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Marketing Online:Your Internet marketing resource:all links
Strategy development
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Online HTML validator
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Strategy development
Strategy development
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Traditional B2B provider, can count by size and sector
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Strategy development
Developing a strategy
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Management consultants online journal. Excellent e-commerce articles
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Supports Patricia Seybolds customers.com book, but contains many excerpts of practical strategies.
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Founded in '94 by Tom Novak and Donna Hoffman at School of Management, Vanderbilt University, to study marketing implications of Internet. Useful links/papers.
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Articles on CRM and e-business strategy from Management Consultants
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Online and real-world e-Business strategy magazine.
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Management consultants - UK site - Yearly reports on Electronic commerce in Europe and intranet strategies
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Case studies and whitepapers from one of the leading US authorities on e-commerce.
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Useful articles on e-strategy
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Author of World Wide Web Marketing, Customer Service on the Internet: Customer Support, Direct Marketing, and Up-Selling, What Makes People Click: Advertising on the Web and CEO of Target Marketing company contains useful articles on strategy.
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CIM site focusing on improving e-marketing - articles
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Free guides on business planning, marketing planning and Internet marketing
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Author of Strategic Internet Marketing. Summarises 30 strategies and describes "Web diamonds" or examples of good practice
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By Greg Rich and colleagues from OhioLink educational establishments. This site provides a succinct summary, with examples, of how each of the 4Ps of the Internet can be applied online.
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Excellent once monthly articles based on case studies. Also see Connectis for more European examples often strategy-related
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Covers Internet strategy and many other areas such as business process redesign and organisational learning
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Arthur Andersen best practices on e-commerce strategy including useful framework of processes for re-engineering
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Site supporting book of 23 case studies (not the usual ones - small companies) of a range of successful e-commerce strategies.
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A strategic overview of electronic commerce from a technical perspective.
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CRM
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Contains case studies and best practice for CRM strategy and implementation including a more detailed list of CRM links under Resources
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Produced by Accenture and Montgomery Research - excellent collection of articles and case studies
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CRM research forum from Cranfield
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Virtual CRM conference
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Useful for eCRM sources
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Useful for collection of articles on importance of retention online
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Domain now bought by Netperceptions, one of the providers of personalisation technology
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Site supporting book by Seth Godin of Yahoo on permission marketing. No content, but 4 sample chapters.
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Books
Where to find books
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May not include all books held by the US version
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The largest online bookshop. Gives good examples of best practice in how to search a site; take orders online and build community.
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Traditional UK bookseller online
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Books
Recommended Internet marketing books
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Up-to-date compilation of E-marketing Books by Dave Chaffey & other authors in different categories of Internet marketing including Internet marketing strategy and planning, search engine marketing, e-mail marketing and copywriting.
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Links
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Good collection of links to whitepapers on Internet marketing and statistics
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Project 2000 links resources - Good papers on e-marketing
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E-marketing news web log or blog
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E-marketing term glossary
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Extensive web marketing resources including Includes: eDirections,
Questions, eRules, Setting up, Marketing, Advertising, PR/Promotion, Design, Interactivity, Intranets, eMail / Spam, Search, Glossary, eHistory
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Specialist areas
One-to-one-marketing
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4 free chapters available from Seth Godin's book
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From Peppers and Rogers Group who defined this area
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Specialist areas
Intranets
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Has special detailed content on intranets and extranets with case studies (recommended)
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An intranet reference site
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Technical online magazine
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Covers technical and corporate angles
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Specialist areas
Free software download sites
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Shareware download
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Shareware download
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Shareware download
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Shareware download
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The best, free PDF generator
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Shareware download
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Now integrated into Explorer 4
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Training
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Detailed MR information available for members and students. Some cases globally available.
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E-marketing newsletters
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The best for weekly reports from industry analysts
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Well established UK industry insiders group, with input from across the pond also.
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Updates on new white papers and articles on site
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Great advice on e-mail marketing. Definitely worth subscribing to newsletter.
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CIM Newsletter with section on e-marketing by Dave Chaffey
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US source. Weekly, good summary of topical issues with cases.
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Good newsletters on CRM and E-mail Marketing
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Excellent resources especially for e-marketers, e.g. e-mail marketing
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Useful monthly factoids by e-mail
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Newsletter mainly focusing on PR and online PR, but also e-mail marketing and webinars. I subscribe to this one.
