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  • Advertising in Tough Times
    Have you ever wondered why advertising is the first cost most compani ...
  • Consider the Source
    If truth is the first casualty of war, then let us mou ...
  • Large Boulder – Big Waves
    The storefront is shifting to the computer screen, and companies are placi ...
  • Web Advertising Will Rise Again
    Americans' response to September 11 and its biological aftermath is clear: ...
  • A Measure of Our Strength
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  • Signposts of the Decade
    We still don’t have a name for this decade. Names like ‘t ...
  • Selling the Power of the Web
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  • Targetable, Trackable, Accountable
    Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean people aren't out to get yo ...
  • Why Such a Long Wait?
    On a recent visit to North Conway, New Hampshire, Michael couldn't g ...
  • A Midsummer Night's Metaphor
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  • War and Media
    Is there a connection? A similarity between military conflict and the w ...
  • What Else Can Go Wrong?
    What else can go wrong? What's the worst that could happen? ...
  • The ABCs of Web Advertising
    Who said there is no reliable source of definitions for online advertisin ...
  • Reasons Why We’re Hurting (and How Quickly Things Will Change)
    In just a few weeks it’ll be back to school time, summ ...
  • Let's Turn To The Poets
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  • How's Business?
    If you really want to know how well, or how badly, t ...
  • The Web Sea Scrolls
    Michael has obtained a copy of the Web Sea Scrolls, recently fou ...
  • Ten Things I've Learned from Recessions Past
    Michael's first job out of school was in media, during the recessi ...
  • A Force That Won't Stop
    Much of the challenge in Web advertising is that technology continues ...
  • Branding or Direct Response?
    Is the Web best used as a direct response medium, or ...
  • Frequently Asked Questions
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  • Three Ways Out
    Michael spent the last several months raising money for his company ...
  • Can't hurt. Could help.
    Such confusion! The amount of uncertainty and mystification on how to be ...
  • The Dot-Coms Crashed... Now What?
    Michael's friend Arthur knows money. He knows how to make it a ...
  • The Trouble with Numbers
    Credibility and consistency are the hallmarks of media measurement; without them selle ...
  • The Rise, Fall and Success of The Great Web
    Six reasons why the Web is failing as an advertising medium, a ...
  • Repetition: The Mother of All Learning
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  • Simple, But Effective
    Advertisers and their agencies are showing a huge lack of trust ...
  • The Rose Tree, by W. B. Yeats
    Without making too unnatural a stretch out of the analogy, The Ro ...