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Web Metrics in Bloodline for Internet Markerting

Metrics can be used for site usability problems, program & site mgt (web pages and email), visitor behavior and tracking essential for marketers.  Usability test checks if the potential customer successful used your site to get what they needed. 
Server Request logs record the IP address, date & time, code showing if successful or not, #of bytes [...]

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Knowledge and the Internet

Marketers must develop strategies to give customers fast and quality service.  Human expertise + information systems = knowledge from information
Marketers are interested in a narrower set of activates that focus on integrating front-and back-office services and delivering information to customer service personnel and decision makers when and where they need it.
They are connected about customer [...]

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Getting Customer Service Right!

Anticipatory customer service is providing service before the customer asks for it. Companies must take an initiative to find internal problems taking place and anticipate any problems that may occur.  Most important, they need to find solutions and be able to provide excellent customer service to their customers. 
 

Use mock scenario – use data from [...]

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Bash Bush site sells on eBay in four days (Reuters)

So this guy Alex Tew created that video games which allows users to throw a shoe at President Bust sold the rights for about $8,000 on Ebay in just 4 days.  Not bad, huh. 
He says given the current economic conditions, he’s using the funds for his startup.  He must be doing something right.  Just 2 years [...]

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Nortel Hits New Benchmark in 100 GbE

For one, it means greater top-end speed for carrier networks. It could also represent adding multiple existing 10 GbE lines into one 100GbE connection. Or, it could be about transmitting a 100 GbE signal over a single optical wavelength.
“Ours is the first time that 100GbE service is going over one 100gig wavelength.”   This is mean [...]

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Gadgets Give ‘Cloud’ Computing Clout

REUTERS
That means much of your vital data is not just at your home, at the office or in your wallet, but can easily be accessed by hooking up to the huge memory of the Internet “cloud” with portable devices.
Expansion came after companies such as Google Inc offered free programs similar to Microsoft’s Word and PowerPoint, [...]

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The Future of Our Techno-Lives

The consumer adoption process describes the steps of a consumer’s purchasing behavior.
Adoption Process.  It starts from first finding out about the product or service and hopefully ending at that person making an actual purchase.
 
Consumer go through five stages in the process of adopting new product.
 
Awareness : The consumer becomes aware of the product but [...]

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Virtual Value Chain

Value is defined as the usefulness of the product/service received by the customer.  Virtual value chains are a network of supply chains taking place by electronic means.  Most businesses incorporate distinctive value chains to meet their specific goals and strategies.  The supply and demand chain involves the most critical aspects of operation and creating value [...]

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Step By Step Internet Search Success

So how do you get your business online to potential customers with millions if not trillions of other businesses already listed?  A person types in a general word on something they are looking for and have endless options of where to click.    We watched a video today about the differences between organic and paid search.  [...]

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Business Models and Understanding the Customer

We discussed how the internet targets specific actions.  Since there are different business models, we asked how do people engage in this activity.  Examples: Amazon traffics as an Aggregator for selling many items.  Wall St. Journal sells news (info) using a Content Provider model.
There are 2 differences between business models vs Revenue Models.  Wall St. [...]

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