Free ISPs Beware
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Free ISPs Beware

26y Jeff Moore

Free ISPs Beware

In the last year, free access providers like NetZero, AltaVista and Free-PC have gotten a lot of ink. Jeff argued in his last column that Internet use...

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TeknoSurf.com Changes Name to Advertising.com
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TeknoSurf.com Changes Name to Advertising.com

26y Pamela Parker

TeknoSurf.com Changes Name to Advertising.com

Cost-per-click player TeknoSurf.com Tuesday changed its name to Advertising.com and hired former DoubleClick VP of businessdevelopment, Jeffrey Dickey...

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Database Marketing 101: Part 2
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Database Marketing 101: Part 2

26y Kim MacPherson

Database Marketing 101: Part 2

In the offline world, most seasoned direct marketers are also database marketers. They segment the customer file... mail it... analyze the results. Th...

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Finding the Competitive Data You Need
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Finding the Competitive Data You Need

26y Jeffrey Graham

Finding the Competitive Data You Need

You're budgeting and planning for an investment in Internet marketing. Naturally, you want to understand what your competitors are spending, and what ...

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FreeRide.com Tests First Advertising Campaign
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FreeRide.com Tests First Advertising Campaign

26y Pamela Parker

FreeRide.com Tests First Advertising Campaign

Loyalty marketer FreeRide.com Monday launched the test phase of what will eventually bea national advertising campaign, encompassing radio, newspaper,...

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Building a Cost-Effective Sales Force
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Building a Cost-Effective Sales Force

26y Janet Ryan and Nancy Whiteman

Building a Cost-Effective Sales Force

Last week, Janet wrote about putting together a sales leads pipeline. "Preaching to the choir!" one frustrated reader responded. "How do I get stubbor...

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Nike Experiments With TV/Internet Intersection
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Nike Experiments With TV/Internet Intersection

26y Pamela Parker

Nike Experiments With TV/Internet Intersection

Nike, long known for cutting-edge advertising created with Wieden & Kennedy, this weekend starts a televisioncampaign designed to drive viewers to its...

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No, They're Not Stupid
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No, They're Not Stupid

26y Nick Usborne

No, They're Not Stupid

It's a hard thing for a proud small-biz web site owner to do, but Nick wants you to get a total stranger to come and look at your site. Find a friend ...

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FreeRide, Vianet Team for Targeting Messaging
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FreeRide, Vianet Team for Targeting Messaging

26y Team ClickZ

FreeRide, Vianet Team for Targeting Messaging

FreeRide.com and Vianet are teaming to provide video e-mail programsenabling opportunities for increased personalization, targeted messaging andhigher...

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BBDO Interactive Buys into Goldfish
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BBDO Interactive Buys into Goldfish

26y Team ClickZ

BBDO Interactive Buys into Goldfish

BBDO Interactive this week purchased a 49percent stake in Israeli Internet and multimedia firm Goldfish and plans to add the companyto its network on ...

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Building Your Own Business-to-Business Internet Community
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Building Your Own Business-to-Business Internet Community

26y Barry Silverstein

Building Your Own Business-to-Business Internet Co...

Barry gives you a basic plan for building your own business community. Doing so may not be the right option for everyone, but it offers some interesti...

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Killing Off the Almighty CTR
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Killing Off the Almighty CTR

26y Tom Hespos

Killing Off the Almighty CTR

Most planners are frustrated when campaign click rates are low. What's even more frustrating is clients complaining about it when high CTRs are not a ...

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DoubleClick Sinks $85 Million into ValueClick
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DoubleClick Sinks $85 Million into ValueClick

26y Pamela Parker

DoubleClick Sinks $85 Million into ValueClick

Ad solutions firm DoubleClick Inc. Thursday made a strategic investment in cost-per-click ad network ValueClick, throwing in stock and cashworth $85 m...

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Product Placement: The Interactive Choice
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Product Placement: The Interactive Choice

26y Martin Lindstrom

Product Placement: The Interactive Choice

Product placement: a concept familiar to us from the movies. In one story, James Bond will be driving a Lotus. In the next, he might be behind the whe...