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E-marketing news and commentary - daily
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Online magazine with specialist e-mail newsletters
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Specialises in online ad industry developments
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Online discussion forum for e-marketers
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Specialises in PR related issues
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Internet strategy implementation
1. Register
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Responsible for .co.uk domains
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Responsible for .com .org and.net domains
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Responsible for .uk.com and other pseudo-domains
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2. Web site Design
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Supporting site for the style guide book of Lynch and Horton of Yale Medical School. Complete text online. Examples biased towards academic sites, but still excellent practical advice.
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A variety of accessibility and usability white papers
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Jakob Nielsen, a former Sun Microsystems employee has been described by The New York Times as 'the webs usability guru'. Regularly updated with articles.
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Articles on evaluation of site design to achieve audience conversion to marketing objectives
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Site to support David Siegel's book, Killer Web Sites. Useful tips on site.
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Sub-sites have good insight on design
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Educational resource for designing sites
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Articles on design for usability
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Web log on all aspects of content management
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UK based magazine including practical design tips
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UK based magazine with best practice articles on design
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Summaries of best practice in page design.
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Gives a lighthearted review of design best practice by ‘learning good web site design through viewing bad web site design’
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3. Build - Web site Creation
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Resources to assist in achieving cross-browser compatibility
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Mainly developer news but some good guidelines on E-commerce Part of Internet news reference area
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Resources for developers
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Resources for web developers
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Check for errors in HTML code - offline
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An offline tool for mapping your website
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SiteMap and Linkscan tools for checking site links and mapping
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Product for Internet commerce and interactive applications
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A widely used enterprise version
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4. Host - Web site hosting
a. Hosting services
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From Internet magazine
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A comparison of ISPs web hosting servers
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4. Host - Web site hosting
b. Security
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Now part of Network Associates
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An NT product
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A widely used product
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Now part of the Internet Gateway Suite for Netware
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4. Host - Web site hosting
Strategy development
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Direct Marketing Statistics and reports. Include impact of e-commerce
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5.Promote
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Some detailed reports from specialist Mike Grehan
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5.Promote
a.Advertising
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One of the widest range of studies about Internet advertising effectiveness
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Leading research on online ad effectiveness
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Compilation of online advertising usage in Europe
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Listings of UK online ad agencies
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Articles on online advertising in resource centre
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One of the widest range of studies about Internet advertising effectiveness UK Specific.
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Good case studies of online advertising
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Review of advertising - mainly offline
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Useful collection of articles on differences in approaches to communications with interactive media
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Useful resources on branding
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US company with UK VAR for DART
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5.Promote
b.PR and offline methods
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Source of news releases
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Cybersavvy has online PR resources
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A service from Eric Ward which offers selective PR for major newsworthy site launches, relaunches and promotions and events. Send to magazines etc.
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c.Direct marketing online
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Useful collection of articles by Arthur Hughes on using database marekting for direct marketing including web applications
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From Peppers and Rogers Group who defined this area
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Courses on online marketing. Limited resources on site.
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Used by Barnes and Noble
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5.Promote
d. Search engine optimisation
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UK specialist with detailed description of search engine marketing
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UK specialist on Pay Per Performance search engine marketing and SEO
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Specialises in what they refer to as UnderNet or promotion by unpaid means such as seach engines, directories and newsgroups.
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'SelfPromotion.com is the net's leading resource for do-it-yourself Web Promotion'
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One of main Pay Per Click search engine advertising companies
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Outlines approaches to search engine optimisation and other aspects of Internet marketing
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Shows number of links to site from Google, Altavista and Hotbot. Use link:www.site.com on Google for similar results
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UK specialist with detailed description of search engine marketing
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European specialist with detailed description of search engine marketing
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Free guides on Internet Marketing
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One of main Pay Per Click search engine advertising companies
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e. E-mail and viral marketing
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Has great columns on e-mail marketing, e-mail marketing optimization and e-mail marketing case studies.
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Good cases and articles on e-mail marketing, particularly on UK site
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UK law firm with useful updates on e-Law
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Contains updates and guidance to law relating to marketing, e.g. updates on law on e-mail according to European Union directives.
