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  • Flipping the Coin

    The fulfillment of marketing offers has become a two-sided coin in recent years, as traditional, order completion has been supplemented by virtual delivery

  • A Little Bit Louder Now

    U.S. marketers spent $19.35 billion on retail marketing in 2005, up 4.8% from 2004, per PROMO estimates. Retail marketing which includes P-O-P, retail

  • Hey, It’s Your Domain, Your Future

    Establishing your business or organization online is critical to business planning. And a good starting point is to establish your own domain name. Since the registration process is a snap and its benefits undeniable, there’s…

  • Yahoo! Updates Toolbar

    Yahoo!’s updated Yahoo! Toolbar includes improvements for both IE and Firefox users. For users of IE 5 or 6, tabbed browsing capability has been added to appease users until IE 7 is released. The Toolbar for Firefox users…

  • V for Vanquishing Spam

    Yahoo! and AOL’s plan for teaming with Goodmail to offer a certified e-mail service has not been the most well-received news of the year. Nonprofit groups and small businesses in particular have voiced their disdain for these…

  • WAA Takes Aim at Spyware

    Late last week, the Web Analytics Association (WAA) released a “statement of principles” in hopes of clearly differentiating spyware and cookies that are used by Web analytics applications. Though the difference between the two is…

  • Google Wi-Fi Ads Patent in the Works

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application filed by three of Google’s employees back in September of 2004. Google engineers Wesley Chan, Shioupyn Shen, and Georges Harik are trying to get a patent on…

  • 212 Newsmaker Night with John Battelle: Author of The Search

    I’m looking at John Battelle’s words that I jotted onto my notepad: “ephemeral to the eternal”. He was describing the permanent trace we leave behind as Internet users – how our immediate needs or curious whims are logged..

  • Blogging in the Corporate World

    In my inbox today, I saw a MediaPost article titled, “Execs Mull Pitfalls Of Corporate Blogs.” It stemmed from the author attending a panel at OMMA Hollywood in which the participants discussed blogging as the new CRM. The…

  • Blogging in the Corporate World – The Company Blog, Part 2

    In Part 1 of Blogging in the Corporate World, we discussed the significance of blogs, who has a company blog, and the different implementations of them. In Part 2 we conclude our look at the company blog landscape first with an…