Month: March 2010

• News Briefs

  JOS A. BANK CLOTHIERS: has brought back its popular “Risk Free” promotion where the company will refund the price of a suit or sportcoat if the purchaser loses his job

• InfoGroup’s Low Sale Price Raises Eyebrows

  Legal challenges started within 90 minutes of infoGroup officially announcing it had been sold. Details about these challenges, as well as what founder Vinod C. Gupta

• Electronics, Apparel, Computers Will Spur Online Retail Growth: Forrester

  The economy may limp, but online retail sales will leap, bounding ahead by 10% annually through 2014, according to a new research brief from Forrester.

• Online Spending To Lap Print: Outsell

  Spending on digital and online advertising and marketing will overtake print in 2010, according to projections from Outsell Inc.

• Barnes & Noble Hires Shar As Emerging Content Leader

  Barnes & Noble, Inc., has named Jonathan Shar as general manager of the digital newsstand and emerging content operations within Barnes & Noble.com.

• Social Media Agency DEI Hires Chad Alger

  DEI Worldwide, a social media marketing agency, has hired Chad Alger to serve as VP of strategy for its Chicago office.

• Will Social Media Replace E-Mail?

  Suggesting that social media will be the death of e-mail is akin to suggesting that the advent of airplane travel in the 1930s meant the end of the automobile. Of course, nothing of the sort happened.

• InfoGroup Sold To CCMP

  InfoGroup has been sold to private equity firm CCMP Capital.

• Email

  Slogging Toward E-mail Metrics Standardization

  Discrepancies in defining the metrics used to measure e-mail marketing has led the Email Experience Council to create a list of standardized definitions.

• Online Travel Firm Orbitz Names Two To Board

  Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. has named Martin Brand and Brad Gerstner to its board of directors, effective immediately.