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Monitor Your Brand With HowSociable.com

Monitor your brand across 22 social media sites.

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Aligning Print and Web for Improved Customer Experience: September MCM Column

Get perspectives from Patagonia and Wine Enthusiast in the September “Effective Website” column in Multichannel Merchant.

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An Amazon Without Tabs? Downright Wrong, or Finally Right? You Decide

Yep, the site that made tabs a ubiquitous e-commerce navigation convention is at least considering making them go away.
But of course, Amazon always used tabs incorrectly, anyway. Right?

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Online Marketing Exec Ed Course at UVA’s Darden Biz School

I’m helping organize an open enrollment executive education course on online marketing at UVA’s Darden School this fall. Come learn about online marketing from the people, companies, and academics shaping tomorrow’s web.

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News: Details of Microsoft’s New Analytics Tool Leaked

Microsoft’s new site analytics tool was mentioned at the Shop.org workshop, just a day before a few screenshots were released.

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Subscribe and Save beta at Amazon

As a marketer, wouldn’t you love to receive permission to charge your customer’s credit card for a new order once a month? Or at least every 2 months? Or three?
How much of your margin would you be willing to sacrifice for this frequency?

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Video: Social Networking in Plain English

The new Common Craft video on Social Networking will remind you that independent of any media or site, the real connections happen between people.

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The 7-Minute Website Checkup

Can you evaluate the effectiveness of your website in a mere seven minutes? This exercise can’t approach the value of a comprehensive third-party review, but it can help you brush up on usability and conversion basics.

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Interview: Michael Crandell, Celebros Site Search

Celebros provides site search, navigation and merchandising solutions for e-commerce websites. Recently, we had a chance to interview Celebros CEO Michael Crandell about site search in the world of online retail.

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Google Browser Sync, Web Analytics and Advanced Features

Rebecca Lieb’s article on Google Browser Sync champions its potential for improving web measurement but bemoans the likelihood of its adoption.

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Larry Becker: Effective Websites Seminar, DMA, February 20

I’ll be giving a DMA Virtual Seminar on increasing site usability and conversion on Tuesday February 20, at 1 PM EST.

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