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Date Archive: July 2008

RKG at the Shop.org Annual Summit

This year’s gathering is being held September 15-17 in Las Vegas. RKG will be leading roundtables and providing 1:1 Website Critiques. Hope to see you there.

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Tame Your Inbox And Increase Your Productivity

Merlin Mann at Google on managing email overload.

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Effective Checkout Pages: “Voucher” vs. “Coupon” Language at CustomInk

While savvy shoppers probably recognize “voucher” as a synonym for “coupon”, “voucher” may avoid the flow-destroying, avoid-being-a-sucker obligatory google coupon search. Nobody wants the nagging doubt they may overpaid.

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Great HR Phone Screen Question: What Skills In A Team Member Would Best Complement The Candidate?

Asking about what would complement someone best — what a nice and effective way to discuss someone’s less strong areas.

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Search Engines From The Engineering Perspective: Notes on MSN’s migration from API v4 to v 5.1

Our thanks to the MSN engineers for the many calls and emails clarifying the V5.1 API docs. These are places we hit snags.

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RSS Is About Content, Not Presentation

RSS is about content, not presentation.

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Social Networking Is Not A Business — But It Might Be Soon

“In social networks, on the other hand, users show up to find friends; ads are, at best, irrelevant to that goal.” Byran Urstadt, Tech Review

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Rising Gas Prices and Your Marketing Message: Can Fear Persuade?

Some thoughts on a recent Shop.org thread: should online retailers pitch their channel as a money-saving response to that increasingly costly drive to the mall?

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PPC Bid Management: Requirement #3, The Feedback Loop

Part 3 of a 10 part series on the attributes of top-tier bid management systems. Today we focus on the power of feeding post-sale information into your bidding system.

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Selling Via Content: What’s Your Opinion of Dell Lounge?

Dell’s direct marketing has always been impressive, but this recent full page branding ad in the New Yorker left me befuddled.

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Times They Are A’ Changing: Larry Joseloff On Affiliate Marketing

It is an important time for the affiliate industry: alot of retailers are starting to question where affiliate marketing fits in their world. — Larry Joseloff, Shop.org

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June 2008 Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Paid Search Market Share

Looking at our agency’s client base in aggregate, last month Google received 79% of our clients’ ad dollars. Yahoo received 17%. Microsoft received 5%.

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Happy July 4th

Softball, mysql, and Bush.

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The Perils Of Computer-Generated PPC Keyword Lists

George Michie wrote a solid SEL post on the perils of overly-automated keyword generating systems.

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