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Agencies

  • 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

  • Spare Parts Central

    HYUNDAI Motor America hopes to sell spare parts and build its $150-million-a-year North American business through an extranet system for dealers.The Korean

  • Gluttony Could Spoil Postal Feast

    YOU HAVE TO pity the U.S. Postal Service these days. Every time it turns around, there seems to be someone who wants to grab his share of the marbles.

  • Homework Assignment

    IT’S FINE AND good that the market for selling office supplies to small home offices and businesses is growing by leaps and bounds. But how can direct

  • 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