EBRAND MEDIA AND EBRAND INTERACTIVE MASTER ADVERTISER AGREEMENT

This Master Advertiser Agreement (“MAA”) is entered into by and between eBrand Media, Inc also d.b.a eBrand Interactive on the one hand (hereinafter referred to as “Company”) and the customer identified on the IO (hereinafter referred to as “Advertiser”) for the mutual promises contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged. This MAA and the accompanying and subsequent Insertion Order (“IO”) shall define the Company’s and Advertiser’s obligations with respect to Company’s services on Advertiser’s behalf for Advertiser’s advertising campaigns (“Campaigns”). Each IO submitted by Advertiser shall incorporate this MAA. In the event of a conflict between the IO and this MAA, the IO shall take precedence only where the MAA section is specifically referenced and the IO is signed by the Company.

1. Term and Termination.

Term. The term of this Agreement shall begin upon the submission of an executed IO by Advertiser to Company. Such IO shall be construed as an acceptance by Advertiser of all the rates, terms and conditions under which advertising is sold at that time.
Termination of Agreement. Company may terminate this Agreement at any time for any reason or for no reason with notice via postal mail or email to the Advertiser. This Agreement may be terminated at any time by either party, effective immediately upon written notice, if the other party: (i) files a voluntary petition in bankruptcy; (ii) makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors; (iii) breaches any of the material terms of this Agreement if such breach is not remedied within ten (10) business days from the receipt of written notice of such breach. Notwithstanding such termination, the Advertiser shall remain liable for all payment obligations incurred pursuant to this MAA.
Cancellation of Campaign. Company expressly reserves the right to: (i) refuse any advertising request, cancel any Campaign, or change any Campaign; or (ii) refuse any advertising Creative(s). Any Campaign rejected by Company may be replaced by Advertiser at Company’s sole discretion.

2. Advertiser’s Campaign.

Advertising Content and Creative. Advertiser shall provide or approve all creative and substantive content materials (“Advertising Content” or “Creative”) required for marketing the Campaign, including but not limited to banner advertisements, text links, videos, promotional HTML emails, promotional text e-mails, text links, keywords, and any other creative content as needed. Advertiser is solely responsible for the substantive content and creative of each advertisement it submits or approves via email or in writing to any representative of the Company. Company reserves the right to reject, suspend, or cancel any Advertising Content. By submitting or approving any email creative or content, Advertiser represents and warrants that (i) the submission meets all applicable regulations and laws in effect governing the submission at the time of such submission; (ii) accurately reflects advertiser’s product or service being advertised; and (iii) does not violate any applicable law or regulation governing deceptive advertising or consumer protection laws. Advertiser agrees to approve any creative submitted to Advertiser for approval within twenty-four (24) hours of its submission to the Advertiser. If no approval is received within this time frame, Company shall presume that Advertiser approves the submitted Creative(s). Read the rest of this entry »

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Palm Beach Jewelry retains eBrand Media to dramatically increase customer acquisition

Palm Beach Jewelry retains eBrand Interactive to boost revenue by emailing its unique value proposition to the 150,000,000 people the agency has permission to market to. 

Los Angeles, CA–(eBizine)–11/28/2011-9:35 AM – eBrand Media, Inc. (EBM), a leading provider of digital advertising and marketing solutions to emerging and established businesses announced today that its agency division, eBrand Interactive, will manage a pivotal marketing channel for Palm Beach Jewelry.

“We manage lists for a number of well known brands and as a result we have permission to market to over 150,000,000 people through our CAN-Spam compliant email channel. We take private labeled offers from leading companies and send them to people who have opted to receive offers from 3rd parties. In short we email 3rd party offers to 3rd party email lists that we’ve been licensed to manage”, said Tom Polanski, EVP of Business Development at the eBrand Media Group.

