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  • Apparel Sales Top Computer Sales Online

    For the first time ever, apparel sales exceeded computer sales online in 2006. According to a study titled “The State of Retailing Online 2007” conducted by the National Retail Federation’s online arm Shop.org, U.S. consumers spent…

  • A Site You Can’t Live Without

    Some ideas take a while to grasp. Some make sense right away. Some might make sense but go nowhere. Others don’t seem to make sense right away but end up clicking at some point later. Some ideas become financial successes…

  • Spotlight On… Daniel Starr Of Blockbuster

    Blockbuster has leveraged their offline presence to expand their online store and vice-versa. I recently met with Daniel Starr, the Senior Director of Marketing for Blockbuster. Excerpts below.

  • Search Arbitrage Strategies

    Those not in the direct marketing space tend to have an antiquated notion of what it really means and associate search engine arbitrage only with affiliate marketers, generally in a negative light. Search engine arbitragers span the…

  • Circuit City Fields ‘Pirates’ DVD Gift Card

    Circuit City is on board with Disney for a DVD gift card with clips from the new movie “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.”

  • Quiz Show

    If you use Gmail, you probably have noticed an ad showing up more than you might expect. Given its prominence and the seeming lack of relevance to your conversations, you might have wondered whether Coffeefool.com was more…

  • Strengthen Your Subscriber Base

    More important than what you communicate through your e-marketing efforts, is to whom you choose to send it. Your list of email subscribers or recipients does much more than represent a core group of current or potential…

  • iLegal – The FTC, Incentivized Offers and the

    There is quite a bit of concern in the online advertising industry right now around the subject of incentivized offers. Several large companies, including some that are publicly traded, generate large portions of their revenues in the…

  • Spotlight On… Jonathan Shapiro Of MediaWhiz

    Internet advertising has been a dynamic industry ever since the days of Prodigy and America Online. From buying basic text advertisements on the earliest websites, to buying cost per impression, cost per click, cost per action, then

  • Nielsen//NetRatings Introduces VideoCensus

    Internet media and market research firm Nielsen//NetRatings introduced its new online video measurement service, which is dubbed VideoCensus. Besides confirming Nielsen’s love of making one word out of two, this is an…