to the top of a results list on the search engines?" Over the last few years, marketing mavens and IT pro...

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Winstar Interactive Media Reps NetNanny.com
Media

Winstar Interactive Media Reps NetNanny.com

26y Pamela Parker

Winstar Interactive Media Reps NetNanny.com

Net Nanny picks a partner in its plan to create a family destination. Read More...

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InfoBeat Changes Name, Makes Direct Marketing Acquisition
Media

InfoBeat Changes Name, Makes Direct Marketing Acquisition

26y Pamela Parker

InfoBeat Changes Name, Makes Direct Marketing Acqu...

E-mail publishing firm InfoBeat makes a purchase aimed at creatingmore valuable offerings for marketers. Read More...

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Treating Customers Like... Customers
Marketing

Treating Customers Like... Customers

26y Barry Silverstein

Treating Customers Like... Customers

Buyers are not as loyal as they used to be in the past. Where loyalty does exist, it's frequently connected to service and support rather than to the ...

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TV Viewers, Gamers Catch Internet Bug
Audience

TV Viewers, Gamers Catch Internet Bug

26y Michael Pastore

TV Viewers, Gamers Catch Internet Bug

First came the TV, then video games, then the Internet, which has changed the way we use them all. TV viewers want more interactivity in their program...

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