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Sometimes it seems like giving consumers choices is what marketing is all about. It's part of why manufacturers and service providers put so much information online for consumers. Yet researchers at the University of Iowa recently found that people who have only a little information about a product are happier with that product than people who ha Read More

At SXSW, Mark Zuckerberg says the social network has yet to achieve its grand ambition. Plus, the lesson of the Beacon controversy
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Get the inside scoop from Guy Kawasaki of Garage Ventures & Truemors on Club E Network's new original series, "CLUB PROS", as Guy tells us what not to do when pitching a venture capitalist. Read More

From the page "Chuck clearly understands his readers and what they want to know. His blog— and this eNewsletter—are valuable and powerful because he really knows what he's talking about. We trust what he says and we're likely to accept his recommendations about products and services—even when they are his own. That is, because we trust what he s Read More

There's a brand new Google AdWords quality score metric, page load time. The new factor has just been added to the AdWords full dump of their help section. Page load time is the time it takes a web page to load in seconds. If the load time in slow, Google says it will impact your quality score. Why? Slow loading landing pages are bad for your use Read More

People, products and companies today all have two brands - online and off. The problem with this is that the online brand may or may not sync with their offline marketing messages. User generated media, blogs and discussion forums have changed the flow of information about your company forever. Here are some sites that can help you out. Read More

Nearly 1 in 10 consumers surveyed (9%) say they are influenced or greatly influenced by sponsored links when searching for products or services on the internet, according to an analysis of BIGresearch's Simultaneous Media Survey (SIMM 11).

Advertisers are allocating more dollars to sponsored links, and understanding who is influenced by them h Read More

From the page: "I got a phone call on Tuesday from a marketer who asked about running advertisements on Marketing Ninja. I haven't put up any advertisements since the redesign and the idea of running some new advertising appealed to me; however, our dear potential advertiser had a few missteps that ruined their sale that I thought I would share: Read More

From the page: "I came across a table in which direct marketers ranked which tactics generated the strongest ROI for customer acquisition. 34% of the respondents said direct mail gave them the strongest ROI. In comparison, only 8% picked search engine marketing -- and only 6% chose advertising on web sites." Read More

Finding evidence of fraud in a business doesn't always take the skills of super-sleuth. Sometimes there are simple giveaways that point to things being out of the ordinary. Let me demonstrate— Read More