Achieva.com Taps DDB Worldwide for Ad Campaign
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Achieva.com Taps DDB Worldwide for Ad Campaign

26y Pamela Parker

Achieva.com Taps DDB Worldwide for Ad Campaign

College admissions counseling site Achieva.com on Wednesday called on DDB Worldwide and DDB Digital to help itcraft a national advertising campaign. R...

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AOL, Autoweb.com Forge Content, Marketing Alliance
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AOL, Autoweb.com Forge Content, Marketing Alliance

26y Pamela Parker

AOL, Autoweb.com Forge Content, Marketing Alliance

In its second big agreement to beef up its new Auto Channel, America Online Inc. on Wednesday struck afour-year deal with Autoweb.com Inc.,that places...

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Getting Listed: Doing It Right
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Getting Listed: Doing It Right

26y Paul J. Bruemmer

Getting Listed: Doing It Right

Each search engine and directory has specific requirements for a "request to be listed." Here's why it's important to verify and confirm submissions, ...

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Small Businesses Buy, But Shy to Sell, Online
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Small Businesses Buy, But Shy to Sell, Online

26y Michael Pastore

Small Businesses Buy, But Shy to Sell, Online

US small business spending on online transactions and purchases grew more than 1,000 percent, rising from $2 billion in 1998 to $25 billion in 1999, a...

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The Leading E-Business Solution...
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The Leading E-Business Solution...

26y Neil Cohen

The Leading E-Business Solution...

The blinding whirling pace of a start-up creates so much velocity that a vacuum encircles the company, creating an impenetrable vortex so powerful tha...

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Can Book Publishing Retain Its Most Precious Asset?
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Can Book Publishing Retain Its Most Precious Asset?

26y David Gumpert

Can Book Publishing Retain Its Most Precious Asset...

Think about the book publishing business, and what image comes first to mind? How about tweedy? Tweed jackets, oriental rugs, leather chairs, wood-pan...

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The Changing Face of Portal Deals
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The Changing Face of Portal Deals

26y Pamela Parker

The Changing Face of Portal Deals

Are portal deals dead? You might think so, to read the descriptions of these popular marketingagreements in trade and financial publications in recent...

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CRM: Optimizing Relationships With Data
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CRM: Optimizing Relationships With Data

26y Kim MacPherson

CRM: Optimizing Relationships With Data

Now that you've got a clear sense of the importance of your customer data, it's time to put it to work and lay out a solid strategy for building an ef...

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Online Advertising Glossary: Sponsorships
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Online Advertising Glossary: Sponsorships

26y Janet Ryan and Nancy Whiteman

Online Advertising Glossary: Sponsorships

To continue our online advertising glossary, let's start with things we can all agree on. First, there are banners and buttons. The Internet Advertisi...

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@d:Tech World-San Francisco: Wrap-Up
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@d:Tech World-San Francisco: Wrap-Up

26y Dana Blankenhorn

@d:Tech World-San Francisco: Wrap-Up

Dana takes you onto the @d:Tech show floor, a Comdex-like expanse of carpet (covering two ballrooms) filled (mostly) not with booths but with what the...

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eTour.com, eMachines Partner in "Desktop Portal" Deal
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eTour.com, eMachines Partner in "Desktop Portal" Deal

26y Pamela Parker

eTour.com, eMachines Partner in "Desktop Portal" D...

eTour.com, a company that takes visitorson guided "tours" of the Web, is tapping eMachines Inc. to drive traffic to itssite, in a deal that would put ...

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When Buzzwords Don't Create Buzz
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When Buzzwords Don't Create Buzz

26y Andy Bourland

When Buzzwords Don't Create Buzz

Have you ever had a pet project or name or theme that you really, really liked and, for whatever reason, nobody else quite got it? It happened to us h...

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Not Ready for Prime Time
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Not Ready for Prime Time

26y Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila

Not Ready for Prime Time

The promise of a wireless web is still a long ways off. We all know it's coming, but no one knows exactly when and what form it will take. Far from fu...

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Building Creative That Works
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Building Creative That Works

26y Karim Sanjabi

Building Creative That Works

Agencies are dinosaurs. While they aren't in danger of extinction quite yet, they need, technologically speaking, to evolve rapidly. Future creative m...

