Colleges Still Cutting Down the Net
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Colleges Still Cutting Down the Net

26y Dana Blankenhorn

Colleges Still Cutting Down the Net

One of the biggest curiosities of our time is the (so far successful) resistance of higher education to the demands of the Internet. The gross ineffic...

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TV Stations Ban Epinions.com Ad After Viewers Complain
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TV Stations Ban Epinions.com Ad After Viewers Complain

26y Pamela Parker

TV Stations Ban Epinions.com Ad After Viewers Comp...

An advertisement for Epinions.com, inwhich a woman demonstrates using a breast pump, has been banned from tentelevisionstations and cable networks, ei...

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NetBank Seals Wide-Ranging Ad Deal with AOL
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NetBank Seals Wide-Ranging Ad Deal with AOL

26y Pamela Parker

NetBank Seals Wide-Ranging Ad Deal with AOL

Internet-only bank player NetBank onMonday inked a wide-ranging portal deal with America Online, which places NetBank'sproducts and services across fi...

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Who Hears the Inbound Mail?
Marketing

Who Hears the Inbound Mail?

26y Nick Usborne

Who Hears the Inbound Mail?

If your site is generating traffic, it's generating inbound emails. Inbound from your customers and prospects. And if you have a 1-800 number, you're ...

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Web Ads Take a B2B Approach
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Web Ads Take a B2B Approach

26y Michael Pastore

Web Ads Take a B2B Approach

As business-to-business transactions continue to outpace business-to-consumer transactions in e-commerce, it should come as no surprise that online ad...

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Drugstore.com Kicks Off National "Life in a Tub" Campaign
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Drugstore.com Kicks Off National "Life in a Tub" Campaign

26y Pamela Parker

Drugstore.com Kicks Off National "Life in a Tub" C...

First MSN showed people trapped in a house and living solely through its Web site, and now drugstore.com is launching a $30 million national campaign ...

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European Market Ripe for ASPs
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European Market Ripe for ASPs

26y Michael Pastore

European Market Ripe for ASPs

A study commissioned by the ASP Industry Consortium and conducted by Ovum took a look at two of the Internet's hottest markets: Europe and ASPs. You'l...

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EntryPoint Rolls Out Phase One of National Campaign
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EntryPoint Rolls Out Phase One of National Campaign

26y Pamela Parker

EntryPoint Rolls Out Phase One of National Campaig...

EntryPoint, the downloadabletoolbar company that resulted from the idealab!-brokered marriage of eWallet andPointCast, on Monday kicked off the first ...

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Register.com Kicks Off National B2B Campaign
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Register.com Kicks Off National B2B Campaign

26y Pamela Parker

Register.com Kicks Off National B2B Campaign

Domain name registrar register.comon Monday launched a multi-million dollar print campaign aimed at sellingts business-to-business services. Read More...

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Grieving for Yahoo!Bay
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Grieving for Yahoo!Bay

26y Dana Blankenhorn

Grieving for Yahoo!Bay

Most mergers make no sense. Investment bankers and arbitrageurs see mergers as a way to get fees or quick profits. The urge to merge can cause managem...

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Whom, Exactly, Do You Work For?
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Whom, Exactly, Do You Work For?

26y Sandeep Krishnamurthy

Whom, Exactly, Do You Work For?

Consumers are interested in minimizing clutter and maximizing incentive, whereas advertisers want to show their ads to as many people in their target ...

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Taking on Big Internet
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Taking on Big Internet

26y Dana Blankenhorn

Taking on Big Internet

Al Gore is taking on "Big Internet," the Internet business community that over the last four years has spawned more billionaires than most decades hav...

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Are You Ready for the New Business Rules?
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Are You Ready for the New Business Rules?

26y Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila

Are You Ready for the New Business Rules?

Are you ready to do business on the Internet? The answer may be "No." And that's OK. Greg and Emily tell you how to progress through three phases in l...

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Media Exchange Rate
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Media Exchange Rate

26y Martin Lindstrom

Media Exchange Rate

What's a banner ad worth? It depends, compared to what a television commercial, billboard ad, store display sign or radio spot is worth. It seems that...

