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Quick Fixes You Can Make Before the Holidays
More Deadly Sins of Site Design
Seven Deadly Sins of Site Design
Search: No Results Equal No Sale
Creating an Effective Retail Home Page
Case Study: A Better Shopping Cart
Effective Cross-Selling Online
Five Barriers to Customer Entry
E-Tail: Four More Barriers to Entry
Brand-Centric vs. User-Centric Navigation
Navigation Pages Versus Content Pages
Who Had the Worst User Experience?
Your Website as a Narrative: Introduction
Your Website as a Narrative, Part 3: Call to Action
Your Website as a Narrative, Part 4
Your Website as a Narrative, Part 5: The Micro-Narrative
United Airlines Takes Active Approach to Customer Satisfaction
Let Your Customers Buy From You
Are You Preventing Your Customers From Spending Money?
Why Q4 Promotions are an All-Year Affair
Social Networking and E-mail Marketing Converge
Customer Returns as an Acquisition Strategy
Reactivation Campaigns: Reviving Your Long-Lost Customers
CRM Without a Direct Sales Channel
I Don't Know You: CRM for the Anonymous Browser
Are Your Customers Lost in Translation?
Prelaunch: Build Anticipation and Comfort
Build Anticipation... Responsibly
Happy Customers equal Cheaper Customers
Consumers Are Getting Smarter. Are You?
7 Ways to Use Text Messaging in Your Business
Add an iPhone App to Your Multichannel Strategy
Why Multichannel Consumers Are More Loyal, Part 2
Why Multichannel Consumers Are More Loyal
How to Embrace Multichannel Behavior
Solving Channibalism: Embrace It, Then Trace It
Extending the Point of Sale Within Multichannel Companies
A Brand By Any Other Name: Multi-Channel Re-branding campaigns
Multi-Channel Marketing: Does Channibilism Exist?>
Think Like a Multi-Channel Company
How to Ruin a Multichannel Campaign in Five Easy Steps
Creating a New Channel: Does Wireless Deserve Another 15 Minutes?
Personalization: A Multi-algorithmic Approach
Geotargeting Comes of Age in E-commerce
The Evolution of the Pop-Under Ad
Personalized Rewards and Profitable Behavior: Case Studies
Personalization Myopia: Lessons from a Cruise Ship
Personalized Offers for Personal Holidays
Crafting a Personalized Subject Line
Personalization with no budget - Part 1
Personalization with no budget - Part 2
Mixing Personality and Personalization
Happy Birthday. You've Changed. Can we still be friends?
Best/Worst "My" Sites on the Web
Welcome Back, Mr. Lesbian!: Pitfalls of Perceived Personalization
Zero-Budget Personalization Makeover, No. 1: A Small Travel Agent
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Gets Customer Loyalty Right
Loyalty Doesn't Come From a Program
Reward Programs: Common Strategies
Reward Programs: Continuous Rewards and Business Rules
Reward Programs: Ratio Schedules
Reward Programs: Interval Schedules
Reward Programs: Use Them Competitively
Pavlovian Marketing: Keep Customers Buying After the Holidays
Personalized Rewards and Profitable Behavior: Case Studies
Customer Loyalty Versus Self-Service
Create an Ineffective Loyalty Program in Two Easy Steps
Top Five E-mail Marketing Best Practices
E-mail Marketing Without E-mail
Analyzing Retail E-mail: Campaigns and Triggered Messages
E-Mail Complaints? It's Your Fault
More E-Mail Complaints: It's the ISPs' Fault
Put More of Your Brand in E-Mail Marketing Campaigns
Clickstream Analysis and E-Mail Marketing
E-Mail: A Dialogue, Not Just Direct Marketing
When Push Turns to Shove: E-Mail Relevancy and Frequency
Crafting a Personalized Subject Line
Personalization, Meet Mass Customization
Mass Product Customization, Continued
Using Metadata to Simplify Product Categories
Use Metadata to Enhance Personalization
Configurators: Using Metadata to Choose Products
Reverse Append Your Metadata: Glean Product Correlations From User-Centric Metadata
United Airlines Takes Active Approach to Customer Satisfaction
Customer Service Is Even More Important Now
The Importance of Being Earnest (With Customers)
Smothering Me With Customer Service
Customer Service and Criminal Psychology
How to Screw Up Live Customer Chat (and How to Fix It)
Benchmarking Your Site With No-Cost Tools
Beyond Analytics: Session Instant Reply
Clickstream Analysis and E-Mail Marketing
The Rebrand Challenge: UPS/ MBE Vs. FedEx/Kinko's
A Brand By Any Other Name: Multi-Channel Re-branding campaigns
Ways to Innovate: Image Scanning and Visual Recognition
Is Your B2B Site a Good Salesperson?
Business Slow? Time to Innovate and Test
Budgets Slashed? Get Back to Guerilla Basics
A Tool to Help Planning for Next Year
Learning From Different Industries' Best Practices
Does Your Company Have an Ego Problem?
Contingency Planning: Best Practices
Where can you find the best couscous?
Interoperability: Play Nice With Others
Reward Programs: Common Strategies
Applying Pareto's Principle to User Segmentation and Site Design
The Law of Diminishing Returns
Pavlovian Marketing: Keep Customers Buying After the Holidays
3-D: Best Practices and Trends
Using 3-D Photography/Video Online
A Tool to Help Planning for Next Year
Walking in a Widget Wonderland
Loyalty, CRM, E-mail, User Experience and More: 2006 in Review
Interactive Trends to Watch in 2006
Introduction: 2002 - The Year We Make Contact (with our customers)
Ways to Innovate: Image Scanning and Visual Recognition
Examples of ways companies are innovating in tough times.
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United Airlines Takes Active Approach to Customer Satisfaction
An airline doing something right? This UAL case study makes me have faith in the industry!
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Is Your B2B Site a Good Salesperson?
How to evaluate whether your business-to-business Web site understands your clients' needs. Start with your sales team.
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Let Your Customers Buy From You
Quite simply, in this economy, you can't afford to be stupid. You can't prevent your customers from spending money.
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Customer Service Is Even More Important Now
Today we'll look at some best practices for customer service, along with some good and bad examples..
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3-D: Best Practices and Trends
While 3-D is just an emerging technology online, it's never too early to understand the best practices and trends surrounding its use.
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Embrace It, Then Trace It
CBS News Segment on Loyalty
User Registration Best Practices
Unifying Your Voice: Virgin Atlantic Case Study
Unifying Lines of Business
Unifying Email Marketing