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Collection of a range of viral campaigns
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Compilation of e-mail marketing news and some guidance
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Traditional B2B list provider
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Formed in UK July 2001 to support best practice amongst agencies and clients – charter gives best practice guidelines on e-mail marketing
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Seth Godin guidance on viral marketing
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Advanced e-mail marketing solutions. Case studies.
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A firm specialising in Internet and IT Law in London. Contains some informative articles on Net related law.
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US-based - useful on approaches to rented lists
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Wired UP Newsletter has good summaries on e-mail marketing and list rental and list building
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Some guidance on e-mail approaches
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A US compilation of rented list sources
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Guidelines and cases on collection of customer information and employee concerns, e.g. law on interception of employee e-mail.
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f. Affiliate marketing
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Leading UK portal for information on affiliate marketing (by Neil Durrant)
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UK's leading affiliate marketing company
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Leading international affiliate network
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6. Monitor/Evaluate/Measure
a.Auditing
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Audited Bureau of Circulation is standard for magazines in the UK. This is the electronic auditing part.
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Online Observer products ties results to focus group panel to estimate characteristics of site visitors. US based.
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International auditing body
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6. Monitor/Evaluate/Measure
b.Web site analysis software
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Accrue Insight has campaign, content, commerce and affiliate modules
Integration with traditional systems for RoI analysis
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Articles about choosing the best web analysis tools and measurement approach.
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Log file analyser now also includes hits from search variables of Popular Search Engines
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Novel method of monitoring site visitor volume compared to competitors using ISP data
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Enterprise Reporter for Multiple servers
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A relatively sophisticated log file analyser calculating visits etc
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Log file analyser
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Log file analyser - NT only
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Basic, but popular Freeware, formerly from Cambridge Uni
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US company with examples of web site audits. Sponsor of CyberAtlas.
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FunnelWeb
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This uses Java to monitor how long a user is on each page and maps navigation and behaviour across their site. Try the live demonstration.
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This product is targeted at ad tracking following clickthrough but can be used for more general monitoring
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Log file analyser - NT only
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6. Monitor/Evaluate/Measure
c."Search engine" positions
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Excellent for webmasters wanting to know the difference between the different search engines and how to promote your web pages
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Keyword monitoring tools (mainly for US)
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Gives a summary of position in search-engines - free trial available which is worth trying - type your URL and keyword (Part of link-exchange)
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Tool giving frequency of site words against competitors
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Software for monitoring position in search engines
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Keyword tracking service
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Similar to search engine guide!
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Similar to search engine watch
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Web metrics guidance
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Articles and spreadsheets about customer acquisition and retention (mainly online). Resources focus on WebTrends.
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Specialist on e-marketing metrics - good selection of articles
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Aus consultant with good index of web monitoring tools plus articles and newsletter
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Tests on efficacy of e-marketing
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Articles on using web site statistics to improve e-marketing performance
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7. Maintenance
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IBM articles on databases and data management
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CM vendor with articles on best practice
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Articles on Content Management
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E-commerce and e-business
General sources on e-commerce
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E-business and IT News. Includes Internet-related section.
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Forum and articles on e-commerce
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Electronic commerce - a managers guide - recommended
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Hurol Inan site with useful links
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Cardiff University. Interesting case studies for SMEs and basic explanations of concepts and terms
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An online newspaper specific to e-commerce developments.
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Useful collection of articles and insights
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A strategic overview of ecommerce
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Industry studies on range of e-commerce topics
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Useful source on e-procurement
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Portal about many aspects of e-commerce.
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Electronic payment methods
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Popular online payment mechanism
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A good overview but with a cybercash bias
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From World Wide Web consortium
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Validating postal addresses online
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Validating postal addresses online
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Catalogue and integrated means of paying online
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Find previous versions of web site for analysis
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Product for Internet commerce and interactive applications
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Electronic Commerce Suite
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Used on Tesco trial in the UK
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Strategy development
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Pay Per Click Search engine advertising optimisation
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Pay Per Click Search engine advertising optimisation
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Applications
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Source on usage of m-commerce
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The best known example
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UK shopping guide with two hundred shops offering secure transactions.
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Online price comparison of retail products
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A UK Based catalogue
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A UK based bookshop
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Associations
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Good press releases on adoption of B2C e-commerce
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UK e-commerce organisation
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Articles and news on e-business
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Some useful articles
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| 225 |
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Main electronic commerce organisation in US
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The Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) Consortium is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing open standards for business-to-business Internet commerce. The OBI Consortium is an independent collaborative managed by CommerceNet.
