Retail Comparison Shopping
Tuesday, 24 July 2007
TheFind has developed a remarkable comparison shopping engine, presenting product listings in a visually appealing, “shopping” familiar design. A female bent puts this vertical engine squarely in a niche market yet their unique approach to comparison shopping is the draw: all but guaranteeing comprehensiveness by searching “every store online” to products, brands, and stores that
- Published in Comparison Shopping, Vertical Search
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Marketing with Zvents – SEO and Shopping in One
Friday, 22 June 2007
The announcement has been made, not long ago I left HP to join the brilliant group of folks creating a remarkable event search technology at Zvents. Considering yourselves Mr. and Ms. America (not Mr. and Ms. Marketer), I’d be remiss (and not doing my job) to not mention that Zvents is where you want to
- Published in Brand Marketing, Comparison Shopping, Display Advertising, Fun, Local, Natural Search / SEO, Search, Vertical Search, Web 2.0
Free Shipping is Not Important
Monday, 23 April 2007
I’ve been out of the office for the past week, welcoming my second daughter home. She arrived 9 days ago and, of course, my mind still turns to the industry that keeps us all employed. As you can imagine, we’ve started receiving gifts and presents from friends and family through FedEx, UPS, and the USPS;
- Published in Brand Marketing, Comparison Shopping, Fun, Insights / Research
Throw Hitwise on the Acquisition List
Thursday, 19 April 2007
Experian, the company I know best for their free credit reports, acquired Hitwise today for approximately $240m; adding to our growing list of recent acquisitions. Credit is by no means all for which they are known as the parent brand of well known online names including Lowermybills.com, cheetahMail, and a favorite from my old stomping
- Published in Analytics, Comparison Shopping, Insights / Research, Vendors / Agencies
Google’s Pay-per-action Model Needs to Track Performance
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
The big news of the day seems to be Google’s Pay-per-action model with blogs citing the potential threat to the affiliate space this “new” advertising option presents (another from Search Engine Journal). For years, we’ve considered Adsense itself a (if not THE) threat to affiliates as a model in which publishers are merely paid for
- Published in Affiliate Marketing, Analytics, Display Advertising, Google
A Better Affiliate Model?
Friday, 02 March 2007
On occasion, I stray from my expertise into the shady world of Affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing remains one of the least understood and most valuable marketing opportunities. I’m wrapping up some research now that shows that of all online opportunities, affiliates are leveraged second only to search by customers who buy OFFLINE. (Is the all-caps
- Published in Affiliate Marketing