I just purchased my second domain name this afternoon through register.com.  I grabbed … travel-denver.com, and I am excited about the possibilities.  I am going to begin putting the site together this week hopefully.

If Microsoft feels the need to escape from their latest purchase of aQuantive they will have to shell out $500 million to the advertising company.  If the reverse is true, and aQuantive bails on the deal, then they will owe Microsoft $175 million.  The deal claims that if either side violates the terms of the agreement then the deal will be repealed.  aQuantive is also allowed to listen to proposals from other entities until the deal with Microsoft is complete.

Critics of the deal claim that Microsoft may back out simply because of the $6 billion price tag.  However, Microsoft will need aQuantive after Google purchased DoubleClick earlier this spring.  This purchase may take time to pay dividends for Microsoft, but in the end they obtained a great company with enormous growth potential.

Internet Retailer is holding their 2007  conference in San Jose from June- 4-7.  Should be a great experience, lots of great speakers and presentations are planned and a ton of networking to be done.  Sign up here and you can still get $100 of your conference pass.

Anyone else going to San Jose next week?

FireClick is an analytic program that works well with small companies. The tracking software allows your company to track every statistic you can imagine. A great feature is the report creator where you can create more than 100 customized reports. You can even schedule the reports you want and the program will create them.

The best thing about FireClick is the reports allow you to segment out your customers by allowing the user to compile as many reports as they would like. PPC tracking is also available for people who are running paid search engine campaigns. Of the top features of FireClick, these three are my favorite.

• Customized reports allows you to segment your customers
• Tracking for shopping cart abandonment
• Tracking for most popular products

Check out FireClick next time you decide to upgrade your tracking software.

Dell has teamed up with Wal Mart Stores, Inc. to sell their computers. This is the first of any kind of relationship for Dell who previously directly sold their computers. Dell increased their supply chain performance over the last 5 years to a point where they became the Benchmark in the logistics world.

They are going to be throwing their supply chain out of whack now, or so it would seem, by partnering with another company to sell their products. Dell also stands to make a Lot of Money! Selling their products through Wal Mart is guaranteed to be successful with the lower priced computers and accessories. Time will tell if the higher priced computers will do well with the mega-retailer. The biggest change with this move will be the fact that you can pick up a Dell computer and use it the same day (you only used to be able to buy a ready to use Dell at Dell Stores). Accessibility of the computers is greater and I would expect to see more strategic arrangements in the near future.

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