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  • How Soon is Now?

    The commercial potential of the Web once appeared boundless. It took an implosion of dot-coms who might have caught Wall Street’s fancy, but never had

  • Buy.com’s 2.0 Makeover

    Last October Buy.com launched an extensively remodeled Web site. The avowed mission? To at least keep pace with

  • Getting In

    If you have any doubts about how thoroughly geeky I can be and believe me, I can provide testimonials from family and friends please consider the nerd

  • Hire Standards

    If you have online marketing experience, get your resume in shape. The headhunters may be comin’ a callin’. A recent report by The Creative Group shows

  • What the Heck Did He Just Say?

    Man, the bureaucratledygook coming out of the Direct Marketing Association was sure thick this summer.

  • DM Ink

    Should job candidates bearing tattoos hide their colors? Yes, because such illustrations risk biasing potential hirers, according to research from search media firm Vault Inc.

    Direct marketers know differently. To a DMer, a tattoo is the outer-envelope window that hints at the freemium of a potential employee’s soul.

  • A Civilizing Effect

    Not only has the report-spam button become one of the Internet service providers’ top tools in the fight against spam, it’s apparently had a dramatic civilizing effect on the relationship between legitimate, permission-based e-mail marketers and inbox providers.

  • Homewood on the Range

    This issue I begin a semi-regular feature giving

  • DHL Ad Doesn’t Go Anywhere

    Bill Bernbach, Rosser Reeves and David Ogilvy surely were the three greatest brand-advertising thinkers. And as most of my readers know by now, I consider David Ogilvy the greatest of them all.

  • ZAP THIS

    The advent of TiVo, enabling television viewers to zap past the commercials, has left advertisers seeking new ways to use the medium. Enter product placement,