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February 2007

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About Advertising

and Promotion

 

February 29, 2008

From MarketingProfs.com:

"Permission Email Marketing:

Clarity and Confidence"

A percentage of your prospects and even your customers will decline your communications.  Learn to accept rejection, and instead focus your efforts

on those who have voluntarily said yes...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

February 28, 2008

From eMarketer:

"Don't Click This Ad"

Heavy clickers represent just 6% of the online population, but make one-half of all display ad clicks...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

February 22, 2007

From InternetRetailer.com:

"Online Shopping as Social as Trip to the Mall"

Use content in different ways and make marketing around what customers are saying instead of what marketers are saying...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

February 14, 2007

From DM News:

"Six Secrets to Get Customers and Grow Your E-Mail List"

Ask for your customers or prospects' e-mail address prominently on every Web page...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

February 9, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"Analyzing Retail E-Mail:  Campaigns and Triggered Messages"

Eight business questions you want to answer...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 7, 2007

From iMarketing News:

"Five Creative Tips For Permission-Based E-Mail"

It's tempting to load your e-mails with multiple messages and offers.  Instead, keep it simple...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

February 7, 2007

From E-Commerce Times:

"Click Fraud:  A Growing Nuisance for Web Advertisers"

Click fraud can be minimized by taking the proper precautions...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

February 6, 2007

From Marketing Profs:

"Casting a Wide Net for Leads?

Here's How to Get Great Results"

Six steps to help you get the most from your wide-net campaign...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

February 5, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"E-Mail by the Numbers"

Every campaign element has an important (but different) effect on results...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 2, 2007

From eMarketer:

"What Works, and What Doesn't Work, in Online Marketing"

Search engine optimization showed the biggest jump in 2006, while pop-up ads had the largest decline in favor...

http://www.emarketer.com

About Customer

Service

 

February 26, 2007

From E-Commerce News:

"Turning Online Conversations Into Online Sales Conversions"

Four different types of click-to-call or click-to-chat deployments...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

February 21, 2007

From InternetRetailer.com:

"Keeping Site Design to a Minimum"

Get across one clear message, it's far more effective than crowding shoppers with more features and functions...

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

February 20, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"E-Tailers Beat Offline Stores in Customer Satisfaction"

Consumers want the multi-channel experience, it's not specific to one way or the other, they want that capability...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 13, 2007

From E-Commerce Times:

"Cashing In on the E-Commerce Craze"

Create a branded customer experience that becomes a customer relationship...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

February 8, 2007

From MarketingProfs.com:

"The Difference Between B2B and B2C SEO (Yes, It Matters)"

B2B purchasers do much more research as part of the buying process...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

February 5, 2007

From InternetRetailer.com:

"E-Retailers Looking to Grow Cannot Afford to Be Antisocial"

Word of mouth is becoming more prevalent and significant in retailing because the web is megaphoning consumers` opinions...
http://www.internetretailer.com

 

About Webstore

Management

 

February 29, 2008

From ClickZ.com:

"How to Prioritize Your Optimization"

Is your site heavy on customer-facing errors?  As a first order of business, work to make your site as reliable as the sunrise...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 28, 2007

From InternetRetailer.com:

"Health Care E-Commerce Nothing to Sneeze At"

18.3 million U.S. adults purchased health-related products online in 2006...

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

February 28, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"DIY SEO"

Reduced to its simplest form, SEO is a four-step process...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 27, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"Tangible Technologies and Analytic Widgets"

If everyone's more aware of your site's performance, not only will everyone be focused on results but ideas and true innovation may also flow a little faster...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 26, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"Seven Tips for Effective Landing Pages"

If the landing page doesn't carry the reader through to the goal, it's pointless...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 25, 2008

From E-Commerce Times:

"SEO:  Five Easy Pieces"

An easy-to-follow guide to achieving top search engine rankings...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

February 23, 2007

From eMarketer.com:

"Retail E-Commerce Sales Booming"

Retail e-commerce sales for Q4 2006 exceeded expectations by increasing 25% over the same quarter a year ago, the biggest jump in Q4 sales since 2002 and additional evidence that the Internet channel is stealing sales away from retail stores...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

February 23, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"Creating an Effective Home Page"

In general, a home page should answer five questions...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 22, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"Delivering Automated Transactional E-mail"

Having many different systems sending e-mail from different sources and with different configurations is a substantial management headache...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 20, 2007

From E-Commerce Times:

"Minding the Gap Between Click and Conversion"

Include a segmentation step early in the sales funnel, typically on the first page of your path...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

February 19, 2007

From E-Commerce Times:

"Can Comparison Shopping Tools Be Trusted?"

Investigating a comparison shopping site for credible objectivity can be an exhausting exercise...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

February 16, 2007

From InternetRetailer.com:

"Site Search as Content Management Tool"

Use site search to build brand-specific pages and keep them accurately updated...
http://www.internetretailer.com

 

February 16, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"We Tried That Already"

With over 1,500 factors contributing to the successful completion of a single linear conversion funnel, it's easy to "try" to optimize the conversion leak and still miss the mark...
http://www.clickz.com


February 15, 2007

From iMarketing News:

"How to Launch a Product With the Web"

The linchpin of any launch is your landing page, or the Web page you're driving traffic to.  This is where you'll make the best sales pitch to your online audience...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

February 13, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"How Would You Explain Web Analytics?"

Marketers care about Web analytics, they just don't understand it.  Five tips for explaining it to non-techies...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 12, 2007

From iMarketing News:

"Essential Guide to Multichannel Retail"

If a merchant's database and back-end operations aren't working efficiently, consumers will quickly lose any interest in that brand message...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

February 9, 2007

From InternetRetailer.com:

"Powerful Site Search Can Hurt Natural Web Search Rankings"

A search engine spider arriving at your site won't use your site search, and if the spider has no other way to access your product content, your product content won't be crawled and indexed...

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

February 6, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"How to Define and Measure Loyalty"

Metrics such as propensity to return and propensity to recommend have been demonstrated to be strong predictors of loyalty and customer lifetime value...

http://www.clickz.com

 

February 2, 2007

From MarketingProfs.com:

"Three Ways to Score With Search Engines"

As you determine page titles and meta tags, don't get carried away with long descriptions, otherwise search engines think they're spam...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

February 1, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"Seven Ideas to Ignite Online Sales"

Actively strengthen relationships with new customers acquired over the holidays, blow out leftover and excess inventory, and create excitement for the next season...

http://www.clickz.com

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