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  • Web 2.0 Meets the Senior Set

    Computer and application developers have long talked about the “grandma test”: If their hardware or programs were intuitive enough for older relatives to use, they knew they had something a broad swath of the everyday online public could find value in.

  • David Takes on the Goliaths

    Retailer Dave’s Soda and Pet City made its first move into the multichannel world last month with an e-commerce site to promote the national launch of Simply the Best dog food.

  • Lounging Around

    American Express may be doing a little more entertaining this year. The firm will decide by March whether to expand a pilot program to put upscale lounges

  • Let’s Make a Deal

    Grizzard Performance Group posed this question in a recent survey: You’re planning on purchasing a large item, like a TV. After much research, you decide

  • Low Tech’s the Ticket

    For all the millions spent on television advertisements last holiday season, comparatively low-tech channels proved most effective in persuading shoppers to patronize specific retailers.

  • Need an Endorsement? Ask Henry VIII’s Agent

    Celebrity endorsements ain’t what they used to be. If you’re old enough you remember when Arthur Godfrey and Dinah Shore could endorse almost anything,

  • Hospital Scores With New Mail Package

    Sometimes it pays to take a risk. The San Antonio Hospital Foundation of Upland, CA sent out a 5,000-piece mailing last November to solicit donations

  • Becoming a Pod Person

    Thank you, Steve Jobs and the iTunes Music Store, for a jump in podcast downloads. The Pew Internet & American Life Project discovered in a recent poll

  • Listline

    NEW LISTS GlobalSpec More than 1.5 million individuals registered to use GlobalSpec’s search services are identified on the Engineering, Technical and

  • The Offer Might Not Matter

    Two of the traditional building blocks of any strong direct response campaign have been the creative and the offer. But in an area where consumers are