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  • Hockey Fans

    HOCKEY FANS tend to have greater brand awareness about popular consumer items than the general population, according to results of a recent telephone

  • B-to-B Computer Products Lead Gain

    SHOWING impressive fourth quarter earnings that exceeded many analysts’ predictions, business-to-business computer products catalogers and marketers provided

  • IRS Overruled

    A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT has reversed the Internal Revenue Service’s revocation of a charity’s tax-exempt status because of the arrangement it had with

  • Making the Most of a Painful Mistake

    IN JANUARY, Christophe Pettus, president of San Francisco adult product DMer Blowfish, broached the idea of scaling back the company’s paper catalog to

  • Retail Review

    FINANCIAL TIMES Retail and Consumer Publishing, London, has released “Market Research Strategies-Challenges and Opportunities for the Information Age,”

  • A Simple Goal: Please the Customer

    SEARS CANADA INC. has managed to solve a database problem that’s confounded many marketers: channel conflict. It accomplished this by putting retail and

  • Best Medicine

    CONSUMERS increasingly view doctors as less-than-trustworthy technicians, chosen more for their location or managed care affiliation than their bedside

  • Great Expectations

    I LIKE TO BE proven wrong.I enjoy nothing more than expecting the worst and being pleasantly surprised. Several customer service representatives have

  • Another Big Year of DM Deals

    THOUGH IT MAY surprise no one, 1998 was a boom year for direct marketing strategic deals. There were 1,846 transactions valued at $29.4 billion, according