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  • A Multichannel Merchant Who Knows Her Craft

    Sandy Sandler admits that she’s a person who takes problems one at a time. “I like to do all the research, get all the ‘i’s dotted and ‘t’s crossed, and then move on,” she says.

    In that light, it makes sense that Sandler would wait until her company, which manufactures and sells a bow-tying item called the Bowdabra, would wait to put up its first transactional Web site until three months ago. She founded Bowdabra back in 1998, when she was training people in starting up corporate gift businesses and found how difficult it was for most people to tie a good bow in a ribbon.

  • Huggies Has Pregnancy Covered

    Kimberly-Clark has a new relationship Web site that’s designed to get its Huggies brand name in front of expectant mothers long before they have to make

  • Pay-per-Call Clicks for Cruise Firms

    ELEVATED KEYWORD PRICES IN the search engine market have led CruiseOne and Cruises Inc. to turn to pay-per-call advertising, where marketers pay for rings

  • Oodle Helps Buyers Search Local Ads

    TWO TRENDS ONLINE SHOPPING and local search come together in Oodle.com, which aggregates local classified ad listings across a number of categories and

  • Chella Chases Abandoned Carts

    Chella Professional Skin Care began selling its anti-aging solution on the Web in December 2003, about three months after the company itself was founded.

  • Fruit of the Vine for Sale Online

    WINE.COM’S BUSINESS IS built on a product requiring slow growth and constant nurturing. But in recent years its sales have looked less like a tender grape

  • Hyundai to Watch Web’s Offline Effect

    Hyundai Motor America will take a closer look at the online research and shopping behavior of car seekers to better tailor its marketing efforts in the offline world.

  • When It Pays to Be Negative

    Search marketing is a potent tool: sometimes too potent. Sometimes your keywords call out to searchers who have very little to do with your product, service or content. Consider the unfortunate vacation marketer whose keywords include “cruise”. How do you make sure your ads appear only when searchers are looking for Caribbean getaways and not “Tom Cruise” or “cruise missiles”?

  • Cleanup in the Comparison Aisle

    Attention, comparison-engine Web shoppers: There

  • When It Pays to Be Negative

    Search marketing is a potent tool: sometimes too potent. Sometimes your keywords call out to searchers who have very little to do with your product, service or content. Consider the unfortunate vacation marketer whose keywords include