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Good guidance on e-marketing techniques
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| 228 |
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CommerceNet is an international non-profit organisation set up to promote the growth of business on the Internet by creating and managing tangible opportunities for its consortium members
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Market research Online
Internet marketing statistics & trends:UK,Global
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Internet statistics including demographics; updated monthly - excellent
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Office of National Statistics - Internet statistics page
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For Internet adoption statistics choose technology tracker
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Search on E-commerce or information society
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E-commerce reports and statistics
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UK Broadband adoption statistics
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Statistics on browsers, plug-ins and searchengines used at sites from Hitbox users
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Basic information about countries and markets
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| 237 |
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Compilation of UK related statistics
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| 238 |
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Main US government statistics archive
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| 239 |
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Mainly devoted to the network topology of Internet but interesting presentation of demographics using maps
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| 240 |
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ICONOCAST’s gives in-depth market research, online advertising and e-commerce reports
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| 241 |
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Formerly included an eStats section
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| 242 |
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Good collection of articles for professionals (mainly technically oriented)
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| 243 |
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Internet surveys
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| 244 |
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Major market researcher, relatively little free information available on UK
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| 245 |
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Goorgia techs Graphic, Visualization, & Usability Center - regular surveys of several thousand users, but self-selecting. Includes usage behaviour.
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| 246 |
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Paid for Internet surveys
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Market research Online
Internet related news and developments
| 247 |
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worldwide summaries of Internet-related MR updated daily - if you visit one site - visit this one
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| 248 |
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Excellent site presenting arguably best compilation of statistics on numbers using the Internet (Much UK and European information since based in Ireland)
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| 249 |
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worldwide summaries of Internet-related MR updated daily
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| 250 |
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ICONOCAST’s gives in-depth market research, online advertising and e-commerce reports
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Market research Online
IT industry and Internet analysts
| 251 |
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Management consultants - knowledge management site
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| 252 |
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Management consultants - UK site
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| 253 |
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Quarterly newsletter defining the Internet services marketing in UK. Also contains information by industry and business size. Good for business-to-business. Also covers consumer access. BT sponsored.
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| 254 |
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US IS analysts with focus on e-commerce - see monthly press releases, otherwise paid for reports
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| 255 |
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UK IT analysts with reports on Electronic commerce and business use of the Internet
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| 256 |
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Management consultants - US site
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| 257 |
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Management consultants - US site
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| 258 |
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Research on European IT market
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| 259 |
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US IS analysts - see monthly press releases, otherwise paid for reports
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| 260 |
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Management consultants - US site - useful intro to e-commerce and case studies by industry sector
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| 261 |
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US IS analysts - see monthly press releases, otherwise paid for reports
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Market research Online
Leading Marketing Research agencies
| 262 |
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Leading UK agency
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| 263 |
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LeadingUK agency
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| 264 |
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Major
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| 265 |
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Mainly consumer market research limited free information
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| 266 |
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Global leader
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| 267 |
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retail focus
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| 268 |
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Retail focus
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| 269 |
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retail focus
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| 270 |
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Economic Intelligence Unit
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Market research Online
Market Research societies
| 271 |
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Directory of UK suppliers, plus good online researchers newsletter from main UK trade association
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| 272 |
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Major European Society for Marketing Research including large index of agencies. Reports on techniques.
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| 273 |
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Buyer's Guide/List of online UK and overseas agencies online subscription
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| 274 |
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International MR directory
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| 275 |
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UK Society with Limited links
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Market research Online
Specialist Internet Marketing Research agencies
| 276 |
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E-ratings are Nielsen online panels similar to MMXIEurope but more published info on reach and frequency
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| 277 |
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Expertise and articles on online primary research
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| 278 |
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Useful source for online banner behaviour (creative clickthroughs and reach). See Press Room, Net View Usage metrics for sample data by country.
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| 279 |
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Insight into markets including e developments - interesting newsletter
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| 280 |
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From online part of New Media Age
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| 281 |
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Interesting whitepapers about new techniques and methodology for online research.
