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Month: November 2006

  • Listen Up

    E-MAIL EXECUTIVES ARE GROWING TIRED OF THE lack of attention and budget chief marketing officers give the channel. While they understand that 90% of most

  • Tell Us a Story

    One day in the not-too-distant future, Web 2.0 will be about telling stories in the service of marketing to consumers, said Michael Davis, senior vice

  • Creative Differences

    Business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-mail campaigns require vastly different creative tactics to drive the highest response, according to a report by e-mail service provider Silverpop.

  • The Yankees’ Bush-League CRM

    YANKEE FANS, IT SEEMS, can’t win for winning. According to The New York Times, the New York Yankees are aggressively punishing season ticket holders who

  • Brand Makeovers

    DID YOU EVER GET THE FEELING that something about your brand wasn’t quite right? It may be time to align your channels or tweak your creative. Case in

  • Joe Torre Needs Help. So Does His Ad

    IT’S ALWAYS A SHAME TO SEE A WORTHY NONPROFIT RUN A fundraising ad that just doesn’t do the job. One can’t help thinking that the ad money could have been better spent on the organization’s programs.

    I found this ad for the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation in a recent issue of BusinessWeek.

  • No Serenity Here

    HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE Serenity Prayer? It goes like this: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things

  • Poisoning the Well

    IT’S BECOME A CLICH TO SAY that the Web has changed all the rules about how merchants and companies deal with the public. The many ways consumers can

  • Pet Project

    IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOUR animal companion is a cat, dog, fish, hamster or iguana. All pet owners need stuff. Lots of stuff: Kibble, brushes, beds, habitrails,

  • Blooper of the Century

    IN A JAW-DROPPING EMBARRASSMENT, the state of Utah has mistakenly divulged kids’ e-mail addresses on its so-called child-protection do-not-e-mail list