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July 2005

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About Advertising

and Promotion

 

July 28, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"The Power of Personas in E-Mail"

How do you build or improve an e-mail communications program?  Start with what you know - existing personas, customer needs, and marketing strategies within your organization...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 25, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"The Beta Trend"

Why don't marketers run beta campaigns?  Not controlled focus groups, but actual public releases of advertising campaigns with the intent to improve based on open, uncontrolled user input...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 22, 2005

From InternetRetailer.com:

"Cross-Channel Retailing Growing in Reach, Functionality" 

Two-thirds of multichannel retailers accepted printed online coupons in stores last year, up from only 46% the previous year...

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

July 22, 2005

From iMarketing News:

"Relevancy Sparks Conversion, Retention"

E-mail can be powerful in driving customer conversion and retention.  Its limitations are in acquisition of new customers, leave that to brand marketing...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 20, 2005

From DM News:

"To E or Not to E?  That Is the Question"

Consider these five factors before you commit to any campaign format...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 18, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"E-Mail Creative Checklist"

Don't spend your limited graphic allotment on things that don't help get the message across or that could actually damage the campaign...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 12, 2005

From DM News:

"E-Mail Leaders Use Longer Subject Lines"

E-mail open and click-through rates hinge on whether subject lines and message content are descriptive enough...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 8, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"Paid Search Ads and Site-Side Brand Metrics"

Web and campaign analytics are more than a reporting method; they're a means to more effectively manage ad campaigns...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 6, 2005

From InternetRetailer.com:

"E-Mail Marketers Need to Engage Customers, Build Brands"

High ROI from e-mail marketing comes from being more relevant and more targeted than the dozen or so other e-mails your customer may have signed up for...

http://www.internetretailer.com

About Customer

Service

 

July 21, 2005

From InternetRetailer.com

"Self-Serve Support Falls Short on Web Sites"

57% of consumers have more than once called a contact center agent after trying to use web site self-service, only to find out that the agent was unable to help them use the self-service features...

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

July 21, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"Capture Mindshare in a Time-Starved World"

Consider how to engage consumers on your site to extend your relationship with them. This can be a great source of consumer input, helping give direction to your site and your marketing...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 6, 2005

From BusinessWeek Online:

"E-Tailing:  It's All About Service"

Getting paying customers to come back again and again through strong customer service is as important to growth as it is in the world of shopping malls and downtowns everywhere...

http://www.businessweek.com

 

July 4, 2005

From E-Commerce Times:

"To Pop-Up, or Not To Pop-Up:  That Is the Question"

Use link-based pop-ups to answer customer questions without taking them out of their current account management, product configuration, shopping cart or checkout process...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

July 1, 2005

From InternetRetailer.com:

"Managed-Content Targeting Improves Site Performance"

Deliver content in ways that automatically route shoppers to the right content based on how they are accessing the site...

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

 

About Webstore

Management

 

July 29, 2005

From E-Commerce Times:

"Teen Web Use Reveals E-Commerce Challenges"

Teens will be a less cohesive audience than today's Web users, using more devices and channels to go online, forcing retailers and marketers to create new strategies to reach them with their messages and offers...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

July 27, 2005

From MarketingProfs.com:

"Prove the Value of Your Content With Numbers"

Website and intranet content needs to show how it will reduce costs by X percent and increase productivity by Z percent...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

July 26, 2005

From DM News:

"Holiday Marketing:  Make Your List and Check It Twice"

Start your holiday planning early with a review of last year's performance, test results, and challenges, as well as present and projected marketplace shifts and merchandise trends...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 22, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"Optimize Online Lead-Gen for Offline Sales"

When the transaction is completed somewhere other than an online shopping cart, how do you measure and optimize your site's role in the conversion process?

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 19, 2005

From InternetRetailer.com:

"Online Sales Up 29%"

Online sales for the week ending June 26 reached $1.32 billion... 

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

July 18, 2005

From iMarketing News:

"Is Your Web Site a Sales-Winning Machine?"

Visit your competitors' Web sites as a means of gauging what techniques others in your industry might be using to win sales...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 15, 2005

From Internet News:

"Sunny Outlook Holds For e-Commerce"

Business operations on the Web to tally a 20 percent increase in e-commerce for 2005...

http://www.internetnews.com

 

July 14, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"How Effective Is Your Site Content?"

Understanding content's lifetime can greatly improve your ability to speak relevantly to existing customers and market effectively to new ones...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 13, 2005

From CIO Insight:

"Consumers to E-Commerce Sites:  Simplify or We Walk"

Not only are sites making bad assumptions about bandwidth and users' interest in pointless animated presentations, but they are starting to make bad assumptions about screen size...

http://www.cioinsight.com

 

July 12, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"What Are Your Best Customers Doing on Your Web Site?"

The answer has implications for not only your site's design but also your product offerings and overall marketing...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 12, 2005

From E-Commerce Times:

"How Small or Medium-Sized E-Businesses Can Compete"

The top 10 tips for running small- to medium-sized businesses on the Web...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

July 11, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"E-Mail vs. E-Newsletters:  Is There a Difference?"

Eight key elements for building a successful e-newsletter...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 7, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"A New Form of Local Search Optimization"

In local search, user-generated content is king...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 6, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"Internet Penetration:  Critical Mass, Then What?"

A maturing online industry is still interesting to watch as the composition and utility of the medium continue to evolve...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 5, 2005

From MarketingProfs.com:

"How to Build a Multilingual Web Site"

Don't just translate a few pages for your international audiences.  If they are to become customers, they will want access to as much information as your English-speaking visitors...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

July 4, 2005

From The New York Times:

"Blogging While Browsing"

Online merchants are starting to test Web logs in hopes of giving their stores more personality and giving customers a reason to return even when they're not in the mood to buy...

http://www.nytimes.com

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