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  • Lake Capital Makes Strategic Investment in Interactive Marketing Company MediaWhiz

    NEW YORK, NEW YORK/ September 26, 2005 /Businesswire/ – MediaWhiz Holdings, LLC, a leading online performance marketing company, today announced that private equity firm Lake Capital has made a strategic investment in the organization, helping to fuel its expansion.

  • PPAI to Honor Dennis Gorman with Service Award

    Dennis Gorman, a 25-year veteran of the promotional products industry, will be honored by The Promotional Products Association, during its Expo in Las Vegas in January. The 2006 PPAI Distinguished Service Award recognizes members who consistently share …

  • Datran Media Proving That Well-Executed Email Marketing Drives Business

    New York – September 15, 2005 – Email marketing, under tremendous scrutiny since the passage of the Can Spam law in 2003, has been regarded by many as a less-desirable means of driving business online since. One company, however, is using many of the…

  • Path to Maturity

    Since I have literally “grown up” working in the online ad industry, I know how important it is to work hard to become a well-rounded and mature sales person, media buyer, account manager or boss. Unfortunately, there are some people in this industry…

  • Looking for a Third Party to Manage Your Database?

    First of all, learn about their understanding and compliance with Can-Spam and applicable state and federal laws. Since database marketing has grown from its, somewhat modest, roots of the basis of the most direct marketing itself, advances in…

  • King Google

    Google Talk, Gmail, Desktop Search, Toolbar, Orkut, Froogle, the list of free Google services that actually add value to our everyday Internet experience goes on and on. Last week I discussed Google’s maturation from simply a search engine…

  • Trends Report – Following the Money, an Investment Recap, Part One

    It’s hard to say when it happened, but it did. Our industry, once the unwanted offspring of the media world, operates in obscurity no longer; investors and members of the “real” world look upon it and those of us in the trenches with admiration. We now…

  • Trends Report – Following the Money, an Investment Recap, Part Two

    Part One of Trends Report recapped six major investments, including five content driven sites totaling more than $2 billion in transaction prices. Four of those deals occurred in a span of less than four months. Yet, as impressive as that…

  • PopUp Blocker Solution

    Is PopUp Blocking Affecting Affiliate Earnings? Not anymore! There are products and services out there using DHTML to get the popup to pop. For example, “Instant Attention” is a service that you can use…

  • The Critical Coupon Code Step

    Affiliate marketing is becoming as competitive (and more affordable) as Pay Per Click marketing, Media Buys, email and other methods of marketing online. However, it takes more ingenuity and commitment from the merchants to make their affiliate…