Ross Perot, in his squeaky Texas twang, would have put it this way: "What you're gonna be hearing, folks, is a giant sucking sound." In the marketing world, that noise is now coming from a shift in media spending more dramatic than in any of the last 25 years.

Like many of the Internet's top companies, InfoQuest's birth occurred in a rather unexpected place -- around Norm Dallago's dinning room table.  There, Dallago, president and founder, along with his corporate partner, Luke Melhorn designed a data center with unique capabilities not otherwise available to companies in the area.

You need only look at the success of Chinese-made merchandise to see that "Made in USA" does not carry the cache it once did. Although calls to "Buy American" arise during any economic downturn, American consumers vote otherwise every time they hop into their Japanese-made car, fill it up with gasoline refined from foreign oil and motor over to Wal-Mart for the sale on patio furniture that was made in Mexico.

There is a plethora of disturbing news out there today. The economy, the bailout, the war on terror, you pick it. And if you’re still struggling with how to incorporate your traditional marketing with cost-effective, ROI-driven e-marketing, there’s even scarier news that came out recently.

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