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| 282 |
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specialists in online questionnaires and focus groups
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| 283 |
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MMXI are the market leader and are part of US Media Metrix - use panels of about 10 000 in each European country
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| 284 |
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Specialist in benchmarking of online presence - with published benchmarks
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| 285 |
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Conduct mystery shopping combined with focus groups questionnaire for e-tailers
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| 286 |
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specialise in B2B reports
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Market research Online
Competitive(or) intelligence sources(Company info)
| 287 |
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Business/company news (global)
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| 288 |
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Consultancy specialising in Competitive Intelligence. Guide to CI and list of resources on site.
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| 289 |
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limited information on all registered companies
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| 290 |
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the best known company directory - some free information
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| 291 |
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This page has a good overview of CI
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| 292 |
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A portal and online community for competitive intelligence and strategic planning professionals
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| 293 |
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Established business directory
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| 294 |
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Established European directory
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| 295 |
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Export info - good for sector specific information (aka www.tradeuk.com)
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| 296 |
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Excellent directory of MR sources for company data by industry sector including trade associations, specialist directories and links by country. Includes trade associations.
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| 297 |
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US company financial information, now with European version
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| 298 |
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Business/company news (global)
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| 299 |
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free 20 000 plus company profiles on site and has a search engine for 350 000 profiles at other sites
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| 300 |
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Mainly limited to corporates
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| 301 |
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Useful for overseas market research
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| 302 |
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The name says it all? Have not tried
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| 303 |
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News about UK media companies - good for lead generation
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| 304 |
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Business/company news (mainly US)
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| 305 |
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Competitive Intelligence provider with good range of resources
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| 306 |
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DM stands here for 'Data Mining', but now includes many articles on BI, CI and KM.
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| 307 |
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Price comparison engine - useful for identifying competitor price discovery
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| 308 |
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Company information from share dealer
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| 309 |
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Large US corporates
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| 310 |
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Aggregation of free statistics, quite good on country specific data, but patchy coverage internationallly
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| 311 |
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Industry news and company information (US orientation)
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| 312 |
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Aggregation of free statistics
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| 313 |
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Agency specialising on CI with some background articles
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| 314 |
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Business/company news (mainly UK)
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| 315 |
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Access company details (e.g. turnover) by sector. Subscription only. They say: 'UK Business Browser delivers a complete range of corporate and industry information.
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| 316 |
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Quoted company information
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| 317 |
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Some online journals and directory of UK organisations
Some online journals and directory of UK organisations
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| 318 |
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Price comparison engine - useful for identifying competitor price discovery
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| 319 |
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Paid for report 'CI Report provides focused, organized information resources for the competitive intelligence community' Sample copies given. Book revies on CI books.
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| 320 |
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Agency specialising on CI with some background articles
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| 321 |
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UK trade associations may lead to company information
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Market research Online
Market Research portals
| 322 |
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A directory of marketing related links - sections: Buyer behaviour, Database marketing, Direct Marketing, Marketing communications, Internet Marketing, Electronic Commerce
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| 323 |
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Arguably the largest established MR aggregator. Subscription or daily, weekly purchase
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| 324 |
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As the name implies, aggregator of Internet related research
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| 325 |
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Aggregated MR data for purchase - large, 600 databases
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| 326 |
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Aggregator of reports and white papers focusing on e-business
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| 327 |
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Aggregator of Market Research. Mainly reports that have to be paid for.
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| 328 |
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Skyminder.com provides gateway access to company profiles, financial data, credit information, and industry news from information providers including Comtex, Dun & Bradstreet, GBI, Graham & Whiteside, Hoover's
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| 329 |
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Established MR aggregator
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| 330 |
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‘Use LexisNexis to identify both threats and new opportunities such as patents, competitive trademarks, or upcoming mergers or acquisitions. Access breaking news from around the world. Research markets and track industry trends. Analyze competitors’.
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| 331 |
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Extensive Internet marketing research digests
Questions, eRules, Setting up, Marketing, Advertising, PR/Promotion, Design, Interactivity, Intranets, eMail / Spam, Search, Glossary, eHistory
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| 332 |
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Search through mainstream business publications and some journals
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| 333 |
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News, business and public records, plus legal
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Market research Online
Software tools for web searching
| 334 |
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Indispensable browser plug-in that speeds keyword entry, searching gives all site searches and related sites
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| 335 |
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Tool for accessing deep web - real time searches
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| 336 |
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Powerful suite of corporate tools for knowledge management
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| 337 |
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Can use to save pages to your computer and index them in different categories and then find them later.
