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Vacation Planning
Long before travelers pull their suitcases down from the top shelf, RCI Global Vacation Network has begun modeling where they will go. Not on an individual
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And the Mail Just Keeps Coming
It would seem most marketers are aware that the World Trade Center towers are no longer standing. Not true, according to the U.S. Postal Service. The
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Becoming a Pod Person
Thank you, Steve Jobs and the iTunes Music Store, for a jump in podcast downloads. The Pew Internet & American Life Project discovered in a recent poll
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Low Tech’s the Ticket
For all the millions spent on television advertisements last holiday season, comparatively low-tech channels proved most effective in persuading shoppers to patronize specific retailers.
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Ready for Syndication Soon?
RSS may stand for Really Simple Syndication (among other less-descriptive things), but there’s nothing simple about selling the automated Web feed processes
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GETTING THROUGH
Business-to-business marketing may not have the glamorous reputation of its consumer cousin. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of hot new ideas to help B-to-B companies better acquire and retain customers. Here’s a roundup of new developments to help you meet your business objectives.
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Web 2.0 Meets the Senior Set
Computer and application developers have long talked about the “grandma test”: If their hardware or programs were intuitive enough for older relatives to use, they knew they had something a broad swath of the everyday online public could find value in.
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The RED Brigade
U.S. shoppers can expect to see a lot more red this year as Product RED, a celebrity driven charity, adds new partners and products. But it remains to
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Look Back in Hunger
Last month, The New York Times ran a list of 2006’s top ideas, one of which had interesting direct marketing ramifications: television commercials that hide special offers by making them viewable only through freeze-frame technology. The “top idea” here was marketers’ attempts to dissuade consumers from using digital video recorders, such as TiVo, to fast-forward through commercials.
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Where Do You Hang?
Everyone has their favorite haunts on the Web. Some are places that you pop into every now and then, to make a quick purchase or check up on news. Others