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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Stamps.com topped the list of dot-com irrational exuberance in 1999 by plowing $98 into marketing for each dollar of revenue. Last year, it spent 15 cents on marketing for each dollar of revenue -- leaving enough money to pay for postage.

Disciplined marketing
After slashing expenses and learning to live on a budget, dot-coms have evolved from virtual jokes to real businesses backed by disciplined marketing. That should translate into increased consumer advertising.

As a new study conducted for Advertising Age by Pegasus Research International proves, dot-com is no longer a pejorative. The average dot-com spent a realistic 26% of revenue in 2002 on expenses related to sales and marketing. That's down from the high point (or low point) for dot-com mania in 1999, when the average dot-com spent $1.01 on marketing for every dollar of revenue.

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