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  • Data Love

    Vendors, take note: Direct marketers will spend an average of nearly $250,000 for database upgrades this year. And they’re confident these expenditures

  • The Doctor Is In

    Another humdrum night? Maybe it’s time to go out and hear some live jazz in a garden conservatory setting. But where? How about the hospital? It wouldn’t

  • The Hidden Gems in E-mail Responses

    Any DMer knows response management is critical to a campaign’s success. But in e-mail marketing, overseeing messages from those who don’t buy is just

  • Signature Event

    According to Tuff Stuff sports memorabilia magazine, the most-popular sports collectible is the trading card. The second-most popular type of collectible

  • AOL to Customers and Mailers: And You Are?

    IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING April the most recent period for which figures are available AOL lost subscribers at a clip of 258,000 a month. That’s twomonth.

  • The New E-zine Metric

    WHEN E-ZINES first came out, chief marketing officers looked at the reports and were excited about using open rates and click-throughs to measure their

  • Somebody Gets It

    AS AN OBSERVER OF THE direct marketing world, I often have experiences where I slap my head and say, Yea! They get it! There also are times when I shake

  • TIMELINE

    June 16, 2006 HORMEL FOODS CORP., the maker of Spam, agreed to a lawsuit settlement that would allow NetBop Technologies, a small Welsh technology firm,

  • A Report From the Front

    WHY WOULD A RESPECTED AUTHORITY RECOMMEND investing in two similar companies toughing it out in a seriously competitive field? Recently, thanks to my

  • Weird But True

    Here’s the clue: Every day in this town, a hanged man proclaims his innocence in the only way a dead man can. Since 1877, his handprint on his cell wall