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  • Path to Maturity

    Since I have literally “grown up” working in the online ad industry, I know how important it is to work hard to become a well-rounded and mature sales person, media buyer, account manager or boss. Unfortunately, there are some people in this industry…

  • Looking for a Third Party to Manage Your Database?

    First of all, learn about their understanding and compliance with Can-Spam and applicable state and federal laws. Since database marketing has grown from its, somewhat modest, roots of the basis of the most direct marketing itself, advances in…

  • King Google

    Google Talk, Gmail, Desktop Search, Toolbar, Orkut, Froogle, the list of free Google services that actually add value to our everyday Internet experience goes on and on. Last week I discussed Google’s maturation from simply a search engine…

  • Trends Report – Following the Money, an Investment Recap, Part One

    It’s hard to say when it happened, but it did. Our industry, once the unwanted offspring of the media world, operates in obscurity no longer; investors and members of the “real” world look upon it and those of us in the trenches with admiration. We now…

  • Trends Report – Following the Money, an Investment Recap, Part Two

    Part One of Trends Report recapped six major investments, including five content driven sites totaling more than $2 billion in transaction prices. Four of those deals occurred in a span of less than four months. Yet, as impressive as that…

  • PopUp Blocker Solution

    Is PopUp Blocking Affecting Affiliate Earnings? Not anymore! There are products and services out there using DHTML to get the popup to pop. For example, “Instant Attention” is a service that you can use…

  • The Critical Coupon Code Step

    Affiliate marketing is becoming as competitive (and more affordable) as Pay Per Click marketing, Media Buys, email and other methods of marketing online. However, it takes more ingenuity and commitment from the merchants to make their affiliate…

  • Google vs. Microsoft

    The bitter battle between Internet poster child Google and behemoth Microsoft got even uglier in court recently with Google’s poaching of Kai-Fu Lee, hired to set up a research centre in China. Microsoft claims that Lee, a former vice president…

  • Court Refuses to Require Direct Response Technologies to Provide

    Pittsburgh, PA – September 8, 2005 – In its ruling issued on September 7, 2005, the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County refused to require Direct Response Technologies, Inc., (DRT) a leading provider of online media and technology solutions…

  • Think Partnership’s PrimaryAds Subsidiary Obtains Court Order

    NORTHBROOK, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 8, 2005–CGI Holding Corporation d/b/a Think Partnership Inc. (“THK” or the “Company”) (AMEX: THK – News) announced that its PrimaryAds Inc. subsidiary has obtained a Court Order issued by the Court of…