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Amazon Benefits from Q4 Spending Surge
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Amazon Benefits from Q4 Spending Surge

26y Michael Pastore

Amazon Benefits from Q4 Spending Surge

Amazon.com, the online retailer named for a river that drains an entire continent, drained the wallets of online shoppers everywhere in the fourth qua...

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The Y2K Bug Was in the Channel
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The Y2K Bug Was in the Channel

26y Dana Blankenhorn

The Y2K Bug Was in the Channel

There is a serious Y2K problem, after all, and it originates from Cybercash's ICVerify unit, recently victimized by a cracker-embezzler who tried to p...

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UCI Web Group Acquires Third Street Interactive
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UCI Web Group Acquires Third Street Interactive

26y Pamela Parker

UCI Web Group Acquires Third Street Interactive

UCI Web Group, an Internet servicesholding company, this week snatched up interactive agency Third Street Interactive, continuingits roll-up strategy....

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E-Stamps Chooses Playoffs Over Super Bowl
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E-Stamps Chooses Playoffs Over Super Bowl

26y Pamela Parker

E-Stamps Chooses Playoffs Over Super Bowl

E-Stamps, an online postage provider,on Tuesday said it was passing on high-priced Super Bowl advertising infavor of more, but less high-profile, ads ...

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The Dumbest Merger Ever
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The Dumbest Merger Ever

26y Dana Blankenhorn

The Dumbest Merger Ever

America Online is buying Time Warner for $166 billion. The market is cheering. In fact, this is the dumbest merger ever. Time Warner is doing this mai...

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The Keyword Shuffle
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The Keyword Shuffle

26y Jim Meskauskas

The Keyword Shuffle

It's the middle of 1995, and Jim and his media counterparts are sitting in a small conference room in Wired's original San Francisco office. Some craz...

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Database Marketing 101: Part 1
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Database Marketing 101: Part 1

26y Kim MacPherson

Database Marketing 101: Part 1

Kim gets tons of email and responds to a number of offers out there. So what does thisget her? Some good products, ideas, and reading material. But al...

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Security Keeps Women from Shopping Online
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Security Keeps Women from Shopping Online

26y Michael Pastore

Security Keeps Women from Shopping Online

There are more than 33 million women online in the US, according to Cyber Dialogue, and their concerns over the security of online transactions have k...

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Convergence: Not Just for Television Anymore
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Convergence: Not Just for Television Anymore

26y Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila

Convergence: Not Just for Television Anymore

In the short history of e-commerce, 1999 may go down as the year of struggling e-commerce strategies for traditional bricks-and-mortar companies. As c...

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IRS Frees Banner Exchange Sites From Paperwork Burden
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IRS Frees Banner Exchange Sites From Paperwork Burden

26y Pamela Parker

IRS Frees Banner Exchange Sites From Paperwork Bur...

The Internal Revenue Service this weekeased the tax reporting burden for companies that facilitate the exchange of products and services, like those t...

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MapQuest.com, eCoupons.com Make $5.7 Million Marketing Pact
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MapQuest.com, eCoupons.com Make $5.7 Million Marketing Pact

26y Pamela Parker

MapQuest.com, eCoupons.com Make $5.7 Million Marke...

Online map site MapQuest.com and eCoupons.com, a coupon site, this weekformed a strategic partnership to integrate online coupons into the mappingand ...

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ValueVision, NBCi Take Roxy.com Stake, Strike Media Deal
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ValueVision, NBCi Take Roxy.com Stake, Strike Media Deal

26y Team ClickZ

ValueVision, NBCi Take Roxy.com Stake, Strike Medi...

TV home shopping channel ValueVision andNBCi, NBC's Internet spin-off, Thursdaystruck a cross-media deal worth $20 million with onlineelectronics reta...

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Don't Discount the Network Buy
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Don't Discount the Network Buy

26y Tom Hespos

Don't Discount the Network Buy

Tom addresses buying online ad inventory from networks. For some clients, and even some planners, there seems to be a stigma attached to striking deal...

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PayMyBills.com Goes After Customers through Employers
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PayMyBills.com Goes After Customers through Employers

26y Pamela Parker

PayMyBills.com Goes After Customers through Employ...

Online bill payment service PayMyBills.com on Wednesday madestrategic moves aimed to reaching customers through their employers, inkingdeals with Hewl...

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