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  • DIRECTIONS: Darwinners and Losers

    We’d like to propose a candidate for our Economic Darwinism Award: Wendy Northcutt, creator and Web master of the Darwin Awards (www.darwinawards.com).Northcutt’s

  • DIRECT FROM MULDOON: Tangled Up in Tech Support

    “I NEED TO RETURN a monitor that’s stopped working,” I told the catalog company’s technical support rep on the other end of the line. “The catalog says

  • Best of Breed

    CADM expands interactive component of its Tempo Awards This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing’s award program

  • Lots of Deposits, But No CRM Returns

    For me personally, it’s been hard to master the one-to-one paradigm since nobody really seems to be practicing it as far as I’m concerned. Here are two

  • A Place for CRM

    The Container Store organizes itself around customer service A year ago, an employee of The Container Store nominated the company to Fortune magazine’s

  • Starting Line Courting Order

    PUTTING CUSTOMER SERVICE and government in the same sentence, says Michael Rary, is generally regarded as oxymoronic. “Like jumbo shrimp,” laughs the

  • Sweet Emotion

    As I prepared to give a presentation on custom publishing last October, I realized that my all-time favorite custom title was one I’d first encountered

  • Interact

    Habla Personalization? Si’! Yupi.com uses customized Web pages to get users involved in its Spanish-language siteWHEN YOU GET RIGHT down to it, Yupi Internet

  • CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Consumer Disconnect

    Study reveals VoIP’s failings as a CRM tool Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP), widely touted a year ago as the next great leap forward in customer relationship

  • CURMUDGEON-AT-LARGE: The Jamie Lee Curtis Syndrome

    IF YOU’VE SEEN those incomprehensible television commercials that display the actress Jamie Lee Curtis strutting around with that annoying swagger, I