November 17, 2008 30 46 Issue of DMNews

Main Feature

Complement analytics with consumer input

Web analytics has expanded to include surveys that provide direct customer feedback about online behavior.

Vertical Feature

Case studies in healthy living

Products and services geared towards health and wellness are often viewed as a luxury expense. Lauren Bell discovers how marketers promote their value and justify ...

Analysis

Organic growth is harder to come by

Recent results posted by Whole Foods Market have stirred some doubts about the health of the organic food market in today's economy.

News Articles

Circuit City files for bankruptcy protection

Circuit City Stores Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and has eliminated ...

Agency.com sues iCrossing for $19.5M

Omnicom'sAgency.comhas filed a $19.5 million lawsuit against digital and search agency iCrossing, claiming it stole several of Agency.com's key clients and top executives when CEO ...

The Kahala taps ClickSquared for database, e-mail marketing

The Kahala Hotel and Resort has signed ClickSquared Inc. to help build its interactive relationship marketing communications program. With ClickSquared, the Kahala will focus on ...

Enfatico advocate and Dell VP Jones departs

Casey Jones, the VP of global marketing at Dell who spearheaded the effort to create its own in-house agency, Enfatico, has left his position.

Loyalty programs work as one

Lodging conglomerate InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has become the first hotel to join the Global Points Exchange (GPX) on Points.com. GPX, which has been operating ...

Service loss may not affect DHL proposal

The announcement by Deutsche Post World Net, parent company of DHL Express, that it will discontinue its US-only air and ground services, resulting in the ...

Meow Mix delivers with games

DelMonte's Meow Mix brand cat food has debuted a new interactive campaign to go along with its "Think Like a Cat" game show and to ...

Healthcare much alive for Google

Pharmaceutical companies have been slow to fully embrace digital marketing, but healthcare-related digital strategies are poised to gain momentum in 2009, according to Mary Ann ...

Social marketing helps The Limited push new site

The Limited is promoting its recently launched e-commerce store with a new viral marketing contest. The contest, which is being promoted at The Limited's new ...

Ride out a slowdown at your job

In my nearly 20 years as an executive recruiter in direct marketing, this is the third economic downturn that I've experienced. Recessions are never pleasant, ...

Optimized

Advertisers shouldn't fear tuning back in to linear television

Despite what some believe, television content is anything but dead. Earlier this year, Nielsen reported that even in today's digitized world, the average American consumer ...

Nailed It

DMNews talks with Sam Decker, CMO at Bazaarvoice

Sam Decker, CMO of Bazaarvoice, discusses how user-generated online reviews worked to increase Office Depot's paid search revenue

Editorial

Measurement, analytics tools must keep up with media

As the latest in a series of steps that has changed the use of video and long-form footage online, Google opened YouTube up to search ...

Op-Ed

Home buyers can be counted on

It is an indisputable fact that new move creates new needs. From new furnishings to home renovations, new movers spend more than the average consumer ...

Gloves Off

What is most effective in tough times?

The rough economy and tight budgets may force companies to streamline their marketing efforts — and digital becomes very tempting. Our experts prioritize strategies to ...