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The Knot, American Baby Set Up Shop

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage. Wedding pro The Knot, Inc., has teamed up with American Baby Magazine to launch an online baby gift shop, AmericanBabyShop.com. The collaboration leverages The Knot's ...

DM Pimping Cartoon V12

Persistent Screamers become comic book creations in the newest addition to the Confidential, DM Pimping. The Web Surfing Sinners get brought to animated life in this weekly cartoon for the online media masses. Click below to get flashed by the prettiest peons and ugliest underbelly of affiliate life.

What Do I Do For A Living?

Reunions of any sort follow the same template. People who have lost touch ask the same questions. Of the top three asked, the one that I have recently had to answer the most was “what do you do?” And with that, I confidently reply “I work for...

Telecommute – NY Transit Strike

On Tuesday, December 20th a key component of New York City’s infrastructure gave out in the way of a massive transit worker strike and left most of ICMediaDirect.com’s staff stranded along with millions of others in Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island and...

Extraordinary Is A Good Word

Extraordinary is a good word. It’s a word that you call great people. I hardly ever call anyone something as special as “extraordinary”. The person must speak in person or through the phone with integrity, honesty, fun and professional enough...

News Highlights of 2005

News concerning products, services, and events that are changing the face of online marketing were riddled all across news headlines in 2005. To the surprise of no one, Google was part of many of them, but not all...

Online advertising to grow 10% annually through 2010

JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corp., forecasts that online display and search advertising spending will grow at an average annual rate of 10% between 2005 and 2010. The automotive and travel industries are projected to show the strongest...

Three Important Marketing Technologies in 2005

As technology continues to be an important tool for online marketing it comes as no surprise that 2005 was an active year for affiliate marketers. Whether there were new challenges, improvements, or opportunities, 2005 brought about many interesting events and...

Can One Company Control More Than one Lead Gen Vertical?

In “Finding the Sweet Spot,” last week’s article on the Internet advertising acquisition landscape, we grouped the majority of activity along four main lines - lead generation, comparison shopping, content networks, and ad/affiliate...

AOOOOOOL

By now, almost everybody outside the Internet world has heard of Google. Similarly, thanks to its first mover status and ubiquitous blanketing of American mailboxes and retail outlets with CD-ROMs, you’ll be hard pressed to find someone that hasn’t heard of...