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ContentBiz 2005: Case study: How SSWUG.com Increased Paid Subs 175 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 18 May 2005 02:06 PM PST

Editor’s note: paidContent guest blogger David Eckoff takes more away from one session in a conference than some people do from an entire conference. We’ll post a brief intro to…

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RSS vs. Email: A Few More Details - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 16 May 2005 03:05 AM PST

Can’t help throwing my two cents in today’s debate over RSS vs. email, as I covered the ContentBiz conference for PaidContent.  It’s interesting to me that the article named below…

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ContentBiz 2005: Thoughts and a WrapUp - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 13 May 2005 02:05 AM PST

:[By Dorian BenkoilIt’s been a couple of days. Enough time to think, but the ideas are still fresh. Here are my takeaways: -- Content is Queen. Or King. Or maybe…

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Complete Coverage of “Selling Subscriptions to Internet Content Summit” - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 11 May 2005 07:06 PM PST

Last day of the conference and tons more coverage, here...advice, tips, news, photos and buzz form the conference...no one covers it like we do. Period.

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ContentBiz 2005: Photos Day 2 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 11 May 2005 06:06 PM PST

You can see today’s conference photos of Highbeam’s Kathy Sexton, Stephen Wynkoop, fellow blogger David Eckoff, and our main guest blogger Dorian Benkoil, here, at Flickr… The coverage is sponsored…

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ContentBiz 2005: Anne Holland’s Top 10 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 11 May 2005 01:05 PM PST

[reporting by Dorian Benkoil] Anne Holland of MarketingSherpa wrapped up the conference she heads with her top 10. (It’s really more than 10.) Fellow blogger David Eckoff and I will…

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ContentBiz 2005: The Internet is Worth More Than Print - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 11 May 2005 08:06 AM PST

[reporting by Dorian Benkoil] One more thing said by Russell Perkins that I found very encouraging: In the B2B space, publishers are now charging more for data and directories online…

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ContentBiz 2005: News from HighBeam - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 11 May 2005 08:06 AM PST

[reporting by Dorian Benkoil] Subscription research site HighBeam was formed in only January 2004 (from what was eLibrary), but they’re already changing their model. They have been a pure subscription…

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ContentBiz 2005: “Sex” Slipup, Quotes of the Day - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 11 May 2005 08:05 AM PST

[reporting by Dorian Benkoil] The day’s not over but we’ve already got the quote of the day. Talking about how well her company HighBeam Research is doing, CMO Kathy Greenler…

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ContentBiz 2005: Single Point Purchases Very High - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 11 May 2005 07:06 AM PST

[reporting by Dorian Benkoil] The first panel today was all about data, and Erin Hunter, Sr. Vice President, Marketing Online, comScore Networks, Inc., said some not surprising things: In paid…

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ContentBiz 2005: Use the Phone to Sell Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 11 May 2005 04:05 AM PST

Yep, here with David Eckoff. We’ve split up the coverage—we can argue later about who’s got the “more interesting” ones … but our aim is to bring you as much…

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ContentBiz 2005: Motley Fool and Optimost “Landing Page Tests Case Study” - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 11 May 2005 12:06 AM PST

(by David Eckoff, guest blogger): I am attending the 5th Annual Selling Subscriptions to Internet Content Summit in New York this week, privileged to be co-blogging on-location with Dorian Benkoil.…

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Our Coverage of ContentBiz 2005 Summit - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 10 May 2005 06:06 PM PST

Our contributor Dorian Benkoil is writing from there, and has tons of coverage, including posts about WSJ.com’s strategy, Audible’s strategy and its podcasting news, Time Inc’s strategy, developing effective e-mail…

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ContentBiz 2005: Appeasing the “Stupid” and Google Gods - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 May 2005 01:05 PM PST

[reporting by Dorian Benkoil] The very amusing Tim Carter, Owner, AsktheBuilder.com, who got the 2005 Featured Entrepreneur of the Year award: “One thing I learned a long time ago: There…

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ContentBiz 2005: Photos from Tuesday - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 May 2005 12:06 PM PST

Some nice pics from today’s ContentBiz 2005 seminar on Selling Subscriptions on the Internet. On Flickr. The coverage is sponsored by Click&Buy.

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Yahoo’s New Music Service - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 May 2005 12:06 PM PST

Just got word of this: Yahoo’s going to start a paid music service for $6.99/month. How’s that for a subscription model? Will see what reaction I can get at the…

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ContentBiz 2005: “Boring is Good” In E-mails - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 May 2005 12:06 PM PST

[reporting by Dorian Benkoil] Back to the future with a little bit of counter-intuitive thinking. Anne Holland of MarketingSherpa talked about what’s working, and not, for her organization’s e-mail newsletters.…

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ContentBiz 2005: Audible Does Podcasting - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 May 2005 10:06 AM PST

[reporting by Dorian Benkoil] Updated: John Federico of Audible.com clarifies yesterday’s news: Audible periodical content via RSS “will work with all standard RSS-based “podcatchers” like iPodder, Doppler, iPodderX, NetNewsWire, NewsGator,…

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ContentBiz 2005: Time Warner, AOL and “The Curtain” - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 May 2005 09:06 AM PST

[reporting by Dorian Benkoil} Updated from yesterday’s entry on Time-Warner: Tom Cascio says: The 5.2%-27% range is NOT regarding net subs generated.  It is the percentage of the current subscriber…

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ContentBiz2005: Anne Holland, Publisher, Marketing Sherpa, Opening Remarks - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 May 2005 07:06 AM PST

Anne Holland, publisher of Marketing Sherpa, opened with three main points: -- Advertising is coming back. For a large number of subscription sites on the Web, they got into subscription…

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ContentBiz2005: Give Away, and for How Long? - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 10 May 2005 07:05 AM PST

[reporting by Dorian Benkoil] One of the big questions at subscription publications - including some I’ve handled - is whether to give the site for free for a period of…

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ContentBiz2005: Anne Holland, Publisher, Marketing Sherpa, Opening Remarks - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 May 2005 05:06 AM PST

Dorian Benkoil. Anne Holland, publisher of Marketing Sherpa, opened with three main points: -- Advertising is coming back. For a large number of subscription sites on the Web, they got…

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ContentBiz2005: How to Frame the Conference? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 May 2005 04:06 AM PST

Dorian Benkoil. Rafat and I talked before this conference about how we might approach it, and came up with a legitimate question: In today’s media environment, when there’s so much…

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Today & Tomorrow: Coverage of ContentBiz Summit - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 09 May 2005 09:06 PM PST

Our contributors Dorian Benkoil & David Eckoff will writing from there. Expect to see reports on panels, interviews etc. The dedicated blog is here… See our 2003 (down the page)…

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Dorian Benkoil test audio - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 09 May 2005 10:05 AM PST

Dorian Benkoil Test Audio

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