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Monday, October 02, 2006

Direct Marketing Trend: Self-Destructing Email?

Lawyers use self-destructing email technology to protect the privacy of their clients, but could the same technology be used by online marketers to improve client relations? >>

Monday, October 02, 2006

Are Boomers Next Cash Cow?

Monster.com’s founder has launched a new web portal, geared strictly to baby boomers, and investors are taking notice. The largest constituency on the web, so far elders have been an untapped market, and it appears, one that is ripe for advertisers. >>

Friday, September 29, 2006

Standards Group Developed For PPC Realm

A standards group has been created by Click Forensics to develop pay-per-click quality standards for the search marketing industry. >>

Friday, September 29, 2006

July Local Searches Up 43%

A new study out by comScore indicates that performing a search for a local business or service drives consumer action. In the study, nearly 50% of all local searchers visited a local merchant as the result of searching for their service. >>

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Is Larger Online Ad Slowdown Coming?

Yahoo’s dismal outlook for financial and automotive online sales could be expanding to a broader online advertising slowdown, according to the Financial Times. >>

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Online ABC Shows Draw Advertisers

Thirty-five advertisers, some of the biggest in business, have signed on to advertise when ABC begins broadband streaming of prime time shows next month. >>

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Reverse Targeting: Boost Conversions?

To date, most online targeting has been to sift through the millions of daily hits to find the one or two consumers who will convert into sales, but by reversing the target could marketers raise even more revenue? >>

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Marketing Gets Customer Inspired

If you thought big companies like Mastercard or Emerald Nuts were crazy for letting customers create ads, you were right. They were crazy. Like a fox. >>

Monday, September 25, 2006

Click Fraud Runs Up To USD1 Billion

A recent article published by Business Week shows that click fraud leads to damage of roughly USD1 billion per year. Online advertiser confidence in this marketing option is waning. >>

Monday, September 25, 2006

Email: Still Viable?

The short answer is yes. But for those online marketers still utilizing the medium as their main source of online revenue, the answer isn’t as clear. >>

Monday, September 25, 2006

Is there a way to end click fraud?

You’ve seen their dizzying advertisements and probably bit the Pay-Per-Click ad phenomenon, but more and more online marketers are finding their PPC rates growing by leaps and bounds and their income from PPC ads staying at subterranean levels. >>

Monday, September 25, 2006

Microsoft Streamlining Ads

Wanting to make ad buying simpler for more advertisers, Microsoft is launching a new program that will allow media buyers to purchase ad space across the board. >>

Monday, September 25, 2006

Is Ad Spending Really Going To Decline?

Search giant Yahoo’s shocking news last week that both brand and search advertisement spending is slowing down, has not convinced all opinion leaders in the marketing world. Several decision makers in large companies have indicated they managed to get authorization for bigger budgets the second half of this year. >>

Friday, September 22, 2006

Google Is Not Just For Text Advertisements

Google is now turning to Marketers at Madison Avenue to convince them that Google is not just for text advertisements anymore. The company has bigger plans now. >>

Friday, September 22, 2006

Jumpstart Not Phased By Yahoo Report

Yahoo may have put fear into many online automotive and financial advertisers with predictions of softness in those markets, but online advertiser Jumpstart Automotive Media isn’t biting. >>