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By offering free shipping on Internet orders, not only do your potential customers benefit from shopping from home but they are also not being penalized for doing so by incurring delivery charges. Amazon has recently dropped its minimum order value by two-thirds in the run up to Christmas. To make the most of your free delivery offer, ensure t  More...
When people start talking about communication delivery as being cheap or free, it's often indicative of the amount of effort they tend to expend. This is because the perception of FREE skews how you think about the tool. It's one of those "just because you can, doesn't mean you should" things.  More...
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is going digital on bulk mail service. Unique scannable bar codes will start to show up in May 2009 on business- and first-class mail and packages. The codes should speed up processing of that mail and will allow businesses as well as post offices to track the movement and delivery of each piece sent.  More...
Return Path's Q2 2008 Reputation Benchmark Report (pdf) found e-mails sent from "legitimate" e-mail servers averaged a delivery rate of 56 percent. 20 percent were rejected; 8 percent filtered out of the inbox. The rest — 16 percent — were bounces. So nearly half of the time, e-mail marketers' messages don't get through. But there are way  More...
It isn’t often that we see a real, tangible result from the assorted bureaucrats, technocrats, plutocrats and republicrats that scurry around the halls of government. That probably explains why the various branches of the U.S. government get such low confidence ratings while the military, which thrives on concrete results, is at the top of the rec  More...
This type of blogging is the quickest way to establish your own community of loyal followers, within 30 days.  More...
The slow economy spells some unexpected breaks for shippers. Eager to grab bigger shares of a market that has all but stopped growing, FedEx, UPS and DHL will duke it out, negotiating contracts to reduce rates, despite an official 6.9% hike this year. Walk-ins, however, will pay the full fare. Package delivery services won't trumpet the price  More...
Internet users don't even see most of the ads on a Web page, particularly if they're below the fold--whether the site is a highly trafficked media property or a niche blog. That's according to new research from MarketingSherpa. The marketing research and consulting firm commissioned Eyetools to run an eye-tracking study with the goal of fin  More...
Online customers want in-store pick-up. But what if you don't have a store? When in-store pick-up isn't available, for instance with online-only retailers, a new service from Shopatron can be used. The Shopatron platform helps etailers connect with brick-and-mortar stores in the consumer's area so that practically any item ordered online can be  More...
A coalition of consumer privacy groups is expected to propose the online equivalent of the Do Not Call list, reports Advertising Age. Groups including the Center for Democracy and Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation and others, have announced a press conference for today. The groups are expected to propose changes to how advertisers disclos  More...
When selling to a group, you need to be able to present your ideas clearly and persuasively. Here are some suggestions that may help you in that rega  More...