6 Mb download
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| 338 |
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Web based bookmark manager - great for maintaining links from at work and at home
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| 339 |
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A tool for cutting quotes from web pages and then indexing them
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| 340 |
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Free software to monitor up to 500 web pages, e.g. competitor sites press release pages
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| 341 |
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Downloadable software metasearch tool including free version
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| 342 |
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Plug-in that highlights related sites
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| 343 |
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Downloadable software metasearch tool including free version
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Market research Online
Guides to Internet searching
| 344 |
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Excellent for webmasters wanting to know the difference between the different search engines and how to promote your web pages
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| 345 |
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Community for online researchers - mainly UK - ask questions
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| 346 |
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Tips and tools for searching
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| 347 |
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Tips from US specialists
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| 348 |
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Its main feature is a review of specialty search engines. Also has search engine reviews and tutorials
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| 349 |
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Reviews of search engines. Most useful feature is specialised search engines e.g. engineering companies.
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| 350 |
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Specifically for database searching professional. Archive contains access to some useful articles
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| 351 |
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Great summary of tools to improve your searching
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| 352 |
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Has a useful portal comparison chart has some limited information on vertical portals and marketplaces
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| 353 |
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A good source of information on search engines/portals
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| 354 |
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Description of how many aspects of Internet work, including good description of search engines
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| 355 |
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Newsletter of search tools and techniques
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| 356 |
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Questions, comments and tips about all the major search engines.
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| 357 |
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Company sells tool for accessing the deep web, but detailed report on searching technnique syntax
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| 358 |
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Mainly for legal researchers, but contains articles of general interest
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Market research Online
Questionnaire software
| 359 |
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ASP questionnaire service
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| 360 |
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Software to download for questionnaires
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| 361 |
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ASP questionnaire service
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| 362 |
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ASP questionnaire service
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News and magazines
| 363 |
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Media sites including many clipping services
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News and magazines
Internet related media
| 364 |
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UK weekly new media magazine with full access to archive
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| 365 |
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Advertising
Design
Developers
Technology/Tools
Case Studies & Profiles
Management/ROI
Direct Marketing
Knowledge base has good range of US case studies and tips in areas such as advertising, direct marketing and PR
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| 366 |
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UK new media weekly with limited access to archive
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| 367 |
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UK based magazine, greater business focus, with technical content - good balance
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| 368 |
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UK based magazine with examples of business applications, but a technical focus
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| 369 |
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US magazine covering e-commerce
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| 370 |
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Online magazine, including articles on e-mail marketing
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| 371 |
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Sister publication to New Media Age.
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| 372 |
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UK based magazine, case studies.
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News and magazines
UK broadsheet media
| 373 |
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| 374 |
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Technology focus on Thursday.
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| 375 |
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| 376 |
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| 377 |
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News and magazines
IT/IS focused publications and portals
| 378 |
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| 379 |
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Whitepapers, newsletter and supplier directory for IT industry. Independent portal.
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| 380 |
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| 381 |
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Forum and articles on e-commerce
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| 382 |
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IT News and analysis from a UK perspective - Bloor Research site
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| 383 |
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| 384 |
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IT strategy information from a UK perspective - Bloor Research site
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| 385 |
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| 386 |
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| 387 |
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tools and trends - technical focus
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| 388 |
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| 389 |
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Search for trade/consumer magazines across 1000 members sites. Good for specialist vertical B2B journals.
useful source of specialist publications
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Search tools and portals
| 390 |
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Relatively new tool rivalling Google - similar approach
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| 391 |
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Resources developers provided by a network of specialist sites
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| 392 |
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UK Specific listings
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| 393 |
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Relatively new tool rivalling Google - similar approach, but ranks sites based on authority
|
| 394 |
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Useful directory of database sources that are not usually indexed by search engine. Of value for in-depth surveys, otherwise Google gives better matches.
