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July 2007

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About Advertising

and Promotion

 

July 25, 2007

From DM News:

"Control Your E-Mail For Better Delivery and Results"

Don't be fooled by the seemingly negligible cost of sending more and more e-mail by continuing to send to invalid addresses...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 23, 2007

From E-Commerce Times:

"Blaring Ads Can Scare Off Customers"

Web experience is an interaction between one person and the computer.  Automatic audio ads bring other people and noise to the equation and that's why they are ultimately unsuccessful...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

July 19, 2007

From DM News:

"How to Be Relevant to Your E-mail Customers"

Relevance is easier to achieve if you can put customers into purchasing or lifestyle segments.  How can you create these segments?  There are three methods...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 18, 2007

From Email Insider:

"The Most Popular Email Days of the Year For Retailers"

The biggest email day of the year is actually the day after Christmas...

http://publications.mediapost.com

 

July 18, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"Why Segmentation Makes Sense"

Smart marketers are finding ways to sort massive mailing lists into smaller, targeted sublists based on common factors such as demographics and activity history to send campaigns that better speak to recipients' needs, wants, and interests...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 17, 2007

From iMarketing News:

"Seven Steps to Effective Search Marketing"

Ad copy dramatically influences volume, conversion and branding...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 16, 2007

From the New York Times:

"Reaching More Customers With a Simple Text Message"

Online retailers have found enticing success from early marketing efforts, as long as those initiatives are aimed at simply keeping themselves on the radar of customers as opposed to trying to prompt an immediate purchase or a visit to the company's Web site...

http://www.nytimes.com

 

July 13, 2007

From InternetRetailer.com:

"Avoiding the Disconnect Between E-mail Campaigns and Landing Pages"

Landing pages with images and messaging matching the e-mails that generated initial interest are better able to reinforce the brand and move e-mail recipients from clicking to converting...

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

July 9, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"The Three Levels of E-mail Perception"

Open rates are how you cross-check yourself against competitors, justify effective deliverability, and validate targeting and segmentation...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 4, 2007

From DM News:

"Don't Design - Or Redesign - Your E-mail Without Reading This"

If your recipient doesn't get your key message from what displays immediately in the preview pane, they probably won't invest the effort in reading your e-mail or taking your desired action...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 3, 2007

From eMarketer:

"When Bad Ads Harm Good E-Commerce"

Internet users are prepared to forgo elements of their privacy to reap the benefits of participating in the online world, but if the costs begin to outweigh the benefits, consumers will opt out...

http://www.emarketer.com

About Customer

Service

 

July 31, 2007

From MarketingProfs.com:

"How to Write a Strong Sales Message and Still Achieve Risk Reversal"

Your risk reversal message is there to counterbalance a perfectly natural anxiety that people feel about buying online...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

July 24, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"The Three Moments of Truth Web Site Checklist"

The second moment of truth is all about actual experience and interaction.  How engaging is the site?

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 12, 2007

From eMarketer:

"Online Retailers Take Stock"

Shoppers at three-quarters of online retail Web sites can see if an item is in stock when using a virtual shopping cart...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

July 11, 2007

From Business 2.0:

"Click Here for the Upsell"

Online shopping recommendations are the Internet's answer to the old-fashioned upsell...

http://money.cnn.com

 

July 10, 2007

From E-Commerce Times:

"Shopping 3.0:  Embracing Change in the New E-Commerce Era"

Shopping in the 3.0 era will move from a solitary, utilitarian task built around convenience to a destination activity...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

July 9, 2007

From eWeek.com:

"Online Shoppers Taking Longer To Buy"

Retailers should think of shopping carts as convenient shopping tools, and encourage shoppers to save their searches for future return visits...

http://www.eweek.com

About Webstore

Management

 

July 31, 2007

From DM News:

"Online Ads Change Consumers' Shopping Behavior"

Pre-shoppers spend an average of 41 percent more in stores compared to consumers not exposed to online advertising...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 30, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"Three SEO Epiphanies"

Search is not a linear, singular behavior...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 30, 2007

From iMarketing News:

"Multichannel Marketing Online Through Brand Advocates"

An effective search strategy is aligned with the longer buying cycle and goes beyond a click-to-purchase message...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 27, 2007

From eMarketer:

"Cookies Confuse Some Consumers"

Although US Internet users said deleting cookies was important to them, many did not even know how to do so...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

July 27, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"Widget Analytics"

Of paramount importance to the success of decentralized commerce, however, are the analytics we're able to track...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 20, 2007

From eMarketer:

"Children Shopping Online"

Over three-quarters of US children ages 8 to 14 have completed an online shopping transaction...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

July 20, 2007

From InternetRetailer.com:

"Back to School Means Back to the Web For a Growing Number of Parents"

Over 20% of parents say they plan to buy their kids' school outfits and supplies online this year, up 40% from last year...

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

July 18, 2007

From MarketingProfs.com:

"Seven Steps for Creating a Powerful Jump Page That Sells"

If you don't catch the attention of the browser with a big, bold headline that is relevant, nothing else matters...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

July 17, 2007

From DM News:

"Vertical Search Trends"

With staggeringly more Web pages appearing every day, there is a growing desire for vertical search sites, which provide specialized information from authoritative sources...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 16, 2007

From eWeek.com:

"The More We're Told, the Less We Know"

You have to know your audience quite well before you choose the criteria by which you'll get to know them much better...

http://www.eweek.com

 

July 13, 2007

From iMarketing News:

"When It Comes to Optimizing Your Web Site, Don't Forget to Test the Obvious First"

Make your submit buttons noticeable enough so that if visitors are preoccupied they will still be able to identify the submit and click...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 13, 2007

From MarketingProfs.com:

"The Law of Dissatisfaction:

How to Motivate Prospects"

If ever there were a red flag telling people to stay away from your company, it's a Web site presentation that includes the following...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

July 12, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"Local Site Targeting"

Targeting potential customers through local sites decreases the danger of mistaken IP targeting due to server location...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 11, 2007

From MarketingProfs.com:

"Why Best Buddy Emails Work So Well.  Sometimes"

Build pace and momentum into every email and sales page you write...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

July 10, 2007

From InternetRetailer.com:

"Canadian Web Shoppers Trust Social Networking"

60% of online shoppers rate customer reviews posted on an e-commerce site as their most trusted source of information...

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

July 10, 2007

From iMarketing News:

"Creative Optimization for Search Success"

By relying only on brand terms, you risk missing out on a lot of potential customers...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 9, 2007

From E-Commerce Times:

"Getting Search-Savvy to Land a Premium Results Spot"

Think like the people looking up for whatever you offer...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

July 6, 2007

From InformationWeek:

"Hispanics To Drive Online Shopping Growth"

Hispanic online shoppers will spend $12.8 billion on retail products in 2007, 11% of all online retail spending...

http://www.informationweek.com

 

July 5, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"How to Sell More:  Dynamic Content for Local Search"

Local merchants' best opportunity to promote their businesses on the Web is to optimize their directory listings to meet changing consumer needs...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 5, 2007

From MarketingProfs.com:

"Web Sites:  Designed by Dogs, Managed by Cats"

A key danger in Web site design is over-ambition...

http://www.mpdailyfix.com

 

July 4, 2007

From The Globe and Mail:

"Online Buyers Scouring for Deals"

Online buyers are early adopters of social networking such as writing or reading blogs, customer reviews, and community websites...

http://www.globeinvestor.com

 

July 3, 2007

From ClickZ.com:

"Web Analytics:  Asking the Five Ws"

Spend time training people and making data part of existing meetings and discussions around the Web channel...

http://www.clickz.com

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