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June 2002

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About Advertising

and Promotion

 

June 26, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"What Is the Web Good For, Anyway"

The Web can complement offline media and play an important role in an integrated marketing strategy...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 19, 2002

From DM News:

"Subject Lines That Get E-Mail Read"

Urgent, unique, ultra-specific and useful...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

June 12, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"When Customer Service Becomes Spam"

Once they perceive that they are being spammed, customers typically will unsubscribe from every type of e-mail the offending company offers...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

June 12, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"HTML Versus Text"

Send HTML.  Offer text as an option.  Above all, send your subscribers the format they asked for...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 11, 2002

From DM News:

"Getting the Most Out of E-Newsletters"

A winning e-newsletter is light on the sales pitch and heavy on the "news you can use."  It provides content that informs, entertains and solves problems...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

June 10, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Email SWOT"

Email can be an adjunct to any other medium to reinforce message, product announcement and seminar dates, or trade show information...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 6, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Integrate!"

When implementing an integrated, multichannel marketing effort, there are several important points to keep in mind...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 3, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Online Ads:  What Works, What Doesn’t"

Study after study shows consumers are browsing less. They go online with a goal in mind. If they want to buy something, they head online to buy something...

http://www.clickz.com

About Customer

Service

 

June 25, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Setting Your Site on Seniors (Part 2)"

Lessons learned from those who have bravely ventured into Boomerland and beyond...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 19, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"A Solution to the Multichannel Challenge"

Customers expect a company’s systems and processes to recognize them across multiple channels and diverse contact streams...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 11, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Set Your Sites on Seniors (Part 1)"

Always put decision-making power in the hands of senior users.  The invitation "You decide" is a lot more compelling to them than directives spouted by a 20-something...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 7, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Think Before You Send"

Identifying your business is partly about how you view yourself and partly about how your customers view your business...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 5, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Customer Loyalty on a Shoestring"

People want good products, good service, dependability - all the things that inspire loyalty...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

June 5, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"How to Add Personality to a Corporate Voice"

Tell the visitor she is dealing with individuals, not some faceless corporation…

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 3, 2002

From the New York Times:

"Privacy Is Common Issue Online"

If you make it easy for customers to exercise their privacy rights, they will do it...

http://www.nytimes.com

About Webstore

Management

 

June 28, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Web Analytics No Longer Means Web Rage"

Examining what works and what doesn’t directly influences the bottom line...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 27, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"How Big Is E-Commerce?"

Online commerce has continued to gain momentum this year despite an overall weak economy...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

June 26, 2002

From InternetNews:

"Consumer Confidence in Web Rebounds"

It is clear that e-commerce and the Internet are becoming more and more a part of American society, both as a mass medium and a standard shopping channel...

http://www.internetnews.com

 

June 24, 2002

From the New York Times:

"Use of Internet Is More Active at High Speed"

People who use high-speed services to connect to the Internet from home have a much more active relationship with the online world than those who dial up to it over a regular phone line...

http://www.nytimes.com

 

June 24, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Permission Is About Your Relationship"

In every email you send, remind recipients of your relationship to them and why they’re receiving the message...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 21, 2002

From InternetNews:

"Trust Is in the Details"

Little things, such as misspellings, could be detrimental to a site’s credibility...

http://www.internetnews.com

 

June 21, 2002

From eMarketer:

"Site Design a Key Factor for Net Users"

If you cannot attract a consumer, you cannot get her or him to conduct online transactions...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

June 21, 2002

From DM News:

"7 Ways to Improve E-Mail Messages"

Ask those who care most - your customers, prospects or other people receiving the e-mail from you

http://www.dmnews.com

 

June 21, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"U-G-L-Y, You Ain’t Got No Alibi"

The number one rule is a design is bad if it confuses your customer in any way...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 20, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"’A’ Is for Append"

Integrate email acquisition into all your customer and prospect touch points...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 19, 2002

From eMarketer:

"More E-Shopping at Work, Less Time for Frills"

The primary reason for shopping online at work is the faster connection speed at the office...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

June 19, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Building a Consumer Brand on the Internet"

Meet the consumer where he or she is...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

June 19, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Seven Skills You Need to Manage Your Web Site"

Getting the right content to the right reader at the right time at the right cost...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 18, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Getting Personalization Right"

Make sure that any personalized communication with a customer is targeted as precisely as possible...

http://www.crmdaily.com

 

June 14, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"The Color of Money (and Your Site)"

A business online has very real constraints: credibility, legibility, navigation, meaning, download time, browser compatibility, and more.  Ignore these and go wild with a cutting-edge design exercise, and you’ll delight a few design aficionados but alienate the majority of customers and prospects...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 13, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Online Sales Profitable for Half of all Retailers"

Retailers are learning more cost-effective ways to find those shoppers who are clearly out there in mass numbers online...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

June 13, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"A Unified Voice"

Every customer touch point needs to reinforce your brand and your voice...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 12, 2002

From CNET:

"Online Retailers Continue Strong Growth"

Consumer adoption of the online channel has reached critical mass and retailers have been able to respond by turning this trend into profits...

http://news.com.com

 

June 11, 2002

From InternetNews:

"The Power Of Search Engines"

Make changes within your Web site so that it can help you do better in a search engine’s free ‘editorial’ results...

http://www.internetnews.com

 

June 11, 2002

From the Yankee Group:

"Why You Should Be Tracking Customer Behavior Online"

Companies don’t just need to measure site success, they must also analyze what is happening at their Web site in order to make actionable business decisions that will help increase not only the ROI of the Web site, but the ROI of the entire business...

http://www.yankeegroup.com

 

June 7, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Friendship Sells"

Users who post messages to a site’s forum or contribute product reviews visit that site nine times more often...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

June 6, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Listen to the Audience"

It’s worthwhile to sacrifice flash for functionality...

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 4, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Creating Traffic With Creative Branding"

Far too many brand builders believe traffic is secondary to site development.  Wrong!

http://www.clickz.com

 

June 4, 2002

From CNET:

"Design Lacking in E-tail Sites"

Usability has to be there at every step," Nielsen said. "If one step has a big problem, you’ve lost the entire order and people will go elsewhere...

http://news.com.com

 

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