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  • Building Muscle

    POSING FOR a portrait in his company’s lavish Woodland Hills, CA lobby, Michael Carr, president and CEO of muscle-mag publisher Weider Publications, briefly

  • Measuring the Loyalty Effect

    ONE OF THE best books I’ve ever read on the subject of customer retention is “The Loyalty Effect” by Frederick F. Reichheld (Harvard Business School Press).Many

  • Chugging Along

    Jim Page doesn’t think much about the breakfast table these days. Page is the ringleader for Dean Food Co.’s $13 million rollout of Milk Chug, resealable

  • Sound & Vision

    BOSTON ACOUSTICS INC., Peabody, MA, makes high-end speakers for car and home. With the rise of the PC, it hit upon a new market: computer speakers. But

  • Two Seattle Utilities Get Bright Idea

    WHILE MARKETERS gathered in Seattle for the National Center for Database Marketing conference and listened to theory and case studies, two of the state’s

  • A Gem Too Good to Pass Up

    FOR THE PAST several months, a U.S. Postal Service mailer workgroup has been attempting to identify areas that could benefit most from capital investment.The

  • Tracking May Avoid Customer Defection

    IT’S POSSIBLE FOR a company to show increases in both revenue and its customer base and still have a poor retention program.That’s the opinion of Carla

  • This Month in 1992

    AS PART OF DIRECT’s 10th anniversary celebration, over the next four issues we’ll share what was making direct marketing headlines during our first decade

  • Telecom Tune-up

    BELL ATLANTIC is rolling out a business-to-business retention program in New England that had its origins in New York in 1995. The telecommunications