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  • 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

  • We Need Help. You Certainly Do

    WAY, WAY BACK, IN KINDER AND GENTLER TIMES, fundraising could succeed by using three little words: We need help. Today? Forget it. If you want to raise

  • Bitter’s Sweet Win

    Aussies may love their beer, but a certain cadre love cricket just as much and a few of them may have helped judge this year’s international Globe Awards.

  • Bracing for Backlash

    Last month, we wrote about marketers’ fast-growing interest in social-networking sites as platforms for promotions. Momentum is building even as brands

  • Back to the Start

    LEAD GENERATION HAS LONG BEEN THE NAME OF THE GAME IN BUSINESS-TO-business. The complex decision cycles that precede most purchases and the high cost

  • 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

  • Jim Dudukovich

    When Coca-Cola struck up its sponsorship deal in 2002 with a new show, American Idol, the terms were complex. Add ons to the media buy included product

  • LISTLINE

    NEW LISTS Collectible America The names of 17,000 buyers and 10,000 inquirers from the last 12 months are on this catalog’s list. The unit of sale ranged

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    THE MCMURRY MATTER Isn’t there a saying in the publicity industry, It doesn’t matter what you write, just make sure you spell my name right? Well, if

  • Growth of DM Spending to Falter

    Direct marketing spending and sales growth are going to slow a bit in 2007, according to new research from the Direct Marketing Association. But both