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  • Long-Term Fix

    WHAT IT COST to keep a customer, and what’s it worth over the long haul? These are two of the most important questions DMers can ask themselves these

  • THE NET PROWLER

    CLICKING UPSTREAM In the June issue we covered Narrative Communications Corp. (www.narrative.com) of Waltham, MA and its Enliven banner-ad technology,

  • Electronic Promotions Threaten DM Couponing

    WHILE DIRECT MAIL remained a favored method of receiving samples or coupons, ranking second only behind free-standing inserts in newspapers, its popularity

  • Hey, What Ya Wanna Know?

    THE PRIVACY PUNDITS are whining about direct marketers in general-and database marketers in particular-having too much of the public’s personal information

  • DRTV-Blocking V-Chip Zapped

    THE DRTV and advertising industries applauded the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association’s (CEMA’s) decision to drop plans to endorse V-chips

  • No Two Alike

    PRINT TECHNOLOGY has allowed direct marketers to edge closer to the ideal of one-to-one marketing. Leading the charge is on-demand printing, which enables

  • SHOW AND TELL

    THE CONCEPT OF giving consumers “access” to their personal data-allowing them to see, and if necessary correct, information marketers possess about them-seems

  • R.I.P. = RIP-Off: Everybody Is Cashing in on Diana

    I WONDER WHAT so many of the collectibles marketers would have done if Princess Diana hadn’t been killed in that car crash.Boy, was Shakespeare wrong

  • Gluttony Could Spoil Postal Feast

    YOU HAVE TO pity the U.S. Postal Service these days. Every time it turns around, there seems to be someone who wants to grab his share of the marbles.