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  • Drug Privacy Case Filed in California

    A lawsuit has been filed against a California man, charging him with invasion of privacy and selling a New York woman’s prescription drug data. According

  • Learning to Like Your Database

    I was in the office one Saturday morning trying to catch up on some paperwork when the phone rang. I answered without checking caller ID, figuring it

  • Better Marketing Reception

    Today’s competitive environment requires the ability to make each marketing channel as efficient as possible. The goal of ensuring that all customer contacts

  • Mags Face Decline in Renewals

    A surge in subscription marketing programs that don’t require subscribers to pay up front is having an unanticipated consequence on magazine publishers.

  • Caples Awards Adds Categories

    The chances of winning a John Caples International Award have risen by 40%. The Caples board will hand out prizes in 66 categories in 2003, compared with

  • Dancing the Continental on Flat Feet

    Way, way back, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were on the silver screen, in glorious black-and-white, performing a complicated dance called the Continental.

  • Insurance Firm Slammed Over Telephone Sales

    A Texas insurance company and three of its agents have been accused of using misleading telemarketing practices to sell supplemental Medicare insurance

  • Models Every Marketer Needs

    As companies continue to improve CRM programs and marketing databases, they are often faced with an embarrassment of riches when it comes to opportunities

  • Alan Drey Co. Out of Business

    Alan Drey Co. Inc. closed its doors last month after 52 years in the mailing list brokerage business. It had suffered a severe decline in revenue and

  • Follow the Money

    In August, the Securities and Exchange Commission required 695 publicly traded companies to certify that their annual and quarterly reports were accurate.