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Agencies

  • Loyalty Effort Boosts Hotel Stays

    Executive Hotels & Resorts increased overnight stays by 25% with a post-Sept. 11 promotion, and bookings have grown another 10% during the first quarter

  • CRM Helps BAI Trim Mailing Costs

    A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE helped the Banking Administration Institute (BAI) cut direct mail expenditures for its last annual conference

  • Don’t Fudge It Fit It!

    As part of our Monday morning meetings, I like to review with our task leaders the technical support calls we had from the previous week and discuss ways

  • Lead Generation: Caller, You’re on the Air

    Until recently, most direct response radio was limited to low-price offers for vitamins, music and household gadgets. The belief was that expensive merchandise

  • Catalogers Expand Magazine Advertising

    CATALOGERS HAVE traditionally been lukewarm about advertising in magazines. But at least two firms have had some success and intend to continue investing

  • Movie Madness

    IT’S EVERYWHERE! It’s everywhere! That paraphrase of the old Chicken Man radio show theme has been running through my head as of late. Advertising in-your-face

  • Chicago Symphony Profiles Customers

    The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is hoping a new customer profile and segmentation study will help it create offers geared to a wider range of subscribers.

  • Life on the Edge

    The U.S. Postal Service has been giving a truly stellar performance. No, it’s not been exemplary. Rather, it’s the pattern one would expect to see in

  • Pagination Ping-Pong

    WHO DETERMINES what items go on each page of a catalog? Does it matter if it’s the catalog artist, the merchandiser or a marketing person? Does it sometimes