Where do award-winning ideas come from? To stimulate concepts, agency Gigunda Group, Inc. sets up in its conference room a 4-foot by 4-foot graphic, dubbed

A study conducted by market research company, Ipsos, for online reputation management service, Habeas, found that e-mail is the preferred means of communication, and is likely to remain so for the near future

Depending on what reference you source, there are either more bikes in Holland than people (16 million) or exactly as many (13 million). In any case, the Dutch are definitely a two-wheeled culture. Even the Dutch royal family has taken to pedaling their offspring around by bike regularly.

If you have an analytics person on your staff, you should always be looking for way for her to improve your marketing operations. For example, if you send promotional e-mails to registered customers, she should take advantage of the wilderness of numbers that can be analyzed with profitable results

Remember the '80s? Consumers in Delaware are getting a rude reminder thanks to the number 867-5309 popping up on their caller-ID displays when telemarketers

Print doesn't have the cachet that it once did, which is why space salespeople are constantly looking for value-added opportunities

Courvoisier and lifestyle clothing brand Lifted Research Group will debut a number of pop-up shops in five U.S. cities capitalizing on a partnership that began last fall.

From the complete-waste-of-time file comes news that Internet security firm McAfee has convinced 50 people to spend a month clicking on pop-ups, signing up for promotions and responding to spam e-mail on computers with no filters installed. Can anyone guess what

You're all set to launch a blog, but you see what kind of ruthless comments are being left on other social media sites. Here are some tips on keeping stupid people from leaving comments that can drive potential customers away.

Picture this: you receive an email, or see a banner ad, that congratulates you for somehow being eligible to receive a free plasma TV or a free Nintendo Wii, if you would just take a few minutes to complete a survey, with no visible indication of any conditions.