Live from ACCM: When It Pays to Be Stupid
May 21, 2007 10:35 PM, By Melissa Dowling
Boston--If your Web marketing consultant advised you to title one of your first blog posts “It’s great to be stupid,” you might start looking for a new agency....
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Affiliating with Success
May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Ken Magill
Boy, has affiliate marketing come a long way since the mid-1990s, when Amazon.com and CDNow.com pioneered the practice of paying third parties commissions for online leads and sales....
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Patagonia Launches Blog
Apr 16, 2007 9:03 AM, By Tim Parry
Patagonia is the latest multichannel merchant to enter the blogosphere. The manufacturer/marketer of outdoor apparel launched its first blog, ...
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Firebox Launches in U.S. with Assist from Blogs
Jan 10, 2007 3:05 PM, By Tim Parry
When London-based gadgets and gizmos merchant Firebox launched a U.S.-based e-commerce beta site in early October, it did so without a multimillion-dollar splash. ...
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10 Ideas for Converting Holiday Shoppers
Nov 27, 2006 9:26 AM
Many Web publishers are accepting affiliate advertisements, but not many affiliate advertisers are making the most of their affiliate relationships. ...
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DMA Releases Affiliate Marketing Guidelines
Jun 21, 2006 11:22 AM
The Internet Marketing Advisory Board of the Direct Marketing Association has released its best practices for online advertising and affiliate marketing networks. ...
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Best bets for online acquisition and retention
Nov 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Polly Bickel Wong
In the world of online marketing, it's easy to lose focus on the core objective when you're haggling with search engines, chasing down affiliates, and...
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Rich media: On the ad side
May 15, 2005 12:00 PM, By Sherry Chiger
According to marketing services provider DoubleClick, during the third quarter of 2004 the average click-through rate for rich media was 1.17%, more than...
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Analyze this
May 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Dina Santorelli
Imagine a 24/7, real-time focus group one that gives you access to a customer's every move. Imagine sitting upon the shopper's shoulders as he views your...
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Shopping around: comparison shopping Websites
Jan 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Heather Retzlaff
Comparison shopping engines can help you boost sales and acquire customers provided your company's product is a top contender among the search results....
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TechnoScout Changing Name Again
Jun 7, 2004 9:12 AM, Paul Miller
Less than five years after changing its name from Comtrad Industries, gadgets cataloger TechnoScout has changed its name once again—this time to FirstStreet.
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Live from Shop.org: Affiliating with Success
Jan 14, 2004 12:00 PM, Margery Weinstein
New York--On Jan. 13, the first day of the National Retail Federation-sponsored Shop.org conference here, three cataloger/retailers discussed the challenges...
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Reevaluating Affiliate Marketing
May 1, 2003 12:00 PM, Mark Del Franco and Paul Miller
Affiliate marketing was all the rage during the infancy of Web commerce. In the e-commerce equivalent of locker-room bragging, marketers boasted about...
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