How do you handle the customers who complain? Nick says you should love them up, because they can be among your most loyal customers if you respond to...
View articleYou can get away with being a tad less than truthful if you're a telemarketer, write direct mail, or hawk your waves on radio or TV. But if you step o...
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View articleWhen Nick and Marco sit down to create a web site they disagree. Nick sees the site through the eyes of a "newbie." Marco has the perspective of a sea...
View articleWhat's originality worth on the Net? In Nick's mind...a whole lot. Especially if you are one of the biggest portals... which grow blander and less dif...
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It is widely accepted that e-mail is the most popular Internet application. Research done by The Yankee Group found that there are 263 million e-mailb...
View articleMust an offline and online presence be mutually exclusive? Or can they co-exist beautifully, fully integrated and vested in the other's success? Nick ...
View articleYou might say to Nick, "Hey, smarty-pants, if I'm going to back off from the edge, how am I supposed to compete with the big guys?" His recommendation...
View articleEmail marketing is indeed the killer app for the new year. But only if it is done right. Steve Markowitz offers up the key components of effective ema...
View articleIs Nick Usborne the only one among us irritated by the endless discussions about the "death" of banner ads? Banner ads aren't dead...they are simply p...
View articleTwo companies...two radically different approaches to dealing with customer complaints. Which one do you want to do business with? Read More...
View articleLet's talk about the concept of our "email intimacy"...and use it to show how e-mail marketing can screw up your online brand. Needless to say, this w...
View articleNick Usborne loves his emailbox...his discussion lists, his ezines and newsletters, his notes from his family and friends and colleagues.... The conne...
View articleWell, the much-anticipated holiday '98 season is here. The season that has made online merchants eager to realize the growth in online buying over las...
View articleHow good are we at welcoming newcomers to the internet? Yes, we have those "First Time Visitors" buttons on our sites. But we could do a whole lot bet...
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