Best Practices for Permission Email
Email

Best Practices for Permission Email

26y Rick Bruner

Best Practices for Permission Email

Permission email marketing is one of the most cost-effective tools marketers have ever known. When deployed improperly, however, mass-e-mailing campai...

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Is Yahoo! Illegal?
Media

Is Yahoo! Illegal?

26y Dana Blankenhorn

Is Yahoo! Illegal?

In order to provide a coherent view of the web, Yahoo!, Google, Inktomi, and all other web search engines have to enter your site and "steal" your pro...

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Behavioral Targeting: Is That Cool?
Media

Behavioral Targeting: Is That Cool?

26y Tom Hespos

Behavioral Targeting: Is That Cool?

What we do and what we say we do are two different things. That's one of the premises behind behavioral targeting. Web-based marketing companies are a...

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Selecting the Right Marketing Partner
Marketing

Selecting the Right Marketing Partner

26y Jason DeLand

Selecting the Right Marketing Partner

In today's fast-paced start-up environment, marketing has been put in the spotlight. Start-ups have poured money into advertising and marketing progra...

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Excite@Home, MTVi Forge Broadband Cross-Marketing Agreement
Media

Excite@Home, MTVi Forge Broadband Cross-Marketing Agreement

26y Pamela Parker

Excite@Home, MTVi Forge Broadband Cross-Marketing ...

Broadband portal Excite@Home and MTVithis week cozied up to one another, announcing plans to develop aco-branded broadband music site, which MTVi has ...

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BrandEra.com Acquires Black Book Marketing Group for $3.5 Million
Media

BrandEra.com Acquires Black Book Marketing Group for $3.5 Million

26y Pamela Parker

BrandEra.com Acquires Black Book Marketing Group f...

In an effort to beef up its online talent listings, advertising andmarketing portal BrandEra.com Inc.this week bought the Black BookMarketing Group, a...

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Auto Shoppers Increase Internet Use
Audience

Auto Shoppers Increase Internet Use

26y Michael Pastore

Auto Shoppers Increase Internet Use

Automotive consumers are using the Internet more often, and they are using to shop for cars more often, according to The Polk Company. But test drives...

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Growth Rates Slowing for Online Travel
Marketing

Growth Rates Slowing for Online Travel

26y Michael Pastore

Growth Rates Slowing for Online Travel

US online leisure and unmanaged business travel expenditures are expected to soar to $28 billion in 2005, but annual growth will slow, according to Ju...

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Manifest Destiny
Marketing

Manifest Destiny

26y Roy Weiss

Manifest Destiny

The news that AOL bought Time/Warner caught a lot of people off-guard. After all, Time/Warner is big, TENS of millions of customers, a major studio, m...

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Taxpayers Plugging In and Logging On
Marketing

Taxpayers Plugging In and Logging On

26y Michael Pastore

Taxpayers Plugging In and Logging On

The number of people who filed their taxes electronically has increased dramatically, almost 30 percent in the past year, and more people are using th...

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Gundam Wing
Media

Gundam Wing

26y Dana Blankenhorn

Gundam Wing

Before the web was spun, campaign management was a seat-of-the-pants affair. Reports came from the traffic department, and analysis took time. Then th...

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Register.com, Ask Jeeves Seal Marketing Deal
Media

Register.com, Ask Jeeves Seal Marketing Deal

26y Pamela Parker

Register.com, Ask Jeeves Seal Marketing Deal

In an effort to extend the reach of its domain name registration services,register.com Friday inked a pact with Ask Jeeves, which lets users ofthe sea...

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Level It Ain't
Media

Level It Ain't

26y Richard Hoy

Level It Ain't

Richard is here to tell you that this line you've been hearing that "...the Internet levels the playing field, allowing small businesses to compete wi...

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Ask Jeeves Gets Fruity With Marketing Efforts
Media

Ask Jeeves Gets Fruity With Marketing Efforts

26y Pamela Parker

Ask Jeeves Gets Fruity With Marketing Efforts

First it was apples and oranges, now it's bananas; search engine Ask Jeeves on Thursday struck a deal with DOLE Fresh Fruit Co. to stick its logo and ...

