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Agencies

  • DIRECTIONS: Montgomery Ward Lives

    Montgomery Ward may be closing, but the distribution center left over from its heyday as a cataloger will carry on as a Chicago landmark. According to

  • By Whose Authority?

    What’s wrong with this statement by somebody who supposedly is a professional salesperson?”An authoritarian source says this move is imperative.”You guessed

  • STARS OF & Page Screen

    Print/Web integration gives custom publishers twice the chance to shineGOOD CUSTOM PUBLISHING – both online and off – can’t just be a sales tool for a

  • Think It Through

    Supply-chain management needs to go beyond the cookie-cutter approachIn our latest book, “One to One B2B” (hitting the shelves in May), we thoroughly

  • Newsline

    Hard Times at Hanover Hanover Direct Inc., Weehawken, NJ, has eliminated 285 positions – over 10% of its work force – and will discontinue three catalogs

  • SECTOR REPORT: Getting on Board

    Airlines and hotels embrace CRM in an effort to retain business travelersTIRED OF BEING SHOVED AROUND at airports and suffering indifferent hotel service?

  • HOT CREATIVE: One Tree, Three Saps

    Flat marketing in three dimensions IN CASE you haven’t noticed, we hate dimensionals. We keep hoping some marketing maven will send us a blowtorch to

  • UPDATING THE NEW DM: Working With Tricky Segments

    IN A RECENT COLUMN, I suggested that modelers could improve their results by splitting data sets according to some critically important variable such

  • Emotion Wins the Loyalty Race

    Connect with your customers by showing them you care Companies with strong customer relationship management initiatives realize that relationships aren’t

  • Cutting-Edge Customer Support

    Customer contact centers must quickly adapt to dot-com clients’ changing needs, providing new strategies and product offersDot-coms and their clients