Topic

Agencies

  • Starbucking

    Starbucks’ notion of managing customer loyalty and relationships is curiously postmodern. The signs and signifiers are all there, but they’re clapped

  • MEDIA WATCH: DRTV Guide

    Considering it’s on the coffee table of almost every household in America, TV Guide could be viewed as a fairly populist magazine. It comes as a surprise,

  • Penetration Models vs. Response Models

    Let’s say you want to predict the probability of your customers’ response to one or more promotions – an upcoming direct mail or telemarketing effort,

  • F&G Buys Two, Sells Two

    Horticulture direct marketer Foster & Gallagher Inc., Peoria, IL, has acquired two plant catalogs – Gurney’s Seed & Nursery Co. and Henry Field’s Seed

  • Go Ahead, They’re Listening: ATT Wireless debuts automated monitoring system

    ATT Wireless Services has instituted an automated call monitoring program to track and measure the performance of a growing number of telereps employed

  • 1to1, the Magazine

    The future predicted by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers is already here.U.S. firms have awakened to the realization that customers are lifetime corporate

  • The Steak – and the Sizzle

    A tight labor market in its home base of Omaha, NE, turned up the heat on Omaha Steaks Inc.’s teleservices operations, leading the mail order meat marketer

  • Silly Sneaker Site

    Nike’s revamped Web site (www.nike.com) proves to be an interesting exercise in frustration. Its mix of Gen-X graphics, celebrity endorsements, products

  • Game Commentary

    Are games, contests, and sweepstakes suffering from overexposure? Respondents to a recent promo Readers’ Poll said they believe that the popular promotions’