What’s worse than spam, the junk e-mail no one wants yet no one can stop?

Perhaps the methods e-mail systems use to fight it.

Today, e-mail users already have to delete spam daily from their in-box, then root through a separate folder their e-mail filter has already classified as junk: Better hope your cousin didn’t use the word “Viagra” in that last note he wrote.

Now Time Warner’s America Online and Yahoo!  plan on charging marketers who send bulk messages to their users, arguing that the fee will cut down on the come-ons.
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Copywriters work in a creative partnership with an art director to conceive, develop and produce effective advertisements. While the art director deals mainly with visual images, it is the copywriter, who provides a verbal or written aspect. It involves writing a ‘copy’, i.e. coming up with original catch phrases, slogans and straplines, and other advertising.

The majority of professional copywriters work for advertising agencies or a UK copywriting agency. Depending on the type of agency, the tasks of a copywriter may vary. There are different types of copywriting agencies in the UK, traditionally specialising in either ‘above-the-line’ (ATL) or ‘below-the-line’ (BTL) work. The main focus of the ATL is building brands, using TV, radio, posters, press etc., while the BTL agencies practice direct marketing (DM) and promotional marketing, which tend to be more print-based, for instance, direct mail, a point of purchase, on pack, leaflets, competitions or offers; however, these days TV, press, a telephone and the Internet are also used. Clients are increasingly putting more of their money into the BTL (as it is closer to sale and more accountable). That is the reason why many UK copywriting agencies have become integrated; offering both ATL and BTL is known as ‘through-the-line’ (TTL).

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Every person who starts or pursues career in travel industry, who owns a travelling company or something like that, should remember that travel and tourism marketing is an inevitable part of work of any travel organization, which wants to be successful. There are many developments and inventions in this comparatively young branch, and their number is growing with the expanding of travel industry as a whole.

Travel and Tourism Marketing is a very important part of travel organizations activity. There are many strategies of making travel business more successful. All of them are widely used by travel corporations.

Travel and tourism marketing includes, in general two types of marketing itself. They are: domestic marketing expressed in promoting travel inside the country and international marketing, which is actually promoting your destination to a world wide market. Read the rest of this entry »

Online marketers are busy mapping that magical space where the overlap between real life and the internet is at its most poignant. Where else would they be looking than where real people are actually s p e l l i n g out what they are planning to buy - searches on the web?

Every online marketer does it. Buying keywords like crazy. But that is just about how much you hear when you try to focus on this area of internet marketing. It’s a wild goose chase and it’s unlikely a method will materialize in any recognizable form until the dust has settled. If it ever will.

The keyword business is about the most competitive business transacted over the web, so -as with most of the information on web related business- it’s unlikely you will come across any lengthy piece with a comprehensive overview of what’s going on where. Read the rest of this entry »

Marketing is a combination of business and art. Would you like to master this art and become a sucessful businessman? Here are some tips which can help you to increase the popularity of your site and make it profitable.

Marketing is an art, the art to sell.  This means that creative approach is welcomed, and especially in the Web, where the opportunities for creativity are limited only by your imagination.  Marketing in the web has its peculiarities.  Web site becomes your marketing tool and helps to implement your ideas – sell products or services. If you are owner of the commercial web site, you are definitely interested in attracting potential clients, not just visitors. Getting more traffic not always means getting more customers. So, the first step will be to see if your site is commercially valid. It is proved that good advertising of bad things can bring very good results, but good advertising of good products can do wonders.  So, let us make sure your website is ready to take a decent place in the web market. Read the rest of this entry »

Being the most popular and effective advertising tool, television has a leading position in advertising. Read some facts about TV advertising.

Television nowadays has a leading position in advertising and promoting products and services. It has many benefits to offer to nationwide and local advertisers, and it has its weak sides as well.

TV advertising may pursue various advertising and marketing goals. It can be used to increase brand asset of a company or to raise the level of sales by direct response advertising. Read the rest of this entry »

Syndicating programs play a important role in advertising, they allow advertisers to cover the entire target market and every segment of it in particular.

Television media is developing, and various advertising tools and means of reaching the target audience develop alongside with it. For television, advertising has become the only motivator and criterion for approval of using various techniques.  It is an important thing to understand that no matter how disparaging it sounds, television is a system of broadcasting advertisement out to target customers, when programs contents, popularity of shows’ heroes and actors are only tools for price formation and advertisements delivery. Television is a business of mass attraction and distribution of customers among advertisers for advertising is the main source of income for television, and it keeps up the business. In view of this, all channels put efforts into getting the best TV production, able to attract the largest segment of viewers’ audience. That, in turn, will greatly affect the prices rates and create a good image of a channel in the eyes of advertisers. Read the rest of this entry »

Cable TV advertising offers various benefits to small local advertisers as well as to nationwide ones.

The history of cable TV began in the 40s of the last century in a small city of Pennsylvania.  The quality of broadcasting was so poor that people had to extend of cable of the antenna installed in the mountains.  This service was named CATV (community antenna television).  For a long time cable TV was popular mostly in provinces where there were problems with the quality of broadcasting and signal transmitted from TV stations.  However, in the 70s cable TV gained popularity all over the States, in the countryside and cities alike.  Today cable TV covers about 70 percent of American households whish have TV sets, and the total amount of advertising on cable TV rapidly increases. Read the rest of this entry »

Selling goods by mail requires huge efforts from advertisers. A unique idea and creativity only have proved to be no guarantee of success. Then, what brings luck in the mail order advertising?

The mail order advertising does not bear any guesswork, since a single mistake can cost you a lot. Therefore, this type of the advertising must be done on a scientific base to bring profits. First of all, a person starting a mail order business should clearly understand that every spent dollar on the advertising adds to the cost of the results. Read the rest of this entry »

Building a website is great. However, though very important, it is not the hardest part of your overall online business. People will not visit your site just because you have built it. There are over 5 billions of web pages currently available worldwide. Why would people choose yours? And how do they know about it? Ask yourself this question, and you would hardly be able to provide a clear answer.

Your website is a passive tool of your business. Think about an offline shop. It may be selling unique items at an extremely low price, but what if it is situated in the nearby forest? Right, you should advertise the shop, because it is just a passive part of your whole business. So, your website should be used as a link of a chain designed to bring you money. Let us make a brief review of the most popular and must-do steps to promote your website and help your potential clients become aware of your offer. Read the rest of this entry »