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February 2003

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About Advertising

and Promotion

 

February 25, 2003

From eMarketer:

"Smart Search Engine Tactics"

Search engine marketing comes in three basic forms, two of which are pure ad vehicles...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

February 24, 2003

From MarketingProfs.com:

"Email 101:  How to Market Effectively"

Make sure the call to action link is positioned within the first paragraph of the message...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

February 19, 2003

From DM News:

"E-Newsletters:  Your Relationship and Sales-Building Tool"

Give people something of value.  Then they just might start to remember you, like you, trust you and do business with you...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

February 17, 2003

From MarketingProfs.com:

"After the Banner:  What's Up Next?"

For online advertising to succeed, it must either present an experience that people will want to spend time with or a service that people can use...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

February 11, 2003

From the New York Times:

"Marketers Shift Tactics on Web Ads"

To attract customers, apply the increasingly important dictum of online advertising:  make yourself useful...

http://www.nytimes.com

 

February 7, 2003

From MarketingProfs.com:

"Why Customer Feedback Should Drive Your Marketing Communications"

Ask for feedback from unhappy customers.  Draw them out.  Be respectful.  You'll be amazed at what you learn and how you can put it to use...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

February 5, 2003

From MarketingProfs.com:

"Online Newsletters:  Cutting Through Chaos"

A solid subject line, with a hint of a credible solution, will get more potential customers to open and read your document.  Anything that smacks of urgency is just annoying...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

About Customer

Service

 

February 25, 2003

From clickZ.com:

"Do You Provide Customer Disservice?"

Basic customer servicing is an important branding component.  Mismanagement leads to customer frustration, causing customers to abandon a brand...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 21, 2003

From Internet News:

"Companies Failing at Online Customer Service"

Companies that fail to get serious about their management of customer service email now, will pay the price with higher customer service costs and lost revenues down the line...

http://www.internetnews.com

 

February 19, 2003

From eMarketer:

"First Comes Privacy, Then Trust"

65% of Internet users make shopping decisions based on a Web site privacy policy...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

February 14, 2003

From clickZ.com:

"Two Steps to Spike Acquisition, Conversion, and Retention"

Educate, inform, empower, and persuade prospects that you provide value...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 12, 2003

From clickZ.com:

"A More Visitor-Centric Approach"

It's not about how much we want to say, it's about how much the visitor needs to read...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 11, 2003

From clickZ.com:

"The Emotional Tie"

Make sure your audience gets to know who's behind the product:  the designer, your call-center operators, the salespeople who stand behind your online and offline counters...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 4, 2003

From clickZ.com:

"Guess Who's Coming to Your Web Site"

If you're a brick-and-mortar that always respected female customers, you should do just fine with "new shoppers" online...

http://www.clickz.com

About Webstore

Management

 

February 28, 2003

From Internet News:

"Majority of Online Stores Fail Search Engine Test"

Ineffective search engines leave customers frustrated and apt to do business with a competitor...

http://www.internetnews.com

 

February 27, 2003

From MarketingProfs.com:

"How to Double Your Sales (Without Doing Much)"

If you can cut your shopping cart abandonment rate by just one-third, you've increased sales 67%...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

February 26, 2003

From clickZ.com:

"Building Successful Brands on the Web"

Brand with accurate, well-written, up-to-date content.  Brand with navigation.  Brand with the purchase process...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 26, 2003

From E-Commerce Times:

"Shoppers Have Low Tolerance for Poor Online Experience"

It is the site's navigability and usability that count...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

February 25, 2003

From CNET:

"Uptick in Online Retail Sales"

Online retail sales jumped 28.2 percent in the fourth quarter, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Commerce...

http://news.com.com

 

February 25, 2003

From E-Commerce Times:

"The 7 Deadly Sins of Online Selling"

Get the gears moving in an online site by pulling existing customers to the new channel, not by waiting for new customers to find the site....

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

February 20, 2003

From clickZ.com:

"Brand Is in the Details"

Brand is beyond marketing e-mail, brand messaging, or expensive mass-marketing campaigns. It's in ebb and flow of how a site interacts with users...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 20, 2003

From Internet News:

"At-Work Audience is Huge, Affluent"

For advertisers who want to reach employed adults during the day, the Internet offers an unprecedented opportunity...

http://www.internetnews.com

 

February 18, 2003

From clickZ.com:

"Is Your Content Fit to Print?"

If you create meaningful content, printability should be a primary concern...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 18, 2003

From Internet News:

"E-Commerce Industry Soaring"

In today's tough economy, e-commerce has strong potential to be a bright spot that can play an important role in fueling a recovery...

http://www.internetnews.com

 

February 13, 2003

From Internet News:

"E-Commerce as a Way of Life"

Almost two-thirds (62 percent) of Internet users have by now purchased a product or service online...

http://www.internetnews.com

 

February 13, 2003

From E-Commerce Times:

"Time To Get Serious About the Online Channel"

Don't be data-centric.  First, understand what you need to know about your customers...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

February 12, 2003

From the Aberdeen Group:

"Online Retail Propelling the Multichannel Vision into Reality"

A selling organization's commitment to developing and integrating a multichannel approach to the market allows formerly distinct channels to successfully cross-fertilize one another...

http://www.aberdeen.com

 

February 12, 2003

From eMarketer:

"Affluence Online"

As of the beginning of 2003, there are 140 million people online in the US, representing 67% of all adults in the country...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

February 10, 2003

From eMarketer:

"Direct Nav More Popular Than Online Searches"

As of February 2003, 64.4% of internet users worldwide arrived at websites by direct navigation...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

February 6, 2003

From clickZ.com:

"Desire Data"

Of all the information surrounding a product, what do you put in front of the user?

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 6, 2003

From iMarketing News:

"Sales Tax Won't Impede E-Retail"

The benefits of multichannel integration overwhelmingly outweigh the importance of sales tax avoidance...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

February 4, 2003

From DM News:

"Multichannel Holiday Shoppers Spent Far More"

Carefully plan and manage communication with consumers across the multitude of channels, put in place tools to measure the results of that communication across and within each channel...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

February 3, 2003

From eMarketer:

"Internet Influences TV Time"

40% of US internet users say they spend more time online and less time watching TV in a typical week...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

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