Topic

Agencies

  • Setting the Standard

    THIS IS THE sixth year we’ve compiled information on catalog customer service. In this issue we’ll consider the more than 200 catalogs we received in

  • Always and Forever-for Now

    Royalty marketers have done a good job of locking in affluent consumers, 71% of whom participate in at least one loyalty program. But the field is wide

  • Consumer DMers Retain Market Strength

    THE LOFTY RETURNS of a select group of e-commerce firms and turnarounds by a few other marketers are masking otherwise lackluster performance among consumer

  • Smells Like… A Good Cause

    HOW A PARTNERSHIP between a marketer and social cause can benefit both parties is the thesis behind “Brand Spirit-How Cause Related Marketing Can Help

  • Let’s Be More Niggardly With Our Euphemisms

    EVEN BEFORE THE one literate guy in the unsurprisingly illiterate District of Columbia government was castigated for using the word “niggardly,” we should

  • This Is a Test

    ASTROLOGY.NET wanted to entice people to sign up for its daily horoscopes via e-mail. Between Astrology.net and its online agency Acxiom/Direct Media,

  • Flight Makes Right

    TO PARAPHRASE the Spice Girls: What do frequent flyers want, really really want, from their loyalty programs? How do they feel, really really feel, about

  • New Jersey May Regulate Spam

    SENDERS OF UNSOLICITED e-mail to New Jersey residents would be required by a new bill to label their solicitations as advertisements. The notice must,

  • A New Chapter

    TAKE THAT, Barnes & Noble. En garde, Amazon.com. Independent bookstores are striking back.The American Booksellers Association is launching Book Sense,