Mr. Polanski concluded with; “My email team always starts in a slow, intelligent manner so as to ensure that the email traffic we deliver meets or beats advertiser mandates while backing into an eCPM for the list owners. We always work with our clients to optimize their campaigns so that they are consistently positioned to actualize a maximum return at the lowest possible cost”. Read the rest of this entry »

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Weekly Sweeps… Snippets For Your VFOGI (Vast fund of general information)

1.  Cash-Strapped Consumers Shift Brands

According to a blog from Gian Fulgoni in Ad Age Digital, about 54% of consumers said they bought the brand they wanted most in 2008. By 2010, this had dropped to 45%, and 43% this year. Declines were observed in every category, with the most severe drop (17 points) in over-the-counter medicines and the lowest in the household category (6 points).

If consumers aren’t buying the brand they want most, they are switching brands, says Fulgoni. When a “peer” brand is on sale, 38% in 2011 say they bought it compared to 33% in 2008. But they also turn to a cheaper product. About 19% of consumers switched to private-label products in 2011, up from 14% in 2008.

When downsizing caused consumers to switch to another brand, 14% said it usually did and 54% said it occasionally did. But when asked which cost-controlling action they would prefer, 62% more consumers chose a smaller size over a price increase. Brand marketers appear to be backed into a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” corner.

For more from Ad Age, please visit here. Read the rest of this entry »

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Free necklaces and shipping for holiday shoppers?

Retailers are so desperate this holiday season that they’re willing to lose money to get you to spend yours.

Take online jeweler Stauer. It’s offering a $249 amethyst necklace for free — provided customers pay the $24.95 it costs to ship it. Stauer will lose money on the deal, but it hopes to reel in new customers who will buy other jewelry.

“In this economy, you have to be outrageous in your offers,” said Michael Bisceglia, the president of Stauer who found that more than a third of customers who took advantage of a similar deal on a $179 pearl necklace in 2009 bought additional items. “You have to shake up the world a bit.”

Not every retailer will go as far as giving away merchandise during the holidays, but many will offer profit-busting incentives. It’s a critical time of year for merchants, which can make up to 40 percent of their annual revenue in November and December. And they’re so worried that Americans are spooked by the weak economy that they’re willing to sacrifice profit for sales.

Nordstrom, for instance, is one of the first retailers to offer free shipping on most orders, no matter how small, even though it could wind up paying $3 to ship a $7 pair of socks. Furniture chain Raymour & Flanigan is allowing customers to go four years without paying interest on their purchases — the longest period it has ever offered — even though it will have to help cover a chunk of those charges itself. And Sears is not only offering to match the cheapest prices customers find online, but the department store chain is giving them an additional 10 percent off the difference.

“You may be making a $1 profit instead of a $3 profit,” Fiona Dias, chief strategy officer of members-only shopping service ShopRunner.com, said about retailers. “But you’re not losing a sale.”

Retailers are nervous about holiday sales because many Americans are cutting back on spending as they grow increasingly concerned about the stubbornly high unemployment rate, stock market turmoil and an overall fragile U.S. economy. In fact, a recent Gallup poll found that eight of 10 Americans think the country is in a second recession.

“Retailers are now scared because some believe they’re in a second recession,” said C. Britt Beemer, chairman of America’s Research Group. “And the second recession is hitting them in the biggest shopping season of the year.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Why Twitter is not a social network! It is the telegraph of the internet.

Dr Vikram Venkateswaran

A social network is characterized by a high degree of reciprocity. Take Facebook for example; there will not be anyone on your network that you have not accepted into it. If someone known to you sends you an invite you would most probably accept it. Also not many people who are unknown would actually send you an invite. Also most people in your network on Facebook are actually people you already know.

But Twitter is characterized by a high degree of non-reciprocity. Let me explain with an example. Kim Kardashian the reality show star has 10 million followers on Twitter but she follows only 140 odd people. Similarly Lady Gaga the most followed person on Twitter follows about 140,000 thousand and she has about 14  million followers. An analysis on others on Twitter shows a similar trend. As a matter of fact according to a research, I heard on a Freakonomics podcast 60% of the tweets on twitter come from roughly 20,000 followers, though Twitter has more than 200 million odd accounts.

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