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AOL, Office Depot Ally to Reach Small Businesses
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AOL, Office Depot Ally to Reach Small Businesses

26y Pamela Parker

AOL, Office Depot Ally to Reach Small Businesses

In the latest alliance between an online player and a "clicks and bricks"e-tailer, America Online Inc. and Office Depot onThursday inked a five-year, ...

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What Do Online Points Add up To?
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What Do Online Points Add up To?

26y Martin Lindstrom

What Do Online Points Add up To?

As consumers in the offline world, we're addicted to spending money to earn points. In the online world, the most common way to earn points is you gue...

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Sega to Spend $135 Million to Market Net Games
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Sega to Spend $135 Million to Market Net Games

26y Pamela Parker

Sega to Spend $135 Million to Market Net Games

In an effort to bolster its position against Sony's Playstation andNintendo's N64, Sega Thursday unveiledplans to spend $135 million this year to mark...

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The Engines and Directories That Count
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The Engines and Directories That Count

26y Paul J. Bruemmer

The Engines and Directories That Count

There are hundreds of legitimate search indexes in cyberspace, but does it pay to submit to all? You get better results and more targeted traffic when...

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ACTV Lines Up Partners for Interactive TV
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ACTV Lines Up Partners for Interactive TV

26y Pamela Parker

ACTV Lines Up Partners for Interactive TV

ACTV Inc.'s SpotOn interactive televisionad system took two steps forward Tuesday, as ad agency GSD&M and Nielsen Media Research signed on asstrategic...

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Is Viral Marketing All It's Cracked up to Be?
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Is Viral Marketing All It's Cracked up to Be?

26y Sandeep Krishnamurthy

Is Viral Marketing All It's Cracked up to Be?

Viral marketing is widely touted as the new way to increase market penetration and build brand awareness in the Internet space. Hotmail is a classic e...

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Accountability Is Back
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Accountability Is Back

26y Neil Cohen

Accountability Is Back

Welcome to a new column with an ongoing focus on the enormous marketing challenges that face start-ups as they set out to build and extend a brand, dr...

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OneMediaPlace Taps CMGI, Media Giants in Financing Round
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OneMediaPlace Taps CMGI, Media Giants in Financing Round

26y Kevin Lee

OneMediaPlace Taps CMGI, Media Giants in Financing...

OneMediaPlace -- formerlyAdauction.com -- this week secured $67 million in private investmentfinancing led by CMGI @Ventures. Read More...

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E-Mail Marketing Delivering the Message
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E-Mail Marketing Delivering the Message

26y Michael Pastore

E-Mail Marketing Delivering the Message

E-mail marketing is big business, according to research by Jupiter Communications, and its growth will come at the expense of direct marketing. Commer...

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StarMedia Sponsors Santana Concert Tour
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StarMedia Sponsors Santana Concert Tour

26y Pamela Parker

StarMedia Sponsors Santana Concert Tour

As part of its effort to win US Hispanic users, StarMedia Networks, a network ofSpanish- and Portuguese-language Web sites, on Tuesday committed toexc...

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Online Media: Is the Price Right?
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Online Media: Is the Price Right?

26y Jim Meskauskas

Online Media: Is the Price Right?

Back in the good old days, media planners used to chortle when they got publisher rate cards, because everyone knew you didn't really have to pay thos...

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Stardom in Action
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Stardom in Action

26y Dana Blankenhorn

Stardom in Action

Accepted wisdom says that the web is a different medium from TV. While earlier assumptions that video content would replace text have not become real,...

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UK Experiencing an E-Commerce Boom
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UK Experiencing an E-Commerce Boom

26y Michael Pastore

UK Experiencing an E-Commerce Boom

E-commerce has overtaken communication as the driving force behind Web developments in Britain, according to Fletcher Research, and many big businesse...

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Online Advertising Glossary: Part 1
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Online Advertising Glossary: Part 1

26y Janet Ryan and Nancy Whiteman

Online Advertising Glossary: Part 1

Last week Janet and Nancy issued a challenge to the Internet advertising industry to clean up the use of our language, clarify definitions, and get so...

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