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  • Web Sites Boost Customer loyalty

    What’s the Web worth to your company? Many marketers that sell through the Internet can rattle off their online sales. But is revenue alone the true measure of Web success?

  • How Hotels Kill Business Traveler Loyalty with Overcharges

    USA Today’s Gary Stoller writes that “business travelers may be overpaying for their hotel rooms by a half-billion dollars a year, the result of mistakes in billing.” Hard to believe? Yes, but there it is, in two separate studies.

  • Data Debris

    Senior marketers executives may want accountability in their advertising. But they don’t feel that they know how to get it. Those are among the findings of a new survey by Marketing Management Analytics, the Association of National Advertisers and Forrester Research.

  • Lessons From Yahoo in Database Marketing

    Granted, it was an out-and-out sales pitch for Yahoo. But Usama Fayyad, chief data officer for the online giant, awed database professionals with the statistics he presented this week.

  • Letters to the Editor

    Someone with an Indian accent answers the phone, and says, “Thank you for calling SBC DSL service, my name is Joe, how can I help you?” Now I have many friends and associates in this country of Indian descent and I have NEVER met one named Joe, Tom, Bill or Ted.

  • The CRM Cynic: Bernie Ebbers Owes Me $62

    Now that Bernie Ebbers has drawn a 25-year sentence, I can report that I, too, was victimized by Worldcom. It started early in 2002 when my wife and I switched our landline service to MCI/Worldcom.

  • Dr Pepper Gives Away a Mini Cooper a Day

    Dr Pepper is in the midst of giving away one Mini-Cooper convertible a day in an under-the-cap promo to boost summer sales and to encourage trial of its new Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper. Dr Pepper revs up a Mini-Cooper giveaway Game codes can be found …

  • Kmart Promotes Whitsett to Top Merchandising Post

    Kmart promoted Peter Whitsett to senior VP-merchandising officer this week, a new post overseeing all merchandise categories for Kmart’s 1,479 stores. Whitsett had been senior VP-general merchandise manager overseeing Kmart’s hard goods, food and …

  • IWCO Direct Acquires Fala Assets

    IWCO Direct, a direct mail services firm, has acquired the operating assets of Fala Direct Marketing Inc.

  • Liquidity Services Acquires Wholesale411

    Liquidity Services Inc., an online services provider for wholesalers, has acquired search engine Wholesale411 for an undisclosed sum.