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The Fate of your Company

Many companies are still very much in the hunter-gatherer stage, where tasks necessary for survival such as reporting, data analysis, and even creating linking urls are all manual processes day in and day out. This doesn’t leave much resource fo

Earthlink Puts Employees on TV; Consumers Vote for their Favorite

In a twist on employee incentives, Internet service provider Earthlink is letting consumers decide which of its employees are worthy of perks like company cars and offices. Earthlink puts a twist on employee incentive programs by asking consumers to ...

Archway Adds Staff, Space

Fulfillment house Archway Marketing Services has expanded its staff and its facilities. The Minneapolis-based company (formerly Gage Marketing Services) has hired Dan Abell as VP-information technology and Joe Rudolph as VP-finance. Abell will oversee ...

May’s Take – Blogcentric Frankentetric Hit Your Metric

A break from Direct marketing talk, The column may be about politics, or sex, religion, lost youth, lost love, or lost lives, but it will be something that relates to you. It will be something that relates to us all.

Digital Thoughts – The Next Big Thing

Were I to have access to more time, energy, and/or a statistician, I could point out the instances in my articles dedicated to the incentive promotion space. Without those, I can only speculate, but I feel confident in suggesting that they are numerous. I

Trends – content, search and commerce

Arguably the biggest purchase impacting our space last year occurred in June when AOL announced its intent to purchase Advertising.com for north of $400 million. Two months prior, in March, another substantial acquisition took place. This one saw Ask Jeev

DM Confidential – Affiliate Marketing Tips

Let me start by saying that the overwhelming majority of affiliates are nice, honest, hard-working people. However, there are the occasional shysters out there which stand ready to take advantage of unsuspecting affiliate managers who are not monitoring t

Why Are Christian Offers So HOT?

Market Segmentation is defined as targeting a specific group or audience and is vital for a healthy ROI. Notice how we see more “Christian” offers on the Net these days? From Christian mortgage to Christian debt consolidation to Christ

Trends Report – Investment activity into our space

As anticipated, this year has brought no shortage of investment activity into our space. Just last week, for example CGI Holding Corp - not to be confused with the famous dot com bomb CMGI - d/b/a Think Partnership (AMEX: THX) announced its intent to acqu