US Dominance Seen Slipping in Internet Use, Commerce
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US Dominance Seen Slipping in Internet Use, Commerce

26y Michael Pastore

US Dominance Seen Slipping in Internet Use, Commer...

IDC says that soon the US will no longer be the world leader in all things Internet, as regions like Western Europe and Asia/Pacific will be taking ov...

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Nike, Critical Mass Team for Personalization
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Nike, Critical Mass Team for Personalization

26y Pamela Parker

Nike, Critical Mass Team for Personalization

Nike Inc., one of thetraditional companies that's been the most innovative in marketing online,on Tuesday tapped Critical Massto help it personalize a...

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The New Conventional Wisdom
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The New Conventional Wisdom

26y Dana Blankenhorn

The New Conventional Wisdom

All the hoopla over Larry Ellison's race with Bill Gates for "world's richest man" obscured an important point: Conventional wisdom regarding how comp...

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Web Site Design: Are We Doing It Right?
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Web Site Design: Are We Doing It Right?

26y Cliff Allen

Web Site Design: Are We Doing It Right?

Over the past few years, many graphic designers have shifted from print media to develop web sites for the online medium. In the process, they have ap...

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FTC Recommends Privacy Legislation
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FTC Recommends Privacy Legislation

26y Pamela Parker

FTC Recommends Privacy Legislation

Internet industry groups have long been pushing for self-regulation of Webcommerce and privacy, but the Federal TradeCommission, after determining tha...

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Customer Relationship Mismanagement
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Customer Relationship Mismanagement

26y Kim MacPherson

Customer Relationship Mismanagement

The wall between customer service and marketing is very, very thin. Especially when you're doing business online. And when you're talking about those ...

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Step Right up to New Revenue Streams
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Step Right up to New Revenue Streams

26y Andy Bourland

Step Right up to New Revenue Streams

What's WITH a guy who spends 300 clams on a freakin' BLENDER!?!?! Anxious to replace a blown-out blender, Andy went to the Vita-Mix site, where he was...

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First, Do No Harm
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First, Do No Harm

26y Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila

First, Do No Harm

There's a saying in medicine, "First, do no harm." Maybe marketers should subscribe to this same philosophy. In the frenzied pace of securing so-calle...

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E-Branding: An Accident Waiting to Happen?
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E-Branding: An Accident Waiting to Happen?

26y Rick Bruner

E-Branding: An Accident Waiting to Happen?

The Internet is transforming customer buying behavior, with major consequences for how the new breed of consumer develops familiarity with, and ultima...

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Build Brand Equity With Design and Architecture
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Build Brand Equity With Design and Architecture

26y Joy Busse

Build Brand Equity With Design and Architecture

Last year design firms had to turn away holiday redesign work because marketers waited too long to seek it. Take a lesson from the last millennium and...

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Integrating Online and Offline Agency Work
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Integrating Online and Offline Agency Work

26y Karim Sanjabi

Integrating Online and Offline Agency Work

Offline and online agencies must work closely together to pull off integrated advertising campaigns. While some agencies perform both online and offli...

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Forrester, Information Resources Join For Big Brand Effort
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Forrester, Information Resources Join For Big Brand Effort

26y Pamela Parker

Forrester, Information Resources Join For Big Bran...

Consumer packaged goods makers have long been hotly sought after by theonline advertising industry, simply because of the major dollars theycommand, a...

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Are We Judging Banner Advertising Unfairly?
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Are We Judging Banner Advertising Unfairly?

26y Tom Hespos

Are We Judging Banner Advertising Unfairly?

Tom revisits the idea of tracking non-click conversions after AdKnowledge releases results of its "Online Advertising Report: First Quarter 2000." It ...

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Government by Treaty
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Government by Treaty

26y Dana Blankenhorn

Government by Treaty

Internet governance is being developed through treaties. Yet, while government-to-government agreements are designed to set norms and coordinate the e...

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Wireless Advertising Industry Groups Merge
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Wireless Advertising Industry Groups Merge

26y Pamela Parker

Wireless Advertising Industry Groups Merge

The wireless advertising industry's dueling standards groups -- the Internet Advertising Bureau's Wireless AdCouncil and the Wireless AdvertisingIndus...

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Futureshop.ca: An Effective Bilingual Campaign
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Futureshop.ca: An Effective Bilingual Campaign

26y Heidi Anderson

Futureshop.ca: An Effective Bilingual Campaign

Deciding which language to use to communicate online is usually easy. But as the Internet truly becomes a global network, language decisions are becom...

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DoubleClick Puts Together Privacy Advisory Board
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DoubleClick Puts Together Privacy Advisory Board

26y Pamela Parker

DoubleClick Puts Together Privacy Advisory Board

DoubleClick Inc. on Wednesday revealed the composition of its newly-formedconsumer privacy advisory board, a body the company decided to form afterbei...

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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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