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Media Marketplace MediaInternet.com Launches
Media

Media Marketplace MediaInternet.com Launches

26y Zachary Rodgers

Media Marketplace MediaInternet.com Launches

Start-up MediaInternet.comlaunched on Thursday, joining the ranks of those hoping to capitalize onthe online media buying business. Read More...

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What Makes a Good Online Media Kit?
Marketing

What Makes a Good Online Media Kit?

26y Michael Aaron

What Makes a Good Online Media Kit?

Michael has a confession to make: Ninety-five percent of the printed media kits he receives go right on top of the pile, collecting dust. So where doe...

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The Versatility of Profile Targeting
Media

The Versatility of Profile Targeting

26y Tom Hespos

The Versatility of Profile Targeting

Ever been to a web site that personalizes its offerings for users? Typically, such a site offers to target relevant information to users who tell the ...

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What to Look for in a Search Engine Optimization Specialist
Search

What to Look for in a Search Engine Optimization Specialist

26y Detlev Johnson and Shari Thurow

What to Look for in a Search Engine Optimization S...

Search engines are the primary way most people find web sites, but web site designers forget to think of this when they create their sites. Often, sit...

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AltaVista, Musicland Forge Co-Marketing Alliance
Media

AltaVista, Musicland Forge Co-Marketing Alliance

26y Team ClickZ

AltaVista, Musicland Forge Co-Marketing Alliance

CMGI's AltaVista portal and retailer Musicland StoresCorp. Thursday struck a co-marketing deal that leveragesAltaVista's online brand equity and Music...

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Online Grocer Pink Dot Taps BBDO West
Media

Online Grocer Pink Dot Taps BBDO West

26y Pamela Parker

Online Grocer Pink Dot Taps BBDO West

Online grocery and prepared food delivery firm Pink Dot this week picked BBDO West as advertising agency of recordfor an estimated $10 million account...

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That Old Time (Marketing) Religion
Media

That Old Time (Marketing) Religion

26y Dana Blankenhorn

That Old Time (Marketing) Religion

Dana had a column rejected last weekend. The editor said it was "Marketing 101, maybe the first six weeks." That may be true, but the fact remains tha...

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Making Your Site Search Engine Friendly
Search

Making Your Site Search Engine Friendly

26y Paul J. Bruemmer

Making Your Site Search Engine Friendly

Many marketers submit their sites to the search engines carefully, only to find they didn't get listed in this search engine or that one. There's a lo...

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Beyond Interactive Goes International
Media

Beyond Interactive Goes International

26y Pamela Parker

Beyond Interactive Goes International

Internet marketing firm BeyondInteractive this week opened the doors on its first two internationaloffices, in China and Mexico, as part of an expansi...

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AdAgency Mezzina Brown Turns VC With Reorganization
Media

AdAgency Mezzina Brown Turns VC With Reorganization

26y Pamela Parker

AdAgency Mezzina Brown Turns VC With Reorganizatio...

With all of the ads for equity deals giving agencies a taste for theventure capital business, it's no surprise that Mezzina/Brown on Tuesdayjumped in ...

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Final Edition
Analytics

Final Edition

26y Jeff Moore

Final Edition

This is the final edition of Ad Metrics. Jeff Moore, its writer, recently left the Internet advertising field when he accepted a new position with Cur...

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The Dot-Com Sky is Falling
Audience

The Dot-Com Sky is Falling

26y Michael Pastore

The Dot-Com Sky is Falling

Some of the biggest names in market research are predicting that most of the dot-com retailers that rule the PC screen, the airwaves, and the billboar...

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Internet World: The Start-Up Woodstock
Media

Internet World: The Start-Up Woodstock

26y Dana Blankenhorn

Internet World: The Start-Up Woodstock

If you missed last week's Internet World in Los Angeles (like I did), shame on you. And if you think Penton Media Inc. was hosed when it bought the sh...

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Walk a Mile in Your Media Buyer's Moccasins
Media

Walk a Mile in Your Media Buyer's Moccasins

26y Janet Ryan and Nancy Whiteman

Walk a Mile in Your Media Buyer's Moccasins

Sales reps, particularly those new to the industry, spend most of their time selling to media planners and buyers. The average interactive media buyer...

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