Saving Goliath: Growing a Large Scale Internet Marketing Channel

Overview

While efficient on-line media channels, such as Search, Affiliate, and CPA display media buys, have been a boon for eBay merchants and other newly created Internet businesses, they have not yet made a dent in the overall scale goals for most large marketing 'Goliaths'. At the same time, most off-line marketing channels are showing declining performance and the on-line channel itself is experiencing more down-to-earth growth rates, making gaining scale an even harder problem for Goliaths to solve. Unfortunately, Goliaths cannot afford to take a simple slingshot approach to build their online marketing channels.