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GO.com Names New Agency, VP of Marketing
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GO.com Names New Agency, VP of Marketing

26y Pamela Parker

GO.com Names New Agency, VP of Marketing

Disney's GO.com onThursday tapped Cliff Freeman &Partners to be the advertising agency for the GO Network, and appointedDoug De Vito to work with the ...

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Is Your Ad Partner Hungry Enough?
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Is Your Ad Partner Hungry Enough?

26y Tom Hespos

Is Your Ad Partner Hungry Enough?

Dot-com fever has significantly altered the ad-buying landscape. Investors love to see partnerships, advertising or strategic relationships with the b...

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Direct Marketing Guru Founds New Venture Targeting E-Commerce
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Direct Marketing Guru Founds New Venture Targeting E-Commerce

26y Pamela Parker

Direct Marketing Guru Founds New Venture Targeting...

Lester Wunderman, direct marketing pioneer and founder of Wunderman Cato Johnson, on Tuesday plungedinto the online world by launching I-behavior, a f...

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Jupiter Communications Unveils New Brand Identity
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Jupiter Communications Unveils New Brand Identity

26y Pamela Parker

Jupiter Communications Unveils New Brand Identity

Research firm Jupiter Communications onThursday formally launched its new brand identity -- a diamond perforatedby two rows of dots, followed by the J...

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Small Business Market Holds Promise for ASPs
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Small Business Market Holds Promise for ASPs

26y Michael Pastore

Small Business Market Holds Promise for ASPs

Small businesses represent a huge market for ASPs, but there are still hurdles to clear. According to Cahners In-Stat, ASPs need to partner with well-...

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The Dilemmas of Wireless Web Advertising
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The Dilemmas of Wireless Web Advertising

26y Jeff Moore

The Dilemmas of Wireless Web Advertising

Put the world's two hottest technologies -- the Internet and wireless communications -- together and you get a lot of hype. Everyone is talking about ...

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How to Cultivate Long-Term Sponsors
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How to Cultivate Long-Term Sponsors

26y Andy Bourland

How to Cultivate Long-Term Sponsors

How do you as a site publisher develop a profitable, sustained, win-win sponsorship program for a client? Like developing an ongoing relationship with...

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Productopia Kicks Off $4 Million Campaign
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Productopia Kicks Off $4 Million Campaign

26y Pamela Parker

Productopia Kicks Off $4 Million Campaign

Product information and advice site Productopia on Monday launched a $4million print, television, and outdoor campaign, which will appear in SanFranci...

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All the Jargon Fit to Print
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All the Jargon Fit to Print

26y Kim MacPherson

All the Jargon Fit to Print

After surveying various topics and philosophies within the email channel and getting you up to speed on the possibilities, this column is ready to del...

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24/7 Media, chinadotcom Establish Loyalty Venture in Asia
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24/7 Media, chinadotcom Establish Loyalty Venture in Asia

26y Pamela Parker

24/7 Media, chinadotcom Establish Loyalty Venture ...

Advertising firm 24/7 Media Inc., and chinadotcom Corp., in which 24/7 Media owns a significant equity stake, Monday announced plans to establish Awar...

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Ad Sales Pros as Marketers
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Ad Sales Pros as Marketers

26y Janet Ryan and Nancy Whiteman

Ad Sales Pros as Marketers

Sales and marketing have long been seen as opposite ends of a spectrum: marketing deals with "mass" and abstractions, and sales is hands-on with custo...

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Modem Media.Poppe Tyson Shortens Name, Starts Branding Campaign
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Modem Media.Poppe Tyson Shortens Name, Starts Branding Campaign

26y Pamela Parker

Modem Media.Poppe Tyson Shortens Name, Starts Bran...

Interactive agency Modem Media.Poppe Tyson, formed in the 1998 mergerbetween Modem Media and Poppe Tyson, on Monday announced it was simplifyingits na...

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Much at Stake for Internet Retailers
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Much at Stake for Internet Retailers

26y Michael Pastore

Much at Stake for Internet Retailers

Online consumers are not a very forgiving lot, according to a study by The Boston Consulting Group, which found e-tailers better get it right the firs...

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Techies.com Launches New Advertising Campaign
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Techies.com Launches New Advertising Campaign

26y Pamela Parker

Techies.com Launches New Advertising Campaign

Techies.com, a job board thatspecializes in technology jobs, on Monday kicked off its new television,radio and Internet campaign, which features techi...

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