Online Ad Predictions for 2012: Thoughts on ROI, Privacy, and Yes, More Acquisitions

By Jen Agustin
Saturday, January 7, 2012
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The Key to Unlocking the Potential of Your DR Programs: Branding

By David Karel
Friday, September 23, 2011
As marketers, we now have the ability to impact the direction of our respective businesses like never before. We’ve entered the age of the revenue marketer where we strive to tie every marketing dollar invested to revenue contribution -- and we look to test, measure, and learn from everything we do. We also now have the systems to help accomplish this and really shine in our roles.

But, we may have a blind spot.

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A Jobs Solution: In-Shoring and Education

By Russell Glass
Friday, September 9, 2011

Over the past few decades, largely because of innovation in the technology that powers everything from agriculture to manufacturing to the Internet, the United States has become increasingly more efficient at producing just about everything. This efficiency has allowed companies to do more with fewer people, thus reducing labor needs, decreasing their costs and increasing their profits, dividends and/or spending on R&D. At the same time, the access to global labor forces has...

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Online Privacy and Do Not Track: Racing towards Monopolies and Consumer Confusion

By Russell Glass
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Here is a memo I sent today to the FTC in response to their request for comments. Please comment to let me know how you feel about the issue, or reply directly to the FTC here: https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/consumerprivacyreport/

There is a Need to Restore Focus on Transparency and Control for Consumers, Fairness in the Marketplace for Businesses

The FTC’s recommendation for Do Not Track (DNT) functionality has been a great lightning rod for industry action, spurring online retailers and...

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Targeted Advertising: There are No Monsters Hiding under the Bed

By Russell Glass
Friday, August 6, 2010
There continues to be noise around the growing menace of advertising in the online world. Alarmists point to the increasingly sophisticated capability to track and capture a user’s travels and behaviors across the Web, known as behavioral targeting. Armed with this information delivered via cookies placed in your Web browser, advertisers are in the position to deliver highly targeted ads wherever you go online. This is being framed in a “Big Brother is Watching” way as though companies are...
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