Free Google Service Helps Watch Your Words

| Brian Quinton

There Google goes again, applying its special blend of category-disruptive dynamite to another part of the search marketing industry. This time the explosion has occurred in the Web analytics arena, with an announcement by the Mountain View CA-based engine that it will let Web advertisers and the Web publishers in its AdSense network access some basic Web tracking tools for free.

Firms on the Move…..

| MCM staff

ALC of New York is becoming Belardi/Ostroy ALC, reflecting the name of its three founders: American List Counsel, chairman/CEO Andy Ostroy, and president Donna Belardi. The name change will go into effect on Dec. 1.

Five Tips for Tackling the B-to-I Market

| MCM staff

The business-to-institution (B-to-I) market makes up 23% of the U.S. economy, according to Sweet Springs, MO-based list compiler MCH. Little wonder, then, that numerous companies are find marketing to institutions well worth the effort. If you

Using Your Relational Database

| MCM staff

Relational databases open up a world of marketing opportunities, according to Jim Coogan, president of Sante Fe, NM-based Catalog Marketing Economics who lists below ways to wring sales from your database.

Response Modeling Revisited

| MCM staff

Marketers are beginning to look at response modeling outside of the co-op databases, according to Chris Montana, senior vice president at Hackensack, NJ-based list services firm Mokrynskidirect.

Abacus Indicator: Apparel’s Up

| MCM staff

According to the Abacus Indicator from Broomfield, CO-based direct marketing services provider Abacus, apparel and accessories was the largest product category for sales last year, accounting for approximately $0.29 of every $1 spent on the Abacus B2C Alliance database.