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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Retailers Not Measuring Up

Many online retailers are shooting themselves in the foot because of lax measuring processes, according to a new survey from WebTrends. >>

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Boomers Have Money, Gen Y Has Influence

Want to influence shoppers to buy your brand? Revenues falling even with a targeted search campaign and building buzz through social networks? Then you may not have the right people involved. Kids are the influencers today. >>

Monday, October 09, 2006

Peapod: Online Sales Of Health Food Soar

Organic food sales over the past few years have more than doubled and the increased competition for a share of the market is resulting in lower prices. The offline trend is replicated online. Big retailers are buying into the e-trend, including Peapod, Giant’s online outfit. >>

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

Harris Interactive: Glitches In Online Transactions Lead To Billions In Lost Business

US research company Harris Interactive has found that consumers face considerable problems conducting online transactions and opt out of deals as a result. E-commerce companies stand to lose sales totalling an estimated $60 billion through 2010, the Rochester based company believes. >>

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

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. >>

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Forbes.com Jumps On Podbridge Ad-Wagon

If you wondered how advertising would work with new mediums like pod-casts and such, just watch Forbes.com. The company has bought into Podbridge’s advertising platform lock stock and barrel. >>

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Organic vs. Paid Search: Is One Better?

WebSideStory has finished a study that compares organic search returns to paid search returns. The big surprise? The conversion rates were nearly identical. >>

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. >>

Friday, September 22, 2006

October Brings New Wind To Ask.com Paid Search

Ask.com is hoping an update to the company's paid search program will give them a larger share of the paid search market. Beginning in October, IAC’s Ask.com search portal will revamp the paid search functions, and the company is also reconsidering their current PPC ad partnership with Google. >>

Thursday, September 21, 2006

TV Network Taps Online Marketplace

The Scripps Network is opening a new kind of mall, and it could pave the way for small e-tailers to create their own niche market. >>

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