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[SMM] The NUB Of Your Internet Marketing Strategy
All agree that Internet Marketing Strategy is essential for selling success. Processes such as SWOT are long-winded and may not include the essentials. The NUB should tie down the Niche, the USP and the Bottom Line.

Tags: business, strategy, marketing, internet.

[SMM] 2020 Hindsight on Y2K
Looking back at Y2K it may seem that excessive effort was expended on what seemed to be a non-event. It took attention away from a much more profound change as M2K opened, the Internet Millennium. Very significant effort is required from companies and organizations if they are to survive and perform well in this new M2K.

Tags: business, blogging, marketing, internet.

Back into the swing
I'm happy to report the "Mayan Riviera" is an excellent place to spend a week away from the search marketing business. Despite a little difficulty getting out of Mexico and lost luggage, it was an excellent trip with a minimum of Internet usage and lots of relaxation. Thank you to Thomas who has, as always, done an excellent job filling in with timely and informative blog posts regarding search engine marketing and blogs. Be sure to check out his newest blog project, SEO Blog Marketing.
http://toprank.blogspot.com/2005/06/back-into-swing.html

Logitech Implements Akamai EdgeComputing for Java to Extend Marketing-Driven, Promotional Contest
Expecting to drive 100 times its regular traffic level to its site for a single day in December 2002, Logitech needed an infrastructure in place that could support a new contest application while scaling to meet the expected traffic surge. Utilizing Akamai EdgeComputing for Java, Logitech was able to extend the application processing of its promotional contest out to the 'edge' of the Internet, thus avoiding network latency and the need for costly infrastructure over-provisioning.
http://www.itpapers.com/abstract.aspx?scid=234&docid=138607&part=rss&tag=rss&subj=&promo=100112

The SEO Industry Cathing Up on RSS?

With RSS getting more and more coverage, ”traditional” internet marketing industries start branching out in to it. The SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) industry was quite early to catch on, but only in some limited and highly early adopter circles.

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[SMM] Internet Marketing Boosts Direct Selling
Direct Selling is most effective when working on qualified leads. Internet Marketing can be the force that finds those leads and builds up the relationship for the most promising prospects.

Tags: selling, leads, marketing, internet.

Blogging for dollars
From Steve Rubel's blog, Microsoft Recruiting Paid Bloggers: MSN recently put out a call to hire paid bloggers to write and edit Web sites about five broad topics: fashion/food/style, music, sports, technology, and television, MediaPost reports. The marketing news site...
http://www.backupbrain.com/2005_06_19_archive.html#a004594

Lenovo offers mobile Internet access with notebooks
The wireless Internet package allows users to access the Internet over China Unicom's CDMA 2000-1X cellular network.
http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,102704,00.html?source=x68

Lenovo offers mobile Internet access with notebooks
The wireless Internet package allows users to access the Internet over China Unicom's CDMA 2000-1X cellular network.
http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/laptops/story/0,10801,102704,00.html?source=x595

Mobile Phones Shut Down New Zealands Stock Exchange
New Zealand Outage Shut Down Stock Exchange
-A major outage in Telecom Corp.'s cable network Monday disrupted data services, electronic cash transactions, mobile phone, and Internet services as well as shutting down the nation's stock exchange for hours, the telecommunications provider said.

Widespread disruption to business and private services was caused by two cable breaks on its North Island network.

They were repaired by mid-afternoon Monday--at least five hours after they occurred.
http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#234