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| 395 |
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Provide iMailer Unix software
|
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Search tools and portals
Search engines and tips
| 396 |
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Best search engine according to most reviews and gurus
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| 397 |
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| 398 |
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| 399 |
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The best newsgroup searching tool
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| 400 |
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| 401 |
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| 402 |
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View Pay Per Click keywords at Overture
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| 403 |
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Specialised tool for finding individuals
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| 404 |
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| 405 |
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Straightforward search engine - based on FAST web spider
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Search tools and portals
Metasearch-engines
| 406 |
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One of leading meta search engines
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| 407 |
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Lists of all the sites a manager needs in one page (US)
|
| 408 |
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Useful meta portal with good UK version - use as a homepage?
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| 409 |
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| 410 |
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A configurable meta search engine that allows you to search from a number of search engines from one site (similar to Ask Jeeves) also includes country specific search engines
|
| 411 |
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Meta portal with tools for news monitoring and web site alerts
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| 412 |
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Search tools and portals
Directories
| 413 |
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The most widely used site in the world
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| 414 |
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Directory constructed by self-selected subject experts
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Search tools and portals
Strategy development
| 415 |
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Recommended search engine add-on - useful for identifying comparable sites
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Search tools and portals
UK based directories
| 416 |
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Excellent compilation of up-to-minute news
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| 417 |
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| 418 |
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UK version uses 2 UK specific SEs
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| 419 |
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UK version
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| 420 |
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Includes UK only document option
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| 421 |
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UKUK version
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| 422 |
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automatically crawls UK related domains
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| 423 |
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| 424 |
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UK comparison engine
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| 425 |
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Inktomi based SE and directory listing
|
| 426 |
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UK comparison engine
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| 427 |
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UK directory-based portal with good personalisation options
|
| 428 |
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financial and company news and business information
|
| 429 |
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financial and company news and business information
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| 430 |
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Searches .uk domains
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| 431 |
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Directory of businesses around the UK arranged by counties
|
| 432 |
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directory produced by journalists
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| 433 |
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Online version of Yellow Pages.
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| 434 |
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| 435 |
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Online version of print media version, but with national coverage.
|
| 436 |
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Good compilation of up-to-minute news (30 days)
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| 437 |
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Yahoo style directory
|
| 438 |
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Includes business news by sector
|
| 439 |
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For those involved in marketing to public sector bodies - Information about local government regions collated by central government
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| 440 |
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Directory
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| 441 |
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Relatively small number of listings compared with others.
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Search tools and portals
Strategy development
| 442 |
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These sites are better than search engines!
|
| 443 |
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Similar concept to about - content typically inferior
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Company and market information
| 444 |
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A clear and comprehensive directory of UK local and central government sites.
|
| 445 |
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Listing of 150,000 UK companies in 110,000 product sectors
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| 446 |
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Current news and reports available by these industries to subscribers:Advertising, Books & Publishing, Electrical Goods, Financial, Grocery, Hardware & Software,Leisure, Motor, The General Retail Scene, Travel,Other
|
| 447 |
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Excellent directory of MR sources for company data by industry sector including trade associations, specialist directories and links by country. Includes trade associations.
|
| 448 |
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Listing of trade associations from US based 'Internet Public Library'
|
| 449 |
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Ernst and Young site - the names says it all
|
| 450 |
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Company Reports online
|
| 451 |
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Includes business news by sector chemical; constructon; engineering; retailing etc
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| 452 |
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Official UK labour market statistics. 'Nomis gives you access to the most up-to-date and detailed labour market data produced from official sources. Nomis is a free service provided by National Statistics.'
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| 453 |
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Useful for research for international marketing
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| 454 |
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A summary of corporate sites by sector and Internet marketing information by sector.
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| 455 |
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Has business international sector news listing
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| 456 |
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Listing and alerts of european public procurement invitations to tender
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Key reports on Internet adoption and usage
| 457 |
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Internet usage figures, UK
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| 458 |
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Global panel of mainly home users showing usage per month in UK, US, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Brazil…
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| 459 |
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Provides global variation in number of PCs per hundred population and percent Internet access detailed on country per country basis
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| 460 |
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E-MORI Technology Tracker - summary of UK socio-demographics and access levels
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| 461 |
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Aggregator of Internet research - shows Internet adoption by country
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| 462 |
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UK Internet User monitor data on buying patterns by product category - see press releases for stats
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| 463 |
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European Union E-commerce data - search on E-commerce
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Each entry in every category of Marketing Online is evaluated and ranked in order of value for the marketer from highest to lowest
denotes a site excellent within its category.
indicates a site of relevance to UK-based Internet marketers. |
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