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It's not slowing down, it's just diversifying

Yahoo's announcment that it missed its earnings on October 5 caused a few ripples in the industry.<a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/marketing/2006/10/interactive_mar.html">Laura Ramos of Forrester</a> got several media calls asking if she thinks this indicates a larger slow down of Internet marketing spending overall.  No way, Jose! she says." I think perhaps the biggest realization Yahoo! came to this year is that marketers have many, many alternative places to spend their interactive dollars instead of on banner ads on portal sites.  For example, marketers today can build MySpace pages, buy product placements in video games, <a title="create RSS Feeds" href="http://www.press-feed.com/" target="_blank">create RSS feeds,</a> or buy mobile search ads, to drive desired behavior among their target customers."There are indeed many elements to a successful <a title="internet marketing strategy" href="http://www.expansionplus.com/impr/index.html" target="_blank">Internet marketing strategy.</a> Marketers are  looking beyond ads on protal sites. Press releases have become the number one source of knowledge for business buyers, pushing trade pubs into second place. B2B blogs are on the rise.RSS feeds on all kinds of content, with or without ads in them, are grabbing marketers attention.    You can make the feed content itself your promotion.  Travel and tourism is a perfect fit for this.  <a title="mexico and caribbean travel tips" href="http://www.paradisebymarriott.com/feeds/vacation_planning.php" target="_blank">Marriott's Caribbean travel feed</a> is a one good example.There are definitely more ways to skin a cat in internet marketing today.  As Ramos says, it's maturing, not slowing down. 10 application/xml false create RSS Feeds internet marketing internet marketing strategy rss feeds Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 sally false true false false true 177676 false false true false false false true 81701 blog blogsite/Falkow/web