Marketing

Make Policies Positive

Every now and then, I get really inspired by a great piece of copywriting. Over the weekend, I…

Targeted E-mail: A Case in Point

Permission-based targeted e-mail is extremely useful in building relationships with customers. As a communicative medium and marketing channel,…

Welcome to Spam Week

With the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosting a three-day “Spam Forum” beginning Wednesday, lawmakers are using the spam…

AOL, Infinity in Content-Swap Promo

Call it an embedded cross-promotional content deal between Infinity Broadcasting’s old-style radio and IP-based radio within ISP America…

In-House Market Research

In my last column, I mentioned using new employees to help take a fresh look at your site,…

Brand Is in the Details

A reader sent me an e-mail that read, “Pop-up ads… as soon as one pops up I leave…

Case Study: eDiets

If there’s a single factor responsible for making eDiets the leading weight loss/fitness site, it’s the company’s aggressive…

Who Are Your Best Customers?

Do you know who your best customers are? (Some of you will admit you don’t. You probably attribute…

QAS Lands CCSC

QAS, a Boston maker of software to help companies manage mailing lists, has won a contract with Consumer…

A Unified Virgin

On the surface, I love Virgin Atlantic Airways. It succeeded in setting itself apart from every other boring…

Performics e-Marketing Suite

By Bonny Georgia Whether you’re campaigning online or off, marketing efforts fall into two major categories – strategies…

A New Marketing Model for IM

By Todd Tweedy For many marketers, the explosive growth of real-time communication isn’t raising questions about whether to…

EPIC FastForward

By Bonny L. Georgia It’s not enough to launch an e-store and wait for shoppers to empty your…

Borrow Bucks, Get Some Miles

Online loan operation LendingTree Inc. struck a mileage incentive marketing deal with four of the nation’s top airlines…

RFM, Part 3

This is the final article of a three-part series discussing RFM models. If you don’t know what RFM…

Virtumundo Sues List Sellers

E-mail marketer and Web publisher Virtumundo is aiming to salvage its image by training its legal guns on…

Confusing the Consumer

Automakers should be honing their e-initiatives advises research firm Jupiter Media Metrix. Last year Forrester Research chided automakers…

e-centives Acquires BrightStreet

Online direct marketing firm e-centives, Inc., has completed its acquisition of the assets of BrightStreet, Inc., a developer…

Unica: Grow Slow, Aim High

A decade after its founding, Unica, a Lincoln, Mass., maker of marketing software, is opening its first overseas…