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Agencies

  • Charging Forth: CompuCrecdit invests millions in outbound prospecting

    Atlanta-based CompuCredit Corp. is tapping the $54 million raised in a recent IPO to expand its database-driven outbound telemarketing efforts.CompuCredit

  • Web Brush

    B-to-B E-Mail Marketing may mean returns of gold, but marketers are still uncovering the tools to prospectBUSINESSES SELLING to business people now know

  • Harte-Hanks Acquires ZDMI

    Ziff-Davis Inc. will sell its ZD Market Intelligence unit to Harte-Hanks Inc. for $106 million in cash and “deferred revenue obligations.” ZD is expected

  • Chicken or Egg?

    Telemarketers usually use databases to enhance the quality of their calls by projecting likelihood of response among a given file, or customizing offers.

  • USPS Overhauls Return Service Fees

    The U.S. Postal Service’s Board of Governors has replaced the postage-plus handling fee for its bulk parcel return service. It now will charge a flat

  • SCHERING-PLOUGH CORP.

    When Phyllis Segawa found out she had hepatitis C, her biggest fear was taking the prescribed medication. She was so frightened about the devastating

  • Words that Work

    Within the compressed sales scenario of the telephone contact, words and phrasing often tend to carry more weight and have more of an impact than in print.

  • To-Sew Has New Owner

    American Educational Products Inc., Boulder, CO, has acquired To-Sew Inc., a direct marketer of sewing instruction kits, for roughly $1.3 million in cash.

  • THE SEEDY SIDE OF HIGH-TECH

    The Internet has gone to seed.And so have a whole host of farming suppliers, in what developers and marketers of the new DirectAg.com Web site claim to

  • AG Tells Floridians: Opt Out of PCH Deal

    Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth has urged Floridians to opt out of the proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit by consumers against Publishers