Monthly Archives: January 2012

Doing Well By Doing It Right

A piece of research came out yesterday which talked about how online commerce sites treated their customers and, in turn, how those customers felt about returning to do more business.  The study was done by Foresee Results and you can download a copy of it here if you’re so inclined.

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I worked with Foresee when I was involved with the NHL’s online commerce business and I always found their insights valuable, mostly because they’re very actionable.  I suppose it doesn’t take a great deal of research to figure out that the more satisfied a customer is the greater the likelihood that they’ll do more and better business with you, but isn’t it nice to have data?

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Me No Want Cookie

Let’s begin this week with something that caught my eye at the tail end of last week.  It was an announcement in Media Post with the headline [x+1] Finds Way Around Third-Party Cookie Rejection.  For those of you unfamiliar with the nuances of cookies, a third-party cookie is a little tracking file placed by a site other than the one you’re visiting.  In other words, if you come to Keith Ritter Media to figure out how to hire me and my site places a cookie from a site where I’m hosting an image, thereby enabling that site to track your web browser, I’ve placed a third-party cookie.

The announcement is important for two reasons – first, many ad networks use third-party cookies to track users across sites (my site’s cookie is useless to any other site) for targeting purposes; second, because some browsers default to disallowing third-party cookies and lots of other users have set their browsers to do the same.  Kind of makes one wonder about the announcement – here’s why. Continue reading

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What Slow Cookers Teach Us

I’ve been using a slow cooker lately and it seems like a good topic for a Foodie Friday. Maybe you call it a “crock pot“, maybe you call it “that thing we never use.” I call it my new kitchen BFF and have been producing all kinds of soups, chilis, braised meats, and stews; the kind of stuff that’s perfect wintertime fare.

a slow cooker Oval Crock Pot

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I’m sure you’re not a regular reader of the screed for cooking lessons so I won’t explain all the ins and outs of successful slow cooker use. I will, however, attempt to explain how slow cookers can teach a great business lesson.

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