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  • Beckett Media Adds Major League Search

    Sports publisher Beckett Media LP struck gold selling sports trading cards and collectibles on the Web way back in the rookie years of 1995. A decade

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    TAKING IT TO THE BANK Nice story. Well told. And soooooo true (Loose Cannon, July). Banks are a rich source of stories like this I’ve just been through

  • Purple Power

    There’s a new slim purple dude online looking like a Slurpee spoon-straw who is directing consumers in all kinds of directions: Got a code? Snag some

  • Separate Tables

    WILL THE LIST BUSINESS WIN WITH Vin? Or will InfoUSA’s acquisition spree ultimately spell trouble for the name-and-address game? This was one of the many

  • Media on Media

    Don’t bet the farm just yet on RSS, podcasts and other so-called Web 2.0 media. Marketers are interested in them, but not as much as they are in old-fashioned

  • A Cool Front Moves In

    You may not have heard about upcoming singer/songwriter Ne-Yo, but Coca-Cola has. It has put its marketing muscle behind the artist this spring banking

  • No, It’s Not Marketing. It’s Just Advertising

    Are you as numbed as I am by the ridiculous, sometimes impenetrable and too-often obnoxious ads that pepper local television stations and newspapers?

  • Diverging From Convergence

    Before June’s Direct Marketing Days New York conference, I would have sworn that was a dead-and-gone term. But when one breakout session after another

  • Burger Slayers

    Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s are on the search for fearless consumers who aren’t afraid to show what it takes to devour a good burger. Building off the theme

  • Mom and Apple Pie

    Betty Crocker, General Mills’ is perhaps the best-known icon in American marketing. At 85 years old, she may also have the greatest longevity. So it pains